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Help Maps restarting on its own

codezer0

codezer0

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Okay, so here's the deal. Periodically, I use Google maps to help me get somewhere... Either somewhere new, or to try and avoid traffic somewhere familiar.

If I'm doing the latter, I usually just close the app when I know the rest of the way.

Not sure what the deal is now, but I find it would then just relaunch itself, including interrupting what I was presently doing on the phone, to renavigate me back to my "destination". I'd like this behavior to stop. How do I do that?
 
Hi, this happens on my HTC M9 if I don't 'Exit navigation' by either tapping 'X' at bottom left of the navigation screen, or pulling down the Notification bar and tapping 'Exit navigation'.

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Yes, stop the navigation first, then close it. Because otherwise it might assume that you've inadvertently closed it, or it crashed, while you still want to find your way. And that's why it restarts and resumes navigation.
 
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tommo47 said:
Hi, this happens on my HTC M9 if I don't 'Exit navigation' by either tapping 'X' at bottom left of the navigation screen, or pulling down the Notification bar and tapping 'Exit navigation'.

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Tapping x doesn't seem to do anything. It'll want to restart anyway. Tried exit navigation at least a couple of times and it'll still come back.

At what point is this exceeding the bounds of navigation and going full on spy mode?
 
Could be acting funky, try resetting it, clearing data and cache. Provided it's not navigating to a particular location, it should definitely stay exited.
 
That's the problem. It keeps trying to re-navigate me back to my previously selected destination. And it doesn't stop until I completely reboot the phone.

Emailing Google via the Play Store link doesn't give me anything more than a canned reply.

Asking around on other forums I frequent linked me to one thread about it on Google's own Forums. It seems to be a pretty endemic problem with the new build. And of course the Play Store will happily try to force-update everyone to the newest version and not let them use a prior version that didn't have this problem. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/fvC384cfD0k
 
The Play Store will only "force update" Maps if you enable (or rather, fail to disable) automatic updates. It's only Play Services and the Play Store itself where updates get pushed regardless.
 
Hadron said:
The Play Store will only "force update" Maps if you enable (or rather, fail to disable) automatic updates. It's only Play Services and the Play Store itself where updates get pushed regardless.
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Yet if I am and do uninstall an app or game that isn't working, and attempt to reinstall, the Play Store will not let me download anything *but* the newest version, that is likely the source of the problem(s). :mad:
 
Oh yeah, the Play Store only ever offers the current version of any app, so if you uninstall Maps then it won't offer you an older version. That's not the same thing as a forced update though.

But you can find many earlier versions of Maps at apkmirror.com, so you aren't stuck even then. Of course if you uninstall a paid app that might, understandably, be harder to find an older version of, in which case contacting the developer remains an option (contacting Google for an older version of one of their apps would of course be a waste of effort).
 
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I usually have to use voice to have it navigate me. Only time I don't do that is if I'm using navigation from a calendar reminder.

There's still no excuse for this behavior, or its incessant disrespect by continuing to relaunch when it should see I'm already at my destination.
 
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