Well to be fair to the phone units my Garmin GPS gets confused downtown as well... it has real troubles figuring out which direction I'm heading and sometime thinks I turning when I'm not etc...
So back the original topic, I went out this morning determined to figure this thing out. So I think the issue I was having is my phone came pre-loaded with google GPS, which has 4 different icons in the app section named: Places, Maps, Latitude and Navigation. These worked fine for me today when I used them. What was confusing me was the phone also came with a program named: Car Panel, powered by route 66 - which has a huge Widget that took up an entire home screen and was there from day 1 of turning on the phone. I kept trying to use this via the home screen widget and it usually took me to a map location in China somewhere by default... sometimes I could get it to find me but I hadn't figured out how I think it was downloading the map so depending on if I had data on or wireless available it would work or not work.... even if it did find me though Navigation and other GPS features are all extra money and subscription based. Although I did figure out how to download the Canadian map for it today for free... i think part of the deal of it being on the phone... so I'm not sure if that includes navigation once its downloaded - its half a gig of data so its still downloading... If it doesn't I'll probably remove the program and stick with google.
I knew once I figured it out I'd have a "ah-ha" moment followed by "duh"...
None of the applications are labelled great and I just thought they all belonged to one program.
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