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Tomtom GO not working on S7

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peterh337

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There are many reports online about this, and I have just discovered it myself on a brand new unrooted 930F genuine UK phone!

It doesn't matter whether the 64GB FAT32 SD card is in place when TT is installed; it ignores it and the 6GB of mapdata doesn't go there. In fact no new data appears on the SD card at all. The app itself is dumbed down and has no config for the destination anyway. Their tech support is stonewalling and whitewashing about the SD card but it's nothing to do with it. Everything else works on the SD card fine.

I wonder what other satnav apps are as good as TT?

On my Nokia 808 I had Nokia Maps which worked great right down to a little Greek island...
 
peterh337 said:
Many thanks. Waze is really as good as TT?
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That depends on where you live. Waze requires crowdsourcing from a user base. In major cities that isn't a problem. In mid markets it's hit or miss. Tomtom has probe data for its traffic service that is only rivaled by Google and INRIX. There's no question that the TomTom app is more featured rich. It just depends upon what your needs are.
 
OK; I now recall Waze. User-contributed. It's no good for most of Europe land area, outside the big cities and major roads.

TT always used to be the best (despite buying mapdata which was 2-3 years old; much cheaper that way) but the latest app is hugely dumbed down in terms of config. Looking at their forum posts (TT doesn't participate; it's the usual con of "user supported community") the app auto-determines the installation location based on whether it sees an external SD card. However in my S7 (64GB FAT32 Samsung Evo x10 card) it hangs with "loading app" for ever. I can see it is installed on the SD card, under Android/data.
 
I used MapFactor Navigator for offline navigation while travelling to New Zealand and it did a decent job without a data connection. It offers a choice of free open source maps or paid maps from TomTom. It did have some funky behavior like insisting that the best way to negotiate semicircular stretches of highway was to take the exit just before the curve and hop back onto the onramp right away (at least once with a divider in between), but did a decent job otherwise.

Nokia's Here was still on the Play/Amazon stores last time I checked and there are a few others I've seen that do offline navigation.
 
Is "Here" for Android literally what Nokia Maps was on Symbian?

On the last Symbian phones, Nokia Maps was as good as TT, IMHO.

The only thing I didn't like was the stupid decision by Nokia to drop the speed camera database - allegedly because it was illegal in *some* countries. There was a hack to restore it, by dropping in the file with a 2019 date on it :) But the last camera database was about 2013.
 
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