I believe Viewranger uses this odd long winded approach, can you confirm? Why not just use the bluetooth input directly, it is a question I have yet failed to get a sound answer, do you have any thoughts or further explanation. There are some apps that take the bluetooth input and give it to location services as a mock location so the navigation app uses this data via location services as a so called get around but what a messy way of handling data. Os maps is a good product but uses location services and this really impacts battery life. The issue is that MM and Locus can both use the phones Bluetooth as the data source with location services turned off and battery life is good. Now using a Ublox GPS receiver and bluetooth transmitter in a homemade enclosure to overcome all the errors and poor performance of the phones GPS but my choice of an app to replace MM is hard. I have been forced into Android because Windows mobile is no more and it has been a fight all the way. I totally agree with your comments on MM, having used it since 2004 I would have hoped it got better by now but the Android version and it’s user interface is dire. Thanks for all the effort you put into reporting your walking exploits. Some mountains in the Lakes I have done MANY times over the years. Incidentally, I have done all the Wainwrights once and still have 20 to do on my 2nd round. I also have access to a Garmin GPSmap 64s with a card for the Lake District – that doesn’t agree with either of the other two devices – except that the altitude and ascent/descent seems pretty much spot-on. One infuriating thing that I have noticed is the wide variation between my SmartPhone and my TX4 in the reported distance covered.
As a result I have recently installed MemoryMap on my SmartPhone and am learning how to use that. However, the waterproof covering over the On/Off button has fallen off and the device is now becoming somewhat unreliable (it frequently switches itself off for no reason). I too bought a TX4 some years ago and have used it regularly ever since.
I really appreciate your emailed tales and particularly the information on MemoryMap.
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