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Title: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: Goshawk on May 17, 2022, 05:26:28 PM: When I'm out and set my program to "tracking" it follows me for a short time, then once my phone screen goes to sleep it all shuts down. When I turn my phone back on it will only show a straight as-the-crow-flies line between where I am, and where I was when the phone screen timed out.
Try as I might, I can't figure out why.
Any suggestions besides keeping the phone screen activated all day?
Thanks,
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: KFhunter on May 17, 2022, 05:36:12 PM: Iphone?
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: KFhunter on May 17, 2022, 05:38:35 PM: This is android

Under battery, power management
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: grundy53 on May 17, 2022, 06:03:08 PM: If your battery saver is on turn it off. I had the same problem.

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Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: hunter399 on May 17, 2022, 06:17:10 PM: Quote from: grundy53 on May 17, 2022, 06:03:08 PM
If your battery saver is on turn it off. I had the same problem.

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Yup mine does the same ,if battery saver is on.
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: bearpaw on May 23, 2022, 10:38:41 AM: I use onx all the time, I'm still trying to figure out how the pioneers made it out west without a map app on their phone? :chuckle:
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: GASoline71 on May 23, 2022, 11:17:05 AM: Quote from: bearpaw on May 23, 2022, 10:38:41 AM
I use onx all the time, I'm still trying to figure out how the pioneers made it out west without a map app on their phone? :chuckle:

LOL... I swore I would never carry a cell phone with me in the woods. Even when cameras started appearing on phones, I swore I wouldn't do it. Damn you On-X... :chuckle:

Gary
Title: Re: OnX issue 2.0
Post by: Goshawk on May 26, 2022, 07:46:44 AM: Thank you for the tip. I'll give it a shot and look up my settings.
Before GPS my Mrs. and I used to do a lot of cross country horse riding in the Goat Rocks and Glacier Peak wilderness areas with good USGS Topos and compass. I too often wonder about "heading out west" or running a trap line without much more than a guess as to where you are, and prayers to where you are going.

As someone who's spent a few nights pondering just where I was exactly, I always liked the old Daniel Boone quote:

"Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days."