yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
Hi Tom,

Brilliant software BTW. We've found 2000 caches over 2 years thanks to it. I recently smashed the phone up and normally this would have been a great excuse to move to a new phone and newer operating system but we like Gczii so much that we forked out for a new screen and kept the crummy old phone and quirky operating system just for this one piece of magnificent software!!!!

Now, as far as the IE cache is concerned where would it be? I can see the Opera 9 cache but no sign of the IE cache (although IE is on the machine). Is it likely that Gczii would store stuff in the IE cache (it is definitely gczii downloads that are using the internal storage)? Where should I look for the IE cache?

Cheers

The ST's c
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
You can clear everything from within IE. Tools, Options, Browsing History. You'll see the space consumed by Temporary Files, Cookies and History. Highlight them one and at time and select "Clear" in the lower right menu.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
Cheers, that's 24mb of storage back. Don't know if that is the stuff that gczii has been snuffling but will test it out.

Many thanks!!!

The Sweeney Toddlers x
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
That's the answer. Even with gczii on the sd card, and the cache database being stored there, for some reason gczii is using up storage memory and filling up the IE cache. Whilst I don't have a fix it looks like I will now be able to intermittently empty the IE cache and get the storage back.

Thanks to Pauloft and secret agent man for their input and to Tom for the answer!!!

The ST's x
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ricke 59:
Seems like yesterdays update of the GC.com site has caused problem for GCzII to find the Cache Logs info.

Old Cache list are still ok but when reloading or searching for new caches it comes back with no log info.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] janni_mz:
The same problem here.. After reloading caches, "Cache Logs" become inactive in GCzII ver0.2.35.76.. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cloudrider:
logs

+1 on missing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kainppc6700:
GEOCACHING Reply

Same thing is happening for me. The "logs" button is disabled and "grayed".

Any ideas?

- 2 Bunn
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shaggyguitarist:
another confirmation about logs option greying out after update...

Also whats the deal on challenges?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] HonigDrache:
Hi!

I hope you can help me.

At my wm 6.5 phone GCzII (as a PM) works fine, only without the logs button after the update yesterday.

I just installed it at my friends phone (no touch, no PM). It starts, it loads a list (by coordinates) but I can't load the cachediscriptions. It then says: "Cache not found."

Her husband has the same problem (but with a mobilephone with touch-screen). He used it without problem until ca. 4 weeks ago, then it had the same error as discribed above.

Greetings

HonigDrache
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15254351&postcount=5432
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cosy64:
gczii vers 76

this week it works fine bevore the update on gc.com. now i have the same prob. the log button is grey. i think we need a update
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markstein:
gczii update

GCzII is surely a very fine piece of software. I like to use it very much and although many users may have switched to Android in the meantime I will stay with Win mobile as long as there are updates for the software I use.

What about GCzII? Is there a continuing support? Any idea, how long it will to take to adopt the program to the changes of the website? Tom?

Thanks. M.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nerys71:
yeah running out of internal memory borks everything. nothing works right sometimes. :-)

an EASY solution is to DELETE GCii

then see what happens. that should up GCii's culpability really fast.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Carloschico:
Next bug

Another problem is if you download the entire list of caches and list of tracktables :mad:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Ummmm, put all that download stuff on the storage card??? :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brzda:
Any info about update? :confused:

Problem with logs is probably caused by new types of logs - added "completed geocaching challenge" :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markstein:
bug report

Logging trackables is not possible since last website update.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hawkeye69:
Hi Tom,

will there be an update? Weekends without fully working Gczii are dull!

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
We have no inside information but the Groundspeak site doesn't appear to have finished with its changes yet. Tom is usually extremely quick to update Gczii but it may be that we have to wait for the groundspeak changes to be finalised.

Meantime we are trying to make do with gpx imports :(

Patience is a virtue and all that........ :)

The ST's
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Orbit2-User:
Hello Dear friends,

iam using GCZII over a long time, it is a great programm.

now i have a little problem:

when i use the gps-monitor i give the target- coordinates and save it.

now i dont need some of the coordinate.

how can i delete the coordinates

many thanks

Rolf
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
Options/Manage History then select coordinate in search mode and delete the offending coordinate.......

The Sweeney Toddlers x
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Orbit2-User:
Thanks for the fast answer

Rolf
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Adios

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that the time has finally come for me to upgrade my phone, and I'm switching to Android. WinMo 6.5 has just fallen to far behind the pack. Simply put, I need a phone that supports a large number of robust apps.

My only regret will be not having GCzII, and helping others on this board.

I am passing the code for my summary page to PaulLoft, who will take over for me. Paul and I wrote that post together quite some time ago.

@Tom - Thanks for an incredible app! Let me know if you start hacking out some Android code. I'll be glad to beta it and help others wherever you decide to post!

S.A.M.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
I think a lot of people owe a big thank you to Secret Agent Man for all the help he's given on this thread.

Often the first with an answer, and almost always the one who gets to the heart of the problem through a thorough understanding of the software and a tenacity to keep helping until the root of the problem is identified.

A brilliant job well done. Thank you very much for all the time and effort you have put into helping us with our problems.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
Yes, thanks from us too. We have been helped out of a hole on more than one occasion.

You might find a better phone but not a better geocachiong application in android (we have experimented with it.....)

Like countless others we will stick with Tom :p

The Swoddlers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fama1:
Problem with cache logs download.

Hi. I have problem with download cache logs after last geocaching.com update.

Is some possibility to resolve this problem?

Thanks for answer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
We have not yet heard from Tom since the last update so don't know at this time when or if the software is going to be updated.

Tom usually sorts things out when he has time.

In the meantime, GCzII still works using pocket queries and GPX files. If you have access to those.

Keep checking back or subscribe to this thread for updates.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kainppc6700:
CRAZY SERVER Reply

If you think that's strange, here's something crazy weird: Under his profile, it says that his last activity was today at 6:40PM or something. This is strange because we still have 5 hours to go before then. Maybe the update will come when he comes on at 6.

IS XDA DEVELOPERS SERVER PSYCHIC????!!!!

Post update:

Actually, my login had just timed out, and being logged out totally hoses the site's clock. Now it says his last activity was 1:40PM.

- 2 Bunny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
I actually used GCz today without a pocket query (ended up somewhere unexpected).

Searched for nearest, got a list, downloaded the cache details, marked as found etc.

So I have kind of lost track of what isn't working.

But the main features do still seem to be working fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vidvandre:
With loading cache's on the go; I think the main new thing that's broken is logs. AFAIK it doesn't work at all (and haven't since the first of the latest "big" updates). Other than that I haven't seen any major new issues...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
That is it, thank you, you don't get to see the logs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ladroege:
Well, I am currently on vacation and have faced a strange behaviour: It wouldn't want to find/download online a local cache here: GCQXD1

Even if I search for the GC-code, it only finds the neighboring caches.

The only special thing about this cache I am aware of: It is on my GC watchlist.

Can someone else doublecheck:

Can you search for and download the cache GCQXD1?

Can you search for and download caches on your watchlist?

Best regards from (currently) Italy,

Lars
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vidvandre:
No problems downloading the cache (ignoring the log issue). Nor any problems downloading a cache on my watchlist. Only tested on WiFi. Found and opened in both PC/browser and phone/GCzII...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] immutability:
I've tried to download one of the caches on my watchlist using it's GC code and it worked fine (besides the missing logs)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ladroege:
Thanks a lot for the fast checks. It seems then I may have a different problem. As long as it affects only this cache, I don't see a big issue...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SdKfz.171:
Farewell and thanks

Hi, Tom,

as a result of my ASUS P552w failure I had to buy a new phone, so now I'm on Android and can't use GCzII anymore.

I want to thank you for your work and enthusiasm.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TinTin:
How likely is it that the current problems will be fixed? I'm currently running cachebox, but was wantig to give gcii a try, so I've been checking this thread for a couple of weeks now to see if the author is still maintaining the software. It looks like he isn't ? That's not a problem of course, but would be great to know, thank you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kainppc6700:
GECH Reply

It looks like Gech was online less than a half hour ago. Maybe he'll post in the thread.

- 2 Bunny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sweeney Toddlers:
While gczii is broken we decided to run Windows Phone 7 on our HD2. It is a great OS but the official geocaching app is useless (no real ability to cache off line at all). We have had similar disappointment when we ran Android on the phone and tried c:geo.

We are desparately hoping that Tom can continue to support gczii. It's worth running WM6 just for this one piece of brilliant software. Nothing else compares!

Here's hoping.....

The Sweeney Toddlers x
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markstein:
Please update GCzII

I think exactly the same. Tom please fix GCzII, it cannot be so much work...

Regards, Michael
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hawkeye69:
Hi Tom,

GczII and OziExplorer are the two applications which are still keeping me from switching from WinMobile to Android. OziExplorer now has a beta version for Android, I hope it won’t be long before there is a fully usable version. Are there any chances of an Android Version of GczII, I’m sure there would be a great demand. All other so called apps I have seen so far for Android are just no match for GczII! ;)

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
Please help

Tom

You are well aware of my favouritism for this application over all that I have tried (iPhone, Android and WM6).

Please give us an update or perhaps you are working on an API version?

This is the best interface that suits cachers more than any other. This is probably because you are a cacher.

We are asking for your help to keep us in the game...

Gus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jake Bullit:
I too have switched to android.I would just like to say a big thank-you to Tom for all his hard work,especially in the last few months.

Hopefully we'll see GCz on android some day.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Andreha:
desperate issues?

Hi all..

What's the problem with still using GcZII??

I can't really understand why Cachers disappear, only because they can no longer place logs online within only online loaded caches.

(I didn't use that feature even when it was possible, I think that a log entry should say something more than "found it, TFTC" )

OK, viewing previous logs is also not possile, but what??

It's still a great tool and everything else still works.

You can walk around an area and when you feel like geocaching, you just take out your WM6 device, turn on GcZII and press "Go".

And even when using Pocketqueries it is still the same, so I still use and like it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markstein:
Nevertheless it would be nice to hear from Tom if he is still developing GCzII and when there will be an update.

Tom, a short note please ... thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
I can't profess to speak for Tom and I do not know his plans, but the issue around reading logs is probably not as straight forward as it seems.

GC.com completely changed the layout and info contained in the online logs. This is undoubtedly what has prevented GCzII from reading those logs, as we know it gathers the data from the online web pages.

So on the face of it Tom needed to rework the software to read the new log layout.

EXCEPT, GC.com then made further changes to the new log layout (date found, icons etc) and then took away the finder's log count as a temporary measure as there were problems with site performance. Or something like that.

The last I read there were still changes to be made to the log layout including putting back the finders found count.

So I can't blame Tom for not wanting to spend time putting right the log reading issue only for GC.com to go and change it all again in a few days or weeks.

As for an Android version, as I understand it, Tom wrote this software for his own use, and he uses winmo 6.5.

It's not a commercial product and Tom doesn't ask for any payment for his work. So I very much doubt he would work up an Android version which would be useless to himself.

He is really just (freely) sharing some software he has written for himself and which he rewrites and supports in his own (I guess limited) spare time.

That's as I understand things anyway, and may go a little way to explaining why there is only one version of GCzII and why updates are not issued within days of something changing on GC.com.

In this instance I believe the software is still very functional and so Tom may not see an update as a priority until GC.com have stopped messing with the page layouts and decided on a final log layout and content.

Personally I wouldn't switch to Android as Memory Maps do not work on Android and having every cache within a 100 mile radius of home neatly marked with the correct icon on a 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map on my phone, together with GCzII of course, is invaluable.

(Now you watch Tom come and contradict everything I have written LOL)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
Think again, MMTracker

I'm ready for the switch when myContract is up. :)

And this
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Hmmm, that's interesting, thanks. Stored for future reference (my HD2 is not quite ready to be consigned to the cupboard yet)

Cookies HomeTab style home screen interface for android anyone? :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
WinMo 6.5 is tho' :o
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Not really, I have all the software I need running on 6.5 and it all works as I want it to.

I guess the day will come for the switch to another OS but not necessary just yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Xcodee:
Really Great share thank you very much
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markstein:
I agree 100%. I have nearly the same apps on my HD2 as Paul. There is nothing comparing to CHT in the Android world as far as I know. The same is with GCzII. Everything works fine, the device is 100% mine.

Tom, please support us last of the happy people ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
But if you switch to Apple or Android you can then get Apps.

They never existed before. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kainppc6700:
GECH 2 Reply

Exactly. I'm still using the Diamond and intend to for the immediate future. I'm sure that Gech is hard at work on the latest and greatest version of GCzII for Windows Mobile too. :)

- 2 Bunny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
I am hoping that Tom is working on an API version so that when GS change the website in the future it will not break GCzII and we will stop hassling him for updates....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TinTin:
Apps never existed before? loooool good joke. The word comes from appplication, which is as old as programming. Only with the start of these so called "app stores" did the term become popular with the masses. Programmers were calling software "apps" for a long time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] immutability:
I think he meant it to be a sarcasm. ;) Since Apple wants us to believe that there were no "apps" before iAnything.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kickmethebrain:
Internet URL open failed

gczii isen't working i get alway the message "Internet URL open failed (01_LoginAuth.htlm) "

Logginname and pw are the right!

geocaching.com account is in english

what can i do?!?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
That error message normally happens when you have a weak or non existent internet connection.

Try it with a wifi connection and see if that cures it. If so, then you need to make sure you have a strong GSM internet connection.

As another test, try launching google maps or something else that needs an internet connection.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kickmethebrain:
internet is working (browser)

if i use the zip code search he connect and show me the list white the citys whit the zip but if i take on, the error come.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Hi,

I got quite hooked to GCz during my short geocaching trip during the last four days :)

Although I had quite a few geocaches on my garmin device, being able to go just about somewhere cross-country, start GCz and "Search for nearby caches" proved invaluable for places I didn't think beforehand that I would visit :D

One thing would make this even better, though: Could GCz save the current selected Geocache (or even better, the full list as downloaded with "Search for nearby caches") as a GPX file to the file system? Since my phone and my GPSr share the same flash disc format, I could easily add new caches with their full description to my GPSr simply by inserting the flash disc into the phone :D

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Hi,

I'm using GCz-1 on my Sony Ericsson X-Peria.

At least on my device, GCz seems to busy looping somewhere. After I start it once, my phone gets quite warm to the touch after a few moments, and the battery endurance drops from a few days with a full accu to just about a few hours.

I could not test GCz-II because I needed the ability to download new caches on my voyage, but as soon as this is possible, I'll happily start GCz-II on the device and let it running for a few hours to see whether it shows the same symptoms.

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abumaia:
On my HTC Touch, just running the GPS, no matter which program, drains my battery. Perhaps you are seeing the same thing as I.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] janvisser1982:
heat from GPS

my X1 always becomes warm when i'm using GPS. type of software doesn't matter. So it's not Gcz related!

greets Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Thanks for the confirmation, I wasn't sure whether it was some hardware defect on my device ( it really got soaked two times while geocaching in rainy weather :o )

I will test later today whether the device cools down after I stop GCz ( maybe the GPS receiver needs to be explicitly shut down? )

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
GC can solve all of this very easy; provide an API. The API can have the same restrictions as the main website. No remote lookups without a membership, I'm fine with that. I pay my dues to help them with their costs, and even with something like GCz I'll continue to pay my dues.

I still bet that if someone analyzed the web traffic between their iPhone app and GC.com there would be some kind of API, I doubt it's scraping HTML. Anyone have any experience with the iPhone app and if it "breaks" every time GC makes a change?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
either they are scraping , or using a non-released api , it did not break on my buddys iphone when they made server changes .... my bet is they have there own api setup just for iphone users since you cannot use .loc or .gpx files on a iphone . what i may try is to do some snooping on the data coming in/out of the iphone app
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aummels:
We set al mentioned above.

Finding caches is possible, but when tick on one of them the error accours.

How come?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Boyo:
Another option is to find where the program from http://live.geocaching.com/ connects to the server and use that connection. It has a limitation of 5 cache's for non-premium members, which I'm ok with. I think if they would just open up an api that is limited to non-premium and wide open to premium they would see it used alot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Interesting, never heard of this live before. I HATE J2ME, but I might check this out for giggles.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arghness:
I've mentioned it before, but Geocache Navigator is free for Nokia users, does not require premium geocaching.com membership and has been officially integrated with geocaching.com since before the iPhone application (before the iPhone even had GPS).

I haven't seen the iPhone application, but Geocache Navigator requires you to officially pair your device with your geocaching.com account (there is a code you have to type in on the device, I think - it's been a while since I did it), at which point it can then perform queries.

However, when you log caches (you just log them as found/not found - no other notes), they get put in to a "field notes" section on geocaching.com. You then have to go to the website and enter any text you want to submit them.

So yes, there is certainly a non-premium official API for geocaching.com, although I imagine geocaching.com charge developers to use it instead (Geocache Navigator isn't free on all platforms, just Nokia, I think).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
j2me+winmobo=suck ;-( they just need to open a freekin api till then tom you R0xor ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
unless there is open access to the api no there is no official api , , also navigator is java based ,, eww ,,, works great on "dumbphones"crackberrys , ect. but not windows or even symbian phones"smartphones "
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

New version is available now.

http://www.nicque.com/pqz/GCz.htm

GCzII_20090526_1630_0233_01.cab

Please try and let me know. ;D

regards,

tom

P.S) "Search by Trackable Item Name" [8/8] is not ready. ;D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
I'm giving it first tries, I've searched and found my own caches :-) - fine. I also see the icon of a "cached cache" :-) and the subdir in application directory for downloaded listings.

But since significant number of caches are mysteries or multi, I'm missing the ability to add/edit waypoints, to show particular waypoint in Google Maps (or to show them all at once) as well as to be able to navigate to them.

Thank you so much for this new version, I'm gonna do more testing outside. :-)