Help Google Maps Persistent Crashing

[fergusmacdonald]

Hi there,

I have an HTC One X. While using Google Maps a couple of days ago, I zoomed into an address in Bratislava, Slovakia. I then selected to 'precache map area' as I have the labs extension 'precache maps' installed.

I think the precaching process crashed or was not able to complete for some reason.

Since then, every time I look at the same area on the map, Google Maps crashes.

I've tried clearing cache/data of Google Maps. I've tried uninstalling the updates to it, then re-installing them. I've tried doing all of the above and then disabling the app, restarting the phone and then re-enabling it. Lastly, I've tried a hard reset (without deleting data on /sdcard).

I can confirm that after clearing data/cache that the sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps directory gets removed, so that presumably confirms that the cache has actually cleared. Is that where precaching stores it's caches?

Any help/ideas on resolving it would be much appreciated.

 

[Rush]

Thread moved to the One X forums.

 

[GripnRip]

I noticed this also this weekend. On my TF101 and on both mine and my wife's Evos Google maps is constantly crashing for some reason. I wonder if the latest update broke something or if it's a server issue on their side.

 

[fergusmacdonald]

Interestingly I just precached another area (not overlapping problematic area) and now it works properly.

The difficulty I had is that I'm in the area that it was crashing every time it loaded, so when you start the app it tries to zoom in on your location. I managed to catch it and move the map off my current location then precache another area. When I then clicked the button to go to my location, it loaded fine!

It looks like some kind of bug with precaching with me I think.