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Themes not recognized

Hi all,

my theme is not recognized. I made a folder ".Maps" and withing there are _dem and _theme created by Geooh Go. I put all the necessary files in these folders. the reason why I created ".Maps" is to prevent the media scanner from listing all the svg files as media in gallery and whatsapp. But I fear that Geooh Go is not able to read "." folders. It works only one time and then the theme is gone. Has anybody a solution for this?
Thanks for feedback.

Re: Themes not recognized

Reply #1 –
Found out that this is not working also with normal folder structure without a preceding dot of the foldername. Sorry. But why are themes generally ignored?

Re: Themes not recognized

Reply #2 –
It's not Geooh reading the files as much as Android is to provide contents to the app.

Documents is a public Android folder which is probably why media scanner is accessing it. Create a private directory outside of it (like Geooh) and don't use periods in the name which can confuse Android. Also be sure you have unzipped any map or theme files.

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Reply #3 –
My main problem is, that my theme is ignored. the folder contains everything it needs. it is completely unzipped. I think I will give it a try to completely uninstall the app and start from scratch. And by the way I know that not geooh go is reading this files. but geooh go is creating this folders with the content. oruxmaps for example reads from a zip file without extracting them.

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Reply #4 –
...and by the way. this happens since your last update which you inserted yesterday. Screensaver does also no longer work. What have you done.

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Reply #6 –
A fresh installation solved it. Screen goes of now if the map is active as it did before. my theme from openandromap is now loading as it should. perfect. and, oh what a wonder, the .nomedia file in the ele-res folder works too, what it didn't before. updates are sometimes a nightmare as it completely corrupt the app. because I trusted in your updates till now I will stop automatically updates. It's to annoying if you are in the outback and an update kill's your plan. But I'm happy now, that everything works as expected. The distance line has to be tested by me today.

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Reply #7 –
There have been no changes related to Android's auto dimming based on the setting whether to keep on or off... Android handles that. Same with anything related to no media as that is also internal to Android. Sounds like an Android file corruption issue which clearing storage will correct.

All software everywhere will have bugs as new features are added or the operating system and 3rd party software are updated. I do my best to minimize those, but with a full featured app like Geooh and being a single developer there will be problems at times on something I didn't find in testing. Thanks for your patience.

Re: Themes not recognized

Reply #8 –
Chapeau!!! I didn't know that you are single. Everything fine now.
Best Regards, joemanzh

Go on with your good work! I'm still happy with Geooh Go. Sometimes all bad things come together ;-).