Thread: maemo mapper crashing on n800
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Darius2006 is offline Darius2006
2007-10-24 , 20:18
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Originally Posted by dormant View Post
Fred,

It definitely crashes. I don't even get a Save dialog - the app dissappears from the screen and from the apps thing at the bottom left of the screen.

It also just crashed when I was trying to look at the Settings. The only thing unusual at the time was that it was struggling to establish a GPS fix (the GPS is on my windowsill with a poor view of the sky). Maybe the problem is bigger.

The behaviour I observe is very like that described in a post in another forum, although no answer was forthcoming:


Does MM have a log file?

Any pointers to good documentation/help for Maemo Mapper?
Maemo mapper crashes regularly on N770 too.
But the problem is not exactly with program itself but with
gps driver enabled if no fix is avaliable.
Gps driver isn trying to establish gps fix
and on fix established, is trying to read gps data, calling this process getting fix as well (not good name for reading gps fixed data).
There is a little chance to kill gps process as it is 3 sec. loop delayed.
I suppose gps driver is eating up slow processor's time
and OS can't cure it.

There is an easy fix to it.
If your maemo mapper crashes and screen is white or not displaying maps try to put your N800 into metal case for few secs back and forth
and it should start working again.
It works like reset button in PC computers.

darius