MyRoute-App - worst navigation experience ever

[John Newman 0 0]

I am having a lot of issues with Android auto:
Switch on bike/nav after a stop & it just spins for minutes before I give up
After a stop it sometimes does allow me to resume, but often doesn't and I have to restart the route which it doesn't skip waypoints on to my current position
Erratic behaviour where it doesn't think I've moved from where I switched on and draws straight lines for my track
I have written to support to see if it's something I'm doing wrong, but I will not use it again unless there is a clear explanation.
It feels like the focus is on new features rather than a 100% reliable navigator.

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@John-Newman-0-0 said:

am having a lot of issues with Android auto:

Although I use MRA without Android Auto, I've read several times that you should disable location sharing in the Android Auto app settings—maybe you should try that this time.

Regarding your comment that the system doesn't recognize your location, you can adjust this in the routing settings when starting a route

“Start at the nearest waypoint”
“Use current location”

If you decide to use MRA via Android Auto, it's important to use the correct settings.

This has been discussed several times here in the forum...please use the search function to get to this threads.

The MRA support page also explains which settings have which effects.

Please enter “Android Auto” in the search function there and check whether your settings are correct.

https://www.myrouteapp.com/support

[ginogino]

@Peter-Zehentreiter said:

@John-Newman-0-0 said:

“Start at the nearest waypoint”
“Use current location”

These settings aren’t accessible or functional if you restart the route from Android Auto – and I imagine the same applies to CarPlay. If I’m already on the route and need to start or restart it, I do so via the app and then switch on the motorbike, which in turn activates Android Auto.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

No not correct. If you pause a route, MRA will continue automaticly when you restart.
The function start from nearest point must be active on your phone

[PieterG]

@Thomas-Piechocki said:

I've been using MyRoute App Gold for six months now and I have to say that I'm totally disappointed. Under Android Auto (v13.2.644464), the app regularly crashes after several hours, often starts without sound, which then suddenly reappears a few waypoints later or is lost again during the rest of the journey. Or the synchronization with the GPS signal is lost and then only the current position is displayed, but without location-based information such as speed limits. Of course, the planned navigation then also stops. What's particularly bad is that you can't get to a working app again by restarting the app or the smartphone (Motorola edge 20 pro/Android 13), you can only switch to Ami Go or Google Maps, which of course work without any problems. If I start a route with my home as waypoint 1 and drive off, I am always (!) taken back to my house in a circle and I could continue the whole thing until the tank is empty or I skip waypoint 1. That can't be true! All in all, MyRoute app is the worst navigation experience I've had so far, even though it sounds so powerful and convincing in theory. In the meantime, I have little hope that it will make the necessary progress in the coming months to ever be used safely on the road.

The same things happening to you as it did to me. And then you can wait for comments ignoring the crashes and downplaying all criticism.

And although user errors are naturally to be expected (partly due to the high probability of misuse driven by unnecessary complexity not found elsewhere), the well-intentioned responses are often of this nature: RTFM or on the level of 'is the plug actually in?'

Time and again, it is ignored that there is also a user group experiencing outright software crashes and phantom behavior. As if a lack of knowledge of the app has anything to do with this...

Good luck!

[PieterG]

@cvlmtg said:

I have to say I agree with Thomas. I love MRA route planner, it's the most powerful I have ever tried and works quite well, but I tried the navigation app once and I think I'll never use it again.

You can say that to solve the first waypoint problem you can just move it to another place, but that's the problem! You always have to remember this or that workaround. You even have to tell the app that if you are calculating a route while you have no internet connection then yes, you want to calculate the route with no internet connection. It seems this app always require a lot of extra manual work just to do what other apps do by themselves.
It doesn't matter that there are videos or tutorials explaining how the app work, because the problem is that you need all these videos and tutorials while other apps just work.

Bulls eye !

[ginogino]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom said:

No not correct. If you pause a route, MRA will continue automaticly when you restart.
The function start from nearest point must be active on your phone

Sometimes you might start the route when you’re already many kilometres away from the starting point, or you might have accidentally paused navigation; and as I’ve already mentioned, if you start the route from Android Auto, the options to start from your current location or from the nearest waypoint aren’t available and don’t work.

[M. Schrijver]

The options aren't available in AA. But the settings as they are on your phone are taken as the reference for starting the route in AA. At least this is how it should work.
But I never start of stop a route in AA. Always on the phone. causes less problems.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@ginogino of you have set those options in the settings of your phone. AA will act accordingly. So if you have the start from nearest point option on on your phone AA will do the same

[Guzzist]

...may I'm late in this discussion. My some discussed points are valid. But nothing is perfect, and with such a technical thing, you need to learn at least the basics!
In meantime I drove >200.000 Km with MyRouteApp and I'm still happy. More than with all other navigation tools I used before.

I also don't like to change your mind setting - but I personally would never use an extra device like AA or CP which are just "mirrors" of my main device - and are restricted and does still have early development issues. It's simply one more are which causes problems, I don't need. So, I use MRA Routeplanner and Navigation Next - that's it...