About hatching eggs...

bob7greeklover

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    I still didn't clarify it yet:

    Are steps (distance in km) counted when you lock the screen of phone via power button?

    Because , using "Battery Saver" and leave the phone upside down to your pocket is not always effective, because the phone's soft/hard buttons may be clicked and then, the game goes minimized, as a result, no steps count ?!

    To sum up, someone please enlight us by doing the following:

    1) Walk around 500m with your phone screen-locked and check steps before and after the above mentioned walk.

    2) Do the same as with step 1, but instead, using the "Battery Save" option, DON'T MINIMIZE or LOCK the screen, just let the phone upside down in your pocket as normal.

    3) The same as step 1, but with Locked screen and minimized app. The difference with 1 is that in 1 you lock the screen while the game was running, but now you minimize first , then lock.

    Someone might say "why not walking with the phone in your hand and app open"? Well , kinda uncomfortable when you only want to hatch eggs and save some battery power.
     
    Any time you lock the phone, minimise the game etc. the game effectively stops running as in, no distance is counted, not pokemon appear and the surrounding terrain is not loaded. In order for your steps to count Pokemon Go must be open as you travel.

    But what you can do is walk back and forth along a certain area until it hatches, just like grinding steps in the games. Combine this with Bike, Car, Skateboard or your preferred method of transport and you're onto a winner :D
     
    As I believed, "Battery Save" and leave it open all the way.

    Well, I just returned from a bike stroll, I had my phone inside a little bag-belt and just went cycling more than 5 km . It registered only about 3 km , as a result my egg didn't hatch yet. Maybe because my phone constantly changed from 3g to edge (unstable connection at road)?

    Another bug I just discovered is that sometimes, in "battery save" mode, when you check your phone after a "sleep" , you cannot click anything, any touch screen input is just disabled and I am forced to close and restart the app.
     
    circuit said:
    But what you can do is walk back and forth along a certain area until it hatches, just like grinding steps in the games. Combine this with Bike, Car, Skateboard or your preferred method of transport and you're onto a winner :D
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    I swear I read somewhere that only walking would count. The app would measure your speed and if it's too high (for example, when riding/driving in a car) that it doesn't count your distance traveled towards hatching eggs or the like.
    I thought it was Niantic's website where I saw that, but I can't seem to find it now.
     
    Yeah, it's definitely designed for walking, but I think you can get away with biking if you're not going too fast. PGO seemed to track over half of bob7greeklover's bike ride so he may have gone too fast for the app to count at certain times, but not the whole ride.

    I can confirm it doesn't work too well in a car at all, unless you're going reeally slowly in a school zone or something, lol.
     
    Pokemon Go does not count your steps only the distance you have travelled. This is why the app fuctions perfectly with a bike. I hatched an egg on my way home from work riding my bike. Can also confirm underground and overground trains make the app lag to hell because youre too fast for it to load
     
    Yes, well either way, riding in a car definitely does not help you hatch eggs. I just took a rather large road trip today with multiple eggs in incubators and can confirm I barely moved 0.2km over 100 miles of travel. As soon as I get out of the car and walk around a bit, that Km rate goes up much faster.

    Walking/biking while interacting with the app seems to be your best option.
     
    I think it stops counting your distance after you hit a certain speed. I was in the car yesterday and along the motorway it did not count my distance for the egg but when we were in a residential areas and had to slow down significantly it began counting again.
     
    For anyone thinking that 2 KM eggs are terrible, I got a charmander in mine so they may not be bad all the time.
     
    The thing is i drove about 9 or 10 KM yesterday and it only recorded 1.6 KM and it was on and tracking me the entire time. I feel like it stops recording if your going to fast o~o
     
    The test that were done shows that if you're going over around 15mph, it'll stop recording your steps, because you aren't actually walking.
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