Hi! For a variety of personal and job reasons I use an Android phone without Play Services, and I also don't sync my data to the Garmin cloud.
The Explore App basically works well. Offline maps load, waypoints and GPS-tracks are synched with the phone.
But any export to the file system fails miserably, and import does not work at all. Even with export to the Total Commander file app I only ever get a file with zero bytes. It seems that Play Services are being used for export, which feels unnecessary and would be easy to fix.
Importing via 'share with' doesn't work at all, the option is not even offered.
As an avid outdoor person, an export and import functionality seems like the most important and basic functionality one could need and expect, but I am only able to achieve this via USB and Base Camp, which feels like a totally outdated way of doing things (and also sometimes leads to the Instinct Solar needing a complete master reset).
The best solution would be to simply offer a save and load functionality within the Explore app, like basically all other offline navigation apps do. But those, of course, do not connect to the Instinct Solar via bluetooth due to Garmin's proprietary protocol.
So again: *Please* add a working GPX-track and waypoint export and import to the file system for Android phones *not* using Google Play Services or cloud.
Thank you!
It's madness, I know, but I am not offered the third menu point, it's only the first two. This is probably because I have 'Play Services' disabled, which is why I started this thread, or maybe because…
