MyCarTracks with Business plan offers the ability to turn on Google Maps and services that Google Maps offers (geolocation, routing, …). To be able to use Google Maps you need to enable Google Maps Platform on your own Google account and then use your API Key to activate it in MyCarTracks. […]
Why second API Key is needed and how to obtain it?
When you select some options like geolocation you will end up in asking for second API Key. It is because the main API Key you created has HTTP Referrer restrictions, but some calls are made by our servers without HTTP Referrer. Because of that we cannot do these calls with […]
How to create Google Maps Platform account and enable Google Maps
Visit https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ If you’re not logged in your Google account click on SIGN IN on the top right and log in, please. After you’re logged in click GET STARTED button. It will ask you to select services that you want to use: . Please select Maps. Routes and Places are optional […]
Hiding notification icon
Back in the days MyCarTracks app didn’t show any notification in your notification bar and was silently recording all your drives. This was great as it didn’t bloat your notification bar with another icon, but, we had to change that. If you want to know why read below. There is still […]
Driver account types – What is Account ID and what Google account?
In MyCarTracks the driver is identified by an identifier that can be either corporate email, Google email, Apple email, Account ID, or Serial number. This section describes these different types. Corporate/personal email Our Android app and also the web application offers you the ability to set up an account identified by […]
Become a Beta tester
Before we put our latest features or bug fixes to all Android users there are several stages just to make sure that the app is stable and doesn’t make more harm than good. The first stage is internal testing, the second is Beta and then there is stagged and full […]
Odometer
Odometer status correction Sometimes it happens that you forget to record a track, or how the time goes the real odometer state differs from the recorded state. To correct your odometer readings you need to update the odometer state after a certain track. Log in to the web application and then go to […]
How To Disable Doze On Android Marshmallow
Doze is a new feature in Android 6.0 which allows your device to take a little nap and not use so much processing or battery power. It does this by shutting down apps until it notices your device is in use again. This won’t affect the main apps like phone […]
Prevent from power/battery savers
To work properly MyCarTracks runs in the background. All major devices come with their own battery-saving features which are good for your battery life but what they actually do is block apps running in the background. This causes that MyCarTrack is also blocked which results in not recording all your journeys and then […]
How to turn off battery optimization on the Samsung Galaxy devices
Battery optimization on your Samsung phones or tablets can cause that recording is not working correctly and results in missing tracks. If the steps below didn’t work check also steps for Samsung One UI 3.0. We recommend to follow these steps: Open the Settings menu on your device and tap Device maintenance. . […]