Verizon HTC Touch Pro 2, Stock ROM 6.1.
I generally use Garmin Mobile XT for navigation, and Google for general search, but really liked Bing for Movies, and occasionally Gas Prices.
I went to do a quick Movie check, and it basically said I
had to upgrade in order to continue using Bing. So I allowed it to upgrade me to "
Bing for Verizon." During this process:
Got a message along the lines of asking me to let it stop Outlook in order to proceed (??). I said ok. It completed installation, and started up. Unfortunately, it couldn't detect a GPS connection. I fired up Google Maps, and it had no problem. I soft reset and tried again, but no luck. Tried COM4, as well as the default 'intermediate' driver, but neither would allow a connection. (This version was 5.1.2010.xxxx)
I uninstalled the "Bing for Verizon" and downloaded and installed directly from m.bing.com/download. This time I was able to use GPS without problem.
But the interface, for my purposes, is terrible, and much worse than the prior version. Previously I could hit the movie button, it would show a variety of theaters in my location, and I could switch back and forth between movies at that location, the list of theaters, check reviews, etc. Very slick.
Now, when I hit the Movies button, it brings up a short list of Movies, rather than theaters. And when I go to the theater list, it brings up a theater about 7 miles away, apparently oblivious of the one right in my home town (!!!).
So, I uninstalled that one, found a .cab for an older version, and tried that out. Unfortunately, when I try to run it, it once again leaves me no choice but to go to upgrade, and I am unable to even use the older version.
Yet another genius move on Microsoft's part, forcing the use of a newer program despite my preferring the older version, with the functionality of the newer version (for my purposes at least) dramatically inferior.
Does anybody know of a way to work around this, and allow the continued use of the older Bing application? Or some way to configure the newer version to work with the same functionality as the old one?
