Hi Folks!
Usually I am only on the ROM pages and begging for new updates but this time its all about Google Maps. The problem: Goggle Maps needs an internet connection to work and updates the position environment in realtime. That has 2 disadvantages: 1st its relatively slow due to low average mobile internet speed and 2nd there is an internet connection NEEDED.
Now I wanna ask you specialists if its possible to simple dl a complete google map (germany map would be enough for me right now) out there from the internet, copy it to the SD-Card in the Touch HD and navigate without an online connection and with high speed just via GPS! Nice idea, isnt it?
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Future
you might want to search for global navigator (was google navigator before). unfortunately it's commercial, but it works well and it's quite impressive. pdafun.net
Cpt-Future said:
Hi Folks!
Usually I am only on the ROM pages and begging for new updates but this time its all about Google Maps. The problem: Goggle Maps needs an internet connection to work and updates the position environment in realtime. That has 2 disadvantages: 1st its relatively slow due to low average mobile internet speed and 2nd there is an internet connection NEEDED.
Now I wanna ask you specialists if its possible to simple dl a complete google map (germany map would be enough for me right now) out there from the internet, copy it to the SD-Card in the Touch HD and navigate without an online connection and with high speed just via GPS! Nice idea, isnt it?
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Future
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You can use a freeware app (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581474) which downloads googe or yahoo maps and stores them on the SD card. The ony problem is with the difficulty in reading labels when zooming out.
Dimi
Has anyone been able to get the BBC iPlayer working on their Ion, that's OUTSIDE of the UK?
I have tried connecting via:
Network and Wifi
I have tried:
Spoofing Network Location
Spoofing GPS Location
Spoofing both Network and GPS Location
Still get the same error, "BBC iPlayer is only availble within the UK"
Please note: I don't want to use the "BBC Radio" app. And I do not want to use Skyfire. I'm looking to get this app working straight up on this phone. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I would think you would need a IP program like xpat. I use xpat on my computer to watch live F1 races on the BBC. Would be nice to see something like that so I can watch some good programming lol.
I've also tried fooling it but to no avail.
zackspeed said:
I would think you would need a IP program like xpat. I use xpat on my computer to watch live F1 races on the BBC. Would be nice to see something like that so I can watch some good programming lol.
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I'm with you. IP routing through UK source is probably necessary.
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
I've had no trouble getting BBC iPlayer to work on my Android tablets and IPOD. However, I had to use a VPN and disable Location Services on my Samsung Droid to get it to work properly. Watching BBC Live at this moment. Hope this helps.
Hi all,
I've been using a HTC HD2 running WM 6.5 since 2009. I'm still happy with it but it becomes more and more obsolete for many things (no 4G, unable to browse "modern" website, no HTML email support etc.). Now i think about purchasing a Lumia 950 for WM 10. However, there're many functions that seems lost or deeply changed since 2009. I need a new phone for professionnal use. I don't need social networks, games or entertainment things (what Android do very well by the way).
1/ I use Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 and i need to sync all my calendar and contacts with no cloud at all for privacy reasons. I have no exchange server. I'd like to do this through Bluetooth as i do it everyday with WM6.5. This seems impossible nowadays! Even between Outlook desktop and Outlook mobile. This is a hudge regression to me. I'm still stuck with my old WM 6.5 mainly because of this. I've heard of a software called Akruto but it works with a USB cable (another regression). Plus, and i can't find any feedback about this software. Is it really cloudless or not... we don't know.
2/ I need to sync many files by keeping the original tree with folders, subfolders etc, with no cloud again, between my desktop and my mobile. And i need this data being crypted in AES in case I'd lose my phone or some people try to access it. For now with my HD2, i use FreeOTFE which crypts and mounts a drive with a letter (i.e : G: ) on the desktop from a file stored in the microSD card inside the phone. After that, i can sync the files with a special software on Windows 7. This software needs a letter to be mounted for working. But again, it seems the MTP protocol has become the standard, and it's not possible to get a letter with it... Another regression.
3/ I need visual notifications when there's a miss call, a voicemail or a new mail without sound pop-up and without having to turn on the smartphone screen . The LED was very useful but i disappeared too. It was replaced by the glance thing which looks interesting. Does it work with the Lumia 950? I've read the glance doesn't exist (or doesn't work well) with AMOLED screen. By the way, can you choose what kind of notification exactly you need? To avoid draining battery for not useful things.
4/ I've been using Tomtom for GPS for 10 years now. And i'm sad to discover it doesn't exist on WM. What good alternative would you recommand? With of course point of interest customing and lansdcape mode switching automatically. Or, would you think the method to make working Androids apps on WM10 would work with a GPS software?
5/ Does Google maps exist on WM10? I don't want any alternative, but the original one for many special reasons.
Thank you very much.
Lucius Snow said:
Hi all,
I've been using a HTC HD2 running WM 6.5 since 2009. I'm still happy with it but it becomes more and more obsolete for many things (no 4G, unable to browse "modern" website, no HTML email support etc.). Now i think about purchasing a Lumia 950 for WM 10. However, there're many functions that seems lost or deeply changed since 2009. I need a new phone for professionnal use. I don't need social networks, games or entertainment things (what Android do very well by the way).
1/ I use Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 and i need to sync all my calendar and contacts with no cloud at all for privacy reasons. I have no exchange server. I'd like to do this through Bluetooth as i do it everyday with WM6.5. This seems impossible nowadays! Even between Outlook desktop and Outlook mobile. This is a hudge regression to me. I'm still stuck with my old WM 6.5 mainly because of this. I've heard of a software called Akruto but it works with a USB cable (another regression). Plus, and i can't find any feedback about this software. Is it really cloudless or not... we don't know.
2/ I need to sync many files by keeping the original tree with folders, subfolders etc, with no cloud again, between my desktop and my mobile. And i need this data being crypted in AES in case I'd lose my phone or some people try to access it. For now with my HD2, i use FreeOTFE which crypts and mounts a drive with a letter (i.e : G: ) on the desktop from a file stored in the microSD card inside the phone. After that, i can sync the files with a special software on Windows 7. This software needs a letter to be mounted for working. But again, it seems the MTP protocol has become the standard, and it's not possible to get a letter with it... Another regression.
3/ I need visual notifications when there's a miss call, a voicemail or a new mail without sound pop-up and without having to turn on the smartphone screen . The LED was very useful but i disappeared too. It was replaced by the glance thing which looks interesting. Does it work with the Lumia 950? I've read the glance doesn't exist (or doesn't work well) with AMOLED screen. By the way, can you choose what kind of notification exactly you need? To avoid draining battery for not useful things.
4/ I've been using Tomtom for GPS for 10 years now. And i'm sad to discover it doesn't exist on WM. What good alternative would you recommand? With of course point of interest customing and lansdcape mode switching automatically. Or, would you think the method to make working Androids apps on WM10 would work with a GPS software?
5/ Does Google maps exist on WM10? I don't want any alternative, but the original one for many special reasons.
Thank you very much.
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First of all , this is a huge jump you have made!
but you should just jump in a figure it all for yourself, because there isnt any mobile OS out there that can meet your requirements unless you configure it specifically.
surya467 said:
First of all , this is a huge jump you have made!
but you should just jump in a figure it all for yourself, because there isnt any mobile OS out there that can meet your requirements unless you configure it specifically.
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Yes i know i need to configure it to avoid the all-cloud forced step. That's why I'm here.
1. there doesn't seem to be any way to sync your calendar and contacts through bluetooth, and i don't think it's possible with usb either, unless using some kind of 3rd party software.
2. windows 10 has build in encryption, i haven't used it yet, so i don't know what kind of encryption it uses. but i think if you copy your files over they will get encrypted. another way might be using interop unlock, which, if i'm right about this, enables you to mount the phone as usb storage and mount it as a folder in windows, but again, i haven't tried this either, so i don't know how this works.
3. as far as i know glance does work on the 950(xl), but you can only choose 5 apps to display their unread count, in addition to showing the time and date.
4/5. there's no google maps, most google apps aren't available for windows phone/10. there is the default maps app, which uses bing maps. this app has basic navigation possibilities.
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1. there doesn't seem to be any way to sync your calendar and contacts through bluetooth, and i don't think it's possible with usb either, unless using some kind of 3rd party software.
2. windows 10 has build in encryption, i haven't used it yet, so i don't know what kind of encryption it uses. but i think if you copy your files over they will get encrypted. another way might be using interop unlock, which, if i'm right about this, enables you to mount the phone as usb storage and mount it as a folder in windows, but again, i haven't tried this either, so i don't know how this works.
3. as far as i know glance does work on the 950(xl), but you can only choose 5 apps to display their unread count, in addition to showing the time and date.
4/5. there's no google maps, most google apps aren't available for windows phone/10. there is the default maps app, which uses bing maps. this app has basic navigation possibilities.
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Thank you. The Interop unlock the USB mass storage seems good news.
Hi,
ad3) I don't own a 950 but glance should work with the 950 (I can't posts links but if you google it or look it up on windowscentral you can find instructions how to set up glance on a 950 (XL) )
ad4/5) Build in maps are OK and also allow offline navigation.
Hello,
Looking to pick up a SW3. Currently an owner of the SW2.
I was curious as to whether the SW3 could operate with an offline map as I do not have data on my phone. I heard that the SW3 has a built in GPS so I am assuming it would work if there was a way to download map data to the device. Is capable of doing so atm? (Reason: for directions)
OSM maps, but I haven't used it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearofflinemap.world&hl=en
You can also get google map data onto the watch manually, but you can't navigate with google maps without your phone.
There is at least one app that you can load a gpx track on to the watch to follow, no phone needed.
I just adb installed the latest Google Maps for Android 6 (10.35.2) but when I start the Maps app I don't see the map but only the zoom buttons (as well as two other buttons). If I navigate to something on my phone the instructions do pop up on the watch but not the map.
Any known fixes?
UPDATE: When I disabled the WIFI on the watch and thereby forced it to use the phone data connection the map suddenly worked on the watch.
Solved!