This is going to be negative, but mostly due to hoping that the app issues are corrected ASAP and new features added.
The housing in itself is great. But the app is horrible... I've been using the app on the watch, and besides a very few freezes, I had no major issues.
Bought the housing for a trip to Indonesia where I made 94 dives over a 30 day period. Using both the housing (with an iPhone 15Pro and the watch).
The App for the phone gave me huge problems. It seems to be related mostly to Internet/Data and location access. Here are some of the issues:
- App freezes on opening. (this happens very very often.) Have to close and open app 5 or 6 times before I can actually do anything inside of it. It does this with and without data services being enabled. (If location services are disabled it will go through initial setup again)
- App freezes or crashes during diving. Three distinct issues here.. 1- App will not zoom anymore but can still take pictures. 2- App will not take pictures but zoom still works. 3- App completely crashes either during diving or at closure process (taking the phone out). When either of these happens, the pictures are not part of the dive log (although they are still on the phone)
These two issues are a major hindrance to using the casing. Sometimes I had to simply leave the casing behind as it would simply not allow me to put it into dive mode.
Lesser issues:
- Dive profile on the phone (logbook) makes no sense. It's as if I surfaced 5 to 10 times during the dive. Pictures (when available in the log book) show the right depth, though the profile graphic does not. This seems to "mostly self correct" when the Internet connection is good and the phone/watch can both upload correctly the dive profile, but not on all dives.
- App display "An error occurred, try again later". Possibly linked to Internet access.
- App crashes and resets all values to default (including Nitrox settings). This is very dangerous if using the app/phone as a dive computer.
- Importing media (choosing a photo to import) and then clicking back, comes back to the main menu instead of the previous (list of photos to import)
- Diving in gage mode, disables the dive mode for 48 hours.
- Separate dives without taking the phone out of dive mode/housing seems to be counted as one long dive. (but not always)
Improvement requests...
- Need to be able to import multiple pictures at once (all photos during a dive that were not tagged to a log) (batch processing)
- Or find and add photos to a log
- disable location services to be able to dive when Internet access is bad/not-working
- need to have the color correcting app on a PC as well. (working with the phone is not the best option when having hundreds of pictures
- possibility to have focus set on a single point with the iPhone. (Focus is the biggest issue with the pictures, especially in macro) Or have a fixed focus mode. (not sure if this is possible but would be very helpful).
- Using the built in flash from the iPhone (not sure if this would be beneficial, but would like to try
Again.. hope to have these issues fixed asap
tx
Andras
