Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Ok my Google-fu has failed me. This changed a few months ago and its bugged me but only recently enough to make me try to fix. So before when I would search for a location from my search function on my Android (Thunderbolt w 2.3.4) it would give me a listing of results ala a Google Search, and when I'd click on a map one there, usually the first result, it used to open up my phone's map app - the vanilla Google Map app - which I love. Now - it takes me to the Google Maps webpage. I cannot stand this since it's gimped half of the functionality I use in navigating with the app. How can I force this to go back to opening the app instead of the maps webpage? Ergo - when I click on a map on a webpage, it opens my map app and not the google maps webpage. (Yes I know I can open the map app first and search from there - I'm not asking that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergwheel1647545492 Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 clear the defaults for your browser app (whatever that might be). then when you click the map the next time it will ask you what app you want to use to open it with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 nope - clicking a map on search results in the browser still opens maps.google.com instead of the google android map app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 That's really odd. What browser are you using? Maybe try a different browser and see if it still happens. What Greg said was my original thought as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 using the default browser on android started a couple months ago - I assumed it was google wanting to drive traffic to their site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubar231 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Its possible when you chose to open the map one time you chose browser and always use or something of the sort, there has to be a setting somewhere thatll allow you to change it. Go to your map program in your apps list and see what kind of settings are in there, and check your browser settings too. There might even be a setting in the map program once you open it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 No Joy - none of those fixes it More info: http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-incredible-2/565289-maps-links-opening-in-browser.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 So after digging and researching turns out this was fallout from the Apple lawsuit. Apparently clicking a link opening an app is an invention of apple????? (my ass it was) Anyhoos, to turn this bullshit off go here and follow the instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696536 You'll need to be rooted. Some ROMs already have the offending HTCLinkifyDispatcher and ro.da1.enable set to false in the build.prop. I am using good old Sense so I got wacked by the lawsuit bullshittery. This had been in effect since apparently June, meaning it hit me with some update 2nd half of the year. I clearly haven't been paying attention. But now, maps work like they should: I click a link on link in a webpage and voila my amazing and world's best map app, Google Maps, opens. (This also applies to Play Store links, Maps addresses, and possibly Contact data and phone numbers.) SUCK MY LONG HAIRY DICK, APPLE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OgReNaToR Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Agreed on the suggestion to Apple lmao..hate that shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Takes balls to want to stick their apple shit into my android pizza. Although, in this case I think it was more a case of HTC exhibiting an extreme lack of intestinal fortitude instead of being men and telling Apple to go suck it. Pre-emptively ganking your own product's software *just in case*? That's some cowardly craven-ness right there. I mean - did they honestly think they'd actually get in trouble for opening apps by clicking a link!?! Seriously? Nobody on the face of this planet (except maybe an american jury) would believe apple invented that. Especially when the whole lawsuit got shafted in europe: EU courts told apple to eat it. Only in Uhmerika.... Oh wait, right, this IS the jury/judge who decided apple invented the touchscreen and the RECTANGLE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Google doesn't seem to be too worried about it, it still works in 4.2.1 vanilla. Meanwhile, at Windows Phone http://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone/ Google's official response — as we pointed out yesterday — is that the decision to redirect users away from Google Maps on Windows Phone devices is a choice Google has made. That's because it has optimized the mobile version of its Maps website for browsers that use the WebKit rendering engine. WebKit is the rendering engine that Apple, Google, RIM and many others use on their mobile browsers. Meanwhile, Microsoft uses the Trident rendering engine for Internet Explorer on the desktop and mobile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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