Thread: Garmin Smartphone Link

I would be really greatful if either of these gentlemen can do some sort of Patch to unlock the premium features.

Let's see who can be the first to do it.

Originally Posted by ddabcd277

Thanks Caty! I was curious. I also trace and the iphone street pilot app thread and see that it is using the same garmin servers. Useful information there too. Have a feeling that this one needs a firmware patch for unlocking all of the Smartphonelink features. Wondering who can do it? Mr. Alexander or Mr. kunix may have an idea? BTW the app is not available at the moment for Europe so that is why you couldn't download it from the android market.

is it showing the map on phone?

Originally Posted by jowhor

is it showing the map on phone?

No, it's not showing the Garmin map on the phone. This app is using the mobile phone in the same way as the Garmin nüLink GPS models with a mobile broadband connection. In this SmartPhone Link case it connects through Bluetooth and uses the data connection in the mobile phone as a gateway to internet.

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You can see the SmartPhone Link features with examples in this thread. Many of the features needs a subscription that you have to pay for.

In "my" experience, the Traffic services are nearly useless. I can't speak about the new HD services as I have no experience with them, but the regular traffic has never.... never... saved my butt or given me a legitimate warning about traffic.

It has done the opposite on occasion.... where it "warns" me of a traffic jam where none exist.

I have read better reports of the so called "live" traffic, such as those provided with Nu-Link. And I hold out h0ope that the new SmartPhone Link will allow for better traffic reports since it can be used as a sort of "Live" traffic reporting system and is "sort of" sinmilar to the way NuLink worked.

FYI, after purchasing the traffic add-on, I am extremely disappointed. I find that it did not know of multiple traffic slowdowns on my route home today, though after disabling it and restarting the GPS so that it would connect to FM traffic, it knew of them immediately. I confirmed that this was not just a product of the extra time during the reboot by reconnecting it to the smartphone link traffic and noting that they were still not there!

I'm not talking about the new HD radio traffic, either. I am talking the base GTM 35 receiver that came with my 2595LMT (standard FM-rds traffic). One thing I have noticed is that the smartphone link traffic has a bit more detail (when there is an incident showing traffic congestion, it will show the speed of traffic whereas the FM traffic will not), but this is hardly useful when it misses incidents entirely or is extremely delayed.

Hello, same problem for me, no download in the market possible. Traxzero his .apk download is dead, could you post it again?

thanx

Please share apk, dear catymag

Here is smartphone link- 1.2