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Post by pug-lover
On most drives I already know where I'm going so I don't need to start navigation but I want to keep Waze on for traffic info. If I just turn Waze on but I do NOT navigate to a destination, do I still earn points during driving?
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
This question and answer along with lots of other awesome answers can be found in the FAQ: http://bit.ly/WazeFAQ
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Post by bpc777
do i get points even if using GPS only and I don't have internet connection?
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Post by DILLIKWIG
I have noticed days where my points seem to have not been counted. Waze usually catches the points up over the next couple of days. I looked at my routes yesterday on the map editor and it showed a total of 165.07 miles while I only received 151 additional Waze points. I expect to see the remaining points come in today or tomorrow. I don't why the point calculations seem to be out of sync sometimes, but overall it seems to be accurate given enough time.
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Post by iainhouse
You do, indeed, earn points for driving, whether or not you're navigating. You're also helping your fellow Wazers by supplying traffic flow information for the route you take.
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Post by jasonh300
Waze has historically required an Internet connection. It's possible to cache your route if you are connected to Wi-Fi at the beginning of your journey. However, an Internet connection is required for your drive to upload. Users have had mixed results with their drives uploading at the end of a trip if they did not have a continuous Internet connection throughout the trip.


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Post by kentsmith9
bpc777 wrote:do i get points even if using GPS only and I don't have internet connection?
As Alan mentioned, the FAQ is a great source of the most common questions including this one and the original question:

Credit for driving without navigation
Driving with a flaky network connection
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Post by kentsmith9
Those bonus candy points are on a different update cycle and often take a full week cycle if I recall.
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Post by pug-lover
Thanks for the quick reply!
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Post by tanyka
How long does it take for the server to register points?

I collected the 2000 points candy for "First five friends on Waze" about 4 days ago and have yet to see them added to my scoreboard.

However, my daily drives are being updated every day so at least I know the server is updating something....
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