[Think Tank] Modifying G1 to enable Navigation - THUNK!

[octobclrnts]

This has been solved! Please see around page 8 of this thread.

Originally Posted by esmith972 Here guys, all wrapped up. Make sure you have CyanogenMod 4.2.3.1, by the way. 1) Unzip zip to desktop 2) Run Part 1.bat 3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot 4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat 5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done. 6) Make sure GPS is enabled 7) Open Maps and press OK 8) Press Menu 9) Press Directions 10) Enter an end point 11) Click Go 12) Just under "Show on map", click Navigate. 13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so. 14) Enjoy. http://www.mediafire.com/?lioyoy2ydzu

If you have no navigation option after the above steps try installing Google Voice from the market:

Originally Posted by 1wayjonny AWESOME !!! Took another users post to install google voice and BAM the navigation button showed up!!!! Woot!

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This is a continuation of a discussion that started in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?p=4918275

My best guess as to why navigation works in the emulator but not on the phone has to do with what kind of device the Maps application thinks it is running on.

For example, if you start maps and press menu->more->about and look at the "Platform" line, that will be different according to the device (emulator or G1 or other) that you are running on. What we need to change (I think) would be that setting.

According to this link, you can programatically get that string (I'm pretty sure they were talking about that string) through the API. Anyone more familiar with the API know where that string is stored?

Also, any other suggestions as to why it won't work on a real phone may be discussed in this thread.

[MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com]

What does platform say on the emulator? According to the info in that link, it should be null.

[JAguirre1231]

Cyanogen 4.3.2.1 Instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=196

[followinginsanity]

On my way to verizon to see what I can find out off the droid.... wonder if I can bring my laptop in and plug it up.... lol

[octobclrnts]

Originally Posted by MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com What does platform say on the emulator? According to the info in that link, it should be null.

I fired it up to check. The exact string is "android:unknown-generic-sdk"

[JAguirre1231]

Originally Posted by followinginsanity On my way to verizon to see what I can find out off the droid.... wonder if I can bring my laptop in and plug it up.... lol

You should then just do adb pull /system C: and then bring it here. I'm sure they won't mind you trying to break their system

[MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com]

One thing I noticed is that it repeatedly references epc.tmobile.com as the provider. Let's hope they aren't using that and checking for verizon or this is a fool's quest.

[octobclrnts]

Some interesting things to note:

The Version string of the Maps app is different in the emulator than on the phone as well.

Emulator: "3.2.0 (#3232) Web"
Phone: "3.2.0 (#3232) gmm-google"

Also, there was a blog post put up before 1.5 was released showing a way that you could spoof the ANDROID_ID on the phone by modifying a database (article here). I don't know if this is valid since at the end of the article he stated that they were supposed to fix it with 1.5.

Edit: I may have gotten ahead of myself. The ANDROID_ID string I think is not the correct one that I was looking for. That seems to be unique to the phone and not to the model, maker, whatever.

[MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by octobclrnts Some interesting things to note: The Version string of the Maps app is different in the emulator than on the phone as well. Emulator: "3.2.0 (#3232) Web" Phone: "3.2.0 (#3232) gmm-google"

Hmm mine actually says "3.2.0 (#3232) gmm-android-tmobile" for the version number... interesting.

[JAguirre1231]

Originally Posted by MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com Hmm mine actually says "3.2.0 (#3232) gmm-android-tmobile" for the version number... interesting.

I'm thinking that we're going to need someone to go to a Verizon store and see what the droid says there.