TrekBuddy

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3947

The latest version drains the battery, when TB is turned off. I use it on a Blackberry 8310. The previous version run properly. I suppose, after turning TB off, the GPS is still activatet. Even after turning off/on the Blackberry, the battery is draining within about 1 day.
This stopped at the moment, I deinstalled TB.

haddock · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 172 Location: AT

Works fine on S60 v3. No battery issues and no data loss (see wiki "lazy GS parsing") when adding waypoints to groundspeak gpx.

Ranger · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 4712

Bug described in post
http://www.trekbuddy.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33227#33227
still exists in 0.9.96 beta Sad

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5083

haddock · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 172 Location: AT

billy06 · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 408 Location: Lowestoft U.K

even with just the name and gc id the files would be too big for our use. i tryed this before we went away last week we needed data for 23,000 caches as we did not know which ones we would be doing
i simply loaded all into geoget order by distance direction then use a macro to split into 500 caches with the file number in the name , i loaded these into TB, i also outputted for tom tom and memorymap with the file number in the name tag ( to reference for TB)combining the files back together as memorymap and tomtom can handel large files , this worked perfectly for our needs

i will install the latest version and test although the possibility of distroying some of the data by adding waypoints sounds like a disaster waiting to happen

user1 · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 14

The 0.9.90 version was the last in which tared maps and backlight control worked (I had installed TrekBuddyService). 0.9.91, 0.9.92, 0.9.93, 0.9.94 and 0.9.95 didn't work Sad

(screensaver was running while backlight was turned on and program was frozen while I was trying to move the map - Nokia N95). In this versions TrekBuddy event didn't ask for access to network during startup (I usually forgot to turn these questions off after installation), so it couldn't use TrekBuddyService. But now 0.9.96 beta with new TrekBuddyService works Very Happy

! Thanks, Kruch!

However, when I try to "Add custom" waypoint, I can save it only to a new file (when I didn't use gpx file before) or to the last accessed gpx file - other files aren't displayed on the list. In 0.9.95 all files were displayed.

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5083

@user1 But with the posibility to add a wpt to any file, didn't it destroy existing content if you did not you choose last accessed file??

tom.k · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 8

I just did an upgrade after a while from old 0.9.90 to 0.9.95. I found that assisted GPS (asking for aditional data from web) stopped working (do not try to connect anymore). The last version that works correctly is 0.9.93. I even tried the beta from 2010.03.22, but still the same. I would expect this is related to 0.9.94 changelog entry:

- fixed: internal GPS initialization (caused problems on some Nokia phones)

My phone is Nokia E52.

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5083

@tom.k Thanks! Indeed, there was a change that most probably caused it. I thought people prefer to avoid data connection completely. I can introduce an option to allow/disallow assisted GPS.

tom.k · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 8

On E52 (other symbians I expect the same) I can enable/disable assisted GPS support in phone settings, so I think there is no need to duplicate this in buddy. For the GPS API I can select which sources of position are allowed and which are not (GPS, assisted GPS, GSM network information, blootooth GPS).

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5083

I see. The option may also be useful on other platforms, and can be just on by default on Symbian.

tom.k · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 8

ok, when there is some beta, I'm ready to test it if that helps. BTW big thanks for great program!

user1 · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 14