I've noticed that despite the compass working in other apps it doesn't work in maps at all. Has anyone else noticed this? (I've made sure the compass orientation is selected in the settings)
Are you talking about Bing maps because that doesn't use your compass it uses your gps for its directions. Same with Nokia maps. Hope that clears it up.
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gMaps Pro is using them, and compass is working fine. Not sure if the free
version has compass support.
rlatarche said:
Are you talking about Bing maps because that doesn't use your compass it uses your gps for its directions. Same with Nokia maps. Hope that clears it up.
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Ah ok I assumed the rotate with direction option used the compass. Thanks for explaining that.
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thinking of buying an offline navigation app, as i live in Europe i can rack up major data charges just visiting friends, who happen to live in another country. also be used for business, i work all over the shop!
been checking on market, but lots of negative reports on most, including navigon. i have a navigon gps for in the car, its okay, but by the reviews the android app is not so good. or is it?? google maps/navigation is great, but it uses data charge, loads if on satellite view
anyone have an offline navigation system installed, or can recommend one thru previous use?
thanx!
sygic not bad too...
I use mobile mobile maps from sygic. Works pretty good.
thanks, i'll check sygic out later..
I think osmand+ is the best. You can download all maps vector-rendered (small files) or as tiles from google, openstreetmaps and many more web-map-services.
So, I live in an area for a while, where coz of the occupation there are no navigation-systems allowed... (even normal printed maps are ridiculous bad).
So thanks to openstreetmaps.org which is developed very well in the last years and helped me out a lot! Nevertheless some routes are interrupted by yet another unknown roadblock
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sygic not bad too...
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How to download and use offline maps using sygic
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soooooo,
been using the trial version of sygic, pretty impressed, used it for work and must say its pretty accurate, and very usable. i've been having closure problems, (not fc, just closing app and sending me back to home screen) although this may be related to a ram manager i had installed (testing now).
other was, in the centre of the dashboard display, you have the countdown to the next junction and an arrow to tell you the direction, these are overlayed on my phone and a bit messy, you cant at a glance see it properly, just a tangled mess. is this the same on the paid version? on the sygic site these are 2 separate boxes on the shown picture.
otherwise, no complaints, would like to know before i pay €50!
also forgot, the android splash bar is also hidden, if you recieve a text, you cant see the notification, or gsm signal etc.
also in the pay version?
Bought full version last night, thanks for the info!
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What navigation options come out of the box
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Bing Maps, thats it
But does that actually navigate
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Bump.......
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1st don't bump
2nd yes it works
could it replace or rival google maps
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Google maps has always sucked. Just go and test the maps yourself at a phone store.
Google maps may suck for y , but the other 100 million users LOVE IT
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I find the navigation on Bing maps to be better than Google. I like how it will tell me things while driving like turn left on 'x' street...there is a 7-11 on the corner...Little things like that make it stand out to me and really useful.
While I'm a big fan of all things Google, Bing maps are actually better looking and easier to use imo. I have integrated sat nav in the car but my phone is nicer to look at, faster and easier to use.
Yes the Bing navigation blows away google maps, in my experience. Google maps would have me lost as hell, Bing gets me exactly where I need to get. And with them integrating Nokia maps into WP soon, it will only get better.
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I dont mean to be stupid but I have a RADAR, how do I get it to voice activate for navigation. it only gives me like a list of steps and turns but it does not actually speak "turn left, or 7-11 at the corner"
what am i missing?
Thanks
The nav on the Radar blows when compaired to Google Nav. Not being able to have a screen with a full map only part of the screen with a map sucks. Now when you look at Nokia Drive which has the 3D nav. That looks so much better. MS has some work to make there Nav better then google. Yes maybe the information that bing maps gives you is better, but looking at the interface it blows ass.
SCossio said:
I dont mean to be stupid but I have a RADAR, how do I get it to voice activate for navigation. it only gives me like a list of steps and turns but it does not actually speak "turn left, or 7-11 at the corner"
what am i missing?
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Same problem.... if I accept that "navigation" is just a tiny map in portrait only, and the various directions are just text, I still cannot use the thing - the screen blanks after the usual time-out.
On the face of it, this looks utterly pants - unless I've missed something fundamental.
LenAsh said:
Same problem.... if I accept that "navigation" is just a tiny map in portrait only, and the various directions are just text, I still cannot use the thing - the screen blanks after the usual time-out.
On the face of it, this looks utterly pants - unless I've missed something fundamental.
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Google Maps and Bing each have their own problems. I recently tested out the Windows MAP app and it works okay. It definitely sounds better than the default robot voice you get with Goole Navi (which can be corrected but you have to purchase the natural sounding voice). My problem is it's not completely hands-free. I have not had the issue of the screen timing out. What it does is read you the directions step by step and at every 1-2 steps, you have to tap the screen to receive the next set of instructions: not all of us are rolling with a co-pilot.
I am very happy with offline navigation on my radar. I unlock the device using chevron and than put Navigon 4.1 on it with newest maps from 2012. The maps are great a lot of POI. I go to Paris on trip and use Radar often to find some POI's in Paris very quick response it starts very fast localization. The phone works great for navigation. Battery life is perfect.
Hi everyone,
How do I calibrate the compass? Is there an app I can use or is there test app on the prime I can run to calibrate the sensor? Can't seem to find any app installed and the compass app I'm using is off by 90-180 degrees.
I'm using the ICS 9.4.2.11 OTA update.
Cheers.
Go in general Android threads, nothing specific to prime, or google.
Just move your phone in the shape of a 8.
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Had the same issue with my Prime depending on the app I was using.
Waiving in a figure 8 didn't seem to really help either.
... for what it's worth, "GPS Status" was the best app for regularly showing the correct info.
The app called "compass" has that calibration setting where you move it in a figure 8 but I'm not sure if it is the same thing as doing that without the app installed.
I've tried the app "Compass" and used its built in calibration tool. I did the whole figure 8 thing but the compass is still off by 90 degrees or so. I have also tried "GPS Status" and that one does show the correct info.
I think my compass is calibrated but I believe the compass apps in the market are not compatible with tablets, though they work for phones. I saw an article about this before but can't seem to remember where and I can't check to see how to move forward. It has something to do with the programing code they used or not used based on google's specs.
Thanks anyways guys.
I installed FXP 151 CM10 yesterday and it works like a charm except the fact that google maps and sky maps are not working properly on my WT19i. When ever I use maps, the arrow moves in random position and screen rotates in different positions . And sky maps lags like hell and doesn't even work properly. I have already tried the method stated here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520434 but it didn't worked.Any help would be appreciated regarding this.
Could it be possible for someone to upload the sensors.conf file which works properly with google and sky maps?
Thanks in advance!!!
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It's the same problem that's reported on the issue tracker over and over again. I have been able to reliably reproduce it (unfortunately) on my SK17i since quite a few releases ago.
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It's the same problem that's reported on the issue tracker over and over again. I have been able to reliably reproduce it (unfortunately) on my SK17i since quite a few releases ago.
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So no fix as of now??
And what do you mean by reliably reproduce it (unfortunately) ??
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So no fix as of now??
And what do you mean by reliably reproduce it (unfortunately) ??
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No, I don't think that is has been fixed yet. And it's a fancy way of saying that it happens to me each time I use Google Maps, as well.
Dude gmaps works. When u get gps signal then just start moving. The compass will stop rotating and show u correct direction
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Dude gmaps works. When u get gps signal then just start moving. The compass will stop rotating and show u correct direction
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Dude, I never said that Google Maps "doesn't work". The problem is that, especially for pedestrian navigation, you have almost no idea on the direction to take if the map isn't pointing in the right... direction. The arrow, not the compass, will stop rotating and show you your walking direction because Google Maps will use GPS data to infer this. Still, this does not mean that the compass is functioning properly.
We already posted this issue on bugtracker. Hope we get a fix soon.....link to issue http://code.google.com/p/freexperia/issues/detail?id=1373
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I found this tutorial and decided to make a video of it for you.It would work only with snapdragon 800 devices running Kitkat 4.4+ and rooted.This won't work otherwise at the moment.Make sure you update to the latest play services and Google search apps.
-UTG(unleashthegoogle) http://goo.gl/NBAVzv
-Written guide http://goo.gl/K8ptgG
Works perfectly, thanks dude!
Battery life?
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Battery life?
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down the toilet.. I would guess
Has anyone tried getting en-UK to work with this mod at all? I heard its not supported officially but has anyone gave it a shot?
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I found this tutorial and decided to make a video of it for you.It would work only with snapdragon 800 devices running Kitkat 4.4+ and rooted.This won't work otherwise at the moment.Make sure you update to the latest play services and Google search apps.
-UTG(unleashthegoogle) http://goo.gl/NBAVzv
-Written guide http://goo.gl/K8ptgG
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please may i know the rom you are using?
Yes it works
But sometimes when google search get killed you have tap it again to make this work.
Is there anyway to keep this alive?
Works like a charm! Does this "mod" bring a battery hit?
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This is now avaliable for non_root users as well.
Credits to xStreame from reddit.
Open Google NowSearch for “OK Google everywhere”Click any link [may be unnecessary but I did it]Back out to Google NowGo to Settings>VoiceAudio History and Anywhere Detection should now be available as settings.
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Using it now. Only works with English (US) as far as I can tell. Anyone knows if this thing uses the low power sensor processor portion of the snapdragon 800?
I don't seem to get an option for Debug in google search to enable those options. what went wrong?
Hi Guys,
Just now I found where is my problem with "ok google". The LG On-Screen-Phone notification system is somehow incompatible with the OK Google keyword detection.
To disable it, go to Settings > General > System > Accessibility > Services and disable the On-Screen-Phone notifications.
After the change of the open search everything worked. But I still had a problem with detection on the desktop. Here it turned out that only works with the Google search widget 4x1.
Already everything is perfect.
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Using it now. Only works with English (US) as far as I can tell. Anyone knows if this thing uses the low power sensor processor portion of the snapdragon 800?
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Most likely not. It just runs as a background app and keeps a wakelock when the phone is charging. To use the low power sensor of the SD800 it would require some deep kernel coding.
Sorted...didn't had the latest google search...installed the update from play store and voila the steps mentioned worked! Thanks
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Mind sharing those widgets you have?