Ovi Maps 3.4 rebooting your Nokia smartphone?

Haven't had this issue on my E52, the only problem I have is with the music player.

For some reason it handle m4a files really poorly and sometimes skip them or don' t show the album art or whatever, which is stupid as it's a format one can rip the CDs to in Nokia Ovi Player.

I wish Nokia could fix this ASAP as it's been an issue for quite some time, or simply just add support for the ogg vorbis format, which I would prefer to use.

I have this issue also on my X6 and do not have JoikuSpot installed. It also is very slow on getting a GPS fix with this version and it is much quicker to get that in Google Maps and then switch back...

Mine the N97 kept restarting after I had changed the location server to supl.google.com instead of the default blank.

I set it to supl.nokia.com and then it started working fine.

Cheers!!!

Agreed with zloc blog

The JoikuSpot issue is real, see their release notes for version 3.0.

Whether there is another issue that Ovi Maps team should be notified about, then by all means, notify them. Otherwise yes, everything is more or less buggy, including this blog post ...

I was experiencing complete meltdown on my 5800 when starting Ovi Maps 3.4 with Wi-Fi positioning enabled. Switching off the Wi-Fi positioning stopped the crashes. Updating JoikuSpot Premium to v3.0 lets me have Wi-Fi positioning on again.

I'm glad that a solution has been found, especially after Maps Booster was killed by v40 firmware on the 5800 (and v50).

My E72 has rebotted 7 times and the Ovi maps app does not work after the crash. Only solutin is to rebuild the E72 with a master reset. I've had this issue for over 2 months now! Had to stop using my E72 because of this issue. The N97 and now th E72 having problems - Nokia has never been so poor.

I have Ovi Maps 3.4 on my 5800 NAM model.
I also been having the random reboot issue on my 5800 just recently, but i didn't pay attention to if it was due to Ovi maps or not. Since most of the times, when it has rebooted, it has happened when i am not doing anything on the phone.

On another note, i don't know, if others have had the below bugs on their phones or not, but this is what i see on my 5800, not sure if it is just 3.4 or in any maps version.
The search function in Ovi Maps is terrible.
For ex: if i enter 201 S. 4th st. san jose ca, it doesn't recognize it, if i enter same address without "ca", it recognizes it. But if i enter 201 south 4th st. it doesn't recognize it or similar instances. Sometimes, you have to enter in some specific way only, else it doesn't recognize the address.

There are many such search related bugs, i really hope they fix this first in next version.

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without "ca", it recognizes it. But if i enter 201 south 4th st. it doesn't recognize it or similar instances. Sometimes, you have to enter in some specific way only, else it doesn't recognize the address.

There are many such search related bugs, i really hope they fix this first in next version.

Try putting a comma between Jose and CA.

I don't get crashes, but would any of this explain why my E72 has stopped getting a GPS signal, whether it's Ovi Maps, Google Maps or the new Sportstracker.

They all used to work, and that was after the last firmware upgrade too, but it's stopped working now.

I can go into the 'GPS Position' app and see the GPS fix data. Sportstracker actually shows plenty of satellites. Ovi Maps tells me nothing about any kind of satellite lock. All of them just don't lock onto a GPS position at all despite clear blue sky and no buildings.

Ovi and Google do lock onto a Wi-Fi position however.

I've even tried using an external bluetooth GPS and enabling the setting for that in the phone. Again, the GPS Position app gets the position fine. The apps don't.

On a side note, my external bluetooth GPS gets a solid fix, despite not having A-GPS, and yet the internal GPS wanders around like mad. Even when it did used to work it was not an accurate fix.

Oh and I don't have Joikuspot.

Don't have reboots on my E52, but rather something is eating battery real fast. Once I found event log full of connections to my home wi-fi network. When this happens the phone becomes almost unresponsive, looks like something use CPU fully.

And I also experience poor support of m4a, just like Kazutoyo mentioned. What's interesting, in some previous firmware they played.

My E72 also crashed every time i installed 3.4 Maps. I always had to do a full reset and after that I tried installing the 3.4 Version again - always with the same result - it chrashes.

Now I just dont do an update to 3.4 and just use the older version wich is installed in the latest firmware.

I had the crash issue with Ovi Maps 3.4 on my N97 as well, but it helped upgrading Joikuspot to the latest version.

Unregistered wrote:Try putting a comma between Jose and CA.

It doesn't work always, i have had many instances where i have tried that also, it doesn't still search. It is very random search, sometimes, if i type the address of some POI or some city name, it doesn't recognize the city name also, but then if i keep my gps on and just reach that city, then the city name shows up in the "My position" data, but search doesn't show any results for that city name.

So i think that the search is severely flawed, it should either try any combination of address. I think the web-based version of ovi maps is even worse in search than the mobile version. I don't know, if it's just for US addresses only or not, but it's frustrating many times. I am glad it's free, i wouldn't pay a penny for this otherwise at the current state of quality.

Free navigation forever... constant rebooting forever haha!
Ovi Maps is rubbish.

I Live in the border between France and Switzerland. Some cities of Switzerland shows in Maps as France cities.

I have a E71 and Joiku, and have been a happy customer of Joiku until recently. I';m not sure if they have had a management change or something, but starting at Version 2.6 you are unable to change your SSID. It has to have "Joikuspot__" on the front of it. ther is no functional difference.

Apparently it is more unstable, I haven't upgraded my OVI to 3.4 yet (mostly lazy). Maybe I will dooo that today and test its compatibility with earlier Joiku.

Steve

I've had that issue since end 2009 on my N97, all Firmwares, all Updates on Maps. Only thing to fix this, is disabling cell id positioning from options menu.

I have just driven from Cornwall to Brighton using my 5800 with the latest maps. The phone rebooted twice, shut down completely once and lost its blue tooth connection once and no I don't have JP installed. PS Whilst for about 95% of the time its good it does take you on some odd routings. Starting to wonder if I should bite the bullet and get a new sat nav for the car

My 5800 had 37mb of free space before i upgraded to the new ovimaps. After the upgrade, I have 20mb left! Nokia installed C lib and lots of other stuff which I promptly deleted. Loading bloatware like Micro$haft.....! Don't upgrade!!

On my E52 I have to disable the 'Wi-fi positioning' method, otherwise it won't find my position at all.
Updating needs de-installing first (and rebooting, of course), even then I get a system error during installation. But it works fine for me in Germany and on holiday in Sweden.

BUT: if I take out the battery (SIM-Card-Change on holiday), I can't start Ovi Maps. Nothing happens. Re-installing helps (yes: de-installing, rebooting etc. first), but you have to be sure, you have the installation-files with you!

And I agree: the web-version of ovi-maps is annoying.

cant take credit for this but none of the other 'solutions' worked for me but this one did:

1 = uninstall completely nokia maps and ovi maps from phone (i seemed to have both entries)
2 = using file manager, navigate to E:\ and delete CITIES folder (this is the bad boy i suspect - i also rebooted here to be sure)
3 = install ovi maps via 'sw update' in settings

mine works great now - not tried reinstating wifi positioning yet but others have said its ok - good luck hope it works for everyone

Chris