Google Navigation hacked onto T-Mobile G1 (updated)

by Thomas Ricker Nov 11th 2009 @ 2:01AM

It's always a good sign when a device-specific product release becomes the focal point of the XDA development community: it means you've got a winner on your hands. Not that anyone ever doubted the intense demand for Google's new turn-by-turn Navigation introduced exclusively on Motorola's DROID. No more. Brave souls have now tweaked the original code to run on the original Android device, the HTC G1 running on T-Mobile. Anecdotal reports suggest that it's working great -- a good sign that we'll see a cooked ROM unveiled just as soon as feverish fingers can package the new code.

Update: Photographic evidence has arrived. Enjoy.

[Thanks, Alex H.]

Filed under: Software, HTC, Android

Tags: android, g1, google, google navigation, GoogleNavigation, hack, htc, navigation, t-mobile, xda

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"a good sign that we'll see a cooked ROM unveiled just as soon as feverish fingers can package the new code"
DONE!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583001
I just flashed that rom from the link above and the Google Nav app works NICELY!

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Maff @ Nov 12th 2009 7:48AM

Doesn't work outside the US. Got it on my G1 and messed with it for hours before I found out it's US only!

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