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Support => Troubles & Questions => Topic started by: lofarkas on August 19, 2012, 10:32:04

Title: Where's the GPS screen gone?
Post by: lofarkas on August 19, 2012, 10:32:04
Locus has always been a nice app, and the best feature by far was the GPS screen that opened from the main menu, showing satellite lock status, speed, altitude & a quick GPS on/off toggle etc. This is the screen I'm talking about: http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php/manual ... gps_screen (http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php/manual:screens:gps_screen)
In a recent version, this screen seems to have been removed. I can't even find it from the settings menu. In fact, as far as I can tell, there is currently no way of switching GPS on or off, and no way of accessing speed/altitude/bearing information, which makes the app very inconvenient to use. What happened here? Why was it removed?
In my opinion, merging the "Locus Shop" menu item into the "Locus" menu item and reinstating the GPS screen would hugely improve the app. In the meantime, is an apk of the last version with the GPS screen available?
Title: Re: Where's the GPS screen gone?
Post by: jusc on August 19, 2012, 10:38:35
tap on the small GPS icon on the top bar, at least in version 2.5.6.
Title: Re: Where's the GPS screen gone?
Post by: lofarkas on August 19, 2012, 11:56:50
Oh, I see. I had the top panel disabled so that I can see a larger part of the map, so this button didn't show up for me. I would much prefer if the GPS screen button was put back on the main menu, but now I can at least access the GPS screen (at the cost of viewing a smaller map area). Thanks.
Title: Re: Where's the GPS screen gone?
Post by: tommi on August 19, 2012, 19:41:03
Quote from: "lofarkas"Oh, I see. I had the top panel disabled so that I can see a larger part of the map, so this button didn't show up for me. I would much prefer if the GPS screen button was put back on the main menu, but now I can at least access the GPS screen (at the cost of viewing a smaller map area). Thanks.

Hi lofarkas, there was a longer discussion (with few forum members) and also a survey (for all Locus users) including questions about some changes in the main menu, the data menu and the like and this change is one of the results, some others may follow. Hopefully you don't dislike all of them.

How did you disable the top bar completely? I'm only aware of a timeout (which I set to 4secs) which removes the bars.
Alternatively you could use the right bar to add the GPS button there.
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