I too have been following this thread and am rather annoyed that gm and bringo have lied to us. It should have stated that maybe one day your car might have nav but only if you buy a certain phone from a certain carrier .... Maybe
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I too have been following this thread and am rather annoyed that gm and bringo have lied to us. It should have stated that maybe one day your car might have nav but only if you buy a certain phone from a certain carrier .... Maybe
Chevrolet Customer Care
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Hi rgdave,
Your right I am monitoring this site to stay close to what issues you may be having
I can certainly understand your frustration. Trust me we are aggressively working together with BringGo to get these issues fixed as soon as we can. I can't promise that every phone will be compatible but I can assure you that our goal is to make sure that you are happy and we realize this to be an issue. Our customers come first, and as soon as we have updated information I will post it immediately. Sincerely,
Crystal - GM Customer Care
laborsmith
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Crossing my fingers and hoping against hope! Did Kelly give you the info you asked for? If not, I told her she can.
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rodslinger
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Disregard... Looks like the APK is doing a lookup against your gmail account to see if you purchased the app. Although the app WILL install it will not open if it wasn't purchased on your gmail account.
Bringgo... Get yer head out of your asses and release the app to everyone. Just provide a several day refund period so that if it doesn't work someone can uninstall and move along. Most of the Android users aren't sheep and can figure out how to get something to work.
Bringgo... Get yer head out of your asses and release the app to everyone. Just provide a several day refund period so that if it doesn't work someone can uninstall and move along. Most of the Android users aren't sheep and can figure out how to get something to work.
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They should extend the refund period to at least 1 day anyways, 15 minutes is not enough time to download the map packs and wait for it to connect to your car to see if it's gonna work. If you click the purchase button in the store, it will associate with your gmail. You may need to use something to re-link it to the market though.
BTW, at this point I don't know if I'm going to spend the 50 bucks on this, seeing as I plan on keeping on star, and that allows me to keep my phone just playing pandora or whatever. much nicer to the phone.
BTW, at this point I don't know if I'm going to spend the 50 bucks on this, seeing as I plan on keeping on star, and that allows me to keep my phone just playing pandora or whatever. much nicer to the phone.
Or just make the trial free. .99 isn't making them anything anyway. Set a minimum Android OS version and memory requirement and then let us have at it. Or set up an Android beta outside of the Playstore (Firefox did this with their Android version for months before releasing it in the Playstore) with a 30 day expiration date. Within a couple of weeks they'd probably have information from users on a dozen or more popular phones, whether Bringgo works or not.
laborsmith
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Very good and very reasonable proposal.
Something our friends at Chevrolet Customer Service can pass on to those who can make it happen.
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rodslinger
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That is assuming that Chevy and Bringgo are even communicating on the issue. I have a feeling this falls near the bottom of their to do list. I still can't fathom that after this long there isn't even a single addition to the approved phone list. Not one....
I was just looking at the approved device list for other regions. There are approved devices in other markets that are not on the US list even though the devices are technically equivalent. I would also like to add that out of curiosity I was able to easily install Bringgo on an HTC EVO Design 4g, LG Marquee, HTC EVO 4g LTE and HTC Hero S. All of these are not on the approved list yet functioned without issue.
I was also able to get Bringgo to come up on my Pioneer AppRadio 2 head unit in my Mazda and use it for turn by turn using the radio's touch screen.
So again I ask Bringgo/Chevy. Why can I get this to work on unapproved phones in a Mazda and you can't even update the phone list for use on the vehicle it was designed for?
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laborsmith
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Boggles my mind, too. But I will continue to poke both through this thread and directly with Chev Cust Svc because that is what I do. Call it my chief steward mentality. (A Chief Steward is in charge of Local Union grievance processing.)
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laborsmith
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Tried to get BringGo. Device incompatible. I am wondering if Chevrolet has decided to abandon the idea. If so, it should quit including BringGo navigation as a selling point when advertising the Sonic and the Spark.
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BringGo Support
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Dear rodslinger,
As per the earlier messages, we are working on the compatibility issues users are experiencing with Android. A new release is scheduled for Apr 5 which specifically addresses this. More information shall be available on this date. We thank you for your patience.
Kind regards,
BringGo Support
1980PontiacWagon
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If anybody wants the APK file here it is http://db.tt/4xscGFUx
The problem is, like mentioned earlier it won't do you any good unless you have bought it in the store with the google account associated with your phone. Funny enough for me though was that somehow my Asus Transformer Tablet was compatible with bringgo and that allowed me to purchase it through the store with my account and then install this APK on my phone without any *******.
I realize this won't help many people but maybe a few that do have a compatible device that is not their phone like me can use this. At the link below you can check if you have a compatible device for it and if so buy it.
Also it looks like they threw the Galaxy S3 back in the list of compatible devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImdvZ28zLmVubmF2Y29yZTIiXQ..
The problem is, like mentioned earlier it won't do you any good unless you have bought it in the store with the google account associated with your phone. Funny enough for me though was that somehow my Asus Transformer Tablet was compatible with bringgo and that allowed me to purchase it through the store with my account and then install this APK on my phone without any *******.
I realize this won't help many people but maybe a few that do have a compatible device that is not their phone like me can use this. At the link below you can check if you have a compatible device for it and if so buy it.
Also it looks like they threw the Galaxy S3 back in the list of compatible devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImdvZ28zLmVubmF2Y29yZTIiXQ..
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rodslinger
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We aren't having compatability issues. We are having issues with you restricting the install to a VERY small set of devices. Seems that the program works on pretty much anything it is installed on without issues. I have it working fine on my end. I'm just making more noise in the hope it will help others.
Macehammer
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Well, at least it wasn't April 1st...
laborsmith
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The problem with the above statement is Android users aren't having "compatibility" issues. That implies you actually have it installed on your phone and are having some quirk running it. The issue is it's simply not available for most Android users, regardless of the phone you have. Hopefully after April 5th, the list of supported Android phones will actually contain at least some of the phones in use today.
laborsmith
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And I am so hoping. I must say that this thread appears to have helped Chevy get to the point that it allowed the BringGo Support team to issue the referenced statement/promise. In two days we will have a better idea if there is a real result.
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