User manual
Tips & Tricks
Phone
To see a list of the apps that are running on the phone
press and hold the menu or home key. A list of apps
will appear in the top left corner of the screen. Use the up
and down cursor keys to scroll through the list. Press the
cursor pad centre to swap to the highlighted app or delete
C to exit the app.
On touch phones press and hold the application button,
then touch on an application icon. To close the application
press and hold, then choose Exit.
To move ViewRanger’s start icon to a more convenient location use the app
menu’s Move and Move to folder menu options.
You can use Tools > Settings > Phone > Standby mode to configure the
selection keys to start ViewRanger, or can set ViewRanger to be one of your
Active standby apps. (This may not be available on older phones and on
newer phones depends on your other settings.)
Maps and POIs
Use Options > Create > Take photo & mark to take a photograph and
associate it with a new POI. The POI records the time it was created.
Press 8 in the map view to toggle the display of POIs, routes and tracks on and
off, or on touch screen phones use Options > Display > Show POIs.
To choose an item that is on screen in the Map view, press the cursor pad
centre or button and then select the Choose item. This shows a list of all
items currently on screen.
If you have selected an overlay item but can’t see it, press the cursor pad centre
or button and choose View on map, even if you are already looking at the
map. The map will be panned and zoomed to show the selected item at the
centre of the screen.
Find out details of the current location using the Where am I? menu item.
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