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my sprint nav switched to telenav :(

jer2911tx

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not sure how, but when i started my sprint navigation i got a message saying i had to do a free upgrade to telenav, which sucks. telenav doesn't give turn-by-turn navigation, so i hate it.my sprint nav is just gone, but my friend is still using sprint nav. how do i get it back?? thanks
 
Sprint Nav is Telenav with Sprint theme on top, always has been. The Telenav version often leads the Sprint branded in features and ui changes. Maybe the feature you're looking for has moved. I'd be shocked if Telenav removed turn by turn. I'm guessing here, but with Google giving away arguably better navigation as part of maps, Sprint is no longer paying Telenav for the private branded version.
 
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i guess i'm just used to the sprint navigation, it seems closer to my car navigation system with turn-by-turn navigation. went to a housewarming party last night and a friend's epic still had the regular sprint navigation. mine made me download a 'free upgrade' to telenav when i tried to use it. when i pulled up an address, it didn't move and follow as i drove, so i had to go to the written directions page since the gps wasn't following :(
i guess i haven't tried google nav enough, because it doesn't seem as user-friendly as the regular car navigation systems.
i'll have to go to the sprint store & see if they can remove my sprint nav and re-load the regular sprint nav back again
 
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i guess i'm just used to the sprint navigation, it seems closer to my car navigation system with turn-by-turn navigation. went to a housewarming party last night and a friend's epic still had the regular sprint navigation. mine made me download a 'free upgrade' to telenav when i tried to use it. when i pulled up an address, it didn't move and follow as i drove, so i had to go to the written directions page since the gps wasn't following :(
i guess i haven't tried google nav enough, because it doesn't seem as user-friendly as the regular car navigation systems.
i'll have to go to the sprint store & see if they can remove my sprint nav and re-load the regular sprint nav back again

If you don't have Goggle nav on your phone, download it. It couldn't be easier to use. You can either type or speak your destination. It will then route you, and start giving you turn by turn directions.
 
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How do I get to turn by turn navigation in Google Maps? I put in a destination and got a list of directions. Went to map view and got a very large scale map. But nothing like a typical GPS navigation per Garmin or even Sprint Nav. I don't get anything like the Google Maps web page shows. I updated Google Maps yesterday. Any help will be appreciated.

arewin
 
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do you know any asians????


There must be an easier way to prove lack of bigotry than by listening to an unpleasant and dysfunctional GPS voice. But I somehow doubt if the German version would be any better. The Sprint Navigation voice is clear and human - as well as culturally-sensitive - to me!

Again, at first I didn't realize it was Google Navigation, one of the many things we're pressured to like by the people who seem to know best - I said to myself, "What is this - this is awful."
 
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Even though Google Navigation works good, I too agree that the voice needs work but you can turn that off.

I'm not sure turning off the voice would work for me. At least with some sort of voice, I can made out most of what they're saying - but with no voice at all, I would be trying to look down at the phone screen, which can be dangerous while driving. What would be nice would be a choice of voices - that would be ideal.
 
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do you know any asians????

You know, your response gave me an idea. Google could significantly contribute to world understanding and human interrelatedness by changing the ethnicity of its bad computerized turn-by-turn voice every month or so. This May, we'd be forced to listen to a bad computerized Norwegian turn-by-turn, and that would force me to get to know more Norwegians in order to try to get used to the voice. In June, it would be a bad Carribean accent, and I would seek out Jamaicans to invite to dinner or a movie. In July, a bad French accent, in August, a bad Irish accent, in September, a bad Italian accent, in October, a bad Swahili accent, in November, a bad Polish accent, and in December, a bad Urdu accent. Fortunately, because we are with Sprint, most of us are so familiar with bad Urdu accents that I don't think we'd have to actually become friendly with them. But, just think of it, at the end of one year's time we will have significantly expanded our circle of friends and whittled away our chronic zenophobic world view. However, it still might prove difficult driving to visit all our new-found foreigner friends - I'd think I'd rather switch on Sprint Navigation to do that, just to be safe.
 
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You know, your response gave me an idea. Google could significantly contribute to world understanding and human interrelatedness by changing the ethnicity of its bad computerized turn-by-turn voice every month or so. This May, we'd be forced to listen to a bad computerized Norwegian turn-by-turn, and that would force me to get to know more Norwegians in order to try to get used to the voice. In June, it would be a bad Carribean accent, and I would seek out Jamaicans to invite to dinner or a movie. In July, a bad French accent, in August, a bad Irish accent, in September, a bad Italian accent, in October, a bad Swahili accent, in November, a bad Polish accent, and in December, a bad Urdu accent. Fortunately, because we are with Sprint, most of us are so familiar with bad Urdu accents that I don't think we'd have to actually become friendly with them. But, just think of it, at the end of one year's time we will have significantly expanded our circle of friends and whittled away our chronic zenophobic world view. However, it still might prove difficult driving to visit all our new-found foreigner friends - I'd think I'd rather switch on Sprint Navigation to do that, just to be safe.


you may not be aware of it...how you put it sound very demeaning to others.

but english is not the defacto accent. what makes you think other accents are "bad"?
it may sound perfectly fine to them. because it is a cultural accent.

is it more correct to say.. their strong accent.
me faking an asian accent is .. a bad accent.

because a computer voice is bad.. you think it funny to degrade others by your joke?
 
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you may not be aware of it...how you put it sound very demeaning to others.

but english is not the defacto accent. what makes you think other accents are "bad"?
it may sound perfectly fine to them. because it is a cultural accent.

is it more correct to say.. their strong accent.
me faking an asian accent is .. a bad accent.

because a computer voice is bad.. you think it funny to degrade others by your joke?

English is not an accent, it's a language. American English does have an accent, and it's the de facto accent in the USA. But most English accents that come from media sources from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia, for example, are perfectly understandable throughout the English-speaking world. Google Nav's is not one of these.

I think you miscomprehend my statement - I think the Google Nav accent is "bad" not because it is foreign, but because it is computerized and not sensitive to my linguistic ethnicity. It would be equally "bad" for a Nigerian to hear a computerized Scottish accent - one that he has trouble understanding.

My response pointed out the ultimate absurdity of your argument - everyone should pretend that bad computerized foreign voices are functional because they want to appear inclusive and open-minded. I might be lost in the middle of nowhere, but at least people will think well of me.

You implied my objection to the Google Nav voice is not valid because I don't know Asians. That's close to being an "ad-hominem" argument, where if you disagree with what someone says, you try to demean the character of the speaker as a way of defeating his argument.
 
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Yes, especially if you like your turn-by-turn delivered in a really bad computerized Asian accent that's impossible to understand.

do you know any asians????


hhhmmm..... so you are saying that the google's computerized voice is actually programmed to be an asian accent?

or is just a bad computerized voice.. and you implied that it is asian.

my friends that have heavy strong asian accents dont sound anything like that.
 
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English is not an accent, it's a language. American English does have an accent, and it's the de facto accent in the USA. But most English accents that come from media sources from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia, for example, are perfectly understandable throughout the English-speaking world. Google Nav's is not one of these.

I think you miscomprehend my statement - I think the Google Nav accent is "bad" not because it is foreign, but because it is computerized and not sensitive to my linguistic ethnicity. It would be equally "bad" for a Nigerian to hear a computerized Scottish accent - one that he has trouble understanding.

My response pointed out the ultimate absurdity of your argument - everyone should pretend that bad computerized foreign voices are functional because they want to appear inclusive and open-minded. I might be lost in the middle of nowhere, but at least people will think well of me.

You implied my objection to the Google Nav voice is not valid because I don't know Asians. That's close to being an "ad-hominem" argument, where if you disagree with what someone says, you try to demean the character of the speaker as a way of defeating his argument.

Starting to think this thread is becoming more of a Racial slur thread instead of something worth use....
 
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American English does have an accent, and it's the de facto accent in the USA.

Incorrect. "American English" has many accents e.g. Texan, New York, Louisiana (to name three I'm familiar with and can differentiate between). :)

Starting to think this thread is becoming more of a Racial slur thread instead of something worth use....

I don't believe that anyone intended it to be, so hopefully it won't degenerate into one.
 
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