What to do Harry ?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:36 pm
Hi Harry,
I've been using Lap Timer Pro for a little over a year now, riding a motorcycle at tracks around Australia.
In that time I have tested 4 different types of GPS dongle, until I found the best working solution.
I have been sceptical about telling people in the wider motorcycle trackday community about your app, until i was sure it was a reliable trouble free option
As you know I have created , tested and successfully submitted a number of tracksets to your App that people are now downloading and using themselves.
My last 3 trackdays on Version 15 I was getting laps recording every session ,my splits working, auto stop perfect etc and making some progress with the data.
I began to post amongst my riding community about your App, and how helpful, and easy to use it is.
Last week i did my first track day on version 16 and......nothing !!!
Not a single session ,not a single lap, all day.
Before going out for each session we had good GPS, (Dual XGPS150) the clock was spinning waiting for its trigger, into my pocket and away...
I followed all of the usual procedures, tried all of the usual tweaks, detection corridor, energy saving off, display sleep set to never etc and NOTHING...
Usually when i came back in the App was no longer active, sometimes it was back at the help screen, sometimes it had completely quit as it restarted when i selected it again.
I'm afraid for Motorcyclists who move around on the bike, can't power the phone etc i may have spoken to highly to soon.
It is incredibly disillusioning for me, and expensive, ( a trackday here can cost $ 250 - $450 ) to get no data, no results etc
I can only guess at the cause of this....
My guesses are as follows-
Something to do with the calibration changing as the new screen setup keeps changing orientation ?
Something to do with the way the App works with Location services now. I disable it for Laptimer Pro when using the Dual unit as per your instruction ?
Something else ??
I should add at this point that i picked up an iphone 5 this week and the App crashes now on startup if Location services isn't turned on.
I don't know what else to say, i'm at a loss, I can't send you the trace log because the update turned the preference off.
Back to you,
Jamie
I've been using Lap Timer Pro for a little over a year now, riding a motorcycle at tracks around Australia.
In that time I have tested 4 different types of GPS dongle, until I found the best working solution.
I have been sceptical about telling people in the wider motorcycle trackday community about your app, until i was sure it was a reliable trouble free option
As you know I have created , tested and successfully submitted a number of tracksets to your App that people are now downloading and using themselves.
My last 3 trackdays on Version 15 I was getting laps recording every session ,my splits working, auto stop perfect etc and making some progress with the data.
I began to post amongst my riding community about your App, and how helpful, and easy to use it is.
Last week i did my first track day on version 16 and......nothing !!!
Not a single session ,not a single lap, all day.
Before going out for each session we had good GPS, (Dual XGPS150) the clock was spinning waiting for its trigger, into my pocket and away...
I followed all of the usual procedures, tried all of the usual tweaks, detection corridor, energy saving off, display sleep set to never etc and NOTHING...
Usually when i came back in the App was no longer active, sometimes it was back at the help screen, sometimes it had completely quit as it restarted when i selected it again.
I'm afraid for Motorcyclists who move around on the bike, can't power the phone etc i may have spoken to highly to soon.
It is incredibly disillusioning for me, and expensive, ( a trackday here can cost $ 250 - $450 ) to get no data, no results etc
I can only guess at the cause of this....
My guesses are as follows-
Something to do with the calibration changing as the new screen setup keeps changing orientation ?
Something to do with the way the App works with Location services now. I disable it for Laptimer Pro when using the Dual unit as per your instruction ?
Something else ??
I should add at this point that i picked up an iphone 5 this week and the App crashes now on startup if Location services isn't turned on.
I don't know what else to say, i'm at a loss, I can't send you the trace log because the update turned the preference off.
Back to you,
Jamie