Comments on: Google Maps comes to Windows Mobile

By: Benjamin Watt

Benjamin Watt — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:31:35 +0000

The file browser on your phone may not have the capability to easily create a shortcut on the start menu, mine doesn’t.

There should really be a shortcut created already for you in the top level of your start menu, but you might be able to create one by hooking your phone up to your PC, and doing it from there.

If you browse to \Program Files\GoogleMaps\ you may be able to create a shortcut and then put it into \Windows\Start Menu\ but a lot of Windows Mobile 6 phones are locked down so heavily, this can often be difficult to actually do!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:40:58 +0000

I have googlemaps installed on my wince 6.0 phone and it shows up in the file browser and I can run it but it doesn’t show up in the start menu…how can I add it?

Thanks!
Jordan

By: Pontus

Pontus — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:50:21 +0000

I have opened the cab file and fixed (tnx to lots of forums) the filenames and a help.txt file for putting them to the right location.
Im pure noob so don’t expect much.

Makes GoogleMaps work in my Ipaq 4150 (wm2003)

http://home.bip.net/pontus.nilsson/googlemaps.rar

By: Ipaqman

Ipaqman — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:53:36 +0000

Does’t work for me either
Damn i really want this program…

By: sammy

sammy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:25:25 +0000

Me either on my HP 4150

By: Zoltan Soos

Zoltan Soos — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:12:50 +0000

IPAQ 4150 — does not work for me either. FYI.

By: Benjamin Watt

Benjamin Watt — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:43:15 +0000

No problem – it was worth a go! Back to the drawing board

By: Carey Weiss

Carey Weiss — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:32:41 +0000

Hi Again,

Great Work, and nice instructions. Still didn’t work thought. I know I saw other people having the same problem. Maybe they will come up with an installer like many other programs have.

Thanks again for your time and suggestions

By: Benjamin Watt

Benjamin Watt — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:46:57 +0000

Sorry to hear that Carey, very strange – it should really work.

If you’re REALLY determined to get it to work, you could try copying the files out of the cab file manually. I haven’t tried doing this, so I don’t know if it will work, but might be worth a go:

You’ll firstly need something that can extract the files from the cab file on your PC – WinRAR will do it, but other file extraction/zip programs probably do too. You then would need to rename the files as follows:

CACHE-~1.003 > cache-GLM.dat
000prefs.001 > prefs.dat
prefsext.002 > prefsext.dat

These three files once renamed are kept in Application Data/GoogleMaps/ on my iPaq.

The actual Google Maps application is kept in Program Files/GoogleMaps/ and the file from the cab file should be renamed as follows before you put it in there:

GOOGLE~1.005 > GoogleMaps.exe

Then just put the following in your Windows directory:

GMM_LA~1.004 > gmm_launcher.dll

You can delete _setup.xml (which told the installer where to put these files), and GOOGLE~1.000 which I don’t think is needed.

Might work, these files will all be in their default locations, same as on my iPaq – so it might just do the trick. You’ll need to create shortcut to GoogleMaps.exe in your Program Files/GoogleMaps/ directory for your Start menu, or just browse to it manually in your File Explorer.

By: Carey Weiss

Carey Weiss — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:12:28 +0000

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for the link, and the help, but still got the same message. I copied the file using file, explorer, and then also activesync. I also copied it to my storage card and main memory, and got the same message.

I do believe I got the correct file, it was 607 KB.

Thanks anyway