amAze GPS is godawful slow

Has anybody else found amAze GPS to be painfully, godawful slow on their 'Berry? I tried amAze a month ago on my Flip. It looked really cool, but it was so maddeningly slow I gave up. Today I saw that the 4.5 version is out and d/l it to see if it was any different. Unfortunately not. Seriously, it's Molasses In January slow. It takes a full second to move between the Search, Route, etc icons. During region setup it took me literally minutes to scroll down the list of states to Illinois, USA. I could swear the software is crippled.

Has anybody else experienced and/or overcome this performance problem? Is there some obscure Java ME option I should set to speed things up? I have no such problem using BB Maps or Nav4All, they're both really fast.

I used it on a 8310 and it was fine, well except for the UI layout, feel and button design which is a subjective thing more than anything.

However I also used it on a 9500 and well lets just say the interface isn't coping well with touchscreens, I'm wondering if they did something else funky to mess with flips.

unbearably slow on my 8900 too. I'm using telmap now.

It runs fast on my Bold but it doesn't play nice with other GPS apps on my BB.

When I downloaded the gpsed app, amAze refuses to open. Just sits at the loading screen. The other app this happened with was nav4all but I went ahead and removed nav4all since amAze was better, imo. I'm not removing gpsed though since I get more use out of it. If they get it to work better when loaded with other GPS apps I'd use it more.

I use amAzeGPS and I agree that it is slow. However, once it is up, it works fine for me with regards to what I expect it to do: navigate me using voice directions. I used to experience the clipped voice directions with amAzeGPS v4.2, but no longer with v4.5. I tried Nav4All but with it's latest version (v4.8.74), I still get clipped voice commands. Also, the biggest draw of amAzeGPS for me is it's price: it is free. If I can get a GPS program that works for me and is free, then I will not use other programs that I admit may be more intuitive but charge me for their use or download. I tried Garmin Mobile, but after the 7-day trial period I uninstalled it from my BB, as I never seriously considered purchasing it. If Nav4All releases a newer version that corrects the sound problems then I will try it out. But once Nav4All starts charging for it's use come 2010, then I will uninstall it from my BB regardless of whether it works for me or not.

Elrohir59

I also find Amaze to be slow (and painfully unable to show me satellite or hybrid views -- even for Washington, DC). I also am frustrated that I cannot receive the voice prompts through my bluetooth receiver. Finally, it does lock up when other apps are using GPS.

Bottom line ? I will continue to use my Garmin car unit as my primary nav device. I will rely on Google maps as my backup and Amaze as my backup for that.

Originally Posted by Elrohir59

I use amAzeGPS and I agree that it is slow. However, once it is up, it works fine for me with regards to what I expect it to do: navigate me using voice directions.

I gave amAze a second chance on the way back from the mall today (post-Christmas shopping - yikes!) It took me a few minutes to start amAze and link it to my BT GPS (had to start BB Maps first :confused:) and input my home address, but after that it navigated great. It didn't freeze or anything when I switched over to exit BB Maps. I intentionally took a wrong turn but amAze recovered nicely, without telling me to "make a U-turn".

I will probably use amAze as my primary nav system. Nav4All has a snappier UI but it won't be free for long. Wife has a Garmin, but over Thanksgiving we discovered the year-old, on-board map data did not have a new subdivision we were routing to. I looked it up in amAze and it was there, roundabouts and all.

Originally Posted by Elrohir59

I use amAzeGPS and I agree that it is slow. However, once it is up, it works fine for me with regards to what I expect it to do: navigate me using voice directions. I used to experience the clipped voice directions with amAzeGPS v4.2, but no longer with v4.5. I tried Nav4All but with it's latest version (v4.8.74), I still get clipped voice commands. Also, the biggest draw of amAzeGPS for me is it's price: it is free. If I can get a GPS program that works for me and is free, then I will not use other programs that I admit may be more intuitive but charge me for their use or download. I tried Garmin Mobile, but after the 7-day trial period I uninstalled it from my BB, as I never seriously considered purchasing it. If Nav4All releases a newer version that corrects the sound problems then I will try it out. But once Nav4All starts charging for it's use come 2010, then I will uninstall it from my BB regardless of whether it works for me or not.

Elrohir59

I can see what you mean that it works fine when it finally starts up (well not in my case) but when I am in my car I just don't feel like fumbling for ten minutes to get a freaking working route in lol.

You could always try TelMap:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f41/tel...31/index2.html

I will give AmazeGPS another shot and see if it's slow for me as well.

I've had no problems with amaze. Loaded up reasonably fast and got a lock as fast as a standalone sat nav. Brilliant for a free piece of software, especially for turn by turn voice guided directions when driving.

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I had a similar problem as another poster with Amaze. For some reason Amaze holds a monopoly on my GPS. Everytime I want to use another GPS app I have to open Amaze (even though it isn't open) then close it for the other apps to find satellites. Really annoying. Personally for now I just prefer using BBmaps for navigation.

May give GPSed and TelMap a try though.

Forgot to mention that I found it very slow when trying to locate new locations. The GUI for finding locations is bad. I like the BBmaps "Find Location" because you can type in a location just like with Google. No commas or anything needed and it is still accurate. Allows for much faster searching.

Amaze is a good program. As time goes by and if they keep improving their application. It will be a choice of many blackberry users. Just give it sometime.

Amaze is amazingly slow. Need to find an alternative.