[APP][7 Feb 2011][1.0.13]GPS2day - Light GPS informer for Today Screen

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s_v_l

Retired Recognized Developer
Current version 1.0.13
OS: Windows Mobile 5.x, 6.x
Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish

GPS2day is a small Windows Mobile application designed as Today Screen plug-in.
It supports both metric and U.S. (Imperial) units and shows following information for users:
current geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude), speed, course, altitude,
some information about satellites, exact date and time, battery life status.
This is the useful personal informer in your mobile device.

Version 1.0.13 download page
Application Release History

Alternate download link from the CNET Download.com
for those who have a problem with my site accessibility.

Screen Shots:
Today screen after the GPS2day installation
gps2day.jpg


GPS2day in action (testing with the fake GPS data)
gps2dayfakedata.jpg
 
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glaucos

Senior Member
Jan 18, 2007
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Wow, I was searching for something similar for months! :)
But now... I don't need it no more! :D
 

khaytsus

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Apr 8, 2008
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Central Kentucky
I guess since you called it this, you already know about GPSToday, which is an awesome GPS primer, location logger, locating sharing, and map application (and more) in one. I've never noted that it uses much ram, but perhaps your scope is different.
 

Farmer Ted

Senior Member
Nov 30, 2008
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Nice plugin! Is there anyway to change the units? I've looked in the registry, but haven't found anything (specifically I'd like to switch Km/h to m/h).
 

s_v_l

Retired Recognized Developer
Wow, I was searching for something similar for months! :)
But now... I don't need it no more! :D

Good! Probably this program was written for those who really need it. :)

I'm interesting on such questions related to this application.
1. How it stable and reliable in work. For example, it should restore its working
state when you switch off/switch on your device.
2. Does it recover its working state after showing some errors (warnings)?
3. What errors (warnings) it show?
4. What about resource consuming (CPU, battery, etc...) on the different devices.

Don't hesitate to contact me with your real feedback, opinions and suggestions.
Also you can communicate with me on my site.

Thanks.
 

bh77a

Member
Nov 23, 2008
48
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Problem with Install

Hey, great looking plugin. Looks just like what I was hunting for, however I ran into a problem upon installation.

I installed it and all of my other plugins on Today disappeared. All that was showing was a date line. The device was then largely locked up (some buttons worked, but not all). Soft resets didn't work so eventually Safe Mode came up (Pocket Plus 4) so that I was able to delete the plugin. After doing so and rebooting it worked fine. Thinking it was a one time deal, I tried again after disabling all of my other plugins. The same problem occurred.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

My device:

HTC Touch Pro
WM 6.1 (Original ROM, Factory)
US Cellular (CDMA) Carrier

Thanks in advance!
 

s_v_l

Retired Recognized Developer
Hey, great looking plugin. Looks just like what I was hunting for, however I ran into a problem upon installation.

I installed it and all of my other plugins on Today disappeared. All that was showing was a date line. The device was then largely locked up (some buttons worked, but not all). Soft resets didn't work so eventually Safe Mode came up (Pocket Plus 4) so that I was able to delete the plugin. After doing so and rebooting it worked fine. Thinking it was a one time deal, I tried again after disabling all of my other plugins. The same problem occurred.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

My device:

HTC Touch Pro
WM 6.1 (Original ROM, Factory)
US Cellular (CDMA) Carrier

Thanks in advance!

This is the first installation problem report after the thousands downloads. :)
Program was tested under the original Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.4, 6.5 Professional without similar problem. GPS2day Installation doesn't modify or delete information related to the other plug-ins in registry, which responsible to their installation. So, I think that problem is outside of the GPS2day scope.
 

nhvoltagenh

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Oct 17, 2008
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Kitchener
www.thewebstation.ws
only suggestions i have

is if it could write items to the registry, such as number of sats found..

and if it could show headings like N S SW

etc.

i run both it and gpstoday but i only run gpstoday to read registry settings it provides.

and gpstoday will wake up and look for sats on its own.

i do like your app seems a bit less on cpu.
 

s_v_l

Retired Recognized Developer
only suggestions i have
and if it could show headings like N S SW

Thanks for your suggestion.
For example, I can show heading in such format:
Course: N 5°33.25′
Both symbolic and more exact value.

...
is if it could write items to the registry, such as number of sats found..
...
i run both it and gpstoday but i only run gpstoday to read registry settings it provides.

and gpstoday will wake up and look for sats on its own.

GPS2day shows satellites in view and whole satellites number.
This information is not static and can be vary when you working with
GPS receiver during particular session with GPS unit.
I'm not sure that this information should be saved permanently,
because during next session your GPS receiver can find different satellites
number and corresponding number satellites in view. And again, this info
will be vary during this session.
I want to say that program couldn't become owner of this information
because GPS unit is the primary source. If program try to become owner
I think that this is wrong (aberrant) behavior.

i do like your app seems a bit less on cpu.

Not bad sound. :)
Thanks.