AT&T Navigator/Telenav Mini-Update: Contacts Integration

[Tunnelrunner]

Hey, all,

For anyone who uses the AT&T Navigator by Telenav GPS app.:

Telenav just released their first upgrade for their iphone app a couple of hours ago. One of the most glaring omissions from the app has finally been added: contacts integration (about friggin' time).

A word of warning: I know that after I upgraded the app, it would crash EVERY SINGLE TIME I tried to navigate to an address (this has already been reported to Telenav). I don't know if this happened to everyone who upgraded today, but I do know of at least one other person who had the same experience an hour ago. Obviously, there's some bug in the upgrade process here.

What I found that works: delete the app, then reinstall it. It will then work flawlessly.

[Tunnelrunner]

I forgot to mention the other upgrades:

-You can adjust voice volume from within the app now.
-You can cancel your subscription from within the app now (you don't have to call or go online anymore).

[whmurray]

This release fixes one of the big deficiencies in this app. Now Supports navigating to contact address. However, when I tred to use this feature it rejected my contact on the basis that it was not in the US.

I deleted the app and re-downloaded as suggested by one person here. No joy. I checked the address to see what country it showed. Showed US. Tried again, again no joy. I reset the country in the contact to US. this time it worked.

Hope that I do not have to reset every contact in order to be able to navigate to it.

[JFSikora]

Yeah, I had the issue of it crashing after the update as well. Seemed to be pretty common. They've fixed most of my major gripes with the app. Works well.

[whmurray]

Originally Posted by JFSikora

Yeah, I had the issue of it crashing after the update as well. Seemed to be pretty common. They've fixed most of my major gripes with the app. Works well.

One of my problems was understanding the prompts. Had to use a BT headset. Even that did not work well, because of the "fade in" on A2DP. Do not have the same problem with TomTom (which does not have T2S.

Can anyone report on whether this release fixes this?

[JFSikora]

Originally Posted by whmurray

One of my problems was understanding the prompts. Had to use a BT headset. Even that did not work well, because of the "fade in" on A2DP. Do not have the same problem with TomTom (which does not have T2S.

Can anyone report on whether this release fixes this?

I have a few GPS apps and this one I use the least but as far as I can tell it's the same voice.

[Tunnelrunner]

Originally Posted by whmurray

This release fixes one of the big deficiencies in this app. Now Supports navigating to contact address. However, when I tred to use this feature it rejected my contact on the basis that it was not in the US.

I deleted the app and re-downloaded as suggested by one person here. No joy. I checked the address to see what country it showed. Showed US. Tried again, again no joy. I reset the country in the contact to US. this time it worked.

Hope that I do not have to reset every contact in order to be able to navigate to it.

That's strange. I have some contacts that have "United States" at the end, and some don't...but regardless, Telenav is able to navigate to ALL of them. Haven't had any problems on that end.

RE: the Bluetooth headphones - can't help you there, either, since I've never tried them. Like I said before in the past, I play the voice prompts (with music) over the car stereo using an FM transmitter.

[whmurray]

Originally Posted by JFSikora

I have a few GPS apps and this one I use the least but as far as I can tell it's the same voice.

Agreed. It is not the speaker but the reproduction of the voice that is the problem.

[whmurray]

Originally Posted by Tunnelrunner

That's strange. I have some contacts that have "United States" at the end, and some don't...but regardless, Telenav is able to navigate to ALL of them. Haven't had any problems on that end.

RE: the Bluetooth headphones - can't help you there, either, since I've never tried them. Like I said before in the past, I play the voice prompts (with music) over the car stereo using an FM transmitter.

I have that solution and expected it to work. However, I have not actually used it, in part because I use the radio to for XM/Sirius.

[ScottUrman]

I too experienced the crash whenever I tried to start the navigation. But I just deleted and reinstalled, and that seems to have fixed it. But I still cannot navigate to any of my contacts (all in the US, with the country listed as USA). Is there a support contact for this app?