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Geostamping photos, is it possible on device?

I use a Mio a701 for Geocaching with GPS Dash v2.58 software and it seems to do everything I need it to apart from one thing. I would like to be able to take photos and have the lat/long read from the GPS & stamped onto the photo. Is anyone aware of any 3rd partysoftware that can do this?
I have looked at things like "RoboGeo" which compare the recorded track with EXIF data on a PC, but really would like the ease of doing it direct on the device.
I know this is slightly off topic for your forum, but I have asked in the usual Mio support forums. I would have thought such software (if it exists) could also be used on an XDA with a BT receiver also, so here I am
TIA
Murf

murf62 - welcome to the board.
I'm a fellow Mio A701 man, as of last week. Can I ask what forums you're using? I haven't seen many good dedicated ones, at least nothing as good as here. I've started one on my website just for the hell of it.
I've written a couple of apps to improve the system, I'm not particularly happy with it out of the box.
But I digress. This could be possible, but what app are you using take the photos, normal camera app?
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Yeah, I'm using the normal camera app, but can't see any reason why a 3rd party app couldn't exist that grabs a pic from the camera and then stamps the lat/long onto it.
I have hunted high & low for such a thing and I'm pretty sure it doesn't currently exist. :shock:
I've had the Mio since release on 10 Mar and it's been great, these are the forums I currently use, I'm assuming it's ok to post them here as you asked & are a moderator
http://www.fourpages.co.uk/mioA701/index.php
http://www.expansys.com/forum.asp?code=129999
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=106
http://www.modaco.com/MiTAC_Mio_A701-f175.html
The bottom 2 are dying off now as most people have moved to the fourpages one.
I would be interested in apps you have written, what sort of things are you talking about?

murf62: hey, four pages is great, I just Johnny Five'd the whole board into my limited Mental Storage Drive:
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Seems like you run much of the board, at least the FAQs!
I'm awaiting my authorisation email Can't post yet.
Basically, I hate that there's no dedicated Power button. The red button is useless, it always switches itself on in my pocket, and takes me 30 seconds to switch off using the ShutDownApp.exe or whatever it's called.
I reverse engineered it and squirted the functionality into my VJEschaton (unreleased version), and used a regedit to bring the Camera app into Settings, and now assign power off to the camera button.
Next step is to rewrite or patch the keyboard driver to allow power on from the camera key, although I'm thinking of a better solution, writing my own screen lock to sidestep the problems (backlight coming on) with the current Rom version.
Next, I used VJOkButt to replace the functionality of the Red button, and used AE ButtonPlus to replace Vol Up/Down keys.
I spent an age configuring my Today screen, creating a new today theme to match my old WM2003 one, updating the Wiki on here very slightly with my findings. I then configured claunch to use as my Today screen dialer.
I've also written a small GPS test app.
I spent yesterday trying to install my father's TomTom 3, which failed, so gave TT5 a go. Works ok.
I'm going to try to write a release version of the GPS app, eventually, because currently I think you have to Kickstart the GPS with another app, and VisualGPS seems too CPU intensive for the job.
More to come. I've only had it out of the box for around 48 hours
Hopefully I'll look into the GPS stamping issue, if I can figure out and find a nice image manipulation library. But I have some other priorities on this board first (VJToggleToday, to maximise Today screen space. Works well on the Mio though).
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vijay555 said:
I'm going to try to write a release version of the GPS app, eventually, because currently I think you have to Kickstart the GPS with another app, and VisualGPS seems too CPU intensive for the job.
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You don't need to kickstart it this way if you use HW_COM & 57600 baud in tomtom instead of COM 4.

But will that still use Ephemeris?
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No it doesn't, but it still locks on pretty quickly. Typically, I get tomtom loaded & a good lock in around 60 seconds. (25 seconds or so of that is tomtom booting up, then another 10 or so while it finds the COM port).

Onda V975i mod to enable flashing of Win8.1 Bios

Hey fellow members on xda, I've decided to mirror my thread here to help out you guys if you require. If you require further assistance, head on over to http://www.slatedroi...bios/?p=1218898 or you could reply here. I can't guarantee a timely reply here as I can on slatedroid but I'll try my best!
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This is a slatedroid exclusive by lambstone. Some resources taken from http://www.ondaos.com/. Feel free to share a link to this thread or the contents so long as my donation link remains.
It is now necessary to solder on two resistors to be able to flash win8.1 bios properly without the HDMI/Screen bug. This is why Onda has delayed the Win8.1 update as they were probably trying to find a way to do so without a hardware modification. Unfortunately, it is pretty much confirmed that you need to solder two minuscule resistors onto an equally tiny spot to be able to flash win8.1. Most of us have really horrible soldering skills. Luckily, if you read on, I've come up with an alternate solution that will enable the majority of us to perform this hardware mod with minimal skill.
This is a pre-requisite for flashing of win8.1. Win8.1 instructions to follow once I have performed this mod.
Original Idea as found on http://www.ondaos.com/. Translated and paraphrased by lambstone
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Tools Required = 2x 0402 2.2k Ohm Resistors, Soldering Iron, Solder, Flux, Over 9000 lvl soldering skills
Steps = Solder resistor onto the red boxes into the above box.
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Alternate Idea as found on http://www.ondaos.com/. Translated and paraphrased by lambstone
Tools: 6B Pencil
Steps: Use pencil to draw a line across the contact points to close the circuit
Non-confirmed side effects: Possible loss of HDMI output. Unsure how long the graphite lasts
This works because graphite while conducting electricity have a fairly high resistance. DO NOT SHORT CIRCUIT by simply soldering the two points together or something like that.
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My novel idea and workaround.
In case another user thinks I did not come up with this idea. Please open the spoiler just below
guerreromanuel, on 05 Jul 2014 - 01:04 AM, said:
I would donate you but a chinese had the idea in ondaos forum so I dont know if you were the one clever or the one copying and saying he is the inventor. I dont like the last thing, is better to link -> Link
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lambstone, on 05 Jul 2014 - 4:32 PM, said:
I don't copy and claim credit. That user is me a hint would be that he and I have the same username? I posted it there and then I decided to do a in depth post about it here. Sorry I wasn't too clear about it on the main post, I have updated the main post accordingly.
Here's the proof. (This is the same link you provided)
I understand your concerns given that it had originally seemed I stole the idea. As for donations, if you're still willing to donate since I have proven to you that it is my own idea. You know where the link is.
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Things you will need
0402 2.2K Ohm Resistor (They come in bulk, normally like a strip of 100, cheap though. $1.99 for 100)
0.2ML New Silver Conductive Wire Glue Paste
Steps
Remove battery first
Apply wire glue to the four contact points as indicated by the motherboard image above
Press resistor to board on top of fresh glue careful to check there is no short circuit
Do not touch device over 8++ hours
You're done.
Donate to me for making this possible. Link's in my signature. Or just click this sentence.

Hey, i've sucessfully installed dual boot on the tablet with Grub, Manjaro Linux work !
http://www.ondaforum.com/topic/1674-dual-boot-is-possible-d/

can this be applied on other tablets?
tikilou said:
Hey, i've sucessfully installed dual boot on the tablet with Grub, Manjaro Linux work !
http://www.ondaforum.com/topic/1674-dual-boot-is-possible-d/
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chuwi v99i has no hdmi and shipped without windows 8. it still has bay trail intel processor. i was wondering can it also have windows 8?

Thanks for sharing.

Huge battery drain problem on stock device

Hello there!
I'm having problems with this device, the Mi 10 Lite 5G (Monet) in particular.
Out of nowhere it started having an insane battery drain. To the point that if i unplug it from the charger before i go to sleep so the phone starts at 100% battery, when I wake up between 6 and 8 hours later, I find it at 30 to 50%, at an average of 7-8%/h.
I'm on all stock: latest MIUI, no bootlocker unlocked, no root, ironically I chose this device 'cause i didn't want any headaches.
Remembering my olden modding days, I remembered about the wakelock hunts, so that's the first thing i thought about. I tried multiple apps to do so and even the Battery Historian tool via a bugreport. Everything points to some kernel wakelocks that pretty consistently activate, not letting my CPU sleep at all, which makes sense as to why It would drain battery like that. The problem is I can't figure out what causes it. There's no app that does it, it seems to be all kernel stuff, I even factory reset and tested without installing anything. Either it's something with the system itself, that I can't quite pinpoint, or i'm starting to think it might be hardware. I don't wanna sway anyone, but my best bet is it could be a faulty usb-c charging port. Although I don't know how it could make it this bad, and I'm obviously not sure it even is it. Would suck to change it, spend money on it, and still have the problem.
Aside from the wakelocks, there's also another bit of info that makes me think that: when off, if i plug the usb cable in to charge it, the phone doesn't get to the battery charging animation, but it keeps showing me the Xiaomi logo screen, over and over. I haven't tested if it actually charges in the background or not, for fear of making things worse.
I even checked if there was something weird in the hidden battery stats by dialing the code *#*#6485#*#*, but aside from the phone going into "sink attached" mode at random intervals, which apparently means it's trying to provide charge to something else through the port or wireless charge (that this phone doesn't even have)...? I can't tell if there's anything weird with it or not.
I know my way around android a little bit, but I'm a little bit lacking when it comes to intricate information like this, and I couldn't find any information about this (these) particular wakelock(s) and everything else around 'em.
I'd really appreciate it if someone who knows this kind of stuff better than me could help me out with it. Even just to know what the problem is and there's no real solution.
I'll attach a couple screenshots from Battery Historian (my phone's been factory reset, so I have no apps on it, and don't plan on putting any on aside from the ones I absolutely need, in case I have to send in in for repairs, or root/mod it to try and mitigate or solve this) and alsothe bugreport itself, in case someone needs to look at it in detail to try and sniff out the problem.
Also, if this wan't the right place to post this, let me know. I went for the device, but maybe there's a better section to more in general help with these types of issues, but if there is i couldn't find it.
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Thanks in advance to anyone who even only just thinks about helping me out!
EDIT: For anyone reading this, the problem was indeed a broken usb-c port/module. I bought a replacement and swapped it out myself and my battery is back to being perfect. Well, almost perfect... This quickly discharging business has lowered its health obviously.
I suspect some sort of short would make my phone believe something was continously being inserted and removed into the usb port, so the CPU would keep being woken up, and kept consuming extra power to try and read something off of it.
I hope this helps someone!

From what I can tell there is no problem. The battery is being consumed at a normal rate by the cpu, wifi and Bluetooth. If you're not using them just deactivate them.
Check the USB port for fluff etc stuffed deep down by repetitive compacting. Use something pin like but not metallic to scrape any foreign objects out.

shivadow said:
From what I can tell there is no problem. The battery is being consumed at a normal rate by the cpu, wifi and Bluetooth. If you're not using them just deactivate them.
Check the USB port for fluff etc stuffed deep down by repetitive compacting. Use something pin like but not metallic to scrape any foreign objects out.
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While it does appear that it is being used normally, that graph stays the same if i turn everything off, either through airplane mode or by manually disabling wi-fi, bluetooth, GPS, or anything else. I can't turn off the CPU, so there must be something that keeps it up and running for no reason while it should instead be sleeping, and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Which is why i think it might be hardware.
I will do the deeper cleaning operation as soon as I can get my hands on a pin-like object small enough that's not metal. Everything i have is either slightly too big to reach more than just the surface of the port, or thin enough but metallic.

Dirt sensed as humidity by the sensor, use of the USB cable locked

As the title said one day my usb stopped working. If I connect the cable a warning with a loud sound starts playing. The warning is about humidity found in the port but it has been months and also I tried cleaning it multiple times and the first time there was definitely a lot of dirt inside the port. Image example
- I tried cleaning with a wooden stick and alcohol but at most I got temporary results
- I flashed lineageOS but the only difference was that the warning was not shown. The cable still could not charge so the sensor must be connected to the kernel or what else directly
- I did a complete reset installing the rom and then going back to stock rom so I know it can't be solved with that
- I tried multiple cables including new ones and they do not work (when the humidity notification disappears the also works).
- the issue also appear with the phone turned off
I bought a wireless charger and power bank and the phone is abosolutely perfect aside from the battery life so I'd like to keep it if possible, the main issue is that I cannot use android auto. I thnik I'll wait up to the pixel 7a and then buy that at worst..
- does anyone know where the sensor is placed exactly
- I once cleaned up the hole on the side of the usb charging port and I think it also had a short term effect, anyone know what that hole is for?
- any cleaning tips?
- anyone knows if maybe a custom kernel could be the solution?
I already tried the stuff found online for example on here https://www.samsung.com/ie/support/...splays-a-water-drop-icon-and-will-not-charge/

Maybe it's caused by pocket lint cram'd up into USB socket? I use a fine bristle brush for cleaning fuzzy stuff out from there:
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BTW IDK what you mean by "the hole on the side of the usb charging port" as the only hole on my S10e near USB socket is for the phone's microphone (between USB port and speaker grille).

> the only hole on my S10e near USB socket is for the phone's microphone (between USB port and speaker grille).
Yes I meant that one. I asked because once I cleaned that and it seemed to work for a little while so I was wondering.
How easy is to open the s10e to clean like in your picture? I've opened laptops and a tablet once so I have some expericence.
Thanks for your reply

For me it was a challenge, but I was desperate. Definitely wait until you are in the proper mood and allow planty of time for the job. Watch some YouTube vids, and look at other step-by-step webpages. Alot of things can go wrong, but if you're really very careful you can achieve success, tho the device's water resistance will never be the same as originally.
Here are a couple good starting links:
Samsung Galaxy S10e Motherboard Replacement
This guide shows how to remove and replace the...
www.ifixit.com

Thanks! I think at this point I'll just wait for a new phone I like if I can't fix it without opening, since battery life also started getting pretty bad and a new battery cost could just go towards the new phone

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Someone Logged into my stolen phone!!!

So someone decided to steal a broken phone belonging to me. The screen was smashed & im pretty sure it wouldn’t turn on, I couldn’t feel it viberate when powering on, but unsure if even powered.
Now since then I logged into the Google account & seen the device was active yesterday on a known network, I couldn’t see the name.
No SIM cards or sim tray in the phone for mobile data.
Passcode to enter the phone was my name.
Is it possible that someone powered the phone on with the broken screen there for it connected to a known network? Even possible to power on a phone with. Broken screen? Phone need to be unlocked to connect to Wi-Fi?
I am dumbfounded.
Samsung Galaxy A03Core.

As long as the SOC is intact anything is possible...

blackhawk said:
As long as the SOC is intact anything is possible...
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Well I know it is due to recent activity, Im absolutely sickened. Issue I have is when I last had access to it, it wouldn’t even light up when plugged into PC.
Now it’s stolen & recently active…

Some ejit replaced screen & either got in via passcode & or the Device connected to known network? Only possibility I can imagine?

why don't you ERASE DEVICE from google?
https://google.com/android/devicemanager

How was it stolen? Contact the police if so or if accessing your account. FBI complaint as well if needed.
Oh well... live and learn.

alecxs said:
why don't you ERASE DEVICE from google?
google.com/android/devicemanager
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I have done, trying to figure out how it came back online with a broken screen or is the that someone went through the effort & replaced the screen then logged in?

blackhawk said:
How was it stolen? Contact the police if so or if accessing your account. FBI complaint as well if needed.
Oh well... live and learn.
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Pretty sure it was taken from my house, 90% sure but there is the other 10% chance it was elsewhere. I live in EU. trying to figure out how it came back online with a broken screen or is the that someone went through the effort & replaced the screen then logged in?

WhoCanFindTheFlashFile said:
Pretty sure it was taken from my house, 90% sure but there is the other 10% chance it was elsewhere. I live in EU. trying to figure out how it came back online with a broken screen or is the that someone went through the effort & replaced the screen then logged in?
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Yes it's doable. See what free legal avenues are available to you where you are. I would leave it be as such until you do that. Best if you can find and prosecute the offender. Hammer 'em.
Secure bank accounts etc. now. Change email address and passwords.

no need for screen unlock to connect to known wifi. it's possible to mirror screen to tv and control phone with mouse and keyboard, though
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@alecxs Is that a frame buffer device there?
Which devices support a frame buffer with mirroring without doing anything?
I presume that it's not just a Type C alt mode?

Thanks for the informative reply’s il get it back somehow.

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@alecxs Is that a frame buffer device there?
Which devices support a frame buffer with mirroring without doing anything?
I presume that it's not just a Type C alt mode?
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Can't answer that, but Samsung DeX works OOTB.

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There's lots of sites saying that if it supports USB 3.1 then it supports video.
OTOH, Qualcomm has tons of USB 3.1 processors and DisplayPort alt-mode only came in on the SDM835, SDM845.
I've tried using an HDMI adapter on my SDM636 (USB 3.1) and it doesn't work.
I've no idea if the adapter converts from DisplayPort to HDMI or whether it uses HDMI alt-mode.