Hello all,
I've been searching back and forth on the forums and i couldn't find a complete navigation app (in my vision at least).
I am a Samsung Galaxy S2 user and i am looking for an alternate solution to Google Maps with the following features:
MUST HAVE
- offline map and navigation
- no process running while app is closed - my major problem
- up to date maps (or close)
- Eastern Europe maps (i am from Romania)
- compatibility with Contacts' address
GOOD TO HAVE
- low battery consumption while using it
- nice, idiot friendly interface :silly:
- some customizing
- chance to try before buy
I don't mind if it connects to the internet from time to time to check on updates & stuff... just not to be forced to connect to the internet to run it.
Do yourself a favour mate and stop writing everything in bold as it just gets annoying.
For the app, have a look at NavFree. I haven't used it on Android as I love Google Maps and couldn't care less about it connecting to the Internet all the time, but I use NavFree on my work-iPhone4 and it is near enough faultless.
Dude... if the post was too long to read... well... i am sorry for you.
Stop posting just to get a bigger post number cause you won't get a prize...
The bold was put especially so u can read better what i need. I need a nav app with THOSE FEATURES
mamadraq said:
Dude... if the post was too long to read... well... i am sorry for you.
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WTF?
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mamadraq said:
Stop posting just to get a bigger post number cause you won't get a prize...
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I posted to answer your question - have you looked at NavFree yet? I couldn't care less about my post count - I gained a lot from XDA when I first rooted my phone, so I now try to help others out on here. Some people (look in the mirror) have been here for over a year, have 10 posts to their name and have only ever asked questions, never attempted to help another user
mamadraq said:
The bold was put especially so u can read better what i need. I need a nav app with THOSE FEATURES
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Regardless, putting the whole post in bold doesn't make it easier to read at all. Bold is supposed to highlight important words or phrases - using it for the entire post makes it more difficult to read.
SimonTS said:
have you looked at NavFree yet?
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I've checked the app but wasn't good (for me at least)... had only 10 maps that could be downloaded, my country wasn't there.
I found Route 66 Maps & Navigation. Till now it looks ok but i am still testing it. I am happy i can use the contacts' address directly.
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Followdroid is an Android application that comes to help you keep in touch and follow any of your friends in real-time wherever he or she is.
This is an extremely user-friendly application! You don't need to scroll menus or to enable/disable thousands of different options! Simply pressing a button will get FollowDroid to manage everything!
With FollowDroid you can share your position with a single function and track your friend if he got lost, thanks to a simple authentication procedure!
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This is awesome!!! FollowDroid does for $0.99 what Latitude already does, for free! There is nothing I like to do more with my money than support the duplicative development of apps based on ideas that someone else has already done better.
Now if I can find a $2.99 app that lets me make a phone call, I will be happy.
Real time google latitude? nice
What's the time frame?
lame.. latitude works just fine
about 6/7 seconds!!!
I'm in italy and HSDPA is a very s**t....
khanh1289 said:
lame.. latitude works just fine
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i'm not a lame... -.-"
this application is not latitude!!!
latitude don't see your friends in real time...
with followdroid you can see your friend's position every 5/6 seconds...
delete this post if you think it's inappropriate...i'm sorry...
PS: ...and sorry for my bad english...
Not trying to be a ****, but isn't this pretty similar to Google Latitude?
so whats the benefits of this over google latitude???
robyrocker89 said:
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Does this do the same things as lattitude does???
bk718 said:
so whats the benefits of this over google latitude???
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you can see your friends on Google Maps in real time! Your friend's overlay map will be updated every 6 / 7 seconds ... so you can "monitor" its position!
Obviously the team has a lot of thought to the management of privacy!
ps: sorry for my bad english...
Charles: said:
Not trying to be a ****, but isn't this pretty similar to Google Latitude?
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no!!
you can see your friends on Google Maps in real time! Your friend's overlay map will be updated every 6 / 7 seconds ... so you can "monitor" its position!
Obviously the team has a lot of thought to the management of privacy!
sp: sorry for my bad english!!
robyrocker89 said:
you can see your friends on Google Maps in real time! Your friend's overlay map will be updated every 6 / 7 seconds ... so you can "monitor" its position!
Obviously the team has a lot of thought to the management of privacy!
ps: sorry for my bad english...
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i mean.. thats cool and all.. and im all for app development and what not.. but google latitude just put out an update that does real time.. and its free...
good luck with ur app tho.
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Awesome idea! I have a problem with it tho - it takes me to the market frontpage no mather what I do in the app :/
oleerik said:
Awesome idea! I have a problem with it tho - it takes me to the market frontpage no mather what I do in the app :/
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Version of android market please?
moved at OP request.
Does this work on the new market?
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Does this work on the new market?
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Works for me using version: 2.3.6
Tested on new Market version: 3.1.3 and it works
This is a cool idea for coders & developers, but do you see this applying to mainstream users? If so, how?
TylerBetable said:
This is a cool idea for coders & developers, but do you see this applying to mainstream users? If so, how?
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Except for the search for "package" the rest is simple and easy to use ...
Haha I am not talking about ease of use, though it is good that this is easy to use. My question is more: what would general consumers use it for?
TylerBetable said:
Haha I am not talking about ease of use, though it is good that this is easy to use. My question is more: what would general consumers use it for?
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-Replace the original search for a more detailed and effective.
-Access the search without having to open the new Market takes to load both
this is a god idea
Perfekt good works
I was going to post this in the official form after reading about 60ish pages of the thread but it wouldn't let me since i have "noob" status. I have NFC on and i left my phone on the Google wallet screen for about 10ish minutes but it just force closes.The developer said that its included http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377087&highlight=ice+cream+sandwhich
but next to it it says one day. Dose this mean it dosent work right now?
thanks !
it won't work because we need some secure elements that we don't have. So no it will not work.there are more than enough thread about GWallet if you researched it you would have found your answer but no worries because you will find help on xda. just make sure to do research next time
CovXX said:
I was going to post this in the official form after reading about 60ish pages of the thread but it wouldn't let me since i have "noob" status. I have NFC on and i left my phone on the Google wallet screen for about 10ish minutes but it just force closes.The developer said that its included http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377087&highlight=ice+cream+sandwhich
but next to it it says one day. Dose this mean it dosent work right now?
thanks !
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it won't work because we need some secure elements that we don't have. So no it will not work.there are more than enough thread about GWallet if you researched it you would have found your answer but no worries because you will find help on xda. just make sure to do research next time
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For what it's worth, I've attempted to do research on it as well and hadn't had much luck at all.
I noticed while it's trying to initialize, tap the w in the top left corner and it opens the app.
Yes i got into app rite now. I can see payment cards. Reward cards and other stuff.
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I noticed while it's trying to initialize, tap the w in the top left corner and it opens the app.
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I was able to get into the app as well. Has anyone tried it to see if it works though?
too bad don't have master card. Cauz VISA is beast
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I was able to get into the app as well. Has anyone tried it to see if it works though?
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I do so much searching in the Play Store on a daily basis that every little trick that helps surface relevant results faster and filter out things I don't want is worth its weight in gold. Sometimes, you're searching for XYZ, which you know should be in the title, but instead get a ton of results back with XYZ in the description. This is especially frustrating when a new app or game gets released, and Google hasn't figured out it's popular yet. In that case, it's more than likely that searching for the name of the app will show it somewhere near the last results page.
As it turns out, the Play Store supports the intitle: query operator, which is part of my regular Google-fu search arsenal. I don't think it used to work before, so I haven't tried it for a while, until today. It now works beautifully.
If you have multiple search terms and you know the right order, you should surround them with quotes, like so:
intitle:"foo bar"
If you know a few keywords but not necessarily the order, just include several intitle operators or use the allintitle operator, like so:
intitle:foo intitle:bar
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allintitle:foo bar
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Let's have a look.
intitle:"hulu":
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And now without intitle. hulu:
Most of the time, the regular search without intitle will bring the results you're looking for at the top, so I don't expect everyone to suddenly start searching using intitle left and right. However, remember this tip when the time is right. I promise you, it'll come.. :good:
Credits to @Archon810 for his post from Android Police.:good:
Sorry for not mentioning the credits earlier, i was just sharing info here. Meant no offence.
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"
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Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"
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Not pretty much sure how to exclude a word from the search..
But u can try n be more specific.. use the exact word.. like the theme and for which app.. like allintitle:"handcent theme"..
may be this would help filtering out useless search result..:good:
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Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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Minus word works just like it does on Google search. For example if I type in "launcher" I get Go Launcher and addon programs/themes along with some other launchers. If I type in "launcher -go" I get apex launcher, etc, nothing with go launcher in sight.
also as it is in google if you put ~ you will get synonyms (~alert will return you alert, alarms, etc)
So you decided to just rip off my post (http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...roid-play-store-titles-and-cut-out-the-noise/), OP? How nice of you.
this doesnt exactly have to do with mobile devices , but im sick of techhelpspot results appearing in most of my google searches that would otherwyse send XDA results, the only thing that site does is steal the info here in the forums, and then giving you a link to xda (and other tech sites)
i cant see a way to block it , so i wanted to make sure its not something in my pc hijacked or anything else.
example using google.com (us) example search: galaxy s3 clock aokp
here is an example image with results:
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another one: atrix hd swype apk
any idea why is this happening or if its only me?
i hate to go there just to click on a link that will bring me here, i think that site is new, xda results used to come on top before.
*MODS if not correct forum section please move or delete. thank you
Happens to me too.. hate it. It's just spam search engine designed to steal ad revenue :/
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It's basically a search engine but designed for finding similar questions. Kind of useful, but also a bit annoying.
When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.
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When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.
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"just" sounds like an understatement lol thats a lot to type specially from a phone,
maybe there is a way to do the opposite? like site not like: techblahblah ?
thank you .
This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.
You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.
YellowNote said:
You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.
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yeah, its really annoying, i hope google sends them to the bottom of the results
Reported
KurianOfBorg said:
This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.
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XDA wasn't even on the first page, yet all the information on techstupid was from XDA...
After submission, Google suggested this add-on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-webspam-report-by/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj , which I have to say I will use relentlessly, and I recommend you do the same. It allows you to navigate to the webspam site, then click a button and have the form auto-filled for you.
Maybe even better though, is this add-on, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef which allows you to click "Block xxxxx.com" from the search results. I think I'll report a few hundred techstupid pages and then click the blocker.
Hope this helps someone else!
Reported to Google! Hate this site so much, waste my time on every search. Hope this stupid techhelpfox.com site to die soon.