Cross-country skiing on watch works without GPS

[Jaanus09]

Cross-country skiing is finally available on Galaxy watch - unfortunately this is useless because it does not support GPS tracking.  If I use cross-country skiing on phone  - it works with GPS.
When using watch - GPS is not activated for some reason,  so this feature is useless because track profile data and distance is also needed - not just basic calories and heart rate.

[bthoem]

Just downloaded the update today and can confirm that this is now fixed.

[RRisto]

Thank you Samsung. Problem seems to be fixed.

[Eivij]

Its been fixed!! Works with GPS now! Wee!

[Jaanus09]

Finally back on snow and I did some tests.
Good news is that GPS data is available in skiing workout now. 
But I would not say that this is finally fixed -  in comparison with other programs there are features missing.
During workout I can't see my speed and distance data - seems like watch stores it, but it is not available for cross-country watch display during workout.
What is your experience so far? Is it same or this is caused by my language /  region settings?

[Jüri]

Hello
I finished Tartu Maraton last week and used Samsung Galaxy watch 4 for tracking. Sorry Jaanus, I can not say anything about the watch during workout because I did not check it during the maraton. I would like to see max speed in the summary of workout and also avarage speed on the graph. I liked that the watch used only 45%+ of the battery during a 6h+ workout. In the future would be greate to have some data export possibilities in the app as some virtual competitions need data exporting to fix the finishing result.

[El Gordo]

Thanks Jaanus09 for your  comments and especially "During workout I can't see my speed and distance data - seems like watch stores it, but it is not available for cross-country watch display during workout."  I had the same reaction.  I did the wonderful Gatineau Loppet (Quebec, Canada) last weekend and couldn't see my average speed or total distance while skiing. The running feature includes at least some of this I think.  If Samsung is listening, perhaps they could add this into the X-Country program.  Peace on earth and good skiing, from Canada.

[Niclas_1234]

I was out skeeing today, had my Galaxy watch 4 connected to my phone all the way, 1 hour out skeeing, it noted my elevation but not distance..??? @Samsung, fix this!! People say this is fixed but no, or did the update I installed to my Samsung wearable and Galxy Watch 4 screw up the cross-country skeeing function??

[Jaanus09]

I belive that this scenario happens when you start cross-country skiing from phone.
After last update I got same results.
If you start from phone  - then distance and speed are not recorded - somehow watch is connected, you can see that exercise is running from watch also and heart-rate moves from watch do phone.

when you start it from watch then distance is also recorded but no speed data during workout and on graphs afterwards.

[Niclas_1234]

No, I started from my watch, same thing today, it records everything but my distance.

 

[Niclas_1234]