Server Tracking Glitch

I also use a Samsung tablet but it has its own GPS so does not need a phone to navigate. The tablet is excellent as size is everything when trying to see maps. I also have street maps on the tablet but it does not navigate. I use a Tom Tom for that if required.

mepvic
Are you using the GPS in the phone or relying on position signals the phone receives from towers for positioning? Not clear what you mean. Also, what SERVER is involved? OR is it you are losing tower signal info and travelling to a different position, hence the error and no server, as such is involved?

Hi mepvic,
I can understand this so for others that you've managed to confuse, I'll restate your situation and give an explanation about what is the "glitch" as you put it...

Your tablet has a GPS (but not a SIM) which allows you to view your current position on the maps offline as well as track and record offline as you travel. So when you get to towns and get mobile service you connect the hotspot from your iPhone and the tracking data syncs from your device to your online account (ie. syncs to the ExplorOz service).

But what you're saying, is you noticed that when you used the phone to use Google maps (to walk around the town or whatever out of the vehicle) at the same time as it was trying to sync, that it couldn't do both tasks at once. .... the most logical cause of this is that you moved the iPhone too far away from the vehicle so that the hotspot connection to the tablet was disconnected.

Alternatively, the iPhone wasn't able to process both tasks at the same time. The syncing would simply resume automatically when it could as all it is doing it providing the network for the data from your tablet to be sent to ExplorOz.