yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
hello oldsap,

there is a feature called "Live log" wehre you can log your position to the web service "crossingways". Perhaps you may have a look at this. SMS is expensive in many countries and its difficult to process the data any further.

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
hi Blaustein, thanks you for the reply. in my country, live logging (using gprs) is more expensive than sms sending. anyways, i have created an app that sends sms at specific intervals which contains LAT/LON etc. and fortunately does not interfere with GCC.

of all the GPS tracking apps this is the best. easy to use, understand, and the best thing is one can create their own maps, for free! :)

thank you to the author and the other developers and users.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
new version 4.5

Hello,

version 4.5 of GCC is now online:

http://code.google.com/p/gccv2/downloads/list

Jürgen, a new developer, has added a couple of nice features and fixed some bugs:

********* version 4.5 *********

new features:

- if track2follow and current position can´t be displayed on the same screen:

* an additional line indicates the shortest way

* the distance between T2F and current position is shown

- New context menu on the map screen:

* show the start / end position of the track to follow,

* add an check point (only if logging is active)

* reset map to current position

- new energy safe options

* switch GPS off during power off (tracklog will be interrupted, a popup will inform the user)

* switch Backlight off after timeout

- if a track log is activated, and in the file dialog the cancel button is pressed, logging is not started.

- Input Lat/Long can now additionally be used, to navigate to a specific point (e.g. usefull for Geocaching)

- in map screen: arrow now in color of track line (configurable)

Have fun

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
Thank you for the version 4.5 of GCC Blaustein
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] clarkn:
Hi Klaus,

Thanks for GCC - it's a great bit of software and looks great. I've used it heaps over the last few years (I even strapped my phone to my head in a waterproof bag and tracked my path in an ocean swim!).

I was just converting a .gcc file to a .kml file using the new version of GCC (4.5) to view my route in google earth and noticed a bug. It produced a sawtooth pattern in the route on the kml file. It appears the conversion is rounding the coordinates to 4 or 5 decimal points rather than the 10 that it did in version 3.

Other than that, greate piece of software. Keep up the good work!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cozzykim:
Hi Andy, I posted a pic above, The QVGA version looks fine, it could maybe do with tweaking the background colour a little as the selection box outlines are hard to see on my Orbit.

The fonts are a little jaggy but, hey-ho, maybe I'm just getting used to VGA ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wyro:
Hi Andy

So I was outside and try first with the appl Kompass. It works very well. After 10sec I have a signal and see the speed and all datas (4 sat). With your appl always the same, gps signal searching..260 and more. The code says: S0 Snr-T-Dh and a red square.

Any Idea/change to fix it?

cu, wyro
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sir_a_freekick:
i need to use tomtom first to get a signal. what am i doing wrong?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
This means that Windows GPS driver do not have any data at all (S0 means 0 satellites). There is an options in Setting | System | External GPS | Advanced - "Manage GPS automaticaly". I have this "on". Could you check if it is "On" on yours? There is some warning that if it is "off", then some programs might not work. Probably Kompass can talk directly to GPS driver, but since I use Windows Driver, then I guess I need this option to be "on".
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
I had to do this once, as I was not getting any fix at all I desided to check TomTom (and after TomTom fix mine start working as well). But then after soft reset all was OK (and never had any problems again). This might be problems with Window GPS driver - it might need some "help" from another tool (sometimes). Try to check if the GPS options I mentioned in the prev reply are set - maybe this could help?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
You can set your own background and font colors, this is easy. All you need is to place jpeg files in the same folder as the tool, and restart it. Look into manual (or let me know if any problems). For example, if you want to have black background and white font, then place these two files with the tool and restart. if you need different colors, just edit these jpegs to the color you need (fill them with a solid color).

BTW, you can set any buttons images as well, all jpegs required are in the source.zip (the first post).
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
Thanks everyone for the feedback, and specially to the one who can help to top-up my coffee supplies! :)

I was trying to implement the "Keep tracking when PowerOff pressed" - but without any luck :confused:.

Thanks to faethon and aatreya for suggestions, I found the correct function to make the the tool running even after the power button is pressed, i.e. I just call "PowerPolicyNotify(0x0003, 1);". The tool was running fine, BUT, the GPS is off. Before, if I press power off and on again, the tool says "gps searching", and counting from 1, etc (i.e. the tool was off as the phone is off). Now, it says "gps searching" counting from xx secongs (i.e. how long I kept it off), i.e. the tool was on, but GPS was not running.

Sorry for a bit complicated explanations, but it looks we need some way to tell GPS do not stop on power off ...Anyone knows how to do that?

I am thinking that another option is to use G-Sensor to turn backlight on and off (then you do not need any keys at all), e.g. when you flip the phone down and up again.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] konsta819:
Well if the weather improves a bit tomorrow I'll give the soft reset etc. a go. I did have the diamond in my jeans pockets, so that may be part of the problem.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] konsta819:
Aha - I think I may have solved it.

I have had A-GPS enabled for a while, as despite others reporting problems, I hadn't noticed any. Anyway, I installed TomTom a few days ago and noticed odd GPS behaviour there - TomTom kept saying "cannot find gps", flashing it on and off even when it could see satelites. I just disabled A-GPS and now TomTom is getting reliable fixes. I suspect that this is the source of my problems.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wyro:
I checked this setting, it's also on. What now? I hope you have a nother Idea, perhaps a problem with the baudrate or ?

Is it importent where the *.exe be installed? I have it on my external sd card in a own special folder.

cu, wyro
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
It does not matter which folder you use (at least to get GPS fix :) ), so this is OK. Have you tried soft reset ? Maybe CF .NET 2.0 re-install? If all these does not work, maybe cozzykim could post "working" settings for P3300?

On Diamond I have not change anything at all as I bought it (UK model), and settings are - in GPS - program port COM4, hardware port None, baud rate 4800 and Access "manage GPS automatically" = On
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wyro:
Hi

I have the same settings like you. But the tip with .net is interesting. How can I see witch version of .net I have installed on my P3300? Actual is WinMobile 6 Prof on my device. I don't remeber how I can see the Version of .net installed.

And witch Version has cozzykim installed?

cu, wyro
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] az19042002:
thanks for this nice program, I will test tomorrow.

I suggest to lock the device when we switch the screen off .

thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cozzykim:
Hi Wyro,

My P3300 is an O2 Orbit WM6.0

on my Orbit the default GPS settings are COM4 4800 (although any baud rate seems to work OK)

I know you said other apps work OK but have you tried looking at the GPS data with the

HTC GPS Tool

Here

It works great on the Diamond and Orbit

(credit Nadavi in the xda-dev kaiser software forum)http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=360477

HTH

Kim
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] spangelsaregreat:
Hi,

Is it possible to use this with an Elf through a bluetooth GPS unit?

I have tried it on my wifes Elf but it does not seem to connect.

Regards
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wyro:
Hi

I have installed this tool and it works. When I press the open button, then I see a lot of datas. Or what must I see/observe?

The settings is the same on my device.

cu, wyro
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] TheSlaYYer:
Hiya ...

This looks great - have you seen my post ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=433387

I'm interested in your "things to do" list - you mention using the G-Sensor as a Pedometer which is something I'm interested in for controlling the playback "beat" rate of MP3s.

:-)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
If you see data in HTC GPS tool, than it can see your GPS, and it works fine. But it is likely that the HTC tool does not use Windows GPS driver.

Probably the only way to resolve all these problems with GPS detection is to rewrite the tool to work with GPS hardware directly (read/write data from COM port), and avoid Windows driver I am currently using (what's next - avoid Windows?:) ) I will look into this (but it could take a bit of time)

If anyone has a source code which does that, it would be very helpful!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
This is an interesting idea. I will definitelly look into this. I have the source code to read data from G-sensor (thanks to koshik for his excellent posts on HTC sensors), but do you know how to feed the "beat rate" back to MP3?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wyro:
Hi Andy

Good Idea. So I'm wait for the next 'generation' of your great tool.

Thanks for your help and the time that you spend for my problem.

cu, wyro
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] paul c:
+1 - I do a lot of mountain-biking on my own, and my wife likes to know I'm still moving :)

So being able to configure the interval and the number would be greatly appreciated.

It's not a cost thing for me, since if the wife is away from a computer, she can see that I haven't come to an unexpected stop :D

(If this sounds like a good idea - I don't know how, but there is a way of converting the coordinates into a location, and to create a short URL to google maps)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
OT answer: same reason why i wanted this option. i do have an app that does this which i run simultaneously with GCC. it sends sms at intervals which includes the gps coordinates and also your specific location (street/city/ etc)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
GCC uses the resolution of float for lat / long (also version 3). This is about 7 decimal digits (in front and after decimal point). And this is according my investigations enough. The additional digits in version 3 had no valid information (it was rounded in binary). I never noticed a sawtooth in my kml routes.

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
how do i use Track2Follow? i dont quite understand the concept. if i have a gcc file on my device and want to follow the same route, what do i do?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
Klick Track2Follow, chose your file (gcc, gpx or kml) and open it. Then it will be displayed (in default as red) track line in map. Then you can see on the map where you must go. Thats all for the moment. In future it is planned to have gcc output some navigation instructions.

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
is it possible to see the track2follow while the current gcc logging is in progress? i can't seem to make it work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
Of course! In the map screen you should see the track2follow in red and your current (logging) track in blue. Your current position must be close to the track2follow in order to see both tracks on the screen.

If the t2f is out of the screen, version 4.5 will draw a thin line to the t2f and display the distance to it.

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] gadgetuk437:
Ermm... doesn't seem fixed to me! soz.

I have put the two files in the root (\), at the root of my storage card, and in the program directory, but had no joy with any version after v4.2.

What am I doing wrong?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] glaucos:
You don't have the need for that file in newer version: symply tap and hold on the analog clock, then choose from "night scheme" or "day scheme"! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
If you like other colors the files are now bk_color.jpg and fore_color.jpg in day scheme and bk_color_night.jpg and fore_color_night.jpg in night scheme (the default).

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] gadgetuk437:
Sorry... that'll teach me to RTFM!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] whitedevil:
Hello, is possible turn off screen and activate the GPS even when the device is in standby with the keypad locked? Or prevent the display goes off when the keypad is locked to continue to operate the GPS?

I use GPS Cycle Computer on my HD2 when I go to run monitor workouts, but just turns off the screen also turns off the GPS, this way does not record anything.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] glaucos:
Look in the options -> GPS -> "use alternate method to keep GPS on"
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] whitedevil:
use alternate method to keep GPS on is on. When I turn off screen GPS Cycle measure the positions coninuosly, but is not correct I think, the vector not is ____________ but must be _/|_/\___/\/\/\__/\___/

I'm turn off options in systems -Turn Off Device if they don't use more than.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] whitedevil:
How I can use button BKLight when recording track in GPS Cycle Computer v 4.5?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
Press the left button for 2 seconds. In this way you can always reach the menu page.

If you want to switch of your device while logging, do not check the option "GPS - Save Energy: GPS off on power off".

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] whitedevil:
Blaustein thank's for advice, now all working.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] S_Hammer:
Enter Coordinates in other format

Hello,

I really love this tool. But now I want to start geocaching and I really would like if there is a way to enter the waypoints in other formats:

N51°29.235' E007°38.814

would be very nice

Br S_Hammer
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] lawrence24:
Display British OS NG coords alongside lat/lon on main screen

Hi, very nice application. Thanks.

I expect it's a minority (UK?) interest, but for UK users who also carry Ordnance Survey maps - highly desirable for offroad walking etc - I have developed a small change to the main screen, replacing the text Latitude with the 2 character 100km square ID + 5 digit eastings and replacing the text Longitude with 5 digit northings (e.g. SJ 74211 67122, = Jn 16 M6 motorway). Both OSBNG and Lat/Lon formats are shown. The conversion is not trivial but C# code is available at "---.developerfusion.com/article/5507/gps-deriving-british-ordnance-survey-grid-reference-from-nmea-data/3/".

Sorry, not allowed to post proper URL or link.

My mod is not elegant code - I'm sure an experienced coder could do a much better job. (My last programming experience was OS Assembler code in the 1960's. Finding, downloading and using SVN, Visual Studio, C# etc was a real culture shock. Assembler was much easier!)

If anyone is interested, I can (if allowed - this is my first post) attach the cab and modified form1.cs.

Mod has been installed and tested on Dell X51v pda WM5 and HP ipaq 214 Wm6 + a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver. (All available relatively cheap on ebay.)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
Display British OS NG coords alongside lat/lon on main screen

Hi lawrence,

if you post your modified form1.cs we can have a look and decide if we include it (along with S-Hammers wishes) in one of the next releases.

Is there anyone else interested in British OS NG?

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] lawrence24:
Display British OS NG coords alongside lat/lon on main screen

Klaus

Form1.cs attached.

You can quickly find the mods by searching "// AG"

Please bear in mind that the OS BNG locations displayed are only valid for the region covered by the OS grid.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] S_Hammer:
Hy Blaustein,

thanks for the quick response. I really would like this functionality and I would suggest 3 fields per value for the input :) You tool is really good
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] lawrence24:
Display British OS NG coords alongside lat/lon on main screen

If you did decide to implement OS BNG info., I'd suggest you re-package the stuff I sent as an "enclosed subroutine with all variables local" - not sure what you call this in C# terminology but guess you will know what I mean. The code provided by the website I've referenced

is

packaged. Because of my ignorance of C# etc., I couldn't get it to work - hundreds of errors, hence the 'quick and dirty' inline code instead. I was quite surprised that 'worked' and suspect there could be some cross contamination which hasn't shown up in the limited testing/use.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] lawrence24:
Display British OS NG coords alongside lat/lon on main screen

Hi Klaus

I think I have found a bug. My mod was built on revision 65 (i.e. the latest, unreleased code) using MS Visual Studio 2008 (90 day trial), XP SP3, testing on wm5, wm6 Classic.

The problem apears to be an improperly closed/corrupted .gcc file which shows up when you reopen the file from File/Export - with the message "File has been closed incorrectly. Do not continue this file!"

On opening the file, the display shows a spiders web of track and rubbish data - e.g. 15 days Time, 8000+ miles. The error occurs most but not all times.

I have rebuilt the mod on revision 58 - works OK.

I've also rebuilt from an unmodified r65 - get same errors as above.

As an aside, does anyone know where/if I can download a (legal) free version of Visual Studio or equivalent alternative?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
hi, may i ask for the link to the source code for the latest version of GCC? Thank you.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] lawrence24:
Obtaining source code

I downloaded it starting from ......code.google.com/p/gccv2/downloads/list (see first page of this thread). The 'source' tab gives you the svn command to download the latest version from the project lbrary.

I used the svn client downloaded from .......sliksvn.com/en/download (win32/win64 - linux etc versions are also available) which runs in a 'dos box' / command prompt. If you've not used svn before (I hadn't even heard of it) it's easier than it looks and the download includes documentation.

I believe there are GUI versions of svn clients, although I would think that anyone not comfortable with command line might struggle with the application build environment (not suggesting you, oldsap :) )
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
thanks lawrence :)

how do i join as a member? i can't download the source code :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
you don't need to be a member. You can download the code from

http://gccv2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GpsCycleComputer/

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
Thank you Klaus.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oldsap:
SUCCESS!!!

i've (sorta) integrated my Send GPS Location via SMS with GCCv3 :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] surfer_jr:
Hi Klaus, hi lawrence24,

the bug you described is fixed, see checkin 66. The problem was: if you have activated the option "exclude stop time" and if you start logging and do not move during start, the start position is written more than once in the log file. This will lead to an invalid log file.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] :
Track analysis

First of all, thank you and congratulations for this superb software!.

What I'm asking here is the possibility to know about some software to analyze our tracks, to know distance, max height, timing, etc... more or less like extracted from results in http://www.chuffnuts.com/pistemaps/ or http://utrack.crempa.net/

The only problem here is that to use these two tools you need to be connected, so I kindly ask for:

a) the possibility to include in GCC an option to create a deep analysis of the track (maybe exporting also to pdf)

b) some software (not GCC) to be able to do this analysis offline?

Thanks in advance, best regards and keep good work!,

lince
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] S_Hammer:
Android

Hy,

thanks for the nice program. Finally I got an Android phone :)

Br Martin
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] DrVanScott:
Hi Blaustein,

Thank you very much for your programm. I was looking for ages for a tool which may work with my device. Finally i found your programm and it mostly works. The device i use is a "Falk M8" satnav, maybe a bit unusual ;-)

I need to rotate the screen to portrait format, the default of the device is landscape. In the default format some buttons are not accessable. The only drawback of portrait is that the main buttons on the bottom of the screen are only visible at half. Not a big issue.

The only real drawback: My device has no buttons. The power button is somehow "proprietary" and only works within the normal car navigation software. Tapping on the screen work as "left click". Now my question/problem is: How to perform a right click to access the functions which are only accessible through the context menus? Do you have an idea?

In the readme.html it says there is an option "Display waypoints" on the map screen option screen. This option does not exist on my system?

Just one suggestion: The "Input LatLon" feature is good, but it would be even better if one can enter coordinates in different - maybe more common - notations.

Anyway: Thank you very much for this programm.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
Track analysis

to a) there is no plan to do some deeper analysis than the rudimentary built in functions.

Perhaps I can include max and min altitude (height) in the selection context menue.

to b) I don't know. But I bet that there is somewhat in the big net, at least for PC (Windows).

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blaustein:
What is the screen resolution in pixels? I thought it should work with every resolution.

What is the operating system? Version?

Which version of GCC do you use?

"left click" is the only click on touch screen devices. To access the context menu you must hold the finger or stylus for more than one second. If this doesn't work, you should check the installed version of .NET compact framework (needs .Net CF 2.0). To get the .NET version run "\windows\cgacutil.exe".

"Display waypoints" functions only on the "track 2 follow". If there are waypoints in the track 2 follow, you should get a context menu to disable and enable them in the map screen.

"Input LatLon" - I am right at the way to improve this. Do you have examples of more common formats?

Klaus
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] DrVanScott:
The resolution is 320x240. The problem seems to be, that the window of your programm is displayed with titlebar. I don't know why. I try to attach a screenshot to make it more clear.

Windows CE 5.00

GCC 4.5

Unfortunately it doesn't work. Nothing happens. cgacutil displays "[2.0.7045.0]"

So there is no such option in the settings menu (anymore)? Maybe the readme should be updated?

Both opencaching.de and geocaching.com use the following format:

N/S DD MM.MMM E/W DDD MM.MMM

Its no problem to use +/- instead of N,S,W,E. But its a bit uncomfortable to calculate between the different systems, e.g. DD.DDDDDD to DD MM.MMM. Another format is DD MM SS.SS