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Offline turn by turn navigation app for android ?

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ciproxr

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Anyone know an app that i can use without data that has turn by turn directions.

I been looking on the net for a long time now and i cant find anything.

can be either paid or free.
 
I'd like to know if this exists too, but I was under the impression that the GPS chips used in smartphones isn't a full-fledged GPS solution so we'll always need a data connection and data plan. No replacement for a standalone GPS navigation device for offline use yet.
 
mapdroyd dosent work on my phone, as soon as i hit the locate button the map gets messed up and the united states is now part of africa lol

CoPilot Live seems to be what im looking for and it only cost's 5 bucks

anyone have any other suggestions ?
 
tdawg said:
I'd like to know if this exists too, but I was under the impression that the GPS chips used in smartphones isn't a full-fledged GPS solution so we'll always need a data connection and data plan. No replacement for a standalone GPS navigation device for offline use yet.
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No that not right. TomTom has been working on winmo phones for years now.
 
from what i read data only helps it find the location faster but is not needed.

copilot looks nice but i heard of people having activation issues and poor support.

also another thing i dont like about it, it seems the need to download the whole map of north america rather than just my state, i dont want a 2gb download on my phone, i dont plan on going to canada or any other states and if i do i have a dedicated gps for that.
 
ciproxr said:
from what i read data only helps it find the location faster but is not needed.

copilot looks nice but i heard of people having activation issues and poor support.

also another thing i dont like about it, it seems the need to download the whole map of north america rather than just my state, i dont want a 2gb download on my phone, i dont plan on going to canada or any other states and if i do i have a dedicated gps for that.
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Well either you have to store all the data on your phone or you download it as you go, and as you don't want to do the latter...
 
WelshBloke said:
No that not right. TomTom has been working on winmo phones for years now.
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Isn't there a difference between AGPS and GPS? The standalone devices and outdoor nav units have standard GPS while phones are saddled with AGPS chips, right? I was under the impression AGPS was a sort of neutered GPS solution to force users into having a data plan.
 
tdawg said:
Isn't there a difference between AGPS and GPS? The standalone devices and outdoor nav units have standard GPS while phones are saddled with AGPS chips, right? I was under the impression AGPS was a sort of neutered GPS solution to force users into having a data plan.
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AGPS is, if anything, an improvement on standard GPS.

AGPS uses cell phone data in addition to satellite data to get a fix. It will still work without cellphone data its just quicker with it.
 
I find Mapdroyd to be a pretty good solution for offline navigation. It does not require a data connection and you can choose which maps to download. It does not have turn-by-turn style directions, but it can locate you on a 2D plot of a map in realtime once your GPS signal locks on.

I was excited to hear about Google adding offline turn-by-turn, however, I haven't seen any way to explicitly tell it to cache data for a geographic area. It's supposed to just do it intelligently based on where you are, but I don't find this to be a reliable solution.

There may be other apps out there more like a full fledged "TomTom" for android, but everything I have seen has gotten poor reviews.

As far as I understand, the GPS in phones does not implicitly rely upon a data connection. I certainly have been able to use the GPS location features in my phone without data.
 
ciproxr said:
which one ? 2.3 ? i have 2.2 already
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If you at least have a 2.x Android phone you should already have the newest Google Maps if you updated it. There's limitations to it though, it'll only cache up to a certain amount of data and your most frequently used routes will be cached.
 
Aura is pretty good it uses tomtom maps and you can download maps for US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Best thing is you don't need to download the whole pack i.e if you want US you can get them by states.
 
aura looks pretty good, a little pricey at 30 bucks for the usa maps but if it works well it might be worth it.
 
I've used CoPilot Live 8 in the past (and plan to do so on my next road trip). It does the job without an active data connection (main reason for using) and the voice direction sounds half decent (i.e. the google navigation "robot" voice is well...). Could be a little faster, but very usable; this is on a Sprint Hero.
 
NavDroyd is made by the makers of MapDroyd. Works okay, is cheap, and doesn't need data. Will also work without a cell connection. And you can download state by state blocks.

As far as the working without data limitation, when I was looking into these before for my Droid, some points came up. It will work fine in Airplane mode or no reception areas, but you would still need to toggle the airplane mode off initially to power it up it seems.

I would recommend setting points in the app before heading out, it's definitely not Google 😛
 
AGPS is not Alternative GPS. Its assisted GPS. It helps find locale based on the location of cell towers and whichever one you are talking to at the time. If you dont have nearby access to a cell tower it works like normal GPS. Thats why people want to download all of Google Maps to their 16GB memory cards. Then its just like a standalone.
 
Am downloading map for Aura now. Kinda irritated the base data is 300MB. Frigging Streets And Trips isnt that big (the program, not the map data).
But downloading states as I need is a great system. VA, DC, MD. Simple.
 
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