[Android Apps and Games] dragonro:
Hello everyone.

Free GPS signal monitoring tool.

The application is called GPS Monitor Free by Illyrium & can be found and downloaded freely from the market.

GPS Monitor Free

The application is also available with a BUNCH OF EXTRA FEATURES as Premium, GPS Monitor Premium

What the app does - it activates itself as soon as GPS is in use and deactivates when GPS is no longer in use.

While GPS is in use, the app shows a notification icon that can be customized to show sats in view, sats in fix The app can be configured to show more types of location details in the notification, including a complete custom mode showing lon,lat,speed,accuracy,gps time, sats in view/ sats in fix.

UP TO 3 NOTIFICATION ICONS visible in the same time showing satellites in view/fix, accuracy of the fix, current speed.

Premium features: customize various audio notifications on events like gps on, gps off, fix, lost fix;

GPS Keepalive function for a period of time after GPS receiver is no longer in use.

A list with active applications currently using the GPS receiver.

Ability to choose and change the NTP server to help the GPS get a faster fix (root needed).

Full list of internation NTP server added.

Pro version supports now external plugins.

New GPS tools added in premium version - user can do a full reset of the GPS:

* Reset GPS - clean XTRA data

* Inject GPS Time from NTP server

* Re-download XTRA data and inject it

Widget allowing to quickly Reset GPS,Inject NTP time and download & inject XTRA.

Quickly resetting the GPS without launching an external app comes handy to a lot of users when the GPS receiver takes too long to lock on satellites.

&& a lot more features in development right now.

If you have any ideas, you are more than welcome to share them with me and I'll try to implement them as soon as possible.

IMPORTANT

I need volunteers for translations in Spanish, Italian, German & any other possible language. In exchange I offer the GPS Monitor Premium for free, and access to all beta versions of the app and Plugins

Project can be translated here:

http://crowdin.net/project/gps-monitor

(link is expired - crowdin is nice but too expensive for a project that small, please contact me directly if you would like to help with translations)

In progress

GPS Plugins in development

Normal/Conservative feature development abandoned since disabling GPS is not possible on all ROMs.

Update

1.1.0.38 premium

- Increased stability

- Keepalive can be activated up to 24 Hours

- Keepalive notification can be toggled from the menu

1.1.0.30 premium & free

- increased notification icon precision (5,10,15,20,25, 50, 100)

- Custom notification (Dashboard) is visible on both white and black android theme

1.1.0.28 premium

- MULTIPLE NOTIFICATION ICONS SUPPORT (1 main + 2 extra)

- Options to customise second and third notification icon

- Extra notification icon can show

* satelittes

* accuracy

* speed

- Icons optimised - smaller apk

1.1.0.27 free & premium changes

- increased stability of the service

- fixed crashes of the service on some devices

- added Share by mail, social networks, etc.. in the main application menu

1.0.9 free

- Notification icon can now show speed and accuracy

- Address is resolved in idle mode (if internet connection available)

- French translation added.

- bug-fixes

1.1.0.24 premium

- Fixed BusyBox detection - no more FC on GPS Tools tab

- Improved gps config file editing method

- Added new GPS Tools

* Reset GPS Data (Clear XTRA)

* Inject GPS Time from NTP server

* Download XTRA data

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Added Widget allowing the user to quickly reset GPS Data, Injecting NTP time and re-downloading XTRA data if available

1.0.9 premium

- Increased stability

- Tools GPS tab added

Ability to configure custom GPS NTP server (root required)

Full international NTP servers list added into the app

- Notification icon can now show SPEED

- Address is resolved in idle mode (if internet connection available)

- French translation added.

- External plugin support added (plugins coming soon)

- bug-fixes

1.0.7 Internal engine completely rewritten - increased stability;List preferences selection bug fix.

Pro: Experimental GPS Keepalive functionality added.

1.0.6 Major Update. All icons changes. Bugs fixed.

1.0.5 FIXED looping GPS interfacing bug on some devices (hopefully this applies or all or most of the existing devices)

Fixed latitude/longitude conversion.

1.0.4 Stabilized passive location info functions.

Getting location data (lat/lng, accuracy, addr) is faster & optimized. Fixed crashes/GPS restarting bug on some devices.

1.0.3 App updated.

Now functions on android >=1.6;

A bunch of new features added & preferences. Use can choose what the notification icon displays.

Latitude & longitude are correctly displayed now.

1.0.2 Application updated.

All notification icons changed, only locked satellites are now displayed, and latitude/longitude as soon as they are available.

1.0.1 I have updated the application and fixed some bugs.

Fixed GPS left in use bug after closing on some devices. GPS Icon reaction improved.

The application uses now a lot less resources.

Cheers,

Adrian (Illyrium)