MyRoute-App - worst navigation experience ever
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Hi Thomas,
I can‘t say anything about Android Auto, as I normally use Apple stuff.
I am using navigation since more then 20 years now and started with a Garmin eMap using point to point direct routing and a need to place waypoints exyctly on the right position right after a chosen crossing of turn. To keep it short: Non routable maps!
Over the years I invested hell of lot of time and money in the sometimes wonderfull world of Garmin up to the BMV Navigator VI. None of the „boxers“ I have süd ever been perfect of even without at least remarkable failures. The worst on was finally the BMW Navigator VI, which is a Garmin product: Failing touch displays, totally weird routinesitzung in some cases and heavily proprietary setup with Garmin APP‘s and tools. As you see, I trend hell of a lot different solutions and my final choice was: MRA Routing APP together with with MRA Route planer. I did quite a lot of testing with it: On iOS on Android and came to my final conclusion, that for me the 2 best working solutions are using an Apple iPhone, or an Android riggen tablet. I personals found the time to test it with AA or ACP, but atrien of mein did some testing and reported that there a a few things, which wie all now from the normal APP, are missing the the AA/ACP screens. Je also reported relevant responsivness and speed issues, so it was clerque for me it stick to plan Android or iOS devices.
I‘ve started with small rouges around the corner where I a could drive even without any navigation as I was very skeptical about the APP. Some times I have raun 3 navsats/APP‘s in parallel with the same rouges and finally came to the end,that I can fully trust the MRA Next navigation APP and removed any other navigation tool.
My final testen was this year making a 8.500 km trip from my home in colonel to the North Cap and return. An guess what: Even with some urgently needed replannings directly done in the APP I had no issue at all: No crashes, no connection losses, now weird re-routings or missed waypoints or so. It was a really great experience.As you see this is exactly the opposit experience.
An guess what I understand some of your points pretty good, behause when I started with MRA (the planer only in the beginning) I was more then just close to removed MRA and stay with the meanwhile fells shitty Basecamp. What helped me a lot, was @Jörgen who offenes a free MRA route planer training pretty near to me. In this tranig I started to understand the basic (and at that point i time for me stupid) basis how MRA works. Finishing this training and starting my first tests, I got morean more familiar with the concepts and I planned and organized my very best tours I ever had or planned in my motorcycling career.
As I was initially so frustrated about the MRA planner I tried Kurivger, Calimoto, the new Garmin concepts and some other smaller solutions, bit none of them could satisfy me in the way MRA route planner and later the APP satisfies me today.I totally understand that you are done with MRA but lebt me encourage you to give it another try with some help from this community or - even better - from a MRA trainer.
I don‘t knowledge where you are located, but I am happy offer you my help and my experience. If you want to, you can reach out to me and I will setup a call or videosession to hav a look at your problems or even just to show you how I am using the MRA world of routes and navigation so satisfying and seamless.
Greetings from Cologne
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Hi Tom!
Thank you very much for thinking about my problem. It's not that I'm unhappy with the route transfer or the details of the navigation performance, I'm nowhere near that level. The pure MyRoute app generally doesn't work for me in conjunction with Android Auto. Basically not! Either the speech is lacking right away, or it fails later, or the app simply stops working when a road is completely closed and it tries in vain to take you back to the closed road during the diversions, which of course has to be ignored. Suddenly, only the local position is displayed, everything else is gone. If you could now continue driving by restarting, it would just about be possible to hold on, but then nothing works at all. After restarting, I always return to an unusable app, even if I want to enter a new route! It's impossible, I have to switch to a different app every time. Sometimes, however, the navigation simply stops working while driving or it happens after a refueling stop. If I really need a trainer and the available settings of the app are not sufficient for use, I really have to doubt the marketability of the product. I'm explicitly only talking about the navigation app, the errors also occur when I don't use the route planner at all. I am convinced that the majority of problems arise in connection with Android Auto. However, I need the smartphone display for another app while driving, so using it alone on the phone is not an option, especially since it could not be placed in the favorable field of vision for me. But since all other navigation apps under AA don't have such massive problems, it could somehow be due to MRA. I have Lifetime Gold and hope dies last, but I haven't seen any improvement in the last six months regarding my problems. -
@Con-Hennekens said in MyRoute-App - worst navigation experience ever:
In the settings of the app, you explicitly configure online or offline use. I think it is a courtesy that you are warned and given a choice if you want to break the explicitly configured options. If that all is too much of an effort, it is better to stick to a simpler app indeed.
not a simpler app, just a smarter one
anyway, I'm not here to bash the MRA team, I was just trying to say what's the main shortcoming of this app. And I'm aware some don't like it and some do, so let's just use whatever float our boats and be happy all together
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@Thomas-Piechocki well there you have it. After al this discussion on this topic you finaly shared the url.
The route was more then 600 km long and you’ve put it 5 routepoints. 4 of them were Off route. The chances of finishing a route like that are below zero. You say that you’ve been studying for about 6 Monti’s. I would advise you to start from scratch. Lesson 1 and try to build a proper route. That Will save you a lot of anger. Use all the tips and tricks givin in the lessons and on the forum to have Some fun, because actualy it is fun to make a good route.
Then after getting some squils enjoy MRA to the max
