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[Version 4.35.0.7 (6.9.2026)]

Thanks. Found a few more issues during yesterday field-test.

Version 4.35.0.7 (6.9.2026)
   - add: any point can now be shown in the augmented reality view - pick it from the point's navigation menu and it stands out there the way a guidance target does
   - chg: points in the augmented reality view shrink more gradually with distance, so distant places no longer all appear the same size
   - chg: navigation and guidance notifications now have their own channel, so their sound and importance can be set separately
   - fix: crash because of removed Bosch bike support
   - fix: the distance to the next turn no longer stretches down the whole navigation panel
   - fix: (GOLD) Android Auto navigation no longer shows two notifications on the phone
   - fix: (GOLD) a paired watch no longer buzzes every second during Android Auto navigation
   - fix: queued downloads and sync now resume when you reopen the app

[Version 4.35.0.6 (4.9.2026)]

Hi guys,
you miss here my answers, sorry. The issue in the route planner parameters is fixed, the rest isn't. Will look at it next week.

Meanwhile, I've tried to finalise some tasks, and here is a little longer result:

Version 4.35.0.6 (4.9.2026)
   - add: (SILVER) step counter — Locus can now count your steps using the phone itself, no extra sensor needed
   - add: step count is now included in exported FIT files
   - chg: Bosch e-bike support is temporarily unavailable — Bosch has since published its data interface, and it needs a different way of connecting than we first built, so we are reworking it
   - add: guidance and navigation panel fields can now show any dashboard value, including remaining elevation gain and loss
   - add: a third value field in the guidance and navigation panel when the screen is wide enough, e.g. in landscape
   - add: augmented reality view now also shows nearby places from the LoPoints service, so summits and landmarks are named even when they are not on the map
   - add: augmented reality view warns when something nearby is bending the compass reading, or when the compass needs calibrating
   - fix: points in the augmented reality view now stay on the place they mark - on some phones they were spread up to a third too wide
   - fix: points in the augmented reality view no longer lag behind the camera image while you turn the phone
   - fix: a nearer point in the augmented reality view is now drawn over a more distant one behind it
   - fix: augmented reality view no longer shows the map behind it for a moment while the screen rotates
   - chg: a route warning now stays visible in the navigation panel after the last direction change, instead of disappearing with it
   - chg: step counts are now labelled "steps" instead of "strides" — the number itself is unchanged
   - chg: speed in the guidance and navigation panel now comes from GPS, not from a paired speed sensor
   - chg: point and track edit attachments panel now shows photos in a full-screen gallery, and flags missing files
   - chg: downloading a file from OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox now shows progress and can be cancelled
   - chg: a download started from a link now shows the transferred and total size instead of a percentage
   - fix: arrival time is no longer shown as the current clock time when the remaining time is not known
   - fix: (SILVER) dashboard distance and time to the next point stayed empty while guiding along a track without navigation instructions
   - fix: (SILVER) vertical speed in the dashboard stayed empty while descending
   - fix: a value just below zero showed as "-0,0" in languages that write decimals with a comma
   - fix: (SILVER) track statistics showed the sensor's total count instead of the steps made during the track
   - fix: track statistics could misplace a recording pause when recalculated after editing details or updating elevation
   - fix: (SILVER) track split (interval) distance and time could be wrong for the leg right after a recording pause
   - fix: elevation loss stayed empty in track statistics and in the route planner on tracks descending more than 1000 m
   - fix: FIT export could show course points (navigation cues) at the wrong distance along the route
   - fix: FIT export no longer adds two unwanted start and finish course points to tracks without navigation
   - fix: a pause right at the start of a recording could be drawn as a continuous line instead of a gap
   - fix: automatic pause of track recording did not work on Android 7 to 11
   - fix: automatic pause of track recording could stop working until the app was restarted
   - fix: track editor could crash if you kept extending "Delete all before/after" until it would remove the whole track
   - fix: (SILVER) crash after a Specialized e-bike sensor disconnected
   - fix: (SILVER) Bluetooth sensors could stop connecting until the app was restarted
   - fix: USB GPS receiver connects right after you allow access, instead of after a delay
   - fix: a USB sensor no longer renames itself to an internal device path
   - fix: renaming a sensor now updates the list straight away, without reopening it
   - fix: the local map server's map preview now works without an internet connection
   - fix: the local map server screen now reports when the device has no Wi-Fi or hotspot address, instead of staying on "Starting..."
   - fix: purchased offline maps could show "unknown problem" tiles when the app started without internet
   - fix: a failed download from OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox reported only "Whoops!" and left an incomplete file behind
   - fix: a download from OneDrive or Google Drive could fail on a slow connection
   - fix: (SILVER) a download of an elevation file or a geocaching list could fail on a slow connection
   - fix: cancelling the copy of a map item now stops it right away, instead of letting the current file finish in the background
   - fix: copying a map item could show a nonsense progress value
   - fix: (GOLD) LoRouter Offline routing data download could show a negative progress value

[Locus Map 4.35.0.5]

Finally a new Beta version ... 

Locus Map 4.35.0.5
   - fix: track line coloured by speed, slope, heart rate or power drew a straight connector across two adjacent breaks
   - fix: (SILVER) Bosch e-bike (Smart System) now shows up when adding an e-bike sensor, and Locus starts the Bluetooth pairing itself instead of requiring it to be set up beforehand
   - fix: (SILVER) track statistics showed the stride sensor's total count instead of the strides made during the track
   - fix: ascent and descent totals came out short on tracks recorded with a pause, and on trimmed tracks
   - fix: ascent and descent shown for a tapped trackpoint ignored recording pauses and left out the last section
   - fix: uphill and downhill statistics came out short on tracks saved with "Save actual part"
   - fix: elevation gain and length of a route part counted the gap across a recording pause
   - fix: length and time of a merged track no longer count recording pauses from the original tracks
   - fix: a recording pause right next to another one could disappear when a track was trimmed, split or merged
   - fix: crash when picking a function for the main menu or the function panel
   - chg: picker for overlapping map items is now a dialog with a Cancel button
   - chg: OpenHikingMap online map removed on request of its owner
   - chg: reworked internal system of one-time hints
   - chg: split "Stop when standing still" settings into Navigation and Guidance
   - chg: Mapillary now display more relevant and also panorama images
   - fix: sorting overlapping map items by last update showed the oldest ones first
   - fix: map controls and the item panel in the Locus Store map were partly hidden behind the navigation bar
   - fix: area highlighted on the Locus Store map stayed visible after closing the item panel
   - fix: navigation could get stuck on "Waiting for GPS" and the GPS icon stayed orange on devices with turned off Google Location Accuracy, even with a perfect satellite fix
   - fix: track editor — the map stopped shifting for the bottom panel after the panel was hidden once
   - fix: route planner inserted a new point between the wrong two route points
   - fix: (SILVER) geocaching "Import displayed" did nothing when the live map used the built-in "All caches" or "All caches, but found" filter
   - fix: synchronisation could skip items when a point or track was edited while the sync was running
   - fix: invalid visible "pace" values in the Dashboard + more reliable format of values out of range
   - fix: not working setup of the text size in Dashboard charts

Hello joop,

nothing new, sorry. A few users in recent months wrote to us about some problems with GPS. Usually, it was fixed by an Android update or by toggling to the second option of the app settings > GPS & sensors > "Google Services assisted location". Give it a try as well.

Perfekt, díky za potvrzení!

Thanks @macfrank and others.

So what I bring from it, is that we need a higher priority for the "timestamp of the selected position". Rest are, as mentioned, already discussed things made now by design.

Hi,
oki, glad you have solved it. I'll gladly help with some other problems. Please describe the issue shortly and clearly, best with an attached screenshot of the problematic place or sample data for testing in case of any failure during import etc. Thanks.

Hi, thanks for the screenshots. It is still not clear to me which place we are talking about.

About the main app menu? There is no need for a "remove" option. There is a defined number of positions in the UI, and in each one there needs to be one function. If you want to have fewer options in the main menu, then use app settings > Controlling > Panels & buttons > Num of rows in main menu.

Hmm, may you post a screenshot of what you see, so we can talk about the same thing? Thanks

Hi guys,
thanks for the reports. Some of them are already fixed. But unfortunately, I have another small family vacation till the Sunday, and the current code isn't stable enough to publish here. So sorry, new bug-fix version next week, not this one.

Have a nice day, and wish us in Central Europe at least a little rain ...

Hi,
tell me more about your data, from where the caches comes, in which format etc. Import of the GPX directly should work without any problem.

Hi,
long-press on the shortcut offers the "Modify panel" option. Here, under the three-dot menu, there is an option to "Remove" the shortcut.

Hope this helps.

[Version 4.35.0.4 (8.8.2026)]

Hi,

I hope everyone is alive in these hot days ...

New version has two big refactorings (Point screen & color picker), so I've also left the previous 4.35.0.3 in case of any serious problem.

Version 4.35.0.4 (8.8.2026)
   - add: color picker now offers palettes, a shade grid and exact RGB, HSV or hex values, with opacity and recent colors
   - chg: line style, dashboard and drawing screens now open the same color picker as the rest of the app
   - chg: point detail screen redesigned to match the track screen, with better use of space on large displays
   - chg: improved support for tablet layouts in geocache filter, device info and app updates dialogs
   - fix: geocache logs list could crash in rare cases when a GPX import left multiple logs without an ID
   - fix: map cursor stayed centered instead of the preset's shifted position when navigation started from a track opened above the map
   - fix: guide line, distance and time to target could freeze during guidance and navigation while you kept moving
   - fix: guidance to a point no longer announces arrival at the moment it starts, which also silenced the notification when you really arrived
   - fix: a downloaded item could occasionally fail to open or import right after the download finished
   - fix: (SILVER) live map no longer shows a repeating connection warning while panning the map without an internet connection (e.g. flight mode)
   - fix: track detail no longer shows outdated elevation gain/loss after recalculating a track's elevation
   - fix: (SILVER) crash when opening track detail from a dashboard after stopping recording
   - fix: crash when searching for a place from the live tracking chat
   - fix: hidden import dialog when importing geocaches over search
   - chg: map overlay photo/video folder picker now reopens in the last folder you browsed

Thanks for the report, and sorry for the complications.

This will hopefully be fixed in next Friday's Beta version.

Ahoj, díky za report. Chyba snad nalezená, tedy další verze v pátek doufám, že již bude ok.