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Taking the n1 camping. Will navigation work offline?

Is there a way to make maps or navigation pre-load the maps so when I lose connectivity it will still work?
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No.
Sorry.

I'm sure you could buy some third party nav software that allows you to download and store maps, co-pilot maybe?

Co-Pilot, if you have time to DL the maps and what not. And if it is worth $30 to you. Other 3rd party apps may, but not for that cheap. And I don't think Co-Pilot is working on Froyo yet.

you can pre-load one route to work when you lose connection but you won't be able to load a second one once the connection is gone

Thats what I figured. Anyway, thanks for the quick replys guys.
Would be a cool feature if they could add it...I'm sure this happens to a lot of people on long roadtrips where they lose signal.

Maverick can load maps for offline use; but no real navigation though.

Try AndNav2

Since copilot is dead on froyo... Try motonav, I've not tested it on froyo.

I remember google saying they intended to work on making google maps available offline so maybe thatll happen. Navigation is really important when you are in the middle of nowhere trying to get someplace, its essential in my opinion so im kinda surprised it wasnt introduced offline when navigation came out.

The brut version of maps gives you an "cache to sd card" option, but i never tried it. Anybody tried it?

Check out "Maps (-)" by coderminus and "MapDroyd." Both are offline mapping apps. I'm not sure if they'll do navigation, but if you can search for a place and show it on the map while offline, you can navigate yourself. I have them and have been meaning to try them out but haven't have the time or need.

I you're going camping in the middle of nowhere and need offline maps I would use Maverick and set it on Google Terrain map.
You can load all the tiles you need over wifi or use a program like Mobile Atlas Creator to download the tiles for you and copy them to your SD-card.
I assume you're not going to need turn by turn navigation?

gps not workin :/

hi i wanted to say that gps in my xperia is not working, or I dont know how to turn it on.
when i turn on the google maps it says it need data connection, but what if i dont have wi-fi availible?
should I download some other gps program? update quick GPS (i dont even know which version is the newest)
seekin for help, thanks in advance
of course first I set it to port 4, but still need internet , what a crap :S

The fact that Google Maps asks for a data connection has nothing to do with your phones gps capabilities. It simply needs a connection to download the maps from Googles server. If you want an offline solution look for navicomputer at www.navicomputer.com or another program that works offline. Disadvantage: Most of them are commercial.
To use gps with Google Maps you have to activate gps in the settings of Google Maps. And if you want to use quick gps you also need a data connection because it does nothing more than download the current position of the satelites to get a quicker fix.

thank you sir I was almost sure about that, but I didnt want to spend my time downloading my country maps for a long time to offline GPS .. but I have no choice
and btw can anyone of you guys recommend me some kind of freeware gps software for my xperia?

Freeware solutions:
-Navicomputer (Openstreetmap)
-Openmobilemaps (Openstreetmap, small donation required)
-Google Maps (data connection required)
-Bing (data connection required)
There are many other solutions. Search the XDA Forums or like always: Google is your friend.
What is more difficult is finding a freeware point-to-point navigation program. Bing provides this (US only) but most other are commercial software.

ok i downloaded and installed navicomputer, but where do I get maps for it? :S cuz all I see is world map, but i cant zoom in to my country or anything. just google it?

Either use the software for your desktop/ notebook provided by the developer to download maps and transfer them to your device afterwards or download the maps directly to your device using navicomputer (there is a feature to do this). Or switch navi computer to online mode.
If you want more info read through the website of navicomputer or the corresponding thread here at XDA in the "Windows Mobile Development And Hacking\Windows Mobile Apps And Games" section. Like I wrote before: Perform a search here at XDA. Everyone who wants to know something has to, me too

I never use the google maps...

altae, seriously, if navicomputer would work on vista I would do that in a minute, but unfortunately it does not.
and what maps source provider u mean? i dont get it

apologise, i forgot to restart PC after framework installation, after I did it it works perfectly thanks ppl!!

See, I told you it works I hope everything is alright now.

yep, big + for you, cuz u recommended me this and helped me out, as far as im concerned its the best freeware GPS soft

The software is really good. The only problem is the coverage of openstreetmap. If your desired area is covered well everything is great. If not it (bad coverage) renders navicomputer useless. It's coverage can't compete with Google Maps. But at least you can contribute to the openstreetmap project and do some mapping yourself.

[Q] Latest unrooted ROM - No Nav Working - Help?

I had to use my company iPhone today because I can't seem to get ANY navigation program for my Samsung Galaxy Camera to work.
- Native Google Maps/Navigation says there is no network connection even though I can go in Chrome on the device and connect and find things (but no step-by-step) using maps.google.com and Gmail and other network programs from Google and others work fine. Since the Galaxy Camera supports a SIM card but I never use it (I carry a WiFi dongle/MiFi) I'm wondering if it is trying to get on AT&T even though the WiFi is active?
- Tried CoPilot GPS, and it insisted on first installing their offline maps that are 13 Gigs. Wouldn't let me set it up to use my SD card, and wouldn't let me use without installing maps first
- Tried MapFactor Navigation and the free version won't let you enter a street address. You can give country, then state, then street, but unless you can find a cross street it knows about, you get directions that are "in the area". Paid version supposedly supports the usual address search, but who wants to pay to find out if it really does?
Anything that I can do to get Google Maps to work right or some other program that will work if I always have WiFi?

After a couple hours of Google Fu, I discovered the issue was with the latest version of the Maps application. When Google removed Latitude it also messes with the setting for whether to report location or not, and gets confused.
To fix this you have to go into Application Manager, go to Maps, choose "Uninstall Updates". Then go to the Play Store and choose to update. When it finishes the update and you see the button in the store change to "Open" make SURE to open the application from there. That will then give you the chance to accept the new terms of service, and to select the proper location reporting setting.
After that it works properly. Supposedly several folks with other Galaxy products and the latest Nexus products encountered the same issue.

[Q] Google Location Settings

Hello people,
in the latest Android versions the settings were made much more "simple". So we have just one toggle to change if all google-apps will have access to the GPS signal.
In my case, I´d like to disable it, except for Maps and Android-Device-Manager. But that´s not possible anymore! Because by switching this single toggle, you will enable GPS access also to PlayStore (-Services), G+, Now, Hangouts and much more datasucking applications.
But: As you can see in Maps, or in your location settings (last apps wich used your location), it still works by triangulate your GSM signal.
So, it seems that it doesn´t mind whatever you setup on the device.
What have you done? Don´t you mind about all these Applications, reading all your data and current locations?
Do you use any Apps which deactivate this behavior?

Smartlock Location issue

I set my home as a Trusted Location in the smart lock feature and it worked fine for a few days but now it seems to forget to look where I am and has stopped functioning. I can go into Maps and it will lock on and then Smartlock works again, but until I do that it requests my pin.
Is there something I can do to improve this? I am set to high accuracy mode in location settings. I am wondering if maybe my WiFi SSID is registered with Google at a different address and its using that to figure it out until I force GPS in Maps?

skrypj said:
I set my home as a Trusted Location in the smart lock feature and it worked fine for a few days but now it seems to forget to look where I am and has stopped functioning. I can go into Maps and it will lock on and then Smartlock works again, but until I do that it requests my pin.
Is there something I can do to improve this? I am set to high accuracy mode in location settings. I am wondering if maybe my WiFi SSID is registered with Google at a different address and its using that to figure it out until I force GPS in Maps?
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Quite a few poeple are seeing the same thing: It's an issue with Google Play Services: https://productforums.google.com/fo...ce=footer#!msg/nexus/Y7a_jqgCNEs/zFh1F3roAQAJ

skrypj said:
I set my home as a Trusted Location in the smart lock feature and it worked fine for a few days but now it seems to forget to look where I am and has stopped functioning. I can go into Maps and it will lock on and then Smartlock works again, but until I do that it requests my pin.
Is there something I can do to improve this? I am set to high accuracy mode in location settings. I am wondering if maybe my WiFi SSID is registered with Google at a different address and its using that to figure it out until I force GPS in Maps?
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I've notice the same thing, to the point where there have been 3 - 4 entries for "Home" for me. Seems that Google Play Services 8.3 helped with the issue, doesn't seem to be as frequent as it was.

Yeah I am also on 8.3 and saw no difference

Smart unlock locations isn't working on my nexus 6P.