Best free "offline" Sat Nav for the Blade?

[Guest ValiantSaint]

Hi everyone, after coming from a Nokia 5800 that had a pretty good Sat Nav program on it, I'm running struggling to find a replacement from my Blade, that doesn't need an internet connection. I have tried Navit, but it keeps rebooting my phone (Even after a reinstall) Are there any suggestion as to what I could try next? Many thanks in advance : )

[Guest Psyloid]

i dont think so, tried navit as well. it failed on my phone too .....

[Guest shmizan]

I'm using iGO Amigo. it's not the best but it's okay.. gets me where I want to go :D

edit: oh didn't see the free word up there. sorry!

Edited June 4, 2011 by shmizan

[Guest targetbsp]

There's Navfree now but it doesn't work on CM7 so I've not used it and dunno if it's any good.

[Guest wrtease]

im using ndrive and has not let me down.

i use it allot.always

[Guest wrtease]

i had ndrive on all roms and never let me down and im gen1

[Guest That-Guy]

Not much help but tomtom is now being developed for Android :D

[Guest k0zmic]

BRUT version of Google Maps?

[Guest TheDarkRealm]

Ive always found Co-Pilot fairly reliable

[Guest Pondlife]

Ive always found Co-Pilot fairly reliable

Free?

[Guest lordjubblydave]

As Does Google Maps 5.0 or if not (Brut) Maps which is a modded version of google maps found over at XDA Developers

Edited June 4, 2011 by lordjubblydave

[Guest ValiantSaint]

Thanks to you all for your wonderful assistance : )

[Guest Sanddancer75]

Sorry to take things slightly off-topic, but how do sat-navs cope with phone calls? The maps on my Garmin stand-alone sat-nav are getting old & I was thinking of using my phone. What happens to the navigation when someone calls you though?

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Co-Pilot is about £30 for european maps. And should work entirely offline as you have to download a ****load of map data to your SD card to get it working.

Google Maps Navigation always worked for me offline, as long as you do your input when connected to data, you can turn it off during the journey (eg, connect to wifi at home and input your destination on Navigation before you leave)

[Guest rwalton159]

Tried a few and co-pilot is the best.

Edited June 5, 2011 by rwalton159

[Guest rapidone]

Navit is the only free Android navigation app that runs with gps only and doesn't need an internet connection.

More information: http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit_on_Android

[Guest Pondlife]

Tried a few and co-pilot is the best.

The question asks for free "offline" sat nav though.

[Guest sitic]

here is a adapted navit.xml for the blade, it's from the german user Paladin.

It includes a better OSD, augmented font, autozoom, nightly and car design. I don't know if it works with the english version, if were any problems you should better ask Paladin...

navit.zip

[Guest ValiantSaint]

here is a adapted navit.xml for the blade, it's from the german user Paladin.

It includes a better OSD, augmented font, autozoom, nightly and car design. I don't know if it works with the english version, if were any problems you should better ask Paladin...

Thanks for that. Will it make Navit work on my phone, though? (Because at the moment, I'm getting nowhere with it!)

[Guest ty_hot]

I am using iGo here, very good ;)

[Guest Amit.V]

I am using iGo here, very good :)

where can i download igo from? can't find it in the market.

[Guest Kris Dee]

I tried Navigon, Copilot, Igo and Sygic.

Newest Sygic 11.0.1 wins big time, has Tele Atlas maps 2011 q1

You can try for free 7 days

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.s...e=search_result

[Guest Searcher2]

I tried Navigon, Copilot, Igo and Sygic.

Newest Sygic 11.0.1 wins big time, has Tele Atlas maps 2011 q1

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.s...e=search_result

I tired Sygic 11.0.2 and it does look good and starts up fast... but I planned a trip to the other side of town and it reckoned that the journey would be 6 minutes to do 5.8 miles. Now considering none of the roads it was taking me on had a speed limit of over 30mph this was pretty incredible. Shame really as I would like to have tried it but failed at first test.

Looks like I am back to Motonav - but trying iGO MyWay to see if there is any difference. If anyone know the best iGo version (MyWay, MotoNav, Amigo) for the SF it would save me some time.

[Guest pitprop]

here is a adapted navit.xml for the blade, it's from the german user Paladin.

It includes a better OSD, augmented font, autozoom, nightly and car design. I don't know if it works with the english version, if were any problems you should better ask Paladin...

Tried this and it does not work - causes navit to freeze when searching for towns/addresses.

Navit is currently rubbish for navigation as it does not find many UK towns never mind addresses or postcodes. The one time i did get it to find a location to navigate to , it tried to take me down farm tracks.

Hopefully it will get better but at the moment its only useful for showing your position on a map ( using offline maps - so no data charges).

Oh , and navit didn't work at all when i got it from android marketplace and tried to let it download UK maps itself ( i had to manually download a map area off streetmaps and rename/save it to the sd card to get it to work at all)

Its free - but don't waste your time.