yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] savage00:
That's it! Thank you!

"download all caches" works fine. Not that comfortable but it works, that is all that counts! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
The only solution is be a Premium Member. :D

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rehana:
Wonderful posting for mobile apps. I had been wondering for some information regarding that. It's very useful since I am going to start mobile apps development.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
This is a BIG ask as GCz has loads of great features, BUUUUUT...

PocketDrake has a Google map screen, it's just like the GS page with active icons. AND the map tiles are cached too, so once they're downloaded they are always available.

Is this do-able.... :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Funny... I got a WP7 just before Christmas. I realy like it, but there are no good caching apps (the GS app seems nice, but I don't have a credit card connected to my phone yet, so can't pay for the non trial version, + WP7 doesn't have SPP for bluetooth, so can't use my bluetooth GPSr; the built in one seems like crap). Today I figured out how to switch phones. S now I will be switching back and forth between my older WM6.5 phone for geocaching, and my WP7 phone for other times. I love having GCzII back live!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingdongding:
thanks tom, i love this tool...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sestka:
Bug report

Hello, I found a bug. Here is description: I have a multi cache with many waypoints, I choose detail of one of that waypoints and than select Pinpoint Map to fullscreen. After that I click Back and switch to another waypoint with large buttons on bottom of screen. On another waypoint again click on Pinpoint map but that map doesnt changed, application is still using map from previous waypoint
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
I nudged Groundspeak into making a statement. :D

Don't suppose we know whether GCz is on the list...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Andreha:
Bug in .71

Hi all.

In preparation for my todays caching-tour I performed a search around a certain GC number and downloaded all 20 Caches, but at the end of the list it used to say something like: "load 20 more caches".

but with german words.

With new .71 (german) Now it now says:

20 Cache(s)

[previous]

without using german language and without geeing clickkable.

So it's not possible to search for the next 20 caches.

Kind regards

Andre
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
>> 20 Cache(s)

>> [previous]

It says, you load a cache list which is previous loaded.

That would not allow to load next 20 caches.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nachoaguera:
I installed this new version on my Windows Mobile 6.5, and gives me the error of cache not found at all times, it can be?

You have now the previous version I've always worked well.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
What is "this new version"? Chances are you are not running the latest version. Read the last few pages, find the latest summary post, and make sure that you have the latest version. If you are up to date, double-check everything else in the summary post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nachoaguera:
I downloaded this version

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11298346&postcount=5017 in the NICQUE web, but it say to me, that Cache not found error.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsa_sailor:
How are you downloading the caches? Search by Current Location? Is your GPS turned on and active (indicated by the blue bars under the NICQUE logo at the bottom right of your screen)? Have you tried searching by other types, e.g by Coordinate, Postal Code, etc? Is your device able to connect to the internet via other programs like Internet Explorer or Opera?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Did you try everything in the "Cache Not Found" error section? i.e. GC.com language set to English, deleting \cache_db, etc?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nachoaguera:
SecretAgentMan, Thanks for all, I have problems with my internet connection, but I resolve it with my operator. Thanks for all!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michaelbr:
Hello Tom, I have one tip for new function or simply I want mention the functionality I miss. At the first screen which appears when you start GCzII you can search caches by name, owner, current location, coordinate etc. The function "search by current location" is great but generaly I have connection to internet with my PDA just inside building (restaurant, cafe bar...). That means that where I have GPS signal I don't have internet and vise versa where I have internet I don't have GPS signal. So I want ask if it is possible to add one button e.g. "fix current location / store current location" at the "search by current location" or at the "search by coordinates" screen. Then I could be able to go outside of the building, get/fix my current GPS location then I could go to the restaurant with free WiFi and find the nerby caches. Now it is possible to go out of restaurant, write gps coordinates to the paper and put them to the "search by coordinates screen" but its not very user friendly. Thanks, have a nice day.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsa_sailor:
AppToDate doesn't update to the Gesture Scrolling version

I ran AppToDate today and it said that there was a new version of GCzII out. So I updated it. However I already had the Gesture Scrolling .71 version on my device. AppToDate replaced that version with the standard non gesture scrolling version.

1) Is there a way to fix the AppToDate feature to check for which version you have on the device?

2) Is there a need for the non gesture scrolling version to be the default version? It is simple to turn off gesture scrolling (from the cache page, go to Menu > Enable Select to toggle off the gesture scrolling feature).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pere:
+1

Good Idea. If not possible , at least provide a way to copy the present coordinates and paste them after on "Search by Coordinate!"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Interesting that this happened. I have .71_GS installed. I ran AppToDate and it told me that everything was up to date. I also had both the regular and the _GS versions showing as up to date.

I'm not totally sure how AppToDate works, but one thing you can try is this. Go to \Application Data\AppToDate. You'll see .xml files for each app that AppToDate is watching. I found that when I renamed the .xml for regular, non GS, GCzII, AppToDate no longer checked for it, which presumably will keep it from loading the regular version. I just renamed the .xml to .xml.old. It may just be that AppToDate is getting confused by checking for both. In any event, the _GS .xml clearly points to the _GS version, so getting the other .xml out of the way may be the solution. I guess we won't know until we get a new release. Almost makes you want GS to break something! :D

I agree that the _GS should be the default. I suggested this a while back, and Tom cabbed up the _GS version as well. I assumed back then that I'd get _GS updates through AppToDate, but haven't had the opportunity to try it since I was at _71.

We both started at the same level but got different results from AppToDate . . . not sure why.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsa_sailor:
That was it. I had never run the cab for installing the GS version. I just copied the .exe file from here to the device. When I ran the cab, ApptoDate added the GCZzII_GS.xml file to the folder. So I just deleted the standard version xml and ico files.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michaelbr:
Tom, I don´t know if its bug or why it happens. I downloaded the cache "Bunkers 2" - GC2GX51. It is multi cache with 20 stages. But in GCzII I can see/are downloaded just 17 stages. Is 17 some limit, or why stages 18-20 are not downloaded? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
[BUG]: some waypoints in static maps shifted

My version: 0.2.35.70

Some waypoints in static maps are shifted (to the north). See the image. This time (GC2MJ35) my actual position on a parking lot and waypoint indicating this parking are moved about 100 m north. The other two waypoints - another parking and the cache itself - are positioned correctly.

The GPS Monitor always works allright. This issue is only related to the static maps (I saw it on the satellite maps as well).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
.70 is not the current version. You might want to load .71 and see if the problem remains.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Yep, I know that .71 is current. But Tom didn't work on static maps in .71 as you can see on his history page. So I'm pretty sure this issue persists into .71.

EDIT: just loaded version .71 - the issue is there as well. I can further narrow down the problem: on a static map always the waypoint which the map belongs to is shown accurately, the others are shifted. Look at the attachment: this time I made a screenshot of static map belonging to the first parking - the cache and the second parking are shifted south.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ricke 59:
Hmm, I'm quite shure this used to work, but now when, in offline mode and when clicking on cache in cachelist from GPX file I get this message "Internet access denied when Offline mode".

The message is ok in relation to Offline mode, but what about the point with using GPX file from PQ when I still can't open cache info.

Anyone else having seen the same?

WM 6.1, HTC HD, ver .71 and cleaned cache folders.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ricke 59:
I would also like to know if the relatively new GC.com feature "Personal cache note" is accessible from within GzII.

If not, that would be a nice feature to wish for since I find this field to be a good place to store the solution coordinates to Mystery caches having been solved. If it could work then one would'nt have to worry about GPX's but still being free to go for Mysterys on the fly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
I'm not getting that message.

I put GCzII in the offline mode. I deleted my \Cache_DB to make sure no caches were cached. I then imported a .gpx, saved the list and closed it. I reloaded the list and browsed caches without ever getting the error message.

It's like GCzII is trying to connect for some reason. Not sure why. Did you try more than one .gpx. Maybe the one you're generating the list from got corrupted?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ricke 59:
Ok, I did try this, but the GPX's I had were all from before emptying the \Cache_DB folder. I have now downloaded a new GPX from GC.com and with this as a base for a new cachelist it works fine again.

Thanks !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] docfred:
You will find the content of the "Personal Cache Note (PCN)" on the description page of the cache.

In the PCN you can store the final coordinates together with addition information (eg. hints codes). You can generate a new (final) waypoint from the PCN.

To do this in GCzII you have to copy the text of the PCN to the clipboard. Then generate a new waypoint from the clipboad. The coordinates will find their way into the right fields.

docfred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
while we are taling about features, i would love to see a way to add pictures to a log, and a way to contact the CO (for earth caches, or maintanence issues etc.).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nerys71:
Oh yeah !! invoking the camera and uploading in real time (with a note that it might not be a good idea to REVEAL the cache location in the picture and spoil the "fun of the hunt" for others. but yeah that would be awesome !!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shaggyguitarist:
I hope Tom and his family are safe, after events in Japan. Horrifying scenes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
Ditto

Tom I hope all is well?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jake Bullit:
Yes I was just thinking the same.Tom`s caches appear to be to the east of Tokyo.

Hope you are safe Tom,and I think we are all thinking about you and your fellow countrymen after the terrible events of the last week.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Marco42:
Hi,

sorry for the question, but is it posible to get the source to port it to WP7?

Or is this still planet?

King Regards

M
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Thoughts, and best wishes to Tom and his family and friends. Hope you are all doing well!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piccolino76:
Hi Tom, I hope you with family and friends are doing well!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AgenteAlves:
Me too......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] scottiefilm:
...think of you !

Best wishes from Germany
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] equo:
All good thoughts and best wishes...

Dear Tom,

- I want to send You all the best thoughts and wishes for You and Your family from Germany... I hope You all are fine...

Regards,

equo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ego-sum:
Second that - We all wish for the best!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jenda.69:
Thanks for really great application and I hope too that you and your family and friends are all right.

I want to ask one question...

I'm making simple standalone offline map application which uses GCzII's cachelists and cache DB and displays caches from selected list on (downloaded) Google map. (screenshot)

Is there some command to run or switch to GCzII with specific cache opened? (I mean in my app I click on cache GCxxxxx and it starts GCzII showing GCxxxxx cache details...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsa_sailor:
That would be great in GCzII as well! From the Google Maps screen showing the caches clicking them opens the cache description in GCzII.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bcwatson:
Need help to get latest version

I haven't used GCzII for a while but brought it up the other day and it wouldn't work. I think I'm using a very old version. But I'm not sure which version to get or how to install it.

The number I think is the version is in the lower, left corner of the screen and is 0.2.35.39.

My phone is the Samsung Omnia II and uses Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. It uses a touch screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
the current version is 0.2.35.71. Update you version should fix your problems.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Does anyone remember the link for Tom's blog? Maybe he has posted there. It shure would be nice to know he is all right!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
There is nothing on twitter, but I have sent him an email. I asked him to let us know that all was well. If he gets back to me I will let you all know here.

Gus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
Nothing on his Blog - http://tomhiro255.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

This may be another of his - http://mkawauchi.spaces.live.com/

I have found an address for him and it would appear he is in Tokyo and so may be okay
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Micha LNH HSV:
I configured a new, clean installation of 0.2.35.71 on WM6.5 HD2.

English Language setting on GC Homepage set and i´m no gc premium member.

I try to download caches and got the following errormessage:

[01_LoginAuth.html]
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Do you configure GCzII with your login name and password? It sounds like you are not successfully logging in to your account.

(Menu, Option, Login ID/Password)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Here is the blog I was thinking of

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Gzh/

There appears to be an entry from Monday the 14th of March. That is a good sign!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Micha LNH HSV:
This was my firt idea too.

I edit the login data 3 times, but no success.

Any other suggestion?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
Make sure that you have a good data connection. I have seen that error when trying to post a log in an area where my data connection is marginal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Micha LNH HSV:
\\EDIT

Very strange. I try to connect with GPRS, WLAN oder UMTS and all works fine again.

I only get this errormessage when i try to connect with Docking Station via USB Active Sync.

Logindata is 100% identical.

I the past i have never such problems connecting with Active Sync.

But it updated my system from WinXP 32 Active Sync to W7 64 and mobile device center.

OK i´ll update my gc data then via WLAN. Thanks for your help, this great tool and greetings from germany, hamburg.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
That entry is 14 Feb??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] immutability:
Looking at Tom's profile here on XDA, it says "Last Activity: Yesterday 03:08 PM" which gives me hope! I can imagine that he can't find the time to post on the internet these days... Hopefully he'll be able to give us an update soon.

I've been watching the situation in Japan very closely, and my thoughts are with all people affected. I hope the situation at the Fukushima power plant will get under control.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Andreha:
Hi Micha.

Sometime I got the same problem. I don't know exactly, whether it's directly related to a bad/non existing Dataconnection.

But sometimes deleting the 01_LoginAuth.html within the folder HTTP_Log helps. If not, you can try to delete all files within that folder.

Andre

P.S.. I hope Tom and his family are well, but i suppose he might have some other things in mind right now, different from geocaching and GCzII...

I think we all hope to see you back here within that thread, 'cause that would mean, life has become some kind of "normal" again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] scottiefilm:
I get the message if I was online on GC with my browser and try to download with my PDA. Perhapst that is the Problem........

greetings

Scottiefilm

p.s.: Hope too that Tom and his Family is well. Best wishes from here.......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
GSAK GPX Export

Hi everyone,

Sorry not been around but life kind of takes over sometimes. But I have been trying to keep up to date with things in this thread.

First things first, I would like to add my best wishes to Tom and his family and hope they are coping over there.

Now to a rather insignificant problem in the great scheme of things:

I know this was addressed before but I don't recall there being a solution, so I would like to raise it again. Apologies if it was solved but I can't find where it was discussed any more.

If I load a GPX file generated from a pocket query directly onto my HD2 from gc.com all is well. I can 'reload' all caches to populate the images and add user notes etc and I am ready to go.

However, if I generate a GPX fle of the same caches from GSAK (using the built in GPX export function), send that over to the phone then import it into GCzII, I can get the cache listings, but when I try and reload all caches to get the images etc, I am getting a 'cache not found' error message.

I would love this to work as I have caches in GSAK with corrected coordinates, plus it is a lot easier to generate a day's GPX file quickly in GSAK rather than setting up a PQ and waiting for the file to be generated.

While I can use the cache list that is generated from the GSAK GPX file, I can't get all the cache images, personal notes etc which now work really well in GCzII.

I know this is probably a GSAK issue rather than a GCzII issue but I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same problem and found a solution?

Thanks

Paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] McBeth:
Paulloft,

When you Export the GPX (in GSAK) change the GPX file Version to 1.0

Greetings,

McBeth (McBeth007)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
McBeth, you are a complete star, thank you. Works perfectly now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nebias:
It was great while it lasted BUT....

I've been dabbling with other packages :(

The major PLUS GCz has is the on-the-fly search, so I'll keep it AppToDate'd for that one reason.

But in every other respect CacheBox is my Fave App.

Data is stored in SQL. Fast, compact and brilliant for searching and filtering.

The Mapping is just like the Geocaching Map, PERFECT.

Map tiles are cached too.

It also has Radar and Compass...

It even plots a course to the next cache or WP.

It Logs to UserNotes, just upload them.

Remember, oranges are not the ONLY fruit.

TTFN

PS Best Wishes to Tom...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ladroege:
Thanks for your comment, I just checked it out:

No support for WinMobile Standard.

Needs premium membership at GC.com.

=> Not suitable for MY needs...

PS: As I have not posted since: Best wishes to Tom, his family and friends!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jenda.69:
Hello again! :-)

I made simple application for preparing cachelists for GCzII in PC.

You just put geocache codes in it and it generates cachelist which can be opened in GCzII. Then you just have to download caches details in GCzII and go hunting :-)

If you fill login in this app, you can also sort caches in list by distance in GCzII.

Hope you'll like it.

http://geosheep.4fan.cz/en/GCzII-CL-Downloader/download/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
That's not only a plus. That's a function that makes GCzII so special compared to other WM GC software.

SQL is fine. But GCzII has also spoiler- and user-pics. Also pictures that are within the description. You don't have that within a GPX file. That's the only thing that GCzII doesn't have (UserNotes = Fieldnotes, plots are also on the maps, ...) ... and that's because of a good reason :-)

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AngusCS:
No way. GCz II all the way.

However if you like CacheBox then you should try GeoScout http://eastlands.dyndns.org/default.htm?geoscout

I much prefer GCz II over any of the purely offline caching tools. I need to be able to stop somewhere on the road and know that I can download the caches near to me and just do a couple because I have a spare half hour.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dagmentar:
Hello,

Sorry for my bad english but I have a small problem with 3G internet access.

I have a proxy HTTP and SFR (french telecom) have added a filter to User-Agent ... can you add for example a value in Register to change the user-agent that you use.

Thanks for your good job, Dag.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psycho667:
Hi there!

I´ve been using GCzII for quite a while now ( over a year, actually ). What is bugging me a bit is the fact, that all the XMLs generated by the tool have a strange non-printable character between every regular character. When I try to edit a file and forget to put in one of those chars, GCzII can´t read the XML anymore.

I´ll post a screenshot of TextMate, one of the few editors showing those strange chars.

Why is GCzII doing this and is there a way to edit XMLs with comfort?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
You're text editor doesn't show the contents of every 2nd byte, but since it displays as a blank, it's probably x00 (hex 00). More than likely, the file is written in unicode, which uses two bytes for each character. Since Tom is Japanese and the tool is multi-lingual, this wouldn't be surprising. (This is just a guess . . . I haven't looked at one of the xml files to confirm.) Some languages, such as Japanese, require two bytes. Others, such as English, only require one, so every 2nd byte is a null character.

I don't know if TextMate supports Unicode, but if it does, try it in that mode. Other than that, you'll just have to remember to keep padding your entries or find a text editor that supports unicode.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jenda.69:
I'm using PSpad, and it opens it corretly using UTF-16 LE encoding (= Unicode).

But it doesn't recognize this encoding automatically...

BTW GCzII cachelists display correctly in Windows Notepad.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
I think that Psycho is on a Mac, because TextMate is an OSX app. Psycho, maybe try the text editor bundled with OSX?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] runehl:
Sorting in GCZII

After upgrading to 0.2.35.71 the Sort By\Distance from does not show the distance to the caches nor the direction in the sorted list.