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Google Maps vs Droid Inc vs Droid X

MY wife has the Droid Inc. I have the X.
Here is my question my wife has gotten 2 Google Map Updates in the 3weeks I bought my x. I have gotten none. Am I missing a setting?

ur not missing anything as far as the updates go. the dinc came out first so it prolly had a much earlier edition of maps. the x is newer and probably came with the most recent version of maps when it released. even if she just updated hers yesterday or today it may have been a update that has been available for sometime that she just didnt install. when the next update comes u will see it. more than likely when you open the market u will see it or it will pop up in the notification bar.

You checked the versions, and yours is not the latest? Latest comes with the Places app.
Not sure when Market checks automatically. If you being up your downloads in the Market app, it should check then. You can always install it again from the market manually, and get the latest.
As a sidenote: I've noticed that if you install an app from local storage (i.e. SD card), as opposed to from the Market, the Market doesn't see it, and doesn't know to check for updates. But, since Maps is pre-installed, I doubt that's the issue here.

My version is 4.3.0(#4307) the wife is traveling for work so I can't check hers until next Friday.
She just called hers is 4.40 (#4414)

I got an update the other day not sure what version though but I am getting it and I'm on an x
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Just checked same version as your wife 4.4.0 (#4414)
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Great so once again it is just me.

I got my answer. I just want to share with all of you in case this happens to someone else. Before I start this is my first smart phone ever I had an HTC Inc. for 2 weeks before it became the wife's new phone. So I am new at this.
In the Android Market go to your settings and then to download. I saw the Google Map update and 4 other updates that I was missing.
Thank You to those of you that responded to my post. What pisses me off is that 3 phones calls to Verizon Tech Support led to Big Red telling me call Motorola. I did and they could not help me.
Where did I get this answer from some chick in a Verizon store with a nose ring and a Frisbee in her ear. Just need to get that off my chest.

Just Joe said:
Where did I get this answer from some chick in a Verizon store with a nose ring and a Frisbee in her ear. Just need to get that off my chest.
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And yet I present myself in nice clothes, hair combed, teeth brushed and no hardware in my head, but cant get passed the Frisbee chick when I apply for a job or when I try to get a new client.

oldmacnut said:
And yet I present myself in nice clothes, hair combed, teeth brushed and no hardware in my head, but cant get passed the Frisbee chick when I apply for a job or when I try to get a new client.
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hmm. well maybe she is really smart. piercings don't make people stupid you know

o0gamerbear0o said:
hmm. well maybe she is really smart. piercings don't make people stupid you know
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Agreed
Im 70% covered in tattoos.... Check some of my threads... just saying...
While it may not be pleasing to the eye, science has yet to determine the correlation between piercings/tattoos and intelligence.

70% so your not really putting any effort into it? Just kidding.

@oldmacnut, perhaps that pierced woman is thoughtful and non-judgmental

Just Joe said:
70% so your not really putting any effort into it? Just kidding.
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Ouch haha, I still have plenty of sand left in my glass. Just no money

Gingerbread being pushed to aosp right meow

http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/091172a81604c8a0
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SWEET !~!!!!!!!

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=heads
f5, f5, f5

CheesyNutz said:
SWEET !~!!!!!!!
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What Cheesy said!!

YUM!
OMG, I'm salivating, drooling even! Come oooooon! Gimme gimme gimme!

Lets try to do as the man said and not bork the servers. If your not a dev don't even bother with it.
P.s. this isn't directed at anyone particular
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Yea I dont develop so it wont do anything for me... but ill assume with this it wont be long until we see some gingerbread roms.

Direct from Jean-Baptiste Queru...
Jean-Baptiste Queru
Nexus S went on sale yesterday morning in the US, running Gingerbread.
Just like I did for Froyo, I'm open-sourcing the matching Android
platform source code, right after the first consumers get their hands
on it. I'm going to start literally right now, and the process will
take a few hours.
I'll give more details once the source code is available. However,
there are three aspects that you need to know ahead of time:
-As part of the process to push the source code, there will be some
points in time when the master branch doesn't build. Sorry about that.
If you're working on the master branch, I recommend that you don't
sync until I send an "all clear" when I'm done and things look good.
Other branches are expected to work fine as soon as their manifests
are created.
-Even though Nexus S is designed to be suitable for AOSP work, there
are some caveats. I very strongly recommend against trying to use
Nexus S for anything related to AOSP at the moment. Trying to unlock
or use your Nexus S for AOSP work could easily turn it into a Nexus B
(where B means "brick"); I have two of those, they're not very useful.
I'll send some guidelines about what is currently possible once I've
finished pushing the source code.
-Please take it easy on the kernel.org servers. They are very helpful
in hosting the AOSP source code, and I don't want to hurt the high
quality of their service with an onslaught of full Android downloads.
If you're not going to immediately work on porting Gingerbread to
devices with the intent of distributing the result to end-users, I'm
kindly asking that you wait a few hours or a few days before you
download it (just roll a 6-sided die and wait that long). In addition,
the slower the servers are, the harder it is for me to do the push.
Thanks for being patient.
JBQ
--
Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google.
Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private
will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further
warning.
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I imagine we will see some alpha/beta builds over the weekend. Perhaps stable RC's next week and fingers crossed CM7 with wimax by the years end.
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crpercodani said:
Lets try to do as the man said and not bork the servers. If your not a dev don't even bother with it.
P.s. this isn't directed at anyone particular
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Are you sure? It felt like you were singling me out man. I dont like being singled out. (Sarcasm, just in case it wasn't implied)

animal7296 said:
Are you sure? It felt like you were singling me out man. I dont like being singled out. (Sarcasm, just in case it wasn't implied)
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Actually you hadn't posted when I said that BUT you were just the douche nozzle I had in mind when writing it!
/s
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Does this mean I finally get my super hot and willing robot girlfriend?

Wow...wimax on CM is working, and now Gingerbread is being pushed? I'm totally geeking out right now!

Maybe now my phone will be able to surf the web, make video calls and play music! Oh yeah, it already does all that GB over Froyo will be like being able to go 110 mph instead of 90. Sure its faster but will anyone notice?
P.S., And where the hell is BlindType? I thought Google bought them, right? What are they waiting for? I want to be able to text with my eyes closed!

sw33t! cant wait for gingerbread and 4g on CM!

Is the nexus S in tmobile stores? Im going to go and fool with one today if it is just to see what the gingerbread hype is about. So since they're pushing it does that mean the nexus 1 will be getting it soon?

brownhornet said:
Is the nexus S in tmobile stores? Im going to go and fool with one today if it is just to see what the gingerbread hype is about. So since they're pushing it does that mean the nexus 1 will be getting it soon?
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Only at best buy.
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Hmm... only thing I hate about the best buy near here is they dont usually have actual models out just those bs display phones.

Feels like christmas!!! This plus 4g on aosp
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lithid-cm said:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=heads
f5, f5, f5
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Please, don't. Last thing we want is to launch an involuntary DDoS attack on Kernel.org .

New Update Today, Changed my Boot Animation

New update today. When it finished and it restarted, The boot animation is now diff. The clouds come up and the Thunderbolt Logo forms, but now it stays and doesn't unform itself. Looks a lot Nicer.
On top of that there is some new VZW Data Widget.

Welcome to the future.
We've been waiting for you.

BoulderGeek said:
Welcome to the future.
We've been waiting for you.
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lol...So is this because I got the update late? or because I'm not rooted?

My new boot screen is sick, it says something about das BAMF...oh wait...lol. You might like the custom ROM loading screens over Verizon's...
sent from my rooted Thunderbolt with das BAMF 3.0 rc4

Is it really necessary to mention your rooted in every stock thread? We get it guys, you're cool. Now stop posting useless spam.
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BBowermaster said:
Is it really necessary to mention your rooted in every stock thread? We get it guys, you're cool. Now stop posting useless spam.
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technically you didnt have to root do get the fancy bootscreen the OP is talking about in advance. The OTA leak for unrooted users was out over a week or so ago at least as well (longer if you count the MR2 leaks that were canned).

yareally said:
The OTA leak for unrooted users was out over a week or so ago at least as well .
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This is the situation to which I was referring. "Oh wow, my bootscreen changed" is so July 9th.
I don't mean to be snide. It's just mildly entertaining.
ANd WTF is with these political sponsorship ads getting invasive all over this site? The Republicans had no problem writing blank checks and deficit spending for ten years. Why get their panties all in a twist now, just because we have a brown President? I say, keep tech sites tech.

BoulderGeek said:
This is the situation to which I was referring. "Oh wow, my bootscreen changed" is so July 9th.
I don't mean to be snide. It's just mildly entertaining.
ANd WTF is with these political sponsorship ads getting invasive all over this site? The Republicans had no problem writing blank checks and deficit spending for ten years. Why get their panties all in a twist now, just because we have a brown President? I say, keep tech sites tech.
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What ads? I dont see them
(I have the adservers added in my hosts file, it's far easier than complaining). I would normally show the ads for sites I support, but when they get to be too much, I can't deal with it. I had to sadly do same thing when Stack Overflow a while ago when they wouldn't do anything about the obviously targeted and over saturated Microsoft ads they had everywhere. It was so bad you could search for "gnu linux opensource" and it would still bomb you with microsoft bs.
Sometime after November 2012, I'll unblock them again . I would post the adserver names, but the powers that be might not like that. However, it's not hard to right click -> view source and find things.
I don't think xda controls their own adservers and thus, does not control the ad content (google/doubleclick ads and maybe some other, cant remember). That's slightly different than stack overflow, where they did control it, so one could say xda is slightly less at fault.

My girlfriends TB is non rooted. Still no update for her phone. Software update doesn't seem to do anything. Hoping she gets it soon as she is always complaining about her "piece of crap" phone.
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broons said:
My girlfriends TB is non rooted. Still no update for her phone. Software update doesn't seem to do anything. Hoping she gets it soon as she is always complaining about her "piece of crap" phone.
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It's a gradual rollout, not everyone gets it at the same time. And if she thinks the Tbolt is a POS, maybe she should exchange it for an iphone or blackberry. Or you could root it for her and slap a custom rom & kernel on it, and you wouldn't hear her ***** & moan about it anymore
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sublimaze said:
It's a gradual rollout, not everyone gets it at the same time. And if she thinks the Tbolt is a POS, maybe she should exchange it for an iphone or blackberry. Or you could root it for her and slap a custom rom & kernel on it, and you wouldn't hear her ***** & moan about it anymore
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Or you could quit waiting on verizon and just put the signed OTA from verizon on yourself. It would take like a few minutes of finding the post in the developers forum and then a few more to flash it in the bootloader.
Being on xda and waiting for an ota from verizon when the same signed ota that would work for non rooted phones is on here = sad panda
there's no way a hour's worth of reading (if you really cant figure it out) is worse than hearing her complain

I offered to root it for her, but she didn't want me to. To each their own lol. Well, tbh, the 5-6 reboots per day, plus the extreme lagginess at times just really make her mad seeing as how she paid $250 for it and its her first android phone. I can understand her anger at it, especially since whenever we talk to Verizon they just throw up their hands and say they can't do anything about, thanks for your 250 bucks.
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broons said:
I offered to root it for her, but she didn't want me to. To each their own lol. Well, tbh, the 5-6 reboots per day, plus the extreme lagginess at times just really make her mad seeing as how she paid $250 for it and its her first android phone. I can understand her anger at it, especially since whenever we talk to Verizon they just throw up their hands and say they can't do anything about, thanks for your 250 bucks.
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I dont think you understood what I meant. You dont have to root her phone to give her the latest OTA update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160286&highlight=ruu
The full RUU for upcoming Thunderbolt OTA update has been released thanks to Jcase/TeamAndIRC and Android Police. This is a Froyo release, hopefully the last one. This is for non-rooted users and will wipe all of your data. It is highly recommended that you do not flash over a rooted phone. Hold out for Jcase to release the rooted version soon. I have it available to download off my http server below and you can see the original sources below. Didn't see anyone start a thread for this yet.
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Just make sure to back up whatever you can first if you do decide to do it.

BBowermaster said:
Is it really necessary to mention your rooted in every stock thread? We get it guys, you're cool. Now stop posting useless spam.
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I just wanted to say I am rooted!

yareally said:
technically you didnt have to root do get the fancy bootscreen the OP is talking about in advance. The OTA leak for unrooted users was out over a week or so ago at least as well (longer if you count the MR2 leaks that were canned).
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I was referring to admiralspark's comment about his DAS BAMF bootscreen. The quote function didn't work on my phone's forum app.

Tmobile knows all

I hope in not posting in the wrong part of this forum but I was freaked out today at the tmobile store. It all starts last night when I goggle map searched "bar and grill" and later searched on browser "screen names" looking for screen name ideas. So, this morning my wife and I go to tmobile to pay our bill. The clerk in an attempt to talk to my wife says "so did you find a good screen name last night? " She had no idea what he was talking about. Then he asks "how was the bar and grill? " I was immediately angry. I know there was recent proof carriers collect our data, but not only does tmobile collect logs of most things we do on our phones, the make it available to any ass working in a tmobile store! I would v believed it was that bad without seeing it for myself. I told him to give me a print out of that info he was reading but he refused. So now I'm on an AOSP BUILD. The rom I was using before was weapon btw. Why is spyware in custom roms? Does anyone work at tmobile that can confirm this? Are AOSP builds the only way to combat this? I can't believe any asshole at a tmobile store can just punch in a number and see everything we do on our phones!
I'd love to know what you guys think. Similar experiences?

Wow, I'm shocked. I know they collect data but it shouldn't be available to anyone. What rom are you using?
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I'm going to speak to an attorney friend of mine but i do believe that is extremely illegal.

Did your rep had your phone? Cause if he did, he could have been going through the search history. Either way he shouldn't be going through them.

Dang, that's real bs. I would definately seek legal action.

Well, I would assume all carriers log all data accessed (via mobile data connection at least) to supply to the gov't for profiling and legal purposes. But allowing Joe Schmoe at the store access to it is definitely a violation of your privacy. The contract probably allows them to monitor your activity but that's a bit of an overshare if you ask me.

Well you can always get check and or get rid of the Carrier IQ thing that tracks your information.
You need a rooted phone to do so and then go here to download the app because it is not on the android market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&postcount=110
*Note: do a backup of your phone before you do this just incase. I haven't checked if its on our phones just yet but more than likely it probably is.
**Update: Having trouble with the app on my g2x with stock rom/faux froyo kernel.05. It keeps giving an "Error copying Busybox" so the App won't update to the pro version that you need. Waiting for Dev response

ShatBag1105 said:
I hope in not posting in the wrong part of this forum but I was freaked out today at the tmobile store. It all starts last night when I goggle map searched "bar and grill" and later searched on browser "screen names" looking for screen name ideas. So, this morning my wife and I go to tmobile to pay our bill. The clerk in an attempt to talk to my wife says "so did you find a good screen name last night? " She had no idea what he was talking about. Then he asks "how was the bar and grill? " I was immediately angry. I know there was recent proof carriers collect our data, but not only does tmobile collect logs of most things we do on our phones, the make it available to any ass working in a tmobile store! I would v believed it was that bad without seeing it for myself. I told him to give me a print out of that info he was reading but he refused. So now I'm on an AOSP BUILD. The rom I was using before was weapon btw. Why is spyware in custom roms? Does anyone work at tmobile that can confirm this? Are AOSP builds the only way to combat this? I can't believe any asshole at a tmobile store can just punch in a number and see everything we do on our phones!
I'd love to know what you guys think. Similar experiences?
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I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of this story especially given the fact you we're already on a custom rom.

prettyboy85712 said:
I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of this story especially given the fact you we're already on a custom rom.
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This story is BS. Store employees do not have access to that kind of data. Almost no one within T-Mobile could get anywhere near that kind of data even if they did record any of it. Also, none of the official G2x firmwares carry CIQ.

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Works fine for me using jboxers 2.3.4 rom says no ciq found
fabricatedhero said:
Well you can always get check and or get rid of the Carrier IQ thing that tracks your information.
You need a rooted phone to do so and then go here to download the app because it is not on the android market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&postcount=110
*Note: do a backup of your phone before you do this just incase. I haven't checked if its on our phones just yet but more than likely it probably is.
**Update: Having trouble with the app on my g2x with stock rom/faux froyo kernel.05. It keeps giving an "Error copying Busybox" so the App won't update to the pro version that you need. Waiting for Dev response
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tdtylert said:
Works fine for me using jboxers 2.3.4 rom says no ciq found
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Best I can tell, that's one of the option boxes Tracfone didn't click
Oh, and OP: cool story 'bro.... thanks for the laugh.

come on guys... this is complete BS, plus, look at OP's screen name!

im gonna send this to a friend of mine that works with tmobile. and if its true. well i would like to know more about how am i be able to see all this data. !!

I don't think a lot of you see how severe this issue is. I went to T-Mobile as well and they told me, "Been trying to get that high score on Robot Unicorn Attack, huh?" /s
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hmmm
they dont know about updates. they dont know how much ram is in your phone, they have to ask you how to use the phone. but they know where you searched.
*********************i guess im about +7 on BS.

Regular Sales Reps or even Mgrs shouldn't have any access to that kind of information. None of the systems they use can dig that deep. They can see details about minutes, texts and your bill items, etc. but thats about the extent of it. Especially through CAM, Watson or Quickview. Although I would be surprised if the network engineers couldn't get that data if they were high up enough. The carrier iq thing isn't much of a surprise to me.

Weapon is based on the stock 2.3.3 rom so the OP is plausible, not probable, but certainly not busted. It has just been enhanced but most of it is stock TMO rom.
But I do think the OP is pure BS. That type of data would not be available at the store level and an employee who revealed such info would be subject to immediate termination.

jboxer said:
Weapon is based on the stock 2.3.3 rom so the OP is plausible, not probable, but certainly not busted. It has just been enhanced but most of it is stock TMO rom.
But I do think the OP is pure BS. That type of data would not be available at the store level and an employee who revealed such info would be subject to immediate termination.
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No firmware for the G2x has CIQ within.

the last straw - goodbye android, goodbye Google

Recently Google put a notice in my phone that they were discontinuing Google Latitude and if I wanted to continue using similar location service I would need to go to Google+
I don't like being funneled into places I have no interest in going.
What other service (besides Google Reader) will they suddenly pull the rug out from their users?
I don't like Microsoft because of their monopolistic intent nor Apple for similar reasons.
That leaves Linux or Firefox and when there will be a decent phone sporting either os I will jump on it

They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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ShadowLea said:
They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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Surely you didn't think this out.
Latitude wasn't killed.
It was mearly moved to Google+.

This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen.
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They decided to stop supporting it. That isn't exactly a "evil corporation" move, you can still download whatever GPS app you want.

ShadowLea said:
They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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You do realize it could be turned off right? And from my recollection it was opt-in....

Nimbis said:
They decided to stop supporting it. That isn't exactly a "evil corporation" move, you can still download whatever GPS app you want.
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Yeah,
they decided to stop supporting it but only to get you to use Google+ and also to get you to persuade all the friends you have on your latitude list to also join Google+.
Yes, there are other share location applications but it is a hassle to start all over again after "do no evil" Google pulls the rug from under you.
What other services will Google discontinue in order to get you to move where they want you to?

I get what you mean. I don't really want to be forced to use services either. I know I don't have any interest, at least for now, to use Google+

koyanishi said:
Surely you didn't think this out.
Latitude wasn't killed.
It was mearly moved to Google+.
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I know, I was over dramatising in response to the original post's "the world is ending by the hands of the evil overlord" attitude.
BPinard said:
You do realize it could be turned off right? And from my recollection it was opt-in....
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Yes, and every other update turned it back on inside google maps, leading to yet another few thousand complaints about "crap phone dies in 7 hours" on tech-support helpdesks...
As for opt in, locationservices doesnt work without latitude anymore on Maps. Hasnt for a while now.
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koyanishi said:
Recently Google put a notice in my phone that they were discontinuing Google Latitude and if I wanted to continue using similar location service I would need to go to Google+
I don't like being funneled into places I have no interest in going.
What other service (besides Google Reader) will they suddenly pull the rug out from their users?
I don't like Microsoft because of their monopolistic intent nor Apple for similar reasons.
That leaves Linux or Firefox and when there will be a decent phone sporting either os I will jump on it
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Dude grow up seriously. I can't believe what I'm reading. But I guess it's your opinion..... Bye.
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The fact that you own and test a cellular tracking device.......why are you surprised?

bbrad said:
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen.
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+1000
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