Battery drain when navigating

[Jure Sirena 0]

I plan today to do 150km, I will reset all the counters and start with 100% battery and on charger. Will post results

[Rob Verhoeff]

Today no navigation, but onbly tracking a route by bycicle. Let the screenshots speak for itself.

Started tracking at 96% battery capacity. Distance 15km; time 40minutes.

Halfway, 1% background activity

After 30km's end of tracking. 90 minutes pause in between two trackings and only 3% use of background activity.

Batterycondition is 100%.

Looks good so far. Resumé: tracked with the app for 90 minutes and stood on standby for 90 minutes.

iPhone 13
iOS 16.3.1
App-buid: 3.2.8 - 151

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Rob-Verhoeff That's very decent! Thanks for sharing the information

[Willy DEOM]

Première sortie à moto avec la version beta :

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G - Android 13 Batterie 4.500 mAh
Version beta 3.2.8 - 150

1° sans alimentation du smartphone
Démarrage à 10h à 100% avec uniquement un itinéraire + suivi + Bluetooth écouteurs : Batterie vide (0%) à 12h !!!

2° Essai avec alimentation :
Démarrage à 14h30, batterie à 58% avec uniquement itinéraire + bluetooth écouteurs : Batterie à 44% à 15h30

Effectivement, la batterie se vide à une vitesse VV' alors qu'en utilisation normale, la batterie tient plus de 2 jours.

Je suis certain de ne pas tenir toute une journée malgré l'alimentation 12V.
C'est un réel problème que je n'avais pas avec la version MRA Navigation.

Bon travail et bonne continuation, on compte sur vous

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Willy-DEOM Thanks for sharing the feedback and further information. We will continue investigating the issue.

[Dave J 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink Just been on a run today with my iPhone 8 Plus (iOS 16.3.1) and there was no drain on battery whilst tracking, navigating and screen recording. Indeed, the charge increased to 100% as the ride went on. I was using a cable from auxiliary socket to the Lightning Port to charge and i will check wireless charge performance on the bike next time I am out on it. No issues with drain from my perspective.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Dave-J-0 Thanks for confirming another side of this issue! I just drove for 45 minutes with full screen brightness, tracking on and using the nee navigation.

Battery usage was 15% which is pretty decent. When using Google Maps this morning during a 35 minute ride, the battery usage was 11% which is very similar.

My device is an iPhone 12 Pro Max.

[Flat Twin Therapy]

@Corjan-Meijerink
Indeed that sounds acceptable! I don't mind the battery use when not charging. But when charging there should still be a positive charge, else the risk of running out of battery during a ride is too high. That should not be the case, right?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Rolf-Aalders That indeed really should not be the case!

[infoevertkuiken.nl]

@Corjan-Meijerink here my battery usage today. Used MRA between 7:30 and 9 and 4:30 and 6. My battery doesn’t like cold weather and this morning was ccccolddd (1 degree Celsius and fog). I think this is ok. My phone (iPhone 7) is always on the charger when driving. I do have background location set to “when using app” because I noticed several crashes when not even using MRA and quite some battery usage.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Evert-Kuiken This is fine indeed!

[Jure Sirena 0]

Yesterday I did cca 150km in car with charger. Battery stayed on same level. Didnt fall but didnt charge also. Improvement from last version, however charger is still mandatory

[Flat Twin Therapy]

@Corjan-Meijerink Any progress on this topic?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Rolf-Aalders Not really! See the changelog for the new update: https://forum.myrouteapp.com/topic/3392/new-beta-v3-2-9

This is the last known real critical issue

[Flat Twin Therapy]

@Corjan-Meijerink Thanks for pointing me to that post!

[Maarten v]

@Rolf-Aalders Today riding with the MyRoute-app,battery was 88% and my iPhone 13 mini in the usb socket for voltage…….2 hours later the battery was 35% procent and still dropping…. So with the Navigation on the battery is draining verg fast even in usb socket . Than i turned Navigation off and close the app and battery was in 1,5 hour back at 80 % …..my conclusion that i can,t use the app because of battery drainage…..

[Maarten v]

@Maarten-v . I use the version 3.2.9-154

[Flat Twin Therapy]

@Maarten-v
I have indeed the same. I cannot use navigation because of the battery drain...

To be honest... Battery drain.. + the Android app just crashes very, very (very!) often, of which I cannot recover safely due to gloves on, while riding motorcycle...

This makes the app actually useless... ;( ;(
I'm only using it for trips I already know, to test if these 2 issues are solved yet, so that I can actually start using it.

@Corjan-Meijerink any updates on the battery drain and the crashes (android)? Is there perhaps anything that I can help? Perhaps sharing logsfiles, if that is possible?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Rolf-Aalders both will be more intensively investigated after the CarPlay update

[Jure Sirena 0]

We are all reporting same issue to guys they know it. We have to stop using app to save battery even if charged. What is interesting (at least what I’ve noticed) that almost all reported issues are on iphone 13….mine is iphone 13 pro, ios 16.3.1

Just an observation