So I still can't get Google Nav to work without crashing, and it doesn't appear that Google is going to fix it any time soon. What is a good reliable free replacement?
I've also heard that it works fine on a rooted phone, but I haven't decided if I want to mess with that yet.
Mystic5523 said:
So I still can't get Google Nav to work without crashing, and it doesn't appear that Google is going to fix it any time soon. What is a good reliable free replacement?
I've also heard that it works fine on a rooted phone, but I haven't decided if I want to mess with that yet.
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TeleNav & Waze are good
Had never heard of Waze.
Looks kinda cool.
Yeah, switched to TeleNav a while back. Works for me until Google decides to fix the current nav app.
Its not google, htc has screwed up jellybean on our phones. The new sense 5 rom has fixed my nav issue. Also ics works perfectly
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So I still can't get Google Nav to work without crashing, and it doesn't appear that Google is going to fix it any time soon. What is a good reliable free replacement?
I've also heard that it works fine on a rooted phone, but I haven't decided if I want to mess with that yet.
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Being rooted doesn't help. You either have the problem or you don't, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme our reason. I've been using Waze and like it.
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I like Scout, which has telenav as its back end
Wave fan here. Been using it for almost a year. Can't beat the crowd source traffic. Works better if you live in a big city with a lot of others using it.
Also saved me from speed traps a few times.
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Waze again here. Nice app.
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I have been using telenav. It does the job just fine
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Waze. Extremely aggressive traffic avoidance. Not to mention crowdsourced hazard alerts.
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One of the sense features I've read about is the "instant map" and the uninterrupted navigation when a call comes in. I haven't been able to see this work yet. Can anyone who's figured it out please let me know. Thanks
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if your talking about the premium nav then you would have pay for the service but i dont think its worth it
I remembered seeing this when I first got this phone, I did notice Google maps seemed to be entirely preloaded and uninterrupted by calls. As soon as I rooted and messed with roms and such, I seemed to have lost that. Not sure if it was my imagination or what because it was so long ago.
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I referring to HTC navigation
Looks like it was only for certain phones.
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...ise-zero-wait-na/&category=classic&postPage=1
I would imagine every new Note owner goes through a period where people comment on the size of the note. My daughter posted on Facebook, that "I'm out of control." My wife calls it a Pop Tart. I'd like to think they're all just a bit jealous that I can read ebooks and watch TV or movies without squinting.
Anyway, a few rookie questions if you wouldn't mind:
I'm running Only One on my ATT I717 and love it, but trying to learn about modems. Is there a tutorial?
Also, is there a good GPS progam? I had TomTom on my 3GS but doesn't look like it's offered for Android.
Thanks
I prefer Navigon for gps. Most feautures and best forming. 2 others to look at are Ndrive and Sygic. What do you need to know about modems? Not much to tell unless you are running the phone on T-mobile. Looks like you might be since you mentioned 3gs. If you do then this thread might get you started. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1573568
Thanks. I had an IPhone 3GS with TomTom.
Is 4G the same as LTE on ATT.
There's a thread about boosting data speed and they refer to UCLE2, 5, etc. Does this apply to ATT, or only T-Mobile?
I've heard a bit about Navigon and it seems solid but the reviews it gets don't seem all that reassuring for me to spend that kind of money. Google's navigation app has worked great for me and does more than enough. I've also used Waze. It's got a clean interface and nice traffic info plus it's free!
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Thanks. I had an IPhone 3GS with TomTom.
Is 4G the same as LTE on ATT.
There's a thread about boosting data speed and they refer to UCLE2, 5, etc. Does this apply to ATT, or only T-Mobile?
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4G and LTE are totally different. 4G is an improved version of 3G. LTE is another technology. Not all areas have LTE.
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I've heard a bit about Navigon and it seems solid but the reviews it gets don't seem all that reassuring for me to spend that kind of money. Google's navigation app has worked great for me and does more than enough. I've also used Waze. It's got a clean interface and nice traffic info plus it's free!
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If you have a data connection the Google is great. Waze looks ok but it needs data also and has all that social integration. Guessing this app is hard on the Note's battery. How does it run for you? If you want an offline gps app then you need to fork out the dough. No app is perfect for everyone and reviews are tough on paid gps apps. Navigon gets it done especially when you are in an area with no data.
I use Map Quest for gps works great and it's free.
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4G and LTE are totally different. 4G is an improved version of 3G. LTE is another technology. Not all areas have LTE.
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If you have a data connection the Google is great. Waze looks ok but it needs data also and has all that social integration. Guessing this app is hard on the Note's battery. How does it run for you? If you want an offline gps app then you need to fork out the dough. No app is perfect for everyone and reviews are tough on paid gps apps. Navigon gets it done especially when you are in an area with no data.
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Waze hasn't taxed my battery too bad but I can see how it would become a bit of a hog. True, I could do without the social integration as well but it isn't too bad. I've since resorted soley on the Google navigation app. I hear you about the offline capabilities, Navigon would be nice to have when data isn't available. I rarely don't have access to data so that hasn't posed much of a problem for me with gps. You're right, the choice definitely depends on the person.
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Your wife and daughter are trolling you
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Your wife and daughter are trolling you
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Or in other words...iPhone users
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
-iOS = inspiring Outdated Software
Tomtoms coming to android next month and try MapQuest works great.
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Pop tart..... I never heard that.... I like that..... I usually ask them do there little phone comes with a free trip to the eye doctor.... cause there gonna go blind... lol... the iPhone users dont bother me... its the evo users or the Droid users or the galaxy s2 users.... there for some reason there phones are pretty big too but the look at mines and think I'm crazy..... I'm only telling them that in a year they are gonna have the same size phone... I'm ahead of time.... and look what's around the corner and gonna sell like no tomorrow.... the galaxy s3.... that phone is damn near the same size.... a tad smaller. Bet the go after that.... look its all good to have the second biggest phone.... nobody wants the biggest.... that are nuts. Like bet the get this size phone as soon as a bigger one comes out ... so this becomes the second..... hate those kinda losers that don't think out side the box. . I always went for the number one spot .. never the second.... or s2...lol
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How to watch tv? ????
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I use time Warner's live TV app. Works great
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I use time Warner's live TV app. Works great
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I'm rooted. So the dumb app doesn't support it. Any way around it?
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I'm rooted. So the dumb app doesn't support it. Any way around it?
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=root+keeper
Oh yeah look in the apps and theme section here on xda note section there's a modified versions
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I'm rooted. So the dumb app doesn't support it. Any way around it?
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Try here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1605247
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Where ever I am around ppl I don't know or friends that havent seen my phone yet whenever I get it out the immediately ask if its a tablet or a phone...I'm kinda starting to get annoyed lol.
I was using Google maps walking navigation today...first time on this phone...on Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills. I know the accurancy is great (for whatever reason ICS is taking longer to get a lock), but I was stunned that the arrow was precisely where I was walking but the compass is crazy sensitive, looked like I was walking sideways at times.
So yea that's my little non helpful blurb on the subject...I should probably go to sleep since its 3am and I'm ranting...
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My wife calls it my Kindle.
Google maps is getting offline capabilities soon. At that point there won't be any need for another app.
I was skeptical, and in fact wasn't going to upgrade. My Evo 4G started going flaky though so I decided to upgrade. My humble $0.02:
- ultralight and rigid. exudes quality construction
- phone has a nice feel to all the surfaces
- Beats Audio - I thought this was pure marketing nonsense, then tried with the same quality headphones on this and my old Evo and there's a clear difference. Same thing when I plug in from the headphone jack to my truck stereo. Very surprised.
- speed - can't bog this thing down with anything I've thrown at it
- Battery - still not perfect but I think it's a bit more efficient than my old Evo. At work where I get very little signal it still sucks the battery dry trying to reconnect voice all day. I may just put it in airplane mode when at work. Frigging army construction regulations.
Any dissenters? I'd recommend this phone more strongly than any other phone I've had at the time.
In this forum i dont think anyone will disagree, yes it is a great phone. Have some fun,go over to the s3 forums and brag it up
This phone is extremely solid compared to the Evo 3D, which I passionately hate and wish I had never owned. Unfortunately, a bad signal is always a deathtrap for a phone's battery, but it seems the rest of it is working out for you.
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I was skeptical, and in fact wasn't going to upgrade. My Evo 4G started going flaky though so I decided to upgrade. My humble $0.02:
- ultralight and rigid. exudes quality construction
- phone has a nice feel to all the surfaces
- Beats Audio - I thought this was pure marketing nonsense, then tried with the same quality headphones on this and my old Evo and there's a clear difference. Same thing when I plug in from the headphone jack to my truck stereo. Very surprised.
- speed - can't bog this thing down with anything I've thrown at it
- Battery - still not perfect but I think it's a bit more efficient than my old Evo. At work where I get very little signal it still sucks the battery dry trying to reconnect voice all day. I may just put it in airplane mode when at work. Frigging army construction regulations.
Any dissenters? I'd recommend this phone more strongly than any other phone I've had at the time.
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Do any other cell phone providers have good service at your work? I use an app called roam control. In my gym the free-weights are on a lower level with terrible signal. With the force roam on the app I'm able to get constant solid data, so I can listen to the tune in radio app. Just a thought.
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Do any other cell phone providers have good service at your work? I use an app called roam control. In my gym the free-weights are on a lower level with terrible signal. With the force roam on the app I'm able to get constant solid data, so I can listen to the tune in radio app. Just a thought.
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I tried finding the force roam app in the play store. Could it possibly be called something else? I can never get a data signal in a certain area, which frustrates me to no end.
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Cyrene said:
I tried finding the force roam app in the play store. Could it possibly be called something else? I can never get a data signal in a certain area, which frustrates me to no end.
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If u search "roam control" on playstore there will be an app called "no roam control" or something like that. Anyways it is the first one on the list. It is by the same developer and there's a link to their website. U can buy a license and download it straight from there. Only thing that sucks is u will probably have to buy a new license for every new phone.
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This phone is extremely solid compared to the Evo 3D, which I passionately hate and wish I had never owned. Unfortunately, a bad signal is always a deathtrap for a phone's battery, but it seems the rest of it is working out for you.
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Yep. I'm disappointed in myself for using my upgrade on the Evo 3D after Christmas time and not just saving it. I didn't like the 3D much at all.
Also i know meanrom has roam only built in. Great rom too.
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the only thing that sucks its that flash player dont work wtf! does flash player work on the sg3?
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COCODRILO45 said:
the only thing that sucks its that flash player dont work wtf! does flash player work on the sg3?
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Flash player will not work on any Android version above 4.0
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migpol08 said:
Flash player will not work on any Android version above 4.0
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That's not quite true. Adobe isn't allowing it to be downloaded through the market, but sideloading it works just fine, and forms the Market link which allows it to receive updates.
just found out flash player works on cleanrom yea! now my htc lte kicks ass
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COCODRILO45 said:
just found out flash player works on cleanrom yea! now my htc lte kicks ass
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??
It's going to work on every stock-based ROM you find in the dev section.
Is anyone else bothered by Google raping our phones and installing a settings app remotely without consent as i am?
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/2/27/4034928/google-settings-app-appears-in-android
http://androidcommunity.com/psa-new-google-settings-app-in-your-app-tray-isnt-malware-20130226/
http://m.lifehacker.com/5987333/goo...cess-to-other-google-apps-settings-on-android
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/27/google-settings-app-sneaks-onto-android-to-bolster-g-sign-in/
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What are you talking about exactly?
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This and look at the permissions
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So here's what i did, because i dont like apps being remotely installed without my permission.
Go to root of your phone>system>app and rename Google play services which is now called gmscore.apk to gmscore.apk.bak or simply delete it. Hot reboot your phone and you can now uninstall the Google settings app the way you would any app.
Doing this breaks all Google apps... Sneaky google
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Oh those... Those aren't a big deal, but I see what you saying about the permissions.
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Funny thing is i rebooted again and its back... And on top of that my xda app was uninstalled i think Google got mad at me
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I wonder if you can freeze it. Well also, your XDA app might have disappeared because for some reason it downloads on the memory card.
But I get it. Nanny apps are creepy. Its already weird Facebook wants to know where I am all the time.
I was wondering what the hell that was...
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Added note once you use my method to get rid of it whenever it comes back it can be easily deleted again via the app drawer
Warning getting rid of this breaks all Google apps...
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Wtf!!
Anyone know if the patched gapps will fix this?
I remember a patched play store that would skip updating itself
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Lol I just noticed it in my app drawer a couple seconds ago. I don't really worry about it. I like google haha
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Hah, I was freaking out about this earlier since it popped up on both my N4 and the Amaze.
yo2boy said:
Hah, I was freaking out about this earlier since it popped up on both my N4 and the Amaze.
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It even popped up on my sidekick 4g which is on froyo 2.2.1 that i don't even have service on
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lamortcroix said:
I wonder if you can freeze it. Well also, your XDA app might have disappeared because for some reason it downloads on the memory card.
But I get it. Nanny apps are creepy. Its already weird Facebook wants to know where I am all the time.
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Some one moded the Facebook app with location off of it a while ago but I guess it was hard to keep up with it since their were a lot of updates at the time.
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Its not on my phone
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Its not on my phone
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Give it time it will be lol. Also I've noticed on stock and custom ROMs all processes associated with this run in the background draining battery pretty quick. My friends phone with stock GB went from lasting 2 days to less than one
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Hopefully someone can circumcise this thing...
Google crafted another app that eats battery like a fat kid on cake... F'in Google maps & Google now all over again.
What roms are we on?...
I'm on tmobile ics.
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Give it time it will be lol. Also I've noticed on stock and custom ROMs all processes associated with this run in the background draining battery pretty quick. My friends phone with stock GB went from lasting 2 days to less than one
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Nope. Never gonna be on my phone. I made sure of that.
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Just found it under my app drawer. And I uninstalled it normally. Didn't kill or delete any process.. And Gapps are working as always..
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Nope. Never gonna be on my phone. I made sure of that.
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Mind telling us how? Or do you just not use gapps at all that's the only way i can see a solution. But my contacts are on my Google account so I'm stuck unless i spend the time to manually change them all to phone storage.
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As many of you may already have heard, the new Google Maps update integrates the blue triangle navigation app into Google maps. These seems fine, until you realize whatever navigation they are using is not the same as before. It isn't birds eye view anymore. It's come crap apple like not turn by turn thing. No longer any options for avoiding highways and tollway, no more customization, and I can't find the so called multi route thing they supposedly added. Google navigation was practically flawless, why did they kill it off? Somebody please tell me
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I've been using Scout for months now. You can choose different routes and the map rotates when you make turns.
Ditto for me, Scout is pretty nice
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Thanks you for your suggestions, but it's irrelevant to my actual question. Just want more inside info on why Google destroyed the best app they have ever made
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darkleafar said:
Thanks you for your suggestions, but it's irrelevant to my actual question. Just want more inside info on why Google destroyed the best app they have ever made
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Yeah, but I don't think anyone actually knows why. To get people to use Scout? lol
It's freaking weird... All tech websites talk about is how wonderful the new updates are. What updates? The navigation app has DECREASED functionality, how come nobody is reporting on this?
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My guess is that they are preparing to release a paid navigation app that has all of the bells and whistles of the previous version. There is no other plausible reason for this.
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My guess is that they are preparing to release a paid navigation app that has all of the bells and whistles of the previous version. There is no other plausible reason for this.
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My mohter is technologically challenged and she is very upset about this. You know how long it took her to learn Google Nav? LONG! Both her and my stepdad where like "where is the blue triangle thingie" and I was like what do you mean, and oh surprise it was gone. They are the ones who brought to my attention as I have not been using GPS lately.
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As many of you may already have heard, the new Google Maps update integrates the blue triangle navigation app into Google maps. These seems fine, until you realize whatever navigation they are using is not the same as before. It isn't birds eye view anymore. It's come crap apple like not turn by turn thing. No longer any options for avoiding highways and tollway, no more customization, and I can't find the so called multi route thing they supposedly added. Google navigation was practically flawless, why did they kill it off? Somebody please tell me
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Scout is a good one, I prefer Waze over Google nav anyways.. Waze is a social navigation which gives you updated information on traffic conditions by monitoring other users. And you get turn by turn, along with warnings about traffic hazards (including police and speed traps)
Is there for me. .. went into maps typed address clicked the car on next page triangle was there.
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My mohter is technologically challenged and she is very upset about this. You know how long it took her to learn Google Nav? LONG! Both her and my stepdad where like "where is the blue triangle thingie" and I was like what do you mean, and oh surprise it was gone. They are the ones who brought to my attention as I have not been using GPS lately.
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A lot of the functionality is still there, including the bird's eye view...it's just hidden 4 or 5 steps deep. The big problem is that it's not at all intuitive like the separate Navigation app was. So tech challenged folks can easily get sidetracked by something as simple as getting it to start navigating. It's kind of like when Microsoft decided to start updating MS Office. They tried so hard to make it more "MAC" like that none of the controls made any sense, not just in the naming of the tool or the icons, but also where they were located. Office 2003 to Office 2007 was just stupid. This is what Google did with their navigation app, trying to make it more iphone like.
So what's next? How about a separate paid app that makes navigation simple to use? That could be the direction that they are going. Either that, or they just hired the wrong designers.... probably ex Apple employees
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It's freaking weird... All tech websites talk about is how wonderful the new updates are. What updates? The navigation app has DECREASED functionality, how come nobody is reporting on this?
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Sprint did it so they can charge new customers more data fees.
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Sprint did it so they can charge new customers more data fees.
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This navigation thing happened to all carriers. You really think Sprint really had any say in it? I enjoy vilifying Sprint as much as the next guy, but in this case I think it was all Google.