Tonight's fun and games… fixing a Hema HX2+ navigator that seems to have thoroughly got its knickers in a twist.
I might add there's nothing "plus" about this unit. The battery is half the size of the HX2… and this particular specimen has been a lemon from day one.
When we first got it, we tried tethering it to a WiFi network: first the home network (which worked fine with the HX1 and HX2)… nada… "no Internet" it says.
So we try my father's phone (Samsung S21)… nope… "no Internet".
We try mine. Bupkis!
We try my father's again with Bluetooth… that works … s…l…o…w…l…y …
Fast forward, a new OS update comes out. We download their hokey dodgy updater, follow their sketchy instructions, and the device manages to completely brick itself because the downloader assumes WiFi works (it doesn't).
Back to Hema it goes… we get it back.
Tonight… we note it won't start the street navigation application. Starts then crashes. We try updates… it tells us there's an update for the NZ maps (okay, we're in Brisbane but whatever). We download this, nada… it still crashes. We also tried the Australian maps… after a long download session… nope… it refuses to start.
Seriously… the HX1 was quite good, worked well. Just the subscription expired and wouldn't renew. (Software problem.) The HX2 did puffer fish impersonations and sadly I broke the screen replacing that. Still annoyed at myself about it.
The HX2+ should have gone back the day after we bought it, bloody thing has never worked properly, and the new software we found was practically useless at Kenilworth last time we tried it. (Tell it to find a route to Imbil and it just sits there and looks at you stupid.)
I have no idea what these drongos are doing, but their QA is nonexistent. OpenStreetMap based solutions are looking sooo much better now.
#Rant #Hema #GPS