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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by zalew on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:02AM (#4564167)
how do you access them? turn your phone into airplane mode and open google maps fresh. I get the loading spinner followed by a 'network failure. this aplication requires a working data connection' message .
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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by eli on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:14AM (#4564206)
You have to specifically save maps in advance. I think it used to be an optional labs feature but is now baked in. I believe it's activated by a long tap in the middle of the area you want to save.

You also might consider one of the apps that's uses OpenMap data to have a whole country offline.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by nodata on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:11AM (#4564200)
You didn't answer my question: are you using an up-to-date version of Maps?

If you are, go the My Places> Offline to see your maps.

WFM in airplane mode.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by zalew on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:15AM (#4564213)
yes, up to date.
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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by nodata on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:22AM (#4564240)
Okay... version?

I need you to respond to the other part of my question:

> If you are, go the My Places> Offline to see your maps.

You need to describe what you see, what you are doing, and what happens.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by zalew on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:26AM (#4564261)
if I'm online - yes, it works perfectly. but I don't need them offline when I'm online.

I described what happens when I'm offline - error, you need data connection. that's it. v6.12.0, play says it's up to date.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by nodata on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:46AM (#4564336)
and did you cache maps before going offline?
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