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7.2.43
Search in Favs and My Routes does not work at all. The earlier magnifier icon in the entry field is missing, using the appropriate button of the keyboard shows no result. Don't know if that also was the case in earlier versions.

Boyz, You really have a lot of work!

Did not mean a questionmark, but a little magnifier glass at the end of the entry field, like adress or POI search on the main screen. I thought there was something like that in an earlier version but I'm not sure.

But now, something weird has happened. First, search began to react on entering numbers only. I played around a little and now it's fully functional again. It now finds terms again which were not found before. And no, there are no gremlins on my S9+/Android 10, because my S5/Lineage OS17 is showing exactly the same symptoms. Actually, search function is also dysfunctional there, must continuing testing. I won't bugger You with things that I'm not sure of before having tested them on my second phone.

The only common thing on both phones is that MF sometimes is not closed for several days but only sent to background. Especially on my s5 You then will notice that the reaction of the whole system is remarkably slowing down. May this be a reason, a kind of stack overflow ..?

Hi JambaFee,

Use landscape mode and enhance the size of Your keyboard so that its top border overlaps with the area where the icons for favs, routes and gps recording are sitting. You will have fun .... I will try to make a video meanwhile.

7.2.52

S9+ / Android 10 / MFN 7.2.52

Organize mode / Favorites:
Works ok

Organize mode / My Routes:
Organizing works in principle, but the new order is not stored. A-Z and vice versa order still the old bug - root items and groups are screwed up as seen on my linked videos above. Choosing all items in root or in a group using the little box does not work at all and will mark nothing. My guess is that those bugs are related.

Organize mode in general:
In the top line there is a little box on the very right side to mark all items or none. If no item is chosen the box must stay empty in my opinion, actually it will stay marked even if nothing is chosen.

Will also test on my s5, I would expect exactly the same bugs there. Testing on 2 phones with completely different OSes is quite illuminating because it shows that a certain bug is not an issue of one specific phone. S9+ is running with Android 10, S5 with latest Lineage OS 17. So, if both phones will show the same bug the assumption is close to suspect a bug in the app's code and not on specific settings of the phone.

Found one more bug in my places search with the character letters ö, ü etc.. For example type only an 'ö' in the search line. It will also find items with an 'o'. Search with all the other character letters behave the same.

Tested the keyboard bug in search of my Places with Microsoft SwiftKey now. Same bug as with Gboard. Conclusion: bug seems not to be a specific issue of several keyboards but a bug in the code of MFN.

7.2.54

Ok, I will clear data and cache before testing on the Lineage phone

Last try, will uninstall the whole thing, delete all hints pointing to MFN on my system and do a complete new install.

JambaFee, did You really use 7.2.54 for testing scrolling?

The recent home of bugs is a stock S9+ with Android 10, it's a typical every day phone where what app ever should roughly work.

More likely I would expect bugs on my S5 with Lineage 17, but in this stage of MFN I don't dare testing on this one because I use it on my motorbike for navigating only without a SIM.

I'm not a programmer but I would extremely like to dig in the code to find out what's going wrong in the app...

Hi,

S9+/Android 10:

Kicked 7.2.54 and reinstalled 7.2.52. Same fav and routing files, scrolling and switching between favs and routes runs fine again.

Conclusion:
It's definitely not my phone but MFN 7.2.54!

7.2.59

Switch from My Places to My Routes or GPS Recording:
Immediate Crash - Screen freezes

Scrolling in My Places:
Better now, You can scroll up and down longer but it will freeze definitely after some time

At least I had a glimpse into the logfile and found the following error:
ERR 22/12/09 21:54:57 (JAVA) Failed to get key: java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.json.JSONObject

As a consequence I looked to the appropriate settings in MFN. When tapping settings/About Navigator You will notice that the check for a new key is failing with the hint "Error checking for a new key".

So, how do I get a new key and may the described issues be related to the missing key?

Stock Galaxy S4, install 7.2.59 over 7.2.40, exactly the same bugs as on S9+ and S5.

I'm going nuts...eventually these issues are a very specific problem of Samsung devices?

No, favs, routes and gps rcordings are slightly different and concerning switching and scrolling they all run well on 7.2.52 and earlier. When examining those files with an editor I can find nothing noticeable. I can send You the mentioned files of all devices for looking at them, but I would assume that corrupted files will create an error hint in the logfiles.

The very strange thing is that all 3 Samsungs exactly are showing the same strange and 100% reproduceable behaviour with MFN, be it 7.2.54 or 7.2.59, be it a clean install or an update. This is a big nut to crack me thinks ...

Email adress?

Short idea:
May the discribed issues be related to the change in fav and route search concerning character letters ä,ü etc.?

I do nothing special. After tapping on My Places on the main screen you'll usually see Your favorites. If then tapping the My Routes icon the screen immediately freezes.

Will make a video but have to install 7.2.59 before