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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] TeddY89h:
Awesome App

I just recognized the fabulous features of the map view! WOW! Better than many, many other programs and so easy to use!

Thank you very much for this awesome app - cycling and running with it is a pleasure and very motivating!!!

I'm waiting glowing for a future release!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] dblanchard:
Requires data connection?

I recently cut off my data plan to save a little money. Now, GCC doesn't work and WinMo tells me it couldn't connect to PCS Vision. I understand that WinMo can't connect because I've canceled my data plan, but I can't figure why GCC tries to connect. I've checked my settings, and even uninstalled it and reinstalled an early version that didn't support mapping or live tracking and I get the same result.

Can anyone tell me whether I can use GCC without a data connection, and if so, how?

Thx,

D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] stinky180:
sweet program!

thanks for coming up with such a nice piece of gps software for cycling. im a mountain biker and i have one feature request (if its not already here...)

total elevation gain. with road cycling you generally count your mileage and average speed. but with mountain biking you count miles and elevation gain, since your traversing the mountains. anyway of adding this? thanks!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] aulasitic:
Hello

I have a problem with my HTC P3600 and the GPSCycleComputer. The program give the latitude and the longitude from the track but not give me a altitude.

Anyone with the same problem? Or any solution, for try?

Thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] DarrenUtd:
Do you mean only in a log file, or does the display not even show an altitude? If it's the latter, I've noticed this before too. Try checking the "Read GPS data directly" option and setting the COM port and baud rate under GPS settings.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tucan55:
Hi, just tried this yesterday, really good (and good looking) app. It works well on my HTC Diamnond.

Here are some ideas that I think could improve your program:-

As well as cycling I also jog, and it works well for this too, but how about incorporating a pedometer function using the built in accelerometer, so as well as getting the distance you have travelled you get the number of steps if you have the pedometer function enabled.

I believe that the accelerometer uses less power than the GPS, so it would then be nice to disable the GPS completely and just count steps using the accelerometer, maybe allowing you to leave it running all day counting steps, and basing the distance then not on the GPS info, but your average step length .....maybe then too you could have differnet step langths for walking and running, and the program could tell from the movement frequency whether you were running or walking and use the appropriate length...

Hope this is useful, keep up the good work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ilkhan:
You dont think setting the file location is something you would do once, maybe when you aren't actually cycling at the time? :confused:

Drop an advanced setting box in for the complex stuff if you need to (to prevent getting to the stylus stuff while cycling), but this is something a couple people asked for already, and the number will only grow.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
Thanks everyone for the feedback!

- An idea to use it as a pedometer it quite interesting, I have not though about such a possibility at all! Another feedback I have from a professional cyclist is to add a slope measurements in degrees (e.g. over the last 100m of the track - from GPS altitude data). I will put these into a long-term queue...

- I understand now that the output file location setting is good. I've bought Diamond about a month ago (after been happy with Nokia 1100 for last 5 years), so you need to excuse me if I do not understand how you guys using this wonderful device. I will put this in. Also short-time plans are QVGA, and a PC application (I would like to add my photos to KML files after all !)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] spangelsaregreat:
Hi,

Would it be possible to alter the hard button that turns the backlight back on?

I use a waterproof case which covers the on/off button on the diamond. The centre button on the dpad would be perfect.

Great app.

Thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
Added QVGA version - if you have a QVGA, could you please test if is OK? I think it shall run on .NET 2.0 as well, no need to 3.5.

Regarding hardware buttons - there are quite a few application which let you re-assign all hardware keys - maybe this could help? Also in this thread, page 2, if I am not mistaken, was a link to app which lock/unlock device using g-sensor (if I got this right) - this looks like even better solution?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ericsson68:
Hi I bought a bike at the weekend (first time in 16 years!) and used this app - very impressed.

For me it lacks a really useful 'pause' function. Let me explain...

I'd like my average, top speed, distance etc to be cumulative.

Currently if I stop for lunch for example I either need to keep the GPS running which wears the battery quickly or press stop. Then all of my data is zero'd for the subsequent part of the trip. It would be great if one could set off at the start of the day and end it on a positive note looking at one's achievements in total.

Or should it do this and I'm doing something wrong?

An estimation of calories expended based on some height weight measurements would be great too - but this is a wish list item and I appreciate this may cause you more headaches than it's worth.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] chaitanyak:
the qvga link is not working :(

the qvga link is not working :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
I tried just now to download QVGA - all is fine. The link is on this (xda-dev) web site, so maybe the site was busy? I suppose you logged in OK?

As you are interested in QVGA - then you are the person I am looking for ! - to check if it looks OK on a QVGA device?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Inc:
The idea is great ... however - if it (as described) drains the battery in less than 30 mins. the program is of absolutely no use. Sorry.

/Inc
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ResLo:
My limited experience with the program was that for a 1 hour drive it reduced the battery by two bars. I had the GPS set for every 5 seconds.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hankeys:
i have problem with GPX file.. when i try to upload to http://utrack.crempa.net/ i have no luck - it has another format. With GPX from GPS Tuner it works.

from GPS tuner the GPX file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<gpx

version="1.0"

creator="GPS Tuner - http://www.gpstuner.com"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd">

<time>2008-09-30T10:28:55Z</time>

<bounds minlat="48.8882740166667" minlon="16.3945307333333" maxlat="49.1854497166667" maxlon="16.6122288166667"/>

<trk>

<trkseg>

<trkpt lat="49.1854497166667" lon="16.61220885">

<ele>248.899993896484</ele>

<time>2008-09-30T05:27:52Z</time>

<course>167</course>

<speed>0</speed>

<name><![CDATA[Point 0001]]></name>

<desc><![CDATA[Distance from Start:0 m]]></desc>

<type>Trackpoint</type>

</trkpt>

</trkseg>

from GPS Cycle Computer

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<gpx

version="1.0"

creator="GPSCycleComputer"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd">

<rte>

<name>29.9.08 15:06:05</name>

<desc><![CDATA[68,5 km 00:40:23 ex stop 0,0 / 102 / 142 current / average / max (km/h) battery 34% ... battery 26%]]></desc>

<rtept lat="49.020597" lon="16.017238"></rtept>

any solution?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] avastdh:
On version 1 of GPS Cycle Computer i couldt take my gpx file and open it with garmin mapsource, but on version 2, the files will not open..What have you done :) Other then that a great program.. Keep up the good work!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
GPX format

About GPX problems - it seems I cannot please everyone with a single format!

I have change tags from <rte> to <trk> in the latest version, as (according to GPX 1.1 spec)

<trk> is "trk represents a track - an ordered list of points describing a path" (this is what we need), while

<rte> "rte represents route - an ordered list of waypoints representing a series of turn points leading to a destination "

The uTrack website accepts <trk> (I've just tried) - i.e. if you install the latest version, then all shall work OK with uTrack.

If some software does not like latest GPX - could you please do me a favour, and try to edit the GPX file, to see what exactly it does not like? I.e. open GPX with a text editor (e.g. notepad), and have a couple of points only (the one which starts with <trkpt lat= and ends with </trkpt> - all points in the middle can be deleted). First to try (this seems my bug, I will fix this) - is to delete lines with <name> and <desc> - I think I put them incorrectly after <trkseg>, they shall be after <trk> (i.e. up one line). If this does not work, then try to delete two lines with <trkseg> and </trkseg> at start/end file, and replace all "trk" text with "rte" - then you will get exactly v1 GPX file.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] beaker656:
Can I just thank you for a very cool app. Installed it today, let it run in the background whilst TomTom was running for a while. Back to the office and dragged the .kml file into google earth and not a problem.

Excellent work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] chaitanyak:
thanks for the qvga version!! was having problems downloading it yesterday, so i used the other version :) all i could do was record a track, but couldnt save it as kml or anything(coz the buttons were off screen) anyway downloaded the qvga version today and it works great!! it even loaded up the old gcc file and i was able to convert it to a usable kml file !

great app!

i used it on my HTC Pharos (p3470) . looks great. added a shortcut to my today screen :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hankeys:
i must say thanks for this great app and confirm that, the GPX files are working now.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sansibar:
Options not working

Just installed the latest 2.28 QVGA on my TyTn II.

The problem is that the settings on the option-screen cannot be changed.

The option-screen seems to display fine (see attachment), but I cannot change any setting there. Wherever I click, I only get a warning beep from the device.

Any ideas?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] chribruu:
Thanks a lot for developing this wonderful piece of software! Very nice :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] AndyZap:
Note that Options are locked when GPS is running. So make sure you press Stop, before you try to change anything. I hope this is why your options are locked
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sansibar:
Bingo

Bingo! Thanks Andy.

Might be helpful to display some kind of message or warning in that case.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] gengt:
I have a little problem with gpx/kml, when I have upload the gpx/kml file to www.grossingways.com, and get the "The GPX File does not have any tracks" error, i tried with and without the rte tag. The same problem with www.wikiloc.com.

I don't have this problem with google maps...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] nickokio:
Well i think its save to say that development has stopped...

A pity but it still does the job :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] PauloJ5:
I think it is recorded. If you upload to crossing ways you get total altitude. But it would be cool if it was also displayed on the device.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] captain_cool:
rte Tags are supposed to contain routes. If you plan ro drive from A to B your routeplanner could save this route in gpx file with a rte tag.

Crossingways can only handle tracks. Tracks are recorded in a <trk><trkseg><trkpt lat=.... Format.

If you export data from google earth the pathes have to be saved as tracks, not as routes. Then it will work fine.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Stuhl_im_Orbit:
It would be fine to integrate the possibility to delete a track directly after recording. So it would be possbile to get a descent GPS signal, delete this "get a GPS fix"-track and start recording the real track.

It would minimize "waiting for fix" times: So I could get a GPS fix while i'm waiting for the bus and the "final" fix will be much quicker, when I want to track the real route an hour later.

PS: Or does anyone know a tool to get gps signal while the device is off? If there is another simple tool that might help as well: I could run that tool while waiting.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] micheldekerpel:
altitude correction problems

Hello Andy,

i can't figure out how to set the altitude correction in cycle computer 3.114.

Where I live the gps GEOID altitude offset is 45m meaning that the gps reads 45m on ground level.

This should mean i would have to set the correction value to -45 m right?.

That's is what i did, but if i do so the gps displays 90m.

Can you help me out please.What should i enteras correction value?

I'm using your software for paramotor flying and navigation where the altitude reading is quite important.

Thanks

Michel- Belgium

micheldekerpel@telenet.be
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] 99048907:
Am thinking of getting a leo and wanted to know if this would work on it?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Bbasso:
I've been using it for a little while, it's great. thanks.

One question tho... the arrow, it should point North right?

Mine doesn't.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Hi All

I got in touch with AndyZap about a month ago and asked him if it was OK to "somehow take the basic application, reskin it, add some integration to my website (runsaturday.com) and then put it out there for people to download". AndyZap was very friendly and helpful about it - thanks Andy :)

Since then I've been coding through a few late evenings and I've broken quite a lot :mad: However, I've also added quite a lot too :)

Things that are "different" here currently include:

- Under the covers things are very different - I've replaced all of the GPS processing pipeline with lots of new classes.

- I've got some lap counting working - including distance based autolaps

- I've added some voice announcements for lap times

- I've changed lots of the flow of the UI - e.g. changing the startup and options, adding a simple Speed/distance/time screen, ... and I've still got lots more to do here.

- I've added some multithreading - to try to keep the UI at least semi-responsive even when network operations are occurring.

- I've started adding an activity log - which keeps some simple track of activity totals over time.

- I've added support for multiple sports - each with different settings (e.g. road cycling, walking, running, skiing, ...)

- I've lost some of the power saving options (I might yet need to work out how to add these back in again!)

- All of the file formats have changed - options, activity logs, etc - sorry!

Like I said, it's currently "different" - not necessarily better or worse...

Currently most of my testing is on a Samsung Omnia, but I am also testing a bit on a Dell Axim with a bluetooth GPS unit.

I'm not quite ready to release anything (just a few more broken things to fix, plus I still haven't done things like the uploading to runsaturday!) - but in the meantime I've been meaning to say "hello" on here for the whole of the last month...

so...

"hello"

Stuart
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jgobeil:
Hi Stuart,

It's nice to see someone willing to take over.

AndyZap has built a nice little application that works well and is quite useful. May I suggest you keep it that way. Too often, we see Version 2 applications that become white elephants by trying to do everything. They become buggy, consume lots of memory and empty the battery real quick.

You have 100 pages of reported problems, difficulties, comments and suggestions in this thread. That should give you a good start for improvements to the software.

I wish you good luck in your project and look forward to an improved version.

Regards

Jules
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Thanks for the welcome.

I've almost got a version now... really almost.

It's working pretty well on my test Omnia (which has a lot of CPU and good battery life to play with - but has the odd problem with GPS - especially elevation).

I'll post a download link real soon!

Stuart
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
If anyone wants to see how it's going, then I've put some screenshots up on http://www.navmi.com

And I've just put a work in progress build up on http://www.navmi.com/navmi.cab - still some stuff to sort out - especially in mapping - but it's working OK on the Omnia II.

Functionality now working includes:

- configurable autopause and autolap functions

- some voice feedback

- some charting of speed and elevation (but the Omnia's elevation readings are very poor!)

- a recent diary display.

- some synchronisation with runsaturday.com - to allow post run/bike/ski analysis like - http://www.runsaturday.com/Train/Analyse/Activity/ActivityId/185007/SubView/Player.

But this also means I've currently lost some things - like some of the power saving modes, live the logging link, etc - and I'm aware of a few bugs in the mapping.

More testing and functionality to come in the next few weeks and months - but for now back to the day job!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] CyberDemonVZ:
Wow, great first version!

At last we have "Exit button" :)

Why do you have so many sport types? What are the diferences?

Few problems:

Can not turn off "Upload activities immediately"!

In "Sport" tab on VGA device (Diamond) last word is Charting and I guess something is out of the screen. And it is not possible to scroll the screen.

What should I select in "Maps" tab to use my maps (.gmi+.jpg) in selected directory? Or it's not possible tu use our maps?

And, in my opinion, you should return black/white screen to display. Better visibility in daylight (because of greater contrast).

And I have to say again, great first version!!

Keep it up! :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Thanks for the early and positive feedback.

I'm glad it installs and works on the Diamond!

1. It's possible for you to set up different preferences for each sport - e.g. by default cycling autolaps every 5km or miles while running autolaps every 1.

2. It also helps with the diary/log - you can separate your road cycles, your MTB cycles, your walks, your skis, etc.

This should be on the Settings page - but only after you've chosen a profile - oops! Thanks.

Ah - sorry I thought it would auto scroll - will fix (you are just missing some min/max charting options.

I'm not sure this versions support this at present...

I've really had a nightmare with the maps and I am half way through rewriting the whole viewer - the current algorithm works really well, but every time I try to change anything it breaks - so I think I just need to write a new algorithm.

Could you email me your .gmi+.jpg directory (me[at]slodge[dot]com) - I'll take a look - but maybe not until after xmas now - it's time for me to get some work in right now!

Do you mean black text on a white background?

The screen on the Omnia is really hard to see regardless of what settings I choose - so I'm happy to try other views.

Thanks again.

Stuart
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] matthieu60:
Maps from google maps

Hi Stuart,

I am very happy that someone continue this great developpment.

I install your new version and test it this week-end.

Just a suggestion for the maps. Is it possible to download the maps from google maps directly in the software instead of OpenStreetMap?

Thanks for you job

Best Regards

Matthieu L
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Quick update

A new version (custom colours added - still plenty else to do!) is on:

http://www.navmi.com/0.2/navmi.cab

The old version is in http://www.navmi.com/0.1/navmi.cab if you want it.

I've tested on:

- Omnia II - WM6.5

- Dell Axim v51 - WM5.0 -with external Bluetooth GPS

The results are OK - although the Dell clearly has some problems with Bluetooth. Also with the Dell, the performance seems better going direct to the external COM port rather than to the Windows multiplexer level COM port.

I'm not going to get much time to work on this again for another couple of weeks - but please do provide feedback - I will try to push this forwards :)

Matthieu L - I think the main reason to use OSM rather than Google is that Google has lots of licensing restrictions - including not allowing you to use files offline (I think)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] KLUTZ2:
GPS Cycle Computer's Future

Stuart,

Thanks for carrying forward this software. :) I will be happy to do some testing and provide feedback.

Klutz
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] matthieu60:
Some feedback

Hi Start;

Very great modifications :)

I install it on my HTC diamond. For information, i use since 1 year, GCC without problem.

- After the installation, i want to deactivate the option "Stop GPS if battery <20%" and exit the software. During software exit, i have a popup "can't write xml file" (or a kind of message).

I modify the xml file with text editor. After i have not this problem

- Before launch an training record, i set the option "show map download option". With this option, the record freeze after 1 second with a sound.

I will make another tests tomorrow

Thanks for the new release. ;)

Matthieu L
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Hi Matthieu

Thanks for the feedback.

The <20% option I'm afraid this was a bug from me - toggling the <20% checkbox actually changed the BaudRate setting in 0.1 - I fixed that in 0.2 (I hope) - sorry.

It may have been that the <20% option problem caused *both* the save issue and the freeze issue - incorrectly changing the baudrate was a bad thing for the software to do :/

I think I fixed this in 0.2 - if not, then a 0.3 might be along soon...

Please do also let me know what you think of the new features - and what you think about the missing features. I do intend to work more on this - so will be interested to know what people like, love, hate and want.

Thanks

Stuart

P.S. Hi to Klutz2 also!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] rhtizzy:
Excellent stuff Stuart, and that goes for the RunSaturday website too!

Will get back to you with testresults (prob in the new year).

Good luck and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Cheers,

Rick
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hollywoof:
Thanks Rick

And now some bad news.... I've just taken navmi out for a run and saw my first big failure - somehow the autolap code went wrong - looks like maybe a very wrong gps point snuck through and caused 1000 laps at once - caused my phone to lock up.

If anyone else sees this, then sorry! I will work it out :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] matthieu60:
Freeze

Hi Stuart

I make another tests today to find why my phone freeze in the begining of record (I have test version 0.2) .

It is not the map download and i can not find the reason.

Perhaps it is the same problem (Autolap). I set this option to never

Another remark, the speed is not correct in km/h. I have a factor 2 with the real speed (40km/h in the phone = 80km/h in my car)

Thank you