Navigation App missing after Google Maps Update

[jrh0]

There's no "recently navigated" list. All that shows up is a bunch of restaurants in my hometown that I don't need a GPS for and never used the GPS.
I make reservations for hotels all along a trip. Before leaving home, I used to enter each address, hit navigate, then stop navigation. Each hotel would then be saved in my "recent" list, and I wouldn't have to look for an address on a scrap of paper and key it in while driving. You might suggest I enter them each morning, but i also have other destinations during the day, that make my hotel disappear! Voice entry is a rare hit and mostly miss proposition. In four days of driving in the south Atlantic states, voice has worked only once.

The interface is awful for what it does do. If voice entry is accepted, the destination doesn't even show on the screen! You need to open destinations and select the one you just spoke.

All in all, this "update" is a disaster. Try learning to use it, and then start driving and try having your untutored passenger operate it for you. Instant frustration!

 

[sixty_four]

There's no "recently navigated" list. ...snip...

You can try using the "Saved Places" feature to see if that works for what you want to do. Saved places are designated and identified with a 5-point star icon. My saved places get sync'ed across my tablet, phone, desktop and laptop. Conducting a search after selecting a saved place searches in the appropriate area as well.

Additionally, the little "human-looking dude" icon in the search bar brings up all of your personalized content, including saved places, recently navigated, search history, places reviewed, work/home addresses. Unless I misunderstood your comments, it sounds like the features you want are there and it will only take a few minutes of tinkering to find what you need.

 

[gary jp4]

You can't roll back anymore if you upgrade to Jellybean. There is nothing to roll back to. It appears the new google maps is integrated into the new system software.

 

[SandroidE]

Hello guys...
So, I've been reading posts like "nothing has changed, it's all there, only the shortcut has been removed, but navigator is still there"...
Hundreds of posts like those...

I'd like to ask a very simple question: with the old Navigation, you could actually open Navigation (NOT MAPS), and free roam without having to enter a destination...
You would just wander around with your screen showing Navigation, with street names, and such things...
Question: how do you achieve this with the newer version?

Thanks in advance.

 

[GSDer]

with the old Navigation, you could actually open Navigation (NOT MAPS), and free roam without having to enter a destination

I'm not sure I understand your dilemma - when I open Maps (v7.4.0) it centers on my current location and I'm free to zoom in and out and scroll all over the place, looking at street names, points of interest, etc. What am I missing?

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[SandroidE]

I'm not sure I understand your dilemma - when I open Maps (v7.4.0) it centers on my current location and I'm free to zoom in and out and scroll all over the place, looking at street names, points of interest, etc. What am I missing?

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That's correct, I can do that as well.
But screen will eventually go off, and I can be placed actually off the street...
Have you ever used a garmin GPS?, or maybe a TomTom...
You can use them without having a destination set... It would say on which street you are, very car oriented...
Navigation was like that until they changed maps a few months ago...
I had another phone with older android release, so I found this out when I got my current phone, with the latest Google apps versions...
And I am not being able to actually see the way to bring that functionality back...
I used that a lot in the past.
Thanks!

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[sixty_four]

That's correct, I can do that as well.
But screen will eventually go off, and I can be placed actually off the street...
Have you ever used a garmin GPS?, or maybe a TomTom...
You can use them without having a destination set... It would say on which street you are, very car oriented...
Navigation was like that until they changed maps a few months ago...
I had another phone with older android release, so I found this out when I got my current phone, with the latest Google apps versions...
And I am not being able to actually see the way to bring that functionality back...
I used that a lot in the past.
Thanks!

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This was a feature that I used every now and then too. Like you, I've looked around to see if there's a way to get this functionality back but there does not seem to be a way to enter Navigation without inputting a specific destination.

 

[ChicagoSteeler]

Here is my complaint. Navigation was native to my HTC Evo 4g, which I just swapped out for a Samsung Galaxy S4 which has Google Maps. They are not the same, not even close. On Navigation, the driving graphics were better and it had a circle in the lower left corner that always gave an indication of traffic (green = all clear, yellow = some slowdowns, red = some stopped traffic). By hitting the menu button on bottom left, screen would switch to a "long view" of entire route and show the areas that were green, yellow, and red. That was great, and I was always amazed at its accuracy. You have no idea how comforting it was when I was trying to get to O'hare and traffic came to a dead stop - and I could switch to this screen and see that in a mile I would be back to green. Also from that menu one could hit the alternate route icon and the graphic would show three routes and the total time for each. I see none of those features on Maps. It makes me miss my Evo, because for me the GPS is important. I no longer needed to lug my Garmin and its stand with me on business trips.
If anyone knows how to access those features on Maps, please let me know. Otherwise, I will have to switch to another GPS app (Waze has always been a backup, although not as good) or go back to my trusty Garmin. I thought Navigation was a Garmin killer, but Google has revived it with this inferior Maps interface.

 

[GSDer]

I see none of those features on Maps

I can't answer all of your complaints, but if you want to see the traffic simply swipe in from the left (the way that you access options in most newer Google apps) and click 'Traffic' at the top of the menu.

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[vferrari]

Here is my complaint. Navigation was native to my HTC Evo 4g, which I just swapped out for a Samsung Galaxy S4 which has Google Maps. They are not the same, not even close. On Navigation, the driving graphics were better and it had a circle in the lower left corner that always gave an indication of traffic (green = all clear, yellow = some slowdowns, red = some stopped traffic). By hitting the menu button on bottom left, screen would switch to a "long view" of entire route and show the areas that were green, yellow, and red. That was great, and I was always amazed at its accuracy. You have no idea how comforting it was when I was trying to get to O'hare and traffic came to a dead stop - and I could switch to this screen and see that in a mile I would be back to green. Also from that menu one could hit the alternate route icon and the graphic would show three routes and the total time for each. I see none of those features on Maps. It makes me miss my Evo, because for me the GPS is important. I no longer needed to lug my Garmin and its stand with me on business trips.
If anyone knows how to access those features on Maps, please let me know. Otherwise, I will have to switch to another GPS app (Waze has always been a backup, although not as good) or go back to my trusty Garmin. I thought Navigation was a Garmin killer, but Google has revived it with this inferior Maps interface.

Ditto, same complaint here with S4 and the 4.3 update to Maps. I get how you can navigate with the new update but the multi-alternate-route graphics with traffic overlay (this is/was different than simply pulling up traffic in map mode) with pre 4.3 maps/nav was both intuitive and useful.

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[Max Cady]

Thanks for the help, it worked!!!!!

 

[d3l0624]

Hello all, even after I uninstalled the updates for maps and restarted my galaxy s3 phone the navigation icon has not reappeared. I recently received the latest system update (4.3) and I don't care for it. Is there a way to revert back to the prior system update (4.1)?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[GSDer]

Is there a way to revert back to the prior system update (4.1)?

Nope, not (currently, if ever) possible.
Word on the street from the guys over at XDA is that it'll turn your phone into an expensive paperweight.

It has to do with the Knox feature that Samsung included in 4.3 - there's a secure bootloader component that gets installed that prevents that sort of thing (my interpretation of what I've read).

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[meyerweb#CB]

GSDer is right. There's no way to go back. If, however, you can find the apk for the older version of maps, it is my understanding that it will run under 4.3, complete with the Nav icon. Someone was supposed to send me that apk, but never did.

A google search found the apk of 6.14 here: [Q] Google Maps 6.9.* APK - xda-developers

 

[wrh3]

[APP]install Google Maps 6 and 7 and use them together[Root/NoRoot] - xda-developers

The cool thing about this old Maps/Nav APK Is that it runs in parallel with the new Maps, so updates to new Maps will not disable it.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

[APP]install Google Maps 6 and 7 and use them together[Root/NoRoot] - xda-developers

The cool thing about this old Maps/Nav APK Is that it runs in parallel with the new Maps, so updates to new Maps will not disable it.

That apparently doesn't work with 4.3:

in Android 4.3+, Old Maps with Navigation unlocked is not able to login!!!
if you can fix it somehow please let us know

 

[SueVida]

OK, I did the update. Now Navigation is once again gone, Maps is the new awful update. I DID have the 'do not auto update' feature turned ON. NOW When I go to Application Manager there is no longer an option to Uninstall Updates. Am I stuck??

 

[trees simoni]

That works. Thank you!

 

[Mira Andreev]

i need blue navigation arow back

 

[dilevmi]

Did a quick search and didn't see anything. I just updated Google Maps last night and now my Navigation app (little blue arrow) is completely gone. The Icon is gone and its not listed in the App Manager. I was wondering if anyone else had this? Did something go wrong or are they eliminating the Navigation App in favor of just using the standard Google Maps UI?

I'm using a AT&T Galaxy S III on Android 4.1.1 running Apex Launcher (although I can't imagine the launcher is to blame)