Re: [Announce] Advanced Geocaching Tool
 

First of all, Version 0.6.1.3 is on it's way to extras-devel, fixing the downloading bug.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Downloading the attributes is on my to-do list, although not with a very high priority.
Downloading more logs should also be possible.
Adding a name to a waypoint is a feature many users have requested. I'm still evaluating the options to implement a better waypoint handling.
Multiline support for waypoint descriptions is already implemented and will come with the next major release, as well as your suggestion for the hint text.

Re: [Announce] Advanced Geocaching Tool
 

And on a completely different topic, talk.maemo.com may just be crossing the 700.000 posts mark :-)

Re: [Announce] Advanced Geocaching Tool
 

The update is now in extras-devel. Please report any problems here. If the package works for you, please go to
http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ing/0.6.1.3-1/
and vote up.

Re: [Announce] Advanced Geocaching Tool
 

Thanks for the update! It solved the download bug.
And many thanks for your comments on my suggestions, I'm happy to see that some of them are already implemented!

I knew that I forgot two ideas I had:

• Display the date when the cache was hidden
• Show the information if it's a premium cache or not

I will vote up as soon as my garage account is created.

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I love this program, it is very handy!

I am having a problem with the 'Download details for all viewable caches' function. It says downloading 0 of 19 but doesn't progress any further. This feature used to work when I tried it in previous versions.

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First of all, thanks for this great application. It got me started on geocaching!

Next, is there anywhere a user manual or at least some kind of decent instructions? I think I am doing something wrong, but I never get the GPS view working. There never is distance, altitude, accuracy or the direction pointer. The area for the pointer is just blank. Also there is always "No Fix" visible, even if other applications (like Ovi Maps, GPSJinni, eCoach) seem to work ok.

Or does this have something to do with the GPS signal quality? GPSJinni seems to indicate that the quality is mostly +-10-20m for the coordinates.

Also it does not matter whether I have the "track" checkbox checked in the Map view or not, the map does not follow me. Only if I click somewhere on the map, the position updates. This would seem to be related to the GPS view not updating.

How should I actually set a cache as a target for the GPS view? Select a cache and then in the top menu select "Set as Target" or go to the coords tab and select the coordinates and then select "set as target"? Or does this actually do the same thing?

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I love this app and use it frequently. But it chews up the battery a LOT. I used it today for an hour or so and my battery dropped so much I had to switch everything off and just leave it as a phone so I could get home. I had gone out with a full charge.

Akil are you trying to get a fix indoors or while you are out? I just tried it in the house and I got the same problem as you but I find its excellent while out and about for getting a signal.

I normally look at the map and click on the geocache I want to find. Then when it brings the details up I then click on the name of the cache in the top bar (no idea what the technical name for the top bar is) and click download all details. I then click on the top bar again and click set as target.

Your gps arrow should then start whizzing round. If you go to the map then and zoom out far enough you should be able to see the yellow line with the red cross on, that is where you are and the other end on top of the cache icon is where you want to end up.

I know its not a very technical description of how it works, but thats what I do and it works a treat, apart from the battery problem I seem to be having!

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Although the battery life is not as good as the one of a pure GPS device, mine lasts several hours. Maybe there's some background process which drains your battery (close all other applications, check your desktop widgets and check this article).

If you don't need the telephone and online connection while geocaching, switch to offline mode. This saves an additional hour or two.

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I still need the telephone most of the time while I am out so can't switch to offline mode, but this would be excellent if I was on holiday where I am not bothered about people being able to contact me. So I shall remember that.

I had a look through the link and have installed the 2g/3g app reckon that will make a big difference. I only have the OM weather widget on my desktop, only have one desktop, and just shortcuts to apps on my desktop thats all.

I have switched the brightness down though, I always have it on full...reckon this could make a big difference.

Thanks for all your help. I'll post again next time I use it for an hour or so's caching and see how I get on.

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I am trying to get the fix outdoors, when going on caches. No matter whether i restart the app, or even reboot the phone, its always the same. Other apps seems to work fine, but AGTL not.

Also, my method is exactly as yours, i click on a cache, download details and then click from the top menu "set as target". I get the yellow line on the map from my position to the cache, but no gps arrow, or anything in the gps view. How I find the caches then? In the map view, by constantly clicking the map, thus "manually updating" my position on the map.

My position on the map is accurate, and even other applications (eCoach, Ovi maps) show my position accurately.

I am running the latest firmware PR1.2 and the latest AGTL available from the catalogs. Same problem occurred even before the latest AGTL update, which fixed the cache detail downloads. I have network positioning enabled and the location server is supl.nokia.com. I use 2G/3G applet to switch to 3G when geocaching. I also have the power user kernel installed and have OC'd to 900MHz. In case any of these have some impact on this issue.

webhamster: is there any way I could set up a debug log, for example in the config file, to get some debug information out, to look into this? Or any other way to debug it; note that I do not have any devel tools installed yet, though I've downloaded the maemo sdk image and am tempted to start maemo developing.

As a sidenote; I also tried today adding google maps as a map source, based on your blog post, but so far haven't been able to switch to those maps. It just seems to keep showing open street maps even though I've selected google maps. Maybe something wrong with my config, I need to check that, when I have time.