Just an update after completed a 1000 km bicycle tour using OSMAnd+. All went well, but I struggled with power consumption. In the end I had to manually restrict battery consumption (screen resolution, brightness), because I was never able to solve the problem (see below) of OSMAnd+ (and any other gps-using apps) losing signal when the screen went off while in Samsung/Android's mid-power-saving mode. It was a bit of a pain having to manage power saving manually. Samsung's battery saving mode has a (customizable) power saving mode. One option is to turn on/off 'Background network usage: Allow apps that are running in the background to use Wifi and mobile networks'. So, no mention of GPS and I have location settings set to GPS only, but it still cuts out background GPS signal.
On Monday, 5 June 2017 13:21:23 UTC+1, Barry Evans wrote: > > I went ahead and updated to Andorid 7 on my Samsung S7. OSMAnd+ 2.6.5 > works well, a little faster, especially when finding a route. Battery > consumption seems a little better, but is still woeful compared to older > versions of OSMAnd, probably because there is more control over > power-hungry apps! I have a problem with OSMAnd losing GPS signal when > running in the background/screen off (between turns when navigating when > the screen is turned off to save power), but I think I can tune Android to > give permission. > > On 5 June 2017 at 13:04, Alienheartbeat <> wrote: > >> >> Beautiful on a Nexus 6P running 7.1.2. >> mc >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Osmand" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/osmand/NGrmMtFDG0g/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
