Only keeping the end of the trail

[David Richfield]

I've experimented with MTE a bit, and I only ever get about the last
10 minutes of a trail. Am I "doing it wrong"?

I must admit that I'm not actively using MTE any more these days: I'm
using TrekBuddy - they bowed to the pressure and bought a certificate,
so it's much less frustrating to use.

[thevikas]

Within Settings->Display there is an option to choose your trail
display and also how many points to store. The default is 150 and only
show end of trail. Therefore you see only last 5 minutes (time is
relative to your speed, at a 60kmph car drive my trail time is about
3m 45s).

150 works stable on most phones. You can play with this setting. At
times a high number say 1500 will show a very long trail but MTE will
struggle to save it when you choose to stop it. For such cases, make
sure you activate stream recording also from settings. Streams saves
the trail in realtime and therefore you will still have a backup if
MTE could not save the GPX/KML file.

[Vikas Yadav]

Within Settings->Display there is an option to choose your trail
display and also how many points to store. The default is 150 and only
show end of trail. Therefore you see only last 5 minutes (time is
relative to your speed, at a 60kmph car drive my trail time is about
3m 45s).

150 works stable on most phones. You can play with this setting. At
times a high number say 1500 will show a very long trail but MTE will
struggle to save it when you choose to stop it. For such cases, make
sure you activate stream recording also from settings. Streams saves
the trail in realtime and therefore you will still have a backup if
MTE could not save the GPX/KML file.

[David Richfield]

OK, thanks, that makes sense!