[APP][2.2+][Retired] ALTitude, Latitude updater with a low battery footprint

superbobup · Jul 12, 2012

Here's the logcat.
I basically cleared the logcat, started ALTitude, waited a few seconds, then got the logcat. Hope that process was ok. If I should do anything else let me know :cyclops:

Rob2222 · Jul 13, 2012

chamonix said:
You have to be careful interpreting frequence and precision. As the sdk states the location is not being updated 'at least' as often as specified.
In other words setting frequency to 15 minute won't get you an update every 15 minutes if you are not moving. I have tracing enabled on my test version right now and can see that updates happen regularly when I move (cells) but the updates going down to 1 to 0 updates when I am at the office the whole day or home at night.
This is optimal in terms of power as far as I can see.

Hmm, OK, from that point of view its perfect.
But when I didn't move the whole day, my friends see my postion update is 8 hours old and think that its outdated cause they think my phone is offline. At least I personally only trust position updates if they are newer than 30 mins cause my friends could have gone offline.
Can you maybe implement a force update checkbox, that it sends position to server, even if it wakes the device for the sending?
I know, it's more battery consuming, but its just a option to switch on/off and maybe someone finds that option suitable for his demands.
Just an idea.

Best Regards
Robert

chamonix · Jul 13, 2012

Rob2222 said:
Hmm, OK, from that point of view its perfect.
But when I didn't move the whole day, my friends see my postion update is 8 hours old and think that its outdated cause they think my phone is offline. At least I personally only trust position updates if they are newer than 30 mins cause my friends could have gone offline.
Can you maybe implement a force update checkbox, that it sends position to server, even if it wakes the device for the sending?
I know, it's more battery consuming, but its just a option to switch on/off and maybe someone finds that option suitable for his demands.
Just an idea.

Best Regards
Robert

I think I found a better way to do that (it's added in 0.11 that is almost finished). The trick here is to offer you the possibility to set an update accuracy "0". This will force the location manager to orient itself to the interval. On the other hand even with an interval 0 it should not update every time you move by 10 meters as the interval is given. The same logic would be to set the interval to 0 and the accuracy to a value, trying to force an update every x meters. I'll do some last testing and will release that with other fixes

Rob2222 · Jul 13, 2012

Hello,

but I assume accuracy "0" then fires up GPS every time, right?

BR
Rob

chamonix · Jul 14, 2012

Rob2222 said:
Hello,

but I assume accuracy "0" then fires up GPS every time, right?

BR
Rob

I haven't checked what happens when gps is on but leaving it with 0m and 30 minutes overnight does not deliver the right result: the location has refreshed approx every 5 minutes for the last 12 hours. As I already explained before the time component is no guarantee so I will remove 0 again as I think it may lead to more questions. I will add an option for updating the location 'at least every X' and manage this with an alarm. The alarm will be set on start and every location update will of course reset the counter of the alarm as the phone is awake at that time anyway. The technique for actively getting a location will be triggered by the alarm. Now this is a guarantee for requesting the location at a minimum frequency but of course no guarantee to deliver it as
A) there may be no location available
B) it may not be possible to update latitude

chamonix · Jul 14, 2012

Testing....

Rob2222 · Jul 14, 2012

Very nice. Thanks!

I hope I am not the only one how needs/wants this, so that you don't had the work just cause of me.

Best Regards
Robert

chamonix · Jul 14, 2012

The QoS updater is running stable since this morning. Version will roll out tomorrow

chamonix · Jul 15, 2012

Release 0.11

The release 0.11 is rolling out on Google play. For the changelog see post #2

There were two known issues you guys had reported that I could not reproduce but I have added more logging for that:
- Notifications showing despite the fact that they were diabled
- Licensing of full version was not recognised in a JB device (I have tested JB positively)

If those persist please post a logcat so I can check if the added logging data gives me more valuable info

superbobup · Jul 16, 2012

@chamonix
The latest version does not seem to fix my issue, it still does not recognize that my license is installed

I've attached a logcat, and it keeps showing this error
I/Configuration(22866): no license was detected: -2

It may just be a really weird issue...If you don't know what to do to remedy the situation, I'm sure I'll do a full wipe soon, so I'll let you know if the issue persists after a clean flash :highfive:

BTW, do you know any way to reduce the overhead from the cellular/wifi location services? I'm trying to use Google Now/the new Voice Search often, but it requires enabling Location Services which tend to wake the phone up quite often even if I don't change location.

Thanks again for the help :cyclops: (I know, these smilies are so random but I'm still getting used to them/having fun :laugh

chamonix · Jul 16, 2012

superbobup said:
@chamonix
The latest version does not seem to fix my issue, it still does not recognize that my license is installed
I've attached a logcat, and it keeps showing this error
I/Configuration(22866): no license was detected: -2

It may just be a really weird issue...If you don't know what to do to remedy the situation, I'm sure I'll do a full wipe soon, so I'll let you know if the issue persists after a clean flash :highfive:

BTW, do you know any way to reduce the overhead from the cellular/wifi location services? I'm trying to use Google Now/the new Voice Search often, but it requires enabling Location Services which tend to wake the phone up quite often even if I don't change location.

Thanks again for the help :cyclops: (I know, these smilies are so random but I'm still getting used to them/having fun :laugh

Thanks for the feedback. I will check on the error -2 as it may give us more info about the reason why the license was not found. I am at work right now but will get back to you when I am at my dev PC.

About the location with google now: I have it on my ICS and jd phones and also noticed the overhead. I also found out that now seems to use latitude as I got a notification telling me that it couldn't be used because my location was set to manual (as I use altitude). I am interested in finding out what cards use latitude an if the location history is also accessed (eg to find out how often you travel certain legs). Tbh time is what I am missing for that right now

superbobup · Jul 16, 2012

chamonix said:
Thanks for the feedback. I will check on the error -2 as it may give us more info about the reason why the license was not found. I am at work right now but will get back to you when I am at my dev PC.

About the location with google now: I have it on my ICS and jd phones and also noticed the overhead. I also found out that now seems to use latitude as I got a notification telling me that it couldn't be used because my location was set to manual (as I use altitude). I am interested in finding out what cards use latitude an if the location history is also accessed (eg to find out how often you travel certain legs). Tbh time is what I am missing for that right now

No problem, and thanks! Any time is OK. I'll try and get around to doing a full wipe to see if it helps.
Also, for Google Now, I'm not sure if it will help but here is some information regarding what cards seem to use what data (at the bottom of the page): http://www.google.com/landing/now/.
FWIW, I've read that setting your "home" and "work" locations in Latitude helps for the Trafic card to pop up, so it may be related to that card specifically. But, I'm able to get the Traffic card working without using location history, and setting my location to manual.
Hope it helps! :cowboy:

chamonix · Jul 16, 2012

superbobup said:
No problem, and thanks! Any time is OK. I'll try and get around to doing a full wipe to see if it helps.
Also, for Google Now, I'm not sure if it will help but here is some information regarding what cards seem to use what data (at the bottom of the page): http://www.google.com/landing/now/.
FWIW, I've read that setting your "home" and "work" locations in Latitude helps for the Trafic card to pop up, so it may be related to that card specifically. But, I'm able to get the Traffic card working without using location history, and setting my location to manual.
Hope it helps!

Ok I checked the code and -2 means that the license class could not be found. Possible causes are:
- the package is not installed: now I guess we can forget that one
- the package is there but for whatever reason ALTitude has no permissions to access it (normally this is impossible too as both ALTitude and the license are in the same package (read namespace)

Cleaning the dalvik cache and fixing the permissions is what comes to my mind right now

superbobup · Jul 17, 2012

chamonix said:
Ok I checked the code and -2 means that the license class could not be found. Possible causes are:
- the package is not installed: now I guess we can forget that one
- the package is there but for whatever reason ALTitude has no permissions to access it (normally this is impossible too as both ALTitude and the license are in the same package (read namespace)

Cleaning the dalvik cache and fixing the permissions is what comes to my mind right now

Tried it out but it doesn't seem to work

I've attached another logcat but it keeps throwing the same line "I/Configuration( 8688): no license was detected: -2"
I'll try to get around to a wipe tonight and report back if I can. Thanks again for all the help :highfive:

Cusa · Jul 17, 2012

Awesome, thank you!

superbobup · Jul 17, 2012

@chamonix
I tried the ALTitude free + license on my LG-P500 (Optimus T) and it works fine. I'm going to try wiping and reflashing the stock 4.1.1 OTA now and see if it works :fingers-crossed:

superbobup · Jul 17, 2012

superbobup said:
@chamonix
I tried the ALTitude free + license on my LG-P500 (Optimus T) and it works fine. I'm going to try wiping and reflashing the stock 4.1.1 OTA now and see if it works :fingers-crossed:

Just tried a full wipe + flashing Bigxie 4.1.1 OTA and it doesn't work. I didn't do any mods (no navbar, battery, stock kernel), just downloaded the free app, then logged in, downloaded the license, then rebooted but it still shows "ALTitude Free" and throws the same -2 error. I've attached another logcat in case it is useful. Any other ideas? Thanks for helping out so far

BTW, I can see why you like debugging this stuff so much...it's like a treasure hunt :good:

chamonix · Jul 17, 2012

superbobup said:
Just tried a full wipe + flashing Bigxie 4.1.1 OTA and it doesn't work. I didn't do any mods (no navbar, battery, stock kernel), just downloaded the free app, then logged in, downloaded the license, then rebooted but it still shows "ALTitude Free" and throws the same -2 error. I've attached another logcat in case it is useful. Any other ideas? Thanks for helping out so far
BTW, I can see why you like debugging this stuff so much...it's like a treasure hunt :good:

Ok now I'm starting to worry about me missing something important here. I have check the feedback on google play to see if there is a mass problem but nothing. This is no guarantee considering that the last comment is from june.
There is only one difference (discarding the JB ROM for now) between your phone and mine: my installation comes from my dev PC and not from the market. I don't see any difference but again, I don't see any reason for the license check to fail either. So here's the deal: I will PM you the signed APK if you give me your word (yes, I am old-school

)that you will use it only for the purpose of testing and will not re-distribute it. If we are till stuck after that I would like you to give me the details about the ROM you have installed so that I can flash the same and go on with further tests

superbobup · Jul 17, 2012

chamonix said:
Ok now I'm starting to worry about me missing something important here. I have check the feedback on google play to see if there is a mass problem but nothing. This is no guarantee considering that the last comment is from june.
There is only one difference (discarding the JB ROM for now) between your phone and mine: my installation comes from my dev PC and not from the market. I don't see any difference but again, I don't see any reason for the license check to fail either. So here's the deal: I will PM you the signed APK if you give me your word (yes, I am old-school )that you will use it only for the purpose of testing and will not re-distribute it. If we are till stuck after that I would like you to give me the details about the ROM you have installed so that I can flash the same and go on with further tests

You're truly an amazing dev, chamonix. I give you my word i wouldn't ever distribute it. It'll stay safe on my phone

Hopefully it works and we can narrow this issue down...if it doesn't, well, I guess that just means more hunting to do!
I'll also keep trying the market version. I'm currently on the stock OTA ROM and if I switch over to something else, I'll make sure to see if the market version works.
Thank you a million times over and I'm sure we'll find the fix to this eventually :highfive:

93ae8074 · Jul 18, 2012

chamonix said:
Ok now I'm starting to worry about me missing something important here. I have check the feedback on google play to see if there is a mass problem but nothing. This is no guarantee considering that the last comment is from june.
There is only one difference (discarding the JB ROM for now) between your phone and mine: my installation comes from my dev PC and not from the market. I don't see any difference but again, I don't see any reason for the license check to fail either. So here's the deal: I will PM you the signed APK if you give me your word (yes, I am old-school )that you will use it only for the purpose of testing and will not re-distribute it. If we are till stuck after that I would like you to give me the details about the ROM you have installed so that I can flash the same and go on with further tests

Just to add some more noise, I'm having the same problem, ALTitude doesn't recognize my license file. I'm in JB 4.1.1, no deodexed and rooted.

I'll be watching this thread and if you need some help to debug the issue don't hesitate to contact me.

Cheers.

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