Whilst Droid owners we’re gleefully showing off their Google Navigation, the rest of us either went without or hacked our phones to accommodate the new Google Maps for Android. Those of us G1 owners who hacked our phones of course had the constant problem of the “Navigate” option disappearing when flashing a theme or another ROM. Yesterday however took a lot of us by surprise; Google pushed out an update to include Navigation for *most* Android devices (you folks still on 1.5 got the shaft…like Cliq owners).

I had some trouble getting the new version to install over the hacked version, mostly because of a “update not signed” error when trying to download through the Market. This is most likely because of the modified build.trout.prop files. So, I had to remove the old version of Maps and push the new version using ADB or Terminal. I’ve uploaded Google Maps 3.2.1 with Navigation here to my server, as you’ll need to download it and push it to your sd card.

These are the commands I used in Terminal to remove the old version of Google Maps, and to push the new one through.

su
mount /system -o remount,rw
rm /system/app/Maps.apk
cp /sdcard/Maps.apk /system/app