TrekBuddy

[zz85]

Some comments after using TB 0.9.56 intensively for a day on a trip.

1. Generally good

2. About 3 occasions TB seemed to have hung (red status icon)- it couldn't connect even when the bluetooth receiver satellites signal light was on. Its just a guess that maybe TB wasnnt able to reconnect well if the GPS disconnected and then reconnect after some times.

3. Request: "Estimated Time to Reach" in CMS in additonal to ETA (and "running time")

4. Changing maps loads the last position remembered for that map. Any option to "locked on" the same coordinates when switching maps? (without starting gps or altas)

5. I still get a invalid IWH for opening altas. Something wrong with the set files?

6. How do I use simulator mode? Nothing happened after opening the gpx files.

7. Does the CMS or is it the bluetooth which uses lots of electricity? My fully charged BL-5B battery on a nokia 5300 lasted less than 1/2 a day.[/url]

[green]

poradtě mi prosím jak rozjet waypointy, diky. všechny složky tam mám, ale nic nejde. mám sxg75 diky za rady...

[kruch]

[kruch]

@zz85

1) I agree
2) I didn't test reconnection lately, but I had no problem with it in the past - I'll do some tests
3) {wpt-etr}? possible...
4) true, position is only remebered for startup map; would be nice, I agree
5) it is something with .map file - is it tar-ed atlas? could you send me the atlas "index" file? If it non-packed atlas, could you detect which map calibration file is causing "Invalid IWH"?
6) simulator support NMEA only

[mainframe]

ad 2)

I have the same problem quite often also. TB stops updating position from GPS. I can scroll the map (if I remember right), switch to CMS, show the menu. When I select something from menu, nothing happens (I guess it might be queued in some request queue, but previous request to gps hangs, so it is not processed).

TB still displayes the last possition, but it is not related to fix loss, it happens even with many satellites in fix. The only thing that helps me is to completely disable bluetooth in phone setting (it is symbian, I can switch to bt settings), phone complains that bluetooth connection is active. Then TB immediatelly wakes up and responds to menu commands.

This may be also be related to some phones only, I have S60v3 phone, using TB 0.9.55. It looks like bluetooth connection problems, but I am not sure about that (I got it even when I had gps maximum two meters from phone, but they still can have connection problems).

[kruch]

[kruch]

Ad 2)

@zz85: what is your device? I smell some S60 issue...

Anyone else is having the trouble with bt reconnecting?

[guest]

I had the same issue today - after few hours (after 10000 points recorded in raw gpx mode) TB stoped (indicating no fix, despite fact that the gps was fixed). Had to restart TB...

Phone: k750i

[kruch]

[yearling]

Zdar KRUCHu a ostatní.
Měl bych připomínku k práci s waypointy.
Jestliže zadám uživatelský waypoint (Enter Custom), uloží se tento bod pouze do souboru user-….gpx v adresáři wpts - to je OK.
Jestliže zadám waypoint s aktuální polohou (Record Current), uloží se tento bod do souboru null….gpx v adresáři wpts - to je taky OK až na ten název null a současně se tento bod uloží i do příslušného tracklogu v adresáři track-gpx - to je v pořádku (pro import do OZI je to ideální trkpt+wpt v jednom souboru gpx), ale tento waypoint je označen nesprávným tagem trkpt namísto wpt !!! Navíc počínaje tímto waypointem se v každém následujícím trackpointu objevuje tag name i s posledním zadaným názvem – toto přestane (pravděpodobně) teprve při zadání příkazu PAUZA nebo STOP. (Všechny tři pokusné soubory posílám v příloze)
TB provozuji na Nokii 6233 (zapnuté forced GC + raw),
zkouším ho tuším někdy od verze 9.4 a je to paráda – díky moc.
Měl bych ještě pár připomínek k ovládání, které jsem napsal do námětů k vylepšení.

[kruch]

[Ranger]

I'am not sure. Recorded waypoints are often used as destination points, track shows a trip, but isn't used to navigate (now). So I rather prefer to have destination points in different file(s) as probably most of users.

[kruch]

Waypoints will of course be still recorded in a separate wptlog file, but the question is whether to insert waypoint into tracklog as trkpt or wpt; it probably depends on which solution will be or look better when such tracklog is visualized in Ozi? GoogleEarth? ...

At present, a trkpt that corresponds to a wpt is inserted into tracklog in order to ensure that recorded waypoints are on the "track" (when visualized together, etc), since "smart" gpx tracklog might not record actual location when waypoint is recorded.

[yearling]

No jestliže do gpx namixuju trkpt i wpt tak OZI mi to sbaštil bez problémů i ve stejném trkseg - zkusil jsem to tak, že jsem v gpx přepsal příslušný trkpt na wpt a prošlo to.
Jinak co se týká forced-GC, zatím ho mám zapnutý, v předchozí verzi (9.5), kde tato volba nebyla, mi občas, zejména při přejezdu do nové mapy a načítání nového mapového listu (ale jen někdy) vyběhla hláška java.outofmemory.error (nebo tak něco) a pomohlo jedině znovuspuštění TB. V 9.55 to pracuje naprosto spolehlivě - zkouším to na mapě ze 4 listů armádního atlasu (fantazie) - zatím mám jen 4 listy (na kartě cca 53MB), jak bude větší karta tak už mám celou ČR

[Ranger]

First, it make sense only, if such different elements can be displayed different way. Second, I'm not sure if some track analyzing tools can remove such wpts from track ... But if you say "as trkpt and wpt to log file" ...