I am trying to find a way to use my A1000 as a GPS device in my car, similar to how PDAs work with TomTom.
I know the A1000 has assisted GPS and a standard GPS only mode, and it's the non-assisted version I would like to use to avoid network bills.
I am wanting voice guidance if possible, but would settle without it if I got a constant moving map and postcode to postcode guidance.
I have seen TomTom mobile, but they don't seem to do one for the A1000 at the moment.
I have tried a free product that I found online, but it didn't include maps (you had to create your own) and didn't use the internal GPS, you require an external GPS source.
Can anyone advise a decent bit of software, free or otherwise, that I can use on my A1000 to make it in to a decent GPS device for the car. If I do require an external Bluetooth GPS device then please advise.
Thanks
Not so sure about if you need an external GPS source, but I can tell you that the only navigation software available for UIQ is Wayfinder. You'll have to download the maps though.
www.wayfinder.com
This could be an issue then as Three have blocked all internet access so downloading maps would be a problem unless you network your phone via a PC.
Do you know if you can download maps on your PC and just transfer them to the phone?
I have emailed the UK rep for this software so hopefuly he can answer a few questions for me, but any input here is welcome.
Thanks
I've been using a program for my Pocket PC called SmartST Version made by Navman - www.navman.com. It installs the maps on a memory card. the PDA has a GPS reader installed on it and you place a small movable receiver on the dashboard of your car. It also has voice guidance. Once I get my A1000 to sync properly with Outlook 2003 I was planning to install the software and see if it would run on the A1000 platform. As soon as I have I'll send you an update - MarcPDAfan
I'm afraid SmartST will only run on PPC, even though a Palm variant is available.
You're right! That will never work! PPC and Symbian UIQ are COMPLETELY different OSes, so you can forget about installing PPC apps on an A1000...
Thanks for the heads up you've saved me alot of time. I'm starting to wonder where are the advantages in using the Symbian platform, particularly with the walled internet garden.
The walled internet garden has nothing to do with Symbian, but with "3" who has restricted it! Other Symbian phones don't have the same "problem".
Delta737 wrote:The walled internet garden has nothing to do with Symbian, but with "3" who has restricted it! Other Symbian phones don't have the same "problem".
The problem is that the A9xx-series was not very popular (too heavy, too big etc.). But right know, with all the 3G-stuff coming up in every country around the world, the A1000 will become a lot more popular then the older Motorola phones.
And because of the integrated GPS-receiver, the phone has the perfect specs for programming a navigation software. I think, it is only a matter of time, till some of the series 60 navi-programs will be available for the A1000 as well (and then even without the necessity of an internet connection).
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Alex
Hi,
first post - yaaaaay 😊
anyway...
it doesn't do wayfinding/directions, but the location & mapping is quite good
check out nhGPS (from www.nhgps.com)
you can also download maps and calibrate them on the phone (very cool).
the map sources are defined in an xml file, which, with a little work can be modified to include the appropriate mapservers from your part of the world.
nhGPS suposedly works with the internal GPS on the a1000 also (although I've yet to do this, as I'm very happy with the bluetooth module I'm using (fortuna clip-on))
comment on another item mentioned in the thread...
"walled garden internet" - no, you can access the realworld internet with 3netacess connection *** UNLESS (and it took a while to work this out) you are on pre-paid service (internet access is no longer available to pre-paid customers - in Australia anyway)
cheers (and hello),
glenn
also, I was using MONAS on a p800 (until I dropped it in a big way) which was quite good to (it also works on the a1000), but I don't think it can grab maps 'on-the-fly' (I could be wrong)
So do I wait to see what GPS products turn up for the A1000 or do I go and buy a PDA and BT kit or a GPS dedicated system etc??
I looked at Wayfinder for the A1000 that works now, but it's crap and expensive AND you have to subscribe to it unlike the Tomtom systems that are free once purchased.
I've just tried the nhgps application and it works fine on my A1000. Now I just have to figure a way to create maps and download them to the device. I downloaded a few maps for fun from the suggested site www.mapquest.com and they're quite good. My GPRS bill will go sky high if I have to do this for every map I need though.
I got bored of trying this and of waiting for a decent solution for the A1000.
Let's face it, it's exclusive to a less than popular network and it's from Motorola, not Nokia, so the chance of some company putting in time to develop something decent like Tomtom for it is slim. Also Motorola wasted a good phone by limiting the installation of software to the main phone.
I went out and bought a full on in car GPS system in the end.
nehrert wrote:I've just tried the nhgps application and it works fine on my A1000. Now I just have to figure a way to create maps and download them to the device. I downloaded a few maps for fun from the suggested site www.mapquest.com and they're quite good. My GPRS bill will go sky high if I have to do this for every map I need though.
turn your phone to "aeroplane mode"
connect to your pc
open nhgps
tap screen where you want a new map
select download map here
choose server and map size ( I use multimap.com )
phone will download the map using your PC's internet connection and not gprs 😉
You allso can use absalutly free software for GPS from http://go-mobile.narod.ru
Weekend wrote:You allso can use absalutly free software for GPS from http://go-mobile.narod.ru
Shame the map making instructions are in Russian.
Not sure how hard it is to do yet though, will download and look at it when I get home from work.
My A1000 is in my bad books today anyway. I woke up this morning to find an error message saying that the internal memory was full. This was then followed by a message saying 'reformatting phone' and that was it. All my personalisation gone, all my software gone and worst of all all my phone numbers gone!! Bloody phone!
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I dont know if this helps at all, but I found someone who actually created his own GPS Software for the 920, 925, and A1000. He is aparently a computer programer and I dont know how he did it but it sounds good. He is availible for PM if you have questions and his software is 100% free to download and posted on his site. The only problem is that it does not include maps, however, you might be able to access maps from www.mapquest.com using whatever method you chose. As soon as I get my A1000 I am going to test it and see how it works.(About 1 week from now.....ARG!! THE WAIT!!) Here is the link if you want to check it out... http://per.nitro.dk/ Good Luck and let me know how it goes!
I have yet to hear any review about it yet, but Navicore have an A1000 compatible product. It does not recognise the internal GPS, but comes comes with an external unit
Hello lalaland
I too am having problems with my A1000 Motorola Phone. I am with the 3 Australia network, 3 Australia tell me they do not support GP(R)S which is a problem for me as I have just purchased a TomTom G0 500 GPS device. In the belief it would use the bluetooth capabilites of my phone as above, only to find that although in theory it uses the GPRS features of the phone. However to my disappointment I was told by the 3 network it does not support it.
Another family member however using a Nokia telephone and the 3 network, was able to sync his telephone via the 3 network to my TomTom Go 500. Now I am just confused and like you just want to be able to use the features of both telephone and GPS device in sync with each other for all the obvious reasons.