Trying to remain, um, thrifty, I recently downloaded MX Mariner to my old Toshiba Android tablet. While not a substitute for a real chartplotter, since you can't read the screen in daylight, it was nice to have and did what I expected it to do. However, after running it continuously for some 36 hours while making a Gulf crossing, something surprising has come up. I got an alert on my tablet that I was low on storage. What? I have 12 gigs, only showing about 2 used, but only a couple of hundred megs available.
After much poking around on the Internet, I have come to the conclusion that I am seeing the effects of a bug in the Android system. Apparently when the built-in GPS is in use, it maintains a log file that eventually eats up all of memory and furthermore is invisible to the ordinary user, so can't be deleted. Without becoming a Unix expert, all I can do is a factory reset to get my storage back. Note this is not a fault of MX Mariner but Android itself, at least in the version I have, 4.0.3 I believe. Just an alert to other users. Argh.
After much poking around on the Internet, I have come to the conclusion that I am seeing the effects of a bug in the Android system. Apparently when the built-in GPS is in use, it maintains a log file that eventually eats up all of memory and furthermore is invisible to the ordinary user, so can't be deleted. Without becoming a Unix expert, all I can do is a factory reset to get my storage back. Note this is not a fault of MX Mariner but Android itself, at least in the version I have, 4.0.3 I believe. Just an alert to other users. Argh.