[APP] - version 4.30.+ ( 6/2025 )

[freischneider]

What does your map content panel look like? Is there a section with other POIs under LoPoi?
This topic is only about the app. No web.

[Menion]

Hi guys,
thanks for the evening tests!

We had to change the system on how geoTagged photos worked ... completely. The old system stopped on some devices and will soon or later stop everywhere. The new system uses recommended tools and has its own database of media items that is kept updated and ready for use. So once initialization is done, it should always be fast and reliable.

@Tapio
No folders for selection? It is weird to be true. We may debug it later, but if you have enabled logging to a file, there should be info. Btw. do you see these photos in any gallery app, like "Google Photos"?

I'm just generating 4.30.1.4 version with a minor fix of the crash during photo sync. It should be available within an hour. It is mainly info for @Graf Geo (sorry for crashes).

@Ulrich Kiermayr
Maybe you do not see categories because you do not have downloaded offline LoMap? Currently, categories are visible only if you have (any) offline LoMap downloaded. I'm waiting for some feature to be done on the server.

[40°]

The phone is running Android 7.
Updated from version 4.30.1.3 to 4.30.1.4 and got a сrash.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_b8BQgMrg8LSbo421Sv5SR7hlkjXXC0/view?usp=drivesdk


- Deleted 4.30.1.4 then installed 4.30.1.3 - crash

- Deleted 4.30.1.3 then installed 4.30.0 - success
Installed 4.30.1.4 - crash

- Deleted 4.30.1.4 then installed 4.30.0 - success
I installed 4.30.1.3 crash
, although everything worked before that.

- Deleted 4.30.1.3 then installed 4.30.0 - success
I'll stay on this version for now.

On Android 10, the upgrade from 4.30.1.3 to 4.30.1.4 was successful.

[Graf Geo]

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I'm just generating 4.30.1.4 version with a minor fix of the crash during photo sync. It should be available within an hour. It is mainly info for @Graf Geo (sorry for crashes).
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Thanks Menion. Now the beta (1.4) works on my S7.

Geotagged Media: Is there no way to trigger a scan manually? When I add new photos, I have to restart Locus so that they appear in the list and can be displayed.

As some have already noted, OSM notes are not displayed.

[Andrew Heard]

Great work on the lopoints visible on the map. Could this be included in the presets too?

great idea. It appears all visibility is disabled when LM is started. Would it be possible, better, to preserve the status through restarts?

[Andrew Heard]

4.30.1.3: @menion for me, serious new bug: create any point, save, edit point, it completely vanishes from the folder. 100% reproducible. Enough detail?

• long tap on map
• + to add point
• save (note folder)
• visit folder & confirm point
• from map tap on point
• add single character to name
• save & note no longer visible
• visit folder & confirm no point

PS. or make a copy of any other point, then any edit & save the new point - GONE!

[Tapio]

No folders for selection? It is weird to be true. We may debug it later, but if you have enabled logging to a file, there should be info. Btw. do you see these photos in any gallery app, like "Google Photos"?

No folders for selection, it stays like this after the update. Yes, photos are seen in viewers, there is no .nomedia file involved.

I was happy to read you use a database now, I hoped for it. But at least in data/database/ there is no new db file.

Will send yesterdays log via pm.

[Tapio]

Size of highlighted vs. non-highlighted Lopoints. With 80% I'm fine with the highlighted ones. But some non-highlighted are tiny. Screams for an independent size setting.

[Ulrich Kiermayr]

@Ulrich Kiermayr
Maybe you do not see categories because you do not have downloaded offline LoMap? Currently, categories are visible only if you have (any) offline LoMap downloaded. I'm waiting for some feature to be done on the server.

This is from the offline map. And the bookstore nearby shows a category

Greetings Ulrich

[Tapio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/JFt3u12RFw8?si=n4b3USneZcZVLXWv

It's really nice to now easily highlight Lopoints from a category. Here: Doctors. But leaving it requires skipping 2 empty screens, we talked about a related issue.

The function also brings up another issue. It zooms out. But at that ZL other and fewer poi of the same category may be displayed.

[freischneider]

https://youtube.com/shorts/JFt3u12RFw8?si=n4b3USneZcZVLXWv

It's really nice to now easily highlight Lopoints from a category. Here: Doctors. But leaving it requires skipping 2 empty screens, we talked about a related issue.

The function also brings up another issue. It zooms out. But at that ZL other and fewer poi of the same category may be displayed.

I don't have a zoom issue. Maybe it's automatic zoom? I also have the 2 screens when leaving.

[Andrew Heard]

4.30.1.3: @menion for me, serious new bug: create any point, save, edit point, it completely vanishes from the folder. 100% reproducible.

now confirmed on 2 devices/ 2 Android versions

[Tapio]

I don't have a zoom issue. Maybe it's automatic zoom?

No, it zooms and centers automatically in order to include some poi from the search result.

[Menion]

Hi guys,

Interesting issues with the updated "Geotagged media" service. We already noticed a few weird issues with own data, but some of your crashes are blowing our heads. Bad is, that I and also @Marek Scholtz are both leaving for 14 days, and we two are just the whole Android team  .

Anyway, I've just at least made 4.30.1.5 with fixed some more crashes during init of geotagged photos on older devices and a nasty issue with saving of editing point, thanks @Andrew Heard !

Quick info: the media should be scanned fully automatically. On our devices, when I pick a photo out of Locus Map, it appears on the map during a few seconds. Also, the app should offer a list of all available folders with geo-tagged media items fully automatically. Anyway, it will probably need a special Beta version ... later.

@Tapio
thanks for the video. "Back" button on the bottom category panel should not open the search screen. The whole "LoPoint categories in detail" was a quick task yesterday morning, so it is definitely not well tested and finished. Sorry for this.

[Andrew Heard]

editing LoPoint fixed - thanks for the quick fix. have a great break.