I've just updated my Nexus 7 to v5 or lolipop or whatever Google's latest iteration is called.
The problem is non of the 'keep screen' apps seem to work on it now, including the one I had on the machine.
This is serious for navigating as the most you can hold the screen for using the settings screen is 30mins.

So if you're asked to upgrade don't, unless you know more about this stuff than I do ( not difficult)

And if you do know about this stuff can you help me with something that will keep the SkyDemon screen alive for more than 30 mins.
SkyDemon 3.2
Cheers
John

I would still not expect everything to be perfect as at least one stability problem is an Android bug. I'm hoping the forthcoming Android 5.1 release will include the fix they have developed.
However there has been much work we've been able to do ourselves to improve stability, both by working around the specific bug I just mentioned and also in general.
The problem displaying magnetic track is a known issue in yesterday's beta and it's being addressed today.
There really are no significant feature changes in the beta builds compared to the latest public build, aside from the frequencies in the Live PLOG being included from the planning stage. It's all stability work and tweaks going on at the moment.

I really feel uncomfortable when reading that statement.

I use several Android devices (around 7 now), most of them running Android 5 (from 5.0 to 5.0.2) and absolutely everything piece of software is stable. Except Skydemon.

Even the most resource intensive games, VFR navigation, picture edition or home automation tools are running fine. All without a glitch. Yes, most of the apps have been updated just after Android 5.0 launch, sometimes in a very unscheduled way, but they are all running fine since then.

So, perhaps something is wrong with Android 5. Certainly it is. But it seems that the nasty bug that makes every app on earth crashing is not inevitable and waiting Android 5.1 is not the only solution.

Just for interests sake, I have one other Android app -- Flightradar 24 -- which crashes so frequently, it is unusable, so SD are not the only victims! I've emailed the developers and they are a bit non-plussed, but I understand that there is an imminent update on the way.


Mike
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