yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bright.Light:
Thank you for this.

I made the registry string value HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome\Utility\Page7\ActionUrl and filled it with "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GpsModSetup.lnk". I also created string value HKLM\Software\Mach2003\CellTower\text2 and filled it with 'idle'.

Tried several times with reset, but it just won't work. The text2 always stays at "idle".

btw: I did not have the Microsoft entry. It only came to this: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome so had to create Utility\Page7\ActionUrl

Why would you check for the ActionUrl anyway? (I don't think the entry is ok, since the link could be anything...) You could just check the entry of Text2. When it exists, then update it.

Also, I would like to have a registry entry not in text, but numeric. So 0=idle (sleeping), 1=Active (MsApi), 2=Active (Com), etc.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RoryB:
Another update

So I ran Bing last night and this morning with GPSMod removed. I only had rerouting one time. It was at a hard left turn at speed that I powered out of. So it seems I got fewer rerouting notices without GPSMod. My suspicion is that the lag without GPSMod is actually helping me avoid rerouting notifications. I suspect with GPSMod my position is getting guessed instead of left where it was last and as a result I end up off the trail of the course set by Bing.

Any other suggestions?

Please spell out what settings to try, I am not sure I understood your previous recommendation of uncheck this or that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
The speed is interted to solve the issue below, (compass not working...)

Menu, Compass: Compass Speed; default = 2.5 kph.

Try increasing the above value until it works, 25 works for Garmin Mobile XT on my machine.

I attached a reg file to this post, import it (just remove the last ".txt" portion).

I check ActionUrl, becaise page7 can be used for another application on some user's phones. All Utility pages contain "TEXT2".

I gave you this regy, since it is working now, I might consider adding the values you want in another build.

menu,ports: You have msapi and COM4 with checked boxes, there are also checks under the FIX column. Remove the checks under FIX, this disables ModDriver from doing any projections.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bright.Light:
Thanks. I put TEXT2 in the wrong location (not in Page7\..., but in Mach2003\...)

It would be great to have the values so we can have our own text based on those! (I've got a Dutch screen, now with 'driving - sleeping' in it.

btw: it is dangerous to sleep while driving :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] strobs:
GPS hardware problem or maybe wrong positioning

Hi guys. I have the following problem. The GPS is working but is saying always low signal. I sent him to repair the earphone and since then is always saying that. I am thinking that is something covering the GPS which makes him with low sign or maybe recalibrete the GPS position. I have already hardreset it / have installed "Mylocation" giving locations. I have installed mod driver. Nothing makes him to get alive. I think the GPS is alive but seems no connect to any satellite. Yesterday using Ndrive I got a sattelite. This is driving me crazy.

Any help please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fullagon:
Hi guys sorry if this question has been answered already but this thread is getting large. Love this driver for my Omnia 2 but only problem I have is when indoors (no clear sky view) the driver uses cell tower location (as it should) but after a while of trying to get a signal which it cant indoors the position changes to 0.000000N and 0.000000E how do I make it stay on using the cell tower as location until I get a real fix when im outside intead of reverting to the 0.000000 co-ordinates.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
If I want to cook gps mod in a custom rom for myself, what do I have to take care of building an oem package?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotsync100:
Hi Mach2003, I installed GpsModDriver_320.CAB in "My Device" (Omnia II -I8000), and according with your first post, I didn't install QueStub, because now is supported in 3.20 version (I'm using Garmin)

But, each time I've changed the port to "COM2: GpsModDriver", Garmin refuses to do it, and reverts the port COM7...

Do I have to do anything else to configure GpsModDriver and Garmin ?

Do I have to Install QueStub ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thunder141:
I clicked on the sat strength view, deaktivated gps activated it for "GPS Intermediate" and now my garmin uses the gps-mod port.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Xfantasy:
How to turn off the GSM location? GoogleMaps to find the location more precisely than ModDriver, in the tunnel ModDriver doing mischief. Otherwise, acceleration is great, so I just switch off GSM location.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotsync100:
Thats what I've been doing, but Garmin reverts to port COM7...

did you install QueStub ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I don't install ModDriver as an OEM even in my own rom's (it still changes too often). But if you really want to, then let me know, and I'll prepare one for you. There are a number of functions in the cab's setup.dll that will have to be emulated in the OEM pack.

On the extras page, uncheck Enable Cell Service, or to perminatly remove cell service, click the big "Kill feature Remove Service" button at the bottom of that page.

Don't install QueStub, but in Garmin select "Gps Intermediate Driver" as the source, do NOT select "Use Serial GPS", if you have a port selected, then "disable" so that you can select GPSID.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nunein:
Hi Mach2003 - many thanks for this great app!

(it solved the biggest pain in the a** caused by my Topaz)

I'm using iGO8 and I've got some trouble with the tunnel simulation: when I'm driving into a tunnel first everything's like it should be (moving on with constant speed). But as it seems always after a certain time of losing GPS fix (respectively entering the tunnel) the GPS position is jumping out of the tunnel and I'm in the middle of nowhere (until leaving the tunnel). There are no problems with driving through a short tunnel.

Probably Xfantasy is having the same trouble:

Originally Posted by Xfantasy

How to turn off the GSM location? GoogleMaps to find the location more precisely than ModDriver, in the tunnel ModDriver doing mischief. Otherwise, acceleration is great, so I just switch off GSM location.

You answered:

On the extras page, uncheck Enable Cell Service, or to perminatly remove cell service, click the big "Kill feature Remove Service" button at the bottom of that page.

I've suspected that my issues are caused by the cell service, too. But even after removing the service there's still the same issue.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Even without cell service enabled, ModDriver will use last known GPS position, or return "lost fix" after some time (I remember 60 seconds off the top of my head), so if the tunnel is more that a minute long, your position will be screwed. I hesitate to extend the time limit: first the tunnel must be straight, your speed must be consistant, and the tunnel must be long. Also the time extension would effect all loss of fix, since I don't actually know you are in a tunnel... As it is, I hate the minute delay when I lose fix in a mountain pass, since I get a projection on the same course and speed, leaving me off on the top of a mountain (curved roads they are).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Xfantasy:
Yes. I got the same problem. When the tunnel was long, lost GPS, GSM and throw me around on the surface.

In addition, but also through the application GoogelMaps GPSModDriver position is very imprecise (as satellites to lose), and about 3km. G. Maps itself according to the BTS location determined very precisely
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
i have the same problem on omnia II
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cybermaus:
I'm happy you are of a similar opinion. I like the GPSMod app for its original function of lag-preempt, and some of the new functions are nice too, like the speed correction, course correction, altitude correction. I also love the fact you keep the GPS chip active for a few seconds while swapping applications.

But the hugely imprecise cell-position, the hiding of lost fix, and even the fake/remembered immediate fix when turned on.... Well I think they are causing more problems and confusion than they are helping. I wonder if you should not consider them interesting programming experiments of past time, and turn them off by default.

Because, lets face it: people are now getting the rather over-the-top expectation that if they are in a tunnel for over a minute, you should still be able to tell the position.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I like the immediate fix so that when I do a position search (in cachemate) I get a quick sorted result of the closest caches to me, in this case the GPS never even gets powered up. Cell tower position aids in this too, since I may want to get a resonable instant fix, even when I have not used the GPS in some time (and distance).

You can disable cell tower (even uninstall that feature).

I'll think about allowing a setting for teh length of time a loss of fix can be simulated, that should make you happy too (set it to a very low time).

:):):) Fifty miles of a curved tunnel, why does it not get good GPS? :):):)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nunein:
Such a setting would be much appreciated - let's give it a try.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
Mach2003

Hello

what do you thing about QuickGps on HTCs ????

Can you mode something like this on your program ???

I think the problem with samsung and the late Gps Fix is that they cant see where is the satellites in the exact time . Can you fix something that can do this for samsung ???

i know that the QuickGps download the ephemeris of satellites

sorry for my English
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aaa408:
there is something similar to quick gps in samsung called xtra data download as i remeber.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
I know that my friend

but when i use it it always connect to the INTERNET and i dont want this ...

Whit QuickGps you can download the ephemeris of satellite only every 7 days and you dont have to connect to internet always

the other resson is that i cant see any change if i use the xtra of samsung
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blade4006:
Hi Mach2003. First of all bilions thanks! I have Samsung Omnia 2 and no mather what,it was imposible to get sat signal with my Tom Tom. After instaling GpsModDriver 320 driving (i love this phone but someday i will surely crash becose of it) i started Tom Tom app choised gpsmoddriver and LOOOOOL....what just hapend? I heard a short beep an then "Turn left here"! Oh miracle, oh my god i can't believe this! No waiting time not even a second! Instantly GPS Fix! I tested it in a middle Madrid and its working just grest. But...(why always there is one but....:) ) here become my problem: after closing my Tom Tom i notice that i stell hear sometimes the beep. Not so big problem there is a option "no sound", but (again :)) after some time ( i don't know how long) GpsModDriver get "desactivated". What i mean? Tom Tom can not see it, if i start GpsModSetup i only see Driver Version 3.19 and Profile: Driving. I tryed everything (i think) but i cannot reactivate it. Only uninstall reinstall work. Its there a metod to start/stop it? Why this hapend? What i'm doing wrong? Any help is welcome here becose the driver itself work realy awesome.

P.S. I apologise for my realy noob english i hope its not so hard to understand me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
XTRA or agps on Samsung is the same as Quick GPS, if you rom has exta properly installed, then you can select it for active sync only.

And no I have no plans to include download of sat position data in mod driver. Loading it back into the GPS chip is far too dependant on the GPS device installed on the phone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Billions of your welcome's.

Driver has a setting. menu, system: Keep Alive to allow it to operate for some number of milli-seconds after your app closes, in case you want to open another app soon. If you want the GPS turned off right away, reduce this value.

Did I ever say install to "DEVICE", and not to "My storage", not to "external storage"????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blade4006:
Hi again Mach2003. Thanks for you fast answer. I changed this setings and now the driver stop faster. Only one thing: i asume that the next time i start Tom Tom the driver must load automatic and get working right? But sometimes it's not. Just desapeared from the list of ports in the Tom Tom setings.... I dont know what caused this. I have instaled the driver in My Device ofcours. Any ideas? I notice that this hapens not all the time, yesterday for example no problem at all but this morning i chek again and again the same: no GpsModDriver in the list of ports of Tom Tom and i havend to reinstall it to make it work. Weird ....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] remx:
this mod compatible with T5388++ ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mitsos:
Happend to me also once what Blade4006 said on his last message. I installed GpsModDriver_320 on device memory of my htc hd2, worked like a charm, and then, after a while, and a little playing with tomtom and igo primo, all of a sudden, disappeared from the programms list. Even changed the background foto of the programms list. I run Artemis HD2 ROM Family Ver 36.0 Gen III, WM 6.5.5 Professional COM5 Build 23579.

Then i reinstall the cab file and is working again. Instant fix, even indoors, through gsm signal. Funny to see how far sometimes from the real possition the driver thinks i am, but when i get near the window, finds instantly a lot of satellites and the fix is very accurate. Outdoors, works perfect with stabe and strong signal. My comment: Great application and very usefull... Big thanks to Mach2003 :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blade4006:
The things get worst for me today. I start Tom Tom, first everything was fine until the GpsModDriver got a sat signal......after that my Phone got like overloaded, everything go slow but i can hear the voice of Tom Tom "Turn Left Here" so its working, but i can't see anything, becose of big lag. I'm so disapointed i duno what to du. I tryed to install iGo 8 and its work without any problem, without GpsModDriver, but there is no POI like the ones in Tom Tom..... Anyone with similare problem? I accept any advice that may help.......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] istman:
Sprint Navigation v2.1 WM 6.5 OEM

Hello, and thanks for the driver. This may help with GPS lag for TomTom Navigator but I kinda like Sprint Navigation (it's included in my package, always current maps, traffic, etc). I installed this driver and now Sprint Navigation cannot get a GPS lock. I read through most of these pages of the extremely long thread and so far it appears there is no solution. Is this correct? Is there something I could provide from the Sprint firmware which would assist you in resolving any issue?

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andrusha7778:
Hi all. Today i decide to install this GPModDriver to my Touch Pho 2 with latest official russian rom with latest radio (4.49.25.91).

Some days ago, i have enabled a-gps on device and connect it to nokia server - supl.nokia.com

It was working perfect - short sats fix even indoor, but it uses traffic.

I installed this cab version 3.20 it says me to use com3 port in navi soft. Ok, then device rebooted. I start navi soft, change com port to 3 and have no luck - it can't fix to sats near window, it finds 1 or 2 sats but can't lock them. A-gps was enabled all the time. So idecide to remove the driver - but i can't! I run killdriver.exe several times, with softresets but no luck! GPSModsetup and gpsmoddriver.dll are still present in /windows

any ideas? Maybe i can delete them manually? So i tried with no luck - file in use.

Thanx a lot anyway.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
Hellooooo Mach2003

can i ask ???

When i use the original com port on my Navigation program i can see 8 satellites , i close the program and i open it with Mod Driver com port and i can see only 3 or 4

why it doing that ???

Please can you tell me if i can fix this ????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ThisIsOliver:
Driving fast with your driver...

Hi Mach2003,

your driver seems to be a great effort to stability of my setup with an external WBT-202 GPS-logger. Always had some trouble with my sports-logging software and connection via com-port or windows-managed or whatever combination. If BT get's lost for some reason, it did not reconnect reliably, if BT-logger is switched off before leaving application it gets stuck and i needed a reboot.

So far, so good from the success-story now having a reliable "connection" with your driver. Congrats. But... yeah, you expected it ;) ... I use to drive fast sometimes traffic allows, and if I go > 200km/h I get a beep, if I look onto drivers console, there a in between 0 of 10 sats mentioned.

It seems that at high speed your driver "thinks" of having an unreliable signal, so what can I tune to have a bigger/smaller lag whatsoever?!

Thnx for any hints,

Oliver.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
I've been busy, sorry for the late answers...

If you can get me a copy of GPSAPI.DLL either as a module or a file.

You can also enable extended logging, and email a copy of the \mach2003 folder after running Sprint Nav. for a bit.

Standard windows un-install should work reliably now. Kill driver should also work every time??? Try SKtools.

I don't always show sats that have no signal, where sometimes other apps ahow them as "in view", but signal is 0. Have you tried using GPSID in your application?

I don't do anything different at high speed that I remember, but I might have put a trap in there indicating a speed that high was a bad reading. I'll look and see some time soon...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nakel:
:eek: I hope not! I use this in aircraft from time to time 500 mph plus...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ThisIsOliver:
Hehe ;)

So I'll wait and see :cool:

Oliver.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omek07:
I don't always show sats that have no signal, where sometimes other apps ahow them as "in view", but signal is 0. Have you tried using GPSID in your application?

Whats is that ???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
GPS Intermediate Driver, the M$ api for reading GPS data, uses GpsGetPosition() calls and simular. If you app supports it, that is.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nakel:
Checked it out at 550 mph today. Worked fine, locked on quick for that speed.

One problem, similar to what I was having with a AT&T Tilt 2. I have an HD2 now... Every time I lose GPS lock, I get a position many thousands of miles from where I really am. Usually it goes to 0 degrrees north and 0 degrees east, but not always. Sometimes it shows me in the North sea, sometimes in South America. Kind of disconcerting when you go through a tunnel. :D This happens EVERY time I lose GPS position.

HD2

Artemis 37.0 Rom

2.15.50.14 radio

2.08 HSPL

GpsMod 3.20

Garmin XT 5.0.20
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ThisIsOliver:
Mhmmm...

... only got up to 225km/h ( ~140mph), so you win :D

Well re-check my GPS-logger for some clues.

Reg's,

Oliver.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
Um... I was sure I fixed that issue with 3.20. I have not gotten the random (or zero) position since I installed it. I'll look harder next chance I get.

Good to see that high speed is not a problem, thanks for the report.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] walt_63:
Hi Nakel,

gps position in France instead of Germany was my result (HD2) on lost fix. It's the Cell Tower location which is used when GPS is unavailable. But your device has to learn the postion of the towers next to you:

First connect to the www, for example via wlan

then

start the mod driver

go to extras, look for cell tower location

at the end of the page there is a button named "Update"

use it

quit with save

leave the drive an start your application (and kill the www connection)

Now your device should know the position of the cell towers around and should show your location somewhere around (up to 800 meters)

good luck

Walther

@Mach2003 great tool this gps mod!!!! Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] darthveda:
It was due to that? I have blamed Google maps for showing me of the coast of Nigeria :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nakel:
The problem for me is I travel all over the world with the cell radio turned off. I've disabled the cell tower feature in the settings for GpsMod... Apparently it's still trying to find a cell tower?

Mach2003, thanks tons for this tool! It really has helped my HD2. The only negative is that it's hard to use around buildings because of the random location error. Also, I wanted to give another report: The random location goes into effect not just on loss of GPS lock, but loss of 3D location as well. If I have a 2D location, the position is random.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] plastikkoogli:
suggestion: sat lock on the road

Gpsmoddriver is aware of cell tower, so this information could be used to detect that the user is on the road. So whenever the device connects to a new cell tower the gpsmoddriver fires on the gps to get a lock. So when navigation is actually needed, sat lock wouldnt take long. Kind of like the functionality in gpstoday but smarter. Does it sound sensible?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mach2003:
With cell tower service disabled you are using GPS only.

Your welcome.

HD2 has a crappy GPS, this has been proven over and over again. Jumpy position while walking for example. I've never seen real 2D fix on any of my phone GPS units, but I assure you that ModDriver does not do anything special when fix exists, no matter what quality that fix is. I do send 2D fix when you use cell tower or projection from last known position, so that might be what you are seeing.

A while ago, when I lost fix on my Omnia, and was out of cell coverage area (the omnia GPS does not function if you try to gain fix without cell coverage), my position in Garmin jumped toward 0,0 in a few hops. I changed ModDriver to detect this problem. I assume there is still cases where it rears it's ugly head. I'll have to check into it further.

If you send me an extened log file set from the unit during the problem, I can see exactly what is happening to you. Menu, System, check log and expanded. When you see the problem occur, stop all GPS enabled apps as soon as you can. Copy the device \Mach2003 folder to another name. Start GPS and turn off logging if you like. Send me the renamed folder (get my email addy from teh paypal link).

I can enable GPS to get a fix on each new cell tower you pass. This would be a battery killer in most cases. I also don't see the point, since if you travel with GPS on (as most people do), cell tower locatons are already saved by GPS position, and remembered forever. Next time you pass the same way, and don't use GPS, the saved cell tower location is already used (or an internet lookup is done). GpsModDriver does not inject cell tower location into the GPS chip to speed fix, it only uses cell tower location until you get a fix.

If we turned on GPS for every 'new' tower we passed, your GPS would be on constantly in a 'new' urban area, as cells are closer together than the time it takes to get a GPS lock, in most cases. If you want to collect tower locations in a new area, plug in the phone, and use your GPS application normally.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oxa:
is it possible to have a tutorial HTC TP2 + tomtom7

March 2003, It seems to be a great work but frankly speaking it is very difficult to install.

Is it possible to have an updated tutorial. In the first page we do not know which cab has to be installed and how exaclty to install it.

I hvae tomtom 7 on HTC Pro touch 2 and I do not know how to change the port.

Thanks for you help