Kellex, whats up i got a question is google earth supposed to be like a replacement for google maps i really dont see the point of it and also i rooted my Droid and installed the DroidMod i love it the only thing is my phone freezes a lil bit too much and resets itself i bought the setcpu thing but i dont know how to work it to prevent the phone from resetting my settings are 1200max and 250min is that right?

Hey Anonymous...
I had mine set to 1200mhz as well and was getting restarts too. Then I switched it to 800 or 900 (can't remember) and it worked perfect.

I would not advise you run it at 1200mhz. It was probably overheating and turning itself off. Also, when you set up SetCPU, did you choose "auto-detect" your device? You should have. You can change it by going into options in SetCPU.

And to your Google Earth question: It's not a replacement, it's just another toy to have on your phone. :)

Its running great till after 5 mins became a lil laggy. Also this file was around 5mb. And other people were saying it was around 23mb, any reason for that

Google Earth runs really well on my non-rooted droid. I haven't noticed a lag yet. I'm surprised at how well it runs without needing to root or overclock it or anything. Thanks for the instructions Kellex.

Great work, thanks guys!

For some reason it's not working for me. It will install and launch, but after about 5 seconds of the loading screen it quits out. Doesn't force close or show a message, just stops and sends me back to the last thing I was on. Anybody else having this problem?

hot!

That's what I'm talking bout.

for the 5mb vs. 23mb Q, after install it says 22.42MB on my Droid so it must be downloading compressed data.

I got an error saying that it couldn't install. But then it was listed in my programs anyway. Still pretty laggy though. Tends to just freeze from time to time, will come back to life after a few minutes without force closing. Still a really cool app, I'll keep playing with it.

Cool, one more toy to add to my phone!

Also, I already unrooted my phone. When I had it rooted some of my widgets wouldn't work correctly (like weatherbug and news & weather widget), and the browser would distort the text while scrolling (my biggest annoyance.) The ability to overclock was nice though.

Download file is about 5mb but once installed takes up about 23mb.

Runs good on my droid! Thanks for the app kellex. Oh yeah the app does take up over 23 mb of memory! Ill play around with it and unistall it.

im such a noob thanks Kellex and Jasen for the input my Droid was hot i thought i was from all the charging i was doing lol its now set at 800

yeah, i noticed the same thing as andrew. its about 23.. wow that's big. very cool app, but i have to delete a few things because i'm running out of space! (i REALLY wish we could save to the sd card... i have 97% free on it it!!!)

Saving to the SDcard would definitely be nice. This may just be one of those apps you show off to friends for a while and then uninstall heh.

Runs on my unrooted droid, but has no content. I see the globe but zooming in just makes the globe pixels bigger. If I search for Hawaii and zoom in, there's no islands, just blue all the way to max zoom. Same for the whole planet, can only zoom around the low-rez globe.

Hmm...are you on wi-fi? I'm guessing it might need wi-fi to really get good results. It's got at on of data to load so maybe it's struggling on 3G.

i used it on 3G and was just fine, no wifi.

Hey Kellex....I am unable to open it...it shows the following ...(Alert!.....Can't write to data directory, maybe run out of disk space)

I don't know if anyone has tried, but I can confirm that it does not work on android 1.5 on droid eris.

Just thought I'd throw that out there in case someone was wondering. Getting 2.1 any week now so it's just a waiting game. :P

LOl...never mind...I got it to work...pretty cool...thanks for the info

kellex just wanted to say thank you for all the information that you provide for all of us. your site is the best by far keep up the good work. downloaded the google earth and worked well on my non rooted droid. one suggestion if you ever have time will you please do a artical on how to root your droid beginning to end and explain roms and all the things you have to download. kind of like a root 101.

Worked like a charm...perfect, thanks for the tips!

How do you get back to the earth screen, I clicked on my location and it took me there, but now I can not get back to the big earth screen.

Kellex, where did this file come from? Did Google release it for the daring nerds (like me) to try? Thanks,

- JH

Awesome! Thanks!

Can't even install just get the following message, any ideas anyone?

Parse error

there is a problem parsing the package

Got the file from an anonymous tipper. :)

Ben: Make sure you install it using Astro.

Installed fine and works great on my Droid. When looding at the Settings screen I clicked on Terms of Service it asked form my Country/Region and then i downloaded a new file of the same size as the first but instead of being named google_earth.apk it's named google_earth-1.apk. I did not know what is was so I did not open it. Any idea?

hey!

it says bandwidth reached!

fix it please

I want my google earth!

Why do you need to use the Astro File Manager? It installed fine on my unrooted Droid without it.. :/

If bandwidth has been reached, use one of the "alt links" next to the main one.

hey kellex thanks for the reply, so far ive tried android native install option "didnt work" andexplorer file explorer "didnt work" and as for astro file manager i could even find an option to install a file.......so still no googearth for me :'(

Yo!
Trying to get this on my European Milestone and it dosent work. Should it? I got the 2.0.1 update and 2.1 launcher app. Thanx for a great blog!