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Google Maps GPS doesn't move with map while driving

Any one know what I am doing wrong with my phone? When I drive with google maps and get the gps working and everything the little blue dot moves along the way but doesn't scroll the screen over while I'm moving, I have to move it myself. Am I doing something wrong here or pressing something I shouldn't that deactivates it? Let me know.
thanks much

I think I've seen this happen if you scroll the screen yourself, I think there's some way to center the display or such and it'll then follow. Otherwise you're panned and it doesn't move.
This is a good thing if you want to pan the map to look at something and don't want it flipping back to your GPS location immediately.
I've yet to use Google Maps with a GPS honestly, because I have iGO and TomTom so it's possible there's a bug I haven't seen, but that's how it's "supposed" to work.

masta7100 said:
Any one know what I am doing wrong with my phone? When I drive with google maps and get the gps working and everything the little blue dot moves along the way but doesn't scroll the screen over while I'm moving, I have to move it myself. Am I doing something wrong here or pressing something I shouldn't that deactivates it? Let me know.
thanks much
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No, you're not doing anything wrong. For google maps, once the blinking blue dot, (your location), is centralized on your screen, it will move as you move, as long as your location (blinking blue dot) is centralized.
If you happen to, let's say, use your stylus or finger to move the screen to view surrounding area, and de-centralize the blinking blue dot in the process, it will not re-center itself. But it's still navigating though.
You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps

robosiris said:
No, you're not doing anything wrong. For google maps, once the blinking blue dot, (your location), is centralized on your screen, it will move as you move, as long as your location (blinking blue dot) is centralized.
If you happen to, let's say, use your stylus or finger to move the screen to view surrounding area, and de-centralize the blinking blue dot in the process, it will not re-center itself. But it's still navigating though.
You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps
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ok, i'll let you know what happens next time I use it. Or go somewhere more than a couple miles.

khaytsus said:
I think I've seen this happen if you scroll the screen yourself, I think there's some way to center the display or such and it'll then follow. Otherwise you're panned and it doesn't move.
This is a good thing if you want to pan the map to look at something and don't want it flipping back to your GPS location immediately.
I've yet to use Google Maps with a GPS honestly, because I have iGO and TomTom so it's possible there's a bug I haven't seen, but that's how it's "supposed" to work.
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What version of Igo and TOMtom do you use? i have used both my self. just seems like the maps need a little updating and everything you know.

@masta7100 -- what GPS app are you using? -- the monthly pay plan ?

robosiris said:
You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps
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I had a similar problem and thought I'd lost GPS, thanks for the heads up.

amkaos said:
@masta7100 -- what GPS app are you using? -- the monthly pay plan ?
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It's up top.. google maps

Also,if you can see the blue dot on your screen, double tab the dot. It will re-center it and start following again.
Tin

masta7100 said:
It's up top.. google maps
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thats just the maps, right?
you still need an app to run the maps, right?
tahnx
edit :: i checked it all out and understand.. loox pretty good for free..

masta7100 said:
What version of Igo and TOMtom do you use? i have used both my self. just seems like the maps need a little updating and everything you know.
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iGO8 and TomTom 7. I owned Tom Tom 6 but got 7 from the threads here, it's a reasonable update.

Call for reccomendations please

I will be spending some time in Europe next month and would like to use some GPS navigation software on my Diamond while my phone connection remains blocked.
Now I know what you will say, "use the search!" I have. What im looking for is software not for a motorist but software for a pedestrian/tourist. I am looking for something that will contain top-down street maps akin to Google Maps, only not requiring a data connection.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

darthbane2k said:
I will be spending some time in Europe next month and would like to use some GPS navigation software on my Diamond while my phone connection remains blocked.
Now I know what you will say, "use the search!" I have. What im looking for is software not for a motorist but software for a pedestrian/tourist. I am looking for something that will contain top-down street maps akin to Google Maps, only not requiring a data connection.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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In tomtom you can also choose pedestrian

cyron_at said:
In tomtom you can also choose pedestrian
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Yeah, I heard of this pedestrian mode in tomtom, but I cant find any screens of what the maps are like. I would prefer a 2D face down map if walking

In TomTom (at least since version 5) you can switch from 2D to 3D mode and back. In 2D mode you will get the top down view you are looking for like http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/jonchoo/961678b0.jpg

cool. Will give tomtom a whirl if there is a trial version out there.
Anyone tried Google Navigator? Ive seen a few screenshots online (looks pretty good) but I cannot find out much else about it

What about buffering google maps? And only using wifi.?

Sergio PC said:
What about buffering google maps? And only using wifi.?
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If there is a way I can do that for the whole of Europe, I would

Terracrosser - GPS TOOL

I had found this pretty cool GPS tool (www.terracrosser.com), yet it's zooming does not work on HTC Diamond. I had tried to modify registry fot scrolling wheel, but I was only able to scroll the map up and down, not to zoom.
Any help would be great.
Here is the way to registry:
HKLM/Software/HTC/SmartTouch/Terracrosser/
classname (string): #NETCF_AGL_BASE_
Mode (dword): 4
WheelCount (dword): 2

The website contains little to no information.
What does this app do?
How does it differ to Google maps?
Can it grab a map of Paris for me for me to use offline in the future?

I don't understand, it uses gps to show your location with maps from google maps.... So basically it's just google maps?

darthbane2k said:
The website contains little to no information.
What does this app do?
How does it differ to Google maps?
Can it grab a map of Paris for me for me to use offline in the future?
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Looks like it, read the .PDF on download page

So it appears. Try using Google Maps for the Diamond instead of Terracrosser.

Damn, what a nice tool, I will certanly keep that in mind!
I have searched for a proper solution to download the google maps for a long time... that saves me a lot gprs costs
Nice tool, hoe they gonna fix the zoom-bug, then it'll be just perfect!

Not really usable for the moment but, if I understand well the documentation, the tool Mapper (wich crashes for me) should be able to save maps with different zoom levels and that would be great ! Touch screen and jog dial navgation would also be great...
I'll keep an eye on this...

so how easy would it be to download maps for offline viewing.
Can I tell it to just 'go fetch maps for Paris' and that will be enough? Thats the sort of solution I would need, a list of cities and I 'check off' which ones I would want it to download and cache

darthbane2k said:
so how easy would it be to download maps for offline viewing.
Can I tell it to just 'go fetch maps for Paris' and that will be enough? Thats the sort of solution I would need, a list of cities and I 'check off' which ones I would want it to download and cache
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I have tested the mapper for some minutes, i am at work, so not much time to do it in detail
You have to zoom to the area you want to download by yourself, after that you choose how many zoomleves are to be saved and the rest dows the program on its own. Quite simple in my opinion.
But a feature to enter the city you want to download would be great, too
Perhabs it'll be added in the near future. It#s the first official version of this tool, as I have read on the page.

sorry but how can I control the program. I`ve added the necessary reg keys to navigate with hw keys but I can not zoom. stylus navigation isn`t supported?

Beta tester wanted
Hello!
If anybody want to betatest Terracrosser for HTC Diamond, please contact "mail at terracrosser dot com".
Thank you,
Nitisara

New Zooming method
Please use version 1.0.1 - touch screen zooming implemented (read User manual).

Great program, just what a lot of people have been after.
Why has it taken so long for someone to actually make an offline/cached map viewer??!?! I wouldn't have thought it would be that difficult!
I'm having a few problems with the software that I will try and solve, hopefully this keeps getting better!

what happened to Terracrosser.com??
I get a "server stoped" message when I go to the url where terracrosser was previously found
http://www.terracrosser.com

Site Not Working
Same problem for me also. Nitisara please make the site work so we can download the latest version of terracrosser.

Loved it in Cuba.
It's a pitty that the site is down.
Luckily I already grabbed a version. And I used it in Cuba
As far as I know there are no GPS-maps available because that is not allowed.
But Terracrosser was a big help, especially when a jinetero is helping you to go to somewhere else

scummvm

so ive searched and searched and havnt found a good answere on this site or on thiers.
ive got a ton of older games like minkey island and kings quest that i should be able to play on myfuze but for some reason i cannot get scummvm to work at all. could someone who has used it and knows what to do please help me out, i get to the scummvm menu once and it lets me find games but then it starts for 2 sec then goes back to windows like nothing has happened and then will not start up again... 13.1 version

so i downloaded an older version of scummvm... it turns on the game starts but the screen is upside down and the keyboard doesnt work

You will have to play around with the options, I don't remember the exact settings I use but I had the same problem as you.
this link may help you as well.
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=936

thank you very much... i cant wait ive got soo many games to play over again

My settings.
So these are my settings on my touch pro. I've beat monkey island 1 and 2 with no problems yet.
GFX
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Graphics mode- 2x SAI
Render mode - default
Full Screen mode- enabled
and of course on how to put the games on your phone just go to that link and read the forum, it is real specific.

i have scummvm running perfect with this games: monkey island 1,2,3 full throttle, the dig, sam and max, beneath a steel sky aaand i think day of the tentacle works ... strangley i cannot make simon the sorccerer work ...

My HCT Dream could not use Mapdroyd or Bigplanet software

I don't know why I can't use those offline map softwares. For Mapdroyd, everything I can see when starting up the application was a blue background and nothing more, except the scale ruler on top, and it seems that I can "zoom" to that blue background, cuz I can see some changes in the scale displayed. I tried to download some more maps from the networks, but it's useless either. I want to contact the software's website, but it's in German, no way
For Bigplanet I can see the underlying grid, but not the map. Yeah, that's all I can see. I have change to network use, but it doesn't display anything too.
Could somebody tell me how to fix those problems? Any suggestions for other offline map softwares? Thanks so much.

I have the same problem with mapdroyd in my htc magic with hero rom. Any help???

FIXED: I just tapped My Location and when I saw a cross from the GPS, I zoomed in enough and I saw the map I downloaded.