I just tried osmand. It took forever to locate me and then the map would freeze for minutes, then the blue arrow would finally jump to my location. It seems useless for real time navigation, is that normal? Google maps works fine on the phone (Android) so it’s not the hardware. Is there maybe some setting I haven’t found?
Edit: nevermind, my phone is just on the fritz. Location doesn’t work at all anymore :/
Not a solution, just a suggestion: in my experience, Organic Maps is the far superior Open Street Maps navigation application on Android.
Not normal for me
I use Organic Maps these days but just fired Osmand up to test and it was near instantaneous and located me when it opened. Samsung S22u
I havent done anything to setting etc that I am aware, it has been on my phones for a long time (and came across from my previous Samsung Note 9) so I may have done something back in the day.
It has worked fine for me on various phones. My only complaint is the address search is a bit goofy
OsmAnd is one of the oldest open source Android apps. It has a ton of features, but also the codebase is very stale.
If you don’t need such big featureset you may try Organic Maps.
I used it in a motorbike trip last year and had some trouble but not in the way you describe. I used offline maps, finding my location was a matter of seconds. It would however sometimes not register some “waypoints” and try to lead me back to a point I already passed until I restarted navigation. Annoying when you have a route with several intermediate destinations.
I use organic maps for everyday navigation, never had such issues with that one.
