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Google Maps Navigation Released For Donut

As we know, Android 2.0 Eclair received a great update to Google Maps providing it with turn-by-turn navigation but until now it wasn’t available for other devices without “hacking”…heaven forbid! Well that’s all changing now as Google has released Google Maps 3.2.1 to the Android Market with Navigation for 1.6 Donut devices.

I’d test it out to let you know what it’s like but the installation is currently not working properly on my Cyanogen 4.2.5 ROM, there’s got to be some irony in there somewhere! So if you’re unrooted just go grab the Market update, it’s free of course, and if not then try find a work-around for the installation as I’m doing just now ;)

Update:

If, like me, you have been getting an installation error saying that “Package file was not signed correctly” try the following to remove your current maps apk:

Connect to adb and open a command prompt/terminal:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/*Maps*
adb shell rm /system/sd/app/*Maps*
adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

After this the update via the Market worked fine but I don’t see any sign of Navigation here in the UK

Mik

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