GPS co-ords not stored in EXIF data on Oribt

[fingery]

I came accross a post on pocketgpsworld with details to change a reg value that would enable storing of the GPS location in EXIF data for pics taken with the built in camera....

I made the change but nothing in the EXIF data and i'm still missing the GPS icon in the camera view which suggests this doesnt work on an Orbit.

Does anyone have any more information or if this is/isn't available to use on the Orbit or if it's dependent on the version of the camera app?

[mikealder]

It should work (well I know it works on the Orbit hardware) what OS are you using on your device I have only seen this work on WM2005, not too sure about WM6 if that is what you are running - Mike

[fingery]

Sorry, would have helped.

I'm running the standard O2 WM6 rom that is now shipped with the Orbit and also available for upgrade on my-xda.com

[meschle]

It works in the orbit - its enabled in my cooked o2 roms - which registry change did you make?

[fingery]

Thanks for replies guys.

In the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/P9 key i changed the Enable value from 0 to 1

[meschle]

Thanks for replies guys.

In the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/P9 key i changed the Enable value from 0 to 1

Yes thats right - you get a new mode like sport mode not an icon. From normal photo mode scroll with trackball to the left and new mode will appear.

[fingery]

Thanks for your help!

The screenshot i'd seen of the camera app showed a gps/satellite icon that i'd been told toggled on/off but you're right...on the orbit it's a different mode you have to select.

It seems to work OK despite for some reason the GPS LED on the left of the ear speaker not flashing.

[DrakkoFR]

In fact, it will create a gps photo with exif gps cords, but the cords are nulls :(

[stead]

this has been bugging me for a while, but yesterday i was out walking and already had a gps fix with anotehr app in the background, tried gps photo and it didn't seem to do anything new, however i selected the phone to save to memory instead of sd card, and then restarted the app, now i get a little box saying 'intialising GPS' and a little icon appears next to the mode seletion (the top left) witha little siginal indicator, now the photos get saved with gps co-ords! i can switch it to sd and it saves fine, butwhen you start the app it has to be selected as main memory for storage, gonna look to see if theres someway to fix it, also i found a freeware app that lets loads the picture and then makes a kml file for google earth, can't remember what its called now tho :(