Thread: Mapear and cGPSMapper Maps issue on Android Garmin Street Pilot 2.16-workaround

Originally Posted by catymag

You are wrong, I opened this thread just to join all the post about this issue with Mapear and cGPSMapper compiled maps in general.
Probably we'll see some issues with cGPSMapper maps routing in new Nuvis too, I've heard about it already.

Do you know if cGPSMapper maps are having the same issue on SP for iOS or/and Windows Phone?
Is somebody having the same issues on Nüvis too?

Are there news about this? I've just found out about SP on Android. Installed it past week and tried Mapear at home. It seemed "muted" but stable. I made a route inside Buenos Aires and left it on connected to the computer (USB) I left the phone there and when I came back it was obviously there, with SP running (so the screen didn't lock, which is the right thing to do if you are navigating).

I went to the car, connected it to the USB to keep the battery running and when I was about to get to the destination I've found out that the app crashed once and again. I finally discovered how to get back in. It's tricky, but also the phone kept locking. So it became useless, each time I unlocked I had to re-start a lot of tricks to get in.

Because it goes out of the application after routing (which did not happened in some cases) You drop down the config menu (where WiFi is) and click on the SP icon "Click to continue". It loads again and goes to the main menu. Click view map, and there you are with your old route.

Still it crashed so many times that I had to restart the phone for it to work again since the blue arrow kept showing even when I killed it.

I'm not ready to exchange "la gallega" for "la muda" the first one is more "gauchita"

I'm posting this as another message not to mess up with the quite extensive previous message.

proyectomapear.com.ar won't discuss anything about SP on Android because of many factors.

1) they make maps, Garmin compatible and they have been trying to get Garmin attention for a long time, but Garmin instead of helping was always developing new firmwares for GPSes that prevented Mapear and others to work correctly on their software. They may have fixed them already but from time to time that issue shows again (call it a regressive bug).

2) they are a free project, (not opensource) and they don't want any trouble so you can't talk piracy related stuff in their forum, which is right. so you can't discuss running mapear on your S3 because it's considered that they are helping you break the law.

3) Authoritism. No they are not like that, but some of the moderators and members that have spent the past 10 years on the forum are quite agressive on their answers because there's always people asking the most stupid things over and over and they grew tired of it. I don't support that, but sometimes they must moderate.

Originally Posted by Berlin23

Do you know if cGPSMapper maps are having the same issue on SP for iOS or/and Windows Phone?
Is somebody having the same issues on Nüvis too?

I use mapear on my iPhone 4S iOS 7 garmin 2.3.01
As I posted before, can't make it work on S3 Mini v2.35 4.4.4 cyanogenmod

Originally Posted by JHAres

Hi,

The people from Mapear Project is not protecting Garmin because SP "illegal" or whatever... Mapear is not involved with Garmin people, that's why they use cGPSMapper and not an "official" compiler for the maps.

That's not true. They don't want to discuss anything about SP because they argument to be a "non official Garmin application for Android", which is totally absurd, since they are not working with Garmin and, as you said, using a non official compiler for the maps.
Mapear moderators are the most authoritarian people I have ever seen on a forum.
Anyway, that's not what we're discussing here.
Mapear maps are the best for Argentina, unfortunately they won't work properly on SP.
I would like to know if the issue is the same on SP for iOS or Windows Phone.
Greetings.

Edit to my previous post: we found out that it depends on the android version which are used AND you all should try to use a garmin map together with a alternative map that means lay a garmin map into the map folder and the other map then hook the garmin map off and use the alternative map in walking mode only car mode under android 4..2 crashes!

however this sticks together i don't know but it's working here with german osm maps Some OSM developers reported that there will be new maps start of december...