HACK: Google Maps on your fone with NO DATA CHARGES at all!!
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is took me about half an hour to map, so don't try and do anything too drastic and map the whole world!
Specify your zoom level on the site, from 0 to 12 is probably best for most people - I haven't tried yet so I'm not too sure whether from 0 to 16 is supported, but if someone tries and can get maximum zoom to work, please tell me. .
I recommend you choose "Medium" mode, and use Firefox (it processess a lot faster)...
Make sure you take a note about what type of map you've chosen: Map, Satellite, or Hybrid. This will be important later...
Now, IGNORE STEP 5. After clicking generate, SAVE THE .MAP FILE to your DESKTOP... We're going to use that next... Ignore the stuff in stage 5 of the web instructions since we're using an easier method...
Open the program you downloaded a moment ago, GMapMaker - this should be in C:\Program Files\gMapMaker or wherever you extracted to...
Choose "MGMaps Mode, use the file Map" and then load your .MAP file you downloaded from the Map Maker a few moments ago... Click Go and gMapMaker will spend a few minutes downloading the map tiles to your PC.
Once this is done, look inside the gMapMaker program folder. In there you should find a folder named "MgMapsCache". You should right click on this folder and choose copy.
Next, you need to access your phone in file manager mode - if you phone has a memory card, open the root folder with your PC, or connect your phone with a cable, etc. etc. Paste the copied folder into the ROOT of your memory card or phone memory....
Nearly done!
PART 3: SETTING UP THE PHONE TO DISPLAY THE MAP - the complex bit!
Right! Here we go, let's enable the phone to display the maps...
On your phone, open up the program you installed at the start. It should say "Application Loading, please wait..." or similar...
Once loaded, go to Menu/Settings/Map Browsing and tick the options "Stored Maps" and "Offline Mode". Scroll down further and under "Storage Path" make sure the folder MGMapsCache is selected, wherever you'd pasted it to... keeping up so far? It should be something like "e:\MGMapsCache". Set "Memory Cache" to 65536. MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE SAVE BEFORE GOING BACK...
Enter Menu/Settings/Display, set the Coordinate Format as DD.ddddd.
Make sure to SAVE then RESTART THE PROGRAM.
After Restart, enter Menu/Map Types/Not Available and enable Google Maps, Satellite or Hybrid, depending on whatever the option of map was that you downloaded.
Save all changes, remember. Then go to Menu/Maps Type/Yahoo Maps and disable all options that wre by default enabled, so turn off all the Yahoo maps options...
Nearly done!
Now, in order to find the map on the phone we have to set GMaps Mobile so that when you start up the software the initial point is the map that you have set in the phone, otherwise it'll open to another point of the planet...
On your PC, find the .MAP file you downloaded earlier. Now open this file with Notepad or whatever. Within the file as some map coordinates, specifically in Longitude and latitude I think, i.e. -23.026693823076034, -47.2412109375, for example...
On your phone, open the map program and go to Menu/Favourites click on the left softkey I think and select the "Add" option.
This will show you a config screen, so enter the name of the city or area you have mapped in the Name Box. Next, where it says "Latitiude", enter the first coordinate. Note that in the .map file there may be many coordinates, so just enter the first two long numbers you see in the .map file . Only enter 5 digits after the point! Repeat the same with Longitude but with the second number.
Where it says "MAp Type", choose Google Maps (satellite, hybrid, or whatever it was you chose). Now, save it and restart the mapping software.
Once restarted, go to Menu/Favourites and choose your city name. Ready? GO!
In theory, if you've followed the instructions to the letter, you now have your very own Google maps on your mobile! WAHOOO!
I know it probably took a long time, but YAY! You've done it now!
I'm happy to attempt to provide basic support for you but if it's too advanced for my knowledge or specific to your mobile phone etc, then I'm sorry if I cannot help.
One quick note is that Google may block you from downloading from their map systems if you try again. In the unlikely event that this happens, try using a proxy (there's built in proxy features in the Gmap downloader program).
Lastyly, in case you cannot see the maps, veify cache.conf file, which automatically gets saved along with the maps in the MGMapsCache folder.
HAVE FUN WITH YOUR MAPS!
List of supported phones:
Sony Ericsson: k750, w800, w810, w580, w610
Nokia: N73
Motorola:
Other:
PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU HAVE MANAGED TO GET THIS TO WORK ON YOUR PHONE, AND TELL ME WHICH PHONE YOU HAVE SO I CAN ADD IT TO THE COMPATIBLE LIST! THANK YOU!
One problem you may find is continuous "Allow application to read user data?" messages on Sony Ericsson phones... You can clicking "More" then "Permissions" then "user data" then "Always allow reaing of user data". Choosing that will stop the message, however, if that message is not available as it sometimes is, in this case there is nothing you can do except for patch your phone to fix the problem. Try looking at:
Code:
www.se-nse.netforums where there's plenty of advice and tutorials on patching Sony Ericsson phones. Note that if you do, I accept no responsibility if you brick your phone and get a very expensive paperweight But follow the instructions on there and you should be fine if you get this problem...
I spent a LONG time writing this, so PLEASE give thanks if it helped!
Thank you!
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