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Help Google Navigation Not Saying Street Names

I had the same problem: 4.04 updated today, but navigation was still mis-behaving.
But I uninstalled Google Maps updates, reinstalled the updates, and then cleared the cache and stopped the application.
After all that, it seems to be behaving as hoped: street names are announced and everything.
 
Cam said:
I'm still having this issue after the 4.0.4. update...
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someone on the other thread about this subject said his didn't work until he cleared his cache...I didn't have to do that and mine worked with the 4.04 update but might as well try it, and a reboot never hurt either.
 
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zebug said:
someone on the other thread about this subject said his didn't work until he cleared his cache...I didn't have to do that and mine worked with the 4.04 update but might as well try it, and a reboot never hurt either.
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Worth a shot. Thanks. :)
 
Yay...updated to Android 4.0.4 and the problem is solved.
I updated the maps app last week and it did not fix. Got the OTA update on my Verizon Gnex and its good to go.

I'm not rooted and have a fully stock phone.
 
I did get street names back, but I had to delete the Maps cache first.

Here's the full story:
Stock GSM Gnex (Verizon). Lost street names a month or more ago, so I downgraded Maps to remove all updates. That gave me spoken street names, but meant some newer features weren't there.

I forced the ICS 4.04 update yesterday (using the Google Services Framework method earlier in this thread), then went the Google Play (Market) and re-installed the Maps updates. To my sorrow, at first the street names still weren't there.

But I went into Settings > Apps > All > Maps , and deleted the cache and stopped the application (just for good measure). For me, that solved the problem. I have all the new features of Maps, and the text-to-speech street names back.

FWIW: I had installed some GVOX street names on an earlier Droid to get a more pleasant-sounding voice, and while they were very nice quality voices, they were significantly fainter than the brassy default voice and a little bit flakey. Every once in a while, they'd just disappear (with the street names, interestingly). I experimented a lot at the time, and began to feel like the stupid voices were taking more of my life than I really wanted it to. Eventually a Maps update on that device made GVOX stop working, and I just let it go.

Has anyone had good luck with the GVOX names on ICS 4.04? How's the volume? Does it read the street names reliably?
 
I am on a holding pattern on Cynaogenmod 7.2.
Is there a way to fix ro work around this problem without upgrading to ICS?
 
I'm on 6.12.0 and it works perfectly. After loading some ROMS it does seem to stop working but a simple clearing of data/force stop or delete and redownload of maps from the play store and it kicks it back in everytime
 
I haven't used mine in about 2 weeks, but at that time, the street names were being read. However, it was always anywhere from 50-250 feet off.
It was say "in 250ft turn right", 2 seconds later I was passing the street.
 
bcote311 said:
... but a simple clearing of data/force stop or delete and redownload of maps from the play store and it kicks it back in everytime
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OMG, force-stop - clear - reinstall did the trick for me!
(I was sure I had tried this before)

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply!
This was a long-nagging issue for me.
 
I'm pretty sure that Google Maps stops pronouncing street names when your cell data consumption gets above some preset percentage of your wifi data consumption.

I think this is because I was recently living in a dorm that didn't have wifi and so my phone was rarely connected to wifi. But my actual data consumption was no higher than typical. That's when my phone first stopped saying street names.

I reset the cache of Google Maps and sure enough it started saying street names again, but only for a short while. Then I'd have to go back and reset the cache again. That was until I came back home where I have a wifi network. Since I've been home, I haven't had to reset the cache. And yet my cellular data usage is probably higher than it was at the dorm.

I think Google must outsource the pronunciation of street names to its servers just as it outsources speech recognition, and its using the percentage of cellular data to wifi data as a barometer to decide whether it should conserve data or not.

This is just speculation, and it's not really a fix, but I'd be interested to know if any of your experiences match mine.
 
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