BAF GPS Toggle, v1.9 [Updated 7/23]

[kcmoney13]

Ok I appologize Baffle, it is working fine. I had to do another soft boot to get everthing to work correctly. now is working with no problems. I definately appreciate all of your hard work on this. Cant wait to see the next version.
THanks again

[Baffles]

Originally Posted by kcmoney13

Baffle have you had any more luck on the GPS you have created. I installed your can hoping it would help me out but no luck yet. I am still experiencing the problem where it works off the bad on a fresh soft boot. When I exit out of google maps and then get back in it is still giving me the initializing GPS message. any ideas?

You shouldn't need to toggle GPS at all with this app to get Google Maps to work. This is only for substandard apps like Tom Tom, iGo, etc.

Welll, no, I can't. I turned off the service friday. Battery life is nearly identical, hard to say for sure since I keep fiddling with GPS all the time - but for sure, it's in the ballpark of the same (ie, using about 30-40% of my battery in a typical day)

I'll keep an eye on it, but near as I can tell, if you've put your GPS in stand-alone mode, the service is a BAD THING, not a good thing.

And with the service disabled, all GPS apps work normally without a launcher or mod? Perhaps we can toggle the service on and off (if it is found to have a power difference) rather than force GPS on and off.

[justpctech]

just a little bump here for a killer app...keep reading posts where people are having all these issues starting their GPS for whatever navigation app they are using...its as simple as using the BAF GPS toggle plugin. I've got it incorporated into Ultimate Launcher so it doesn't take up any real estate on the Today screen either...works great.

[justpctech]

Hey BAF, is there any way of linking to this plugin somehow? I'm using the SPB Mobile Shell now and trying to figure how to keep it off the actual Today screen if possible.

[Baffles]

To do that, I need to make a separate sub project, which probably won't be done for a short while. I do however hope to have a new version up soon, I have a somewhat working version of it going now, just doing some more debugging on it to get it up.

[schettj]

Originally Posted by Baffles

And with the service disabled, all GPS apps work normally without a launcher or mod? Perhaps we can toggle the service on and off (if it is found to have a power difference) rather than force GPS on and off.

Still running in standalone mode, service off and disabled - still no issues
GPSToday works
Google Maps works
WLS works
GPS Viewer works
my custom mortscript works

GPS does not seem to get hung up. Might take a little longer to get the first log in a new location or after a long time. Other then that, no issues with battery life, etc...

[justpctech]

Originally Posted by schettj

Still running in standalone mode, service off and disabled - still no issues

I can verify this also, no issues whatsoever, battery life good.

[Phil_00]

im getting error 55 when i tryed to enable this via my today screen....whats that mean

[Baffles]

Originally Posted by justpctech

I can verify this also, no issues whatsoever, battery life good.

So what is involved in disabling the service?

Originally Posted by Phil_00

im getting error 55 when i tryed to enable this via my today screen....whats that mean

Error 55 means device not found. Make sure the GPS settings in control panel are set for COM4. Next release (which is pretty much ready, except for the same power problems which seem to plague even GPSGate) removes the COM4 requirement letting it be on any COM port, as long as google maps works in auto configuration mode.

[justpctech]

back up top (just making sure this killer app dont get TOO buried here)