Ticket #10 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 year ago

Sometimes no new locations are provided

Reported by: saua Assigned to: saua
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.4
Component: MIDlet Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Sometimes the Phone (Blackberry 8800) seems to stop sending new location information, even though GPS reception should be ok. Chaning the updateInterval usually fixes it, probably because setLocationListener() is called again. We should check for this condition and try re-setting this automagically.

Change History

07/27/07 18:49:10 changed by saua

  • milestone changed from 0.2 to 0.3.

07/27/07 22:58:11 changed by saua

  • status changed from new to assigned.

There's an article describing the problem at blackberry.com:

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/348583/800332/800703/How_To_-_Detect_when_GPS_is_no_longer_available_and_when_to_reset_the_LocationProvider.html?nodeid=1357467&vernum=0

08/07/07 21:04:05 changed by saua

  • milestone deleted.

08/13/07 22:59:58 changed by saua

There have been reports that external pucks suffer from a similar problem, where they fail to reconnect at all. I don't know if that's the same issue and (more importantly) if the fix is the same, but I'm planning to release such a fix in the next days as well, so I'd appreciate if you tested that.

GPSTracker (which uses the Bluetooth API to talk to external GPS pucks) seems not to suffer from this problem. If the fix-to-be for this issue doesn't fix the problem with external GPS pucks, then the EMEA parser of GPSTracker might be worth porting to bbTracker.

see http://www.blackberryforums.com/gps-mapping/90246-gps-data-logging-programs.html for some information.

08/15/07 17:22:27 changed by saua

  • milestone set to 0.4.

08/15/07 23:19:17 changed by saua

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

should be fixed, I've implemented the suggestions mentioned in Comment 1