Motorola Droid : New Google Maps Update Ruined My Latitude - Got Screen With Many Options Including Navigate To Send Text
Aug 21, 2010
I used to really love the Latitude interface, when I clicked on a friend in Latitude, I got a screen with many options, including Navigate to, send text, etc.
One really cool feature on this screen was "what's nearby" which showed stores etc. that were near my friend.
Also, the background was black and the text was white.
NOW (after the last update): I lost the "what's nearby" feature AND the background is white and the text is black.
What can I do? Is there a way to revert maps to the older release?
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Apr 19, 2010
I'm brand new here and also just recently rooted my Droid. I installed Fabolous' NexTheme ESE81 R2 ROM using the SPRecovery method, and everything is running great except for one thing. When I search in Google maps and find my destination, the navigate button is greyed out and is unclickable. If I do a voice search of say, "navigate to [Destination]", the navigation app loads up and works fine.
What I am wondering is if possibly I missed something when installing the ROM that caused some conflict with Google maps? I searched around here and also other forums and didn't find much of an answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here is a picture I took with drocap2 so you know what I'm talking about:
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Jul 23, 2010
When I had Google Latitude on my Crackberry it updated my location on a timed interval in the background, on the Droid X it only updates when I open the Google Map app, is there anyway to have it update in the background?
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Oct 17, 2010
A very useful feature has gone missing or am I missing something? I use this facility a lot but now the link is gone from google maps.Only options are e-mail, GPS etc but no text to phone. Has this been pulled?
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Mar 5, 2009
Is Google Latitude available in the UK or not, because it doesn't seem to be working for me? I have received the RC9 update for G1 and have Google Maps 3.0. Is there an a Google Latitude application that I should have or do I access everything through Google Maps? When I go the www.google.com/latitude on my G1, it offers me the option of "launching" Latitude but it just takes me to Google Maps. From there, I cannot see the locations of my Google "friends" (who have agreed to show location), neither does my own location show up on the Latitude homepage on the web (I have settings turned to "detect my location automatically").
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Feb 8, 2010
Anyone had any problems with this in last week, my friends locations are not updating and they are also having the same problem as me
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Jul 27, 2010
I'm running bb 0.4, chevy 1.2LV, black glass theme on my droid. Is anybody else having a problem installing the google maps update? I tried yesterday and got an error that I think said something about a problem w/ the service pack.I tried probably 5x last night to install it from the market but didn't have any luck. Today I tried twice and again I get an installation error, however it doesn't say what the error is specifically.It takes about 4 minutes to download then when it gets to installation it says "installation unsuccessful"
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Dec 3, 2009
My GPS takes significantly longer to get a lock after the update to Google Maps 3.2.1. Anyone else notice this?
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Oct 9, 2010
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Mar 1, 2010
Few days ago my HTC Magic (Android 1.5) started to behave strange. Google Maps application crashes when I am trying to enter Latitude. Hard reset cleaning cache of the Maps application helps to start it (applications starts and works flawless), but when I am trying "to join Latitude" it shows progress bar "Loading friends", then application crashes. After that I can not even start Maps. Exception browser shows: java.lang.NullPointerException: Name cannot be null
Not sure whether I can debug Google experience application to find out what's going wrong.
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Nov 5, 2010
My phone has been unsuccessfully trying to download the update for googlemaps.I've tried stopping, and restarting but it still won't work.Is anyone else having this problem? And is there a way to fix it?
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Mar 17, 2010
I did the update of Google Maps earlier today and it freezes every time I try to use it. Looks like many others are having the same issue from reading the comments posted.
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Feb 19, 2010
Lots of time while driving in an area i am not familiar with, I just want to keep google maps up so I can double check where I am going/at. I am not using navigation or directions, just seeing how far I am from hwy, if there are other roads to bypass traffic, etc.
I normally just keep my phone at this point in the cupholder, and will pick it up at a red light to glance at it.
Of course, i have about 5 seconds as the light has already turned green, and of course, the screen has already blanked out. So now i have to hit the power button, hard to find with one hand and maybe the keybd is out, then unlock phone, etc.
I read some threads about different programs, screebl, etc, but I just want that when google maps is up, the screen never blanks out. Ideally, it would be great if the screen dims, and if you touch it it comes back to full power, but that is the ultimate way. Just staying on is fine.
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Dec 7, 2009
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Oct 12, 2010
Folks there is a nice new app called *** Latitude Update *** on Google Market, that lets you update Google Latitude as frequent as you want (even when Google's own app is down), see your locations history on map etc
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Aug 1, 2010
Ever since the last couple of Google Maps updates my Latitude no longer updates on its own. All settings are set correctly to autodate and use GPS but no go. Only updates when I open Latitude manually.
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Oct 4, 2010
I have haptic feedback turned off, but the arrows you use to navigate the home screen still vibrate, as well as the luck buttons and widgets. Is this normal, or is this an issue? Also while in low light, or dark conditions, shouldn't the for hard keys light up?? Is this an issue if they don't, or just an affect of not having brightness set to auto?
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Jul 20, 2010
It seems that the problem is in the data quality of the different map provider that are used for Google Maps and MapView in SDK, which differ.
The map tiles coordinates don't seem to be very accurate, just like in the public google maps web api / tiles.
See this screenshot for an example, where I pinned the same geo point. http://img339.imageshack.us/i/gmaps2.png/
The map using the public map api is off a few hundred meters. Seems that we just have to live with it.
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Apr 3, 2010
Anyone use google latitude? I have been messing with it and since 2.1 it will not update friends location. Anyone else have that issue.
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Feb 25, 2010
I use Google Latitude with several friends, but have noticed that when I run it in the background, my last know location on the friends phone shows where I "stopped" but never updates. Example: I leave my house with Google Maps/Latitude running and decide I want to listen to DroidLive. Once I switch to DroidLive it appears that Latitude stops broadcasting my locations and my friends see that I'm in the middle of a highway for 30-40 minutes until I kill my music and go back to the maps. Is this a known "bug" or is it something that just doesn't work? I thought that the processes would continue to work, but I might be wrong. I also notice that when launching another app while in Google Maps that my GPS indicator also stops until I get back into the Maps.
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Am I correct in thinking that the new update can do Google Maps Navigation? If so how do I download it?
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May 3, 2010
I have app brain installed on my eris and it keeps telling me that google maps has an update but when I click it to update it nothing happens. Is anyone else having this problem? or is there really an update and i just cant do it?
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Jun 5, 2010
On the Google 2010 I/O Day Two, they show a Google Chrome extension that they use to send an Android "intent" to the phone from Google Maps, and the phone takes that intent and shows you the mapping on it's screen.I'm having trouble finding this Extension now that I actually have an Android phone (EVO). I swear I had this on one of my computers before I had an android phone, but I try lots of stuff out and can't remember how I found it.
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Oct 19, 2010
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Dec 6, 2009
Ive been using the Eris for about 3 week now.. and i have to say it. I HAVE NO INTENTON TO RETURN IT I LOVE IT ! But my question is .. When i use Google maps the screen goes black which i have to go in and unlock the phone again to see were im going.. Is there any way i can disable that screen lock when using Google maps?
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Jul 2, 2010
I have a very basic question regarding encoded text in an XML Text node.
I am using the DOM parser javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder to parse some xml. The xml has some international characters which are encoded in decimal unicode - eg. 'ó' is 'ó'.
The parser takes the encoded character out of the word for example jóbb and the Text node is left with jbb as the node value. If I use getData() on the Text node it returns jbb also. The character is not lost though - a sibling Node, an Entity Reference Node, has the decimal value and an index. The index value corresponds to where this character should be inserted. In this case for example if would have an index of 1 and value of '#234'.
This indicates that there must be a simple way of accessing the value of the Text node of its parent in such a way as to get 'jóbb'. It seems unlikely that I need to reconstruct this by doing a lookup to convert the encoded character to utf8 and then insert it into the string for the Text node. Does anyone know how this works?
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