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Gaia GPS

iOS6 has issues with external GPS Devices

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

We have now had multiple reports from users that their external GPS devices (such as the Dual XGPS150 and Bad Elf) fail to connect with apps under iOS6. This includes Gaia GPS and any other GPS apps.

If you are having this issue, please see this blog post by another app developer that outlines steps to fix the bug with external GPS devices under iOS6. Our users tell us this corrects the issue for them. Quote from the blog:

  1. Go to the main iPad Settings app.
  2. Tap on “Privacy”.
  3. Tap on “Location Services”.
  4. Toggle the top row to “Off”.  This will turn off location services for all of your apps.
  5. Reboot your iPad (press-and-hold the top button for 5 seconds, slide the red slider to power off, wait 5 seconds, then press the top button to turn your iPad back on).
  6. Go back to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services and turn location services to “On” for your iPad.  Also make sure that location services are set to “On” for ForeFlight Mobile.
  7. Leave your iPad connected the Internet for a few hours (the screen can be off).  This might not be necessary, but we have encountered a few rare cases where this fixed the problem.
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Gaia GPS

Issue on iOS6 update for Gaia GPS and Offline Topo Maps

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

Gaia GPS and Offline Topo Maps have a temporary issue for people upgrading from iOS5->iOS6.

None of your data has been lost, but when you update your operating system, the apps misplace your tracks and maps. This is because we have a bit of fragile code, and it broke when Apple changed a “hash” function in iOS6.

To address this issue:

  • if you start fresh on iOS6, you are fine
  • if you upgraded from iOS5 to iOS6, sit tight – our next update will restore all of your tracks and maps
  • if you don’t have tracks or maps you care about, just delete and reinstall the app

Our update should be approved sometime next week. Unfortunately, we had a big release in review, but we found this bug and had to pull it. We imagine it will take Apple 2-10 days to approve our update.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. While we had been working with the new iOS6 developer kit, we totally missed this issue. As a result, we are trying to determine how to improve our QA process around operating system updates.

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