We have recently purchased the ExplorOz app to use with our iPad Air 4th generation, model MYGW2X/A, a wifi plus cellular model which is running iOS 16.6.1. It has 64GB of memory with 17.85 still free.
The issues are with the maps. Without any specific inputs from us the map will change from what I consider a normal map with in this case a greenish tinted landscape with roads and tracks generally delineated in red dotted, dashed or solid lines, points of interest marked out in contrasting colours, to a map with pastel shades in a light fawn and roads and tracks almost unreadable in white. Sometimes it all reverts back without any actions from us and sometimes not, at least not in the short term, one time the next day saw it return to normal for a short time.
One other time it went to blue and the speed, altitude and heading readouts went to zero, even though we were on the move.
The only fix that I have found so far is to re start the iPad , then re boot the app and it will run as you would expect for a time, but then it sadly reverts to its useless form. I have had an hour of satisfactory use once but generally it ranges from about one minute to ten minutes before it goes tits up again.
I readily concede that I am no master of this newGPS, but its buggy behaviour has been no help in getting set up comfortably with this app.
We bought it mainly on the recommendation of one of the staff at the TJM at
Esperance, who said he far preferred it to any of his other GPSs, and he had quite a few, but so far it has been quite frustrating at times, and to be fair it worked pretty
well for about 5 hours as we travelled from
Forrest to Eucla, once we got it to change from aeroplane to car travel, for some reason the virtual button didn’t want to play the game and this simple change took about ten minutes.
If anyone has any insights as to what may be going on, and how we fix it, I am very keen to hear from you.
One final thought, both our previous Hema Navigators failed with the screen going like it was being viewed through vertical blinds, which were slowly closing. Perhaps it is some of the screen driving circuitry which has failed and the GPS itself is still functional, so I am wondering if it could be used in conjunction with my newer iPad Pro, which is a wifi only device. If so how do I connect them? Would they essentially be plug and play, or would I be entering a whole warren of rabbit holes? My reason for asking is that the iPad Pro is a newer and probably more powerful device and it certainly has much more memory at 256 GB than my wife’s iPad Air. I look forward to the collective wisdom of the
forum on these questions, my thanks in advance.