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2011-02-22 , 08:35
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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Is Navigation part of Google Maps 5? I had assumed they were two separate apps since that is how they appear in the apps menu. That may explain why I could not find Navigation in Titanium Backup to backup, uninstall and reinstall (or maybe it was there and I just couldn't find it).
Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
As for the navigation crashing it happens everytime I put in a destination. The app opens up fine but when I try to set destination that is when it crashes. Just the typical force closure issue. Screen goes black, device vibrates and then I get a message "Sorry! The application Maps (process com.google.android.apps.maps) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again" And then there is one option only "Force Close".

EDIT: Uninstalled and reinstalled Google Maps and still have the same problem so that is not a fix. Also tried using walking navigation rather than car (lol) but still got an immediate crash.
I know this sounds weird.. but.. try changing your default speech synthesizer to "espeak". I saw it mentioned here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...c6d54a8b&hl=en

You can do this by going from your desktop, hitting the "Menu" soft key, tap "Settings", tap "Voice input and output", tap "Text-to-speech settings" and tap on "Default engine".

I'm using Pico TTS myself and I'm not running into problems, but it seemed to fix it for people who voted up that solution.

Let me know if that worked or not--I'm very curious.

Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Well, this is as good a place as any to mention that I expect not to be posting as much on this site as I've followed through on my threat to get a non-smart phone and in the future get a tablet for my leisure computing activities. Needless to say, the tablet won't be from Nokia, which no longer offers one. And the non-smart phone isn't either. I bought an N800, N810, and two N900s, but this is pretty much the end of the line. I am going to try to hold off on buying the tablet for a bit, as the best seems yet to come. I'm typing this on a Dell Latitude D400 I bought in Moscow almost ten years ago; now that I reformatted it and am running in Linux, it's faster than ever.
Along with the myriad of others who've graced this site, I will miss seeing your contributions and postings.

Originally Posted by crasbelize View Post
Did anybody hear about this:Samsung decided to share!
Old news, but man it's good news just the same, yes. Actually, it's something of a mixed blessing since (as mentioned earlier) there's a lot of tarballs and no repository. Still...

Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Okay throw whatever insults you want at me. I deserve it. I have cleverly managed to uninstall the built in ebook app without backing it up first (thought I had found better alternatives but was wrong). Anyway to get it back without reflashing the device (won't necessarily be the end of the world if it fixes the apps force closure issue I am having and navigation app not even working at all but would rather not go down that route)?
I wish I had an answer here but I'm in the US, where they sold us all a crippled experience in general. :P
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