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Smartphone Link -- why does it stay running?
privet01
231 Points
I thought I'd give smartphone link another try and loaded it the other day to my phone. My main reason for this is that it is somewhat easier to put a destination into my DS61lmts while on the road when Garmin's own voice command lookup fails to find that destination. All that you have to do is have google maps find the destination, then share the results with smartphone link. Fairly easy and much faster then having to manually change the "Where to" search to the city desired and then key in the name of the place and sometimes have to select it from multiple returned results.
So that part works well still. It was one of the things I liked a lot when I used it previously. However.....
I don't seem to get my new text messages displayed on the DS61 screen although it seems that everything is enabled for that. Possibly a conflict with android auto on my phone. Although android auto isn't usable in the car I'm driving at the time.
Smartphone Link seem to stay active all the time even when my DS61 is off. Even when the app is swiped closed, the background app is annoying me with notifications periodically. So I have to go in to phone settings and disable the app. Really annoying that I have to go to that trouble.
Haven't used it long enough yet, but the two reasons I quit using it before was that sometimes, even though my settings on the DS61 were set to not act as a hands free phone, it would sometimes do so anyway. Phone call audio is terrible on my DS61. Also, I never liked to pushing of FourSquare and other subscription stuff as well as the discovery of log files that appeared to be foursquare files with info about my travel history. I'd never enabled foursquare, and I don't know if that information actually went to foursquare..... but hey what's the deal. Are they going behind my back anyway? I guess they feel they have to pay for the free app somehow.
So that part works well still. It was one of the things I liked a lot when I used it previously. However.....
I don't seem to get my new text messages displayed on the DS61 screen although it seems that everything is enabled for that. Possibly a conflict with android auto on my phone. Although android auto isn't usable in the car I'm driving at the time.
Smartphone Link seem to stay active all the time even when my DS61 is off. Even when the app is swiped closed, the background app is annoying me with notifications periodically. So I have to go in to phone settings and disable the app. Really annoying that I have to go to that trouble.
Haven't used it long enough yet, but the two reasons I quit using it before was that sometimes, even though my settings on the DS61 were set to not act as a hands free phone, it would sometimes do so anyway. Phone call audio is terrible on my DS61. Also, I never liked to pushing of FourSquare and other subscription stuff as well as the discovery of log files that appeared to be foursquare files with info about my travel history. I'd never enabled foursquare, and I don't know if that information actually went to foursquare..... but hey what's the deal. Are they going behind my back anyway? I guess they feel they have to pay for the free app somehow.
Comments
The extra fluff in smartphone link is nothing I care for.