New beta! 5.0.2 (438) - free drive

[Corjan Meijerink]

Hi everyone!

This beta update, which will be available shortly, contains two major changes!

Free drive
From the menu on the home page you can select "free drive".
This will close all menu's and allows you to drive around with just the map.
The app will show your current speed, the speed limit and name of the current road.

You can also enable the free drive mode for your own (generated) routes!
Nice little extra: the route is also displayed on the map in CarPlay / Android Auto while free driving.

Note: displayed information honors your screen layout preferences
Note: current speed, speed limit and current road are not displayed for hiking / cycling
Note: free drive with a displayed route cannot be started from CarPlay / Android Auto

CarPlay / Android Auto speed indicators
While not navigating, CarPlay and Android Auto will show your current speed and speed limit of the road you are driving on.

Map spinning while standing still (Android)
We've changed / improved some positioning behavior that should prevent the map from spinning.
See this thread for more information.

Stability improvements and minor fixes
We've resolved an issue that could sometimes cause the app to crash while launching.
Besides that minor issues have been resolved that were reported by the community:

• Improved behavior of some bluetooth controllers (Generic back navigation / closing menu while navigating. To achieve this, simply use the button that allows you to open the menu while navigating. Manuals will be updated on public release. WunderLINQ escape action should work again)
• Zoom behavior while entering / leaving the highway
• Open the saved imported route (GPX) button works again. See this thread.
• QR code share of scenic routes would not work

That's it!

Cheers,
Corjan

[Rob Verhoeff]

Nice work @team

[Bart De Medts]

Nice update!

[Nick Carthew]

@Corjan-Meijerink Some people will think Christmas has come early. Nice work mate. You haven’t mentioned speed cameras for free ride mode, I assume they will be active if selected in settings.

[Jörgen]

Cool, I'm looking forward to the changes. I could have tried it out today. I was travelling near Venlo.

[RetiredWingMan]

Lots of recent updates and fixes. Just wish I could ride. It's been a cold snowy start to winter. Another three months....

[CD130]

Thanks again for the update, hard workers

[Marinus van Deudekom]

Great update team
This will make a lot of people happy

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Nick-Carthew no, definitely not.
A route is required for that. That’s why I did not mention them

[Nick Carthew]

@Corjan-Meijerink Thanks for the clarification mate

[white.mouse]

You all did it again! Can't wait updating!

[Hubert Thoring]

Vielen lieben Dank, ich werde es heute noch testen … schön das es die Freie Fahrt jetzt so gibt inkl. der Option auch mit einer Route frei zu fahren. „Coole Lösung“ !!!

Danke an das ges. MRA Team, ich wünsche allen eine schöne Restzeit, schöne Weinachten und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr 2026

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Thank you very much, I will test it today ... nice that there is now the free ride including the option to drive free with a route. "Cool solution" !!!

Thanks to the ges. MRA Team, I wish everyone a nice rest of the time, Merry Christmas and a good start into the new year 2026

[Theo Lammerts]

MRA TEAM opnieuw complimenten. Werkt uitstekend.

[Hubert Thoring]

@Corjan-Meijerink : I'm just asking because my friends are very enthusiastic and impatient 🤫, when will the update V5.0.2-438 come for everyone?

I already find it flawless

[Marinus van Deudekom]

338 is in the Google Play Store

[Stanisław]

Installed on my Iphone, free drive shortly tested yesterday - works fine

[Guzzist]

...today it's also available for Android in Play Store.
Quickly installed - and endless happy about developers work. I will include them in my nightly prayers...

[b0hd1]

Tested on two different smartphones and two different Android Auto systems. As soon as the app starts running, the program crashes.

[Hubert Thoring]

Please let me know exactly which hardware and software you use. With Android there are many different effects.

[Lluis Arasanz]

My First impressions:

Works as expected on Phone devices: iPhone 14 And Samsung A14 when usted directly

Today, i connected Samsung A14 to Android Auto (Citroën C3 Aircross) And app start works on free ride mode but after 300 meters map freezes on AA and also on phone.

I kill my route and restart it again, but this time map and App freezes after GPS Positioning.

I change device connected to IPhone 14, And app works fine in free ride, no matter what i use on Carplay, (change app, audio settings, whatsapp messages) And having Phone screen on or off.

So, with this little use, my First impressions is that something is wrong on Android auto with Free ride mode.

I'll try more use on car. On motorbike, using Phone directly, works as good as all of us wants.

Regards!!!