That sounds more like you're out of ram than bugs with the map app. That said, try Waze. It uses a lot of the same data but it is much more reactive to traffic at the moment from what I hear.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:05 PM, John Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good turn-by-turn navigation app for Android phones? > Starting a few months ago, Google Maps has become almost useless for > real-time turn-by-turn navigation. After a few minutes use, it becomes > time-lagged, with all apps on the phone running slower and slower. I have > had it give me turn instructions for intersections I had passed several > minutes earlier. At the same time, the phone gets hotter and hotter, > suggesting that the navigation engine is using an ever-increasing share of > CPU time. > Eventually the phone locks up, requiring a battery pull. > > This same behaviour shows up in both Google Maps and Maps.ME. Maps.ME uses > data from OpenStreetMap, but may be using the same navigation engine as > Google Maps. In both cases, the slowdown only occurs if I try to use > turn-by-turn guidance, suggesting that the navigation engine is buggy. > -- > John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] > "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot > drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
