[Q] Gmaps 7.worthless

[Dadeeo]

So, anyone else pissed at the changes made to Gmaps? As far as I'm concerned 7.0 is useless for the intended use of my Note 3. Why do i say that? My three sons have gotten me involved in mountain biking and in doing so I have been bitten by the fitness bug. The Note 3 was going to be the perfect phone to allow me to integrate biking, fitness, and general health, with a phablet which I have wanted ever since my wife bought her Note 2. The Note 3 would not only be faster and improved as a whole, it has ANT+ built into the phone. As many of you may know, ANT+ is the defacto standard in the sports and fitness world when it come to monitoring performance. Couple that with Gmaps and boom, one device to track route, time, speed, cadence, heart rate, watts, etc. and what does google do? Just remove the features that Bikers, Hikers, Walkers, Runners, Offroaders of all types, even Campers and Bird Watchers use the most, the ability to plan routes point to point directions based on points the user saves on the map using the STAR option. Version 7.crap.0 refuses to save any location unless it is based on a street address, which is great for urbanites trying to find the ice cream store, but worthless to many millions of "outdoor" types. Try saving a location on some trail where you plan to meet up with others and 7.crap.0 tells you "oops, you "dropped" your pin". Yeah, thanks but I didn't drop it, you just said I dropped it, so I'll bend over, cause bending over makes it soo much easier.....

So anyway, I d/l Gmaps 6.14.2 same version as the Note 2 and my aged Nexus S 4G, which is the version that WORKS but I get "app failed to load" error. Jeez, of course it failed, they are making 7.crap.0 in two flavors, 4.3 and 4.<3, but I guess they don't want to make Gmaps 6.14.2 work on J.B.

Anyone know how I can fix this mess???

 

[phyba]

Gaps 6.14 worked great on my galaxy s3 running aosp 4.3. The problem now is that maps was preloaded so it's a system app. Only way to get ur old maps back would be to root and remove maps and reinstall the older version

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[musclehead84]

Gaps 6.14 worked great on my galaxy s3 running aosp 4.3. The problem now is that maps was preloaded so it's a system app. Only way to get ur old maps back would be to root and remove maps and reinstall the older version

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Exactly. That is what u have to do. Remove gmaps from /system/app and then sideload the apk u want. Good luck.

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[Dadeeo]

That's what I was afraid of

I was hoping to not have to mess with the OS, but google seems to have turned a deaf ear to the hundreds if not thousands of complaints on the google forums. I did quite well putting CM7 on our HTC Hero's but not so well with the Nexus S 4G. I absolutely want to roll back to 6.x so I guess I'll have to nut up and try to root without breaking the Note 3.
Thanks for the responses!!!