This new version of Google maps works on my treo 750. It knows your location based on the GSM towers. (no GPS needed, pretty cool)
http://google.com/gmm/index.html
Video: http://google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en
I have to force my treo off hsdpa into GSM/EDGE mode though or it wont lock on correctly. Menu>Preference>Phone Settings>Services>Band Selection>Select GSM instead of Auto or UMTS.
http://groups.google.com/group/Goog...ad/32c1f4d24ec86c9d/f8611d39e8056b30?lnk=raot
This other free tower based gps app is better and works even if I don't force my phone off hsdpa.
http://www.navizon.com/
Great find.
I found a way to force google maps to work with HSDPA
(no need to disable things back to EDGE as posted above)
Basically, Navizon has a nice option that will setup a virtual GPS port. Here's how you get everything working
1) install www.navizon.com (it's free)
2) launch navizon
3) Menu, Options, hit the left arrow icon (lower right on screen) until the GPS tab appears (lower left on screen)
4)Set everything as follows
-GPS: NO GPS (Navizon Vrtula GPS)
-Baud Rate 4800
-Auto Start (NOT checked)
-Output Port: COM9: (Virtual)
-Load outlput port into driver memory (check this box ON)
-Use physical output port (NOT checked)
-Click ok
5) Click start, settings, System tab, External GPS
6) Programs Tab, GPS program port: GPD9,
7) hardware tab, GPS hardware port: COM9, Baud rate 4800
8) Access tab, Manage GPS automatically (check this box ON)
9) click ok, x out, you should be back in Navigon now
10) click the start action button (lower left screen in Navizon)
11) You should zip to your location on the map. Ok now while you leave navizon running, go ahead and startup Google Maps
12) Googlemaps, Menu, Options, GPS Settings, "Set by Windows....." check this on! Click ok
13) Menu, "Use GPS"
BOOM ! Google will work and you can leave HSDPA full speed internet access working instead of having to force it to GSM/EDGE as above.
More info............
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=158101
(I'm jazjon on this other forum)
need data plan
just curious-does this feature use your data plan, airtime, or neither? In other words, is there additional charge for it, or does it require a data/internet plan?
Navizon - no location found
Does anyone know of any tricks to get Navizon working? I am in a fairly metropolitan area but all I get is 'no location found'. I tried in both UMTS and GSM modes and neither one works for me.
Google Maps, on the other hand, I can get to work, with a 3000 meter accuracy, but only in GSM mode.
Any ideas?
martopg said:
Does anyone know of any tricks to get Navizon working? I am in a fairly metropolitan area but all I get is 'no location found'. I tried in both UMTS and GSM modes and neither one works for me.
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When I first signed up for Navizon it didn't work for me either. Then, on the main web site, I found that they had set my default location somewhere in Georgia: I live in California. After much trial-and-error was able to get my default location to set my local area. Navizon now works. However, I didn't like it much and have moved back to Google Maps. I like the Google product much better even with the GSM limitation.
Cheers,
Idyllic
DocKill said:
just curious-does this feature use your data plan, airtime, or neither? In other words, is there additional charge for it, or does it require a data/internet plan?
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Yes, if you click on the link "Get more info" in the video link, it says that you will need a data plan for the maps.
My Location now working with 3G. I did a hard reset (for unrelated reasons) on my ATT branded WM6 750, downloaded (the latest?) Google maps and have been 100% successful in getting "My Location" to work with 3G. I'm not sure if it was the reset or if Google updated the software, but what a huge improvement.
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My Location now working with 3G. I did a hard reset (for unrelated reasons) on my ATT branded WM6 750, downloaded (the latest?) Google maps and have been 100% successful in getting "My Location" to work with 3G. I'm not sure if it was the reset or if Google updated the software, but what a huge improvement.
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Yup, version update and "My Location" now works with 3G
Cheers,
idyllic
Which service provider are you using with Google Maps, ATT or Tmobile? If its Tmobile, are you using Tzones or the full internet ($20)
Please Hepl!!!
I have an at&t tilt and am using google maps...if anyone knows of a live tracking program for google maps mobile that would be great...(EX: use gmm on phone and track live on comp.) please email me at [email protected]
HELP
I am using at&t
I use Location Spoofer on my EVO to watch blacked out content based on location and other things. One thing I noticed is that it appears that Sprint Family locator doesn't use the same location data as google maps and ect. Is there any way to spoof the data SFL uses?
I dont think so. Sprint Locator uses the gps signal, whereas those other programs just use your approximate network location based on tower triangualtion.
Hi, just bought brand new BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105 from phones4u.co.uk. Can't find anywhere how to use GPS and navigation. There is no "compass" icon on the main sreen (other Pearls have it). The only option I can find is "Location services" and thats it. My network is O2 and blackberry services hasn't been activated yet. Does this phone have a GPS module built in???
For any help I'll be very grateful! Just do not know what to do
For GPS to work on blackberry pearl, it needs navigation maps, which are usually downloaded in little pieces as required. And because these maps are downloaded, you must be subscribed to a data plan and have a radio signal for it than only gps is possible
Hi all
I am having some weird problem with Google Map
when i use data plan provided by Maxis (my telco) the location that it shows is a few kilometers away from my actual position.
when i turn off the data usage and use my Wifi to open the google maps, it shows that i am off by 40m from my actual position
anyone got any idea what is causing the problem?
Sounds like your telco's not very good at finding your precise location.
I think wifi would always be more accurate. Wifi hotspots don't have much range, and there are a lot more of them than cell towers, so it's easier to know that you're within 40m of Starbucks WiFi #3828 than a particular cell tower.
In my home, with WiFi off and GPS off, the cell towers here usually report me a few blocks away from my house. With WiFi on, it puts me in my own backyard. With GPS on, it puts me in the correct room of the house.
So I've had this HTC S743 for about 5 days and I thought I had it setup correctly to use wifi for data comm.
wifi enabled and selected to use my home network. I can see the radio tower status icon and my locally named network is also displayed.
Under the comm manager the data connection is off.
I have a very simple $45/mo plan with no monthly data plan.
Over the last 5 days I have been surfing the web a bit did some email tests with my ISP and used the on board GPS app which is horrible. Not heavy usage but experimentation to see if I like how the phone works.
After 2 days I get an email from AT&T that I have extremely high data usage exceeding my account limit (for having no monthly plan) and that I should sign up for a data plan at once.
$29 over 2 days for this little bit of fluff? A total of 2,900kb in data.
So I call up AT&T and they tell me this and that and want me to sign up for a plan which I may do. But I want to be able to know that the datacomm is happening via WIFI when I can see a selected WIFI is in service.
They also told me that all GPS data is forced through 3G and bypasses WIFI???
Can anyone here give me an idea about what I may be doing wrong and whether AT&T is correct about the GPS service?
Is there a better GPS app that doesn't do this? This one pretty much stinks anyway. A resolution of 1000 meters doesn't cut it.
AT&T also informed me that I can't have a smart phone without a data contract. Really? I've had one for 6 years like that but it wasn't WIFI capabale and too small to bother with web access.
Thanks for any light you shed on the subject.
One thing I have subsequently found out is that if data connection is off and WIFI is off then when I go into IE and start surfing it does bring up pages. Then when I go back to the Comm Manager the Data Connection to check the status of my connections it is still off for an instant and then it automatically turns itself on as though it had been turned on by use of IE and the status was just being updated.
Last night I installed a newer version of Google maps and was only able to install it via the web browser as opposed to via the Activesynch application on my PC. I was concerned that this might trigger turning on the 3G connection. So I had it set up for a WIFI connection ONLY and installed the app. Afterwards I went into the connection manager and once again the data conn. was turned back on so it's possible that it utilized AT&T's 3G network instead.
Is there any way to control or stop this?
GPS data doesn't have anything to do with 3G/Wifi data......
I know it's supposed to be positioning via the satellites through the GPS antenna but the the description data is coming over the network right? So it appears that even though I'm setup for WIFI access and it's showing as connected with an IP address etc. when I try the Googlemaps GPS app it turns the data conn. for 3G back on.
Thanks for chiming in ...
I have been copying over and installing some new apps to try out this morning via usb. WIFI is on and I'm loged in. None are datacomm oriented that I know of (unless they'r trying to make an internet access to notify about being installed) none the less I just checked again and my data conn. is once again turned back on. Is this typical behavior for a windows mobile phone (6.1) or is this just an AT&T "feature".
Sorry, I don't have a WM6 phone!