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

[Ulrich Kiermayr]

Hi,

There is something off with cloud sync. It happened to me twice, that cloud sync resulted in the local track I created was deleted locally instead of being uploaded (and do the track was gone for good).

I think(!) it was the case when I shared the track "by link" before the cloud sync.

Greetings Ulrich

[Andrew Heard]

that cloud sync resulted in the local track I created was deleted locally instead of being uploaded

concerning news; the first thing I do after stopping the track recording is export to a local GPX, just in case.

[40°]

ERROR:
Settings - search - "preset" - Connection with presets - Preset settings = restart Locus
Tested A7 and A10.

[Ulrich Kiermayr]

that cloud sync resulted in the local track I created was deleted locally instead of being uploaded

concerning news; the first thing I do after stopping the track recording is export to a local GPX, just in case.

In both cases it was a planned track from Route planner.

[Andrew Heard]

Love the blog Ulrich.

[Graf Geo]

I initially installed the current beta version on my old Galaxy S7 and tested it briefly. After returning from a short holiday, I installed it on my S10 and tested it extensively yesterday.

First of all, I would like to praise the great new features, very good! Here are my suggestions for improvement and observations (I may have mentioned some of them before):

Geotagged media:

• The S7 only displays new photos after restarting Locus.
• The S10 displays new photos immediately or after a few seconds.

Option 'T:Full reload': The S7 Locus crashes regularly, while the S10 performs a new scan correctly.

I have a lot of folders with individual geotagged photos. I generally take most photos without geotagging, only using geotagging in special cases. That's why I have numerous folders listed in which there are only one or very few geotagged photos among hundreds of other photos. Filtering out the geotagged photos and possibly deleting/moving them so that the folder disappears from the list is very tedious. The folder list should therefore be sortable and individual folders should be permanently ignorable so that the list remains clear.

Photo gallery in the track info panel:

All photos taken during track recording are displayed here, not just the geotagged ones. Very good! Unfortunately, activating/deactivating this function is a bit cumbersome in the settings under Tracks. It would be nice if you could show or hide the gallery directly in the panel, or at least via a quickly accessible function button. It would also be great if you could delete the photos directly from this new gallery or open and edit them in a gallery app. Currently, they can only be shared.

Unfortunately, the new gallery is not displayed for merged tracks. I sometimes forget to activate recording when starting the route. Later, I create the first missing part of the route retrospectively using the route planner. After merging the tracks, no photos are displayed, not even for the much longer recorded part of the track. Can this be changed?

New photo picker for LoMedia:

Good! But the large yellow notice that you can earn LoCoins with it should be able to be deactivated. It only makes sense for new users or when using the function for the first time, after that it is annoying and takes up unnecessary space.

Online/offline LoPoints:

Unfortunately, it is still possible to upload photos to offline LoPoints. This then leads to the 'Invisible Point' error. If you are in automatic mode, you cannot see whether an online or offline LoPoint is currently being displayed. Either the photo should be uploadable for an offline LoPoint and then automatically added to the online LoPoint later when an internet connection is available again. Or, for offline LoPoints, the photo picker should be deactivated and a label should appear indicating that it is an offline LoPoint.

EDIT: OK, apparently uploading photos to offline LoPoints is now possible and the photos are displayed when you switch back to online LoPoints and are online. Correct?

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[Graf Geo]

One more thing about geotagged photos:

When I click on a geotagged photo on the map to open it and then go to "Details", only the following path is displayed:

content://media/external/file/12345

I have now discovered that this is the path to the thumbnails of the photos, which are stored under 0/Pictures/.thumbnails and are given these 5-digit numbers as file names.

That doesn't help me. It would, of course, make more sense to display the path to the actual photos rather than to the thumbnails.

[freischneider]

At the beginning I thought the photos in the recorded track were great. But there are a few problems.
During my last ride, I received several photos in Whats App. These are all saved in the track. And during a hike, I took a screenshot of a website, which is now also in the track.
I have deleted them in my gallery but they are still in the track. I also have no way of deleting them there.

[Graf Geo]

@freischneider: I tested this during a short recording at home and took a few photos with two different camera apps and screenshots. The images are immediately displayed in the track gallery. However, when I delete them in my photo gallery app, they disappear immediately in the track gallery.

I have a second screenshot app (Screenshot Touch), and funnily enough, its screenshots are not displayed in the track gallery (but they are in my photo gallery).

[Graf Geo]

Offline highlighting of LoPoint categories:

I can highlight one or more categories offline in the "map content" panel under LoPoints. This works.

When I click on a single LoPoint on the map, the category is now displayed in the LoPoint panel, which is very practical. When I click on it, Locus complains that there is no internet connection. Why are the offline LoPoints in this category not displayed here?

[Graf Geo]

Another small problem with scanning of all geotagged media:

I have tried the new photo picker for LoPoints. It offers the nearest photos to the opened LoPoint. Very good so far!

As soon as I select and upload a photo, a copy of the photo is created in the Locus cache (.../menion.android.locus/cache/temp). These copies are also displayed immediately. If I now want to select another photo to the same LoPoint or to another LoPoint that is very close by, these photos that have already been uploaded are now displayed twice. Not a bad thing, but a bit annoying and confusing and it affects the clarity.

Creating a .nomedia file in the cache/temp folder only helps for a short time, as this folder is automatically emptied each time the system is restarted and the .nomedia is therefore also deleted. Then these duplications occur again.

In my opinion, such app-internal system folders should not be scanned or, even better, it should be possible to exclude folders from scanning.

[Graf Geo]

I don't know if this was already the case in a previous version, but in the current beta, the "Other map apps" button no longer works.

Clicking on it does nothing.

[Tapio]

There's still this bug: I click on the needle to auto rotate map. Now I can't go back to the non-rotation mode. Every time I click the needle it automatically goes back to rotation.

Workaround is to apply the setting via a profile.

[Joska]

In my case, double-click the needle works

[slarti76]

Question about the new Pictures-in-track feature: It works for me, when I click on a track all respective pictures are shown, but not the locations. Is that correct? Or is there a way to turn that one? I mean, there is already the feature to show geotagged pictures on the map, and the  you get little markers all over the map. So I'm not sure whether that's missing (for now) or is the idea just to have a a scrollable list within the track details?