When I use the turn by turn navigation on my v85tt Travel (23 reg - 6200 miles
) it keeps losing the turn by turn arrows. The distance to destination continues to decrease but the arrows do not show. They intermittently return but then disappear again. I have downloaded the route and the map. Anyone else experienced this?
Also, the app is showing mpg at low 40’s when it is actually low 60’s
my average mpg in app is 45mpg, but per tank on bike can vary wildly, recent trip away i got 71mpg on one long motorway run, fully loaded with luggage and stuff strapped to seat. the app is using an average of thousands of miles but since i stopped logging every trip and wiped the data to save space on my previous phone it’s got a much smaller data set.
commuting i get below 40mpg if I’m in a hurry.
there’s a bug in current version of the navigation where roundabouts don’t display the icon showing which exit until you’re on the roundabout, which obviously makes it difficult to get in the right lane unless you are using voice directions too. it seems to me the designers expected the phone and bike screen to be used in conjunction with each other for the full effect, it does have a lot of info available if you’re using both screens which partly makes up for the very basic map navigation on the phone. i prefer using just the bike screen and no voice directions so the roundabout bug is annoying for me but there have been previous bugs that got fixed so I’ve reported it and will wait and see.
one thing i did discover was the app was freezing and stopping giving directions because power saving was turned on in the phone which kills the app when screen off. make sure the app has permission to run in background and the phone itself is not in power saving mode.
I’ve found that using it screen on in bright sunlight with wireless charging will not keep the phone topped up but i can still get 500 to 600 miles done from a full charge and the battery will be 30 to 40% left at the end. cable charging would avoid this issue and phone screen off means more charge going in than coming out so i arrive with battery not having used anything.
Went out for my first ride with guzzi app navigation today.
I was not impressed, some turn indication missing, roundabout turn would only appear when i was already on the roundabout, countdown distance to turns very slow. I ended up using the app on my phone as a back up to what should be displayed on my dash.
The other issue i had was the usb socket under my seat. After the app eat my phone battery after about 3 hrs. I stopped and bought a new phone usb cable. I thought great, i can get going again. But no. The usb socket supplied so little power using the app, it discharged the phone and shut it down.
I do have a cockpit mount usb socket being fitted very soon.
The question is, am i wasting my money. My phone is a galaxy s23, no slouch
the usb under the seat easily supplies enough to run the phone (i have an s24 ultra which is very bright in sunlight and eats battery). get ‘ampere’ or similar app that measures the charge so you can test each cable. cheap cables have crap current. expensive cables will do more. i have a quadlock wireless charger and recently did a 560ish mile trip in 1 day using the guzzi app and it was a very sunny day,the wireless charger tops out at 700ma,which is enough on a dull day but on that trip due to sun it was using more battery than it charged. i still got there with 20% left. I’ve found putting the waterproof cover on the phone tricks the sensor so it dims the screen more and battery lasts all day riding then.
i should add as well as the navigation i was streaming music for most of the 560 miles and it still made it. having a cable plugged in it would have been fully charged when i arrived. using wireless charging on normal dull days I’ve done 300 mile trips and arrived with 60 to 70% battery (and my phone is set to stop charging at 80%).
the roundabout bug has been present in last two updates,it was never there there before - I’ve used app since i got the bike in 2021. i used it today to navigate to a lake in some mountains with no phone signal, and then home again. works well, although due to the roundabout bug you mention i left the screen on the phone navigation (usually it’s off) and had voice prompts enabled to my helmet as it tells you which exit on the roundabout. once they fix that bug I’ll go back to muting the voice prompts. the lack of tap a point on map to navigate is a down side but its easy to work around that by picking the road or postcodes. you can add multiple waypoints and reorder them. i added one today to make sure it went the way i wanted but the destination down a dirt track it found just by typing “binevenagh lake”.
it gets a bad review from most people but it’s actually not bad when you get used to it. since you can download the maps you dont need mobile data which is great when roaming outside uk and in mountainous areas with no signal.
oh, also while i was up there i tried opening google maps, didn’t even load anything, no signal, no map. guzzi app never has that problem
What a great app, thank you for the help. Lots of testing to do now
I tested two leads today and one was definitely better than the other.
I rode with navigation from the moto guzzi app and then Google maps. With the phone pluged in, the guzzi app neither gained or lost power, while google maps did gain extra charge on my phone.
Another thing. Thinking last night, is the amount of communication between bike and app. Maybe this could be slowing the navigation down. So i turned trip data log off in settings, it didn’t make a huge difference apart from recorded history on map screen being absent
i used to use an s10 and the trip logging ended up using about 5gb of storage which was too big for the memory in the phone to export when they brought in that feature after me logging everything for 2 or 3 years. i ended up losing all those trips but since i got a new phone even though it has the space and more memory, i realised most of the trips i do are not worth logging since I’m using the bike as daily transport. i only turn logging on now if it’s somewhere new or far away. the main drain on battery for me is usually the screen, which is why i hope they fix the icons on bike navigation soon because previously i just used that and kept the phone in my pocket or even under the seat plugged in.
oh also about charging, my s10 got wet once in the charging port and never charged properly again by cable (hence my buying a wireless one), water totally wrecks usb. my dash mounted usb got wet and although it dried out and now charges again it’s never charged at 1.2 amp like it used to so i dont use it anymore