[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] low.flying.pigs:
Hello jerome34,

Extensive information awaits compilation on a range of subjects, including some that fall within the scope of your post, those being Devices, porting C# .NetCompactFramework GPS Cycle Computer to Android, and Android based Emulation that allows GPS Cycle Computer to run thereon in its current form.

In the interim, to briefly address your points and some related matters:

There exists a plentiful supply of second user devices available, and if you wish to do so, you should be able to readily source either a direct replacement device or alternate / upgrade device. This is the easiest, and possibly cheapest, solution if you wish to continue usage of GPS Cycle Computer. There are also brand new dedicated devices available in some geographical areas, the Medion S3867 being a topical example.

Incidentally, any device would survive longer if Exit button enhancement proposed had been implemented in full instead of being rejected without cogent reason entirely and then only later implemented in part. As with so many things, this is standard feature and functionality elsewhere, and as is so often the case, the objections nonsensical. The objector must be overjoyed to have not only hindered implementation, but also the prospect of contributing to physical damage of devices beyond repair.

There are no known, suitable, readily publicly available complete solutions at the time of last searching that allow GPS Cycle Computer to run correctly as intended on Android in a useful and usable form.

This was determined from testing and analysis of what is available, and having conducted thorough searches, which were not limited to just Internet searches. Furthermore, thorough research indicates these approaches, even if further developed, are likely inescapably fundamentally flawed.

There are a range of issues and challenges involved in accomplishing this, not least many of which are GPS Cycle Computer itself in its present form. Efforts have been under way for some considerable time in the various aspects involved, not least adapting suitability of GPS Cycle Computer. Some ground work has already been achieved, and this in areas of commonality with other matters ongoing which make it worthwhile whether or not Android was a factor. Any success would be based on these efforts already made and accomplished.

Unfortunately, implementation of necessary change that would not adversely affect any existing functionality or user whatsoever is often unnecessarily hindered without cogent reason. It is straightforwardly foreseeable what may now occur are efforts to undermine and derail this process further.

Sadly some users (not you for the avoidance of doubt) take perverse delight in objecting without cogent reason, or in wrecking or attempting to wreck and even declare obsolete the efforts of others, as has been exhaustively previously documented.

Whilst this has little effect upon those that were making the efforts, the effect is drastic upon general users when those efforts are either no longer made at all, or just no longer publicly shared for the benefit of all.

If an Android specific version of GPS Cycle Computer were ever to be created, in order to have any success against what is already available on that platform, it would have to at least implement the standard features and functionality that are present in similar applications, and not just on Android. This is part of the reason for proposing initially some of the simpler aspects that were as expected unhelpfully hindered. The complex comes later, assuming the project and the talented people required to carry it out survive that long.

Hopefully you will decide to obtain another device and continue usage of GPS Cycle Computer.

If so, I look forward to your future feedback with interest, as with that of all users that take the time to positively contribute.

Further information to be added.

low.flying.pigs