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Problems with OnX?

Hubby11

Hubby11

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I have been using the OnX for a few years now and have been pretty happy. It helps a great deal with my planning of both hunts and fishing. I use OnX on both my phone and home computer to plot out waypoints and tracks to follow.

My problem is that the most recent update to the online (via my computer) website is very glitchy. It has almost completely stalled my computer to the point that I cannot use it. The layers take forever to load and using the mouse for zooming in/out or moving the cursor around has the map jumping all over the place. My computer is not brand new by any means but I get around the 'net with no problem. Curious if anyone else has noticed this.

Thanks,
 
I am having the same issues on PC. Part of my issues could be from trying to use OnX on a govy PC...at work.......lol. I just thought they blocked usage. A month ago I could at least still use OnX.
 
I am having the same issues on a PC. I do however think that it is contributed to our network (government) filters etc...but its acting up regardless.
 
OnX has been getting slower and slower for me. It’s to the point where it’s almost unusable. I want to be able to quickly pull out my phone and drop a pin and label and keep rolling. It’s slow I have to stop and wait and fight with it. So I now I’m trying to retroactively organize folders and suppress waypoints to speed it back up. After 4 or 5 years and more than a thousand waypoints plus pictures it past time for me to clean up.

I have made folders for the different land I hunt but now I’m thinking I need to make sub folders to separate by year. What I noticed is that even though I made folders so that I could hide waypoints not on the land I’m scouting or hunting, the area I’m hunting is so large that with 500 waypoints it’s still dragging. I really wish they had a filter on the app by year (I thought I saw this before but can’t find it).

Another complaint I have is the stupid rate our app, notifications and other banners pop up almost everytime I open the app. In my mind if I’m paying for this app, I’m paying to not see advertisement and other annoyances. It’s very frustrating to me. I’m very close to ditching OnX and going to Garmin or Gaia completely. Their waypoint icons aren’t as hunter specific but I think I could come up with a color system to make it work. Each of their maps are significantly better than OnX.
 
my mobile version has been fine. However it was nearly impossible to use on safari, takes forever to load. I only use it in Chrome now and it is much faster in Chrome.

Hope that helps.
 
Mschmeiske said:
A lot haha. I wondered if that had anything to do with it?
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Oh it 100% does. It takes processing power to show those on the map. Additionally layers take up a bunch of processing as well. I turned off all the layers I wasn’t using. For example, the land I hunt now I don’t really need to know who owns the private property bordering so I turned it off. Also, the land I’m hunting is fed land so I left that layer on, but turned “all ALabama public land” off.

I made year folders categorized by public land it’s on. That way I can hide historic data, and not show other public land data I’m not on. It’s more management but it seems to make a huge difference. Taking what @Nutterbuster said in another thread, I’ve also made a folder with all my deer siting waypoints. The nice thing is that you can have the same waypoints in more than one folder. So I can turn off 2018-2022 waypoints for a region, then go turn on the folder I put all the deer sightings I’ve ever seen. For this region it took me from 700 waypoints down to like 150.

I did all this organization on the computer then I utilized the folders from the app.

If your phone storage isclose to maxed out that will also slow you down on OnX or otherwise.
 
Ugh… still dragging… not sure what I’m going to do now. I really don’t want to purge all this historical sign waypoints.
 
Closed the app and downloaded newest version. It’s doing so much better now! That’s with the folders and having less waypoints on the screen at a time. I will report back if it stays good or gets worse.
 
Simple. Use google maps app on your phone. No annual subscription fee. Signed into your Google account you can work on the PC, tablet, or phone for home and field use. Taking it a step further - I have an excel file with all my hunting areas, and hyperlinks in the excel file to the “waypoints” stored in google maps, along with hyperlinks to pictures and video on my PC, stored on the hard drive of my computer. Occasionally see threads such as this about OnX. Not a problem. Just take phone in field and good to go.
 
Maverick1 said:
Simple. Use google maps app on your phone. No annual subscription fee. Signed into your Google account you can work on the PC, tablet, or phone for home and field use. Taking it a step further - I have an excel file with all my hunting areas, and hyperlinks in the excel file to the “waypoints” stored in google maps, along with hyperlinks to pictures and video on my PC, stored on the hard drive of my computer. Occasionally see threads such as this about OnX. Not a problem. Just take phone in field and good to go.
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OnX does have a lot of nice features that simple google maps does not have. I’m sure the simplicity would work fine in many cases with Google maps though. Can you load maps with no internet on Google maps? I’m pretty sure you can’t. If you’re hunting somewhere with little to no internet the off line maps are nice to have.
 
gcr0003 said:
OnX does have a lot of nice features that simple google maps does not have. I’m sure the simplicity would work fine in many cases with Google maps though. Can you load maps with no internet on Google maps? I’m pretty sure you can’t. If you’re hunting somewhere with little to no internet the off line maps are nice to have.
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It depends. For “almost” all of the areas I hunt, cell coverage is available. Some areas not. And yes, it is possible to download simple maps for offline use with no connection. Not aerial maps. Reference here. Did that about a month ago on an out of state hunt, worked great. (I had done my scouting ahead of time and had stand locations picked out, so that played into the situation; was navigating to a predefined location/stand site, which is different than navigating.) In any event, I’ve used google maps for deer hunting in multiple states over the last few years. Still use my GPS for backcountry hunts where cell signal is not available and I’m out for 2+ weeks at a time.
 
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I’ve been running into issues on the app where it shows the direction I am facing almost 180 degrees off! Also and this has been an issue for years but when I hit the “my location” button it almost always says I’m about 2 miles away from where I actually am. I have to hit it a few times for it to get my location correct
 
Hoytaholic said:
I’ve been running into issues on the app where it shows the direction I am facing almost 180 degrees off! Also and this has been an issue for years but when I hit the “my location” button it almost always says I’m about 2 miles away from where I actually am. I have to hit it a few times for it to get my location correct
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Ive ran into that same problem several times.
had the problem the whole time ive had the app.
i like the app but i use spartan forge now.
i contacted onx several times on the issue and they always responded to me to turn your phone in a figure eight clockwise outin front of you.
this is supposed to recalibrate things.
ive heard of doing this with a gps and a compass.
sometimes it worked sometimes if have to exit the app completely and turn back on.
dont use it much now but to reference old waypoints.
 
Hoytaholic said:
I’ve been running into issues on the app where it shows the direction I am facing almost 180 degrees off! Also and this has been an issue for years but when I hit the “my location” button it almost always says I’m about 2 miles away from where I actually am. I have to hit it a few times for it to get my location correct
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That sounds more of a phone GPS issue. Since OnX is using your phones GPS location for position, if there is an issue with your phone or the GPS in the phone it will affect your position in the app.
 
gcr0003 said:
That sounds more of a phone GPS issue. Since OnX is using your phones GPS location for position, if there is an issue with your phone or the GPS in the phone it will affect your position in the app.
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I had a hunch this may be the case… just strange because it tracks where I walk accurately, just looks like I’m walking backwards through the woods!

also makes me mindful to take mental notes of distinguishing trees or features so I can easily get back out in the dark if I went in blind to setup on hot sign.
 
gcr0003 said:
Oh it 100% does. It takes processing power to show those on the map. Additionally layers take up a bunch of processing as well. I turned off all the layers I wasn’t using. For example, the land I hunt now I don’t really need to know who owns the private property bordering so I turned it off. Also, the land I’m hunting is fed land so I left that layer on, but turned “all ALabama public land” off.
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Ditton this. Map layering is a processor hog and has been for many many years. Look at the system requirements for any graphics programs and you will see graphics are expensive with regards to computer resources.

As hunters, we have become very familiar, and even dependent, with our hunting apps. We are demanding so much more from them, so this is more of an issue of we are pushing the limits of computing resources and app functions.
 
gcr0003 said:
OnX does have a lot of nice features that simple google maps does not have. I’m sure the simplicity would work fine in many cases with Google maps though. Can you load maps with no internet on Google maps? I’m pretty sure you can’t. If you’re hunting somewhere with little to no internet the off line maps are nice to have.
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You can download sections on google maps to use offline too.


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