Help Bad app trashed my Navigation maps - how do I get them back?

[6StringDave]

Although I never had a major issue with free, stock-installed Navigation, I just had to satisfy my curiosity with other free navigation software on the Market.

Sygic looked good, and purported to be free, but this I found out to be a lie (it's trialware) only after it consumed two hours downloading it's own set of maps, which did not appear to have installed successfully. I wasn't about to pay the steep fee for software which does not work, so I uninstalled Sygic, happy to continue using Navigation, when I found that Navigation could no longer find anything on any maps. Yikers - Sygic must have trashed the maps which I had been using!

I have done the factory reset, but this hasn't changed my map situation. When Navigation attempts to find a starred address, it searches endlessly, never succeeding. Oddly enough, the Maps app still seems to work like a charm - it will find any place fast. Because of this, I don't truly know what got burned, only that Navigation no longer does what it is supposed to. Yes, I do have GPS enabled!

What can I do to restore Navigation and my phone's map system to it's original state?

 

[sdrawkcab25]

do you happen to be in NY? there is an outage

 

[6StringDave]

do you happen to be in NY? there is an outage

Are you kidding? Did it happen as of yesterday? I was using Navigation as recently as Friday!

Yes, I'm in upstate NY. Where have you seen details on this outage (I gotta wonder how this is even possible without somebody doing something to the satellite)? Navigation forever reads "searching for GPS" while searching for a route (my GPS is on), and fails to find any route to my starred addresses.

Anyway, the Maps app didn't fail to find a new destination, so does Navigation depend on cell towers, as well as cell towers and/or software in order to do it's job?

 

[sdrawkcab25]

there is a couple threads in the support and troubleshooting section, seems to have went down on friday (only affecting NY)

some are saying it's a google problem (VZW was blaming them), others saying VZW screwed up the towers in new york with a 4g update.

 

[pragmatous]

Originally Posted by homerpez
I think this may have been the fix... maybe.

Using the "GPS Test" app, and the rest of the phone in "Airplane Mode", I went into the settings and tapped "Clear AGPS", then "Update AGPS". It was after that when I checked the GPS coordinates, and it all seemed to work again.

So now I am thinking the whole Android system runs on that "assisted" AGPS, and that's what messed everything up up.

What I don't know is how you could do the same thing without using the "GPS Test" app... I can't seem to find any setting elsewhere that clears the AGPS info. All I know for now is that "GPS Test" has it.

 

[6StringDave]

there is a couple threads in the support and troubleshooting section, seems to have went down on friday (only affecting NY)

some are saying it's a google problem (VZW was blaming them), others saying VZW screwed up the towers in new york with a 4g update.

And this is an issue which would impact route navigation, but not the ability to search location points?

Wow, others are getting that strangely-named Spanish city in their location too, although I see it in HTC Sense clock, and not my other clock / weather widgets. I don't have trouble locating weather locations either.

 

[wsf4747]

Verizon support said it is sun spots!!!

 

[sdrawkcab25]

Verizon support said it is sun spots!!!

sunspots and bigfoot?

 

[iowabowtech]

I wondered how long it would take before the solar flare excuse was pulled out of the hat lol.

 

[sdrawkcab25]

I wondered how long it would take before the solar flare excuse was pulled out of the hat lol.

yeah, apparently the sun is only anti verizon though, since no other carriers or devices(standalone gps) are being affected.

 

[NilsE]

yeah, apparently the sun is only anti verizon though, since no other carriers or devices(standalone gps) are being affected.

I called the head meteorologist and my local TV station and asked him to move the sun spots to PA so we can test out the theory.

 

[sdrawkcab25]

I called the head meteorologist and my local TV station and asked him to move the sun spots to PA so we can test out the theory.

maybe this is the real first sign of the apocalypse.