Hi, Once again, it was my own fault as I did another completely boneheaded thing. The iPhone documentation says that the Home key, "shuts down the running application and returns to the Home screen." After hanging up from my call (two finger double tap), I hit the Home key so I could quickly check the weather. Then, I went to page two of my Home and started Navigon again.
When I did this while not navigating, Navigon started from the beginning rather than returning me to the address edit page so, I assumed that, as the quote from the iPhone documentation cited above that the Home key in fact "killed" the Navigon process. When I repeated the process, calling myself from my old T-Mobile Dash with Mobile Speak Smartphone on it and Navigon in navigation mode, it continued to run after I went back to the home screen to turn it back on. I don't know if this is a flaw in Navigon or not. If I'm in the middle of editing an address and go to the home screen for some reason, I think I should be returned to the edit field or, at the very least, the program should ask me if I want to continue where I left off last time. Once again, while Navigon isn't up to Mobile Geo yet, it does enough really well to justify its price. I'd prefer something based upon the Sendero engine as it provides a whole lot of very pedestrian oriented information far beyond any other solution. At the same time, the Sendero royalty structure forces the AT vendors to keep their prices very high and, at $70, Navigon provides an acceptable alternative for use in places with which one is at least modestly familiar. Maybe I'll do a blog item on Navigon v. the AT solutions or just on Navigon as I'm trying to avoid promoting "blind guy ghetto" solutions as I think adaptations to mainstream software and devices is the ultimate solution for people with vision impairment. Happy Hacking, cdh On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:34 PM, patrickneazer wrote: > Hello there: > > Strange. I must be the local contrarian (smile). Attempted to > duplicate the problem by having someone ... actually a few someones > call while performing a route in Navigon. I could not reproduce it. > > At the end of the call I performed the 2 finger double tap and > navigon was still there. > > Did you answer the call via the 2 finger double tap and end it that > way or some other way. Really wanting to make this happen in order > that I might understand. > > Sorry not to be of more assistance on this one. > On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> >> I'm not very familiar with Navagon but in general there are no >> background tasks on the iPhone so when you receive a call whatever >> you >> were doing gets put on hold. The has been a complaint when folks use >> GPSes that show breadcrumb trails or calculate real time routes as >> they >> stop working while on the phone and can get in a weird state. Did you >> try just going home and then restarting navigon? iPhone apps are >> supposed to keep their state information so when you come back its as >> though you never left. >> >> CB >> >> Chris Hofstader wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> While I have had and enjoyed my iPhone for about a month and a >>> half, I >>> hadn't, before yesterday, needed to switch between running tasks. >>> Specifically, I was following directions to our local YWCA using >>> Navigon yesterday. I received a phone call and, after hanging up, I >>> couldn't figure out how to get back to Navigon to look at some >>> things. Navigon continued giving me directions but I could not get >>> back to its interface where VoiceOver reads the street names and >>> such. >>> >>> I looked in the iPhone manual and searched on "task switching" and >>> "background task" using VO's search facility as well as the one in >>> Preview and didn't find anything. I can't believe that this would >>> be >>> too difficult but I can't find it in the manual given the search >>> criteria I can think up. >>> >>> Any help will be appreciated. I'm going back into the manual to see >>> what I might be able to find. >>> >>> Happy Hacking, >>> cdh >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > Take good care and I wish you enough. > > Love > > Me > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
