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Due to some significant changes in the background, it is not currently possible to publish a new version.

I'll at least publish a stable Beta version tomorrow and will try to speed up a new version a little.

Okay thank you

Apparently we have to wait until November for a fix. But why?

Incidentally sort of related but if during navigation I want to switch to another app is there a way of doing this without having to use biometrics/passwords. If I understand this may have been something that was blocked by Android and the App developers couldn't override. May be I'm barking up the wrong tree.

This has already been reported to the help desk. You can also vote for it.
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/38822-re-open-app-without-need-to-unlock-screen

This was working for me several weeks ago I had no problem being able to wake the display and maps would show so not quite the same issue.

This has already been reported to the help desk. You can also vote for it.
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/38822-re-open-app-without-need-to-unlock-screen

Apologies didn't realise this was to do with a logic error in their code from the update I had yesterday. I thought you were referring to an old issue on a particular model. Thank you

As a temporary solution, when using Locus, in your phone settings under "Lock Screen - Secure Lock Options," try disabling the side key lock and setting a maximum auto-lock time. This will allow you to turn on the screen without any issues, while your phone's security settings will still work as before. If you're familiar with Tasker, you can automate this process.

Actually the feature works. Turning it on is just not persistent over a restart of the app.

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Ace    That looks like that should work. It was disabled but as I said before it worked fine several weeks ago so have no idea whether the update changed the setting because I certainly didn't (that's if this is the solution). So I have to go back into settings every time I exit the app?! What a pain in the ass.

As a temporary solution, when using Locus, in your phone settings under "Lock Screen - Secure Lock Options," try disabling the side key lock and setting a maximum auto-lock time. This will allow you to turn on the screen without any issues, while your phone's security settings will still work as before. If you're familiar with Tasker, you can automate this process.

Sorry help me out here. How do you get to the above setting? You must realise Locus has got so many options it's not easy to find stuff sometimes.

This has already been reported to the help desk. You can also vote for it.
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/38822-re-open-app-without-need-to-unlock-screen

This was working for me several weeks ago I had no problem being able to wake the display and maps would show so not quite the same issue.

I last used Locus for navigation for a period of two weeks about a month ago and all worked well. Now today navigation failed. Screen would turn on to inform me of an upcoming turn with the voice prompt but the lock screen was blocking me from seeing the map so every time I would have to try unlocking with my finger print which isn't always easy or ideal when cycling, all in all very frustating. The screen would then turn off after 10s which is the timeout I'd set. I also noticed the app had just updated so I tried restarting the phone. I also checked the following:

1. Full Device admin access granted.
2. Turn off battery optimisation.
3. Allow location ALL the time.
4. Notifications set to 'ALL THE TIME' in phone settings.

There is another setting 'Change system settings' which I've never needed to enable for Locus to work but I even tried enabling that but this didn't work or improve the situation. Has this new update changed something?

Samsung S23 Ultra

It doesn't help directly as the question is for the (online) Web Planner, but using Android LM4 you can choose/ experiment with a 3rd party mapping theme. If you are adventurous you have full control over the color of everything on the map. But the learning curve is huge & outside scope of this topic.

Thank you. Just not enough time in the day and I sleep too much

Incidentally when I was doing a bike ride on the road which I'd planned on Locus Web and I had a few blips with the navigation. One I'll mention here and it was when there was an upcoming turn and the voice command was telling me to go the opposite way the map was showing!! I raised this here years before and if I'm correct someone suggested to put a waymarker after or before the turn (I can't remember) for each turn, which can be a bit painstaking. Is this something that can be fixed?

This is also not clear to me, but the fact you missed voice commands looks more like the Locus Map was sleeping and not navigating at all (usually > battery optimization). You may open the side track recording panel and see if there isn't any warning about existing battery optimization ...

Apologies for the late reply. When I changed the location permission from only when using to all the time that seems to have fixed it. So fingers crossed that continues to be the case. I could have sworn that it had worked faultlessly with the former setting which is why I didn't suspect this might be the issue this time round. Thanks for your help

This is also not clear to me, but the fact you missed voice commands looks more like the Locus Map was sleeping and not navigating at all (usually > battery optimization). You may open the side track recording panel and see if there isn't any warning about existing battery optimization ...

As regards battery optimisation Locus was set to unrestricted and was one of the first things I checked on the day. For battery usage in settings there is a screen called 'Background Usage Limits' which has
Sleeping Apps = 0
Deep Sleeping Apps = 50
Never auto sleeping apps (Locus doesn't even appear on this list, probably because the app was set to 'unrestricted')

I have 'Location permission' set to 'Allow only while using the app' which has worked but there is an option 'Allow all the time' but as I've setup the app up to not be put to sleep, this shouldn't be a problem.

If I use online maps as opposed to offline maps could this have a bearing?

What seems to be missing here in the answers is why when I turned on the screen manually I was getting routing (voice commands). But when the screen auto turned off nothing came thru! Clearly routing from the Komoot GPX file was working!!

I see it the same way. Import GPX and navigate directly. Locus navigates by changing the angle of the line. From time to time there are too few but usually too many announcements.
Open alternative GPX in the route planner and recalculate. But this almost always produces a completely different route. Locus generates too few shaping points here. I think you should be able to set here: Many shaping points, few shaping points. I would always choose a lot. Even if it takes a little longer to calculate.

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Okay this is what I'm worried about with the reroute option (too few shaping points) I have to risk the route being changed and this hasn't been made clear in the answers so far. So how do I avoid this? Is this a real risk? Afterall it is hard to evaluate when you are on the side of the road trying to sort out a problem.

Sorry if I'm interfering here, I'm probably misunderstanding the problem.

If I plan a tour with Komoot and export it as gmx, I can navigate it in Locus without any problems. "Locus Map automatically generates navigation commands along the route in places of the most remarkable direction changes". Works perfectly.

I wasn't even aware of gmx files but will test this out. Guess I'll have to setup a komoot account. Thank you