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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Crescendo Xenomorph:
First of all, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for developing this very useful program... ^^

Now my Omnia II become the best navi devices for me, all thanks to you Mach2003... ^^

I'm using the latest beta here (v3.5.8)... Garmin and iGO Primo (update 15 Feb) is all OK without major problem... Only sometimes the GPS signal is hard to lock inside my car (maybe due to my very dark titanium filmscreen on my windshields. Outside my car is working VERY AWESOME.

Recently I use Sygic Mobile Maps 10. The position I'm in is jumping randomly. (I never use the "keep fix" feature, so it's disabled as cell triangulation in my area isn't very useful). The major problem when using Sygic is the speed always zero no matter what. Only when I'm accessing direct comm port (COM7), the speed is OK.

I'm using Omnia II i8000 international version with WM6.5 (based on JG1 ROM with Omnia II Giorgio Armani and T*Omnia2 M715 programs).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I could not find Sygic Mobile Maps for WinMo to check on it. Can you send me an expanded log file set created while using this app?

Keep Fix is used for two different reasons: The primary use is to keep the fix alive when your actual GPS drops fix. As a secondary use, it is used to determine the max time a cell location is presented while waiting for first fix.

Cell tower location in ModDriver does not use triangulation, it does use the internet lookup for the current tower, but more inportantly it tracks actual GPS position and attaches that position to the tower location instead. So with cell service active, you get your last known actual location for that tower. This gives yout GPS application instant location when first starting up and waiting for true fix.

To disable cell tower location, disable cell service on the extras page, and use keep fix for its primary purpose.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
Hello Mach2003

With 3.5.8 i have problem

I cant get Gps Signal

I can see for example 7 sattelites with good signal but it cant get position.....

I think with 3.5.7 i had not this problem ....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
If you see sats with signal strength, then you only have to WAIT longer for lock.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
i wait for about 30 min ???

You think that i have to wait longer ????

I dont think so
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
try soft reset, and make sure you have phone functioning (can get/make a phone call) so that you are connected to the cell phone network, and that you are not plugged into the PC at the time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
I have all this

I had try soft reset and i have phone function
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] majin:
Hello, Match2003.

Thanks for your great job.

I saw you produced many new versions of GPSModDriver! The last is 3.5.8!

I saw also you have a Samsung Omnia II. Wich release do you suggest to use on OmniaPRO WM6.1?

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Try the 3.5.8 beta, it has not seen many complaints here...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] majin:
Thnak you for your aswer.

Beta? Do you mean the one in this post?

2271

Two things more:

Do you know if there is some problem with battery life using GpsModDriver? (It seems that the phone is very hot, even if tom tom is off).

After installing the GpsModDriver, can you suggest me the right settings for OmniaPRO for GPS (SW port, HW port, baud) and Tom Tom (baud).

Thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
yes that post.

Nothing ModDriver is doing should effect battery when no application is using GPS, and even then GPS hardware is the hog, not ModDriver.

I don't know anything about the com port defaults on OmniaPro, so leave them alone (including the External GPS control panel). ModDriver will use MSAPI for input, so External GPS baud will make no difference. Use ModDriver's port (as noted on install) in TomTom, baud = 115200, or use GPS Intermediate Driver if you can.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RoryB:
I had to reflash my ROM. Started fresh with 3.5.8 and I noticed when it starts the screen turns white and stays that way for a while before showing the text. If I tap the screen to the tower image and tap back it shows quicker. Should I uninstall and try again?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I don't think the new flash has much to do with it. Blank background shows while waiting for the first GPS message to arrive. Since yoy have a fresh flash, no cell tower information is current, and there is no last known position to show.

Make sure the ports page is correct, leave mod settings running until you get a good fix, and then do a soft reset to see if the problem goes away.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nicfio:
Wrong time of day

Hi all,

after using gpsmoddriver with iGO8 my HD2 time of the day gets wrong. Any solution? Thanks many!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RoryB:
A soft reset fixed it. I thought I had already done one before I commented.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Make sure your time zone is set correctly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bobzero:
I had this issue last week. It occurred immediately after I flashed the phone radio firmware. Everytime I would open a program that initialized the GPS, my omnia 2 would set it's date ahead 4 hours, back a few days, back 3 months, and ahead to the year 2016! Even after a hard reset it was still doing it. After giving it the night off, it worked fine in the morning. I was thinking that maybe the GPS chipset's internal memory had somehow been fed bad data and thus how it was able to survive the hard reset. Or else maybe it was being fed bad SUPL info by my carrier's server...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bartvdv:
Even while I turned off all logging i keep getting files in GPSLOG directory ...

Some were even over 45MB filled with NMEA data as I kept Igo standby for a day

can I turn this off and how ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bajok!:
EXT Package

@mach2003

...i've been using GPSMod 3.5.8 for the past 3 days and I would say a great piece of work, better than 320. Thank you very much for this. I'm just wondering if i could include this on my personal ROM, and if you'll permit, can you provide an ext packages for this? I tried to create one but my anti virus always pop-up a message: The files are signed with an untrusted certificate. Should I signed it again, but afraid something might went wrong if I do this....:)

...again thank you....!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
After you disable logging, soft reset to make sure all drivers get the "logging off" setting.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I am going to make a EXT and OEM package for 3.5 real soon.

The certificate that the drivers are signed with will be untrusted on your PC, since it is not a publicly tracable certificate (i did not pay the $300/year). If you re-sign everything with "your" certificate, then you'll have to also place that cert in the devices trusted chain. If your anti-virus will ignore the "untrusted" status, that would be the best.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lexuse2000:
Confirm the similar issue - yesterday the date was suddenly changed to 11.01.2036 after getting fix by GPSModDriver 3.5.8...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bajok!:
...wow, that's great! thanks very much....:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
If someone can capture a log set when the date gets changed, and send it to me, that would be helpfull.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Skyguar:
That would be great! Thanks for your work very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RoryB:
I have been doing some other things which included removing Gyrator2. This caused automatic profile switching to no longer work. When I manually change profile by opening it up and saving it, the letter "g" gets dropped off. The only way to get it back is edit the registry.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] earthborne:
Help needed on GPS Drivers

Hi Folks, I had installed GPS Mod Driver 3.4.3 on my Samsung Omnia 2 (I8000). Firstly I must say my Omnia 2 GPS tracking improved dramatically on garmin XT after installing GPSModDriver 3.4.3, however I not sure if I configured it the best COM port options with it. I am confused abt the COM port settings to use for optimised satellite tracking response for Garmin XT.

The GPS Mod Driver 3.4.3 was automatically installed to COM2 on my phone. Default GPS com port for program to use is COM7.

I have to switched to COM2 for program in my phone setting before I can set my garmin to use COM2. However it always bounce back to COM7 after awhile. Also when I launched the GPSModSetup application, I had to use COM7, if not it cannot locate satellite. When using COM7, the GPSModSetup will show saltellites under profile of: Mod COM7, is this normal?:confused:

Another query is on the default PORT setup in the GPSModSetup application menu which showed External GPS COM ports/priority checked for MSAPI-1, COM7-2. I cannot check COM2 (both Enable & Fix check boxes) OR change it's priority setting of 99 and save the new settings. It was always unchecked itself for COM2 "Enable" box but leaving the "Fix" box checked with priority setting at default of 99. Why is this so, it this normal? Does it mean that the GPSMod driver is not being used or enabled then?:confused:

I'm really don't understand what is the difference between COM7 used by internal GPS device, COM2 assigned to GPSModDriver and the Intermediate GPS Driver. :o I read here that for Garmin XT COM port switching issue was resolved by using Intermediate GPS Driver--Can anyone explain what does it means and when Garmin XT is setup with Intermediate GPS Driver, which COM port is it communicating with (I guess it's COM7) and whether the benefits of GPSModDriver is being used then. What's the point of installing GPSModDriver?

Also I noticed when i launch GPSModSetup application, it stays in the background even after exiting the software and it really drains my battery. I observed that the GPSModSetup.exe is still running on my phone. So I suspect the GPS is somehow still ON. Again, is this normal:confused:

Lastly, after installing the GPSModDriver, the Nogarder application cannot track satellite anymore (regardless of COM port setup used) although the menu options are still accessible.--anyone encounter this?

Appreciate your input. Thx a million.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I noticed that the field is un-intentionally one byte shorter as well. I have not had a chance to look into it yet though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Firstly, do not change the GPS control panel port, leave it at the default (COM7).

ModDriver will pass modified data on to any application that reads COM2, or GPS Intermediate driver (this is a software API, that does NOT use a com port at all). MSAPI is actually the same api, but I have a stub installed on your phone to pass these input calls on to the actual device driver. MSAPI as input, and GpsIntermediateDriver (still actually MicroSoft Application Program Interface) as output are the most efficient combination to use.

You can not set ModDriver to read itself for GPS data: The ports page of mod settings is for configuring the INPUT data to mod driver. You can't set COM2 there since it is ModDriver's output port to your application. The default of MSAPI, and then COM7 is best, unless you also have another GPS input (such as bluetooth).

Use Mod Settings EXIT button, not the "close" X and it will shut down after the (default=15 seconds) keep alive delay.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] earthborne:
Thx! Your reply is very helpful.

So to confirm, my configuration to use GPSIntermediateDriver is the correct option to use then (with default GPS program com port at COM7)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 1milenia:
i have a tmobile touch pro 2 gsm

and want to install this mod

i have nrgs latest rom and my port is com3

i have garman xt

what settings should i use

or is there a cab
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] skurakai:
Cell tower

Hi,

i dont understand why, but GPS mod driver doesnt work. No fix, no location due Cell Tower if GPS signal lost, ... nothing.

I try change settings, change ports in applications, try other version of GPS Mod Driver but nothing helps me.

I'am sure that some previous version of GPS Mod Driver work on my device fine.

HTC Tytn II, WM 6.5, integrate GPS, GPS application (navigation): SmartMaps, PocketDrake, version of GPS Mpd Driver 3.4.3 on internal memory of device.

Maybe some problem in setting? If need i can send screenshot of settings.

Thanks for help

skurakai
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RoryB:
First, so we understand better.

Does GPSModSettings start and show fix on one sat?

Then after a period of time does it show:

No FIX?

Fix on 0 of some sats?

Or are you saying that you get a fix on sats and after some time you lose that fix?

GPSMod gives you a fix when it starts based on the last fix you had at the current cell tower or the cell tower's known location. After the timeout it switches over to GPS sats. I do not think it switches back to cell tower based fix if you lose track of the sats.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gadgetuk437:
Humble Request

(To OP)

Please post new betas in the first post and update the thread title.

I apologise for not following this thread with the assiduity it deserves!

(a link to the current page is handy too)

Feel free to ignore me :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Skyguar:
Hello Mach2003,

You have promised the EXT package... :o. Just to remind... If you have some time, some day... ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
Hello Mach2003

I cant use the 3.5.8 because i can see the satellites but it cant lock position and i use the 3.5.7 but i have problem because when i close the Gps program ( Igo or Destnator) and i open it after (for example 1 hour) it cant lock position. I have to soft reset the omnia .

Can you help me ????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Larry Brent:
Hi,

with the newest beta version i had really big problems on my holliday journey.

In the middle of the way after about 1000 km i had to switch back to the internal com port, because my O2 shows very strange behaviour. For 3 times iGO closed suddenly, without reason. Last time it closes iGO and the time/date seems to be at 1.30 PM and date something in year 2036. That was really a bad thing, because no more routing while driving, had to go to a parking place and repair it. On the following 1000 km there where no problem with iGO (and the internal com port). Only the height display is wrong (but that's the reason for me using the moddriver).

Another thing is, while crossing tunnels the moddriver switches off GPS after 10 seconds and the routing arrow in iGO is greyed out. With internal port without gpsmoddriver, the routing arrow goes on in tunnels, does "simulating" the routing.

greetings from spain

Larry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wandel:
Is there any help or explanation for Mod Driver?.. especialy for screen rotation

I have htc hd2.

When I make screen rotation(90 degree left - Landscape) all my gps applications show me wrong compass direction(90 degree right).

Is there any way to repair it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ndiqbal:
Super! using the 3.5.8 on my HTC HD (Blackstone) excellent. Tomtom lost GPS, I had to re-store the O\S thios worked after installing a few apps. then GPS is lost, but with this app. Its great.

Thanks a million
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] majin:
After installing Google Maps and trying to make it work on my Samsung OmniaPro GT-B710 (I already had TomTom and GPSModDriver 3.5.8 working fine), my device got crashed (the GPS Hardware was not detected anymore!) and I was obliged to make an Hard Reset.

After the hard reset, I tested a dated GPSModDriver version (maybe 3.1).

It set the default GPS COM port for programs on COM2.

Then I installed TomTom (set on GPSModDriver) and Google Maps (set on COM2).

Bot were working fine, even at same time!

Does the last versione 3.5.8 of GPSModDriver make the same?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Use Gps Intermediate Driver on Garmin Mobile XT, any COM port selection always reverts to the internal Com port. GPSID is using ModDriver, It uses NO COM port, it is an API. ModDriver uses MSAPI (same thing as GPSID) by default, that also does not use a COM port. ModDriver installs a special copy of gpsid.dll that patches into ModDriver's data.

ALL versions of MoidDriver will use the same port assignments. (Sonce 1.x beta's anyways).

I use the latest beta with my OmniaII all the time, I am not seeing any of the reported problems, but then I also use the installer's default settings. I have seen the msapi port return no sats for some time, and have had to SR to get them back, but that has been VERY RARE.

I can't see any reason ModDriver would crash hardware GPS requiring a Hard Reset, soft reset at best should have fixed it.

Yes I did promise an EXT and OEM copy, now that I am home again for a while I'll get working on it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] majin:
Sorry Mach2003. I didn’t want to hurt you.

I don’t know very well about APIs, MSAPIs, GPSID. So, excuse me.

I just try to say what happened.

After the GPS was not able to fix anymore, I tried to change some settings in both in Win Mobile, and in GPSModDriver. No solution at that point. So I tried to uninstall/install several times GPSModDriver. No way to uninstall it completely.

At the end, the GPS (hardware) was not detected anymore (seeing at the function *#1472364#).

After the Hard Reset, every thing works fine with the last beta of GPSModDriver.

The strange thing is this: to let Google Maps getting a fix, I need to launch Tom Tom before. After Tom Tom gets his Fix, Google Maps at same time gets Fix too.

That’s it.

Thank you for your great work.

You have a great knowledge about this facts and you have Samsung too, so let me ask you. How can I know (in the registry keys settings) which are the COM ports involved in Data Connection, ActiveSync, and Wi-Fi? Is it possible that they have a conflict with the GPS standard COM port for Samsung (generally COM7/4/8)?

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I am not offended or hurt, no problem here.

Please tell me what portion was left installed, my un-installer should be "flawless" now ;)

I don't know that short code, on my device it reports waiting, and then failed.

What port are you using for Google Maps and TomTom? Is it the ModDriver's Output port?

Use your favorite Registry editor, search for the string "COM", without quotes. Pay attention to HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn and it's sub-keys. Look for the value "Index" within the same key, this is the com port number. There are other places too look as well.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Serial0]
"Prefix"="COM"
"Index"=dword:3
"FriendlyName"="Serial for Modem"
"Dll"="bt_serial.dll"

So Serial0 (Serial for Modem) device is on COM3, using Bluetooth Serial driver.

If there is no index value for that key, then Windows assigns the first un-used device starting at 1 through 9. Nore that index 0 is valid and a device can use COM0 (I assign the USB sync port to it).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I know I posted this before in this thread but here it goes again.

For my OmniaII (B8000) I rearrange my COM ports by using this registry file (when I build the rom, but one could just import it and soft reset).

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\IrDA]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Irsir]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\IrCOMM]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\IrCOMM\Unimodem]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ExtModems\GenericInfraredModem]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Serial0]
"SysIntr"=dword:00000017
"DevConfig"=hex:10,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,10,01,00,00,00,4B,00,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,00,00,00
"IClass"="{CC5195AC-BA49-48a0-BE17-DF6D1B0173DD}"
"Tsp"="unimodem.dll"
"FriendlyName"="Serial for Modem"
"DeviceType"=dword:00000000
"Port"="COM3:"
"Priority256"=dword:0000009F
"Order"=dword:00000001
"Dll"="bt_serial.dll"
"Index"=dword:00000003
"Prefix"="COM"
"ISTTimeouts"=dword:00000200
"InterruptBitsShift"=dword:00000001
"MemLen"=dword:0000003C
"MemBase"=dword:7F005000
"Irq"=dword:0000003D
"DeviceArrayIndex"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Serial1]
"SysIntr"=dword:00000019
"DevConfig"=hex:10,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,10,01,00,00,00,4B,00,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,00,00,00
"IClass"="{CC5195AC-BA49-48a0-BE17-DF6D1B0173DD}"
"Tsp"="unimodem.dll"
"FriendlyName"="Serial for Bluetooth"
"DeviceType"=dword:00000000
"Port"="COM5:"
"Priority256"=dword:00000068
"Order"=dword:00000001
"Dll"="bt_serial.dll"
"Index"=dword:00000005
"Prefix"="COM"
"ISTTimeouts"=dword:00000200
"InterruptBitsShift"=dword:00000001
"MemLen"=dword:0000003C
"MemBase"=dword:7F005400
"Irq"=dword:0000003E
"MaxRxQueue"=dword:00000001
"MaxTxQueue"=dword:00000001
"TxWaterMark"=dword:00000020
"RxWaterMark"=dword:00000020
"DeviceArrayIndex"=dword:00000001

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Serial2]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\Serial_Class]
"Index"=dword:00000000
"Prefix"="COM"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\VirtCOM]
"Dll"="rilgsm.dll"
"Index"=dword:00000009
"Order"=dword:00000002
"Prefix"="COM"

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\USBSER_Class]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\Serial\Ports]
"SupportedPorts"=multi_sz: "COM1",
"COM2",
"COM4",
"COM6"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Multiplexer]
"DriverInterface"="COM8:"
"MaxBufferSize"=dword:00000400

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Multiplexer\ActiveDevice]
"Index"=dword:00000008
"Prefix"="COM"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\ModDriver]
"Index"=dword:00000007
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Release Version 3.6.0 added to first post.

The only change from the last beta is a minor change to recover from the sudden loss of a BT com port.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
EXT_OEM

Here is a trial copy of the two styles of kitchen tools to build ModDriver into your ROM.

I have not tried to include it it my own rom yet, but it *Should* be fine, try it and report if there are any issues.

Be sure to read the Chef's Guide and configure the system to your device before building into your rom. (You can always copy the values from an installed version first).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bajok!:
...thank you very much Mach2003 for the EXT. But there is a little bit of error in the package, you have to edit "GPSMod Setup.lnk" file using any text editor; change \Windows\GpsModSetup.exe to \Windows\GpsModSettings.exe. I also edited the registry according to my previous setup... everything works fine now...!:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wandel:
Dear Mach2003

I ask one more time:

Is there any help or explanation for Mod Driver?.. especialy for screen rotation

I have htc hd2.

When I make screen rotation(90 degree left - Landscape) all my gps applications show me wrong compass direction(90 degree right).

Is there any way to repair it?

Could you give an answer?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Change the landscape ange on the sensors page under Magnetic Declination, add or subtract 90 degrees.

The first post has most of the instructions.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wandel:
In LLand mode, Landscape for Oziexplorer(270 degrees) - compass in Oziexplorer lock(no moving at all)

In Flat mode but Landscape for Oziexplorer(270 degrees) - 90 degrees error.

What is wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lcd4linux:
@ mach2003

Thank you for the packages, i can second that about the .lnk. Also I've to convert the .rgu to UNICODE to match with my kitchen.

lcd4linux
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Your compass is in the "top" of the unt and facing away, if you have landscape and flat it will never work as desired. Hold it at an angle, about 45 degrees.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Both comments noted and fixed here for the next iteration. I can't remember if the EXT package "app.reg" has to be unicode or not?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lcd4linux:
I use OSBuilder from Barin, btw a great kitchen, wich only support unicode for reg-Files. I think for other kitchens it's egal.

lcd4linux