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posted 2014-12-11 09:09:08 +0200

Serious map/GPS problems - please please help

The only thing that was crucial and a worry to me when buying this phone was having a decent enough map/sat-nav/GPS app, after having an iPhone for years and having the brilliant, easy and virtually bug free iphone maps

This is a list of all the apps you guys have recommended to me and print screens of what they do on my phone

  • Jolla maps - as everyone already knows, all that does is give a list of instructions, no real-time/turn-by-turn actions

  • Here maps (beta version) - You search for location, press go, and it just stays on 'waiting for gps' - http://i59.tinypic.com/2w7kc47.jpg

-MapFactor. I downloaded all the UK maps as recommended, for offline use. For starters, the 'search through google' function doesn't work. What a suprise. So you have to find where you want to go another way (very hard). And it just stays on this page whilst youre driving http://i61.tinypic.com/24ay7g2.jpg

  • NavFree - Another super hard app to use with most functions broke (searching by google again for example), you finally find where you want to go (roughly) and it just says this - http://i59.tinypic.com/261kxo4.jpg

  • OsmAnd - find where you want to go, just says position not yet known - http://i60.tinypic.com/2njx844.jpg

  • MAPS.ME Pro - Once youve found where you want to go, just says this - http://i61.tinypic.com/28inq5z.jpg

Please can someone help me? Surely all these apps aren't this bad? Otherwise I have no other option to return to iPhone and return this phone before my 14 days refund period is up. Which would be a shame, cus apart from this, I do like the phone, and love having something 'different'

It's as if my phone's ability to locate where I am just isn't working. And yes I have it turned on in settings

Serious map/GPS problems - please please help

The only thing that was crucial and a worry to me when buying this phone was having a decent enough map/sat-nav/GPS app, after having an iPhone for years and having the brilliant, easy and virtually bug free iphone maps

This is a list of all the apps you guys have recommended to me and print screens of what they do on my phone

  • Jolla maps - as everyone already knows, all that does is give a list of instructions, no real-time/turn-by-turn actions

  • Here maps (beta version) - You search for location, press go, and it just stays on 'waiting for gps' - http://i59.tinypic.com/2w7kc47.jpg

-MapFactor.

  • MapFactor. I downloaded all the UK maps as recommended, for offline use. For starters, the 'search through google' function doesn't work. What a suprise. So you have to find where you want to go another way (very hard). And it just stays on this page whilst youre driving http://i61.tinypic.com/24ay7g2.jpg

    • NavFree - Another super hard app to use with most functions broke (searching by google again for example), you finally find where you want to go (roughly) and it just says this - http://i59.tinypic.com/261kxo4.jpg

    • OsmAnd - find where you want to go, just says position not yet known - http://i60.tinypic.com/2njx844.jpg

    • MAPS.ME Pro - Once youve found where you want to go, just says this - http://i61.tinypic.com/28inq5z.jpg

    Please can someone help me? Surely all these apps aren't this bad? Otherwise I have no other option to return to iPhone and return this phone before my 14 days refund period is up. Which would be a shame, cus apart from this, I do like the phone, and love having something 'different'

    It's as if my phone's ability to locate where I am just isn't working. And yes I have it turned on in settings