Is there any software to turn on/off GPS on WM6?

[caihongxu]

Hi guys. I did quite some research on the forums, but have not found any software that can turn on/off GPS. When i'm saying turning on/off GPS, it means something like the wireless manager: when gps is is turned off, it simply is off so no software would be able to use it.

as i tried, software like gps switch does not do this job.

also, is there any software to show the current status of gps? And here i do not mean actively requesting for satellites information, but just to see the status whether the gps is currently being used by any software. so i guess it should not communicate to the intermediate driver itself, but has to work below it?

any suggestions? many thx.

[dirlan2001]

Hi guys. I did quite some research on the forums, but have not found any software that can turn on/off GPS. When i'm saying turning on/off GPS, it means something like the wireless manager: when gps is is turned off, it simply is off so no software would be able to use it.

as i tried, software like gps switch does not do this job.

also, is there any software to show the current status of gps? And here i do not mean actively requesting for satellites information, but just to see the status whether the gps is currently being used by any software. so i guess it should not communicate to the intermediate driver itself, but has to work below it?

any suggestions? many thx.


Hi,

GPS is always OFF, unless a GPS-program opens the comm-port to fire it up. And as long you don't start such a program, GPS will stay off.

:D

Dirk

[joel2009]

Try GPS Test

[caihongxu]

Hi,

GPS is always OFF, unless a GPS-program opens the comm-port to fire it up. And as long you don't start such a program, GPS will stay off.

:D

Dirk

I'm afraid it is not. It appeared clear to me that after close some gps app in a short period of time, the gps is still on (because the gps will soon find a lot of satellites if i open the gps app again, but this would not be the case after i close the gps for a long time)

[caihongxu]

Try GPS Test

Yeah i tried that. it is just another gps client which accesses the intermediate driver. It does not have the feature to turn off gps globally.

[caihongxu]

From WM5 sdk it appears that there is a "GPSGetDeviceState" method in intermediate driver interface. Can it be used to get the current state of gps? Isn't there any software making use of this function to display the current state of gps?

[dirlan2001]

I'm afraid it is not. It appeared clear to me that after close some gps app in a short period of time, the gps is still on (because the gps will soon find a lot of satellites if i open the gps app again, but this would not be the case after i close the gps for a long time)

Hi,

That is due to the fact that GPS-programs like TT6 e.a. read out the ephemeris-data from the satellites and store it in the chip. but that data is only valid for a short period. After that the program needs to download the data again... hence a longer time to get a fix. Which also covers for the differences between (hardware) A-GPS and (software) QuickGPS.

:D

Dirk

[dennislodh]

any new software found? I got a GPS software and the GPS is on after i exit the program and it drain´s the battery.