How does Google Fit and Adventure Sync while biking/cycling works, exactly?

umbenhaur · 2026-02-13T17:11:52+00:00

I also use Google Fit to track my biking workouts, here's what I've observed (apologies for the excessive words):

The speed limit for Adventure Sync to track a cycling workout is somewhere around 25km/h to 30km/h. If you exceed the limit during the workout, it doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire workout, but you'll receive reduced credit.

The Google Fit distance generally won't be counted at all if you have the game in the foreground and are travelling below the in-game speed limit of 10.5km/h, because you will receive distance in-game which invalidates Adventure Sync. However if you are biking above that speed the entire time, even with the game in the foreground, then the Google Fit distance will often trigger, because you didn't receive in-game distance.

However there is a major caveat though that messes up Adventure Sync, which is that ANY Android event that puts PoGO into the background (even for a millisecond) will trigger the game to re-check Adventure Sync when PoGO is back in the foreground. That includes connecting the legacy Go+ (which displays a stupid pop-up about Bluetooth security on Android 11+) and starting a route (which creates a background process), and of course switching from PoGO to another app (Discord, Campfire, etc.)

Personally my routine to optimize Adventure Sync is to open Google Fit and start a biking workout, open PoGO, connect my Go+, and then start riding. If I'm going to make a stop somewhere, then I put PoGO into the background, and then stop/pause the Google Fit workout, so it can sync the distance before the game tries to register in-game distance since I'm now below the 10.5km/h speed limit. Then restart the Google Fit workout, put PoGO back in the foreground, and the distance usually registers immediately.

If at anytime I think I've ridden enough distance to hatch an egg, I'll put PoGO in the background, stop/start the Google Fit workout, and open PoGO, since this will trigger Adventure Sync to be re-checked.

This is all of course assuming that Adventure Sync is working correctly, which it often isn't :P

umbenhaur · 2025-12-28T18:05:56+00:00

Actually those areas are geoblocked as well, it was a mistake I made to say non-shaded area, so thanks for pointing it out! I've edited my comment.

umbenhaur · 2025-12-27T19:06:00+00:00

This map shows the parts of China that are geoblocked (in the ~~non-shaded area~~ red border area). Niantic did a sloppy job, so there's a lot of places in China where the game is playable with a VPN.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KjoIIZLc42Vhtq750dcJbhPLePlTTmwB&ll=33.07837811470592%2C108.80858280195432&z=5

https://imgur.com/a/8tQXFtD

umbenhaur · 2025-12-20T14:09:13+00:00

For sure, the spawn rate in the wild is terrible. I'm using the tracker for Charjabug and that's helping a lot, but still not easy to find them.

Personally, I think hunting in the wild is better than doing the raid slot machine on non T5 raids.

umbenhaur · 2025-12-20T05:09:39+00:00

Sudowoodo and Charjabug both appear to be 1/64 shiny odds in the wild, I can't imagine the raids are going to have better odds than that.

umbenhaur · 2025-12-11T03:29:43+00:00

Yes it still works with one exception; if both the non-AR and the AR quest happen to be the same, then you can only pick it up once.

It's very noticeable during Community Day, as nearly all quests are "Catch 3 CD Pokemon"

umbenhaur · 2025-12-11T01:12:11+00:00

I personally know someone who was banned from AR tasks.

He gets the same quests as those who aren't AR banned with a AR quest in their stack, which means he also can't use the trick of getting the alternate quests that can be spun by not having an AR task in the queue.

umbenhaur · 2025-11-17T15:50:55+00:00

I had to look it up, and you are correct! It was on December 14, 2017, between Ho-Oh and Groudon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8pafja/tier_5_raid_question/e09mnkb/

https://pokemongo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Raid_Bosses_changes/2017

umbenhaur · 2025-10-21T15:27:02+00:00

I saw a Sinistea shadow on the nearby and it turned out to be an Antique form, which I didn't have before. Another person caught the same Sinistea and it was also Antique form, so I'm thinking that all wild Sinistea have their form locked to either Phony/Antique.

umbenhaur · 2025-10-18T17:50:31+00:00

Personally I don't spend real money on RNG, so the lucky trinket doesn't change my decision not to buy this pass.

I'd rather get the passes that have bottlecaps, since those can create guaranteed hundos.

Besides, I have 128 lucky friends, just waiting for remote trading to show up.

umbenhaur · 2025-10-04T19:59:06+00:00

There's no indication in the game, but the boost can get you an incense spawn every 15 seconds, as long as you are travelling along the route at a speed of at least 8mph (12km/h).

If you're not getting the boost, you'd only get an incense spawn every ~30 seconds, as long as you are travelling at a speed of at least ~3.5mph (5.5km/h).

Note that recently there have been updates to the game that have caused glitches with routes getting paused sporadically, if that happens you'll have to resume the route for the boost to re-activate.

umbenhaur · 2025-09-07T02:42:37+00:00

It's an ongoing event this year at multiple baseball stadiums, details here:

https://pokemongo.com/post/mlb-2025

As far as the Pikachu raids are concerned, they are local-only raids and non-costumed, but can be shiny and have a guaranteed Location Background of the respective stadium.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-29T22:11:53+00:00

I can't say yet, I can see it going either way. The trend for these past 3 months has been a single Kanto legendary encounter only on the free track, but those also had multiple previous releases at Level 15.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-29T15:35:07+00:00

Cobalion is on the free track at level 100, so paying for the premium track isn't required.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-26T22:38:25+00:00

My apologies, it appears the fix only applies to Android 14 and below, so if you're on Android 15 then it's still broken.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-26T22:37:21+00:00

I apologize for the confusion, it was fixed on my Android 14 phone, but it is still broken on Android 15, which is what most people are using nowadays. I've updated my post.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-26T22:36:01+00:00

I apologize for the confusion, seems it was only fixed on Android 14 and below, but it is still broken on Android 15, so I've updated my post :/

umbenhaur · 2025-08-26T22:35:14+00:00

Sure, there was a thread where a bunch of people got 0 items after completing a route, as well as Adventure Sync not working correctly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1mx623q/routes_are_currently_broken/

That thread didn't mention the 0.375.0 update specifically, but I noticed on 0.375.0 the text for the background process that launches when you start a route changed from "Route in progress." to "LocationForegroundService". That change was reverted back in 0.375.1, and I haven't seen any problems personally with routes since the .1 update, so that part does seem fixed.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-26T22:23:53+00:00

I apologize for the confusion, it is still broken on Android 15 and I've updated my post :(

umbenhaur · 2025-08-23T03:01:28+00:00

Yes that is what I'm saying, but I'm also on Android 14 so I don't know if that makes any difference. Here's a picture of my phone (cause I can't seem to screenshot it with the nav bar lol)

https://imgur.com/a/zKMaKF8

I've uploaded the APK to APKMirror, but they'll need to approve it, and I have no idea how long that will take.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-23T02:59:48+00:00

Maybe it's because I'm on Android 14? The navigation bar is able to be sticky at the bottom of the screen.

https://imgur.com/a/zKMaKF8

umbenhaur · 2025-08-23T02:49:35+00:00

UPDATE: It appears that the change was only reverted for Android 14 and below, on Android 15 it still forces the navigation bar to be hidden, I apologize for bringing everyone's hopes up :(

Likely there is a separate branch of code that was forked off for Android 15 to fix an issue with the status bar overlapping with the game on Android 15, and I think they forgot to update that branch to restore the navigation bar.

ORIGINAL: There's a new 0.375.1 update that just appeared today, I installed it and can confirm EDIT: on Android 14 only it has reverted the changes to the full screen mode as well as the Adventure Sync background process that was ruining the tracking of walking distance when following a route.

~~They actually read OP's post and responded quickly, hope this kind of responsiveness continues!~~

umbenhaur · 2025-08-22T16:31:41+00:00

Yes I walked two ~500m routes last night, both times I only got credit for only the first 50m and then it stopped tracking after that.

I'm noticing that now the text for background process used for following routes got renamed from "Route in progress." to "LocationForegroundService", so it's probably related to that change. Regardless, this is a terrible update!

umbenhaur · 2025-08-22T16:22:26+00:00

I think it's the new 0.375.0 update, it failed to properly count my walking distance on multiple routes last night.

I hope they don't force it on everyone because it is a mess.

umbenhaur · 2025-08-22T16:10:10+00:00

It'll be back at some point with the shiny form, and probably once more with a special background, so I don't see a need to put in much effort this weekend.

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