Is it me or Maps is completely unusable

[dmo580]

Maps takes FOREVER to load.

I used this device up to May of 2011 and decided to throw it away because I spent 30 minutes one day trying to map something to find where my friends were. The phone froze and I rebooted. Took forever to boot and to initiate everything before I could map again. Then a phone call came through and it froze. I rebooted AGAIN.

I got a Nexus S and lived happily til.... I lost it overseas.

I came back to my Milestone which I did keep on CM6 by Milaq hoping that it'd use less memory, but Maps still takes FOREVER to load. I went to CM7 the other day and found it to be about the same.

I'm using the v8 supercharger script on balanced. Am I doing something wrong?

I'm so annoyed because last Friday I was standing in the rain because I forgot to write down the cross street of a restaurant before I went out, but I had to stand there for 2 minutes while my phone loaded maps. If I don't reboot everyday, Google Maps is very unusable. In fact I'm so annoyed I bought a SGS2 phone now. LOL.

 

[Eiertschik]

Maps uses almost all the RAM available in poor Droid.

Changing any OOM values and/or locking Launcher in Memory is not recommended!

On CM7 both Maps and Camera were unusable with locked Launcher - without it was bearable.


To my surprise using locked Launcher, Swype plus Maps works fine on Miui 2.1.x

 

[DanneMCA]

the only issue i have with maps on cyanogenmod 7.1.5 on my milestone is the precache did not keeping in stock. Navigation and others stuff works fine, for a too old device, as droid, Milestone.

 

[Ekofasc]

It's your ROM. I still use my Milestone as a back-up phone and I've tried quite many custom ROMs, but the one that I keep coming back to is Telus Lite, a very light-weight Eclair mod. I haven't tried a snappier or more stable ROM on the Milestone; and it looks good, too.

And Maps works well with it.

Here's a screenshot I took.

(If you install the latest version of the ROM, V5.2, you're gonna need to use the mms.apk from V5. Or simply use V5.)

 

[rohitjhawer]

Well thats the problem i face too. Maps need a lot of ram thats the reason it slows down on CM7 or other roms. Recently i updated to Cyanogen Mod9 ICS edition by nadlabak. and maps is working gr8. and its fast as well.

I have a ext4 Partition to take care of the space. Overall the ROM is awesome (Well its still in alpha stage so bugs to deal with), if you dont use camera much then i suggest you upgrade to CM9 its worth the time.