by Pepin » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:01 am
FIXED!
What it was is that this model phone has an build in SD card and an external SD card. I am used to working with the external one where it comes to GPS programs. But I realised this today and thought, lets try... so I copied the Motonav folder from the external SD card to my internal SD card, and 'voila' I started Motonav and it completed its instalation and works perfectly.
Two little issues...
This model of phone (Galaxy S, GT-I9000) is running Android 2.1. Maybe I am not that familiar with Android yet but when I am using Motonav and I press the home button the program is minimized. However, I see no possibility to get back to the program. If I press on the app shortcut it tries to start again and this I suspect is a second run of the same program which results in the GPS not being found. Thus, I first need to go to task manager to close the program. Unfortunately I do not see anywhere how to switch back to the first running one. Task manager only seems to be able to close. I can see that the first one is still running in the background, so that is the problem. Thus, if minimizing Motonav force close it in task manager before restarting it up. (maybe I am just overseeing the program switch function I was used to in WM6.1)
2nd issue, some of the screen is being cut off. My mobile is advertised as 800 x 480, and the downloaded program (see link previous 1st post) says this is also for 800 x 480. Still it cuts off the screen a little. Straight up the bottom buttons only show their top edge, thus still usable although I can't read the text. This is the most irritating cut off as the bottom buttons are almost gone and difficult to press. When on its side the right buttons are also cut off a bit, the last few letters, so also still usable. I am not sure if the poster wrote the correct size (480*800) or if this is maybe anotherversion with size such as the 854x480 one!????
I still have to find out how to access my mobile and its internal SD card through the computer so I can see how to modify things further. Maybe there are some screen settings in a file somewhere???
As I said, programs works fine for the rest. I must say though that I am a little dissapointed in the display of street names. It does give some street names you are passing, but not those further away. In 2D they show all, but in 3D or 3D+ the streets are mostly blank. Not very useful if you drive somewhere new, for which you want the GPS. Of course if you know your destination the search and go to function works fine. But the point is that I also would like to see where I am at. I couldn't find any settings for this, so maybe I have to look at other Android GPS programs and try those out as well. Any suggestions?
Regards,