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Hey,
I pulled GenieWidget from a CM install, and it installed and loaded up fine on my vibrant. For some strange reason, it now doesnt load up any of the news stories. You can load up the news headline reader with the widget, but click on any story and it never loads, never ending loading screen.
Anyone else having issues w/ GenieWidget or the news reader?
Thanks!
Yeah I have similar issues and a lot of freezing & force closes. I usually go to the app in the menu to refresh rather than the widget because 9 times out of 10 the widget will get stuck loading. But if I go to the app it works 1/2 the time & updates the widget. For now I scrapped it mainly because it made my phone boot super slow and most of the time it was just "loading".
Thats very similar to what I am getting, but I dont know what app to use instead. I loved the News and Weather widget
Mine loads the app fine, but has MAJOR issues loading the articles. It either takes forever to load the article (~20-30 seconds) or it just loads forever and never pulls up the article.
Tried uninstall\reinstall, cleared cache for the app, enabled all locations settings, all w/o any luck.
Restoring back to yesterday using ROM manager seemed to fix the issue temporarily, but it came back fairly quickly.
Anyone else w/ experience or a suggestion?
THanks
Yeah I have the same problem too. That screen seems to be universal so it might be related to something else.
Firmware 2.1-update1
Kernel 2.3.29
Phone is rooted
I haven't tried to use Google Maps since I rooted, until now. After I rooted and got rid of a bunch of bloatware, I did screw up and disabled a few apps I shouldn't have messed with. A few of them were things such as Google Talk and some other things......that I 'thought' were useless, but found out quickly I couldn't even DL apps from the Market without some of them.
I got that straight, and now I have found the only thing that doesn't work is nav. I can enter the address, and the driving directions come up in text. I can also see an overall map, with the directions outlined. When I click to change teh screen to navigation mode.....it gets stuck on "getting driving directions".
I've done a little research and tried a few things. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Google Maps, I have tried GPS Booster (tried the lite version for free), and GPS Booster failed, I have made sure all of my settings were correct for GPS......
When I first open Maps, where it gives your GPS location.....the pinpointed area it shows me in is about 0.75-1.0 miles away from where I actually am. So I am wondering if it isn't going off my phone position itself, instead of GPS.....
Anyone have any tips or things to try? I am out of things I have found to do.....
you could always just odin back to stock, then re-root, and see if that does the trick.
Download Gps Test from the market, enable VZW and Google location services, turn on GPS and run Gps test. If you able to get a lock with that Nav should get a lock as well.
If it still hangs on "getting driving directions" youve prob got app problems.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the app - pretty sure it just says "getting driving directions" until it gets a GPS lock, so make sure you're locked in the GPS Status app before trying the navigation.
ziggy484 said:
you could always just odin back to stock, then re-root, and see if that does the trick.
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I'm hoping for a much simpler solution.
AlgorithmX said:
Download Gps Test from the market, enable VZW and Google location services, turn on GPS and run Gps test. If you able to get a lock with that Nav should get a lock as well.
If it still hangs on "getting driving directions" youve prob got app problems.
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Downloaded two different free GPS testers.....neither will lock a location.
burlingtonbob said:
I don't think there's anything wrong with the app - pretty sure it just says "getting driving directions" until it gets a GPS lock, so make sure you're locked in the GPS Status app before trying the navigation.
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Ya....
I'd also like to also reiterate that after I rooted and deleted a bunch of bloatware, I did accidentally deactivate several things. I didn't actually delete ANYTHING, I simply renamed the extensions of everything from ".apk" to ".bak". Are there any critical apps I could have killed that aren't blatantly obvious by their names? I think I have all the Google stuff, and any of the voice things returned to normal. In fact I had to do that just to get the market to work....
Here are apps I have disabled:
BluetoothOPP
CarHome
CityID_1.0.27_vzn.sch.i500_12118_release
DeskHome
Dlna
Final_Schi500_3.9.3.3_07262010
I500_MyVerizon_05202010
InfoAlarm
MobileAP
MobileClientUpdate
TtsService
vnav_4.7.0.258_i500_rel_PROD-signed
Update:
I changed the last app I listed above back to .apk, and noticed that there were some changes for the better.
vnav_4.7.0.258_i500_rel_PROD-signed
When I opened Maps, I pulled up the directions like normal.....then switched it to navigate on the map. What I noticed was that the map showed up in the background.....and it was actually plotted my exact location. The map was still grayed out, and it still shows "getting driving directions".
I also ran GPS tester.....and it now shows lots of info on the display, but I am still trying to figure out how the fark to work it.
Ok, GPS tester plots within 20 feet of me.......but I can't get Maps to get into Nav mode still.
ttt
Anyone?
Anyone?
Tts is text to speach.. you need that for spoken directions.
Just a thought, but why not change all of the not so obvious ones back to apk's, and just see what happens.
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Reinstall back to stock than test. One step at a time. Stock than test root test etc ...
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cseeley said:
Tts is text to speach.. you need that for spoken directions.
Just a thought, but why not change all of the not so obvious ones back to apk's, and just see what happens.
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Did a scan of it, I'll probably go do it again here shortly...since I still haven't solved this.
onemotodroid said:
Reinstall back to stock than test. One step at a time. Stock than test root test etc ...
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I was hoping to avoid reloading to stock, especially since this app worked fine since rooting.
I do alot of off road where there is no wifi or 3g/4g. I need a nice app where I can download sat images and maybe even layer them with terrain. I won't be able to download on the road nor the trail. I tryed to use "maps". But I couldn't seem to get the maps. I always know where in goin(area) the next day. So I can download them ahead of time... I tried a couple diff apps. But most where paved roads. Nothing with sat. Memory space is not a problem. Planing on doing a seperate SD card just for this. Any help will be great. Thank you.
You looking for something like this?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.crittermap.backcountrynavigator.license&hl=en. They do have a demo version
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i played with that one before. Its nice for sure. But I can't get it to give me roads too. I want Google maps to work offline. That would be great.
You should be able to cache Google Maps offline. I believe it is a Beta labs feature for maps where you can designate an area for offline use while you are still connected to a data network.
beta labs?
I think there are several off line GPS programs, including Waze and something called ZANavi. I think there are others as well, but if you search for offline GPS, there are quite a few, including Google's June 2011 announcement of offline maps, which has not apparently come to fruition yet.
good luck.
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You should be able to cache Google Maps offline. I believe it is a Beta labs feature for maps where you can designate an area for offline use while you are still connected to a data network.
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I dont think you can pre-cache the terrain or satellite overlay though. At least it doesnt work on mine.
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I dont think you can pre-cache the terrain or satellite overlay though. At least it doesnt work on mine.
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Me too..... sucks cause I like "maps"
this is the only one i can find..
i tried it long long ago and did not work right with my tablet.. .Check Amazon app market for a trial downlaod.. it might be the solution ..if its now honeycomb/tablet supported
GOOD Luck
oops I forgot the link http://www.gaiagps.com/
you can load maps from many locations I got it from amazon asdi said above.. Just tried to load it and it comes up..but i have no maps d/loaded
tile cache for google maps
Ive been playing around with the google maps some more......even though the pre-cached maps with terrain overlays doesnt work well I did discover a way to do it.
First go to the grounds area you want cached and choose the layer that works best for you.
Next zoom to your desired scale and the view will slowly come to focus. When it does it seems to automatically cache that tile area. Problem is you will have to slowly scroll to each section of the landscape you want cached pausing until in focus. Hopefully its not too large of an area. It does seem to work and stores the info even after restart.
i have been caching tiles like you said all night.(in between my bf3 battles) It seems to keep them on there. i shut off wifi, and rebooted. still there. But for how long. I hope its there for good. i love that app.
I started this topic so we can find a pattern of applications not working so dzo can focus on libs/drivers who cause malfunctions
These aps work with other ICS roms.
List
Hotmail
NDrive
TMN Drive
Lane Splitter
Hotmail sincronize first time but then app keep crashing all the time until i clean data from aplication.
Lane Splitter exit after loading
TMN Drive and NDrive exit after fix and/or when i select Navigation
If someone know more apps with bugs please post.
none of startup managers working
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Anyone else having problems with Pulse (news reader)?
I get a lot of freezing and FC'ing.
camera
In camera, there is no button to turn on/off flash.
Almost every 3D game, i think its because of hw, maybe 3d libs are not working right, Sims free, Death Rally and Gun Bros just to mention a few
IMO doesnt open login window to connect to facebook chat.
All my IM services connect correctly using this same app.
Thanx
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opera mini next is not working for me. it crashes within seconds
Not working: Flick Soccer, Lane Splitter, Minesweeper Pro, Toki Tori
Viber works but the calls ends when the other person answers. Messages and contacts works.
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Almost every 3D game, i think its because of hw, maybe 3d libs are not working right, Sims free, Death Rally and Gun Bros just to mention a few
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Sims Free works fine on mine.
But "Draw Something" does not work..
quickoffice only works with PDF's everything else FC
Skype video calls don't work properly, video shows very laggy and green. audio works fine
gStrings - not working :-(
Latest version works.
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You should remove the hotmail app from that list as it is working flawlessly on 1.13 ...
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Pretty much all gps apps work now (from 1.13), list should be updated.
Tested and working gps apps:
-TMN Drive
- Ndrive
- SportyPal
-Sports-Tracker
- Gps Status
I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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Well in have to say that is use beautiful Widgets and the Widgets work fine on my end...
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Najnesoog said:
I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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I'm also using Beautiful Widgets without any problems.
Camera: if you set zoom, taken photos are not zoomed.
The games I had problems with are now working, in fact are working since 1.13 update
olfyboy said:
I'm also using Beautiful Widgets without any problems.
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I don't understand what could be causing the problem on my phone. I've tried installing the app from the market and restoring it from a local save using MyBackUp Pro and problems occur with both methods.
The last set of problems begain when I updated Aurora 1.11 to 1.13. After updating I only wiped the 2 caches, but did not do a full system wipe. perhaps this is contributing to the problem.
Interestingly, I have removed Beautiful Widgets in the interim and other widgets are now behaving okay.
Picture editing at the gallery crashes after first modification.
I don't think many uses this feature, but sometimes it's good to brighten pictures before sending mms.
Ex iphone user here.
How can I get Google maps to pop up notifications while navigating?
Back on the iPhone, if I was using another app, maps would notify me the next turn was coming up with a notification balloon.
Anyway to get that on my Nexus?
Curious what you're doing with the phone while driving that prevents Google Maps from being open? I have never used an iPhone, but I'm thinking you might mean how the screen turns on and shows the popup like it does for a text. I don't think this is possible with Google Maps and/or stock Android at this time.
If you are trying to keep the screen on music like Spotify or Pandora, you could try something like AutoMate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitspice.automate&hl=en) which has a dashboard style home screen that can show music info and maps info in one screen. It emulates Android Auto on the device and works very well. I use it every day.
fury683 said:
Curious what you're doing with the phone while driving that prevents Google Maps from being open? I have never used an iPhone, but I'm thinking you might mean how the screen turns on and shows the popup like it does for a text. I don't think this is possible with Google Maps and/or stock Android at this time.
If you are trying to keep the screen on music like Spotify or Pandora, you could try something like AutoMate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitspice.automate&hl=en) which has a dashboard style home screen that can show music info and maps info in one screen. It emulates Android Auto on the device and works very well. I use it every day.
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That's what I was looking for!!! Thanks