GPS Software "Destinator" not working..

[singhravi437]

Hi All,

I have installed Destinator 6/7 (both versions) many times and it worls for 1-2times and then it stops at the first screen and today screen pops up again. The top status bar is destinator but lower half is today screen.

I even flashed my Wizard many times with diffrent flavours of WM 5 and 6. It works hardly once or twice then same problem.

Everytime I hard reset it, it works 1 time and then again the problem is shown.

Has anyone has managed to make any version of destinator to work (either 6 or 7) on any WM??? Does anyone have the same problem with me???

Thanks in advance.

Working on WIZA200
IPL=2.26
SPL=2.26
GSM=2.25.11
OS=2.26.10.2 (using a WM5 ROM)

[nightwatcher12]

Hi,

With destinator 6 I never had any problems.
It was working with WM5 and with WM6.

Sometimes I had to stop all other programs to get more free memory.
Did you test this already?

[epimazzo]

Hi,

I've been using Destinator 6 without any issues on my K-jam. I suggest you to uninstall everything except maps on SD. Then, install it again on the main memory. Also, surf on the Destinator technology site if there's an upgrade or something to your country.

Wish you luck!

Cheers!:D

[joesa]

hi, i had the same problem that you have now, but only with wm6,
i find out that when i hard reset my device or upgrade a new rom i allways backuped all my pim data using pimbackup 2.5.
then after the upgrade i restored all my pim info, and then the problem with destinator 6 or 7 begins.
the solution for me was that when i backuped my pim data i unchecked an option in the pimbackup called ""binary backup"", then after that, when i restore the pim data ,destinator works fine.

so, are you restoring your personal data using pimbackup?
if so, maybe this is the solution

by the way, i am using a prophet

[singhravi437]

Thanks for your replies..

Today I re-installed TNT.1933_Prof_HTC ROM and increased pool size to 12 MB. Right now the memory stats are:

Storage Memory Free = 38.8 MB
Program Memory Free = 18.2 MB

Destinator and Maps both are installed on the Storage Card (2 GB) with 200 MB free space. This made it to work for 2 times and again it stopped.

Also, I realized that the program actually crashes as there is no entry of the program in the task manager.

So this has rather become a crash issue with Destinator.
Any insight will be very much apreciated...

And, I use a Bluetooth based GPS receiver.

Thanks.

[singhravi437]

I don't think it is a memory issue. As detailed in the last post it has some 16 MB of mem free.

joesa: Yes, I also use PIM Backup to restore my Emails/SMS. Do you think that is causing the problem. I'll try to disable the bin backup while restoring.

Thank you for the clue.

[epimazzo]

I don't know V7.0 but I think it should be very similar than V6. I insist you to install the core app into the main memory and just leave all maps on SD. Then, you can hard reset many times without having to install maps again. I'm telling you exactly what my local support said at the time I faced installation issues with V6.

Good luck btw....;)

[singhravi437]

This indeed was a crash issue due to unwanted binaries. Thanks joesa for that clue. After disabling that binary option in PIMBackup the problem disappeared. Destinator is working Fine on my Wizard (Both program and maps on SD).

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences.

[joesa]

This indeed was a crash issue due to unwanted binaries. Thanks joesa for that clue. After disabling that binary option in PIMBackup the problem disappeared. Destinator is working Fine on my Wizard (Both program and maps on SD).

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences.


Your wellcome, glad i could help!!!!

[5thWheel]

I'm having exactly the same problem, only I'm not using pimbackup (AFAIK! Certainly if this is an app you run manually I'm not using it nor have I installed it).
I've an o2 branded HTC TYTN II (so they call it XDA Stellar) (Winodws Mobile 6).
I successfully ran Destinator 6 about twice, but now whenever I run it it crashes on startup after the splash screen has finished loading, leaving it's titlebar across the top of the screen and nothing else. AFAIK nothing has changed between working and not working! If I re-install I can go through the setup screens and detect my gps ok, but after setting quicknav it crashes in the same way as described above.
Soft-resetting makes no difference; I don't really want to hard reset and lose all my installed programs etc!
Does anyone have any more information on this problem? I.e., it sounds like some file somewhere has been altered somehow by this pimbackup thing - is there any way I can manually change something to make everything happy again?

[xrobocop]

i think so after open and close Destinator 7 he don´t close the speeks after open again, no sound is avaliable, need soft resset for work again.
Only in destinator 7 i detect this, in destinator 6 works fine.

[cmavr8]

hi, i had the same problem that you have now, but only with wm6,
i find out that when i hard reset my device or upgrade a new rom i allways backuped all my pim data using pimbackup 2.5.
then after the upgrade i restored all my pim info, and then the problem with destinator 6 or 7 begins.
the solution for me was that when i backuped my pim data i unchecked an option in the pimbackup called ""binary backup"", then after that, when i restore the pim data ,destinator works fine.

so, are you restoring your personal data using pimbackup?
if so, maybe this is the solution

by the way, i am using a prophet

Ok, but is there a solution for us, who do not want to do a hard reset?
I just reinstalled everything on Thursday, can't do it again :(

Maybe backup and restore PIM without hard reseting, and with unchecked binary setting? Would this work?

[5thWheel]

I'm having this problem without doing anything to my PIM. It seemed to start arbitrarily. Is the restore of PIM modifying some files somewhere in a manner that Destinator doesn't like? If so, which files? Maybe mine got modified by some other app and if I delete/manually alter them I can get it going again?

[joesa]

Ok, but is there a solution for us, who do not want to do a hard reset?
I just reinstalled everything on Thursday, can't do it again :(

Maybe backup and restore PIM without hard reseting, and with unchecked binary setting? Would this work?

i'm afraid that if you don't have a previus rom backup(sprite, spbbackup), before using pimbackup, you would have to hard reset, i never was able to make it work after restoring my pim data with pimbackup(binary)

[joesa]

I'm having this problem without doing anything to my PIM. It seemed to start arbitrarily. Is the restore of PIM modifying some files somewhere in a manner that Destinator doesn't like? If so, which files? Maybe mine got modified by some other app and if I delete/manually alter them I can get it going again?

it took me a lot of time to find out that pimbackup(binary) was the program that screwed destinator(guess it has something to do with databases), what i did to find the program was:
hard reset, install destinator and tried, install next of my needed program and tried destinator, install next program and tried, and so untill i found wich program screws destinator,

sorry i can't help

[5thWheel]

D'oh!
Ok, thanks for replying, anyway!
If I make any progress I'll post back here with what I find out.

[5thWheel]

I did hard-reset my PDA in the end, reinstalled everything and restored my contacts using FinchSync (except I haven't installed skype yet and I haven't ever ActiveSync'd it yet), and Destinator seems fine now (for 3 days anyway!). Ho-hum!

[joesa]

good to hear that !!!!!!

[tilango]

Would Activesync contribute with the crash?
I haven't any pim backup in my TYTN II and hard reseting the ppc every week is complicated.
Think I'll stop using Destinator.

[tilango]

Any news????

[kospan]

I have an htc touch pro and installed destinator 7. It worked well for a few days and then suddenly refused to load. It crashed at the start screen. After a lot of experimenting I found the solution. I deleted all my sms-mms contents and then destinator was working again! I believe that certain characters from sms's are the cause, since destinator has a built in facility to send an sms. It's annoying though since each time you have a crash you need to remove your sms contents.

[malsehn]

kospan - you're my man ;) due to having the same issue i tried ypour solution and - that's it!!! i'm glad to tell you and all those who having this problem, too, that it's only the MMS - if you delete only all stored mms then it will work fine again too ;)

[kospan]

I'm glad I could help! So only MMS? I guess that is good news because I will be able to keep my sms, which are far more than the mms.

[tabrez02]

In my diamond, i had to delete both the SMS/MMS to make the destinator work.

Thank you guys for your support.

[gopzzz]

thanks a lot dude.... ur suggestions really helped me a lot...nice work keep it up