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Free cell phone GPS: Nav4all on Sprint HTC Mogul Confirmed Working

One of the funny things about the Sprint HTC Mogul is that it ships with a built in GPS device without any functioning software. While Sprint has mentioned they plan on turning this feature on with an update sometime in 2008 we no longer need to wait for this to happen.

Nav4all is a currently free GPS mapping software that supports many phone and I have just recently successfully installed in on my HTC mogul. To do so just navigate to www.nav4all.com on your mobile device and proceed to download and install the application. It will take about 5-10 minutes to go through all the menus and install features with the biggest issue being that you have to scroll through a lot of different language choices.

In the few minutes of having this installed I have tried unsuccessfully integrating this with Google Maps as the Google Maps program continues to search for GPS Satellites. This is no big deal but something I thought would be nice if it could somehow use the Nav4all GPS software to communicate to the satellites.

**Update**

It looks like there may be a few bugs with this still. After I initially setup the program and set my home address with working local maps I closed the application and tried to see if Google Maps would read it. When I went to reload the application it did not save any of the settings I had originally set. I then recieved a “No GPS Sensor has been coupled!” error. I was able to grab some pics tures of this working and will upload load those soon.

Looks like this one is not ready yet but is something to keep an eye on. There is also a long list of supported devices in the Nav4all site, the HTC Mogul is NOT on of them, yet.

**Update 2**

I un-installed and reinstalled hoping that would solve the problem but now the program will not load the GPS data and I continue to get the “No GPS sensor has been coupled” error.  I have gone ahead and removed this program and will just have to wait for Sprint to get around to releasing the official GPS update.