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[Mogul, XV6800 General] swanie2000:
Mine just says "Installation of GPSToday091.CAB was unsuccessful"

Tried it many times, rebooting my phone, still no workie. The first file worked for me, but the 91 file doesn't.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
swanie2000,

I've never heard of anyone having this problem before, neither none of us here have ever had it between various upgrades.

I know its a pain, but here is what I would suggest:

1.) Uninstall whatever version you currently have using the Remove Programs applet in settings, and soft-reset.

2.) Install GPSToday091.CAB, and follow the prompt to soft-reset.

If after this it still doesnt work, I would like to know the make/model/OS of your device to dig deeper.

Thanks!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] mobo13:
Unsucessful

The same thing happened on my HTC 6800 running the leaked rom. Uninstalled .9 , soft boot, and attempt to install .91.

Unsuccessful

Tried again after another soft boot with no luck.

Sorry

Mobo
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
makes perfect sense...lol I did just that, the one i downloaded said GPSToday091.CAB. I already uninstalled older version but I do see a GPSToday cache folder of previous searches I made. I didnt delete this...didnt think it would affect anything.

I have olipro 2.40, win mobile 6.1 custom rom 2.2.6 and i have radio 3.27

I went through process correctly and getting same issue. I will delete that folder, soft reset and try again.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
Argh, getting same BS. Same exact screen. I dont even get unsuccessful, it just sits on installing screen with the bar not moving...

once again to verify, i downloaded file from listed website, saved it directly to my 512 mb card after verifying file name was correct. clicked on file through file explorer > storage card

and this is the final result...i'll just leave it for like 3 minutes again and see if somjething changes.....
[Mogul, XV6800 General] swanie2000:
I was hoping it wasn't just me.

Mogul htc6800 Using DCD2.6

I will keep messing with it...
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
I have let this install screen show for about 15 minutes if not longer...still running, no advancement on the process bar...i'm giving up for now and will hope some light is shed on issue.

I have same exact setup as swani, dcd 2.2.6 3.16
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
For all those reading this thread, has anyone gotten 0.9.1 to install successfully?

Meanwhile swanie, meccanoble, please hold off while we dig deeper. Might be an uploading issue to Pocketgear etc.

Thanks
[Mogul, XV6800 General] swanie2000:
When I tried to download, it came up as .90. I canceled the pop up "download file" window, and then followed the link, as instructed. Then the correct "download file" box came up. I have downloaded it 3 times, same thing...
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
I confirmed it, the file at Pocketgear is somehow corrupted, and they are still mixing up the versions, almost 1/2 a day after the update :(

Please navigate to http://m.geoterrestrial.com/ from your mobile device to download the CAB file directly to your device. This will work.

Meanwhile I will try to sort this out with pocketgear.

Thanks for your patience guys.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] pacmantom:
I couldn't get the one from pocketgear to work but you know that. It is working from the site. Testing the new one.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
I got this to work by downloading and installing on the actual phone instead of memory card...I dont want to put anything on phone but if thats the only way, its worth it. It was hot watching my GPS tell me how fast I was going and accurately telling me where I was (full address) and also showed me how far I was from home. I can even see people near me on GPS. Friends I have saved on my phone and businesses. Its so hot.

But address changes for some reason and only gives distance from me and shows some spot i'm not familiar wit by address but somewhat close.

I really have to read up on it to learn how to properly use it...But I'm liking it a lot. Speed was never off more than 2 mph unless I was doing some serious speeding or braking (between 1st and 2nd gear). Same accuracy with house number. Map opens pretty fast and doesnt lag the phone. The map software performs very well with the phone.

If there was anything bad to say, its that the software looks a little complicated since I was unable to understand basic searching. How would I do a search for a location and have the gps assist me with directions? Or is this just software to give locator details but not instructions?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] RevSand:
Good sounding stuff.. Cannot wait to try this again this afternoon... Glad to see the software maker here for feedback and trying to help out..
[Mogul, XV6800 General] defaultdotxbe:
im not sure about directions but the local search thing is pretty neat, the search terms are persistent, and you can have multiple searches, so basically i can put in some fast food places i like in the search and anywhere i go it will show me how far i am from a mcdonalds :D
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
meccanoble,

Good to see its finally working for you.

Yes, it does not do directions yet. We are looking at some solutions, but it will be a while before we are able to provide that feature. Right now we are focused on completing a rock solid v 1.0 with all help pages, documentation etc, and some additional features.

Thanks!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] JimSmith94:
I think I found a bug. Some of my contacts near me have a home and a mobile number and no work number, but the program shows "first last (w)". Another with only a home number correctly shows "first last (h)". One has only a work number, and his properly shows "first last (w)".
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
Duly noted. Thanks!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
JimSmith94,

I asked around. Actually, the h/w setting is picked up from the address, as in whether the home or work address is saved, not the phone number. If your contact showing up as (w) has a work address saved, then it is working correctly, as the distance shown on the today screen is calculated from the relevant address. Please let us know if there is still a problem.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] J Raymond:
What's with the "move the red square" thing?? How about putting a "start" and a "stop" or a "on/off" button on the screen and do away with the move the red square thing. It's novel, but dumb.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] RevSand:
They say so its like that so that the GPS does not get turned on with an accidental touch. Makes it harder to do it when you do not want it and to use one handed when you do.

My question is: Is the quick fix supposed to randomly turn on? if so is there a way to have it activate only every XXX mins?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] dschoenike:
i gotta say, i had a heck of a time trying to get this app to work this morning. it kept locking up my mogul, and slowing it down to a crawl. i reinstalled it this afternoon, and it works like a champ now. weird.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] J Raymond:
(friendly :) )

OK, I appreciate that accidential button pressing can be an issue, but I assure you I have a LOT of other buttons or items on my TODAY screen - any one of which I could hit accidently. The TODAY screen real estate is very precious, and having a large slider red square is not ( IMHO) effective use of the real estate. To me, it looks like there is text under it. Maybe they can make the slider smaller (top to bottom) maybe by 1/2, and on the top side of the text. Maybe move it to the center :confused: ??

Outside of that issue, I like the app. I was seeking such a plug in. It links contacts, POI, gMaps, etc... nice. :D

Now, if I can just figure out what the right most three buttons on the map screen do, I'll be happy.

j
[Mogul, XV6800 General] J Raymond:
Oh, and I agree, active for xx minutes would be a very good thing!

j
[Mogul, XV6800 General] JimSmith94:
Aha, that was it, thanks! I had saved the address in Outlook under Business instead of Home. :rolleyes:
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
"The TODAY screen real estate is very precious.."

J Raymond, from our viewpoint as well, the above sentiment is meant to be one of the defining characteristics of GPSToday. You cannot imagine how much thought/discussion went into placement of every pixel, every piece of text on the today screen. Given that, we are always looking for improvements.

The red button as a slider would definitely be useless on the today screen, IF that were its only function. Right now it:

1) Shows you the current GPS status.

2) Shows the number of active satellites in range.

3) Allows you to obtain a quick fix by tapping it once, without having to worry about remembering to stop it when done.

4) Allows you to start/stop the GPS in persistent mode by the sliding action.

The buttons on the map screen are as follows:

1,2) Zoom-in, Zoom-out

3) The middle button re-centers your map back to the last known GPS location, if you have dragged it to another location. It turns red whenever the map is not synchronized to the GPS location, so you always know.

4) Rexecutes your saved local searches around the current map center.

5) Close the map window.

Its kind of sad that we are having to provide "documentation" this way, but to be honest, we had never thought so many folks will download and use it before 1.0 is out.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] J Raymond:
Wow, :eek: Thanks for the fast reply!

Well, at least you have my input. I appreciate the input channel.

Thanks for the information on what the buttons do! :)

Remember the old saying, "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" These groups are probably the best place to get "qualified" input, especially before going retail.

j
[Mogul, XV6800 General] RevSand:
Its a positive since it shows there is no other products out that are like it and its a wanted item.. Good Work!!

And being on a forum full of phone techs/geeks should be a GREAT way to get some good beta testing in on the software...
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
After reading these 5 pages for the first time, i will be installing this tonight on my mogul. Thank you so much GPSToday for providing prompt and thorough explanations of your software. Like a previous poster stated, you've definitely come to the right place to get beta testers and quality feedback. We appreciate your work!!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
after reading these details I love this software even more but I have one question. Maybe its already been answered. I want to find a place by address, not name. Where do I go to type in this address? and how do I start search and can I get directions or will this just tell me how far I am from location in miles?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
Guys, this app is friggin MONEY.

I installed 0.91, and it works great. I've been using TomTom since I put on the GPS roms, and even though I've enabled the aGPS registry hack, it usually still takes a heck of a long time to get satellite locks. With this plugin, I get a lock usually within 10 seconds. It takes up very little RAM, and I get it all back when the quick fix turns off. I've noticed that it takes a bit for the battery draw to come back down to normal, but it usually does so within 30 seconds or so, which is still pretty good.

I'm certainly going to follow future versions of this app, and recommend it to anyone I know with a Mogul. Thanks GPSToday!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] AstronusX:
I would be nice if GPSToday can save current coordinate to Google Map -> GPSLocation. If you lost your phone, you would know where is your phone.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] mrmafesto:
AWESOME!!

wow...tried this on a friends phone...i ranout and bought a mogul!!! Great App!! One thing tho..do i have to intsall GMaps or does this pull up map info automatic like?

Keep up the great stuff!!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] bchipley:
I have been playing with this for a few days, here are a couple of items:

- On my today screen (xv6800/Mogul) since I have too many items on my screen the scroll bar is active and the map/speed box is partially covered. Can this be either autosized or slid over to the left (maybe 10 pixels)

- I was running the today screen piece this morning driving to work watching my speed and it stopped on its own after ~10 minutes. All I had to do was slide the box back over. It was on external power and I had no contact with the phone when it occurred. I did not know if there was an auto-off, or a bug.

- When I go to options/settings in the map and make a change, I expected to hit OK and be returned. It appears one hits ok to accept and cancel to exit. It is not intuitive.

- One other item that may be my mistake, I thought that the address would appear on the screen as I was driving while on the today screen? All I see is Vallejo, CA.

As other people have noted this is an excellent piece of work, I just thought that I would pass along a few items.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kevank:
I like the app. I had to install it twice to get it to work. First time it was slow and made my mogul in responsive. I did two soft resets and then removed it. I reinstalled the app and now it works fine.

K
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Asphyx:
One Flaw with your test example...Both use transmitters...GPS does not!

The reason there is a difference between Phone and BT is that the Phone uses more power to the transmitter to increase the range...BT does not have to reach the nearest tower and therefore uses less power to drive the transmitter...

GPS does not use the transmitter. If there is any power drain it will be because you are driving the CPU of the unit out of idle (power saving) to process the data the GPS reciever sees...So yes there is a slight drain due to that. But it is hardly the kind of drain you will see from using BT, WiFi or Phone...

The drain is normal for any application that keeps the CPU active and out of idle...
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
So, today is a whole new ballgame. I went into work at the hospital, and here I don't have the ability for GPS to get a fix as I'm deep in the bowels of the place. What I've found is that the app is constantly trying to get an autofix, but it cannot...at that point my mogul almost comes to a screeching halt, with menus becoming unresponsive, and my power draw sticks around 200-400mA, when it's usually around 70-75. I've tried to turn off the autofix because I'm trying to prevent it from freezing up my phone...I turned off autofix in the settings, and while I can't click 'ok' to exit and confirm, I can hit ok, and then cancel to go out, go back in and my settings seemed to have saved...until I soft reset and the process starts all over again.

I think we definitely need to have the option to adjust the autofix interval. I'd like to control, or turn off successfully, the ability for the app to try and get a fix.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kevank:
I will second KMB's feedback. My phone started acting the same way this morning. I had to disable auto(daily?)fix to make my phone act right. Is was really slow and unresponsive.

Kevan
[Mogul, XV6800 General] bedoig:
I third that comment. Program runs great when it can get a fix, but when it can't it brings everything to a screeching halt. It needs to be easier/faster to disable. Otherwise, I'm loving it so far.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kevank:
I restarted my phone and the plugin reverted back to the default settings. (autogps enabled) My phone was slugish again. I went ahead and disabled it for now. I am waiting for the next release.

K
[Mogul, XV6800 General] sovrce:
I fourth Kmart's comment - there really needs to be a way to turn off the auto GPS lock.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] scottdw:
Oh my I thought it was just me not understanding this. I thought that when you turned it off making the icon red that it would not try again until you either hit the red icon or slid it over. I would not mind it checking every once in a while but since it locks the phone up that is no good.

this is still beta and the developer is on the forums so I am sure there will be a solution soon.....we really need documentation/faq's on this as well.

Great App GPSToday!!!!!!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
From the comments it appears the "getting locked up" problem during auto-fix indoors is specific to the mogul. Has anyone with other models faced the same specific issue?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] J Raymond:
Well, today, it locked up my device, hard. :( I had to press the reset button to get my phone back each time. I tried it several times. It locked my phone hard every time. After rebooting, I launched gMaps - worked fine. I launched Navizon - worked fine. I tried GPSToday - locked up. I don't know what happened since it worked nicely yesterday. I'll try uninstalling it and re-installing it. I hope it works out. When it locked up, it seemed to run for about 30 seconds before it locked up tight. I'm on Alltel and was not roaming and I had a good EVDO connection the whole way. Nothing else was running, not even acive sync was in the background. I'm using the stock Alltel ROM, WM6 (nothing cooked) and an external GPS receiver via bluetooth. I have it installed on the device, not the memory card.

If GPS Today wants to pm me directly, I'd be happy to help in any way I can. I like this program big time (execpt for the big red block on the Today screen ;) ) .

j
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
unfortunately since this is a titan/mogul forum, you won't get much exposure to people with other models.

however, our GPS chipset is the same as some other HTC devices, so I'd be curious to see if people with the same chipset are having issues. I'll look up those devices, I can't think of it at the moment, sorry.

If we could get to where we could adjust the autofix interval, or ensure that the app remembers our settings instead of reverting to defaults, it would be manageable.

Personally, I'd rather turn off autofix altogether, and just be able to manually run autofix before I start tomtom, etc.

Great work by the way though, I'm loving this app with exception of what others have reported in addition to myself. Thanks GPSToday!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] bcothren:
I've been having the same lockup issues, and not just indoors. I just tried it when I went out to get a car mount for the Mogul and it locked up pretty good. TomTom and Google Maps were working fine, but the GPS Today would hang the system for about 45 seconds or so before releasing briefly. I ended up having to uninstall it because it kept freezing the phone. I tried it using DCD 2.2.6 ROM as well as the leaked ROM from Sprint and got the same results with both ROMs. I am up for testing as well. I have a spare phone that's active so I can mess around with that one a good bit without screwing mine up!

Spare phone is loaded with the leaked ROM with junkware loaded and only Google Maps installed.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
fwiw, I'm using DCD's 2.2.0 rom.

Looks like we're having the occurrence on both WM6 and WM6.1 Roms so far

btw, I'm FAR too anal about my battery consumption, and I watch the power draw at all times. unless I'm just looking at it every time Activesync is connecting, it seems like there is a residual power drain after installing, and uninstalling this app.

I normally have around 70 percent or so when I go home after the day's done, and here it is 4:00 PM, and I have 30 percent.

PLEASE NOTE that I'm completely speculating at this point, because I haven't had enough time with it to really be sure, but it's something to pay attention to if anyone else has BatteryStatus today plugin or another app that monitors power draw.

Like I said before, I watch my power draw like a hawk. If the phone doesn't stay between 60-75mA when idle, I can tell something else is draining power. As long as it's at that point, I can get almost two days out of my battery. I understand that the GPS will use power, but it shouldn't be using any after I've uninstalled and reset several times.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
On my way to work, i decided to rape my phone. Had Mp3 use with audio manager, ofcourse GPS today and was running google maps. It ran slow at times but music played constantly with no isues. The Google maps picked up 4 satellites and showed an area near my house but while I was driving, it didnt seem to update on the map. I never used GPS Today to activate my GPS. Could this be the reason why?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] yerp:
where's the auto data connect?!?!?!?

no....but it highlights what i think is the main flaw of this plugin and something i am very suprised noone has yet mentioned.....it doesn't initiate a data connection if one is not active....in order to get maps to work properly, open PIE real quick and have it establish a data connection for GPSToday....
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
I will second that...I played with this on my 3 our plane ride home from North Carolina :)

It was cool to see that I was going 450mph! I'm thinking that the today plugin redraws itself quite often, and that's why I'm seeing the 20-40mA jump in power draw when I'm using it. Still need some more time to play though.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] meccanoble:
open PIE? What is PIE? sorry keeping up with terminology :)
[Mogul, XV6800 General] c@rL0$:
PIE = Pocket Internet Explorer :D
[Mogul, XV6800 General] RevSand:
I used this program for two days and saw a MAJOR draw on power... Example.. Each night I charge my phone fully before I go to sleep at night, when I get up 5 hours later (on average) my phone is still at 90-100% power.. The nights I had gptoday installed I woke with only 60-70% power. Thats a big draw considering since I am in bed asleep I am not using any apps on the phone.

Love the program when its running but the power draw and lockups at times when I am inside make it so its not worth running.. I will keep watching for new versions and give them a try as they come out since the concept is awesome..
[Mogul, XV6800 General] gbenj:
how did you enable the aGPS hack? and what exactly should i expect it to do?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] rmancl:
not sure what the hack was but it is included in dcd's new rom and kitchen 2.3.1.

aGPS means assisted gps. basically it uses the standard satelites for gps and your providers cell towers to help fix on your position.

hope that helps
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
It's just a registry edit to the SUPL AGPS folder, where it enables aGPS mode. There's a thread on the topic if you want to take a look for it.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] GPSToday:
Guys, please try out the latest version 0.9.2 at http://m.geoterrestrial.com/

(filename should be GPSToday092.CAB)

The big one: It should fix the "lock-up" issue. We didn't have a "cooked-rom" mogul to test with, but we believe it'll work. It had something to do with interoperating with other applications wanting to use the GPS.

Also, a bunch of other fixes and enhancements, We also added the "Initiate Connection If Needed" option, although we've left if off by default until you want to turn it in settings.

Hopefully this version will function more like the way you had thought the original one would :)

Thanks!
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
Downloading as we speak :D

I'm excited!!!

Also guys, if you haven't tried DCD's 2.3.1 yet, get it, it's way better than 2.2.0. The 1% battery increment fix makes it worth it alone. Plus I can get to 24mb free on soft reset. Great job DCD ;)
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmartburrito:
update:

It took me a bit to get my first lock, I had to run it in persistent a couple cycles, but after that, it seems to be working great.

Most importantly, the OK button on the settings page seems like its working, and the app is remembering my settings after reboot. Also, there is an "initiate connection if needed" option. Nice improvement!!

Looking forward to the 1.0 release!

K
[Mogul, XV6800 General] yerp:
awesome, i just installed but won't really get to play around with it outside until tomorrow.....this app is now officially my second must have today plugin(the first being cLaunch)....keep up the good work guys!

off topic: anyone have a nice car mount for our phone?....