Shadow Dash does not remember changed gauge scaling

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Philip Lochner
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Shadow Dash does not remember changed gauge scaling

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I have managed to change gauges on the 4th? page (with the 8 round gauges) to the ones I want. If I exit and run the app again, the changed gauges appear.

But...

If I change the scaling (eg change RPM gauge from 0 - 8000 to 0 - 6000), it does not remember this, forcing me to have to re-change the scaling every time I fire up SD. I make sure to swipe to other dash layouts before exiting, but the changed scaling does not stick.

Anything I can or should be doing?
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Re: Shadow Dash does not remember changed gauge scaling

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The last dash isn't saved. It is generated each time from the ini file, but does switch to the last gauge you selected if you changed it. So it essentially works like the dash in TunerStudio lite. I have always looked at those dashes as just for reference as they are impractical to use on a tablet or especially a phone.
Dashboard customization should really be done with dash 1,2 or 3.
The only way it could save the limits is if it started saving those to a .dash file like the others which perhaps should be done, the main reason it is not is due to the slow load time of the XML dash files on these devices, but we may have a solution for that soon.
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Re: Shadow Dash does not remember changed gauge scaling

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LT401Vette wrote: I have always looked at those dashes as just for reference as they are impractical to use on a tablet or especially a phone.
Dashboard customization should really be done with dash 1,2 or 3.
The only way it could save the limits is if it started saving those to a .dash file like the others which perhaps should be done, the main reason it is not is due to the slow load time of the XML dash files on these devices, but we may have a solution for that soon.
That would be nice. It so happens that the last dash (with 8 gauges) is the only one I have an interest in :D So far, I only use SD for slow changing values like CLT and MAT, sneaking a quick look while stopped.

I find that much of the info on the other screens is too small to read (specially on my small phone). But I have not played with those screens at all.

I copied the custom.ini file from the project dir on my PC to my phone (Samsung S4 mini) and this seems to have improved matters.
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Philip
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Re: Shadow Dash does not remember changed gauge scaling

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I find that much of the info on the other screens is too small to read (specially on my small phone). But I have not played with those screens at all.
Hmm, the readouts on dash 2 and 3 are much larger than the 8 dial for that very reason. Especially on the new dash 3.
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