Anyone using MX mariner for android tablets?

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I'm looking around for a decent nav app for my android tablet and MX mariner seems ok. The only question mark is over the 'in app purchases' required for uk charts. I don't mind paying for charts but it would be nice to know how much they will cost before committing to the app. Can anyone enlighten me?
 
I use MX mariner on a Tesco Hudl 1 and I'm very happy with it as a back up to GPS and good old charts. The UK is broken down into 4 regions and they are about £4 each.
Hope this helps
 
Big-Bang1 said:
I use MX mariner on a Tesco Hudl 1 and I'm very happy with it as a back up to GPS and good old charts. The UK is broken down into 4 regions and they are about £4 each.
Hope this helps
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+1 also on a Hudl. The app is around £4 something and then the charts are about the same. Works well. With the south coast you get about 300 Admiralty charts. As you zoom in or move around, it automatically transfers you to the appropriate chart. This is good except that if you want to see the legend or tidal information, you often can't. If someone knows how to fix the chart I am using so that I can see the whole chart right up to the edges I'd be pleased to learn how.
 
I use it on a Samsung Tab, very good, does everything I need. accurate to about 1 metre or less.
Also have it on a Samsung 4g phone, less successful, always shows a considerable position error.
Experts have told me there is something wrong in my settings, so that's pretty helpful.
 
That's the combination I will be endeavoring to use. I'll take special care to check my settings if a positional error occurs.
 
Hi...only just noticed this thread! I have just started one myself on a similar subject...don't wish to jump in on this thread, but my experience has been the complete opposite so far - here is the guts of my thread, as you were asking if others have used it and their experiences...

I downloaded the MX Mariner app yesterday, and just the east region map. Didn't seem too bad, some of the sheets seemed a bit blurry, but ok. This morning I shelled out more money on top of the money I had already spent and got the rest of the UK. Now when I load it up, large areas are blurred and are practically illegible, unless zoomed way out, and the rivers around east Anglia just turn into big square blocks of colour as soon as you zoom past just their names being readable!

Does anyone know what might be wrong? I have emailed the maker, but no response at all since emailing him this morning, and I suspect there wont be one!

I am running a nexus 7 tablet, which is meant to be compatible!
 
Pauly said:
I'm looking around for a decent nav app for my android tablet and MX mariner seems ok. The only question mark is over the 'in app purchases' required for uk charts. I don't mind paying for charts but it would be nice to know how much they will cost before committing to the app. Can anyone enlighten me?
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It is pretty good when you think it is only £8 to get installed and a fair sized chart.
However, it is very simple in functionality.
An easy alternative is Navionics HD; this is more like £40+, but you get a fairly full functioning plotter at this level. I have both and never use MX any more. Bear in mind on any bright day you cant see a thing outside on a tablet screen, so I have found its practical use rather limited.
 
suffolktim said:
Hi...only just noticed this thread! I have just started one myself on a similar subject...don't wish to jump in on this thread, but my experience has been the complete opposite so far - here is the guts of my thread, as you were asking if others have used it and their experiences...

I downloaded the MX Mariner app yesterday, and just the east region map. Didn't seem too bad, some of the sheets seemed a bit blurry, but ok. This morning I shelled out more money on top of the money I had already spent and got the rest of the UK. Now when I load it up, large areas are blurred and are practically illegible, unless zoomed way out, and the rivers around east Anglia just turn into big square blocks of colour as soon as you zoom past just their names being readable!

Does anyone know what might be wrong? I have emailed the maker, but no response at all since emailing him this morning, and I suspect there wont be one!

I am running a nexus 7 tablet, which is meant to be compatible!
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I don't know this app but I had similar with another when it did not switch to the higher res chart automatically when zooming. Is there a setting for this?
 
Finally got around to installing this. It's now on my phone and tablet and seems pretty good. I've yet to use it in anger, but so far so good.
 
Looks like raster, but there the larger charts are overlayed with more finely detailed ones around busy places such as marinas and the Solent. These are automatically selected as you zoom in so the resolution remains good. I had a look at Navionics but struggled with getting it and the relevant charts loaded onto the tablet. I have limited patience for that sort of thing so moved on to MX which couldn't have been easier to install and set up.
 
Just download Navionics from Google play store. Worked for me straight away and I now have it on Hudl tablet and smartphone.
 
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Have just downloaded mx mariner onto my Hudl2. So now have Navionics and mx mariner on the Hudl. For my purposes I prefer mx mariner. I have Navionics on the boat chartplotter and on my iPad mini. Mx mariner is so cheap so what's not to like? :)
 
Woke up earlier this eve after reading this thread!

Mxmariner on Hudl 2 is ok once the correct region is loaded for the detail needed eg Poole harbour... Will take another tablet and lay down.

Thanks all.
 
I'm surprised how accurate it was. Heading into the Looe Channel earlier this year the fog came down; vis about 20m. Sat there with the tablet with MX Mariner and steered as close to the green buoy as I could - and lo and behold, it popped up within about 10m of the place the tablet said it would be.
 
Seaclear which includes all the UKHO raster charts is available for Android devices provided you have installed Ronald Koenig's Marine Navigator.

Seawi is another useful app.
 
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