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[G1 Android Development] 3Shirts:
I installed the new official version and it does indeed have a live wallpaper showing your current position on a choice of road map, satellite map or terrain as well as a 4x2 latitude widget showing your friends' distance from you.

Is a new brut version on the way (no rush, just wondering if it is in the works or anything)
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
I ain't rushing at it, will release it when I will have some free time :-)
[G1 Android Development] christonge:
Look forward to it ;) Thanks brut.all
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
I'd rather that free time be devoted to apktool :p
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
Apktool is a cause, why I have little free time ;-D

But... it gets much less people attention, than GM modifications, so I want to cut down its priority.
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
But it makes GM mods easier :p
[G1 Android Development] ak47d:
lost my 'Navigate' function after updating to GM 4.1. Uninstalling the update does not help. Was fine on GM4.0 with Brut. Any ideas how can I regain the Navigate function?
[G1 Android Development] 5m00v3r:
this sounds strange to me... i think you got brut 4 or earlyer and than overwrote it with the regulary GM4.1 so brut is gone.

I would just "read up the firt post"

simple install the rev6
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
You didn't think you will have navi working after installing original maps from the Market, did you? :-) I must release modded version of 4.1.0 .

EDIT:

Of course you could reinstall my mod, but then you will have 4.0.0 .
[G1 Android Development] ak47d:
Tks. Reinstalled the latest Brut and solved my problem - got back the Navigate function..

Rgds
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
There is a minor update on the Market: 4.1.0.4126 (from 4.1.0.4124).
[G1 Android Development] ORioN.BAK:
where can i find the non modified google maps 4.00 R6

For understand BRUT.ALL work :D

and see where he patch
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
I answered by PM.
[G1 Android Development] scottyj17:
When will this be available brut? Your a hero for your work so far!!!
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
He's going to release it as soon as he has it working. These things are hard to schedule. Just hold on, or install both rev6 and the latest official if you really need the new features.
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
Seems Google has modified navigation code quite a bit...
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
Fun. Probably annoyed that you keep hacking it within 24 hours :p
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
http://hotfile.com/dl/33962447/fdecdc3/maps4.1.0.4126-brut6.apk.html

MT is totally unusable on my ADP1/CM4.2.15.1 and this is weird, because I don't add it, I just enable it. Let me know, whether:

You have MT issues with GM linked above

You have MT issues even on original GM (Eclair users)
[G1 Android Development] wildcathcmc:
Thanks

But i can't log acc when use maps4.1.0.4126-brut6.apk
[G1 Android Development] niranjan.sadavarte:
i Tried but it dosen't work.

I made zip file name same as folders name that automatically created.

and put folders is. "9","10" etc. in root of zip file. And tiles are saved in it as "*.png.andnav"

What zip name should i use?

Can anybody give me steps to fallow for it.
[G1 Android Development] duongla:
When you first run brut GM, it will automatically create a folder named map-en_US-andnav or map-en_GB-andnav. The zip file name should be the same , e.g map-en_GB-andnav.zip and will be put in the tiles folder:

/sdcard/brut.googlemaps/tiles/map-en_GB-andnav.zip

(noted that brutmap uses internal sdcard)

As you said, your zip file structure is correct. But try to use 7-zip to compress. Don't forget to reboot your phone.

Hope this help.
[G1 Android Development] niranjan.sadavarte:
thanks... trying out
[G1 Android Development] pegasus21:
Also note that big zip files do not work. Instead, you'll see a black screen when loading.
[G1 Android Development] split2th:
Google maps with caching. Where have you been my whole life. If you're from Canada you'll know how much we pay for data and phone service. If this saves me a few kb it'll be well worth it.

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] ranasrule:
is a new version based on Google Maps 4.7 in the works ?
[G1 Android Development] niranjan.sadavarte:
finally.... by trying all possibility by using map in "zip" and by pasting "folders" this doesn't support external downloaded maps ( as on my experience) at least on my SGS.

so Online maps here I come...
[G1 Android Development] Piemo:
Is there a site or something like that where some region are just cached and downloadable?

like the normal gps system have "europe" or "north america"...
[G1 Android Development] tomekk_nt:
Got a problem with it. When I install any of renamed versions I get FC on first start. On a second try it starts but can't find my location. When I want to get to Mod settings I get FC any time.

Also tried 'mod only' version, but after even uninstalling stock maps this one can't be installed.

I'd like to have renamed-tagged version, so could you give me any advices how to make it work correctly? Got Froyo 2.2 RC1 Android Stock on my Hero.
[G1 Android Development] caeserts:
this is a great job!

wondering when the new release 4.7.0 is coming ?
[G1 Android Development] Fubarred:
hi! was just trying out the Mobile Atlas creator to create maps of some places in New Zealand that I will be visiting soon. Now my current brut map directory is map-en_HK-andnav (I am based in hongkong). Can anyone advise if I should place the NewZealand maps (zipped up) in the same directory or do I need to create a new directory ... map-en_NZ-andnav???

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] jerrycham:
Me too.

From my observation, Brut Map will hang during request Google account access right phase...

My hero ROM is 2.2.1 (Cronos Froyo 1.6 )
[G1 Android Development] tomekk_nt:
So is there a way to solve it?
[G1 Android Development] jolaren:
4. 7 is out on the market, time for an update? This is working fine though :-)
[G1 Android Development] mad-murdock:
Hey brut,

Not sure it you follow this. The big zip file problem is sad, but easy to prevent. Why don't you allow/support manny small zip files instead of one big file. Like en_GB/17/35264.zip

Splitting up my maps in many small zip files would be no problem with a small script. Would solve all current issues, easy to implement and people could use virtually unlimited maps

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[G1 Android Development] shrivelfig:
Would that not slow down the app?

As long as the zip file is smaller than 4GB, would it not be better to use a tar file? The map tiles are compressed anyway, and the tar format might be less resource intensive. No unpacking, just seek and read.
[G1 Android Development] mad-murdock:
tar is short for Tape ARchiver - there is no index in the header where to find what, you have to sequentially read the whole archive untill you find the file you search for. wrong file format for the goals of brut.

what we need is a archive format, which does not require memory of it's size to obtain files from it. usually .zip achives this goal, but it depends on the underlying library. so if there is a problem with big zip files, the splitting i suggested would pretty well work. not too many files, and each file not too big, fast access, and best last: if you scroll through an area, you would most likely only need tiles from one .zip file, until you hit a "border" and switch to a second .zip file.

so, best solution would be a ziplib, which doesnt require as much memory as the filesize of the zip itself, second best solution would be splitting zip's up.
[G1 Android Development] genius.lizard2:
i found 1 solution.

copy maps4.6.0.4686-brut-renamed.apk into system/app, reboot the phone, install maps4.6.0.4686-brut-renamed.apk manually AGAIN after rerboot (mine with android commander).now it works fine without FC

Wierd

:-o

HTC HERO

android 2.2

FroydVillain 1.6.0 and 1.4.0
[G1 Android Development] genius.lizard2:
funny. i uninstall and delet BRUT . now i can't fix it again :(
[G1 Android Development] tomekk_nt:
So why did you deleted it if it worked?!
[G1 Android Development] luxusxda:
Works!!! Thanks mate!
[G1 Android Development] Roy Ngan:
glad that solution works for you :)
[G1 Android Development] chasepack:
install Gmaps 4.7

install Brutmaps 4.6

Brutmaps will ANR

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remove Gmaps 4.7...

left only Brutmaps 4.6...

Brutmaps no issue

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reinstall Gmaps 4.7 again...

Gmaps 4.7 will ANR

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some possible resource sharing issue with the newer Maps versions?

it appears that whichever is the sole version around or the 1st installed version will work fine.

The 'new kid on the block' will ANR...

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not too many programs support creation of TAR compared to Zip on Windows...

technically we can create ZIP files with 0 compression... its all in the settings.

hmm.. alternatively...

how about playing around with the "Tiles per File" option that can be found in gMapMaker? (the one that creates files with .mgm extensions)

256 tiles per file sounds so much more efficient than 1 tile per file

Did a small test:

1tpf: 4364 Files, 2.18 MB size, 9.30 MB size on disk

256tpf: 32 Files, 2.23 MB size, 2.26 MB size on disk

the higher the clusters the worse the Size on disk gets

Disk formated with 4k clusters

my Desire SD card is formated with 8k clusters (purposely did this for Brutmap :D )

Default SD Card is 16k clusters (die!)

sounds kinda nice~

(i happen to find mapcacher+gmapmaker easier and less confusing to use than Mobile Atlas Creator... its just me i guess)

forgive me if there was a discussion on this and i missed it...

201 pages of conversation is a bit hard to track~!! (congrats on breaking 2000 posts Brutmaps! :D)
[G1 Android Development] reapur:
Just wanted to echo your findings, my experience as well.

I just keep gmaps off my phone for now since I really need caching.
[G1 Android Development] novasst:
thank u :):):)
[G1 Android Development] creage:
Hey guys, the GoogleMaps 5.0 is gonna to roll out, with caching ability, and 3D buildings!

The only quiestion is would it run on pre-2.3 devices...
[G1 Android Development] kenkiller:
It will, given the list of handsets supported has been released.

The only question is if ur handset is powerful enough to support it.
[G1 Android Development] reapur:
can you guys link us to the release notes on this? I'd like to know more about how it will do caching.

thanks
[G1 Android Development] mayurh:
yes only a selected few

but i cant understand how the htc desire(classic) cant be on that list if the samsung glaxy s is there and desire z? the htc desire classic surely is up with the best of those devices and i would say even better!
[G1 Android Development] vejbymats:
Just do a Google search on GoogleMaps 5, and there you go... ;)
[G1 Android Development] vrienduinen:
vector based maps and offline cache

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/vector-based-google-maps-for-android.html

does anyone have this apk yet?
[G1 Android Development] Jurai:
I don't believe it's been pushed out anywhere
[G1 Android Development] kenkiller:
And mainly because it's using the same screen with faulty multitouch as the Nexus One. :D Something to do with panning and scrolling not working properly.

At least that's what Google said.
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
That could be good, but nothing was really mentioned about a method for downloading all the data for an area. Sure, it USES vector data, but without a "North America" addon or something, I think Brut will still have some work to do.
[G1 Android Development] m.shafik:
How to uninstall Brut17 and put GMaps 4.7?

I need your help with this one, I have installed brut17 on my Galaxy S by removing the original maps from the system (titanium backup) and installing brut instead.

It is giving me a hard time and every time I open the maps it asks me to enable the other location settings even though I select to skip this question next time. And each time I open navigation it shows me the introduction screen as well.

Do I just un-install it and install the original maps from the market (is it even available in market)??
[G1 Android Development] AfzalivE:
Canadian carriers are freaking robbers :(
[G1 Android Development] Zoide_:
I wonder if Google Maps 5 will include international voice navigation...
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
Uh...every major provider offers no less than 6GB for no more than $35.
[G1 Android Development] nodiaque:
What???

Telus: 25$ for 500 megs, that's the cheapest. Rogers/Fido/Bell all range in the same price. Only videotron have a better price. There's nothing like 6gb there!

30$ = 1gig, 45$ = 2gig, 60$ = 5gig. Only berry user have "good" data plan for cheap.
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
Rogers offers 6GB for $30. Bell offers 6GB for $30. WIND offers unlimited for $35.
[G1 Android Development] mjf869:
What indeed... My Desire on Telus has 6 GB for $30 including tethering.
[G1 Android Development] nodiaque:
O_O 6 GB for 30$? Looks like Hamilton have far better data plan then Quebec... That's only the data plan or it's voice + data at that cost?

Cause looking at the website right now of telus, the best I see is 60$ for 5gig.

Rogers does have changed there plan, now offering 35$ for 5gig + wifi hotspot.

Bell decrease there plan with a 35$ for 1 gig

That's straight from there website so I'm not saying guy's that you don't have that 6 gig for 30$, but I see nowhere that's it's available (unless you had a promo plan). As for telus, I called them last week 'cause of data and they said 5gig plan was the maximum. I don't know if plan change from QC to ON for telus, but bell and rogers didn't changed anything on the website when I changed region.

Anyway, I read yesterday that the next google map will have offline caching + offline search + offline nav.

Edit:

Ok, I happen to stumble onto a news right after I quit this pages where it says "To coincide with the iPhone 4 launch, and to match Rogers/Fido and Bell, Telus has also launched their own 6GB data plan."

As for what I read, it's a student plan with a 30$ for 6 gig option that you add. If you're not on any student plan, this option doesn't exist. This news is from 1 august so it might well be a promotion for back to school. It's also phone plan starting at 50$. Here, I have 2 cell phone with 2 lines for less then that, no data though.
[G1 Android Development] gtown:
i am wondering if someone can help me. i have installed mobile atlas creator. i have created an atlas using andnav covering an area from buffalo,NY - rochester, NY with zoom levels 8-16. i have copied these over to the phone sdcard in the proper folder as listed on page one, but i cant for the life of me get the maps to show up in brut.google maps. it shows chunks of buffalo and rochester areas but only from very far out zooms my levels 8-16 dont show up at all. i have tried both unzipped and also maps-en_us-andnav.zip respectively.

i have turn ALL data connections off. and nothing is showing up. can someone help me as to why this is not working??

do i need these options checked or unchecked???

currently i have:

international navigation checked.

read map from cache checked

save map to cache checked

database format andnav

debug mode checked but have also tried unchecked

when i first went on brutmaps after installing it created a folder 'maps-en_CA-andnav ( canada) i have deleted that and created the folder maps-en_US-andnav and put the folders /tiles in entact.

can someone please help me? i have read through the first 15 pages i cannot figure out what is wrong. any help is greatly appreciated.

also for each atlas/ map i create is a path required?? and does format have to be set at custom? i have also tried 'custom' format. and entered in database name / directory of zip (maps-en_us-andnav.zip) and still no luck.

and finally if i want to have different maps. say one with buffalo and also one with toronto. how do i select between the two if i want to view one in toronto now and then 5 minutes later i want to look at buffalo??

im sorry for all the questions but this is very complex i find and cant seem to get it to work from reading the instructions provided.

thank you for any help!!

gtown
[G1 Android Development] Jaco2k:
I have the same question although i am one step further: I uninstalled the version on the device and installed brut17. Now when I uninstall it and try to install the market version it fails to install. Any tips?
[G1 Android Development] mad-murdock:
Big zip files don't work. That's a real issue, since the only pithy way is flooding your sdcard with end less small files.

GOOGLE maps 5 will solve this problem

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[G1 Android Development] abhik55:
sorry guys I am kinda new here and a noob..

I think the link in the first post to download brut doesnot work anymore..

it says 'Rapidshare expired'

Can someone please help?

I am in India using HTC Desire (in love with it.. :)) and I am looking for sat-navigation..

it would always be a plus if its offline navigation but online doesnt bother me..please help..:)

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] MrBurrito:
Here ya go http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15397329/maps4.6.0.4686-brut.apk
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
Hi, I used brut map a lot when I have eclair but when I upgraded to froyo... I am not able to install the mod anymore... I drag the Apk into my sd and ran the Apk from Astro file manager... Am I doing it wrong?
[G1 Android Development] MrBurrito:
Uninstall the previous version before installing the lastest brut, if you still get installation failed after that, install google maps from the market, then use the market to uninstall it ( that will make it a clean uninstall) and then install the brut apk using your fav file manager.
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
Hey... I can't seem to uninstall the map...
[G1 Android Development] mcbotha:
I also get FC when trying to access Mod settings. I tried on AurexTSense 8.1.4, ReflexTSenseHD 1.3, RCMixHD v014, NewSenseHD as well as SuperVillianHD.
[G1 Android Development] mcbotha:
The app hangs when trying to access Brut Mod settings on all HD roms (Villian, RCMix, NewSense, Reflex) as well as AuraxTSense 8.1.4
[G1 Android Development] Jibreil:
What's the ETA on v4.7 going Brut?
[G1 Android Development] abhik55:
Please ignore this post!!
[G1 Android Development] abhik55:
Many Thanks for you help. But I would need the renamed apk because GM is system app and it tries to replace the system app which may not be possible as it is write protected..

Can you please provide me with the link to the renamed apk?

Thanks again! :)
[G1 Android Development] canadiancow:
Everything I'm about to say is speculation, based on my experience watching this mod from its origins.

It's not happening. 5.0 will be out soon, and has such significant improvements over 4.7, that it's simply not worth the effort to release a 4.7 mod.
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
Exactly :-)

4.7 may be the last version of GM for older devices and if so, then I will mod it. But maybe there will be one or more new 4.x versions and then I wouldn't probably mod 4.7, but these newer versions. For now I'm waiting for GM5.0 release.
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
nevermind...
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
Anyone can help me install this on Froyo, i really need google maps GPS. Its my main software i use. :(
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
What's the problem?
[G1 Android Development] kastraverde:
Hello!

I had, probably, the same problem on FroydVillain, Froyo for HTC Hero: the application freezes whenever trying to access the menu.
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
Maybe you sholdnt use unofficial firmwares, because they are usually unstable in some cases.
[G1 Android Development] Jurai:
the wait for 5.0 is killin me, hope it drops soon
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
I can't seem to uninstall the original Map by Google to install Brut.
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
You can't uninstall original version without root access and some tweaks. You may download "maps4.6.0.4686-brut-renamed-tagged.apk" and install it.
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
i tried installing that... it keeps crashing... i have root access.. One forumer from another forum told me that i could use Titanium to uninstall. Is that the way?
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
Yes, I did so - uninstalled via Titanium Backup, after that I downloaded original version (4.7) from Market, uninstalled it (!) and only after that I installed

maps4.6.0.4686-brut.apk
md5sum: 456b3fe71f74bb8b76a443be4075473c

But my phone is HTC Desire and I had to do S-OFF to get access to system/app (to uninstall via Titanium Backup). ;)
[G1 Android Development] spicyjoe:
i can't find google maps on market... :( Hmmm.
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/
[G1 Android Development] Jubei:
jubei$ adb install maps4.6.0.4686-brut.apk

2042 KB/s (5615060 bytes in 2.684s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/maps4.6.0.4686-brut.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]

I'm on Cyanogen Mod 6.1.1 and uninstalled original maps with TI Backup.
[G1 Android Development] DonHuan:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9833526&postcount=2048
[G1 Android Development] Jubei:
worked like a charm. Thank you :)
[G1 Android Development] Andreas75k:
Thanks Brut for this excellent mod!! Great to be able to use the navigation, still not officially available in Sweden...
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
GMM5.0 was just released: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/next-generation-of-mobile-maps.html .

Awesome! :-D
[G1 Android Development] :No-Frost::
Can't wait for Brut's mod!!!!
[G1 Android Development] saltorio:
Yep. The new vector-based rendering engine is awesome.

Brut.all: a feature request!

Would it be possible to add an option to show buttons on-screen that allow users with non-multi-touch devices (like the Xperia series) to perform actions that otherwise require multi-touch gestures?

It'd be greatly appreciated!

-edit-

For reference, here (http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1079043) is the Google support article listing the which phones "support panning, zooming, and tilting gestures only."

And here (http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=1079041) is the Google support article showing the various gestures used in Google Maps, of which 'Rotate' and 'Tilt' require multi-touch support but don't have button (or other single-touch equivelants).
[G1 Android Development] soder:
Man, I'm looking forward to the brut version of Maps 5.0.

It there any way to donate beers for the work you do brut?

/Söder
[G1 Android Development] ljesh:
Me too, I cannot wait for it to be updated.

I haven't been this excited since the time I finished first grade at school :)))
[G1 Android Development] figgeo:
Still no navigation in Sweden. So hope it will come a updated brut version. Thanks for a great job!
[G1 Android Development] Brut.all:
In vector maps test (earlier versions of my mod) it was possible to rotate screen using D-Pad. Does this work in GMM5.0?

In my signature :-)
[G1 Android Development] lucasjohny:
Any release schedule...
[G1 Android Development] saltorio:
None of the Xperia series have a D-pad (nor a trackball or any such equivalent).