Navionics app after a year?

[FishGut]

Who's had the Navionics app on their phone over a year? Do you lose any saved data once your "subscription" runs out? Or is that just for data updates?

[Loudmouth879]

subscription? I don't have a subscription and all my spots I marked are still there.... had it for about 3 years now

[anglerbrian]

No subscription here either paid 14.00 for the app a couple of years ago get free updates all the time works great for ice fishing.

[jethro]

I bought that but then changed phones. Not happy I have no way to reload it on my phone. Should have a way to do that.

[FishGut]

For my IPhone the Navionics Boating USA app is $10 and has one year's worth of updates. That's what I needed to know (one and done).

[Loudmouth879]

For my IPhone the Navionics Boating USA app is $10 and has one year's worth of updates. That's what I needed to know (one and done).

I just opened mine up and it said i was upgraded to navionics+ and one year chart updates  O well not to worried as I pretty much fish bodies of water that the depths are not available for the majority of the time.....

after reading on their website the navionics+ is just a free trial thing for people who want to try the app before they purchase it. The app will update time to time to upgrade it's charts.... I guess if you do not purchase it you won't get the updates?

[jho]

I bought that but then changed phones. Not happy I have no way to reload it on my phone. Should have a way to do that.

This is what happened to me. You have to buy the app on the new phone and log into your account on the nav. app and you can recover all your old saved waypoints in your account. Worth every penny IMO.

[jopes]

I bought that but then changed phones. Not happy I have no way to reload it on my phone. Should have a way to do that.

If you had a iphone and went droid or droid and went iphone yes.  If you have a droid you can log onto google play on a computer and force the download to the new phone.  Because once you bought the app it is yours.

[Kevin23]

I've had it more than a year. Plus I have the upgrade with more feature that I think was $2.99. I don't see anything in my menu about a subscription. I do see a new button in the settings that says "update all maps", so I just clicked that. We'll see if anything changes.

[matzilla]

I got it when it was on sale for $0.99....its nice to have sometimes but very few of the bodies of water I fish have contours. I'll mark waypoints in it sometimes - its decent for that.

[Kevin23]

Hmm after "updating maps" I seem to have lost all of my saved GPS marks. Just uninstalled it and re-installing now, we'll see if they come back.

[KirtH]

Waypoints are stored on your phone, not in the app itself, just like your sonar with a map chip. The map chip doesn't store your waypoints.

[Kevin23]

No waypoints came back with the re-instillation. I added a waypoint of my house after downloading the maps again (guess uninstalling the app removes those too??) and when I hit update maps the waypoint disappeared again.

[KirtH]

The Navionics Apps are built in the following way once you have purchased a Chart area from the Charts & Upgrades section of the Menu:

 1.  Original App Purchase - Basemap only. Free Government coastal chart data for USA waters
 2.  App with Navionics+ Chart Coverage (In-App Upgrade*) - You can download mapping areas as many times as you want to retrieve Map
      Updates within the 12-month subscription period.  You also receive access to SonarCharts™, our high-definition bathymetric mapping for
      selected areas of the World.
 3.  App after Navionics+ Subscription Expired -
      a.  The last Map Updates remain resident on your device but can not longer be updated.
      b.  Any SonarCharts™ downloaded during your Navionics+ subscription remain resident on the device.
      c.  You can still download mapping for areas you have not downloaded previously within your Chart coverage area

* Navionics+ subscription Upgrades are per Chart area/application. You can restore a Navionics+ Upgrade within your App using your Navionics Account information. A Navionics+ subscription purchased within the standard App can not be transferred to an HD App (different App title) or from a single App to the Boating App.

[KirtH]

Currently there is not an option to import waypoints to your mobile application.  The "Sync My Data" feature can be used to transfer information from other compatible mobile devices that are using the same account.

[KirtH]

Markers/waypoints, tracks and routes that are created within the Navionics app are all stored in the memory of the device. This data can also be backed up on the Navionics server by turning ON the Sync My Data setting under the app Menu > Settings.

[Kevin23]

So if they are stored somewhere on my phone, can I get them back onto the app?

[KirtH]

Just an FYI here is a link to the Navionics Help Site, to borrow the search go the left side and select Mobile/Boating

If you are using the same phone they should be in the memory

[Kevin23]

Don't see them in my navionics folder. Not a huge deal, I'll be able to find the spots again, just a bit of a hassle and lost confidence. Guess I'll have to back up the GPS #'s on my computer after each trip.

[matzilla]

Don't see them in my navionics folder. Not a huge deal, I'll be able to find the spots again, just a bit of a hassle and lost confidence. Guess I'll have to back up the GPS #'s on my computer after each trip.

Its a shame you can't export them as a kml or gpx format like you can with darn near everything else....or bulk import waypoints.

[FishGut]

Frizzen frazzen rat elbows

I spent the money on the Navionics app today. The damn thing doesn't even have updated lake depth maps the state provides free!! From what I can tell, Navionics is using state provided contours dating back 10 years or more!

[KirtH]

Frizzen frazzen rat elbows

I spent the money on the Navionics app today. The damn thing doesn't even have updated lake depth maps the state provides free!! From what I can tell, Navionics is using state provided contours dating back 10 years or more!

Did you purchase the Nav+ upgrade? The basic app is free. If you purchased the Nav+ upgrade tap on the Sonar Icon the tap on the SOnarCharts icon

What lake are you looking at?

[KirtH]

Its a shame you can't export them as a kml or gpx format like you can with darn near everything else....or bulk import waypoints.

Markers/waypoints, tracks and routes that are created within the Navionics app are all stored in the memory of the device. This data can also be backed up on the Navionics server by turning ON the Sync My Data setting under the app Menu > Settings.

[SeisMec]

Markers/waypoints, tracks and routes that are created within the Navionics app are all stored in the memory of the device. This data can also be backed up on the Navionics server by turning ON the Sync My Data setting under the app Menu > Settings.

@KirtH
Geing able to export in the kml format would allow you to import them into Google Earth and exporting them in gpx format would let you import them onto a Garmin.

[KirtH]

Who's had the Navionics app on their phone over a year? Do you lose any saved data once your "subscription" runs out? Or is that just for data updates?

If you have the Nav+ subscription it runs out after a year, whatever info is on your app will no longer be updated via the Freshest Data program. The app is still usable you just don't get updated SonarCharts cartography

[FishGut]

KirtH, you seem to be a Navionics rep.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission provides contour maps of around 100 water bodies on their website. Here's the link to the ones available just around my home town: http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/Fishing/programs/lakemapping/district5.asp

Notable absences/old maps on the Navionics app just in District 5 include:

Holmes and Bowling lakes in Lincoln proper. These are part of the Urban Fisheries program, and are very busy lakes, both during hardwater season and otherwise. Holmes lake was drained and renovated in 2005. Bowling lake was done a few years after that. You don't even HAVE a contour map for Holmes, and the one for Bowling lake is easily a decade old.;

Hedgefield WMA renovated six years ago.;

Yankee Hill WMA renovated seven or eight years ago;

Burchard Lake, a trophy bass lake;

Lake Wanahoo, built five or six years ago, open to the public for two or three years already. Home of massive northerns pike, crappie and walleye;

Louisville SRA lakes 2 and 3;

There are a number of others, but you should get the gist. Update the information for your customers, please. The link I provided above has other links to follow to get the full list of mapped lakes throughout the state, rather than just around District 5.

[KirtH]

Thanks I will pass this info on.

[KirtH]

Here is some tips on saving your data-The ONLY way to guarantee they are backed up and will be accessible on a new device, or a newly installed app, or even an old app that is dead and a new app installed... is to use "Sync My Data" as you described.  Al their archive will be sync'd to the Navionics cloud and can be retrieved on any app or device when the user signs in, or logs in using the same Navionics account.

[KirtH]

KirtH, you seem to be a Navionics rep.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission provides contour maps of around 100 water bodies on their website. Here's the link to the ones available just around my home town: http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/Fishing/programs/lakemapping/district5.asp

Notable absences/old maps on the Navionics app just in District 5 include:

Holmes and Bowling lakes in Lincoln proper. These are part of the Urban Fisheries program, and are very busy lakes, both during hardwater season and otherwise. Holmes lake was drained and renovated in 2005. Bowling lake was done a few years after that. You don't even HAVE a contour map for Holmes, and the one for Bowling lake is easily a decade old.;

Hedgefield WMA renovated six years ago.;

Yankee Hill WMA renovated seven or eight years ago;

Burchard Lake, a trophy bass lake;

Lake Wanahoo, built five or six years ago, open to the public for two or three years already. Home of massive northerns pike, crappie and walleye;

Louisville SRA lakes 2 and 3;

There are a number of others, but you should get the gist. Update the information for your customers, please. The link I provided above has other links to follow to get the full list of mapped lakes throughout the state, rather than just around District 5.

Fishgut, I sent this post to the cartography dept., states don't always send their updates to mapping companies so unless someone points out issues they don't know their is one.

They will look it over and make the needed changes. Thanks for the heads up.

[KirtH]

If any Navionics app users have any cartography discrepancies drop me a PM with the area in question and your contact info and I will pass it on.

Fishnet had an mapping issue and the cartography dept. would like contact him to fix it.