iFly GPS Forum

I'm a fairly new paid user, full IFR subscription to the software product, used on my Samsung Galaxy Tap S2 and my wife's Asus ZenTab 3S. I just launched it on my Samsung to plan a flight to a friend's home airport, and ALL of the charts and data showed as expired, so it's going through a 55 minute-long download festival.  On her tablet, all the charts show as current, with varying expiration dates shown when queried on the appropriate menu selection. How, and why, did all my charts and data expire at once, especially since I recently checked the expiration dates via the same menu structure and saw that every chart was current yesterday?

Thanks for the reply, Mark.  That's what the problem was; I had configured iFly to save the data on my external SD card and that's been working without incident since I started using iFly several months ago. When I checked the storage location setting after this most recent "all data out of date" download, it had saved the data to the internal memory.  I moved it all back to the SD card (using the menu option w/in iFly, not manually) and all seems to be well again.

The question remains, though... WHY did it happen? A bit concerning if it didn't happen at home, but rather in the air.  Not that I'm relying on it, but still....

I've also seen issues on Android tablets if you run the iFly app immediately following powering on the device.  Seems it can take a while for the tablet to mount the SD card, if iFly runs before it's done this can happen.