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Hi guys,
I got a new problem. Just want to know if any of you experienced the same. With Rom 1.60, my MDA II keeps turning itself on every couple of minutes. Sometimes it keeps turning itself on every 10 or 20 secs. Sometimes it takes longer before it turns itself on. It only seems to happen with the phone turned on (T-Moblile Holland). The only new progs that I installed which weren't there before the ROM upgrade are:
Finger Clix and Vito button mapper. Of course I also have:
Pocket Informant, Fitaly, Resco Explorer, Pocket Music, Pocket Plus, Sprite backup, Tom Tom Navigator and Pocket AutoD installed but those programs didn't cause this problem before.
Any ideas about this turning on? It is most anoying because my battery is almost flat at the end of the day. :x
Wouter
I think I found the cause: Active Sync. When I close active sync in Running programs, my MDA doesn't turn itself on anymore by itself. I then removed the checkboxes in Active sync\Tools\Pc synchronisation and everything seems to be working as supposed.
I hope that this solves my problem and unwanted battery drain.
Wouter
:x
I just posted the message and now my MDA turns itself on again! GRRR
I guess I have to kill AS every time myself. I remeber there is a small freeware tool somebody wrote to kill AS. I hope it is 2003 compatible...
Wouter
I had the same problem and then I discovered it is actually Sprite Backup with it's scheduled backup feature. I turned off the Sprite Backup Scheduler (no scheduled backups for me) and it sleeps nicely (zzzz....) now and only wakes up when I want it to.
I hope it helps.
Ix.
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Hi ixtab,
That did the trick! And I just upgraded Sprite backup to the latest version after the ROM update so that was the bug.
Thanks for the tip. It was driving me nuts!
Wouter
cool. when you upgraded Sprite Backup are you using the scheduler now with no problem or are you doing the same as I did (no sched')?
Well, hope this does the trick for me. Damn... i was really starting to like scheduled backups...
Jon.
wouterk said:
I got a new problem. Just want to know if any of you experienced the same. With Rom 1.60, my MDA II keeps turning itself on every couple of minutes.
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Wouter, be honest, mate. You lived with this feature on your LOOX for ages before :lol:
SPRITE BACKUP as a potential candidate to cause this trouble never crossed my mind. Gotta tell my wife about it...
Hi Frankie!
Yep my old Loox did cause me some troubles in those days. I just saw it again this weekend. And it was still going strong but my MDA II is much, much better :lol: !
I must say that Sprite Backup is working like a charm now. I had to do a hard reset saturday morning (don't know what happened but...) I did a restore and no probs what so ever.
CU
Wouter
Good to hear, Wouter. It seems I see my LOOX more often... basically every day (my wife has it now and she loves it). I think the XDA II is much better but I rather don't say it too loud :lol:
[/quote]It seems I see my LOOX more often... basically every day (my wife has it now and she loves it).
Well in that case I guess the more often you see your Loox, the better your mariage is..... :lol:
Wouter
wouterk said:
Well in that case I guess the more often you see your Loox, the better your mariage is..... :lol:
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Very well spoken, Wouter :lol:
Hi all,
I have an orange SPV M1000, I upgraded it to:
ROM: 1.72.00WWE
RADIO VERSION: 1.14.00
Protocol VErsion:1337.24
ExtROM cerion: 1.72.126
I have installed on it:
SPB POcket PLus 2.1
Micosoft Money 2004
Flash player
Microsoft CHess
Metro
My XDAII goes dead once per week. I can only take the Battery out for a certrain amount of time so that all the internal batterie is off, then I have to reinstall everything.
Can anyone helps me to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Saadi
good for you that ur unit goes dead after a week. Maybe you should get an extra battery? U can take out your battery and still have 20 mins B4 ur internal Li-ion goes dead. All your files will be lost. Hope this might help.
ericskiXDA2 said:
good for you that ur unit goes dead after a week. .
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EXactly Mate I Carn't keep mine working for More than a Day So He has no problem! The XDA is so Usefull but the damn battery Stops you from doing anything!
Don't install pocketplus...
it caused your xda2 to be dead...
darkcell said:
Don't install pocketplus...
it caused your xda2 to be dead...
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I agree: I have the exact same issues with my QTEK2020 and the only two same softwares I installed are SPB Pocket Plus 2.1 and Flash Player.
Now, because my unit crashed so many times (about once a week as well) and after several recoveries with xBackup, some of my ~1000 contacts are no more synchronized with Outlook (i.e. they are on the PC but not on the QTEK2020). It's a real mess.
I can't rely on this PDA and I keep loosing my last inputs (new contacts, new notes, new calendar items, etc).
Does anyone know of a reliable software that would indicate the battery level in the top bar ?
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Does anyone know of a reliable software that would indicate the battery level in the top bar ?
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Thanks you all for your replies.
My problem is not that the battery is empty. it is a software issue.
I think it comes either for the OS or from a software installed.
Now I have the problem once per day.
Again thanks a lot for all of you.
Best regards,
Saadi
my gps is out more than a kilometre (a little less than a mile)
any ideas? i am using gpsviewer and tomtom6
i have dcd 2.3.1 rom
3.27 radio
any ideas?
ack
out? You mean it's off by more than a mile?
If so... someone's cloned your phone? :/ donno sorry.
dieseldennis said:
my gps is out more than a kilometre (a little less than a mile)
any ideas? i am using gpsviewer and tomtom6
i have dcd 2.3.1 rom
3.27 radio
any ideas?
ack
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That is a trip. So you are a mile away using Tom Tom?
Because if you where using Google Maps or Microsoft Live Search it would make sense because they tend to use agps (Cellular Towers) first to try and find your location and then they use the GPS receiver.
It might be the baud rate.... who knows. Or maybe just try to wait until it locks to at least 4 satellites for a better accurate read.
yeah it is a bit of a trip........
sometimes i get up to 6 7 or 8 sat locked on and im still out just as much.
im downloading iguidance right now im hoping its a mapping prob with tomtom.............i googled it and other people are having simular map issues with tomtom6.
wish me luck
anyone running iguidance ? any instal tips anyone has id appreciate it
Mine is perfect
I am useing the same as you and mine is bang on, i mean right to the foot nearly.
dieseldennis said:
yeah it is a bit of a trip........
sometimes i get up to 6 7 or 8 sat locked on and im still out just as much.
im downloading iguidance right now im hoping its a mapping prob with tomtom.............i googled it and other people are having simular map issues with tomtom6.
wish me luck
anyone running iguidance ? any instal tips anyone has id appreciate it
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That sucks man. Hopefully iguidance works for you. I have Tom Tom Navigator 6 and havent had any issues with it. I hear it sucks for rural places. That is why sometimes people use Garmin.
I wasn't able to replicate your results thus I cannot resolve this. But feel free to let us know how iguidance is. I haven't tried it.
Perhaps your in a linear superposition of two position eigenstates. When your gps takes a measurement your wave function collapses to one or the other. If there are two different routes to the local store,you could try going shopping and see if you interfere with yourself when you arrive. ;-)
I am using tomtom ,igo and destinator and they perform just as well if nto better then my bluetooth gps receiver.
dieseldennis said:
my gps is out more than a kilometre (a little less than a mile)
any ideas? i am using gpsviewer and tomtom6
i have dcd 2.3.1 rom
3.27 radio
any ideas?
ack
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soft reset...was happening to me..hadn't had to soft reset in like 3 days..did a soft reset and was good. my problem was that gps kept connecting quickly...but its active location was like 1-2 miles from where i actually was...
soft resetting usually does a phone good anyway, I usually soft reset when i wake up.
btw my sprint Navigation is "Dead Nut" I drove to this real exclusive part of Truckee to do an estimate and it put me right to the peoples front door....AND IT WAS A NEW HOUSE!!!
Had this happen to me once...more than a mile actually, nearly oh, 6km or so. I tried to soft reset, multiple times and it didn't do jack. (Was using Google maps.) I just left it, as in, didn't play with the GPS for a day cause I got frustrated trying to fix it and lo and behold, it worked again. So...shrug, don't fret over it unless its ALWAYS a mile off...
verkion
Try the things in this thread. it worked for me... I am using Delorme Street Atlas for now because I already own it & am to cheap to pay for the internet on my phone... And it was always off by alot.. Then I tried the baffles sw & it worked... And now I'm trying the VisualGPSce & it appears to work better even... It even shows me in the backyard vs the front yard.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=17032
Different GPS problems
When your GPS gives you the wrong location, it can only fall into 2 categories.
Satellite Signal-Signals have been known to do all sorts of weird things. You are dealing with a very weak signal when you use GPS and it is prone to bouncing off of all sorts of things. This "bouncing" delays the arrival at your receiver and causes your location to be off.
Software-Software can be the second issue. This can either be the mapping software(such TomTom) or it can be a computational error. Your GPS is pinpointing your location by comparing "clocks". Sometimes it can 'flub' and make a mistake, but this is extremely rare.
Given that you were CONSTANTLY off by 1 mile, I would feel safe assuming that this was a software issue. I would test multiple mapping systems(especially Google Maps).
If you are using your GPS is an area with high buildings, hills, or inside of a building you might notice "jumping".
Telenav works perfectly and has data assisted location.
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Maybe there is something wrong with your phones GPS chip. As I use QuickGPS, Astrolauncher, and TomTom 6 and I am right on every time....
I checked some post and so far i havent noticed anyone with the same experience, but has anyone noticed that with dcd 3.2ROM and Titan 3.42.30 radio, Tomtom is able to startup the GPS without any help, I'm loving it, thanks alot DCD and Titan.
P.S. If this is old news then I'm sorry for not doing enough research
Mine still struggles sometimes.
It just seems to be so random on the lock times. It can be as little as 5 seconds, or as much as 5 minutes, possibly even more.
I don't know much about the internal workings of the GPS, but doesn't the GPS unit have to get the satellite positions from somewhere, or are they preloaded ?
Also, if they need to get the positions, would it be possible to cache them or something? (Maybe thats what the launchers do, I don't know)
It's still a mystery to me until I have more experience with them.
WOW -- Good find!!
I just tried TomTom and GPS came right up.
Same
Mine also starts up without having to use a 2nd program to prime it. Though without AstroLaunch or HTC Gps Tool, is there a difference in the amount of time? (assuming the cache isn't cleared)
I do believe the fantasticness of this is caused by TomTom 7. The Tomtom 7 program extracted from the Diamond has "Internal GPS" support, as opposed to "Other GPS Device" in TomTom6. Way to go guys, keep the wonderful extraction and development going!
For those of you who do not yet have TomTom 7 and want to have a TomTom with Internal GPS Support (It works So Well)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2321950&posted=1#post2321950
TomTom6
I'm using TomTom 6 for GPS, and the newest ROM / Radio together, not TomTom 7 and it works for me, just FYI
I can't get the RUU file to install on my Mogul... what can I be doing wrong?
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I do believe the fantasticness of this is caused by TomTom 7. The Tomtom 7 program extracted from the Diamond has "Internal GPS" support, as opposed to "Other GPS Device" in TomTom6. Way to go guys, keep the wonderful extraction and development going!
For those of you who do not yet have TomTom 7 and want to have a TomTom with Internal GPS Support (It works So Well)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2321950&posted=1#post2321950
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tt7 has nothing to do with it, i believe it is all about developments in either the radio upgrades or the improvaed roms that have been made available thanks to this fantastic community, oh microsoft please don't shut us down.
I've benn having issues with the Garmin Mobile XT... I have now the Sprint 3.56.651 ROM AND 3.42.30 RADIO...
when I run Garmin it automatically detects satellites without any other GPS aplication (GPSProxy, GPSGate o others...) but it only locks 3 satellites and it doesn't give me my position...
Is there something i'm doing wrong?? what do I need to get this thing working???
The big answer that you have not provided is if any other application returns the same GPS performance. Garmin, as others, only receives the data as provided by the GPSOne chipset, and I cannot see any reason why it could cripple that data.
Try again with a diagnostic app such as VisualGPSce. What you describe sounds like a rather common problem with the Titan in that it is seeing a few satellites but fails to lock-on to them and that is why you cannot determine your position. In a clearing outside, wait up to a half hour.. Try GC's QPST GPS hack.. Etc.. Garmin is unlikely to be the issue.
all right...
I already did the GPS Hack with QPST... I already waited for like 2 hours (I was washing my car) and it did lock up to 6 satellites but it still didn't give me my position...
I installed GPSProxy, GPSGate and many others but I have problems on that applications... first it doesn't show me any satellite, after 10-15 seconds it shows me like 10-15 satellites on the screen but only for a second or so and then they disappear again... this happens in a loop, it shows me the 10-15 satellites for a second, it waits for 10-15 seconds and then it shows them on the screen again for a second..........
I'm going to try VisualGPSce to see if I have any luck... i'll keep you posted...
I am running latest radio and dcd's rom with Garmin Mobile XT on VZW with the GPS Hack with QPST and get locks within 30 secs and 7 to 9 sats.
Not sure if that helps or not.
what radio are you runing?? i have 3.42.30
I don't understand what everyone is doing. I am running Garmin Mobile XT myself, and have been for a couple of months. With the Newest radio rom, and DCD 3.2, I have no problems locking sats. Normally when I start the program, by the time it's up and running, I have a lock on enough sats to get the bars all green. It's just that fast. Not sure what your doing wrong.
I run Garmin Mobile XT with absolutely no problems on VZW.
P.S. I still prime with HTC GPS Tool prior to opening Garmin.
ok still no luck...
are you selecting the GPS on Garmin as COM4:COM4: or as GPS Intermediate Driver??
GPS Intermediate Driver
Working Great
using Baf's GPS toggler cooked into 19588 rom set to standalone in registry
meaning no assisted gps radio 3.42.30. Locks in less than a minute while inside house. Using Garmin Mobile XT.
Chemdawg said:
I don't understand what everyone is doing. I am running Garmin Mobile XT myself, and have been for a couple of months. With the Newest radio rom, and DCD 3.2, I have no problems locking sats. ... It's just that fast. Not sure what your doing wrong.
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Careful in rushing to blame user error. Some Titans -- regardless of software settings -- just cannot match the GPS performance of other Titans. I've witnessed this myself with two Titans side-by-side. Sadly, it can be a luck of the draw...
The repeating loop of flipping back and forth between the same sets of satellites often occurs when the chipset is stuck in standby mode, so a resolution is to soft-reset the Titan. nelsongruebr's description of satellite "locks" are probably not locks but basic reception of the visible satellites before a lock - if ever - is attained. The description here of poor performance is very similar to what had stumped me on some Titans... Sadly, there may be no resolution.
I've been running Garmin Mobile for about a month on no2chem's 5067 rom and I have not had problems. I don't have to do anything other than open Garmin and within 30 seconds, I have a lock. At first, I was using the 3.39.10 radio and now I'm using 3.42.30.
so basically maybe my Titan can never be used for GPS? or maybe doing a hard reset or flashing another ROM?
Today I tried to get a lock by letting the GPS Intermediate Driver search for satellites on Garmin Mobile XT for quiet some time and had no luck... it could not even find one single satellite...
On the other hand, when I activated the COM4:COM4: it find 3 satellites, it locked to them but didn't give me a fix or a position...
I installed GPSVisualce... First it did find some satellites, like seven of them but after a couple of seconds it loose them... but I checked the coordinates that it marked and they were pretty close to where I was... so maybe it is user problem... maybe I'm missing something...
So I bring up these new questions:
What version of Garmin Mobile XT are you using?
Is somebody with the same ROM and RADIO having the same problem? (Sprint 3.56.651.0 Radio 3.42.30)
Should I flash another ROM?
thanks!!!
You need to prime the GPS first before running Garmin.
Prime it with HTC GPS Tool or GPSViewer. Once it locks, close the primer and open Garmin. Go into settings and Disable COM4:COM4, then click GPS Intermediate Driver, then click Enable.
Your problem should not be the ROM, Radio, or Garmin XT. Keep playing around with VisualGPSce as it's quick and easy to configure to use the appropriate port and will give you an easy reference as to how many satellites are seen and the number of those that a lock is made on.
Beyond that and attempting GC's QPTS GPS edit, place the blame on your hardware. The description you've given on your Titan seeing some satellites, possibly locking, and then losing then is all too familiar to what I've experienced with another Titan. You're not alone.
Problem solved!!!!
yesterday I hard reset my device and after that just installed VisualGPSce and Garmin Mobile Xt so I can try it without any other software...
I went to my house and right where I was about to go to sleep I put my Titan on his Charging cradle and open VisualGPSce and then opened Garmin Mobile XT and leave it there on my night stand all night... to my surprise when I woke up it had a lock on 7 satellites!!!! on my nighstand!!!
I supposed it needed to get a lock for some time since I'm in Venezuela and I supose it was going to be harder to lock from anther country than to lock in the US...
Thanks to everyone who posted here and tried to helped me!!!!
Excellent! Yes, when the cell network assistance feature of AGPS isn't available, for some reason the chipset on our Titans can take quite a while to download the satellite ephemeris data directly from the satellites. Though I think that you're one of the first who's recorded it requiring more than a half hour!
hehe!! i'll say more than 5 hours, cause when I saw the time data on Garmin it said that the stopped time was only like an hour and a half, so it took mora than 5 hours to get that lock...
But I think I spoke to early, yesterday when I got out of work I wanted to try to get a lock to see how long it takes, but to my surprise it didn't locked on any satellites!! not even one!! I left it again overnight and nothing!! so I'm back to zero :'(
I'll be informing you how it behaves today...
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Careful in rushing to blame user error. Some Titans -- regardless of software settings -- just cannot match the GPS performance of other Titans. I've witnessed this myself with two Titans side-by-side. Sadly, it can be a luck of the draw...
The repeating loop of flipping back and forth between the same sets of satellites often occurs when the chipset is stuck in standby mode, so a resolution is to soft-reset the Titan. nelsongruebr's description of satellite "locks" are probably not locks but basic reception of the visible satellites before a lock - if ever - is attained. The description here of poor performance is very similar to what had stumped me on some Titans... Sadly, there may be no resolution.
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I am a newbie here but as a computer engineer I totally agree. We buy many PCs, scanners, printers, etc. all of the same brand. I can have several of the exact same items on the bench and so will not do as the identical sister/brother unit will do. My theory as a tech has been Bubba went to work mad at his wife and said what the hell I am going to just throw this crap together. Then on the flip side you have the new guy wanting to make a good impression and he spends 2 hours on one product where he should have gotten out four in that same two hours...
I think it depends on the device as well...just luck of the purchase...
ok, i kinda figure out what was the problem...
As I told you before, I live in Caracas, Venezuela... and recently the government decided to change the hour (yeah I know... What the hell where they thinking) from GMT -4.00 Caracas, La Paz, to GMT -4.30 Caracas... so Microsoft created a Patch to add the new Time Zone for Caracas... I have been installing this patch for about a year now without a problem (i had previously a HTC Touch and a HTC Excalibur) without any problems... So i instal it on my Titan and thats it...
To my surprise when i did a hard reset to delete everything and installed only Garmin Mobile and VirtualGPSce tha GPS work flawlessly... I said Great!!! It work's!!! so I installed the aplications that I normally have on my Titan INCLUDING the Patch for the New Timezone, and here is where the fun begins... the GPS stop working!!!! I didn't know it was the Time Zone patch until i performed another Hard Reset and Installed only a few aplications and the GPS kept working perfectly...
Today I'm going to install ALL the aplications that I use except the Patch to see if that does the trick...
I'll be posting tonight to tell you how it goes...