Ester,
What exactly is Blind Square anyway? I know it's a type of look around
thing for I O S, but I've never exactly understood its purpose. What makes
it better than say, the Look Around app?
Chris.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Question about Navigon North America
Hello Chris, Sarah, Eileen, and Others,
I'm also not updated to the latest version of Navigon or to iOS 7 on my
iPhone, which is running 6.1.4. I usually try to post popular VoiceOver
compatible apps that go on sale under the App Deals section of
AppleVis.com. I noticed that all the Navigon apps took large price drops
just 1 week after a new version, 2.6, was released on September 19. That
sale price has remained in effect from September 26 to October 15.
However, I also noticed that all the reviews for Navigon took an immediate
dive, with many 1-star reviews stating that the last upgrade was terrible,
that they can no longer establish connections with the server, and that
(for the latest version 2.6.1 released on September 30) there are
difficulties saving destinations as favorites.
Chris, a check just now of some of the most recent reviews by version
2.6.1 users shows a few people complaining about the new map downloads. I
haven't run the map update, and North Carolina shows up as 49.7 MB
download for me in the Map Manager.
Because of all the negative reviews, I refrained from posting an App Deal
announcement, and I also haven't been updating this app. Navigon is also
working just fine for me, especially in combination with BlindSquare.
If anyone has an iTunes backup of an earlier version of Navigon, perhaps
trying Eileen's suggestion of rolling back to that previous version might
work.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 18, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Eileens Misrahi <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if you have a backup in iTunes of the last version? Since
I have not updated to iOS 7 and still running 6.1.2, I am not having this
problem. I also am using the last version and didn't update Navigon. May
be you can roll back to the last version for now.
Best,
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 18, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
I get that to but I just fight through it. I think it's refreshing the
thing as you go along for some odd reason. This has been the issue for
some weeks now, since ios7 and the navigon update was released. HOpe
they will fix it.
Tc.
On Oct 18, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
Before anyone asks why I don't use Seeing Eye's GPS instead, keep in
mind, I do! use it, actually quite regularly, but I just felt for a
change like using Navigon today instead. No particular reason.
Anyway, today was the first time on my IPad that I launched Navigon.
I've also noticed this however on my IPhone as well. It seems that in
the latest update, when it first opens initially, you're taken to your
map manager just like normal. What I however am seeing is that
before, I could flick through all the different states, then all I had
to do was double tap the name of the state to select it, then go to the
very bottom center of the screen and double tap on accept changes.
Then, all I had to do was double tap my clock in the status bar to jump
back to the top of the screen, then I could flick down and monitor the
download status. When done, I could just again, double tap near the
bottom center of the screen on start app. Unfortunately, now on my
IPad, and my IPhone, in this case however specifically the IPad,
although again I'm seeing this in both places, I'm hearing the little
chirp sound you get when a Safari web page finishes loading/refreshing.
It only seems to do this as I flick through the states trying to find
North Carolina. If I just sit still, I'm fine. I'm finding that when
I hear that chirp and the map manager updates and refreshes, I
completely lose focus. This happens literally almost 2 seconds after
flicking from one area of the screen to another, causing me to have to
deadwrecken over and over and over and over until, god willing, I'll
hit North Carolina, then can hall major butt and double tap before
anything happens. My timing has to be flawless, or it won't work
anymore like it used to. I'm starting to feel that Navigon is becoming
not worth it. I do wonder though one thing: I noticed that when the
map manager did! first come up, once I got to North Carolina and double
tapped, once I accepted changes, it told me it was downloading
somewhere in the ballpark of about 200 something megs of map data.
That sounds like a huge amount just for North Carolina. I mean, we're
a decent size state, yeah, but come on! We're not no California, or
Texas for crying out loud! So, my theory is, I wanted to ask you all,
do you all suppose that what it's doing is downloading all of the maps
from each state one by one? Even the ones I don't really need per sé?
If that's what it's doing, then that definitely! would explain it
losing focus and constantly updating every couple of seconds, plus
would explain the reason it's saying over 200MB. Once that 200MB's
done, it doesn't seem at that point to keep refreshing. This is why I
really stand strong on my theory. I just wonder in this latest update,
if anyone may know what is going on and can give me a concreet
rock-solid answer.
Chris.
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