In 10 days I am going to travel constantly for 6 weeks. I am bringing my camera and was wondering if anyone could recommend a gps logging program for my diamond for this kind of use. I have different approaches, not sure which one will be best.
- Activate it 2-3 times a day to get my location at various locations. (could be easy to forget)
- One that activates automaticly at a set interval, maybe 1-2 hours. (I could have my phone of during the night and in phone mode most of the days).
Choosing one of those, what program will work best?
Thx!
-Erik
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This is one I havent encountered before but apologies if its been reported already. I couldnt find an obvious thread.
I have noticed recently that my Kaiser is not keeping time - quite dramatically so!
When I turn my device on from standby, the clock is often 20, 30 mins or even hours behind.
I have tweaked the hell out of it recently so I am quite sure it is related to something ive done as it hasnt happened on previous builds.
I am using synchrotime almost everytime i turn it on just to make sure the clock is right (hope this doesnt clock up too much data :-( ).
Anyway just wondered if anyone else had come across this?
Try turning the auto time setting in the phone settings to OFF, early on we found this to cause random time problems as well as causing active sync to run all the time.
Thanks. I'll give it a go.
Mine did that last night - 40 minutes slow. Never had that problem since i first got it a couple of months ago. Once it got coverage again, it syn'd back up.
Did that fix your issue?
I've got another interesting one. My clocks are right, but my text-messages show as an hour ahead (received one at 3pm PST and it shows as 4pm PST in the list). I do have the 2007DST patch from Microsoft and everything else is configured right. Is there another setting somewhere for txt-msgs?
this happens for me too. i dont no what is causing the delay. when i have my phone on device lock, whatever time it was when i locked it, it stays like that until i unlock. i noticed it recently, almost missed an appointment because of it!
tried turning off that auto time thing that dont have any effect.
worked perfectly thanks
I've been using my at&t tilt with tomtom flawlessly since I purchased it earlier this year. A few weeks back while visiting the cemetary (paying respect to some past relatives), I tried using tomtom to help plot down where some of the graves were located.
After waiting a few minutes for the gps to acquire a signal, it eventually got 1 bar, but showed my location about 220+ km(~150 miles) off! It would also show my travelling speed to be incredibly fast (like the speed of a plane), but would eventually slow down to drving speed and it would show me driving along a road... I never watched it long enough to see where exactly it was going (or where it was going to end!?)
Keep in mind this is in a cemetary, no where near any obstructing trees or buildings, nothing but blue sky. I tried turning the radio off (airplane mode) and back on a few times, reloading tomtom etc, but everytime it would show the same thing, starting back somewhere flying really fast...
So geez, I thought that was kinda eerie.. so later that day (and away from the cemetary) I tried it again and it seemed to work OK. But lately I've noticed this intermittent behaviour again, and the only resolution I've found was to simply do a soft-reset and everything would appear to work ok. Has anyone else had this similar issue?
Is it simply:
a) a gimped up qualcomm chipset, or
b) a bug in the OS/driver/stack, or
c) or is my phone posessed???!
Well, now that most of us have the Fuze GPS working, one thing that would nice is a little app/service that wakes the GPS up several times a day and attempts to get a fix.
Rather than waiting until I need to use the GPS, then turning it on and waiting for a fix, it would be great if it had at least connected sometime during the day.
Thoughts?
ryanrands said:
Well, now that most of us have the Fuze GPS working, one thing that would nice is a little app/service that wakes the GPS up several times a day and attempts to get a fix.
Rather than waiting until I need to use the GPS, then turning it on and waiting for a fix, it would be great if it had at least connected sometime during the day.
Thoughts?
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I think the software you are looking for is called QuickGPS. If the satellite position information does not expire your device should get a fix within under 10 seconds, so there is no need for any additional software. Just use QuickGPS so that the satellite positions are always up to date and that's it.
http://www.geoterrestrial.com/
I think this is what you are looking for.
Check out their FAQ.
DeepThought said:
I think the software you are looking for is called QuickGPS. If the satellite position information does not expire your device should get a fix within under 10 seconds, so there is no need for any additional software. Just use QuickGPS so that the satellite positions are always up to date and that's it.
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I think he means more so after a soft / hard reset it can sometimes take several minutes to get a full fix even after running quickGPS.
I have had it take 4 - 5 minutes even after running quickGPS. It started with one satellite and slowly grabbed 1 every 20 - 30 seconds until it had about 7 then it got full lock. Once that was done reacquiring a lock took no time at all.
I wonder if it goes to "sleep" or something as a power saving feature?
That's all well and good if you are in the same spot as you were when QuickGPS ran last. However, my problem with many GPS systems is that I don't use them often enough to maintain a sync.
What would be ideal is if GPS would stay on all the time and/or there was enough battery to keep GPS on all the time.
If you use your GPS to drive to your dentist, for instance, then drive to work without your GPS because you know the way, then need GPS to meet friends for dinner, your GPS cache is based on your dentist, not work.
What I'm asking for is an app that kicks off GPS (presumably) while you are at work. If this happens multiple times a day, it shouldn't take much battery life, but your data would always be up to date.
Alternately, is there an easy way to just run QuickGPS multiple times a day?
Moved to software.
Try Beeline GPS or Visual GPS.
http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPSce/default.htm
http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/default.htm
I use it for the same job.
Hey guys,
Well I have just got the new Hyper Dragon rom on my phone and I am looking for a possible hack...
I am going on holiday in a few days skiing in the Alpes and have a GPS tracking tool called SatSKI, its pretty wicked and tracks your days activities.
Problem is, when it goes into standby or the screen is off then the GPS goes off, even though the program is still running. I had this same issue with TomTOM a while ago.
Any help would be great.
Cheers guys
Mike
Look into TrackMe, it has a boatload of features and has a Screen Off feature which keeps the phone on but turns the screen off for battery savings.
You can also try DeltaLock. But you gotta make sure the phone doesn't turn off, so you'll also have to modify the Power settings.
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in the same boat, would like to run my satski on the kaiser with the screen off, but obviously keep the program and GPS running?
The above 2 programs are no good, as satski has the piste maps, which is what you want to use it for
You can run Trackme in addition to your ski program in the worst case...
Satski and Switching off
mikeseaman3000 said:
Hey guys,
Well I have just got the new Hyper Dragon rom on my phone and I am looking for a possible hack...
I am going on holiday in a few days skiing in the Alpes and have a GPS tracking tool called SatSKI, its pretty wicked and tracks your days activities.
Problem is, when it goes into standby or the screen is off then the GPS goes off, even though the program is still running. I had this same issue with TomTOM a while ago.
Any help would be great.
Cheers guys
Mike
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Hi the way to keep your phone on is to change the settings on switing off a program after a period of time , in setting programs normally are set to switch off after 30 min if not used . Also be sure to use the Satski Lock screen in the Satski Menue this will also save your battery.
JC
I find myself frustrated when I need the GPS fuction on my Tilt, but then it takes 2-3 minutes to locate me from a cold start. That can feel like hours when I am late and lost. When it is warm, the GPS fixes in 5-20 seconds.
It seems a program that keeps the GPS in a state of warmness (maybe starting up and getting a fix every hour or two) would really help me out. I don't have a pocket full of batteries, so leaving the GPS on all the time is not an option.
Is there something like this out there, or do I have to try to build it myself?
Thanks for any help,
Will
wasilvers said:
I find myself frustrated when I need the GPS fuction on my Tilt, but then it takes 2-3 minutes to locate me from a cold start. That can feel like hours when I am late and lost. When it is warm, the GPS fixes in 5-20 seconds.
It seems a program that keeps the GPS in a state of warmness (maybe starting up and getting a fix every hour or two) would really help me out. I don't have a pocket full of batteries, so leaving the GPS on all the time is not an option.
Is there something like this out there, or do I have to try to build it myself?
Thanks for any help,
Will
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I've been thinking of the same thing...
2 things you can do:
1) use network location when possible. It really is better on batteries and much quicker.
2) Use a program like tasker that flips on GPS for an alotted time to get a fix every so often. I'm thinking about using a multiple profile setting that will automatically run a GPS fix when I leave my work or home networks. But it would also run once every hour when I'm away from those networks and only when I'm away.