(Windows) Live Search Upgrade Sucks! Don't Download it!!

[wavezero]

Originally Posted by rawdog805

Why cant I upgrade, on my 6800 it just installs the new version, and leaves the old version on my phone... and the old version doesnt have an uninstall?? and clue how to get the old version off of my phone..??

Is live search visible from "Remove Programs" in settings? It is on the TP, if so remove it from there then from IE browse to wls.live.com and that SHOULD be the latest version available for your device.

Originally Posted by dannzeman

I'm not experiencing the auto search problems of the OP but when using the birds eye view and track me using gps, the little arrow that represents me is way off. But if I switch back to the basic map view its all good.

I'll reinstall and see if it was just a fluke thing on my end...

[resinis]

i love windows live search. i just updated, theres nothing wrong with it.

my only wish was to be able to have live search left on in the background without quitting. i dont know if its my crap q9c or the software itself, but well see.

[vinscuzzy]

I unintalled because birds eye view was kinda silly, the autocomplete feature doesnt work well with the onscreen keyboard, but mostly because there appears to be a bug in the city search. If you click on change location and type in a city, state it doesnt find the city. example: lets say your location is set to los angeles, ca. If you hit change location, and type reseda, ca in the search box, it will search for "reseda" near los angeles. It appears to have it signals crossed and instaed of looking up a city, its searching for business names in your current location. Try it out....... the older version works like its supposed to.

[aceracer24]

Originally Posted by vinscuzzy

I unintalled because birds eye view was kinda silly, the autocomplete feature doesnt work well with the onscreen keyboard, but mostly because there appears to be a bug in the city search. If you click on change location and type in a city, state it doesnt find the city. example: lets say your location is set to los angeles, ca. If you hit change location, and type reseda, ca in the search box, it will search for "reseda" near los angeles. It appears to have it signals crossed and instaed of looking up a city, its searching for business names in your current location. Try it out....... the older version works like its supposed to.

Well, when you click change location, you are given choices, current GPS, Recent, Point on map, Contacts and List of cities. I don't believe the search box is/was intended for the purpose you are trying to use it for. Your city isn't listed in the list of cities so I would suggest you click "Current GPS".

[noisehr]

Originally Posted by aceracer24

Well, when you click change location, you are given choices, current GPS, Recent, Point on map, Contacts and List of cities. I don't believe the search box is/was intended for the purpose you are trying to use it for. Your city isn't listed in the list of cities so I would suggest you click "Current GPS".

I have the same problem, but if I select a contact for a destination, it doesn't locate the destinatino correctly, but instead does a search for that address near me. How would I enter a destination address if I cannot put it into the search bar?

[vinscuzzy]

Originally Posted by aceracer24

Well, when you click change location, you are given choices, current GPS, Recent, Point on map, Contacts and List of cities. I don't believe the search box is/was intended for the purpose you are trying to use it for. Your city isn't listed in the list of cities so I would suggest you click "Current GPS".

In all other versions of livesearch the search box on the change location screen was to "search" for cites or direct addresses. The way I found it didn't work was because I was at home(canoga park, ca.) and I wanted to search for somewhere to eat near a city I was driving to(reseda, ca.). I couldnt remember the zipcode of Reseda and put in the address, city, and state. It said not found. Definitely a bug, the previous version worked perfectly. I reinstalled and all is good.

[resinis]

Originally Posted by vinscuzzy

In all other versions of livesearch the search box on the change location screen was to "search" for cites or direct addresses. The way I found it didn't work was because I was at home(canoga park, ca.) and I wanted to search for somewhere to eat near a city I was driving to(reseda, ca.). I couldnt remember the zipcode of Reseda and put in the address, city, and state. It said not found. Definitely a bug, the previous version worked perfectly. I reinstalled and all is good.

actually i think youre right, it is a bug. in the 'change location' window, the search box does the same thing as the main frontend search. its not supposed to. as you said, the change location search should allow you to enter direct addresses and it will find the best matches- which it doesnt.

im afraid i have to take back my remarks and reinstall the earlier version as well, this update is not right.

edit- phew, i still had the old cab. everything works great again.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by vinscuzzy

In all other versions of livesearch the search box on the change location screen was to "search" for cites or direct addresses. The way I found it didn't work was because I was at home(canoga park, ca.) and I wanted to search for somewhere to eat near a city I was driving to(reseda, ca.). I couldnt remember the zipcode of Reseda and put in the address, city, and state. It said not found. Definitely a bug, the previous version worked perfectly. I reinstalled and all is good.

Yea, this is DEFINITELY messed up. I just realized I had the exact same problem & had to reinstall the earlier version which works just fine.....

~John

[aceracer24]

Originally Posted by vinscuzzy

In all other versions of livesearch the search box on the change location screen was to "search" for cites or direct addresses. The way I found it didn't work was because I was at home(canoga park, ca.) and I wanted to search for somewhere to eat near a city I was driving to(reseda, ca.). I couldnt remember the zipcode of Reseda and put in the address, city, and state. It said not found. Definitely a bug, the previous version worked perfectly. I reinstalled and all is good.

Fair enough, I never used the search in that manner. I always click current GPS so the software knows where I am. I can also select a point on the map close to a location and search for BBQ restaurants and that will bring up stuff around the point on the map...

I did Barbecue Restaurants, Layton, UT and that worked well for finding everything around me. However I did the same but replaced Layton with Reseda and it didn't find anything. So I tried again but replaced Reseda with Orange County and again it worked. Maybe Reseda just isn't in the database of the new version?

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by aceracer24

Maybe Reseda just isn't in the database of the new version?

I had the same problem looking in the area where my sons College is.

LS found all the restaurants in the area last year with no problem, the new version finds no results now.........

~John