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google maps dead for me

been bouncing around between cm7 rc1 and back to latest cm6.
everythings working ok but for maps.... says "Network failure: This application requires a working data connection." well duh it needs data! never seen or had this error before. what do i do to fix it?
so now ive unrooted and reflashed stock roms, wiped caches, everything i could possibly do in restoring to a new out of box state and maps still wont work.
help?

Clear maps data?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

I just ran into the same problem. Neither clearing apk data nor uninstalling/reinstalling Maps helped. I rebooted into recovery and fixed permissions. I also wiped /cache and Dalvik-cache while I was at it. One of those last two seems to have done the trick.
edit for derp.

This was a temporary outage - it worked fine on WiFi at home when i looked some place up, then i got in the car and tried getting directions there and nothing... then about 2 hours later it started working again.
This is when MapQuest (the new maps app, in beta I believe) saved the day. Granted, I could have used a crappy old TomTom I still have in the car, but MapQuest was more convenient.

I had just flashed a CM7 #5 when I noticed the error, so it seemed likely I'd broken something locally. A service outage would certainly explain it.

I think it's on Google's side. Got the same "need a working data connection" message also.
Had problems this morning but seems to be OK now.

I love the way that upon a service outage, geeks will fiddle about with their kit until something they do coincides with the service being restored. I do the same with my DSL connection lol.

To get the maps working again just uninstall streetveiw updates and reinstall them, i worked for me on the nexus one

^ same here

i was panicking earlier this morning when gps was failing to navigate me to my new job on the first day, thought it was just me. wiped map's data and it's working great again.

I flashed a new rom which didn't have google maps and since then I have not been able to get google maps work. It always throws an error message "Network failure: This application requires a working data connection." I tried wiping data, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc., but nothing worked. I even flashed the rom once again, but to no avail.
Please help!

ravisghosh said:
I flashed a new rom which didn't have google maps and since then I have not been able to get google maps work. It always throws an error message "Network failure: This application requires a working data connection." I tried wiping data, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc., but nothing worked. I even flashed the rom once again, but to no avail.
Please help!
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Which ROM did you flash?
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I flashed Nahim2k7.
The author of the ROM suggested the solution. It was problem with /etc/hosts where google services were blocked along with other ad services. Replaced the hosts file with a file containing only the following:
Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Now, it works fine.

solved
same problem
solved by
trying again n again in 5 time it start working as normal ahhaaha.
click maps app ... app open .... require data connection.......... OK ....
did 5 times and got it normal

[Q] Deactive Remote Sim Mode

Hi guys,
After many hours and days of searching google for a solution to this I'm still stumped.
I have a Galaxy S i9000 running Gingerbread 2.3.3 (had same problem with previous versions also) and I am trying to connect it to my Nokia 616 car kit in "hands free" mode, however, it keeps automatically connecting via "remote sim mode". I can confirm there is no way to disable rSAP (remote sim mode) through the nokia 616, nokia staff were not very helpful either.
There was an option in my old Samsung Jet (i think it was running touchwiz) bluetooth settings which allowed me to switch remote sim mode on and off. The only setting that exists on my SGS is after I connect to the nokia 616 i get the "Deactivate Remote Sim Mode?" option from the drop down bar... However, when I do so, the connection to the car kit is lost and upon reconnect it automatically connects using "Remote Sim Mode", regardless of how many times i try an "deactivate" it...
The only posts I could find about deactivating remote sim mode tell me to hit "Yes" to "Deactivate Remote Sim Mode", then to switch bluetooth off and then on. This does not solve my issue. Problem persists.
The only thing I can think of now is somehow finding perhaps a command line instruction that I can run from terminal to disable remote sim mode or even change a config file somewhere to deactivate it.
Does anybody have any idea how this can be done or maybe just give me a lead on where I can search next, I've hit a dead end with this now and im sure it can be done, somehow.
Thanks heaps for your help.

I'm sorry I cannot help you with this problem, but at least you're not the only one: I have exactly the same problem, but then with a Nokia 616 and a Galaxy S2.
I want it to connect with the normal HFP, so I do not loose the internet connectivity on my phone...

SOLVED Finally!
So after a while of searching then giving up, then contemplating ripping out my nokia 616 car kit and setting it on fire, I decided to revisit this issue and here is how I managed to disable/remove/deactivate remote sim mode or rsap... please note that I havnt really tested to see if this affects any other bluetooth functionality (i dont think it does though) so do at your own risk...
I ended up flashing my galaxy s with Darkys rom 10.2 extreme edition which gave me some nifty options of removing some stock bluetooth apps... I noticed there were a number of bluetooth related apps there, Bluetooth.apk , BluetoothOpp.apk, BluetoothPbap.apk, BluetoothTestMode.apk and the devil himself BrcmBluetoothServices.apk... at first i uninstalled them all except Bluetooth.apk, my phone starting throwing some bluetooth error which was expected, these errors disappeared after I rebooted the phone... I noticed that the 616 no longer connected using rSap (victory!), however, I was almost certain that not all of the apps i removed above would be causing the issue, and im sure that if anything having them removed would cause issues elsewhere so the process of elimination began... I reinstalled them all again, rebooted my phone, sure enough remote sim mode was back, then one by one i uninstalled, rebooted, tested, etc etc untill i came to the conclusion that the app responsible to rSap was in fact BrcmBluetoothServices.apk, after uninstalling it and rebooting Hands Free mode works a treat, I still get a "download error" when i try to download my contacts to the 616 but Im not to fussed about it, at least i can still use all the functionality of my phone in my car now, internet etc etc... as mentioned earlier I dont know if this will have any effect on the other uses for bluetooth so do be careful, not a huge issue because it can be easily reinstalled if nessecary using DarkysRom Tool...
Now I am sure this can be done on a stock firmware, you would most definitely need to root the phone and then find some sort of system app manager to hunt down BrcmBluetoothServices.apk and remove it...
Thats it! If anybody can work out how to successfully download contacts to the nokia 616 please post it here or pm me.

[Q] Network/Cell Location not working

I have a Razr i on Orange UK, and have found that apps that use the network/cell location (instead of Wifi or GPS) don't work. I've tested this with various apps, but the problem can be seen with Google Maps:
- Disable GPS and Wifi in settings
- Tap location crosshairs and wait
- A 'waiting for location' message will appear, followed a few seconds later by 'your current location is temporarily unavailable'
I'm not sure if this is an issue with my provider (Orange) or with the phone itself. Can anyone else reproduce this issue?

I have the same issue here in Brazil with my provider (Claro).
My other 2 phones can find the location using the network, with a precision of about 1km, but RAZR i doesn't even "try" to find it. I receive the same message as you using Maps. One of that other 2 phones is a Motorola Spice XT300 (using Android 2.1 at the same provider), so this issue may be especific for this device or for the newest versions of Android.
I would like to use the location based on the network to activate wifi and other tasks with the SmartActions (without GPS, wifi and bluetooth to save battery), if somebody knows a way to make this work, I would be very thankful too.
I can try this later today on my father's Galaxy SII (using ICS too), and will post here the result if anyone doesn't post it before me.
EDIT: I tested it again, and it works! Maps could find my location with a good precision (better than 100m) only using the 3G network. By the way, the SII can do this too. I don't know why it works now, but maybe with a 2G network the device can't find the location.

I found a fix for a similar sounding issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9576852&postcount=108 However that fix requires root access which I'm not currently willing to try on my new Razr i.
After reading that link, I did manage to fix it for now by going to Settings > Apps > All > Google Services Framework and pressing the Clear Data button. I was prompted again to enabled Location Services. I then rebooted my phone. After a reboot the Play Store didn't work at first, but it sorted itself out after a few minutes.
I'll say that this is fixed 'for now'... some other threads discussing similar problems show that such fixes sometimes stop working after a period of time.

[Q] network location problem

Hi,
I have a rooted ATT note 3 running 4.3. Everything has been working fine for months. Beginning yesterday my note 3 has been unable to access wireless network location data. GPS works fine for google maps, tasker, etc. When I try to use net location, however, (eg tasker, androsensor, weather, etc.) I am asked to enable location services which are already enabled.
I worry that I may have deleted an important file or program using clean master or ES File.
Any suggestions as to how I should proceed? I would obviously prefer not to reset, reroot, and reinstall! :crying:
Thanks,
Sean

I had same problem, turns out I had frozen something called "fused location" unfreezing it fixed the issue. Hope this helps you or someone else

Sm1000 said:
Hi,
I have a rooted ATT note 3 running 4.3. Everything has been working fine for months. Beginning yesterday my note 3 has been unable to access wireless network location data. GPS works fine for google maps, tasker, etc. When I try to use net location, however, (eg tasker, androsensor, weather, etc.) I am asked to enable location services which are already enabled.
I worry that I may have deleted an important file or program using clean master or ES File.
Any suggestions as to how I should proceed? I would obviously prefer not to reset, reroot, and reinstall! :crying:
Thanks,
Sean
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Hi,
Turning off the weather app and uninstalling apps that require location seems to help somewhat if you have early GPS issues. But it seems like the longer the location apps are active, the longer GPS chip is active trying to do computation for both maps andlocation applications it increase the likely hood of overheating the GPS chip and damaging itself. My note 1 had that exact problem, i didn't know about the locations apps and 1 year later the GPS quit working permenently. Now having similar issues with Note 3, but turning off location apps does help a lot.

[PROBLEM] CM13-Glitchy graphics and bluetooth turning on itself

Hi,
My phone is D405n model, I'm using latest cm13 snapshot (0820). But probably it doesn't matter.
For a few months my phone has some problem with graphics in Google Play. It's a strange issue, every image connected with google (is WiFi configuration screen in cm13 Setup Wizard made by Google?) looks like a low quality jpeg (see screenshots). I tried to wipe everything (every partition availble in recovery), clean install other roms, I even flashed kdz KitKat - then eveything looked OK until the Google Play app updated and issue came back. What can cause this? There must be something that survives wiping data, cache, system, dalvik and internal memory. I tried roms without gapps (unfortunately in cm13 the setup wizard wifi screen is probably from google as it is buggy too). Only thing I can think of when it started is that I added my debit card in Google Play and bought Titanium Backup Pro. But the issue shouldn't be connected with my account as even setup wizard wifi screen is buggy (without gapps or without logging to my account).
Other thing is bluetooth, which after about a week from installation starts to turn itself on (happens on nightlys and snapshots). I wake my device and see bluetooth icon. At first it just blinks and disappears, but as the time passes, it shows up and stays.
In my opinion it is something about payment and bluetooth/nfc chip (as I remember it all started after I added my debit card in Google Play).
In KitKat after fresh kdz flash, a message popped up saying something about a reached number of apps and something about payment and using Android payment...
In the screenshot you can see how the icons in Google Play look like these are compressed. The same happens in cm13 wifi setup screen (the buildings with yellow wifi symbol on the top) - I don't have a screenshot and I don't want to factory reset my phone again... I have enough.
Use "view full image" to see what I'm talking about.
It is all weird. I will appreciate every advice and help.