Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???
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@Con-Hennekens said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
@Nick-Carthew said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
A good test would be:
Try starting a route with your screen on so that you can hear instructions and then turn your screen off.
That’s how I tested.I tested exactly that with my two android phones this morning, after allowing the app on them both to be running in the background.
The results on both: NO audio whatsoever. What strikes me on both phones is that the message that is halfway spoken when I push the lock button gets finished perfectly fine, so lock mode does not seem to interfere with that, and talking in lock mode is perfectly possible. BUT there are significant differences between them even so.
Interesting, so we have two Android phones that do not play audio, one iPhone that doesn't and one iPhone that does!
When I unlock my CAT I need to give it the unlock sequence first and select the app to display because it shows the homescreen first. But it is on the right spot immediately and resumes the voice guidance. It looks like the route has been followed correctly all along.
When I unlock my P30 Pro it skips the unlock procedure and focuses on the app immediately, the map scrolls from the old position (where it got locked) to the current position and resumes voice guidance. So it looks like it was not following the route all along.
Are the location permissions the same for both phones?
@Nick-Carthew, yes they were identical and set to "always allow". I think maybe the location services themselves fall into sleep mode when locking the screen, but I cannot find any setting for that.
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I did find this text on the internet however:
Concerning our use case, ACCES_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission should be in the manifest, but I cannot imagine that being not the case.
The last yellow sentence would indicate that our use case is not possible at all, a few times an hour is clearly not enough. So I assume there is more to it than can be read here.
source: https://developer.android.com/training/location/background
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@Corjan-Meijerink said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
We will work on this in the future!
Currently the app indeed does not continue the instructions when the screen is locked.Yes it does, I have just tested it. 100% all instructions and camera warnings.
@Nick-Carthew said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
Yes it does, I have just tested it. 100% all instructions and camera warnings.
I can confirm this. This morning, while driving and navigating, I opened a different app on my iPhone 13 for a moment (
). To my big surprise, the voice instructions continued to provide route guidance. An undisclosed feature?BMW K1600GT-P (2013) with BMW Navigator V | Nolan N100-5 with Sena 30K
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@Nick-Carthew said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
Yes it does, I have just tested it. 100% all instructions and camera warnings.
I can confirm this. This morning, while driving and navigating, I opened a different app on my iPhone 13 for a moment (
). To my big surprise, the voice instructions continued to provide route guidance. An undisclosed feature?@Rob-Verhoeff, well I don't think running out of focus is identical to running with locked screen. I have not tested that. I will (for Android) when I get the chance.
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@Nick-Carthew, yes they were identical and set to "always allow". I think maybe the location services themselves fall into sleep mode when locking the screen, but I cannot find any setting for that.
EDIT:
I did find this text on the internet however:Concerning our use case, ACCES_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission should be in the manifest, but I cannot imagine that being not the case.
The last yellow sentence would indicate that our use case is not possible at all, a few times an hour is clearly not enough. So I assume there is more to it than can be read here.
source: https://developer.android.com/training/location/background
@Con-Hennekens said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
Concerning our use case, ACCES_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission should be in the manifest, but I cannot imagine that being not the case.
The app definitely asks for ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, so in general it should work OK in the background on Android if the user or OS hasn't restricted permissions (accidentally or otherwise).
[Note that the OS is getting more invasive nowadays (Android 11 onwards?), and it can disable permissions - but only if the app hasn't been used recently, for many days for example. But that's not the case here.]
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@Rob-Verhoeff, well I don't think running out of focus is identical to running with locked screen. I have not tested that. I will (for Android) when I get the chance.
@Con-Hennekens That's indeed an interesting question! My screen wasn't locked, but MRA had been pushed to the background momentarily. I'll give it a try soon with a locked screen while navigating a route.
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@Nick-Carthew, yes they were identical and set to "always allow". I think maybe the location services themselves fall into sleep mode when locking the screen, but I cannot find any setting for that.
EDIT:
I did find this text on the internet however:Concerning our use case, ACCES_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission should be in the manifest, but I cannot imagine that being not the case.
The last yellow sentence would indicate that our use case is not possible at all, a few times an hour is clearly not enough. So I assume there is more to it than can be read here.
source: https://developer.android.com/training/location/background
@Con-Hennekens Very interesting behavior, my question still is why this works perfectly with google maps navigation?
I tried this with several scenarios, not only locking the screen but even going out of google maps and here you get sometimes a message on the home screen asking if you want to continue running the navigation or abort.
I guess this functionality is simply missing in MRA navigation?
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@Con-Hennekens Very interesting behavior, my question still is why this works perfectly with google maps navigation?
I tried this with several scenarios, not only locking the screen but even going out of google maps and here you get sometimes a message on the home screen asking if you want to continue running the navigation or abort.
I guess this functionality is simply missing in MRA navigation?
@Thomas-Scharrer, No idea. There are many "secrets" in Google software that only Google knows
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I have even tested this in the car a while ago to have better control of what is happening.
I put my helmet with my Sena on max volume on the passenger seat . I started a navigation, drove around and everything worked fine but as soon as I turned around the phone so it became inactive / locked the voice guidance stopped.
I then started another navigation with google maps and I could do whatever with my phone and it worked.
and for @Corjan-Meijerink it also didnt work when he tested
@Thomas-Scharrer I made a short video in the car yesterday and put it on YouTube. This shows my glamorous assistant switching the screen off and the instructions can still be heard, turn the screen back on and the app can be seen running in the background.
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@Thomas-Scharrer I made a short video in the car yesterday and put it on YouTube. This shows my glamorous assistant switching the screen off and the instructions can still be heard, turn the screen back on and the app can be seen running in the background.
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Finally we get to see those sausage fingers!
@Lynchy67 said in Has the Motorbike problem been fixed in 4.0.3???:
Finally we get to see those sausage fingers!
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@Thomas-Scharrer I made a short video in the car yesterday and put it on YouTube. This shows my glamorous assistant switching the screen off and the instructions can still be heard, turn the screen back on and the app can be seen running in the background.
@Nick-Carthew yep, great to see! That's an iPhone too so to see, so my earlier confirmation is confirmed so to say
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@Nick-Carthew yep, great to see! That's an iPhone too so to see, so my earlier confirmation is confirmed so to say
@Rob-Verhoeff thanks for the video, very strange that it works for you and not for others. Would be really interesting to understand why
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@Rob-Verhoeff thanks for the video, very strange that it works for you and not for others. Would be really interesting to understand why
@Thomas-Scharrer It works for @Rob-Verhoeff on his iPhone too so I can only assume that it’ll be connected to your phone settings.
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@Thomas-Scharrer It works for @Rob-Verhoeff on his iPhone too so I can only assume that it’ll be connected to your phone settings.
@Nick-Carthew it seems to work on some iPhones for some reason but it also doesnt work on some Android phones as far as I can see from the above tests.
I have tried settings-wise everything that was suggested and I dont see any other setting that could have impact on this so something is for sure not right and should be figured out
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All I can still add is that we not explicitly support this - meaning it's up the phone to continue or stop the app. These decisions are often made based on available RAM / battery level / etc.
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All I can still add is that we not explicitly support this - meaning it's up the phone to continue or stop the app. These decisions are often made based on available RAM / battery level / etc.
@Corjan-Meijerink I am very sure that this has nothing to do with battery level, RAM etc. I did my comparison test with google maps at the same time with the same phone.
BUT, I just got another idea, it seems that where it works the users have just tested to have navigation sound from the phone and then turned the phone off / inactive and it still worked. This I have not tested in detail because its not relevant for me.
I have tested with the phone connected vie bluetooth to my Sena helmet communication system so maybe there is a problem with the MRA apps bluetooth connection when the phone gets inactive?I can do a test as the others have done only with sound from the phone and see if that works or not.
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@Corjan-Meijerink I am very sure that this has nothing to do with battery level, RAM etc. I did my comparison test with google maps at the same time with the same phone.
BUT, I just got another idea, it seems that where it works the users have just tested to have navigation sound from the phone and then turned the phone off / inactive and it still worked. This I have not tested in detail because its not relevant for me.
I have tested with the phone connected vie bluetooth to my Sena helmet communication system so maybe there is a problem with the MRA apps bluetooth connection when the phone gets inactive?I can do a test as the others have done only with sound from the phone and see if that works or not.
@Thomas-Scharrer My initial test was via my Cardo headset so that rules out Bluetooth connection.
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@Thomas-Scharrer My initial test was via my Cardo headset so that rules out Bluetooth connection.
@Nick-Carthew I am on a business trip right now and dont have my helmet with me but I will do another test with my helmet with me in the car when I am back later this week.
Will do another test without helmet and only phone audio tomorrow.
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@Thomas-Scharrer My initial test was via my Cardo headset so that rules out Bluetooth connection.
@Nick-Carthew As promised I did another test today in the car. I used my phone in the car, not connected to the car so with Audio and navigation directly from the phone.
MRA navigation:
I started the navigation with phone screen active and everything worked obviously fine. I used the on / off button to make the phone screen inactive and immediately when the phone was inactive the voice guidance stopped. Apparently not only the voice guidance stops when the phone is getting inactive but the whole navigation is interrupted because when switching the phone on again it jumps to the new position. So I think its clear that for some reason the app is now working when the phone is going inactive.google maps:
I did then exactly the same test with google maps. I started the navigation and everything works. When I switched the phone to inactive with the on / off button the voice guidance continued as it should and apparently also the navigation continues in the background because when you make the phone active again its in the correct position, not jumping to that.
I also did another thing, when you touch the screen on the phone to make the screen active but your face in not visible for face time, meaning the phone will not be unlocked, then you can see a message on the home screen as in the below picture indicating that a navigation is active. In addition you could see in the upper left corner of the phone screen the blue mark that something like a navigation is running in the background which is not the case on MRA navigation when the phone is locked.So I am still certain that this is a problem with the app and not with phone settings, memory or RAM etc
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@Nick-Carthew As promised I did another test today in the car. I used my phone in the car, not connected to the car so with Audio and navigation directly from the phone.
MRA navigation:
I started the navigation with phone screen active and everything worked obviously fine. I used the on / off button to make the phone screen inactive and immediately when the phone was inactive the voice guidance stopped. Apparently not only the voice guidance stops when the phone is getting inactive but the whole navigation is interrupted because when switching the phone on again it jumps to the new position. So I think its clear that for some reason the app is now working when the phone is going inactive.google maps:
I did then exactly the same test with google maps. I started the navigation and everything works. When I switched the phone to inactive with the on / off button the voice guidance continued as it should and apparently also the navigation continues in the background because when you make the phone active again its in the correct position, not jumping to that.
I also did another thing, when you touch the screen on the phone to make the screen active but your face in not visible for face time, meaning the phone will not be unlocked, then you can see a message on the home screen as in the below picture indicating that a navigation is active. In addition you could see in the upper left corner of the phone screen the blue mark that something like a navigation is running in the background which is not the case on MRA navigation when the phone is locked.So I am still certain that this is a problem with the app and not with phone settings, memory or RAM etc
@Thomas-Scharrer In the Privacy and Security settings on your phone and then Location services do you have Always selected for MyRoute-app?
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