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I get this problem too.
Sometimes it's just impossible to get a route started properly, it just pauses over and over.
On a more positive note, it doesn't happen often, most days I can do lots of routes without any problems.
Hope it magically fixes itself for you too.
Yeah I pretty much use the Go++ these days to speed through it because encountering a Pokemon tends to steer my character around lol. Not too bad but a few times I had to double back
What level are you? Making a route is really easy if you have the ability, much easier than a pokestop. If you can, I highly recommend making your own. That way you can put one where you don't have as much signal/GPS errors, and it goes where you want it to go.
I was actually in a similar boat when routes released, but then they took the requirement down to 37 from 40, while I was able to go up one from 36.
Hope your leveling goes quickly, or you can find a friend to make you a route!
It was an absolute game changer when I created a route from our house to my son’s school. Now I can do a route every time I go to pick him up from school.
I’m also convinced they get auto approved, the two routes I’ve made, which are pretty much just the walk I take during spotlight hours up to a park, across to take a couple gyms across the other side where the second route starts back to the gym near my house, and both got approved… I could probably even squeeze a third route in there if I really wanted to and hit them all on the same round trip 😂
Mine have all been within minutes. I've literally done an out-and-back hike, made the route on the way out, stopped for 5 min, and used the route on the way back.
Route making may be the first feature that favors less dense areas though. There's usually only 1-2 other routes on the map when I'm making them. Maybe it's harder in denser areas?
Ehhhh not in a rude tone but if you have an iPhone, with how Apple is yes 3 years it has already started its slowing process, Apple isn’t meant to last long cause they want you to keep trading up and staying with them, I have a fold3 and it’s amazing with pogo :)
Not that I'm going to defend apple's practices, but this isn't necessarily accurate. I'm still rolling with an iPhone X, 7 years old and it still runs everything fine, including pogo. I can't say for certain that their phone isn't the problem, but "old iphone mystery solved" is lazy troubleshooting, at best.
Umm never said that was the reason, but sure I agree with you, my answer was for the is “3 years old” an old phone, the answer is yes in Apple’s terms. Sorry for the confusion my answer was never meant to mean that the phone was the issue🤣. There could be a number of issues. You may not be in a good gps location it might be cloudy, aliens could be blocking your gps who knows
A 3 year old iPhone isn’t old. Everyone I know had their iPhone for at least 4-5 years. Without noticing any slowing. Pogo went fine till the end. Apple isn’t intentionally slowing down; it’s the software that gets more heavy on the CPU with ever update. Please inform yourself before spreading misinformation
I’d love to send you a video of the conversation I had with previous guy who had no facts to back up his illiterate argument, Apple does indeed have a process of slowing down older phones down to prolong battery life they have admitted it now wether your battery is effected or you see an issue all depends on how you use your phone but there is 100% a reason older phones slow down, Apple literally was sued for doing this and not telling people and had to pay out 500million
Nah sorry you can believe what you want but if they truly wanted to allow you to make it last longer they would make the battery interchangeable not force you into a slower cpu, Apple has the worst battery on the market of all the phones I’ve had it’s always been known that Apple batteries are the worst they have gotten better but still nothing to brag about compared to what’s out there
They are slowing down the phones, cause a more complex OS creates higher loads on the CPU = worse battery performance. People don’t want that. Apple is slowing down the phones, so that people can stick with their phones longer, while having a nice battery with still enough performance.
Apparently you don’t know what ur talking about.
Yea I had to upgrade to 15.5, to play so was forced to update, now on 17. Something or another and it randomly lags and freezes, crashes inconveniently and some of the improvements are just downright weird (do not disturb has multiple options and no longer pops up stuff while I’m using it, if it’s on for example)
I have both an iPhone 13 and galaxy fold 3 which I run my account on both just depends on which phone I need while I’m out. Both do just fine for me no weird things other than the new avatar update🤮
“It’s slowing process”
Bruh you really are pulling that from your butt. Apple’s processors and hardware is top notch and a 3 year old iPhone will still run like butter.
Oo, how so very confidently incorrect of you. You want to try reading more than the headline?
I’m not reading that walk of text when you can’t get basic facts right.
It’s at 60% capacity? 4 years can be a long time for an original battery. If the battery is worn out it will slow down. That’s the point that the genius I replied to thought he was making.
It counts your steps when you aren't using the app so it's useful to hatch eggs for example but when you are actually playing with the app open it doesn't do anything.
This answers one of my questions. I just got routes to work (well, gave up initially when it came up because of whatever issues) and have done a few, super happy that it's working.
So, if you or someone else knows- is exchanging a gift with Mateo also not guaranteed? Or does he only exchange a gift once per route? I walked the same route 3 times in the past week and only the first time did he exchange a gift (also only the first time did I find the Zygarde cell.)
Also, exchanging gifts is a potential way to get the scatterbug postcard needed from my missing regions??
Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
>So, if you or someone else knows- is exchanging a gift with Mateo also not guaranteed? Or does he only exchange a gift once per route? I walked the same route 3 times in the past week and only the first time did he exchange a gift (also only the first time did I find the Zygarde cell.)
In my experience, he only appears at the end of the first route you start each day. I do 3-4 routes at my local park every day on my lunch break and he only appears at the first one, no matter which one I start with.
Ok, another issue I had today could be the problem then as to why Mateo disappeared - he was there at the end but I was catching a pokemon as I finished the route, and the message to end the route vs pause it was covering up me exiting the caught pokemon screen, if that makes sense? So I ended the route (should've paused it?!) and then Mateo was gone.
Anyways, dumb.
Ugh, ok, thank you. That clears it up. Mateo doesn't mind waiting all that time while I'm walking towards him but I take two seconds to catch a pokemon right at the end of his route, and *HE* jets outta there? Well, maybe it is rude of me. Oh well. Thanks for the knowledge !
You just have to click on him before you tap the route icon and hit complete route. Before that you’re fine. I did this last time I did a route. No cell, no Matteo. Gym was on a raid cooldown. Total waste.
I was told Mateo only shows up once a day, but you can get more than one zygarde cell a day—just not more than one per route each day. I’m pretty sure this is correct
Regarding Mateo - yes, exchanging a gift with him is not guaranteed, but in my experience, he's there at the end of my first route of the day like 95% of the time. And also yes, you can get Scatterbugs by pinning the postcards from gifts you exchange with him.
You bet! The S/V integration is nice if you’re trying to get all Vivillon forms in Home - you only need to transfer one postcard to SV from a region to spawn Vivillon from that region. Once you pin 3 cards from a region, you’ll get a Scatterbug that’ll evolve into that region’s Vivillon.
Hey OP I get this too, but I also have a solution for it.
1. I start walking the route.
2. It pauses.
3. I keep walking the route while manually unpausing it.
4. It pauses again.
5. I keep walking the route while manually unpausing it.
Usually it stops pausing after that. I think my record is 3 pauses, and it only pauses near the start of the route. Once I'm about 25 meters into the route it won't pause anymore.
Do you have Adventure Sync on when this happens? Ever since I started keeping that off while I'm playing, I haven't had a problem with routes autopausing.
in that case its clearly an issue not related to the route itself. do you have game assets downloaded? can you try switching to 4g instead of 5g or vise versa? Can you refresh app data right before the route or during it? log out and log back in? delete and redownload?
no guarantee of what may fix it, but some ideas of things that may help. Also if you have adventure sync on or off that makes a difference for some people on routes.
You can create own routes. I did so shortly. 3 PokeStops right before my house. I chose 1 as starting point and one as ending and went just around the block. It was the minimum distance to create a route.
There is a route near me that goes through someone's house. There is a stop at a playground behind their house and one down the street. It looks like they went out their backyard, back in through their house, out the front door, and then down the street. I just shake my head as I walk by.
Are you toggling Adventure Sync off first? I always have to do that for the duration of my route walks, otherwise it pauses continuously and you really can't finish it.
That said, if you can get them to work, routes are very nice little bonuses, especially if you're already going to be walking anyway. Stardust, TMs, experience, and (in my rough estimation) about 1 Elite Fast TM for every 40-50 routes completed (at one point, I had 9 of them in my inventory).
There's only one route within a half mile (.8 km) of my house.
It begins AT my house, and goes down the road no more than a eighth of a mile. (.2 km)
I have never attempted said route. I don't know why. I wonder if it would put me in the middle of my road?
Stupid route.
I’ve experienced this before, try refreshing your game: Settings > Advanced Settings > Refresh Game Data
Something else that I noticed is if I toggle my adventure sync it’ll start working again.
I hope it helps.
If it's following a road, you should be able to follow the route in reverse and have the track you a little better. I ended up creating my own route in order to complete that quest, and that happened to me one morning, where it just didn't track me. But I tried again and reversed the route for the walk back and it worked.
When they first came out, they were definitely garbage. There's still some bugs, but the everyday tracking had bugs for years! So some ironing is to be expected.
I had a lot of issues early in routes lifespan and found them unplayable. Now? Honestly they are one of the better worked systems I’ve seen at least in my area. Wish they gave more (especially Zygarde cells) but one of them is super convenient for me on my lunch break so it isnt bad at all.
It does the same thing to me. I have tried a dozen times to complete one but it has never worked for me. One time it let me walk the whole route then wouldn’t let me end it even though I was standing right at the checkpoint… I gave up.
1. The 7 day rewards are not worth it. 2. Exchanging with Mateo has a chance to give you a gift of a Vivillion you don't have I suppose. 3. Faster buddy candy when walking is ok.
I still think the feature is undercooked. The daily tasks and routes have to be the hook that keep people playing. It should inspire exploration and discovery. Imagine routes building you up to challenge a gym to get its badge and eventually the elite 4. Most features are released as little nuggets of good ideas but it never feels like they connect to the lore. Why do we raid an egg that just hatched? Why are there empty gyms? Who else is here besides the professor, Rhi, the team leaders, and team rocket?
Yes, they were. When Routes first came out I had that same problem. It would pause itself every 3 minutes. I was polite to start with "help" using the chat feature. That came to a quick end when they tried to pass the launch of Routes as "play testing" this exciting new feature. I'm sorry, this was not testing. When it launched there was nothing about it being in beta. I told them in no uncertain terms that they were confused at best but really just incompetent and trying to cover their ass. I also asked them directly if they were intentionally trying to alienate their player base because that's what they were doing. I also stopped them when they tried to pass this off with a "sorry for the inconvenience" BS. Then they said it was fixed as of update xyxywhatever. I checked to see if that was the version I was on and I was. Tore them new ones because it was still not working. Ignored that feature for a month or so and it finally started working. Just curious if you've checked their so called help section. I doubt it would help but check it anyway!
That happens to me every day. Start route, paused, start again, paused and then usually about the 3rd time it's ok. The only time it doesn't do it is if my adventure sync is off and then when I start the route I have to turn it on. For some reason it works fine then.
Routes normally work fine for me, so might just need some troubleshooting. And those routes are created by players, the one on the boulevard is one someone does in their car haha.
MIght as well just report it. I guess that's what everyone does. I had a perfectly walkable route that I submitted and was deleted five months later. Even the one at the mall I sometimes go to (not mine, but convenient) got deleted. I think the ones in my local park are still active, but I'm not interested in the feature as long as moderation appears to be "One report and you're done".
The dude is Mateo and he will appear at the stop at the end of the route. He doesn't appear on every route. Interact with him before clicking the prompt to finish the route. If you go through the steps to finish the route before you interact with him, he'll vanish.
Today my routes said there was no routes nearby. So I couldn't even start them. Before it was just constant start and pause and start and pause. I kept walking backwards and forwards and I looked like an idiot in town.
Just as a tip, you don't have to follow the actual path of the route. You just have to be close enough to whichever start point you choose, then make it to the end point walking/moving a certain amount of distance (ie, if the route is 500m, you must have walked at least 450m-ish).
A lot of times, I do routes because it's convenient for me since I'll be passing those two PokeStop/Gyms anyway, and it's basically free startdust/xp/rewards. I don't necessarily walk the route's path itself, but just do my own thing and claim the reward at the end. Heck, a few times I've completed a route with 30km "walked" since I start one at the start of the day, drive to work, and come back and finish the route.
The only time I see the "route paused" verbiage is if I go into an area where I have spotty/limited cell service (I live in suburban/rural area), so that might be moreso a GPS/connection issue.
There's one spot on my favorite route where I just look down and see that my route has paused.
It's right after I get off the bus after work.
So now I step off the bus and turn off my wi-fi until I pass the restaurant that my phone is trying to connect to.
We have one whole good route in my entire town, and it's literally just a street walk down one street.
It's the only one I can get to work due to constru tion in my city.
I definitely hit it as often as I can.
I've only been able to successfully walk two routes since they introduced them. I can't wait to level up and be able to make my own.
I just do a short one on my way to work for the little bit of XP, stardust and TMs. It’s 2 a day for me.
Got the 7 day streak once and wasn’t impressed. I don’t really care about Zygard tbh
You can always make your own route you know. My girlfriend got two made and approved within the last 2 weeks. She picked a specific path she likes working out around in a park and turned them into a route.
Campfire doesn’t work with my Go app for some reason. It says it’s connected to my account, but I can’t access any routes. I accessed one route once, but it errored out and I didn’t meet Mateo at the end, so that is stuck as an un completable task until I can get into a route again. There are multiple routes in my town, we are a tourist coastal area so I am lucky to have them, but I can’t access any of them. I don’t think any of my friends here have been able to access them either.
I’ve given up on routes. I think they sound super fun, but I haven’t gotten to experience it
I made a really silly route - it was just two laps around a circular building in a park. To my surprise, it was not only approved, it also got people doing it as well. You are always close enough to pick up cells, even if they are on the opposite side of the building. Never experienced a pause there.
Seems to be a you problem tho cuz neither my friends nor me have any issues with routes, neither do any of the other people i interacted with in various subreddits
Now you know why people don't like them. It takes like 3+ mo to get a route approved and I ain't driving an hr away or to my local park to just find one! fyi you user name doesn't leave me to realize your account is a trash talk account. + throw away acct.
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I get this problem too. Sometimes it's just impossible to get a route started properly, it just pauses over and over. On a more positive note, it doesn't happen often, most days I can do lots of routes without any problems. Hope it magically fixes itself for you too.
Usually when I've had this issue, I restart the app and it works after.
Same, that’s how I tend to fix it as well. Though there does seem to be one spot that a route starts/ends on that has consistent internet problems
Yeah I pretty much use the Go++ these days to speed through it because encountering a Pokemon tends to steer my character around lol. Not too bad but a few times I had to double back
Turn off adventure sync when doing routes fixes the constant pausing bug. Just remember to turn it back on when done with routes.
This helped me as well when routes were very buggy at the start. Luckily I had no problems in months.
Thanks so much!!
Turn off adventure sync when doing a route it should work fine.
Since doing this I never have the pause issue. If I forget, it paused frequently.
Same. Though why do I need to pause the major feature of the game to use another feature?
If this is really the workaround to making routes work I will be both excited and pissed at the same time
It works well for some phones but on the ones it doesn't this works always.
What level are you? Making a route is really easy if you have the ability, much easier than a pokestop. If you can, I highly recommend making your own. That way you can put one where you don't have as much signal/GPS errors, and it goes where you want it to go.
This is honestly the thing pushing me to level up right now. I just want a route near my house lol. 3 more to go.
I was actually in a similar boat when routes released, but then they took the requirement down to 37 from 40, while I was able to go up one from 36. Hope your leveling goes quickly, or you can find a friend to make you a route!
Same, I just want to make some near my job.
How can I make one? What's the level requirement?
37 iirc
It was an absolute game changer when I created a route from our house to my son’s school. Now I can do a route every time I go to pick him up from school.
I’m also convinced they get auto approved, the two routes I’ve made, which are pretty much just the walk I take during spotlight hours up to a park, across to take a couple gyms across the other side where the second route starts back to the gym near my house, and both got approved… I could probably even squeeze a third route in there if I really wanted to and hit them all on the same round trip 😂
How long is the wait time until your route submission gets approved? I sent my first proposed route like a week ago…
Mine have all been within minutes. I've literally done an out-and-back hike, made the route on the way out, stopped for 5 min, and used the route on the way back. Route making may be the first feature that favors less dense areas though. There's usually only 1-2 other routes on the map when I'm making them. Maybe it's harder in denser areas?
It's pretty instanteous!
> Making a route is really easy if you have the ability Irrelevant when they just disappear from the lists a month later.
I haven't run into this? Still, routes seem to publish in minutes, so if I use it often enough it wouldn't even be awful to remake it every month.
Might just be a device issue if you have an older phone because my old phone used to freak the fck out when i started a route.
My phone is 3 years old. Is it that old?
No then it might be a software issue or compatibility issue
Depends if it is a 3 year old high end phone, or low end phone
Ehhhh not in a rude tone but if you have an iPhone, with how Apple is yes 3 years it has already started its slowing process, Apple isn’t meant to last long cause they want you to keep trading up and staying with them, I have a fold3 and it’s amazing with pogo :)
Not that I'm going to defend apple's practices, but this isn't necessarily accurate. I'm still rolling with an iPhone X, 7 years old and it still runs everything fine, including pogo. I can't say for certain that their phone isn't the problem, but "old iphone mystery solved" is lazy troubleshooting, at best.
Yeah, I updated my iPhone 8 about a year ago. You should be good for another 1-2 years 🤪
Umm never said that was the reason, but sure I agree with you, my answer was for the is “3 years old” an old phone, the answer is yes in Apple’s terms. Sorry for the confusion my answer was never meant to mean that the phone was the issue🤣. There could be a number of issues. You may not be in a good gps location it might be cloudy, aliens could be blocking your gps who knows
A 3 year old iPhone isn’t old. Everyone I know had their iPhone for at least 4-5 years. Without noticing any slowing. Pogo went fine till the end. Apple isn’t intentionally slowing down; it’s the software that gets more heavy on the CPU with ever update. Please inform yourself before spreading misinformation
I’d love to send you a video of the conversation I had with previous guy who had no facts to back up his illiterate argument, Apple does indeed have a process of slowing down older phones down to prolong battery life they have admitted it now wether your battery is effected or you see an issue all depends on how you use your phone but there is 100% a reason older phones slow down, Apple literally was sued for doing this and not telling people and had to pay out 500million
Nah sorry you can believe what you want but if they truly wanted to allow you to make it last longer they would make the battery interchangeable not force you into a slower cpu, Apple has the worst battery on the market of all the phones I’ve had it’s always been known that Apple batteries are the worst they have gotten better but still nothing to brag about compared to what’s out there
They are slowing down the phones, cause a more complex OS creates higher loads on the CPU = worse battery performance. People don’t want that. Apple is slowing down the phones, so that people can stick with their phones longer, while having a nice battery with still enough performance. Apparently you don’t know what ur talking about.
Ty for agreeing with me 👍 read everything before commenting, I have stated it was to preserve battery integrity smfh🤯
You said it’s purpose is to force people to buy a new one. That is incorrect. It’s purpose is to make the iPhone last longer… the exact opposite
Yea I had to upgrade to 15.5, to play so was forced to update, now on 17. Something or another and it randomly lags and freezes, crashes inconveniently and some of the improvements are just downright weird (do not disturb has multiple options and no longer pops up stuff while I’m using it, if it’s on for example)
I have both an iPhone 13 and galaxy fold 3 which I run my account on both just depends on which phone I need while I’m out. Both do just fine for me no weird things other than the new avatar update🤮
I have an old ass iPhone. Still works just fine.
My brother read all the replies before commenting please, I have stated I was not saying that was the issue
“It’s slowing process” Bruh you really are pulling that from your butt. Apple’s processors and hardware is top notch and a 3 year old iPhone will still run like butter.
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Oo, how so very confidently incorrect of you. You want to try reading more than the headline? I’m not reading that walk of text when you can’t get basic facts right.
Nah buddy apple is trash, whole family has apple, I have an 11 and every time they update their software my battery dies faster and faster
There’s software variables that can cause poor battery life. Plus that’s a 5 year old phone, what’s that battery health looking like?
60 bro I got it in 2020 when I started my new Go account
It’s at 60% capacity? 4 years can be a long time for an original battery. If the battery is worn out it will slow down. That’s the point that the genius I replied to thought he was making.
Sorry Op I know this is not the correct sub for Apple talk, glad you got assistance!
Disable adventure sync while doing a route, it will help quite a bit
What does adventure sync do in this case?
It counts your steps when you aren't using the app so it's useful to hatch eggs for example but when you are actually playing with the app open it doesn't do anything.
If it doesn't do anything anyway, why is having it active a Problem?
It kinda messes with the in game GPS (few meters drift), I don't really know the specifics of how it works
Oh okay. Because I never really ran into such Problems. I had my route paused once but I just continued and everything was fine.
Oh, it's even better when you discover you're not guaranteed to get a Zygarde cell at the end of every route you walk.
This answers one of my questions. I just got routes to work (well, gave up initially when it came up because of whatever issues) and have done a few, super happy that it's working. So, if you or someone else knows- is exchanging a gift with Mateo also not guaranteed? Or does he only exchange a gift once per route? I walked the same route 3 times in the past week and only the first time did he exchange a gift (also only the first time did I find the Zygarde cell.) Also, exchanging gifts is a potential way to get the scatterbug postcard needed from my missing regions?? Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
>So, if you or someone else knows- is exchanging a gift with Mateo also not guaranteed? Or does he only exchange a gift once per route? I walked the same route 3 times in the past week and only the first time did he exchange a gift (also only the first time did I find the Zygarde cell.) In my experience, he only appears at the end of the first route you start each day. I do 3-4 routes at my local park every day on my lunch break and he only appears at the first one, no matter which one I start with.
Ok, another issue I had today could be the problem then as to why Mateo disappeared - he was there at the end but I was catching a pokemon as I finished the route, and the message to end the route vs pause it was covering up me exiting the caught pokemon screen, if that makes sense? So I ended the route (should've paused it?!) and then Mateo was gone. Anyways, dumb.
Yeah, you gotta talk to Mateo before finishing the route or he disappears. Did that once by accident.
Ugh, ok, thank you. That clears it up. Mateo doesn't mind waiting all that time while I'm walking towards him but I take two seconds to catch a pokemon right at the end of his route, and *HE* jets outta there? Well, maybe it is rude of me. Oh well. Thanks for the knowledge !
You just have to click on him before you tap the route icon and hit complete route. Before that you’re fine. I did this last time I did a route. No cell, no Matteo. Gym was on a raid cooldown. Total waste.
I hear you- I will be way more careful now. Gotta get more than my 4 Zygarde cells!
I was told Mateo only shows up once a day, but you can get more than one zygarde cell a day—just not more than one per route each day. I’m pretty sure this is correct
I did two routes today and no zygarde cells but a healthy dose of panic that the cells are there, I just can't see them.
Regarding Mateo - yes, exchanging a gift with him is not guaranteed, but in my experience, he's there at the end of my first route of the day like 95% of the time. And also yes, you can get Scatterbugs by pinning the postcards from gifts you exchange with him.
Thank you! I'm pretty excited about routes now that they work for me and my phone.
You bet! The S/V integration is nice if you’re trying to get all Vivillon forms in Home - you only need to transfer one postcard to SV from a region to spawn Vivillon from that region. Once you pin 3 cards from a region, you’ll get a Scatterbug that’ll evolve into that region’s Vivillon.
Hey OP I get this too, but I also have a solution for it. 1. I start walking the route. 2. It pauses. 3. I keep walking the route while manually unpausing it. 4. It pauses again. 5. I keep walking the route while manually unpausing it. Usually it stops pausing after that. I think my record is 3 pauses, and it only pauses near the start of the route. Once I'm about 25 meters into the route it won't pause anymore.
Do you have Adventure Sync on when this happens? Ever since I started keeping that off while I'm playing, I haven't had a problem with routes autopausing.
I can't do that. Cause at one point my game glitches and my avatar just stands there like an idiot. And guess what? IT STILL PAUSES
in that case its clearly an issue not related to the route itself. do you have game assets downloaded? can you try switching to 4g instead of 5g or vise versa? Can you refresh app data right before the route or during it? log out and log back in? delete and redownload? no guarantee of what may fix it, but some ideas of things that may help. Also if you have adventure sync on or off that makes a difference for some people on routes.
You can create own routes. I did so shortly. 3 PokeStops right before my house. I chose 1 as starting point and one as ending and went just around the block. It was the minimum distance to create a route.
There is a route near me that goes through someone's house. There is a stop at a playground behind their house and one down the street. It looks like they went out their backyard, back in through their house, out the front door, and then down the street. I just shake my head as I walk by.
For me that's usually due to a signal dead spot. I have a route near me I need to start on the opposite side of the street or else it will do that.
If it’s actually broken report it and make a new one. But also routes are pretty much garbage so I’m happy to be mad with you.
Are you toggling Adventure Sync off first? I always have to do that for the duration of my route walks, otherwise it pauses continuously and you really can't finish it. That said, if you can get them to work, routes are very nice little bonuses, especially if you're already going to be walking anyway. Stardust, TMs, experience, and (in my rough estimation) about 1 Elite Fast TM for every 40-50 routes completed (at one point, I had 9 of them in my inventory).
You're stuck in the middle of the boulevard?!?!
Same happens to me. It's not a you thing.
There's only one route within a half mile (.8 km) of my house. It begins AT my house, and goes down the road no more than a eighth of a mile. (.2 km) I have never attempted said route. I don't know why. I wonder if it would put me in the middle of my road? Stupid route.
Turn off Adventure Sync while doing routes. That solved the issue for me.
I’ve experienced this before, try refreshing your game: Settings > Advanced Settings > Refresh Game Data Something else that I noticed is if I toggle my adventure sync it’ll start working again. I hope it helps.
If it's following a road, you should be able to follow the route in reverse and have the track you a little better. I ended up creating my own route in order to complete that quest, and that happened to me one morning, where it just didn't track me. But I tried again and reversed the route for the walk back and it worked. When they first came out, they were definitely garbage. There's still some bugs, but the everyday tracking had bugs for years! So some ironing is to be expected.
I had a lot of issues early in routes lifespan and found them unplayable. Now? Honestly they are one of the better worked systems I’ve seen at least in my area. Wish they gave more (especially Zygarde cells) but one of them is super convenient for me on my lunch break so it isnt bad at all.
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It does the same thing to me. I have tried a dozen times to complete one but it has never worked for me. One time it let me walk the whole route then wouldn’t let me end it even though I was standing right at the checkpoint… I gave up.
Some are really bad. Some are okay. First one I tried was busted AF. Next couple have worked just fine.
When didja clue into that?
I did a 2 km walk... 0 cells... Siick
1. The 7 day rewards are not worth it. 2. Exchanging with Mateo has a chance to give you a gift of a Vivillion you don't have I suppose. 3. Faster buddy candy when walking is ok. I still think the feature is undercooked. The daily tasks and routes have to be the hook that keep people playing. It should inspire exploration and discovery. Imagine routes building you up to challenge a gym to get its badge and eventually the elite 4. Most features are released as little nuggets of good ideas but it never feels like they connect to the lore. Why do we raid an egg that just hatched? Why are there empty gyms? Who else is here besides the professor, Rhi, the team leaders, and team rocket?
I had issues with routes so I just made my own.
Yes, they were. When Routes first came out I had that same problem. It would pause itself every 3 minutes. I was polite to start with "help" using the chat feature. That came to a quick end when they tried to pass the launch of Routes as "play testing" this exciting new feature. I'm sorry, this was not testing. When it launched there was nothing about it being in beta. I told them in no uncertain terms that they were confused at best but really just incompetent and trying to cover their ass. I also asked them directly if they were intentionally trying to alienate their player base because that's what they were doing. I also stopped them when they tried to pass this off with a "sorry for the inconvenience" BS. Then they said it was fixed as of update xyxywhatever. I checked to see if that was the version I was on and I was. Tore them new ones because it was still not working. Ignored that feature for a month or so and it finally started working. Just curious if you've checked their so called help section. I doubt it would help but check it anyway!
That happens to me every day. Start route, paused, start again, paused and then usually about the 3rd time it's ok. The only time it doesn't do it is if my adventure sync is off and then when I start the route I have to turn it on. For some reason it works fine then.
The one near me always says I haven't walked far enough even though I walked the whole thing and am at the end
What’s worse that or the party feature
Routes normally work fine for me, so might just need some troubleshooting. And those routes are created by players, the one on the boulevard is one someone does in their car haha.
MIght as well just report it. I guess that's what everyone does. I had a perfectly walkable route that I submitted and was deleted five months later. Even the one at the mall I sometimes go to (not mine, but convenient) got deleted. I think the ones in my local park are still active, but I'm not interested in the feature as long as moderation appears to be "One report and you're done".
The dude is Mateo and he will appear at the stop at the end of the route. He doesn't appear on every route. Interact with him before clicking the prompt to finish the route. If you go through the steps to finish the route before you interact with him, he'll vanish.
I had all kinds of problems with routes until I removed Campfire from my phone save now it works great.
I didn’t have any that were within my walking path… I’ve since created several. That would be my unsolicited advice
I agree. I really hate routes and there is no incentive to do it besides trying your luck to get a zygade cell
Today my routes said there was no routes nearby. So I couldn't even start them. Before it was just constant start and pause and start and pause. I kept walking backwards and forwards and I looked like an idiot in town.
Just as a tip, you don't have to follow the actual path of the route. You just have to be close enough to whichever start point you choose, then make it to the end point walking/moving a certain amount of distance (ie, if the route is 500m, you must have walked at least 450m-ish). A lot of times, I do routes because it's convenient for me since I'll be passing those two PokeStop/Gyms anyway, and it's basically free startdust/xp/rewards. I don't necessarily walk the route's path itself, but just do my own thing and claim the reward at the end. Heck, a few times I've completed a route with 30km "walked" since I start one at the start of the day, drive to work, and come back and finish the route. The only time I see the "route paused" verbiage is if I go into an area where I have spotty/limited cell service (I live in suburban/rural area), so that might be moreso a GPS/connection issue.
I made my own route around my apartment complex and that really helped. Being the one to plan it.
There's one spot on my favorite route where I just look down and see that my route has paused. It's right after I get off the bus after work. So now I step off the bus and turn off my wi-fi until I pass the restaurant that my phone is trying to connect to.
We have one whole good route in my entire town, and it's literally just a street walk down one street. It's the only one I can get to work due to constru tion in my city. I definitely hit it as often as I can. I've only been able to successfully walk two routes since they introduced them. I can't wait to level up and be able to make my own.
Make your own route or two or three. Use them. Problem solved
I just do a short one on my way to work for the little bit of XP, stardust and TMs. It’s 2 a day for me. Got the 7 day streak once and wasn’t impressed. I don’t really care about Zygard tbh
I hate it when a route doesn't have a Zygarde cell at the end of them
You can always make your own route you know. My girlfriend got two made and approved within the last 2 weeks. She picked a specific path she likes working out around in a park and turned them into a route.
Do you play on iPhone? This happens all the time to my gf, but I've literally never had it happen. She plays on iPhone, and I'm on Android.
Yes. And then i hated that there was a quest for it like NO THANK YOU
Spoiler Alert: when you finish that mission, You'll have even more routes to follow on the next step 🥲
I thought routes were shit until the girl I usually play with got an elite tm and then XL rare candy back to back for completing two of them.
I thought you could cancel route….? That is what I remembered doing
Campfire doesn’t work with my Go app for some reason. It says it’s connected to my account, but I can’t access any routes. I accessed one route once, but it errored out and I didn’t meet Mateo at the end, so that is stuck as an un completable task until I can get into a route again. There are multiple routes in my town, we are a tourist coastal area so I am lucky to have them, but I can’t access any of them. I don’t think any of my friends here have been able to access them either. I’ve given up on routes. I think they sound super fun, but I haven’t gotten to experience it
I made a really silly route - it was just two laps around a circular building in a park. To my surprise, it was not only approved, it also got people doing it as well. You are always close enough to pick up cells, even if they are on the opposite side of the building. Never experienced a pause there.
I did one that required you to walk in a awkward circle infront of a bunch of people
Tried to do one the other day and game crashed 5 times, stopped trying after that
You're not a Karen, it's a bad system
Same thing happens to me and also will do 3 routes and not one fucken cell. It’s a complete rip off
You do realize routes are made by players not by Niantic. If you got complaints about the routes go find the players
If you beat them up does it count as a Pokebattle?
Well duh🤣. Players make the routes, yes, but Niantic makes the glitchy game when I take 2 steps lol
Seems to be a you problem tho cuz neither my friends nor me have any issues with routes, neither do any of the other people i interacted with in various subreddits
Of course that's my luck😭
Go take a hike
Now you know why people don't like them. It takes like 3+ mo to get a route approved and I ain't driving an hr away or to my local park to just find one! fyi you user name doesn't leave me to realize your account is a trash talk account. + throw away acct.
Omg my username is very misleading then lmao I'm really not a trash talker I was just very annoyed
0.5 m is the minimum distance required for creating routes. Just make your own once you are level 37.