Anybody have a navigation app that they like ?

[fastfredracing]

I just got a new phone. It will not let me install Waze. Googling the problem seems like lots of others are having similar problems with no resolve .
Waze was recommended here on the forums , and has been my go to for years now. I love it , it has also saved me a few tickets and helped me to avoid many traffic delays
Got any you like ? .

[flipper35]

My wife uses Waze so no help here. We have a Garmin unit and nav came with the minivan so I am really no help.

Waze is owned by Google, is this going on an iPhone?

[fastfredracing]

No, its an android. Same exact make and model of my old phone , but for some reason, it will not install . Just spinny wheels, even left it overnight . Tried cycling the phone, loading it from the play store, and google .

[flipper35]

Odd, we have not had any issues with any of our phones. Maybe Google nerfed it to force everyone to use google maps.

[flipper35]

You did the clear cache and data thing?

[cabmandone]

What is the phone model? Has to be a work around.

[bleucamaro]

I just use google maps. works better for me than waze (and I think google maps uses waze's data)

[masraum]

If you can't use Waze, and you're on an Android phone, then I'd use the standard Google nav.

Really bizarre that G owns Waze and there's an issue installing Waze on your G-based device.

[matthewb0051]

I use Google maps mainly because the old lady uses Waze so much so that she usually has no idea where she is going. Total blind adherence to its directions without any understanding of the route nor where she is.

Once we were heading from DC to Knoxville on a back highway to avoid I 81. I generally knew the route but was trying to get back over to 81 as some point. EFFEN Waze... she spins it up and it literally had us back track for an hour. I kept asking her to just look at the map and the response as always was "it is saying to this way".

But to be fair to her, I had land navigation beaten into my head in the Army. Beaten

[cabmandone]

There is nothing better than having three different map systems running at the same time in one vehicle. "in a quarter mile continue on"... "In a half mile stay to your right"... "Make navigation great again"... Yeah one of my kids had that on their phone.

[hbueno]

What error or message do you get when it fails to install?

[hcoles]

Originally Posted by bleucamaro

I just use google maps. works better for me than waze (and I think google maps uses waze's data)

I also use G Maps. I've tried Waze and didn't like it... was sometime ago.
G Maps is amazing... we were in the middle of Turkey and it put us on a dirt road and got right to the main road we were looking for...

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Three true stories.

One, I use a combination of my flip phone*, topo maps, and mapquest for navigation. At end of such study, I jot pertinent data on a napkin, or credit card receipt, or something. This is my data. All this happens BEFORE a trip. I want to understand where I am before I am there. This makes "calculating" much easier in real time.

I really think it takes time to study the actual lay of the land to understand it. This is something lost on the non dinosaurs such as the younglings. There is sweat equity involved. Without it, dependence forms.

Two, I was driving home one afternoon. In the woods down the mountain embankment below me, were two millennials, hanging out the windows of their car, looking up at me.
I stopped, checked they were okay, went and got my tractor and pulled them back up to the road. They had been at a local winery and were trying to find their way home when the bottle of rose, and a blind corner their smart device did not calculate send them about 25 feet straight down.
We had a verbal agreement that if pulling their car over the boulders damaged their undercarriage, no shame on me. They agreed. No one was hurt. Fun times for all.

Three, I just discovered the navigation feature on my volvo(tonight). Cool maps, but, I was spending more time looking at maps than the road in front of me. It got turned off.

*the flip phone is only turned on when I eff$% up the directions on my napkin map, so she (my wife) can look it up on her smart phone.

You see where I (dinosaur) be going with this.

[wilnj]

It maybe different out in God’s country but I tried using Waze on my commute to and from North NJ to Queens and I found that Waze would out smart itself. It would continuously recalculate trying to avoid traffic jams but the traffic lights on the surface roads weren’t properly accounted for and the supposedly 10-15 minute shorter route, typically wasn’t.

[speeder]

Waze sucks and eats up your performance and battery on your phone. The phone is trying to do you a favor.

[fastfredracing]

Finally got it . Had to clear cache and Data in play store, google play services,, and un install the lastest play store update .
Sweet, thanks for the replies
Waze has its shortcomings, but I like it for what it is . I am used to it
It is also a great tool for avoiding the popo , road blocks, accidents, or traffic jams .

[dlockhart]

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Finally got it . Had to clear cache and Data in play store, google play services,, and un install the lastest play store update .
Sweet, thanks for the replies
Waze has its shortcomings, but I like it for what it is . I am used to it
It is also a great tool for avoiding the popo , road blocks, accidents, or traffic jams .

Glad you got it working!

I actually just started using Waze after being a longtime Google Maps user. I can't say that one is head and shoulders above the other but Waze seems more accurate on where the popo are.

[p911dad]

Waze is great, except one little annoyance - sometimes the voice waits until about 200' from the intersection to say 'turn left here on ABC road" when I am now in the wrong lane and in traffic.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by speeder

Waze sucks and eats up your performance and battery on your phone. The phone is trying to do you a favor.

Interesting. I keep my phone hooked up when I drive.

What do you use?

Originally Posted by p911dad

Waze is great, except one little annoyance - sometimes the voice waits until about 200' from the intersection to say 'turn left here on ABC road" when I am now in the wrong lane and in traffic.

Do you have the latest version? Mine has an advanced lane indicator, which is great.

I also change the narrators voice every month or so.