Ipad Navionics hang up

NUTMEG

NUTMEG

Well-Known Member
Joined
1 Sep 2009
Messages
1,923
Location
Essex
www.theblindsailor.co.uk
I recently purchased an ipad mini. Yes, I instantly got it a waterproof case and Navionics UK&Holland. I have the 3G version with the GPS.

Works great. Worth the money for me as I can not see the chart plotter from the helm (registered blind after all, but on good days have a fair bit of useful vision) so having a plotter I can hold to my face seemed a great idea.

As we were coming in to Mersea Quarters on Satarday I thought it prudent to check my position so fired up the ipad. GPS was great and located very quickly but after a few minutes it stopped showing SOG and heading. I realised it had hung. Rebooted the ipad, again it worked perfectly for a few minutes then hung again.

Any ideas

Cheers.
 
I have had this happen on an ipad. Solution that worked for me was to tell it, while hung, to start from current position ( or similar wording near top left on the nav screen). It then started within 30 seconds
 
Sophie19 said:
I realised it had hung. Rebooted the ipad, again it worked perfectly for a few minutes then hung again.

Any ideas

Cheers.
Click to expand...

Could you clarify what you mean by "it had hung"?

Did the Navionics app stop responding to any input?
Did the entire iPad crash and refuse to respond?
Or did the GPS information in the Navionics app simply stop updating?

If it's a problem with the Navionics app itself you should report it as a bug here: http://navionics.force.com/MobileTech

We develop on iPad and iPhone at work and I have never seen the entire device crash. The hardware and OS is extremely robust and the apps are very well sandboxed from the main OS.

I use an iPad on board with the iNavX app and find it very reliable, so perhaps you could give that a try if all else fails?
 
I have had individual apps hang - often I find that I have, over time opened nearly every app on the machine and forgotten to close them properly and so am using a lot of memory. Before anything else I would do a full switch off of the ipad (not just closing the apps) and see if that clears it. I find the navionics app very stable on my ipad 2 - never had it freeze and it is my main chartplotter. No experience with the mini though although I assume its the same internals as the full ipad just a smaller screen


mrming said:
Could you clarify what you mean by "it had hung"?

Did the Navionics app stop responding to any input?
Did the entire iPad crash and refuse to respond?
Or did the GPS information in the Navionics app simply stop updating?

If it's a problem with the Navionics app itself you should report it as a bug here: http://navionics.force.com/MobileTech

We develop on iPad and iPhone at work and I have never seen the entire device crash. The hardware and OS is extremely robust and the apps are very well sandboxed from the main OS.

I use an iPad on board with the iNavX app and find it very reliable, so perhaps you could give that a try if all else fails?
Click to expand...
 
This is a common myth about iOS, and a bit of a hangover from Windows computing. iPads and iPhones don't truly multi-task.

The OS manages it's own memory, and the vast majority of apps that might appear to be running in the background are actually in a sleep state.

Certain apps such as Skype, sat nav apps etc are allowed to run various simple processes in the background, so you may see a small benefit from closing those, but other than that, manually closing apps on iOS has no effect.

The only exception to this is if a rogue app has hung. This used to happen a lot with Apple's own Mail app, but I haven't seen it in recent versions.

I'm not an Android expert, but I believe the same is true of that OS.
 
Sounds the same thing that happened to me at the weekend - first time using ipad and Navionics in anger. Everything worked great during long passage and just after I had entered the harbour I noticed that the cursor had stopped tracking and heading was stuck. I had slowed from a steady 5-6 knots to slowly circling while the crew set up fenders and warps. As soon as we speeded up and heading for the berth the track started up up again. Maybe, as someone mentioned above, it doesn't like operating at slow speed. Maybe, like the rest of us, it was greatful for a breather after a 13 hour passage.
 
Soreknees, that describes it I think. No, the ipad did not hang in that old DOS sense of simply freezing everything. Rather, as others have described, the boat curser stopped updating and the thin, red, bearing line vanished.

As has been mentioned, I was punching a strong tide and only doing, according to the SH180i, about 1.5kts over the ground. If this is normal for Navionics, I wonder why? The trusty SH plotter works fine at slow speeds, on my boat it has to!
 
I find on my iPad 1 things often simply close on the iPad without reason - typically if it is short of memory. Does this with the browser often, and did this with Navionics also.
The iPad version of Navionics also dead slow to redraw on my iPad. Think I will use the Android phone version if need for navigation, and the iPad for desk planning
 
Now that I see that the slow speed is the common link - I understand it - Unfortunately , that is exactly when I want it to work - getting out of a tricky anchorage at night needs an up to date plotter ! I have a track showing me jumping my boat over a tall building on the keyside ???

kris
 
I'm having the same issue. See Ipad running navionics seems to freeze. I got through to Garmin/Navionics support. They acknowledged that this has been a problem with some iOS devices for a very long time. [Early reports started over 10 years ago.] They thought they had fixed this in the latest release (V19.1). But it did not. The problem seems to be associated with only some iOS devices. [My wife's iPhone works.] They said that they will notify me when they get a new fix.
For the record, I love Navionics Boating. I used it for over a year on my old iPad with Bad Elf. But that stopped working 3 weeks ago.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top