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[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
I know man I don't see why they had to do that :D
[Nexus One General] mattpannella:
thats not what doesnt work. it's using 2 fingers to rotate. swiping is fine and always has been
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
I see 3D buildings in downtown chicago, too. You do have to zoom in a bit though.

I also stand corrected on the 3D rotation, it does seem like I spoke too soon and we are unable to use all the features, according to the help page.
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
man I'm zooming all the way in on Chicago and NYC and cannot see 3D buildings...if someone has step by step or something it would be appreciated. :)
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
okay I got..you have to REALLY zoom in
[Nexus One General] prettyboy85712:
Which layer view are you using?
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
The standard vector based maps view, not satellite. I'd say i'm zoomed in about 80% to see the buildings. And with this 3D view I can already see how much of a hassle it's going to be not having the ability to rotate your view as buildings obstruct your route. Granted the buildings render with transparency, but to get any sort of rotation to work you'll have to enable the compass view by double tapping the location button.

edit: doesn't seem like the compass view works alongside the 3D view... bummer.
[Nexus One General] :
My area hasn't been 3d-ed yet. =/

No rotation either.

It was a good run N1.
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
Yeah, I'm already kind of bummed that w're going to be missing out on these new true multitouch features. Really makes me want to grab a Nexus S but there are so many tradeoffs at the moment.
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
no rotation...but not terribly missed either...definitely not a reason to change mine for a newer phone.
[Nexus One General] geemaan:
can you post the apk, please?
[Nexus One General] :
This is the first indication that developers are leaving behind older tech.

I didn't expect G apps to be one of the first to exclude features.

You're about to see a load of applications with multi touch manipulation, that will not work with n1.
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
Yeah, the rotation isn't that big of a deal. OTOH, pinch to zoom finally works properly! That's way more important to me, it was super annoying before.
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
it's not. It's an indication of what rubbish Nexus One's touchscreen is, nothing more.

By the way...Google maps now takes 10MB
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
Yes, this is kind of how I feel as well. With 2.3 and 3.0 I believe we're going to see a lot more true multitouch applications. After using the 4 point multitouch on the Dell Venue Pro I already know first hand how important these new gestures are for the user experience.

Soo.. anyone want a Nexus One + Car dock?
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
do you really want to do a 4 or 5 points multitouch on a 4" screen?
[Nexus One General] :
Nothing more?

That screen has been holding back devs since day one with building a better interface. Google is stepping up and leaving the n1 behind, expect everyone else to follow.

It's sad to see the N1 relegated to a section of "not fully supported" sitting next to the LG Ally and SE Xperia.
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
Yes, I do. Like I said, experiencing it on a Venue Pro, I was very impressed and I fully believe that these new gestures will enhance the user experience beyond what can be done with current N1 tech.

For example, there are many painting and image editing apps for WP7 that have multitouch gestures for control.

Also, multiplayer games like air hockey and similar apps can be used by multiple people on a single phone, even on a 4 inch screen. It's fun and it enhances the user experience.

Sorry for derailing so much but the writing is really on the wall for the N1.
[Nexus One General] kilohercas:
can someone extract apk ?

i can't get it from market, because i live in Lithuania :(
[Nexus One General] Clarkster:
You mean to say you expected Google to not support rotate at all, even on newer phones because the N1 can't do it?

Google isn't excluding features form the N!, the N1 never had that feature, they are including extra features for the new phones that can do it.
[Nexus One General] dharani1234:
Here's the link to the APK. It's from the following thread from the APPS section.

Thread - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9862131#post9862131

apk -http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14734707/com.google.android.apps.maps-2.apk
[Nexus One General] :
They are excluding features from the development "baseline", that's ridiculous. As noted by other people, an on screen control could incorporate the function.

Considering they could have used a better touchscreen a year ago.

(Original droid supports this feature)
[Nexus One General] Brownbay:
I think that's a bit of over dramatization. Multi-touch is just another input method. For the next couple of years, devs will need to cater to different input standard...

The N1 will be fine. It might not have the most convenient input method, but it'll still be very much usable.
[Nexus One General] :
I think the n1/desire are the only two snap dragon phones out with the 2000 series touch screens.

Hell, the LG optimus line uses a 5 point digitizer.
[Nexus One General] Arcarsenal:
Yes, I agree that it's not like the N1 is going to be tossed to the side right away, but I do feel like this is going to eventually be a limiting factor for certain features and applications as Android continues to evolve.
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
sorry but I cannot see the usefulness of having a 5 point digitizer...

Better than the Nexus/Desire? Of course, I'd love to have one...but why 4 or 5 points? Are we talking about phones or 11" tablets?

I think people are overreacting here
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
The N1 naysayers really are sounding like children. It's not enough that you had the best Android phone available when it came out? It's not enough that you got every OS update first for a full year? It's not enough that even with a successor on the market we will still be among the first to get the new OS updates? It's not enough that after a year our phone is still one of the better Android phones available?

Get some perspective, the inability to do one marginally useful gesture in Google maps does not suddenly turn your phone into a useless piece of junk that Google suckered you into buying and then promptly abandoned.
[Nexus One General] mattpannella:
i don't understand how the original droid supports the rotating. doesn't it have the same digitizer as the n1?
[Nexus One General] :
You can't see the possible functionality of having more ways to interact with the screen?

Hint: You already see it in this maps.

Take a look at touchpads on laptops that use multi finger gestures.

The original droid uses a digitizer from a different company (TI I believe) that supports proper two point detection allowing for rotation.
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
That's not what I said. But this instance of having more ways to interact, i.e. being able to rotate your map with your fingers, does seem only marginally useful to me. I don't think it's absence makes maps any less useful as a tool.
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
well after playing with it awhile it's cool and all but my area does not support 3D yet so I have to look at other cities to play with it. I'm seriously more bummed than anything that they got rid of the bubbles feature in labs. It was highly functional(made making calls one less click) and made the UI look fantastic. Seems they always eliminate the best features(for me). Sometimes I wonder if Google devs actually use some of this stuff.
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
you said it...touchpads on laptops...those do 5-inch diagonals. If it ever comes the day where mobile phones's got screens that big, I'll stop using them.

Seems the only thing people see here is 'another cool feature', but what's useful about a 5 point multitouch gesture on a phone?

Possible functionality? More ways to interact?
[Nexus One General] :
Yeah, maybe you're right, there's the possibilites for applications have already been used up, and there's nothing to innovate anymore.

Frankly, I'm tired of touching the screen, who needed that anyways, it's just obscuring the view.
[Nexus One General] thesoze:
N1 Naysayers...

you're beginning to sound like an Apple consumer who constantly *****es when the products exhibits uncool features...

like hand stains on a white mac...etc....

long live the NexusOne!!
[Nexus One General] BiTXBoi:
ever tried stand up comedy?

Seriously, of course there are possibilities and things to innovate, otherwise I'd better look for a new job, but I'm asking for some commonsense. How useful and comfortable is it to use 4 or 5 fingers at the same time on a touchscreen?

Maybe some would drool for that possibility, but frankly, I cannot see any advantage, apart from an extra line in the 'Features' column.
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
If you want the Bubble buttons back in maps, I made a thread on the Google help forum here:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=7271718b29c2e298&hl=en

Might want to add you opinion/vote to it..:)
[Nexus One General] gqkevyn:
As with everyone else couldn't get the rotating to work, but was more bummed that my city Houston is listed as 3D building support but there aren't any :( I went over to Austin and they have the fun 3D buildings.

Nothing that's a deal breaker for me here. Still love the Nexus One.
[Nexus One General] resinous:
Glad 3d, works lookks sweet.
[Nexus One General] baseballfanz:
I went into downtown Houston and got some 3D buldings.

Minute Maid Park ect....
[Nexus One General] spintronix:
hmmm...in google earth - there is a button on the bottom left which allows me to switch between panning/zooming and 'look around' - which is what i believe is missing from maps.

maybe someone who is good with programming could add this button? google perhaps? if google realized it was necessary in earth (which has little 3d - maybe some terrain) then why did they not realize it was necessary in the new maps with lot's of 3d? turn on 3d rotate with a button - use the trackball to pan at the same time....that can be our 2 finger input - doing 2 different actions at the same time.

plus to be honest, most of the time i use maps i'm on the move. having a single finger input would be awesome (even for those with proper multi touch digitizers). the more options the better.

i'm hoping this data will make it to a new version of google earth sometime in the future..

by the way - does this mean 3d buildings during navigation? (haven't tried it yet).
[Nexus One General] gravufo:
hmm, me likey the 3D :) sucks it isn't in Montreal yet...

the extended cache will also be really useful!
[Nexus One General] simms22:
this tread is absolutely wrong!!!! the Nexus One completely supports all the features in the latest google maps 5.0! as of the next nightly, multi touch rotation of the map works!!! you can try it out now with fitsnuglys custom upload of a nightly from this morning http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9883889&postcount=66

hardware issue on the nexus one my ass :p
[Nexus One General] :
Hacking to trick an application into believing something is not called proper support.
[Nexus One General] simms22:
it shows that it is a software issue and could be fixed
[Nexus One General] player911:
Don't the nightly's build from the ASOP from Google? So is the fix from google or something he tweaked?

If the fix was found in a nightly then Google probably already fixed it.
[Nexus One General] :
Uh, no.

It's already been shown (a long time ago) the hardware has trouble properly detecting two point rotational gestures.

The hack is just that....a hack, it'll "work", but not as designed.
[Nexus One General] simms22:
frrom twitter...
[Nexus One General] simms22:
"itll work, but not as designed" is good enough for me. fact being that it works ;)
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Is it possible to use the hacked maps on a non-nightly build?
[Nexus One General] :
The maps isn't hacked.

The rom description is changed so the maps application can see the N1 as a proper true touch device.

Basically a program asks the phone for details and shows features of the program accordingly:

.apk: Hey you mister phone how's your screen doing?

N1: Amazing, I got TWO points (but don't you dare let them cross or else!)

.apk: =/......Okay, here's your gimped maps interface sans rotation since you suffer from premature crossing.

When you change the build profile it goes like this:

.apk: Hey you mister phone how's your screen doing?

N1(lying): Great, I have the same screen as the rest of my siblings, we have no issue with twisting to points around, hell give me ten! I'll prove it, I swear!

.apk: ......If you say so

User: !#@!$#@%@# roate doesn't work properly! Stupid android is useless.
[Nexus One General] baseballfanz:
LOL, awesome descriptions.:)
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Lol!

In that case

A) How can we change build profile (I'm guessing this is build.prop?) without wiping or flashing a new ROM?

B) If we do this, will it affect / break any other apps?
[Nexus One General] :
This is the commit that changes the declaration:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/2285c45a0c09c738f0678f27b314afae35afbea4

Not sure if it can be manipulated through build.prop or if you need to change that .xml specifically.
[Nexus One General] cmstlist:
It'd be nice if they'd left a way to implement it on poor-multitouch screens. For example, install a little "rotate" toggle in the lower left of the screen, and while it's toggled, you can drag-to-rotate instead of zoom. Tap the toggle to go back to zoom/pan mode.
[Nexus One General] espeanage:
Did anyone get the 3D buildings to work? I can't seem to enable it.
[Nexus One General] :
It's dependent on area.

Go to a heavy crowded area (downtown miami 33133)
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
And make sure sat view is off.
[Nexus One General] rori~:
..if anybody did not try it yet, here you go:

Google Maps 5.0 Rotation for Cm 6.1.1
[Nexus One General] tomgupper:
A toggle rotate of use of the trackball would have made the most sense for devices without the multitouch. It's still an awesome upgrade from previous maps versions - the caching has saved me twice already,
[Nexus One General] rickytenzer:
Thanks!

Just for clarification purposes, I'll include some steps:

1) Download file

2) Extract

3) Move to /system/etc/permissions

4) Delete "android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.xml"

5) Change permissions of moved file to read/write, read & read (by long-pressing on the file and choosing permissions)
[Nexus One General] cmstlist:
Or if you're wary of permanence, you could rename the old file, e.g., "bak.android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.xml.bak"
[Nexus One General] ROM_Guest:
I keep on getting "could not move file" when i try to move the old one out of etc\permissions , or the new one in.

Edit: just read about permissions on long press in file explorer, but my long press in file manager does not bring up a permissions option.

/noob
[Nexus One General] rickytenzer:
Root explorer.
[Nexus One General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
one thing i don't understand is why you would NEED three input points to rotate the map.

it should be possible to recognize a rotation with two input points.

if the x axis remains unchanged (or changes just slightly) then the device knows that the user wants to tilt the map. (putting two fingers on the screen and just sliding up or down with both fingers at the same time)

if the user makes a gesture with changing x and y coordinates (rotating two fingers on the map), then it should result in rotating the map.

somehow i think the missing rotation on the nexus 1 is just a way to promote the multitouch functionality of the nexus s without any real technical reason.
[Nexus One General] WickedStyx:
The rotate function doesn't use three inputs. You use two fingers in a rotating fashion as you described. The problem is the digitizer in the N1 fails hard when crossing axis (which is exactly what you do when rotating in the new maps).

See here for an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5qZ_3XRzI
[Nexus One General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
i know about the problems with the crossing axis, it's also easy to see when using the new preview feature in the gallery app. Sometimes spreading the fingers on the picture batches will result in the batch being spread the other way around.

Still this is not something which couldn't be handled, it just means that you can't rotate freely in 360 degrees, and in some instances your input will not be understood correctly. But in most cases it will work, because normally you won't be rotating maps all day in all kinds of directions.

it wasn't a problem that this bug sometimes happens on the gallery app. so i don't know why they took it out from gmaps.

well probably it was too embarassing for google if this bug would happen within one of their most successful apps like gmaps on their own device.
[Nexus One General] ROM_Guest:
Thanks!

[10 chars]
[Nexus One General] Fulvio Minichini:
I'm pretty sure it will be in next one or two updates or at list I wish.

Is there a standard way to petition Google for staff like that?

Leaked video of LG Optimus 2X http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jil4CEEryW8
[Nexus One General] WickedStyx:
They should just add small rotate left and rotate right buttons in the corner of screen. Surely that's better than nothing?
[Nexus One General] Androidfreakz:
Well at least u have a trackball lol

j/k
[Nexus One General] HereAsWell:
If you like, you can support my idea of an alternative rotation gesture here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=7993b4447100abce&hl=en

As long as all the grumble is just here at XDA, Google is not aware of your opinion ;)
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
I created a similar topic a few days ago, and no bugger has replied: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=603fd8eb43736698&hl=en
[Fascinate General] netforce87:
OK, so I haven't found this in any of the other posts, this is my first time posting, so sorry.

Here goes:

Anytime I have Pandora playing, and my phone is charging, the audio has little bits of scratch sounds, like Pandora is a scratched CD. This only happens when I am on the actual Pandora screen, not when I have Pandora running in the background and I'm on the home screen or any other app like navigation running, and the scratches happen whether headphones, my car's speakers, or the speaker on the phone are used, and whether it's connected to the car or home. The scratched also appear to be perfectly in sync with the battery charging indicator bar moving.

I'm running Blackhole 1.4.1 with JT's Stable 11/11 Kernel and have tried every theme imaginable.

I use Pandora exclusively in my car, don't bother with regular radio. But I don't need to have any battery charging animation. So if an easy fix would be to get rid of the charging bars, that would be perfectly fine with me.
[Fascinate General] chopper the dog:
It is the accurate battery mod animation. Turn the screen off.

good day.
[Fascinate General] netforce87:
Yeah, I know turning it off fixes it. lol. Why I was posting is because I like to have the screen on the in the car so I can quickly change songs and see what artist is playing and all. Any way to disable the mod animation?
[Fascinate General] spyd3r05:
Also, try bumping min cpu speed up to atleast 200... worked for me when i had the problem..
[Fascinate General] netforce87:
Ah ha! There we go! Works great now at 200Mhz min. Thanks!
[Captivate General] cppc:
I called AT&T today to ask for the unlock code as I'm gonna go back home next week. I've been using the Cappy with AT&T since August 31, so it is more than 90 days. As experienced with T-mobile before, I was able to get the unlock code after using T-mobile service for more than 90 days. But that is not the case with AT&T and Captivate. The guy over there told me that there is an exclusive agreement or something like that which make the Captivate not eligible to be unlocked. That really upsets me. Well, I know that without AT&T technical we still can unlock the phone to use with another carrier (Using the unlock tool) but AT&T pisses me off!!!

Btw, I have a little concern (that is the reason why I called AT&T). Is there any difference between using the unlock tool and getting the code from AT&T for unlock? Also, do we need to root before using the unlock tool?

Thanks
[Captivate General] stuff:
Uhhh, just call back and get a different rep. I am almost certain you can get an unlock code. Tell them you are going over-seas for business, or visiting family etc. I think by law they have to give you the code (if you meets certain restrictions)
[Captivate General] dark42:
Just use this app to get the unlock code, and forget AT&T.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/samsung-galaxy-s-unlock-tool/com.clarkehackworth.SamsungGalaxySUnlock

There is no difference in the methods, the code the app gets is the same as the one in AT&T's database.
[Captivate General] cppc:
Thanks guy. I did call 2 reps today and got the same answer. Stupid. Regarding the Galaxy S unlock took, I believe that I need to choose No-Root Gen Codes button if my phone hasn't been rooted yet. But why do we need Root Gen Codes while we can unlock w/o root?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timbit123:
Hello, I have a weird issue, like the camera is split the image, like the left side is on the right and the right to the left seperated with a black row. also the color is switching to purple, pink.

I'm running on the last stable cyanogen (6.1)

and last radio (5.12),

also I tried pershoot kernel and wildmonks, other than the stock cyanogen kernel

I also try to wipe, data, cache, davlik,

fix permissions, erase camera cache

nothing worked.

here a video of what i'm talking about :

youtube.com/watch?v=cqCXUFNM9QM (sorry bc it's my first post I can't make it playable from here)

the video was recorded in 720p but also happening in camera or any other quality.

I tried to see if it wasn't a hardware issue by reinstalling the stock android 2.2.1 and it hasn't happend. I really don't understand why i'm getting this and it's look like i'm the only one to having this.

the only thing that I have not tried is to downgrade the radio, but I don't know if the issue is coming from the radio...

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Stock JI6. My market app updated but the phone didn't even ask me. Anyone else notice this? I thought something was wrong with my phone before I notices the xomments were on their own tab...
[Vibrant General] gopack13:
Same happened to me. I thought it was a bit odd. I had the updated market before, but often ran into the problem where apps wouldn't finish downloading, so I went back to the old one.

So far, though, I haven't had that problem this time.
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Yeah it is a slightly revamped version of the market. It adds the "related" feature which i've come to really like about it. I'm not sure what if any other features were included
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
Yeah, Market has its own updater. You should be able to roll back if you want, but I find this version to be pretty stable.
[Vibrant General] Emama:
It can update the apps automatically now, buy u need to set it one by one..
[Vibrant General] kizer:
Yep I got the same one today as well.

Update all

Update automatically

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[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
guys does ur market widget works....mine shows nothing...FYI the new update adds market Widget too..
[Vibrant General] radioraheem:
Mine updated yesterday too and I'm running Bionix R1. Love it.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Nope.

Useless Widget is useless.
[Captivate General] PixelPerfect3:
So I just opened the market today (after a few days) and it seems like the market has now been updated on my Captivate. I now have the option to update all apps at once (jesus finally) and the UI is a bit different - comments for apps are on separate tabs, etc.

I'm pretty sure I have not been oblivious this whole time...this is a recent update right?