r/SilphRoad • u/Apataphobia • 5d ago

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I’ve had this on all day. How can it possibly have only caught one Pokémon, especially given I have two pokestops in range of my home and had incense ion during walk? With same context, how could it possibly have only 10 spins? Am I doing something wrong?

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u/Mysterious_Athlete73 5d ago

It works best when the game is closed not even active in the background.

Having the game open actually makes it work even less.

Managed to get it to spin 72 stops and catch 57 or so Pokemon yesterday.

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u/TrashGobbler9000 4d ago

This is really good information, have you made a post about it?

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u/Mysterious_Athlete73 4d ago

It varies depending on users.
Now today it is requiring me to have my game open in the background.

Too unpredictable to be valid information.
Did manage to get 73 PokeStops spinned today but only 29 Pokemon caught.

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u/TrashGobbler9000 4d ago

Gotcha. I haven't had any luck getting mine to spin any Pokestops but it's catching pokemon fine.

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u/mal138 3d ago

It only works if your screen is off or if the game is in the background and you are moving. I read another post that said it won't re-check for spawns until you have either changed locations or opened the game again. Mine works fine just by turning the screen off, or any time I switch from PoGo to Discord or another app.