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I downloaded Sprint Navigation on my NEW 8330. I just wanted to download it, but not currently allow it to track me because the program looked different that the other 8330's that I've downloaded it on. It is an all black screen that says in tiny little letters at the bottom to not drive while using it, and it doesn't ask you to click accept or anything (which I thought was weird, as the other TWO times I had this on my other 8330's -- within the week -- it was a yellow screen, then you click it, then it prompts you about not driving while using it, then you click again, a menu comes down and you hit accept).
This one forwards me to a screen -- without having me hit accept or anything first -- that says: "To use Sprint Navigation you must allow the application to connect to the network, use GPS, and access you [sic] phone." Below that it says: "On the next page, click View. Then open the menu and select Save."
It was freaking me out that this looked and was set up COMPLETELY different than the other 2 8330's I've had (within the last 2 weeks). I tried hitting the end button. It wouldn't let me exit with the End key, so I finally clicked the Exit. Then it exited, but a message with an exclamation came up saying something like 'permission for action denied: GPS was turned on.'
What the heck?!?! I ripped the battery out. I downloaded it right from the little Sprint Navigation icon, which is why it would surprise me if it were some malicious software trying to track me, but in the same token, why would it look like that?
Thanks!
Last edited by CaraP; 01-16-09 at 11:56 AM.
01-16-09 11:51 AM -
THANK YOU! Oh my God, you don't know how relieved I am! Even when I called tech support and told them about the error message that I got (especially with the spelling error
), the woman was like "that doesn't sound right!" but maybe she just wasn't familiar with the new version??? Also, after we did a complete handheld wipe, that was the only app *still installed.* 
I mean I downloaded it DIRECTLY by clicking on the icon that already came on the phone, so it shouldn't be some weird thing trying to track me I wouldn't think... Who knows though! 
01-16-09 09:39 PM - It seemed like a real pain in the you-know-what, but that just might be because I was scared half to death that some secretive third party application under the guise of a Sprint Navigation icon was tracking me. Now I feel ridiculous, and I feel a bit more at ease to use it....
Hopefully it's good! I'll use it tomorrow, and try to update on here (my first post here FROM my BB!). 01-16-09 09:58 PM
