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Google Maps keeps crashing
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Posted by: creighton1

Anyone else have problems with Google Maps? It seemed to work fine until today. I was playing with it this afternoon and switching back and forth between map and satellite view and zooming in and out and scrolling around, and it crashed and kicked me back to the home page. Opened it again, did the same things and crashed again, and again, and again... Now I can't seem to keep it running for more than a couple of minutes before it takes a dump.

Is there any method to "soft reset" so to speak?

Posted by: RogerPodacter

I played with the iphone for the first time today for about 10 min and google maps locked up the phone. rep had to reboot it. so in my experience, yes. but i dont own one.

Posted by: bigbadhenchman

That's impossible.
Mac's and Mac OS doesn't crash.
At elast that's what everyone says.

Posted by: pr5owner

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Originally Posted by bigbadhenchman

That's impossible.
Mac's and Mac OS doesn't crash.
At elast that's what everyone says.

thats hilairous, OSX crashes worse than windows does because it doesnt even tell you whats wrong so you can try and troubleshoot the problem.

EX: if you have bad ram and you get a bluescreen in windows, the error mesage states "unable to write to adress XX:XX:XX:XX etc", you automatically know oh, it cant write to either the ram or HDD, so you run scandisk or memtest86 to see if you have an error, you find out what HW is defective and replace it.

i guess apple doesnt expect their users to know anything so the users will send it back to apple and get charged an arm and a leg.

same with the iphone, NO ERROR MESSAGES! NO TROUBLESHOOTING! no fix/patch/anyway to let apple know what happened

telling them, oh i was in google maps and it crashed isnt good enough

Posted by: pr5owner

oops forgot the link sorry

"If iPhone won't turn on, or the display freezes or doesn't respond

Press and hold the Home button below the screen for at least six seconds, until the application you were using quits.

If that doesn't work, turn iPhone off and turn it on again. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on top of iPhone for a few seconds until a red slider appears, and then slide the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.

If that doesn't work, reset iPhone. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

If iPhone continues to freeze or not respond after you reset it

Reset iPhone settings. From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings. All your preferences are reset, but no data or media is deleted.

If that doesn't work, erase all content on iPhone. From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. All your preferences and other data are removed from iPhone.

If that doesn't work, restore the iPhone software. See document 305744 "Updating and Restoring iPhone Software.""

taken from this website (apples)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305740

Posted by: RogerPodacter

i just realized, if the iphone does freeze up, you cant remove the battery to cut all power and hard boot the thing. is this a problem?

Posted by: johncase3

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Originally Posted by creighton1

Anyone else have problems with Google Maps?

Works fine on my "antique" Treo 755P.

Posted by: chtrho51

Google maps isnt crashing for me, but Safari and sometimes the iPod crashes. Just wait for updates and it should be fixed.

Posted by: The WB

The maps crash - that was the best feature I played with . . . .

Posted by: vick04

Those crashs are probbely due to the fact that they supposdly have a "near full version of OSX" running on it with only 128mbs of ram. Google maps is most likely running out of memory.

Posted by: MacJacK

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Originally Posted by vick04

Those crashs are probbely due to the fact that they supposdly have a "near full version of OSX" running on it with only 128mbs of ram. Google maps is most likely running out of memory.

if running full google maps doesnt work, try the Java version of googlemaps, its for low memory devices (like 32-64MB phones)

Posted by: Artood2s

I Thought the iPhone didn't support Java applications? Am I mistaken?

Posted by: THETRUTH#34

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Originally Posted by Artood2s

I Thought the iPhone didn't support Java applications? Am I mistaken?

YOU ARE 100% CORRECT, just another missing feature.

Posted by: The WB

That will be fixed in the first round of bug squashing!

Posted by: bobbo1978

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Originally Posted by pr5owner

That is because once you have a blue screen of death in older windows you can't recover from it. On OS X, like any other unix based system and Win2k and newer, the zombie process can be killed.

I have been a long champion of iphone even before it came out however when I went to play with one in the store today google map kept exiting unexpectedly and youtube is not fully featured. I have to say I was a bit disappointed.

When I asked the rep why google map kept crashing he said we are having server problems. Any iphone expert here care to explain what that means? I was able to load map data just fine except when I zoom out to state level. Besides that I couldn't find my favorite youtube video because it was not on the m.youtube.com and a nostalgic feeling overcame me, I felt like I was surfing the internet on AOL/Prodigy back from the 90s. The limitations! I was hoping this will be the full fledged internet phone. I wonder if apple purposely crippled the iphone to exchange for battery life

Anyways, it's not like there isn't a time I wish I can chuck my BB 8300 against the wall but it never crashes as often as iphone.