Does location work on GTAB and TNT4.4?
It hasn't for me. I think the app only uses network and gps to get location. I could be wrong but that is the only connection missing.
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Does location work on GTAB and TNT4.4?
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There is no GPS within the gTab, so location cannot be automatically determined as it might be on a smartphone. Near as I can tell, some have worked that out via tethering a smartphone or attaching an external GPS via USB, but I haven't figured this out yet.
I just tried tetherGPS from the market and it worked for me. I have a Nexus One running Cyanogen and it comes with mobile hot spot enabled. I turned on my mobile hot spot, connected the gtab via wifi and ran navigation on the gtab. Worked perfectly! I used the lite version but if I can figure a way to mount the gtab in the car then I will pay for it, no question about it.
i have used BlueGps and have my bluetooth gps connected. But google maps tells me to enable "My Location". Where do i find that option ? Im using TnT LIte 4.4
from your home screen:
menu (settings) --> location & security
check USE GPS SATELLITES
also be sure to enable 'mock locations'
menu (settings) --> Applications --> Development
check ALLOW MOCK LOCATIONS
That's how I'm getting messed up. I have no option under location & security for GPS. I do have the option for mock locations.
No location services
Me neiher. Is it something to do with having changed the ROM to TNT lite?
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Hello everyone,
I recently invested almost $100 in a blue-tooth GPS receiver, the i-gotU model GT-200
Manufacturers web site here:
http://www.i-gotu.com/product/BT_GPS.html
I can easily pair it to my Wing (ROM Aserg 12) but I have not been able to make any GPS enabled software work with it.
this is what I have done so far:
-Pair the device
-Use control panel to assign a com port to the serial service on the device
-Use external gps control panel to point applications to the new comm port
-Open google maps and try to get gps data
After a while I gave up with google maps and tried other applications such as GPS-Mission and eventually GPS autodetect, wich scans all ports and tries all baud rates
So far not a single application has worked.
Has anyone else had experience with this particular receiver, or any other GPS receivers that can be of help here?
Thanks,
Chris
PD: I have already used search in this site and google. Found nothing, this receiver may be too new.
ChrisGrundy said:
Hello everyone,
-Pair the device
-Use control panel to assign a com port to the serial service on the device
-Use external gps control panel to point applications to the new comm port
-Open google maps and try to get gps data
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1) Go back to Control Panel and disable the external GPS.
2) Go to Settings\Connections\Bluetooth
3) Select the COM Ports tab, You should be able to create a COM port 6 with your GPS device.
4) Open Google Maps
5) Go to Menu\Options\GPS Settings
6) Select Set Manually, COM 6, 9600 Baud.
7) Enjoy GPS!
You'll Have to set up each GPS program manually. I've never gotten the automatic settings to work.
thanks
Thanks, Audiopro.
I'll try that as soon as I get out of work
Will TetherGPS (Lite or Full) work with any ROMs on the GTab. Would love to have a 10inch GPS.
morseja said:
Will TetherGPS (Lite or Full) work with any ROMs on the GTab. Would love to have a 10inch GPS.
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Dont see why not, but the only reason that came out was because the nook color had no bluetooth (at the time), which the gtab has.
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Dont see why not, but the only reason that came out was because the nook color had no bluetooth (at the time), which the gtab has.
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how does bluetooth help with GPS? I guess im missing something
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how does bluetooth help with GPS? I guess im missing something
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Bluetooth tether to get gps from your phone or from bluetooth gps receiver.
Tethergps is a client/server app which sends gps data over 2 wifi tethered android devices. For example, I wifi tether my droid x to my nook color, and send gps info from droid x to nook color.
TetherGPS does not wok on VEGAn 5.1.1 on the Gtablet. If I remember correctly, someone tried it on one of the TnT-lite variants as well with no success.
ShareGPS (on an android phone) and BluetoothGPS on the tablet will work for GPS data from the phone to the tablet over a bluetooth connection. Then WiFi tether for data.
An alternative would be to get a cheap Bluetooth GPS receiver and pair it with the gtab, and use one of several utilities in the market to feed the data to a mapping application of your choice. Kinda how we used to do it in the ppc PDA days.
Thanks I can pair the 2 but, I can not get the phone and GTab to talk to each other. I do have a BT GPS and it pairs it to the GTab. What utility would you suggest to start with to get the GPS to match with the navigation software.
For Turn-by-Turn, why do you still need WiFi?
I bought the external GPS receiver, and Google Maps work, but to get turn-by-turn, I have to WiFi tether to my Droid phone. Why?
jlbdroid said:
I bought the external GPS receiver, and Google Maps work, but to get turn-by-turn, I have to WiFi tether to my Droid phone. Why?
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Navigation needs connectivity to setup the route. Once the route is setup and 'cached' you can drop your connection, so long as you don't vary from the route. Any re-calculation needs connectivity.
for off-line navigation try Co-Pilot. It's pretty cheap (I Think $5.00 for USA). It stores the map files on your SDcard so no connectivity is needed.
Also, I'm pretty sure the latest google maps starts storing maps tiles locally as you drive around. Thus, the more you use it, the less dependent you are on a live connection.
+1 for bluetooth gps receiver, bluegps to interface, and co-pilot for nav.
I put up a new version of TetherGPS this morning which might solve certain crashing issues. If it still isn't working, and someone wants to help me test fixes (I don't have a g-tab), shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]
going to try out tehter gps since I can't seem to find blue gps to put on my tab. I found sharegps for my phone.
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Tether GPS Client FC's on me on my gTab running TNT lite.
I believe I've tracked down the FC problem. Give this APK a try. You will only need to install it on your tablet. The server on the phone is unchanged.
This is the lite version, but it includes a full client. If this works I'll push an update to the market for both versions.
http://comptonsoft.com/tethergps/RC/TGPS_Lite.apk
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
Ok, the last version might not have fixed it, but I'm pretty sure this one does.
If you downloaded the last one, try again, same link.
http://comptonsoft.com/tethergps/RC/TGPS_Lite.apk
I've got TetherGPS working on my Viewsonic g tablet running Brilliant Corners 1.2! The trick, you have to disable "Automatic Broadcast IP" and specify the servers (phones) ip address instead. I have a feeling this will work on other roms too!
1. Enable "use gps satellites" on both devices and enable "allow mock locations" on the tablet.
2. Download and install the latest version of TetherGPS on both devices and Wireless Tether on the phone.
3. Create a network using Wireless Tether. After tethering, the IP address you need can be found in Wireless Tether under menu>access control
4. Run TetherGPS on the phone and uncheck "Automatic Broadcast IP" and enter the IP address from step three into "Broadcast IP" and click Start Server.
5. Run TetherGPS on tablet and select Start Client.
6. Once you have it up and running put the widgets on both devices
Now that (hopefully) everything is working all you have to do next time you want to use this is
1. Start Wireless Tether and establish a connection from tablet.
2. Click TetherGPS server widget on phone.
3. Click TetherGPS client widget on tablet.
Hope this works for you too,
Sandman
tcrews said:
TetherGPS does not wok on VEGAn 5.1.1 on the Gtablet. If I remember correctly, someone tried it on one of the TnT-lite variants as well with no success.
ShareGPS (on an android phone) and BluetoothGPS on the tablet will work for GPS data from the phone to the tablet over a bluetooth connection. Then WiFi tether for data.
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+1 Share GPS on my HTC Inspire 4G. BluetoothGPS4Droid on my GTab running TNT Lite 4.4. Works like a charm!
Make sure Bluetooth is on on both devices. Make sure you have WiFi on your GTab (to load maps). I use the WiFi Tether program on my HTC Inspire 4G. Start ShareGPS on phone it will be "listening" and watch for the GPS coordinates to show up. Start BluetoothGPS4Droid on GTab, choose the phone device listed on top of settings, select check mark on SiRF GPS, set retrys to 5 and then select Start/Stop GPS. Phone should then recognize the GTab name and show connected. If not, select menu on ShareGPS and connect to. (You should see your device listed but you also have the option to pair if not listed)
Give it up to 1 min to acquire satellites and launch whatever mapping program you use... Enjoy~
This is at the early stage of development. I wrote an app that pull the GPS coordinates from the phone and sets up a mock location provider to give the nook true GPS coordinates. For now, I hard coded the server's (phone) IP address into the app. I will change this in the near future.
Setup:
Wireless Tether app installed on phone
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/detail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta2.apk
gpstether installed on phone
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gpstether&feature=search_result
My app installed on nook
Getting it to work:
Start Wireless Tether using the default LAN address (192.168.2.0/24). I hard coded the address for right now. Use the gateway IP address as the GPSTether's address.
Connect nook to Internet via wireless or bluetooth tether
Uncheck "Use wireless network" under "Location & Security settings" on the Nook 9Note: this is not require. You only need to do this to be sure that your are getting coordinates from the GPS and not the wireless network.)
Check "Allow mock locations" under "Development" on the Nook
Start gpstether on phone. Press the home button once it is started. You do not need it displayed on the screen for it to work.
Start my app on the nook. Press the home button once it is started. You do not need it displayed on the screen for it to work.
Then you should be good to go. Test with google maps.
[strke]You have to "Force Stop" my app and gpstether to close them. I will fix this in the future too.[/strke] Fixed
Changelog:
8/12/11
Install the Droid2DroidGPSTether app on the phone. Start wireless tether then gpstether. Of course, the gps must be on.
Install the gps app on the nook. Connect to the wireless tether network then start this app. You can configure the wireless settings and gps settings within the gps app.
Use the GPSTether app that is attached. It will not stop without having to force close.
Client will automatically use the gateway ip as the gps tether server.
7/20/11
Server is no longer hardcoded. If you are tethered, then use the Gateway of the nook, otherwise use the IP address of the phone.
Added start and stop button
Added some exception handling to prevent FCs
Reusing connect; not closing and recreating new connect every time
Faked Accuracy so Navigation thinks it is connect to real GPS
TODO
Status Messages is not complete (On that note, does anyone know how to update a TextView from a thread to the parent?)
I'm confused; what advantage does this have over using TetherGPS client on the Nook? I've been using GPS on the Nook since I got it by using TetherGPS server on my Optimus and the client on the Nook, haven't had any trouble.
TetherGPS isn't free
I'll try this shortly on my Honeycomb. Hard coding IP address may be an issue on my phone.
Great start!
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TetherGPS isn't free
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His first post before edit mentioned TetherGPS was needed, thus my question.
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His first post before edit mentioned TetherGPS was needed, thus my question.
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TetherGPS is different then GPStether. I was confused at first too. I went looking for some tethering software and I found GPStether first. By the time I found TetherGPS I was too far along to stop. Doesn't hurt to have two products out there.
can't run on my Honeycomb'd NC. Get "No Netfilter Sorry, but your kernel does not have all necessary features for running this application."
Also, does installing GPSTether on my mobile phone do exactly the same thing as installing TetherGPS (which costs $)?
Looking again at the first post, I'm not sure about having to disable wifi and location settings on my Nook just to get this working. It's ok to do it for an early alpha release, but not once the app becomes mature, since it's a lot of extra steps to have to do manually. Hopefully these things get done by the app and re-enabled when you exit or something.
I just use a GPS over BT!
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can't run on my Honeycomb'd NC. Get "No Netfilter Sorry, but your kernel does not have all necessary features for running this application."
Also, does installing GPSTether on my mobile phone do exactly the same thing as installing TetherGPS (which costs $)?
Looking again at the first post, I'm not sure about having to disable wifi and location settings on my Nook just to get this working. It's ok to do it for an early alpha release, but not once the app becomes mature, since it's a lot of extra steps to have to do manually. Hopefully these things get done by the app and re-enabled when you exit or something.
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The GPSTether and Wireless Tether should run on the phone. The only thing that runs on the nook is the gps.apk that is at the bottom of the post. It does not use Netfilter. You do not have to disable "Use wireless networks". I just did this to make should you were getting the coordinates from the phone.
which gps and what app on the nook?
Works well for me so far, thanks for this great little utility!
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Brian, is it possible to make the code for the available for the Archos 101 and HP Touchpad?
The file gps.apk gives a parser error !
I have also tried to download droid 2 droid gps client from the market, but no luck.
about a month a go I loaded a custom rom
[ROM][PORT][4.2.1][AOKP/CM] Vanilla RootBox v3.6 [31/01][Per-App-DPI][PIE]
since than when i go to google maps or navigation it says waiting for location and than after a few mins it says your current location is currently unavailble. when i check the location acccess option the wi-fi and mobile network location is disabled. when I enable it it does seem to find where i am but uses data to keep updateing. so I disabled it. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get the GPS opetion to work and find me so I can use the navigation again.
thanks.
Hey,
so I've got this weird problem where Android apparently ignores the location of my wifi. But let me explain:
Whenever I'm at home google now suggests that my current location is not where I currently am but rather 10 to 15 miles away from my home address.
That is kind of annoying because I get wrong weather updates, location based reminders will not work on my home address and my location history is a complete mess.
Android primarily uses these three methods for checking on your location:
- gps
- cell towers
- wifi
am I right?
So I did some tests:
1. Testing gps
In location settings I checked "Device only" (so that it would only use gps for determining my location) and opened maps
-> works flawlessly
2. Testing wifi
In location settings I checked "Battery saving" (only wifi and mobile networks). And activated airplane mode to ensure that it could not use mobile networks for location.
Reboot (any kind of "location cache" should then be wiped, I guess).
-> works flawlessly
3. Testing cell towers (mobile networks)
In location settings I checked "Battery saving" (only wifi and mobile networks) and then disabled wifi. In advanced wifi settings I unchecked "Scanning always available" (so that it could not scan for wifi networks even though I disabled wifi).
Reboot (any kind of "location cache" should then be wiped, I guess).
-> does not work flawlessly. It determines the wrong location (that google now always uses).
I live in a more rural part of the country so it makes perfect sense that mobile networks cannot determine my exact location, but why would Android ignore the wifi location (as we have seen, it knows where my wifi is located, otherwise it could not have shown me my correct location in test 2), when I'm signed in on the wifi network?
I tested this on two different devices (Moto X stock / HTC One S with CM 11).
Is there anything I could do?
*bumping
No one knows?
Could someone (who preferably lives on countryside, lol) try to reproduce this or tell me if this is how android is supposed to work (this wouldn't make any sense to me, though).
// This is the right board for this kind of question, isn't it? If not, feel free to move this thread :>
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I still have no idea why this is happening.
If this is the wrong board please tell me or move the thread.
Have you ever had a GPS lock while being connected to the WLAN network? I would assume Google learns the MAC addresses and WLAN SSIDs and correlates them to your location ...
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GarryKG said:
Have you ever had a GPS lock while being connected to the WLAN network? I would assume Google learns the MAC addresses and WLAN SSIDs and correlates them to your location ...
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Yes. I'm using maps quite frequently (with gps enabled ofc).
But I am pretty sure google already knows the correct location of my wfi, since when I activate airplane mode and check "Battery saving" (only wifi and mobile networks are being used for location) in location settings, my correct location is determined. Since the airplane mode is activated it means that my phone can only use wifi for determining my location.
But as soon as I disable airplane mode my location is wrong again.
So I would conclude that, although google knows the correct location of my wifi, it just prioritizes mobile networks for some reason. Which is driving me insane.
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This is still bugging me. I mean I can't be the only one.
*bamp
The problem is still existent and is bugging me.
The forums look different now.
*bomp
I wish someone knew what causes this behavior.
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Even after all this time the problem still exists.
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No answers
bämp.
So I guess there is no solution?
Anyway, I will keep bumping this thread but less frequent.
*bumping every once in a while.