Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5] [Announce] Advanced Geocaching Tool
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AkiL is offline AkiL
2010-06-08 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by misty View Post
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 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.