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Freeze during flight - IPad mini

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redant	redant posted 6/4/2013 9:12:27 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 48	Skydemon version (2.6.3) Full subscription on IPad mini. On our way to Aero Expo on Sunday, heading SE and just south (10 miles approx) of the Isle of Man, the Skydemon aircraft symbol stopped, turned red (it was yellow) and pointed north. A message to the effect Route ended (or lost or closed, can't quite remember) and another stated that it had stopped logging. I turned Skydemon off and back on - didn't help, I then turned the IPad off and back on again but still no luck. About 10 minutes later it started working again and did so without incident for the remaining 5 hours of flying that day . What was interesting - another Skydemon working on a colleague's IPad (not mini) had no problems. I talked to the Skydemon guys at the Expo who were very helpful. It was suggested that my IPad had temporarily lost the satellite signal and had difficulty regaining it as it would normally use a wireless signal to help the initial acquisition. I wondered if the very small distance in positioning/shading between my colleague's IPad (front RHS lap) and mine (rear LHS lap in C172) could make such a difference? Or does the IPad mini have an inferior built in sat nav system? Or, is it a Skydemon version problem (2.6.3). I know that I can add an external sat nav receiver to the IPad, assuming that the problem is sat signal related, would this addition improve performance? Appreciate any advice! Cheers, Redant
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*stevelup*	*stevelup* posted 6/28/2013 7:23:19 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Moderators Posts: 593, Visits: 4.9K	Neils (06/06/2013) I didn't need to download the app you suggested but I did need to stop any app on my ipad trying to talk to the GPS. I did turn off all location services and then rebooted. Just to be clear - the app I suggested isn't part of the solution. It's just a very quick way of being 100% sure your GPS is talking to the iPad properly before you start rolling along the runway. If that red light is blinking once per second, you can be assured that SkyDemon will also work correctly.
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Jaycee46	Jaycee46 posted 7/4/2013 3:47:54 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 24	I've been using SD (this story relates to the previous version) on the i pad mini with a Garmin Glo. All works fine, most of the time. I had an issue where everything was connected, all the correct lights were on, but the Garmin would not talk to S.D. This had not been a problem on the ground. We were in the air at the time, so my buddy flew the aircraft while I switched everything off and back on again - standard practice it seems for all SNAFU tech! Still no joy, then I realised that we had both left our phones on, with the bluetooth activated. Disabled the bluetooth on the phones, and it immediately started working properly, and has not faltered since. I'm sure somebody with a better tech knowledge than me could explain this one, but it did work, and leaving the bluetooth on, on the phones is, I would suggest, pretty common, and may be part of the problem related here, by others.
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*stevelup*	*stevelup* posted 7/5/2013 8:01:34 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Moderators Posts: 593, Visits: 4.9K	Have you at some point connected the Glo to either of the phones? It can only talk to one device at a time, so with two phones and your iPad, it is pot luck which one it would have connected to. If this is the case, there's no need to turn Bluetooth off on your phones, but you must remove the Glo from the list of connected devices on everything except your iPad.
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Freeze during flight - IPad mini

redant - 6/4/2013 9:12:27 AM

I had the same problem yesterday evening exactly as described. I use...

Neils - 6/4/2013 1:25:06 PM

Hi Unless I've misread what you've written, your problem is...

stevelup - 6/4/2013 2:05:56 PM

Your proposal worked a treat, I think as I have only tested it on the...

Neils - 6/6/2013 11:17:44 PM

[quote][b]Neils (06/06/2013)[/b][hr]I didn't need to download the app...

stevelup - 6/28/2013 7:23:19 AM

I've been using SD (this story relates to the previous version) on the...

Jaycee46 - 7/4/2013 3:47:54 PM

Have you at some point connected the Glo to either of the phones? It...

stevelup - 7/5/2013 8:01:34 AM

Hi All, Just a quick note that I had similar issues today. Ipad mini...

CAB825 - 6/26/2013 7:53:19 PM

Hi If you follow my suggestions, I can all but guarantee the problem...

stevelup - 6/28/2013 7:21:39 AM

Hi Steve, Thanks for your recommendations, I did give it a go and...

CAB825 - 7/29/2013 2:46:20 PM

[quote][b]redant (04/06/2013)[/b][hr]Skydemon version (2.6.3) Full...

guille - 7/6/2013 3:54:22 PM

Had SD for just over year, full subscription, having tried the 30 day...

goaround - 7/8/2013 6:04:45 PM

What you described is either a problem with your iPad or with your...

Tim Dawson - 7/10/2013 1:07:48 PM

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