Comments on: Android 11 brings a major change to Locus directories

By: Michal, Locus team

Michal, Locus team — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:03:40 +0000

In reply to Peter.

Hi, please exclude both Locus Map and Locus Map Watch from all means of battery optimization so that the apps can run in the background, see http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:faq:gps_lost_fix_android6. Also, make sure Locus Map has the system permission to access nearby devices.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:06:28 +0000

In reply to Michal, Locus team. Ich habe LM 4.27.2. Verbindung zu samsung watch 4 funktioniert nicht mehr, Meldung "Überprüfe deine BT Verbindung ", Uhr ist jedoch mit Samsung S24 verbunden, Für Anrufe verbunden, danke für deine Hilfe, lg Peter LM Fan

By: AndMar

AndMar — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:17:54 +0000

We have already 2024 now and I wonder why is Oruxmaps still working on main directory /storage/emulated/0/oruxmaps/ on Android 14, like Locus previously did? There is no issue in Orux with data access. So I don’t understand why Locus had to move it’s directories.

By: Alexander Torstling

Alexander Torstling — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:23:41 +0000

I have problems importing maps through the standard import procedure on my S22. Nothing gets imported and I get a dialog saying “Can’t find any importable points or tracks”. Copying the files manually worked though, but it took me a long time to figure out the correct path.

Locust shows the main dir as /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/mention.android.locust.pro/files/Locus in settings->misc->main data directory

But navigating to that folder in my file explorer showed it as /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/menion.android.locus.pro/

So I copied to /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/menion.android.locus.pro/maps and everything worked.

I hope this helps someone.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 27 May 2022 16:37:20 +0000

In reply to Michal, Locus team. Awesome! This is exactly what I wanted. Downloaded the old apk and turned off updates. Use this as my primary navigation on main phone and a rugged phone. Like to swap cards occasionally and main memory is limited on rugged phone. Mark this as the main helpful comment so others can find and install. Power users know the risks and accept them to have a program work as expected. Now to find apks for other local media apps that are broken.

By: Michal, Locus team

Michal, Locus team — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:51:03 +0000

In reply to Axel Kilian. Hi Axel, please contact our support team at help.locusmap.eu and send detailed description of your actions leading to the problem, screenshots etc. Thanks.

By: Axel Kilian

Axel Kilian — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 06:47:03 +0000

Die neue Version hat 2 Probleme:
1. Zugriff auf /Android/Data/…
Meine gpx Tracks sind zwar auch am neuen Speicherort über einen PC erreichbar, nur der Android-Dateimanager sieht sie nicht. Ich kann daher keine neuen gpx Tracks importieren, auch wenn ich sie vorher in …/mapItems abgelegt habe.
2. Mehrfachauswahl geht nicht mehr
Wenn ich alle meine gpx Tracks aus einem Ordner importieren will, geht das nur noch einzeln, und jeder Track braucht vier Klicks. Das ist bei 50 oder mehr Tracks pro Ordner inakzeptabel.

By: Michal, Locus team

Michal, Locus team — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:01:39 +0000

In reply to bezel. If you have any problem with the app, please always report it at the helpdesk at help.locusmap.eu. We can't deal with the issues properly in a blogpost discussion thread, sorry.

By: Jürgen Gärtner

Jürgen Gärtner — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:48:45 +0000

In reply to bezel. Hallo Bezel, ja, die Themes sind, wie alles andere auch, unter ../data/. Nur die Karten selbst mit den zugehörigen POI- und Adressdaten-Files liegen unter ../media. Das ist zwar jetzt nicht die hohe Schule einer orthogonalen Ordnung, aber Menion ist uns hier mit einem Workaround entgegen gekommen. Er sucht unabhängig von der Konfiguration unter Einstellungen | Verschiedenes | Standardverzeichnisse auch unter ../media/ nach Karten. Dass der Kartenaufbau z.T. sehr langsam geht, war vorher schon so.

By: bezel

bezel — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:53:00 +0000

In reply to Michal, Locus team.

There is no problem with the data transfer.

Locusmap Pro simply no longer works properly under Android11!

Since the last update to 3.56.4 the OAM map construction is extremely slow, if you want to call up/select/set the themes (like Elevate or Elements) the app stops or crashes!

Many users report these considerable problems on various forums!
Very, very annoying for many right now. With the request to forward this to the software developers, so that the error can finally be corrected.