How to Obtain a Trial-free Motonav version for Motorola Milestone

Alright guys. So it seems that there is no point to using Motonav on the Milestone seeing as to how its limited to a 60-day trial.

Well this guide is here to help you replace that trial version with a full blown version with voice-guided navigation and all that.

Requirements :

Full version of Motonav - available here
A Motorola Milestone with root access. If your phone is not rooted, refer to the guide here

Once rooted, you need to obtain the Android Debugging Tools, which are available at the Android Dev website, located here.

The Android SDK tools are not installable and can be run directly after extraction, so extract them to an easy to type location like C:\android-sdk-windows\

In the end, your tools folder should be located directly in the above mentioned folder.

Now we start.

Procedure :

1. Put the phone in Charge Only mode, after hooking it up via USB.

2. Open a command prompt ( ie, click Run in the start menu, and type cmd and press enter )

3. Type ( without the double quotes obviously ) "cd /D *folder path goes here*"
    For example, if the tools path was C:\android-sdk-windows\tools, this is what you should put in the folder location.

4. Type in command prompt "adb devices". If your device shows up then you're good to go.

5. Now you'll have to type the following code to the dot, pressing enter after each line.

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
cd /system/app
cp Motonav.apk /sdcard/backup
rm Motonav.apk
mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
sync

6. Now what you do, is on the phone, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications. Hit the Menu key and select Filter. Then select All Applications.

7. Uninstall com.navngo.igo.Javaclient from the phone.

8. Reboot the phone.

9. Put the downloaded Motonav.apk in the SD Card root folder. This is achieved by changing the USB mode to Mass Storage Mode. Once this is done, you eject the SD Card from the computer, and leaving the phone plugged in, change the USB connection mode to "Charge Only".

10. Now you have one of two options. Either install the downloaded Motonav.apk from the SD Card, or install it on the phone.

11. If youre going to install directly from the SD Card use Step #12b. Else use #12a but do not use both methods.

12a. Now what you have to do is essentially copy the new Motonav.apk from the sdcard to the /system/app folder. This can be done in the following steps in command prompt.

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
cp /sdcard/Motonav.apk /system/app
mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
sync

12b. Using a File Manager, just open Motonav.apk from the SD Card using the Package Installer. The application should install to the phone.

13. Thats it. All you have to do is start Motonav from the Applications Drawer and you have, not a crippled, but a full fledged version of Motonav.

As for the Indian maps, I shall be uploading them later, and will add them to this post when I'm done.

The installation instructions for those are pretty simple. All you have to do is copy the extracted Motonav folder to the sdcard ( in Mass Storage Mode ) and merge it with the already existent Motonav folder there.

Edit - The file has been reuploaded.