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Tomas.... The three shortest or three cheapest should be no magic for the programmers.

yes, it is.

do you use car?

With me it also behaves as well as with Volkmar. Premium completely bought, advertisement is, however, it removes no alternative routes appear. Settings everybody OK, Reboot carried out no change.
Galaxy S2 - Android 4/1/2

... is there any manual for implementing alternative routes. The general manual offered on internet has no chapter dealing with that!

I use Samsung Galaxy alpha. Reboot does not change anything. Should I erase the Navigator app on my phone and reload it agein from Google play shop? Or get I lost the feature "alternative routes" ?

I too have bought the Premium features - and Alternative routes are marked 'In purchased pack' - but the feature is not available.
Navigate on Main menu just starts navigation.
Route info has no 'Calculate route' option - only 'Navigate'.

All optimisation modes (shortest, fastest, cheapest) give same result: no alternative routes - only navigate.
I also tried a reboot - then checked Premium features: Alternative routes are in purchased pack - but this feature is nowhere to be seen or used.
(Samsung GS3, Android 4.1.2)

@moliha: You say it is in the "Purchased Pack", but that is in the "Tools" menu.

@tomas : example coordinates:
Departure: 55.30069 N, 10.39287 E
Destination: 55.37634 N, 10.43003 E
- note: many alternative routes would be possible

@tomas : Using default car settings with no road restrictions except 'Other roads'

From My places, I select and set a destination. Tools > Calculate route gives me only other sources for a destination. Either way, I only get the option to 'Navigate' - no Alternative routes.

In 'Calculate route', the sources are Address, Google, Poi and Coordinates. Selecting any of these (or selecting from My places) gives me the options to:
- Navigate
- Set as departure
- Set as waypoint
- Set as destination
- Add to My places
- Show on map
Having set a departure and a destination in any way, I can start navigation in any of these ways:

- in the option list shown above, select Navigate.
- on the home screen, select upper right icon Navigate.
- in Route info, select lower left icon Navigate.

All of these ways just calculates a route and starts navigation. All selected departures and destinations give this result only.

'Alternative routes' do not appear anywhere under any circumstances - except in Settings, where this feature is shown with a check-mark.

Yesterday, I did a reboot to see if this would give me 'Alternative routes' - it didn't.

Today, I tried a complete shut off and restart. This appears to have partly activated the feature : now 'Navigate' will calculate alternative routes to some destinations - while other destinations (with obvious potential alternative routes) still just start navigating a single route.

If a departure is also set, the route(s) cannot be tested with 'Navigate' - this demands active gps and departs from present position - not the set departure.

So, if a deparure is set, the route(s) can be previewed with either of these two methods:
1) In 'Route info', select 'Show on map'.
2) In 'Tools', select 'Calculate route'.
A route map is then shown - but with one route only. No combination of departure and destination generates any alternative routes on the route map.

@tomas said:
"please set departure and destination with coordinates you provided earlier
then go to Tools and click Calculate route
if you do not see two routes, email file vehicle_profiles.xml"

Ok, I will email the profiles to Mapfactor, but as noted above, Calculate route generates one route only with the coordinates provided - and any combination of departure and destination.
Note: I use the Car profile with no road restrictions (except 'Other road').

As the departure coordinates provided are my actual position now, I can set the destination provided and test with Navigate - this still just calculates on route and starts navigation.

there is no alternative to shortest ot cheapest route
any alternative to shortest or cheapest is not shortest or cheapest

If the second (or third) fastest can exist, so can the second ( or third) shortest, cheapest.. :)

Tomas does not think at all :-)