[mdlug] Using old android phone a standalone GPS?

Mike On Mobile z_mikowski at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 29 12:37:10 EST 2013


Hey Ray:

I have a perfectly working moto droid 1 sitting on the shelf (Verizon CDMA, steel house custom ROM which is fantastic).  A great but unused device.  I could be convinced to part with it if the shipping were paid for :)

Cheers, Mike

"Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

>I've got an old Droid that I recently upgraded from. It's got hardware problems - the camera's shot, the headphone jack and the charging port are loose, etc. But it's basically operational. I'm looking at turning it into a standalone, offline car GPS unit. (It doesn't have a data plan anymore, so I'd have to load the map data onto an SD card.)
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>I've found a few things like Navit (http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Android) but haven't had a chance to play with them yet. Anyone done anything like this? Any tips or gotchas I should be aware of?
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