So, today, I was bored, and decided to play with my new Samsung Galaxy S3 on my ride. I downloaded the Strava app (Strava doesn’t accept my 310xt on the website, and I’ve been trying now for a year), downloaded the Mapmyfitness app, and turned on my 310xt. I did 46.5-47 miles depending what you are looking at. After 3 hours, my phone was down to 72% battery life left while running those two GPS apps.
Here are the pages for the Strava, Mapmyfitness, and 310xt maps. The discrepancies in total time is because I had to sit there and turn on the apps on the phone one at at a time.
My personal experience, since I just had the phone in my back pocket, I wasn’t able to actively look at the screens, so I couldn’t really tell you what was going on there. Do they make bike cases for these things? I’m assuming they do. I know what the mapmyfitness map looks like in realtime from doing some runs with it, and I’m assuming the strava map does the same thing. These would be nice if you were using the phone as your bike computer. However, without a bluetooth HR monitor, or an iPhone style Wahoo fitness dongle, I wouldn’t be able to capture any of the relevant detailed info. The GPS on the phone locked on significantly quicker than the 310xt. The mapping was pretty much the same throughout the three. The main place that things were different was in the overall elevation. The strava and MMF total elevations were within 70 feet of each other (1908ft and 1978ft respectively). The 310xt elevation was almost 800ft higher than the other two (no barometer like Edge 500). Also, I didn’t use my HR monitor, but I was surprised at how each website decided to calculate my calories. Garmin said I burned 3337 calories, MMF said just over 3000 calories, and Strava said 1774 calories.
Recommendations:
Strava would be awesome on an iPhone with a wahoofitness dongle or on an ANT+ powered Android phone (sony xperia). Mapmyfitness is nice because it has that Live Tracking feature if you want people to know where you are (wife/mom/father-in-law), and the map is pretty spot on. 310xt is still the best in regards to ANT+, but lacks in map features (Edge 800) and a barometer (Edge 500), and then you can upload to the other two sites. If Strava worked for my 310xt, I wouldn’t have to do all of this. I think I’ll keep using my 310xt as it is, and take my phone with me if I decide to look for new roads to travel or to use the live tracking.
The “trick” is - you have to have the ANT+ Agent upload your file to something Garmin FIRST - and THEN you upload (from there, apparently) to Strava.
I’ve got it now on my new laptop, where the ANT Agent sends my uploads to Garmin Connect. Once that’s complete, and I get the little pop-up that says it’s been sent there, I then hit UPLOAD on Strava, and in like :30, the data is also there as well.
On my old machine, it would upload to the Training Center, which took freaking FOREVER, and had errors half the time. I’d suggest avoiding that route.
Huh? You buy that “Garrman” from some guy on the corner?
You try contacting Strava support? Once you get a live person, they’re quite helpful.
Good luck.
Edited to add: Do you have Garmin Training Center on your computer? Even if you’re not using it, you still need it to be there.
I couldn’t get my 310 to upload until I:
loaded Training Center
loaded Communicator
loaded ANT Agent
plugged in the ANT dongle
No, this is the problem I get when I’m trying to upload it from the 310xt. The phone app works fine.
Just a guess, if not the phone maybe some other peripheral is messing with the “app” that strava is using to grab the data from the Garmin Ant Agent., Is the phone connected at the same time as you’re trying to upload the 310xt data to Strava? I know my problem isn’t exactly the same, but I can’t upload any Garmin data to Dailymile or MapMyRide if my phone is connected to the computer to sync. The widget that daily and mapmy glitches and won’t upload the ANT+ data it just sees the phone and gets stuck on the idea that it needs to pull the data from the phone, won’t even look at what the Ant Agent has.
you should be able to find the folder where all your garmin activity files are stored on your computer and do the manual upload from there, its just as fast
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I use my Garmin 310XT with Strava no problems, a workaround can be to upload to Garmin Training Centre and then export the log as a .tcx or .gpx file to your desktop and then upload to strava using the upload file feature. You can try reloading the app and drivers as it seems like a driver issue. Good luck with getting it resolved.
It’s a slave bike computer. It’s just a blank screen that connects to your handlebars. The cool thing is that your iPhone connects to it via Bluetooth and the app developer writes what ever he wants on the screen.
I’m sure Strava will support this. You’ll be able to look at your power numbers and everything while your phone is safely in your pocket.
I had some weirdness so I tried plugging my device into an older USB 2.0 port on the back instead of the newer USB 3.0 ones that were mounted on the front. Then the computer suddenly saw it. I know it’s supposed to be backwards compatible so it might have been random but worth a shot?
