Live speeds lagging or just wrong, missed start/finish, etc.

[bldn10]

Of late I am just getting too much error to continue using this app w/ my old iPhone 5S. On the fly the indicated speeds are way off and lag behind too much. Periodic missing of start/finish, even if I walk past it. I just went outside into an open area w/ phone in hand and I get a red "Accuracy?" (FWIW also shows low battery when it is 90%+.) I have reinstalled the app recently. Is there anything In can do or do I need a new phone, external GPS, or what?

[Harry]

A certain lagging is what you can expect from the internal GPS. It will be around 2s usually and miss short max speeds. In general, lagging gets worse when GPS accuracy is bad. When walking outside, you should see around 5m / 12 ft accuracy. Please check this in Analysis ‣ Realtime ‣ GPS. Make sure you have granted all permissions in Settings app ‣ LapTimer too.

As your phone is dated now, please check if processing power is not getting the limiting factor: enabled Display Details in LapTimer's Settings and goto Timer (which is the view you are using while driving on track?). See the bottom left corner now. Outside, and after a minute or so, you should see around 14% load and something like 100/300 in the end of the information text. In case you see something different, return to GPS View, wait another minute, create a screenshot, and post it here.

- Harry

[bldn10]

Thanks for the response, Harry. BTW I've always used HLT on this phone and it used to work better.
Although the signal strength is in the middle of the green and shows green in Status, the Accuracy is 32'.
The reading on the Timer page is L:8% M:32 [+/-] MB Q: 60-80/5/0 Same outside as in the house.

[Harry]

It is not a processing bottleneck, the status shown in fine. 32ft is not super bad, but it should be better when outside for some minutes. Do you have a case around the iPhone? All data shown in GPS view is 1:1 what iOS is passing to LapTimer. I doubt it is an iOS version thing as iOS will pass through data coming from the GPS chip.

- Harry