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So after reading through some threads there is a few that mentioned that 'CAR HOME' or 'Google Navigation' is not part of the Captivate. Other rumours also speculate that once you open google maps and click on 'Navigate' it will open the google navigation software.
I would really hate if ATT cripped that function. Can someone confirm if the navigation software is already on the phone or can be possibly downloaded from the market?
Thanks!!
Yes, once you hit navigate, it prompts you to accept the google nav beta agreement and then opens google nav.
Open google maps, type in your destination and select navigate. Google navigation comes up. It says you have to install voice guidance support from the marketplace to get voice guidance.
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Yes, once you hit navigate, it prompts you to accept the google nav beta agreement and then opens google nav.
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Open google maps, type in your destination and select navigate. Google navigation comes up. It says you have to install voice guidance support from the marketplace to get voice guidance.
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Yippeee. The other post scared me for a moment. I would have had a really hard time switching from my N1 if the nav app was crippled by ATT.
Thanks guys!!
Got my Captivate today ,i can to confirm Google maps and navigation working no problem.
Yea I got it today and its there. I haven't tired it yet though.
I got text to speech app and tried it out and it worked perfectly
The app is nice. It works well with goggle maps. Now I need dock foe my car.
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Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
As long as ur in ur home country (not roaming data), I'd say Google. The voice-over isn't the best, but its never failed me yet and the incorporated Google search makes it great for finding places on the fly. Just my 2 cents
Google navigation, free, simple. Case closed
Go with Google nav.
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Google Nav, which, BTW, depending on your country will use traffic information as well.
If you are not roaming it's really hard to beat. Traffic aware, google search engine, it rocks
Google Nav works well for me...
Personally I've stuck with Google Nav. It works great for me, is reasonably accurate, and best of all it is completely free other than the bandwidth needed to run it.
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Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
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I have tried them all, even the mapquest one and navigon usa.
As for the cheapest alternative, I'd say google nav second to telenav which I liked because you can pull up stuff like local gas stations and you can sort them by distance or prices, etc....
Now I have to recommend a voice TTS called Loquendo:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.loquendo.tts.susan&feature=search_result
Let me preface that it does cost money and is not free (IIRC ~6usd), but this voice to me, seems the most natural of all the tts I have used. It's by no means perfect, but it is nice and sound more natural rather than a voice prompt on the phone when you call in for your internet service..
I installed this, and made Loquendo TTS Susan the default voice engine on the phone. That's my .02c
google nav...
it's been dead on accurate for me. easy to use, great features, and it's free.
you get all the features without having to sign up for a premium.
Telenav charges for the same thing Google maps does for free. No brainer for me.
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Google Nav all the way!
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
google nav all the way!
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Kupfel said:
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out
Navigon is the best offline navigation for Android.
I hope TomTom will release there app soon. And hope it's not 100euro or something crazy like that. I paid 29euro for Navigon and I am really really happy with it.
Navigon for offline maps or Google Nav if you have a good data plan
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If you choose to use Telenav, be prepared to pay an extra $10 a month.
Google Nav OK, but
Aside from terrible voice, Google Nav is OK. Starts fast, integrated, etc. But ... if you lose signal - you dead. Yes, it does cache entire route, but if you make wrong turn - you dead.
I went to NC mountains and thanks god I had Sygic Aura. I use it from time to time for offline. It does not have TTS for whatever reason, so it only speaks "Turn right in xxx feet".
I also tried iGo My Way ... great maps, but terrible UI on Android.
If you are in US, try Copilot it is only $5
And if you think that you want to contribute to something social/navigation, you can try WAZE, which is connected, and social, means that not every road is already on the map, but if you find a new one, you can add yourself the road and name it (it is like having his own street name sign but in the virtual world... ).
Of course many services such as trafic, road blocked, ... because you can contribute to this as others will be...
Just an idea...
See you and good choice.
I've found Sygic to be the best alternative to Google Navigation if you want offline maps.
Nevertheless Google Maps does the job, plus it's nice and lightweight. Though you might want to replace the default TTS engine with another one like SVOX unless you like the sound of Pico...
HTC navigation full subscription UK 22.99
Uses the same setup up as Tom Tom and is perfect for offline and online its very good
Like in the spirit of the others phones, i would like to start this thread for those how, like me, wants full control of there devices and want to get rid of unwanted stuff.
For this being said, i myself only freezes stuff and not uninstall those frozen apps.
Community spreadsheet HERE.
Personal freeze list:
Action Memo 1.0 (3x times)
Action memo 1.0.1382205
AllShare ControlShare Service 1.0.0
AllShare FileShare Service 1.4r476
ANT HAL Service 3.0.0
ANT Radio Service 04.02.00
ANT+Plugins 2.0.0
Backup 2.4.6
Best Face 20130829.1.0.0.67
Bloomberg+ 2.0.143
BlurbCheckout 1.0 (build 125)
Bubbles 1.0
ChatOn 3.0.533
ChocoEUKor 1.0
CloudAgent 1.2.1.5
CoolEUKor 1.0
DirectConnectManager 3.2
DirectShareGallery 1.0
DirectShareManager 2.0.3
DRM-Protect Content Storage 4.3-N9005XXUBMI7
DroidSerifltalic 1.0
DSMForwarding 4.3-N9005XXUBMI7
DSMLawmo 4.3-N9005XXUBMI7
Easy chart 1.0
Evernote 5.4
Exchange Services 4.2
Flipboard 2.0.11
FWUpgrade 1.2.0
Google Play Books 2.9.21
Google Play Games 1.1.04(794842-30)
Google Play Magazines 2.0.0
Google Play Movies 2.6.9
Google Play Music 5.2.1224L.847622
Google Search 1.0
Google Search 2.8.849369.arm
Group Play 2.5.171
Help 1.0
HP Print Service Plugin 1.0.29
Idea Sketch 3.0
Live Wallpaper Picker 4.3-N9005XXUBMI7
Maps 7.2.0
Mobeam Service Application 1.06
Mobile tracker 1.0
My Magazine 1.0.0
PageBuddyNotiSvc 1.0
Picasa Uploader 1.3.242047
Rakeln 1.0
Remote controls v2_f18_1308_3_1
Remote controls v2_130b8_2_1
Remote Controls 4.58
RoseEUKor 1.0
S Finder 1.0
S Health 2.5.0.60
S NameCard 3.9.0.0
S Note 1.0.0
S Voice 11.2.0.0
Samsung account 1.4.0317
Samsung Apps 13082704.02.085.0
Samsung Apps Widget 2.0.2.21
Samsung Backup Provider 1.7
Samsung Calendar SyncAdapter 1.2
Samsung Cloud Data Relay 3.03.003
Samsung Cloud Quota 1.3.1
Samsung Contact SyncAdapter 1.2
Samsung Contents Agent 1.0
Samsung Hub 13082803.1.00.01
Samsung Link 1.8.0901
Samsung Print Service 1.0.130402
Samsung Push Service 1.2.0
Samsung SBrowser SyncAdapater 1.2
Samsung SNote3 SyncAdapter 1.0.0
Samsung Syncadapters 3.3.1
Samsung text-to-speech engine 1.0
Samsung Video 13082903.1.00.03
Samsung WatchOn Video 13082701.1.20.40
SamsungHub Updater 13082703.1.00.01
SamsungSans 1.0
Scrapbook 1.0
SecWallpaperChooser 2.0
Share music 2.0
Share Video 1.1
ShareShotService 1.0
SketchBook for Galaxy 1.0
SNS 1.2.0, when frozen this one will give me delays on telegram notifications.
Software update v3_1308_2_1
Software update v6_1308_3_1
Story Album 1.0.02
Story Album Widget 1.0
Street View 1.8.1.2
Travel Wallpaper 1.0
TripAdvisor 8.0.4-release
User manual 1.0
Weathet Widget 130829.01
WFDS Print Service Plugin 1.0.0
wssyncmlnps v43_1308_4_7
Yahoo! Finance 130813.01
More to come.
Edit:
perosredo made online spreadsheet for us.
It is really looking great and if we all can help out, this will be the best frees list XDA ever have seen.
But all, just keep it nice and clean.
Spreadsheet.
Created by perosredo
Participants:
Me.
binjubair
And don't forget, every one is using there phone differently, we all use different apps so look at the list and remember that although some marked safe to remove, it can be something you want to use .
many thanks cooza,
this is right the stuff we need
▲ cooza said you're welcome.. lol..
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many thanks cooza,
this is right the stuff we need
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Peter, thanks for thinking i am John, Cooza is a great guy and so this is really a great compliment
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haha.
Great post! Thanks.
Nice thread. Bookmarked
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If i get time, i maybe can make somekind of sheet which allow more info and can be edited by others.
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What would be great is a google spreadsheet list with a small blurb about what the app is, and perhaps other apps it's related to since a number of these are going to be connected.
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What would be great is a google spreadsheet list with a small blurb about what the app is, and perhaps other apps it's related to since a number of these are going to be connected.
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On my todo list
I did the same on my razr HD when I found a comprehensive list of what each of the apps are doing. I froze some apps on my note 3 already, but the ones I wasn't sure of wether they're needed or not I didn't touch.
THANKS!!!
Wow, this thread is awesome!!!
I was finding apps to remove/freeze on my Note 3 (SM-N900) as I was only getting 3.5 to 4 hours screen time on regular usage. And in order to save some battery!!!...
And I came across this thread!!
THIS IS GREAT!
MANY THANKS!
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Also would be nice to have a guide about safe deleting of several ROM items like Wallpapers or Sounds (and other things) in a way to free up space for our own apps, and have a Slimmer ROM..
What dou you think?
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Also would be nice to have a guide about safe deleting of several ROM items like Wallpapers or Sounds (and other things) in a way to free up space for our own apps, and have a Slimmer ROM..
What dou you think?
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Sounds great, but my first goal is to make some kind of spreadsheet with good information about every app that can be frozen and what the purpose is of that specific app.
And this will take a a lot time.
When done, we will see.
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Sounds great, but my first goal is to make some kind of spreadsheet with good information about every app that can be frozen and what the purpose is of that specific app.
And this will take a a lot time.
When done, we will see.
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Why don't you just throw it up on Google Docs and iterate slowly - and also getting the community to chip in. Like so -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmzC8GFarItSdGpOZzBfWlR4MC03aDMyZ1BDUFNqU0E&usp=sharing
Would be also good to get a level of battery usage.
Like High Medium Low. Know it would take ages but maybe make a collaborative piece so we can all help out!
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Would be also good to get a level of battery usage.
Like High Medium Low. Know it would take ages but maybe make a collaborative piece so we can all help out!
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My experience with freezing is that it will save some battery, but don't expect miracles.
For example, without freezing i will lose about 1% a hour at standby and now i will lose less 0.5%.
But every % is one .
And i just hate it when i spent a lot of money to buy a nice expensive smartphone, it is loaded with bloatware i don't use and eating resources.
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I couldn't find a list of apps that could be frozen last Saturday, but I found one via the forums search for the Galaxy S4. So if you really want to make a google spreadsheet, I would start with the S4 one as a template as it already contains a lot of information about apps that can be found on the note 3. I just checked through the spreadsheet to verify that I didn't freeze anything I need (I looked up which apps run in the background and then checked the spreadsheet before freezing an app). But having a complete list with info about what app-freeze impacts what other apps would be great too. Just found out this morning that I couldn't send SMS as I mistakenly froze the messaging app :silly:
Nice list...Now loving my new toy even more!
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Why don't you just throw it up on Google Docs and iterate slowly - and also getting the community to chip in. Like so -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmzC8GFarItSdGpOZzBfWlR4MC03aDMyZ1BDUFNqU0E&usp=sharing
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Updated
perosredo said:
Why don't you just throw it up on Google Docs and iterate slowly - and also getting the community to chip in. Like so -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmzC8GFarItSdGpOZzBfWlR4MC03aDMyZ1BDUFNqU0E&usp=sharing
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This is looking great, i have put the link to the OP, if you aren't agreeing with it, just let me know.
Hey guys, I've been a longtime member of xda-developers and I've been working on this app for the past few months with a team. I'd love to get your feedback on it.
Bento is an intelligent android launcher with a personalized stream of cards (similar to Google now, but we think its better) http://www.bentoapp.com/
Sign up for the beta here
Features:
Search including apps, contacts, play store, locations and Google
Ranked and organized notifications
Dock with recently used apps
Personalized Yelp, Uber, concert, Soundcloud and Youtube recommendations
Local weather card
Calendar card
and many more cards!
Signed up for the alpha. Will respond as soon as I can download.
Very nice idea. Reminds me of aviate launcher mixed with Google now launcher, but looks way awesomer. Signed for the alpha too. Very interested in this project
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Very nice idea. Reminds me of aviate launcher mixed with Google now launcher, but looks way awesomer. Signed for the alpha too. Very interested in this project
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You're absolutely right. Also, Aviate has changed a lot since the acquisition by Yahoo. This project looks great.
Waiting for download link to appear
Signed up... Waiting for the alpha version.
We just launched our website and put up a blog post
We also launched version 0.3 today which includes the following changes:
- A YouTube Music card personalized to your music preferences
- A brand new on-boarding experience for new users
- A new Settings area to let you add, edit, and delete Saved Locations
- Major algorithmic improvements for the Contextual Apps card
- Bug fixes
-- Fix cards flashing when stream updates
-- Fix bug that allowed swiping card to left
-- Fix for swiping away of cards when scrolling vertically
-- Fixes for Notification card syncing and ranking
If you signed up for the alpha but for some reason never got in please PM me.
Signed up to test it out
Signed up for Beta, however says it is not on Play Store as of yet. Got an APK we can download by chance?
Signed up as well looks promising, joined group just getting 0 of 0
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Signed up for Beta, however says it is not on Play Store as of yet. Got an APK we can download by chance?
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Can you try going here http://www.bentoapp.com/ and clicking join the beta? We've changed the sign up a bit. You should be able to immediately access the beta google group from there. Once you've joined the google group, you should see a link to the beta. Let me know if this doesn't work for you.
There is no link shows up for me also. Just a blank Group Page.
Blank group for me as well. Also tried to use desktop mode. Brings me to the welcome message in the group with a playstore link. Playstore link does not work.
Download link not working
Download link after joining beta from your website is not working.
edit: Works after manually copying and pasting link!
can't download from play store, item not found
edit: downloaded, some playstore or phone bug
Looks promising.
Signed up but it's just an empty Google groups page. Um, what do I do?
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Signed up but it's just an empty Google groups page. Um, what do I do?
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Same here.
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We're really sorry about the blank google groups page. This is the link to download the app. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.bento.launcher . There have been multiple issues with the way play store beta membership groups work and we have tried to fix all of the issues.
If clicking on the above link takes you to a page that says "App doesn't exist" or "Page not found", you could try a few things:
Please wait a few minutes and open the link again.
Ensure that the default account you used to sign into your browser is the same as used to sign up for the Bento Beta Google group.
Ensure that your play store account is using the same email you used to sign up for the Bento Beta Google group
If all else fails, please email [email protected]
Joined beta group from site without at hitch, got from Play, installed and ran. Playing with this, looks quite interesting. Later, google+ did not have me in the "community" so requested that as well.
First and second reactions:
1. Intriguing concept. Looks like it belongs in Ubuntu.
2. Weather card should be location-based (maybe it is). Default units should be locale based. How to set up?
3. To facilitate testing, might be better as a launcher overlay rather than a full launcher. But it is very easy to switch homes from settings (was not always the case). Actually, it will run as an app except that the app-drawer or screen from which it is run remains visible behind the app folders.
4. App runs as app from app-drawer or folder. Runs (and labeled as) Bento Settings from Bento's app drawer. So found how to get my Celcius and km. Cannot place Bento Settings on the folders.
5. A refresh (or "more") button on cards pane might be in order. Can be mostly blank for long periods of time.
6. Got a "tomorrow" card. Never got "today."
7. Quickly learned how to arrange the folders, add, remove apps. More-or-less just like current stock launchers.
8. Like it or not, we are still part of the Google universe (though Cyanogen/Microsoft and Rational would like to change that). So normal calendar, maps, google+ will be around and should fit in. Google Now should also fit into this scheme.
9. Problem on my ArmV6 dinosaur: Cannot use Google's off-line speech recognition which will crash. I get text into Google Now using a voice search wrapper widget which links with older VoiceSearch on-line recognition (that app also did phone searches like Bento!). Voice input to keyboards, most apps crashes. There is a settings->language&input->voice-recognition choice which should be polled and respected. When Bento has more traction, might persuade the wrapper's dev to do a version that feeds Bento's searchbox intent.
10. The thing has no clock. On other launchers I use chronus so took the clock off status bar. Bento runs immersive mode anyway. (Another reason this is more and app than a launcher.)
11. Getting typed text into search bar is problematic sometimes. KB comes up but does not enter.
More to come ...
I've an oddly specific question: if you search for a location, say a 7-eleven, using the Bing app or Bing in the browser, and you hit the directions button - what navigation app opens, Here WeGo?
Ive just tested it out, So it gives you a web based version of google maps, However you can always do the search in here we go for the 7 eleven, Or you can use google maps but the functions dont all work, Im actually loving here we go, Its clean and super easy to use!
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Ive just tested it out, So it gives you a web based version of google maps, However you can always do the search in here we go for the 7 eleven, Or you can use google maps but the functions don't all work, Im actually loving here we go, Its clean and super easy to use!
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Thanks for testing that out for me. I figured it'd open a web version of Google Maps because that's what happens on other Androids.
I like HERE WeGo too. I'm looking into using Tasker to open Google Maps links in HERE WeGo. But Tasker is kinda complicated for newbies.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vedmobile.sendtonavigation
^ this app opens Google Map links in HERE. Not the nicest implementation, but it works.
'Tron said:
Thanks for testing that out for me. I figured it'd open a web version of Google Maps because that's what happens on other Androids.
I like HERE WeGo too. I'm looking into using Tasker to open Google Maps links in HERE WeGo. But Tasker is kinda complicated for newbies.
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ive never heard of it, so it redirects from the google link process's it and re deploys it into here we go?
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ive never heard of it, so it redirects from the google link process's it and re deploys it into here we go?
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Yep, it does. But you've got to build the task. And Tasker is hard for newbies.
Send to Navigation pretty much does the same thing.