[Exclusive] To coincide with the launch of 'ovi', Nokia's brand for Internet services, I've discovered that their reworking of Smart2Go, Nokia Maps, has been finally rolled out formally for most S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Full downloads are now available for the likes of the Nokia E61i and E65, as well as full 1.0 upgrades for the Nokia N95 and E90.
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After installation, I found I had to leave the E90 outside for a while for the new s/w to get its bearings, but it's ok now. Still a few bugs, IMHO, but it's nice to see a v1.0 at any rate, as opposed to various beta versions.
Steve
For the N95 it is the 1.2-version!
The light 1.2 version for the N95 does not have
the voice-commands of the 1.0 and 1.1-version.
You have to download those seperately, but they
are not available yet.
I downgraded again to 1.1..
The whole Nokia Maps site has been revamped and you can get a free 3 day trial of voice guidance: http://europe.nokia.com/A4509271
I don't see that the E70 is supported. Does anyone know whether it will be supported?
the ability to have the GPS keep track of where you are when you have a route planned seems to be gone (like when you try to follow the route yourself without voice commands, in the previous version that was free but i can't seem to find it anymore)
Upgraded my N95 just now. Went from "1.1 wk23 b04" to "1.2 wk34 b03" - at least this time I don't seem to have lost my maps!!
Loaded and launched on my N95 and it's been sitting there for half an hour telling me I'm standing in Parliament Square. I'm not, I'm at work in Aylesbury. Good satellite fix, good GPRS signal, so I'm starting to get just a tad worried, now.
Where the installation must be made-phone memory or memory card on E90?
>>Loaded and launched on my N95 and it's been sitting there for half an hour telling me I'm standing in Parliament Square. I'm not, I'm at work in Aylesbury. Good satellite fix, good GPRS signal, so I'm starting to get just a tad worried, now.
Err.... [hint] press '0'
Steve
Working now.
The fluffy clouds in the 3D view are nice, but the '0' key no longer toggles between 2D and 3D, which is a shame.
choosing "find nearby" on my N95 (generic v12 firmware) causes my phone to reset itself, i've tried a few times but no luck
Upgraded my N95 to the latest version
it lost all the maps, so I had to download them again.
Thankfully the map loader is a little quicker these days, took 55 seconds to download the 130mb UK Maps, compared over 7 hours first time round !!
New version is worse though, it was much nicer having the sat position key mapped to the right soft key.
I've found some keyboard shortcuts that work on my E61 and documented theme here -> http://rcopeh.blogspot.com/2007/08/nokia-maps-keyboard-shortcuts-on-nokie.html
Wheres the start tracking feature.
TANKERx wrote:I've found some keyboard shortcuts that work on my E61 and documented theme here -> http://rcopeh.blogspot.com/2007/08/nokia-maps-keyboard-shortcuts-on-nokie.html
Yeah, these are actually given in "help". On a 'normal' keypad, # & * zoom you in and out as before, but '0' now takes you to GPS position, rather than toggling between 2D & 3D, which is now 3 keypresses away in a menu. The right-hand softkey, which used to take you to GPS position, is now 'stop'.
Bizarre.
Can't install on my N95 - keeps giving me an 'Update Error'. Any ideas?
I installed but now doing seach my phone reboots time after time!
..for N80ie using N73 version (which worked for previous versions)
I had the same problem. Worked after I ran backup, then reset the device *#7370#. Try at own risk...
Where's the N80 version? F***in' Nokia!
Downloading maps via PC doesn't work now. The phone doesn't load the map. When I zoom into a region the screen is that yellowish white.
Boo, they seem to have removed the useful "start tracking" feature from the N95 version. Are there any ways to get this back (besides buying navigation)?
I've been playing with this throughout the day. It looks like the location of the maps on the memory card is a problem. The Maps application seems to use the directory named Private\20001f63\diskcache while for some reason the new Maploader application puts the downloaded map files into a directory named cities\diskcache. In fact when I used the new version of Maploader to try to delete stored maps it didn't do anything to Private\20001f63\diskcache at all and just left the files there. When I used Maploader to get the maps again (since I thought I cleaned them out) it just created the cities\diskcache directory and dumped the newly dowloaded files there. Effectively I had the maps on the memory card twice. I ended up deleting the diskcache directories from both locations, redownloading the maps again which put them in cities\diskcache, and then moving them manually to Private\20001f63\diskcache. The Maps app then came right up and routing started working without problems. O yes, I forgot to mention that the old map files seem to be not completely compatible with the new Maps application and cause it to crash a lot. In fact, before I figured out that new map files were downloaded to a wrong directory, the Maps application must have been using the map files I had on the memory card from before and every time I tried to get it to calculate a route between any two points it would say "calculating route" for a few minutes and then it would just crash. I hope that all this is making sense to at least some of you here and that you'll find it useful if you are having similar problems. I have no idea why Maploader insists on saving dowloaded files to one folder while Maps is looking for them in another one. If this is happening for everybody not just me, why Nokia would realease it in such a state is beyond me. Comments anyone...?
P.S.: I forgot to mention that I have an E90 and I'm not sure whether this petains to E90 only or if it happens on other models as well.
Signed, Monkey (my HoFo handle - don't have one here)
Just installed this latest update and comment as follows:
Although the user interface has been improved slightly, the routes planned are still far from ideal.
In my local area even when the option to provide the fastest route is selected, the software will provide a convoluted route through minor roads and busy town centres when there is an alternative (and faster) route available via dual carriage way By-pass that avoids the town centre!
Another down side is that my E90 menu button (left centre of D pad) no longer brings up the S60 UI menus after a single press. Has anybody else experienced this?
I can also confirm that "find nearby" causes my n95 to reboot every time.
Seem to have the same problem regarding data location; despite downloading and installing maps using maploader (into cities\diskcache), when I run the maps application it still is trying to download the data itself. This is on an N95.
Unregistered wrote:Seem to have the same problem regarding data location; despite downloading and installing maps using maploader (into cities\diskcache), when I run the maps application it still is trying to download the data itself. This is on an N95.
I have the same problem. And I mean exactly the same and it's a real pain.