On the Road Again!

After the holiday where I used the Ohrex as we had so many teething problems with getting the Navigation to speak to me on my phone, I decided to give it another go. I had briefly looked at replacing my phone and the MyRouteApp app with an android tablet.  There are many from Lenovo and other makers but their help desks are totally shite. All I wanted to know was could the ones I had seen, and noted the model numbers, support a GPS app. I am sure that if Google Maps works and can offer directions then other apps should?   Correct me if I am wrong. Please! Anyway, I have decided to give it another go at the weekend. We are supposed to go to the Midlands to one of my wife Claire's cousin's special birthday.  It's about 180 miles or so. We are booked in a campsite nearby as we will be in Molly the Moho.  What? This journey is about 90% motorway/highway. How can it take 7h 38m! Even in the Moho where we travel at a lower pace than if we were in the car, or I was on ...

I had some replies to my ticket logged with MyRouteApp and also on their users forum.  None of them were all that useful until around 10pm BST tonight. See previous blog linked below... "Have you tried installing a map, any map, onto the phone and not using the SD card....?" The answer to that was no I haven't. I use the SD card on the Motorola G50 for music and photo storage. Anything taken on the phone camera goes to the SD card.  I have around 60GB of music there that is an amalgamation of Amazon Music downloads and the entire iTunes library off the laptop.  I have no problem downloading from Amazon Music if and when I buy a new album on MP3. Photos are stored without any errors. So it never occurred to me that there could be a problem.  There obviously is a problem though, as I tried to install "England" using the menu in the MyRouteApp. I switched off the SD card option in the app.   Instead of it flickering on the download arrow it...

I have been using MyRouteApp, and its predecessor Tyre, for about a decade. I use it mostly to create routes for the TomTom 410 that I use on the bikes and have done for many years. I decided that as an alternative to the Ohrex satnav that we have been using in the motorhome for two years, that I would upgrade to the Navigation add-on in MyRouteApp. An upgrade a year or so ago means that with Gold membership I can plan routes that take into consideration the overall dimensions on Molly the motorhome to avoid low bridges and narrow roads. That's the theory.   The Navigation uses Here maps. It was a simple job to sign up and £15.95 later through PayPal the navigation button on routes in the app on my phone lights up. I have a test route planned that will take me all of two miles into Hythe to the catholic church's car park! I will give that a go. What has proved far more difficult is to download the offline maps from the app onto the phone. All the buttons seemed to be greyed o...