Phone battery life - Samsung S24 and BMW ConnectedRide Navigator

[Buttertub]

Just a quickie hopefully,

Picked up my new connected ride navigator today and spent few hours setting up and seeing how things worked. I've linked my phone and installed the app so was planning on using it tethered to the phone but i was just wondering, does it hammer the phone battery life ? currently running a newish samsung S24 which seems to have a decent battery life. Would the phone battery likely survive a days riding if tethered to the sat nav ?

Any views from experience.


Thanks

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Richard

 

[siddo]

Try it out and you'll know how long it lasts.

 

[the woodster]

Just a quickie hopefully,

Picked up my new connected ride navigator today and spent few hours setting up and seeing how things worked. I've linked my phone and installed the app so was planning on using it tethered to the phone but i was just wondering, does it hammer the phone battery life ? currently running a newish samsung S24 which seems to have a decent battery life. Would the phone battery likely survive a days riding if tethered to the sat nav ?

Any views from experience.


Thanks

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Title edited and moved.

Richard

Are you tethering it to your phone for live traffic updates via your data connection? You'd probably be better off with a SIM card in the unit. I have a Google Pixel 6 and just having it connected to the CRN for phone calls etc. on your headset, it uses negligible additional battery.

 

[Buttertub]

Are you tethering it to your phone for live traffic updates via your data connection? You'd probably be better off with a SIM card in the unit. I have a Google Pixel 6 and just having it connected to the CRN for phone calls etc. on your headset, it uses negligible additional battery.

Yes i wanted to see if the traffic displayed via the tethering and what else it did. It didnt seem to do the traffic part but the main thing is there wasnt a lot of battery drain.
In the end ive ended up doing as you said and got a cheap data sim from lebara. The benefits of the sim seemed to be...
A) The traffic info is used when its doing routes on the sat nav, and
B) if a route is done via the phone app it sinks with the nav via the data card which it wouldnt do unless you were connected to wifi with no data card.

I suppose the sim card benefits arent that great, unless theres other stuff yet to be discovered, but it wasnt expesive so i'll just continue with it.

 

[the woodster]

Yes i wanted to see if the traffic displayed via the tethering and what else it did. It didnt seem to do the traffic part but the main thing is there wasnt a lot of battery drain.
In the end ive ended up doing as you said and got a cheap data sim from lebara. The benefits of the sim seemed to be...
A) The traffic info is used when its doing routes on the sat nav, and
B) if a route is done via the phone app it sinks with the nav via the data card which it wouldnt do unless you were connected to wifi with no data card.

I suppose the sim card benefits arent that great, unless theres other stuff yet to be discovered, but it wasnt expesive so i'll just continue with it.

The ability to edit a route on say, My Route App, and download it to the app then transfer it to the CRN whilst out and about seems pretty handy. I've also found the live traffic updates to be accurate, although it took me ages to work out what the various changes on the mapping meant.

Out of interest, I took the advice of a guy from the CRN FB forum about SIM cards. He reckoned that there was no need for a monthly usage payment and had found that a 'Three' SIM PAYG card had worked beyond the advertised month and continued to do so, without being topped up. This has worked for me as well. I bought a 10GB SIM and it's still going strong 15 months later for live traffic updates. This may not be news to you, so ignore me if you know this already! I am old enough to find this slightly interesting

 

[Buttertub]

The ability to edit a route on say, My Route App, and download it to the app then transfer it to the CRN whilst out and about seems pretty handy. I've also found the live traffic updates to be accurate, although it took me ages to work out what the various changes on the mapping meant.

Out of interest, I took the advice of a guy from the CRN FB forum about SIM cards. He reckoned that there was no need for a monthly usage payment and had found that a 'Three' SIM PAYG card had worked beyond the advertised month and continued to do so, without being topped up. This has worked for me as well. I bought a 10GB SIM and it's still going strong 15 months later for live traffic updates. This may not be news to you, so ignore me if you know this already! I am old enough to find this slightly interesting

Lol..... me too

Interesting about the 'three' card..... might give that a go.
It took me ages to get used to the CRN after moving from the nav 6. I ended up getting MRA gold and now ive got used to it i quite like it.
For me the biggest frustration of the CRN is not being able to turn auto recalc off. I tried fiddling with tracks but that seemed too convoluted for my tiny brain. So the solutuon, for me anyway, is plenty of waypoints via MRA. Forces it to go where i want and works quite well now ive figured out skipping waypoints and joining a route part way round a route.
I quite like the CRN now but ive still got the nav 6 as a back up.
Anyways thanks for the tip.......