MyRoute-App - worst navigation experience ever

[Thomas Piechocki]

I've been using MyRoute App Gold for six months now and I have to say that I'm totally disappointed. Under Android Auto (v13.2.644464), the app regularly crashes after several hours, often starts without sound, which then suddenly reappears a few waypoints later or is lost again during the rest of the journey. Or the synchronization with the GPS signal is lost and then only the current position is displayed, but without location-based information such as speed limits. Of course, the planned navigation then also stops. What's particularly bad is that you can't get to a working app again by restarting the app or the smartphone (Motorola edge 20 pro/Android 13), you can only switch to Ami Go or Google Maps, which of course work without any problems. If I start a route with my home as waypoint 1 and drive off, I am always (!) taken back to my house in a circle and I could continue the whole thing until the tank is empty or I skip waypoint 1. That can't be true! All in all, MyRoute app is the worst navigation experience I've had so far, even though it sounds so powerful and convincing in theory. In the meantime, I have little hope that it will make the necessary progress in the coming months to ever be used safely on the road.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Thomas-Piechocki

Do you have the latest version?
Wich map do you use to create your route?

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Thomas-Piechocki I can't comment on the Android story as an Apple user. What I can explain is the process of following a set route you've created yourself where waypoint 1 is your home address. This waypoint is referred to as a via point in MRA. The navigation system will always guide you back to that point until you pass through it. The recommendation is to place that point a few hundred meters away from your home, so the navigation directs you there. Once you've reached it, the navigation will continue automatically.

[Thomas Piechocki]

@Hans-van-de-Ven-MR-MRA
I use MyRoute app 4.3.3 and HERE map because - if I have understood correctly - this is the app's default map.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Thomas-Piechocki Hi Thomas
It might be usefull to take a look at some or even better all of the instruction videos so you can get a better understanding of how the app works. You seem to have made some roukie mistakes causing some basic misunderstanding of how the app works

[Thomas Piechocki]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom

Hi Marinus,
I've been trying to give the MyRoute app a chance for over six months because I'd really like to use it. I'm not talking about the route planner, that works perfectly. And of course I've also studied the various tips and manuals. However, I have not found anywhere that you should not start your route directly at the starting point, but somewhere at a fictitious point nearby; what to do if the sound or the entire navigation is cancelled without a message, the app suddenly starts drawing straight lines like fireworks across the display or stops working completely. I think a sat nav app should be easy to operate and use while driving. I don't see where a lack of understanding or incorrect operation could be responsible for the all-round negative impression. I already understand the operation and functionality. I also don't want to rule out the possibility that the interaction with Android Auto may be a major source of errors, but you should be able to assume that a commercial application will work perfectly within its intended area of use.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Thomas-Piechocki

Would you be so kind to share the URL from your route? Make sure it is set public

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Thomas-Piechocki Hi Thomas
It's a piitty that you've ben struggling for 6 months. If you experience problems ask us for help and it will be given to you.
Regarding to the starting point. That had been mentioned lots of times on the forum.
If your start is not good you're bound to get more trouble on the way.
A lot has changed the last 6 months regarding the working of Android Auto. I use it myself frequently and since the last updates almost flawless. It's still work in progress but it has improved a great deal.

[Con Hennekens]

@Thomas-Piechocki, the problem with the starting point at your doorstep, is that you already passed it when starting the route on your driveway. putting it like 25mtrs into the direction of your route is usually more than enough to prevent this. However I made it a habit to put the starting point somewhere outside my village or city. The app leads you there from your doorstep anyway. You call that fictitious, but most waypoints are fictitious, aren't they? I have never seen the app drawing straight lines between waypoints. I would really like to see a screenshot of that.

I think a sat nav app should be easy to operate and use while driving.

I think the MRA app is.

you should be able to assume that a commercial application will work perfectly

Even my expensive Garmins did not work perfectly.

I don't see where a lack of understanding or incorrect operation could be responsible for the all-round negative impression.

I do. Your remark of putting a starting point on your driveway is proof of that. Had you been on the forum with questions in your first month, it would probably have saved you 5 months of anger and disappointment

[cvlmtg]

I have to say I agree with Thomas. I love MRA route planner, it's the most powerful I have ever tried and works quite well, but I tried the navigation app once and I think I'll never use it again.

You can say that to solve the first waypoint problem you can just move it to another place, but that's the problem! You always have to remember this or that workaround. You even have to tell the app that if you are calculating a route while you have no internet connection then yes, you want to calculate the route with no internet connection. It seems this app always require a lot of extra manual work just to do what other apps do by themselves.
It doesn't matter that there are videos or tutorials explaining how the app work, because the problem is that you need all these videos and tutorials while other apps just work.

[Mzokk]

@cvlmtg I've been doing a lot of testing over that past year with Myroute app for Android and Android Auto with a view to replacing my Garmin devices. The latest iteration of the navigation app is much better than earlier iterations. The app works best on the Phone as you remove the issues with AA on the vehicle and connection issues. (the AA on my Africa twin is wired.) For Garmin navigation devices on a planned route its always better to have your starting point some way on the direction of travel so that the Nav system has to pass through it. I also use OSMand and this app is the same as Garmin and MRA in this respect. All three will obviously work well from where you are for a point to point route. There is still a bit of work to do but I'd have no hesitation using MRA on a tour now. The route planning app is great for bespoke routes while on tour. I used it extensively last summer to plan daily routes on tour and send them to my Garmin XT via drive. Much easier than carrying a device capable of running Basecamp.! Testing looks a bit silly though.

[cvlmtg]

@Mzokk I've been using mapy.cz for the past few years and despite it's few flaws (because nobody is perfect obviously) it gets the basics right in my opinion. Even if the starting point is some meters behind me, I can start my trip with no worries, even if I didn't cross the first waypoint. I don't need to switch a button off to calculate a route while offline, nor to switch it back on to update my maps when I have wifi. I'm using it on a cheap rugged android phone and it works smoothly. I can even navigate 5 or 6 hours straight just on the phone battery.

The only reason I'm still here is because, as I said, the route planner is great, but I currently prefer to spend some extra time to redo the route on mapy and navigate with their app