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Global Settings & Profiles
Wherever you are in DMD Next, the Quick Menu is one tap away — a small overlay with four columns: Profile (switch rider profile), Settings (app-wide preferences), Keep Background (keep the app running while you switch away), and Shutdown (close it entirely).
- Entry Point
- Quick Menu — arrow-up in Section 3 of the bottom menu (landscape) or the chevron-up in the portrait bottom bar
- Quick Menu Columns
- Profile, Settings, Keep Background, Shutdown
- Rider Profiles
- Up to 6 independent setups, synced to your DMD HUB account
- Settings Categories
- Theme, Localization, Background Activity, Display, Audio, App Update, License, Report Issue
Table of Contents
The Quick Menu
The Quick Menu is the gateway to everything on this page. It is reachable from any section of DMD Next:
The arrow-up button at the far right of the bottom menu opens the Quick Menu (landscape shown).
Landscape
Arrow-up button on the far right of the bottom menu (Section 3). Tap to open the Quick Menu, which lays its four columns out in a single row.
Portrait
A persistent chevron-up in the portrait bottom bar opens the same menu, arranged as a 2×2 grid (Profile / Settings on top, Keep Background / Shutdown below) so the labels stay readable on narrow screens.
The Quick Menu open over the map (landscape). The Profile column shows the active rider profile's photo and name.
Four Columns
When the Quick Menu opens, each column is a tap target:
- Profile — shows the active profile's avatar and name; opens the Profiles selector to switch, create or edit a rider profile.
- Settings — opens the app-wide Global Settings panel.
- Keep Background — sends DMD Next to the background but keeps it running (PiP and / or foreground services).
- Shutdown — fully closes DMD Next.
Rider Profiles
A profile is a complete, independent copy of your DMD Next setup. Keep up to six of them — one per bike or use-case (a touring bike, an offroad bike, the truck…) — and switch between them in two taps. Tapping Profile in the Quick Menu opens the selector.
The Profiles selector — six slots in a grid. The active profile is ringed in cyan. Each configured slot shows a photo, a profile name and a vehicle name; empty slots show a + with a Create action.
What carries per profile
Almost everything you can configure: your Home layout, the Devices list, Map settings (theme, POIs, overlays, warnings, follow mode…), Quick Actions, GPX / track appearance and warnings, the Global Settings panel, overlay placement, and the Trip A / Trip B / odometer counters.
What stays shared
A few things are per-device or account-wide, not per-profile: your license, display scaling & orientation, the offline maps stored on the device, your HUB sign-in, and Roadbook settings.
Edit, Copy & Create
- Edit — change a profile's name, vehicle name and photo. Tap the photo to pick a new one from your gallery.
- Copy — duplicate a configured profile's whole setup into another slot — a quick way to make a variant without starting from scratch.
- Create — set up an empty slot as a fresh profile.
Editing a profile — photo, profile name and vehicle name. Save keeps the changes; Clear empties the slot.
Active profile is per device
Each device remembers its own active profile. Your tablet can be on “Touring” while the head unit is on “Offroad” at the same time — switching on one device does not change the others.
Synced to your HUB account
The six profile setups sync to your DMD HUB account, so signing in on a new device brings your layouts with you. You can also edit them from the web dashboard under Account → Rider Profiles.
Global Settings
Tapping the Settings column in the Quick Menu opens the Global Settings panel. These are app-wide preferences that apply everywhere — Home, Map, Devices, Roadbook. Section-specific settings (map themes, POI layers, warnings, etc.) live inside their own section.
The settings panel slides in to the right of your current content via the panel cascade, so the map or active home view stays visible underneath.
The Settings panel slides in over the map.
Scrolled down — App Update, License and Report Issue.
Categories
Theme
Light or dark app appearance. The whole UI — panels, overlays and the map theme — swaps live, no restart needed.
Localization
Distance, temperature and time units. Switch between metric (km, °C) and imperial (miles, °F) or follow your device locale. The 12 / 24-hour clock follows the device too unless overridden here.
Background Activity
What keeps running when DMD Next is in the background — the controls behind the Keep Background behaviour (navigation, recording, group sharing and trip timing).
Display
Orientation lock and UI scaling — lock portrait / landscape and adjust element sizes so the app reads well on both phones (smaller scale) and tablets (full-size).
Audio
Voice and media volumes — balance the spoken navigation prompts against your music and other audio.
App Update
Shows the installed build and checks for a newer one — the same update source the app uses automatically.
License
Verify your DMD2 subscription and license status. Sign in or refresh your entitlement from here.
Report Issue
Send a problem description with the app logs attached — the fastest way to get a bug looked at.
Keep Background
The Keep Background column of the Quick Menu sends DMD Next to the background — same effect as the home button or task switcher — but explicitly keeps the app running so navigation, recording, trip stats and group sharing continue uninterrupted while you use another app.
The Keep Background column in the Quick Menu. Fine-grained control over what keeps running lives in Settings → Background Activity.
Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
If a navigation is active and your device supports PiP (Android 8+), DMD Next shrinks into a floating window so you can keep watching the map while interacting with another app. Tap the PiP window to bring DMD Next back to full screen.
Foreground Services Keep Things Alive
When PiP is not available (or not warranted), DMD Next starts the appropriate foreground service(s) so the GPS pipeline keeps delivering. The right service is picked automatically based on what's in flight:
- Active navigation — the navigation foreground service runs with a notification showing your next instruction.
- Active GPX recording (or auto-record waiting for movement) — the recording foreground service runs so points keep being captured.
- Active group sharing or trip ticking — a generic anchor foreground service runs so group buddy positions keep flowing and the trip timer keeps advancing.
Trip Times Keep Advancing
As long as a foreground service or PiP is active, the trip timer keeps ticking on its 1 Hz schedule. Total time, travel time and stop time advance even if you switch to another app and come back later.
Shutdown
The red Shutdown column of the Quick Menu fully closes DMD Next — activities are dismissed from the task stack, foreground services are stopped, and the GPS pipeline is torn down. Use this when you are done riding and don't want the app holding any resources in the background.
The red Shutdown column, reachable from every section.
What Shutdown Does
- Stops any active navigation cleanly so the persisted route isn't left half-resumed.
- If a GPX recording is in progress, finishes it (auto-named) so no points are lost.
- Tears down the navigation, recording, and anchor foreground services.
- Removes DMD Next fully from the task switcher — not just sent to the background.
Continue Reading
Next up — the Home section: two configurable home layouts you can swap with one tap, 15 row types, plus the Notifications, Weather & All Apps overlays.
The Home Section