Thread: How to make Google Local Search/Weather/Traffic to work on Garmin StreetPilot 2.2 for iPhone

Originally Posted by boonh

Hi tonytone, your instruction is really valuable. Thank you!

Now I'm using Garmin 2.2 with the N.A map 2014.20, and I have two questions:

1. I try to download free extras in app but when I click the "free" button there's no response at all. How can I make traffic trends work?
When I clicked the traffic button there's traffic information shown but it only worked with internet connection, so it's not traffic trends but only traffic services, is it right?

2. How to check the effect of the sid files? I got two sid files which are D3157100A.sid (instasearch) and D3406090A.sid (traffic trends v3), and how can I see the difference by adding these? When I tap on Settings -> Extras from the main app menu, I can only see "Traffic service" toggle but no "trafficTrends" toggle. If I didn't add these two files, I could still use traffic with internet connection.

Re: #1--I'm not sure if it's due to installing map version 2014.20 (I am running 2014.20 as well) or if Garmin has wised up--nothing happens when I click on the "Free" button as well.

Can anyone who hasn't upgraded to a 2014 map check to see if the Free button in Extras is no longer working for them as well?

Also--the "trafficTrends" slider option in Settings -> Extras is no longer showing on my Garmin; I don't really know if it disappeared due to my having installed 2014.20, or sometime after that. I still get info about traffic congestion along my route and surrounding areas--no immediate traffic congestion reroute option of course since that is only available with the Traffic feature that cannot be purchased/enabled on a "customized" Garmin iPhone app.

Also #2--the fuel prices option is no longer available on my iPhone as well--when I fired up the Garmin app on my iPhone earlier today I got a popup message stating that the fuel prices feature has expired (or something to that effect)--I then noticed that the fuel prices icon is no longer available when I tap on the "Where To" icon. Bummer...

Originally Posted by tonytone

Re: #1--I'm not sure if it's due to installing map version 2014.20 (I am running 2014.20 as well) or if Garmin has wised up--nothing happens when I click on the "Free" button as well.

Can anyone who hasn't upgraded to a 2014 map check to see if the Free button in Extras is no longer working for them as well?

Also--the "trafficTrends" slider option in Settings -> Extras is no longer showing on my Garmin; I don't really know if it disappeared due to my having installed 2014.20, or sometime after that. I still get info about traffic congestion along my route and surrounding areas--no immediate traffic congestion reroute option of course since that is only available with the Traffic feature that cannot be purchased/enabled on a "customized" Garmin iPhone app.

Also #2--the fuel prices option is no longer available on my iPhone as well--when I fired up the Garmin app on my iPhone earlier today I got a popup message stating that the fuel prices feature has expired (or something to that effect)--I then noticed that the fuel prices icon is no longer available when I tap on the "Where To" icon. Bummer...

Hi Tonytone,
Same thing here! After updating to 2014.40 map the traffic trends and fuel price are missing and local search doesn't say google anymore. Just says local_search.
Alsounable to click on the free in-app-purchases. Any help?

Originally Posted by tonytone

Re: #1--I'm not sure if it's due to installing map version 2014.20 (I am running 2014.20 as well) or if Garmin has wised up--nothing happens when I click on the "Free" button as well.

Can anyone who hasn't upgraded to a 2014 map check to see if the Free button in Extras is no longer working for them as well?

Also--the "trafficTrends" slider option in Settings -> Extras is no longer showing on my Garmin; I don't really know if it disappeared due to my having installed 2014.20, or sometime after that. I still get info about traffic congestion along my route and surrounding areas--no immediate traffic congestion reroute option of course since that is only available with the Traffic feature that cannot be purchased/enabled on a "customized" Garmin iPhone app.

Also #2--the fuel prices option is no longer available on my iPhone as well--when I fired up the Garmin app on my iPhone earlier today I got a popup message stating that the fuel prices feature has expired (or something to that effect)--I then noticed that the fuel prices icon is no longer available when I tap on the "Where To" icon. Bummer...

Hi Tonytone,
Same thing here. After updating the maps to 2014.40, both the traffic trends and the "fuel price" options don't show up anymore.
Also, the "free" button in the free-in-app purchase is not responding. Means, unable to click on the free button to install.
In addition the local search is now says local_search instead of Google. Any clues? Thanks!

Originally Posted by bent622

Hi Tonytone,
Same thing here. After updating the maps to 2014.40, both the traffic trends and the "fuel price" options don't show up anymore.
Also, the "free" button in the free-in-app purchase is not responding. Means, unable to click on the free button to install.
In addition the local search is now says local_search instead of Google. Any clues? Thanks!

I wish I knew--like you, my Google Search has turned (back) into Local Search; I'm not 100% certain that it was the update to 2014.20 (and/or 2014.30, which I'm currently on) that "broke" it because I did notice that the Google Search icon was still there after 2014.30.

If I had a spare iPhone lying around, I would try installing Garmin from scratch but using 2013 data instead of 2014 to see if the changes were due to anything server-side on Garmin's end...

I suspect the message in the Extras menu about no longer being able to get a "subscription" for (certain) services once they expire may have something to do with it--i.e., it could be that perhaps things like the Fuel Prices option may have "expired" and are apparently no longer available; that, or Garmin wised up and made changes to their back-end servers used for purchases and stuff...