Nokia N95 Internal GPS Works
Personally, I am not a big fan of Nokia cell phones. However, the past few days I was busy playing with a dozen or more Nokia N95s. Why? Because I am able to provide a service everyone wants, and everyone started to approach me for such service. This ties into one of the biggest business concept ever: offer a service or product that is unique and it will generate a buzz by itself. I am not going to talk about business concepts in this post. I am going off-topic and talk about phones.
If you’re a Nokia N95 user, you should know that the integrated navigation system is not the best. It does show you maps and tell you where you are but in order to use its full features like voice turn by turn, you have to pay. It costs around $10 for 7 days of use. If you do the math, why not just buy a standalone GPS?! As a result, many people are looking for alternative GPS solutions for their Nokia N95s.
About 4 days ago, one of my friends asked me to help him out with his N95 GPS. He wants to use the GPS but not willing to pay for subscription. I told him I would try and brought it home. After a few hours of research and downloading, I made it work. I installed a special copy of Route 66 navigation software and able to use the N95’s internal GPS receiver. My friend was very happy and he began to spread the news. The next day, other friends using the Nokia N95 started calling me.
I am not going to post any links or guides here because of legal issues. However, if you want to use your N95 GPS for free and having problems, feel free to discuss with me.
UPDATE: Get all the files and a step by step guide here.
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February 25th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I just got a N95, want to get to the route 66 software. Can you send me the link. ^_^ thank you so much. My e-mail is sylviacheong@hotmail.com
Thanks,
sylvia
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I have N95. Still learning how GPS would work without costing me money. With the Route 66 software I dont have pay any??? I live here in Canada though.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
The Route 66 application does cost money. However, as you know the Internet is filled with information and materials, you can find a free version. (I can’t tell you how though) A particular version of Route 66 does support the internal GPS receiver of the N95. You won’t need any connection trough the GPRS (AGPS) therefore it won’t cost you money for signals. You may want to contact me directly for more information.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I have just bought Route 66 version 7.3.507 for use with my N95. Desperately need instructions to get this working with the internal gps. Can you help? I am getting the NO GPS message.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hey Ronald, i’ve recently upgraded to a n95 and am very interested in your “theory” cheers for doing the hard work
May 26th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Hey Ronald
I have a N95 and am in the same boat as everyone else with paying for GPS.
Can you email me the information I need on what to get and how to set it up.
I am also in Australia, would that pose a problem with mapping at all.
Many thanks (on behalf of the majority of N95 users) for all your hard work and great to see there are still non profitable intelligent people in the world.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[...] my last post on the Nokia N95 Internal GPS, a lot of people emailed me about what they should do and how to get the files. It is quite simple [...]
June 6th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hi good work,
If you don’t mind can you please send me the link to download route 66 for n95 and maps for Austalia
Thanks
June 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hey Ronald,
I have a Nokia N95 8GB and am in the same boat as everyone else who has posted here…
Can you please email me the information I need on what to get and how to set it up, for use in Australia.
I got the torrent you posted yet am still having troubles with the first few steps.
Thanks a lot and I look forward to your response.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
hi my name is nicky could you please help me with route66 on my n95
June 19th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Hi, thank you for all the work you have done here with the GPS problem…can you please email me the info required for the Australia Map and links to any of the other files that I might need to get it working on my Nokia N95 (not the 8gb version)…
thank you
Armond
June 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Hi! Been trying for two days to find a working copy of Route 66. Could you please provide me with the information as well? Thanks so much!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:49 am
hi there
greetings from south africa.just read about you getting the n95 to work on route 66 gps maps.i have had my 95 8gb for nearly a year and constantly struggling to get it to work without paying as it is way too much for us here in S.A could you please send me detials as to how to go about it.i would realy appreciate it.i have sat up many night to get wot you have done…
faroukkarlie@yahoo.com
August 6th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Try TomTom6 it works well with N Series Nokia phones. However U need an external GPS device. There are some patch to get it working with internal N95 GPS, but I have not tried yet.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I did everything but the maps map still locked
August 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Can anyone please help me?