Is there anyway to just have google nav running without having to type addresses? It should just follow you around and show you where you are and where you are going etc.
I don't always want to type a destination address.
there is a live wallpaper that is google maps that follows you
If u just open the maps app it Should just go to ur location until u ask for a search or something
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I believe he's talking about having the Google Navigation screen (like if your using the turn-by-turn directions) up and running without a destination. No, that's not possible
Hi guys,
Last night my friends car broke down and he needed a ride from me. All was good until the directions he was giving me took me totally to the wrong location. He eventually got the address but he didn't know if it was north or south...so google maps didn't help me it took me the other way. Eventually I found him without the help of google. But my question is there an app that can get your location and text it so that the other person can use that in google maps to find you? I guess something like family locator but not for your family.
Thanks.
You can do this with Google maps. Push and hold to get your location, select it and you'll have the option to send your location. I had my fiance do this last week and navigation got me right to her location.
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Google maps. Optional, Google maps with latitude. Just tap your friend and navigate.
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Nice! Thanks guys!
I 2nd latitude.
So I don't get what HTC did with the Thunderbolt....on my Incredible it used to send my contacts I added to the phone on Google. However now it doesn't sync them. And I can't find an option to save to Google instead of Phone.
When you add a contact, the second field is contact type: phone or Google. Choose Google to add to the Google cloud.
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Menu>Settings>Accounts & sync check auto sync. Then tap on google and check sync contacts
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I have noticed, (and this I very annoying) , that when I first setup a new rom, after syncing my google account, it creates duplicate entries, one called phone and one called google of the same phone number.
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It doesn't sync them because by default new contacts are not set up as google contacts. After selecting to make a new contact you must before inputting the name manually make it a google contact.
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Open contacts
Hit menu
Hit view
Uncheck everything but Google.
This will make your default Google when u add a new one.
Then they will sync
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ddgarcia05 said:
It doesn't sync them because by default new contacts are not set up as google contacts. After selecting to make a new contact you must before inputting the name manually make it a google contact.
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And there is no way to edit where the contact saves to AFTER you make it? I could've sworn I could change it on my Inc.
denonlake said:
Open contacts
Hit menu
Hit view
Uncheck everything but Google.
This will make your default Google when u add a new one.
Then they will sync
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This works great, thanks. I never liked having to select Google for each new contact.
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gpgorbosjr said:
And there is no way to edit where the contact saves to AFTER you make it? I could've sworn I could change it on my Inc.
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Sure you can edit contacts. Go into the People app, click on one of your contacts, and press the Menu button and choose Edit. Not only that, but in the edit screen you can choose to link identical names in your phone book and the you can see what information is stored in the phone (which syncs to Verizon's Backup Assistant) and what is stored in Google.
Knave68's post above tells you how to make sure that your phone will sync with your Google account.
It doesn't let you switch between a phone contact to a google contact, am I missing something?
Go to people, hit menu, import/export, export to SD.
Then choose phone. This will export all your phone only contacts to a vcard file.
Then choose import from SD and set Google as the destination.
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mcmillanje said:
Go to people, hit menu, import/export, export to SD.
Then choose phone. This will export all your phone only contacts to a vcard file.
Then choose import from SD and set Google as the destination.
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Thanks. It sucks they make it that difficult but that should do the trick.
I use Handcent on my DInc for texting and use the default Google maps navigation. Is there any way for someone to text me an address and then just click that address and get directions?
Anyone at all?
i believe you can get directions by texting in this format
text "from x to y" to GOOGLE
where x and y are addresses
Copy address from text and paste in Google maps
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Is this all because of apple suing HTC, makes me miss my g2x so is there any mods that can bring this feature back?
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Settings>App associations
Then change Physical address and Map address to the app you want to use.