Google Earth and Acer Liquid / Eclair

[Guest linuxluver]

I've been using various eclair ROMs on my Acer Liquid over the past few weeks. LCR v.1.2.3 is very stable and eViL D's most recent ROMs have been great.

But.....

It is difficult to use Google Earth on the Acer Liquid.

The phone doesn't do multi-touch. It also does not have a trackball or D-pad....so once you have zoomed into a location in Google Earth, there is no way I can find to to zoom OUT again! Even killing the app and restarting it sees you returned to the same place as when you exited the app.

The only way I could find to get 'out'....was uninstall it and then re-install it and start fresh.

Not good as a solution....but it appears to be the only one so far.

If anyone knows how to zoom out in Google Earth on Acer Liquid.....please let me know.

Thanks. This is one application that really needs multi-touch on Acer Liquid (since the phone has no trackball or pad).

Edited April 6, 2010 by linuxluver

[Guest liquid_it]

If anyone knows how to zoom out in Google Earth on Acer Liquid.....please let me know.

AFAIK the only way to zoom-out is using pinch out gesture on a multitouch enbabled device..

[Guest m106]

If anyone knows how to zoom out in Google Earth on Acer Liquid.....please let me know.

Flash the new leaked bin :P It supports Multitouch.

Edited April 6, 2010 by m106

[Guest Lorents]

Yo, may I ask how you got google earth?

[Guest malez]

Yo, may I ask how you got google earth?

If you use LCR, you will find it on the market.

If you use another distrib, you will need tu use malez recovery to change market access first and them you will see in on market.

[Guest simoneser]

I never found Google Earth with 0.008 rom. I've tried many rom and unlocked market several times, but nothing..

With 0.004 no problem, but this hasn't got MT...

Edited April 6, 2010 by simoneser

[Guest m106]

One way around it is to install the Google Earth APK manually - .apk can be downloaded here:

http://sites.google.com/site/droidlife10/h...oogle_earth.apk

[Guest malez]

I can't find it in market either with new bin and unloacked market. Thank you for the link

[Guest sede]

One way around it is to install the Google Earth APK manually - .apk can be downloaded here:

http://sites.google.com/site/droidlife10/h...oogle_earth.apk

Thanks for the link! :P

[Guest vikings123]

Thanks for the link to google earth apk.

I downloaded and installed. And it is running perfectly smooth, with WiFi connection of course

.

And I can use Multitouch to zoom IN/OUT within Google Earth. I love this.

Thanks again! :P

[Guest linuxluver]

Flash the new leaked bin :P It supports Multitouch.

Thanks. I'll try it again.

But for Google Earth on Acer Liquid you also want Apps2SD as Google Earth - by itself - uses (approx) 15% of all internal app storage. That's a lot for one app.

[Guest Seth Cold]

got any links to google maps also?

same here with liberated 1.2 and LCR 1.3... no google earth nor maps on market

[Guest Borkata]

got any links to google maps also?

same here with liberated 1.2 and LCR 1.3... no google earth nor maps on market

You need MarketEnabler installed and have to set US operator, like T-Mobile US.

[Guest Seth Cold]

You need MarketEnabler installed and have to set US operator, like T-Mobile US.

thanx! worked for maps, not for earth but will get it from the apk

[Guest Borkata]

thanx! worked for maps, not for earth but will get it from the apk

Maybe its not available for T-Mobile US ;) Try any other UK for example, but you are correct that you can get it with apk push.