Hello, my friends Nokia 6110 Navigator is broken and it would seem that its cheaper to buy a new mobile, so I suggested an Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus(SGA+) like my own - he thinks thats a good idea because then he can ask me if he has any problems
First issue is that he has bought some GPS maps for his Nokia, and he is wondering if he can use them on the SGA+.
The maps are saved on the MicroSD card in his Nokia 6110N, so its no problem to move them to the SGA+.
I read that Ovi maps can be used online for android phones, but is there an APP that can be used with the offline maps?
Is there anything that would prevent this from working, like license or certificate issues?
Anything else I should know?
Hope one of the many smart people here can answer this
With kind regards
JBJ
Moderator it would be nice if the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus could get its own subforum Thanx in advance
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td really appreciate if anyone could help, as ive posted before with no success. Im using a haicom gps mouse, but my problem is software. Pocket streets sucks, ive purchased Gpsdash, which is grea, but has no maps bundled. Problem is, i live in ireland, and i believe that a lot of packages dont have good mapping here. So can anyone please advise me, or send screenshots etc. on which package to buy?
There is nothing mainstream that covers Ireland that I have found.
http://www.destinator1.com/
Covers Ireland
I have destinator, Ireland is very poorly served the same as Smartst pro, it gives very little info.
xdeire, send me a message, I may have found what you need in the form of the new software and maps that include Ireland, it is by Navtech and I even found my old address in Waterford. I am running it on the Medion xscale WM2003 ppc which comes with the kit so it should work on xda, it isnt sold seperately but I dont think that is a problem. It also has voice directions/
Hi there,
I'm new here, since I just got my new HTC Tytn II and registered here for info etc.
Although the Tytn II did replace my old Nokia 6680 and iPaq H3970 for some functions, I can't get it to work with my TomTom Rider 2nd Edition Europe.
I used the TomTom Rider with my Nokia to be able to make and receive phonecalls while on my motorbike.. always had fun with it. But now.. sigh!...
I tried everything, installed the BT_DUN.cab and copied the modemlink files into the Windows folder of my Tytn II.. but no results..
is the WM6 + Tytn II combo crap or is there another workaround/fix update orso?
Thank in advance..
Little_Bear
Tested the Kaiser with a Garmin Zumo tonight.. worked flawlessly.. so should be an issue with TomTom?
Anyone? plzzzz...
Seems like I stand completely alone in this issue.. although.. on the forum here..
I have been calling with TomTom support for a few times.. and they are not giving any comment on this problem. I talked to a supervisor of the support-department and he said the development department wo'nt give any information about if they are working on this not-want-to-pair trouble with the TytN II and TomTom Go-Rider combo.
Since the TytN II does pair with a Garmin Zümo and even the phonebook synchronisez perfectly (where most of the Symbian phones don't) I also talked to the Dutch HTC support department about this if maybe they could work something out.
Garmin did provide a softwareupdate for their Zümo devices, where before that time the TytN II wouldn't connect to the Zümo as well.
Anyone with enough technical knowledge who has ideas about this? I really don't like to sell my Rider 2nd Edition for only maybe 200 Euros and have to buy a brandnew Zümo for 575 Euros, where I still have to buy an optional bluetooth Cardo Rider for my helmet, since TomTom Rider comes with one.
Anyone?
Tried everything so far.. nothing..
I just can't believe this sjit.
always best to do trial and error with gps providers before sticking to 1 or 2 and forking money over for nothing
I am about to buy a Orange locked HTC TyTN II of ebay I will unlock it and use it on on O2
I hope.
Apart from this driver issue I have been reading about
do you think they are a good pda phone for the money
I use to have a xda mini s uintil I dropped some wieghts on it at the gym and loved that phone as texting was so easy (been using k800i since then and hate texting)
apart as a backup I wont need tomtom on the phone but would not mind listing to music and watching films playing the odd game.
would you say go for this phone or no go for another model
Thanks for any advice
It's a good phone.
Still one of the most popular on here.
I'm very happy with mine and wouldn't change it. (except maybe for a Raphael, if someone would give me one)
Ta
Dave
Tetra said:
I am about to buy a Orange locked HTC TyTN II of ebay I will unlock it and use it on on O2
I hope.
Apart from this driver issue I have been reading about
do you think they are a good pda phone for the money
I use to have a xda mini s uintil I dropped some wieghts on it at the gym and loved that phone as texting was so easy (been using k800i since then and hate texting)
apart as a backup I wont need tomtom on the phone but would not mind listing to music and watching films playing the odd game.
would you say go for this phone or no go for another model
Thanks for any advice
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You seem like you want an entertainment device more than a pocket pc. There are many other phones out there that are more suited to music, videos and games.
Don't get me wrong, I love my kaiser for my lifestyle. But my wife also loves her iPhone for her music, videos and games
denco7 said:
You seem like you wany an entertainment device more than a pocket pc. There are many other phones out there that are more suited to music, videos and games.
Don't get me wrong, I love my kaiser for my lifestyle. But my wife also loves her iPhone for her music, videos and games
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Thats probably the closest you'll get to an impartial answer asking a question on a forum dedicated to the device
I've had mine since they were first released. Whilst I love my phone I'm happy to acknowledge theres issues with them, however any true geek will work around those issues, (and moan about them to other geeks)
My reason for using a windows mobile device is because of the applications. very few phones have anywhere close to the level of applications that WM devices have.
Things you probably want to consider are "Do I want a keyboard?" "Do I need GPS?" "how big are my pockets?"
My partner loved my TYTN2, but always told me she'd never get one, as it was like carrying a brick. The day she saw a Touch Dual she needed to have one.
its smaller, runs as fast, just doesnt have the bonus extras of Wifi and GPS.
The keyboard is more of a standard phone keypad, but it still had the on screen keypad for texting.
its all down to which features you want.
Ok thanks for all the replies I have been and collected it and it looks good and I think I will be happy when I have got rid of the orange rom of it,(thinks thats what you call it)
the shapes not much differant to the xda mini s I use to have
one thing concerns me though he been using a external bluetooth for gps and he said he cant configure the internal gps to work with tomtom could the gps be not be working in the phone or could it be settings
Tetra said:
Ok thanks for all the replies I have been and collected it and it looks good and I think I will be happy when I have got rid of the orange rom of it,(thinks thats what you call it)
the shapes not much differant to the xda mini s I use to have
one thing concerns me though he been using a external bluetooth for gps and he said he cant configure the internal gps to work with tomtom could the gps be not be working in the phone or could it be settings
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I have TomTom 6 working on my phone off the internal GPS no problems.
If you pay for GPS software that is compatable (check with the vendor) with your device then it must work, or you can just get your money back
Some ROMs are incompatable with some GPS software's but you just avoid those
Ta
Dave
There are enough of these in the wild here in the US of A, is it possible for you to take a look at someone elses over where you are?
I find that the system gets really slow at times and that is my main complaint. I hate being able to out type this thing.
DaveShaw said:
I have TomTom 6 working on my phone off the internal GPS no problems.
If you pay for GPS software that is compatable (check with the vendor) with your device then it must work, or you can just get your money back
Some ROMs are incompatable with some GPS software's but you just avoid those
Ta
Dave
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Thanks for your replie
This has tomtom 6 on it what the settings I need to check to see if i can get it to work by the built in gps or is there a way on the phone to test it.
It came on the phone so why wouldn't it work with the phone?
Not sure but why use an external bluetooth Gps unit with it
I guess to save the phones power. All gps programs that I know of can use the internal gps.
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Ok thanks for all the replies I have been and collected it and it looks good and I think I will be happy when I have got rid of the orange rom of it,(thinks thats what you call it)
the shapes not much differant to the xda mini s I use to have
one thing concerns me though he been using a external bluetooth for gps and he said he cant configure the internal gps to work with tomtom could the gps be not be working in the phone or could it be settings
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I am in the States - I travel all over the USA and use my TOMTOM Navigator 6 all the time - it DOES require that I have it plugged in as the battery life is only about an hour or two with the GPS turned on.
BUT - while the VERY first lock on GPS takes a while there are tricks that make it lock faster and the ROM is a big part of this. The ROM in my signature locks in about 30 seconds.
HTH
Bill
I stopped using tomtom because the screen stayed on all the time, and that will burn down some power too. I use google maps, and I just don't see how people use windows live, I don't even see anything about maps.
XDA Mini S to Kaiser
This was the very same route that I went down so I can probably share some experiences.
My XDA Mini was from O2 but when my contract came up last October, they only had the 'Orbit' so I went over to Orange. I still don't think O2 have the Kaiser in it's true HTC Tytn II form, so you are going down the prefered route if you want to stay with O2.
The XDA Mini was great but very slow on download because it didn't have the advantage of 3G / HSDPA.
The XDA Mini keyboard is very similar in layout to the Kaiser but the Kaiser 'feels' better engineered, the slide is smoother and not as loose, and the tilt screen is useful when using it on a table for typing.
The XDA Mini uses Mini-SD as opposed to Micro-SD, so I had a few memory cards left over (I'm using them on a digital camera, so not wasted).
I used Tomtom on the XDA-Mini with bluetooth but if you didn't get a lock, you were not sure if it was a BT issue or a GPS issue, also I had to reset both a couple of times as the 'pointer' was running parallel to the roads about 200 yrds away and kept trying to re-route. Also, TT needed tweaking for the correct COMs port.
The Kaiser has never been a problem and the GPS lock is quicker, with TT and iGO .. and I've not had to go looking in the footwell of the car when the GPS unit slid off the dash whilst doing an unexpected tight turn !
Also, if I wanted to use the navigational system while walking I had to juggle the GPS receiver as well as holding the phone, which is a big plus.
Apart from unlocking the XDA Mini via this forum, I didn't bother messing with the ROM's, but the Kaiser seems to have so many more opportunies to expand and getting rid of the Orange 'bloat ware' was a benefit.
In summary, the XDA Mini was a fabulous, plastic feeling, lightweight PDA and Phone. The Kaiser is a well engineered, phone with a miniature laptop built in.
If you enjoyed the XDA Mini, the Kaiser will blow your socks off ... when you've got rid of the Orange stuff and added a few cabs
Cant believe I have to migrate I miss my kaiser already, wish Id never have broke it :'(
Im looking into how to transfer all my messages (6000+) and call logs across to it before it comes and hopefully not have to do it by the old phone-sim-phone way as Id be there forever!
Ive always used PIMBackup so dont really know any other way to export mesages to my pc.
I know this isnt a SE forum and will be looking into them but thought I would ask in case anyone else has ever had to do this
Thanks to all the hard work everyone puts in, you dont realize until its gone...
RIP Kaiser 10/10/2008 - May you rest in pieces xxx
um.... I don't get it. if they couldn't replace it then You should take cash. that's what I did with my hermes. when it got broken, insurance company have offered me cash, because of no vario II in stock. I have bought vario III on ebay and rest of the money went for booze.
anyway... I wouldn't swap kaiser for P1. sorry mate.
br
bro
I believe this question has already been answered on the SE forum but for the sake of others let me briefly summarize the situation (I have both a P1 and a Tytn II).
P1 runs on Symbian/UIQ3. Recently the end of UIQ has been announced, it will no longer be available in new phones. So you are getting a unit which will most likely not provide you with any reasonable sw support in the very near future. The P1 has a smaller screen 2.6" and it doesn't have a GPS but does have an FM radio. As far as the keyboard goes, some love it some hate it, it's not true qwerty but a rocker system with 2 characters / key. It's smaller and lighter and handwriting recognition works better on UIQ3 devices than on WM, in my opinion. Perhaps the most important thing is that the amount of software available for the UIQ3 platform is very little compared to WM.
As far as transferring your data, you wouldn't have a big problem if you use Outlook, which will mean you should be able to transfer contacts, calendar, tasks and notes. Forget about transferring SMS, we haven't been able to find a way to transfer SMS between UIQ3 and other platforms.
hello everybody, i would like to ask some questions about windows phone 8
First of all i want to inform that i was an owner of a samsung omnia 7 for almost 2 years, then when i decided to buy a new device all those windows phone 8 costed 400euro and that was a no deal for me, so i moved to an android device, now that almost all high end windows phone 8 devices cost max 250 euros i m thinking to switch back to windows phone.
But i would like some information for some Apps that i think are mandatory for me,i use maxim 10 apps and maybe less just the most important ones
1. Viber, does it makes phone calls and does it works on the background, to recive a phone call or a message when the phone is locked ?
2.Whats App the same, does it recives a message when the phone is locked ?
+ notification for both
3. navigation, i heard that there is nokia drive available for other devices, i would like to buy a SAMSUNG ATIV S, although i m interested in nokia lumia 820 (but its dimensions-weight-resolution are disapointing). So does the navigation system works, does it displays traffic load ? i live in munich.
4. i dont remember good but i guess the integraded facebook messanger works when the phone is locked right ?
please reliable answers, thanks in advance!
1 & 2) It should work fine with push notifications, same as on WP7, but I don't use them so I can't really say.
3) Nokia Drive (now called Here Drive) is available for all WP8 devices in some markets (including the US, I don't know about Munich). In other markets, it may be possible to trick the Store into allowing you to install it anyhow for non-Nokia devices (working on that). The app's routing is supposedly traffic-aware, but it does not display traffic itself, and I've found its time estimates to be a little worse than those of the Mango built-in navigation app. On the other hand, the app itself is better in many ways. The built-in Maps app does still display traffic and can compute directions, it just won't follow them or speak them to you.
4) Correct, so long as the phone is not in Battery Saver mode or unable to get a data connection.
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1 & 2) It should work fine with push notifications, same as on WP7, but I don't use them so I can't really say.
3) Nokia Drive (now called Here Drive) is available for all WP8 devices in some markets (including the US, I don't know about Munich). In other markets, it may be possible to trick the Store into allowing you to install it anyhow for non-Nokia devices (working on that). The app's routing is supposedly traffic-aware, but it does not display traffic itself, and I've found its time estimates to be a little worse than those of the Mango built-in navigation app. On the other hand, the app itself is better in many ways. The built-in Maps app does still display traffic and can compute directions, it just won't follow them or speak them to you.
4) Correct, so long as the phone is not in Battery Saver mode or unable to get a data connection.
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well i cant say that the push notifications were working correctly on wp7 many problems (i had samsung omnia 7) but i have a hope that in wp8 the situation is better!!
thank you very much for your responce, i m really thinking to buy a wp8 device anyway, samsung ativ s, too bad that nokia 820 has ugly dimensions-weight and low resolution, now that the prices have dropped so much and as i said i had wp7 for 2years and i really feel special with this os
I've got the ATIV S myself, it's a nice phone. Check which model you get though; they have slightly different specs (the T899M supports LTE, the other one has a newer Bluetooth spec).