Updated GPS Drivers (Possible Fix For Standby Issues)

[mardukeme]

Originally Posted by ptfdmedic

I tried the my usual method of priming and no go.... How do you manually start the required drivers...

Dot Fred's Tasks manager which can be found here. http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm

My GPS is a complete no go now. Any advice on getting it going...

[mardukeme]

Originally Posted by ptfdmedic

My GPS is a complete no go now. Any advice on getting it going...

That's because the drivers, have not loaded, and the service has not been started. You can use hgray's GPS Kick Start program found here. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=25027 You still need to start virser_gps manual. This dll is responsible for restarting the GPS device once the phone has gone into standby mode.

[rstoyguy]

Here is where I am so far. I use GPSViewer.
Whenever I want to get a lock, I run gpsviewer, let it scan for the gps. It finds it on COM4. I then set the baud rate to 19200, then click OpenGPS. I hit the "Cold Start" button and within a minute I'm locked onto 7 satellites... I could only get 4 before. Any body else wanna try this? And whose idea was it to set it at 4800? That is so 1990's! But who else wants to try this and who can automate it?

[mardukeme]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

Here is where I am so far. I use GPSViewer.
Whenever I want to get a lock, I run gpsviewer, let it scan for the gps. It finds it on COM4. I then set the baud rate to 19200, then click OpenGPS. I hit the "Cold Start" button and within a minute I'm locked onto 7 satellites... I could only get 4 before. Any body else wanna try this? And whose idea was it to set it at 4800? That is so 1990's! But who else wants to try this and who can automate it?

Not sure, I had set mine to 115200 to see if it would work and it did. It might be that there is no noticeable difference if you increase the baud rate so everyone just leaves it at the deafult speed.

[hgray]

Got a problem with the new dlls. When I put them on, GpsDaemonService ceases working. It won't start by my app and dotFred acts like it can't find the file.... like when we were trying before. (reference to mardukeme)

EDIT: Also, I don't think it is the GpsDaemonService.dll. At least not exclusively. When I tried to replace it with the dll I had before, the same problem occurred.

EDIT2: I put qccmquery.dll back on and it starts now. Any comments?

I also updated my kickstart program... exe and cab with dll's+exe in the first post.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...22&postcount=1

[mindfrost82]

Originally Posted by hgray

Got a problem with the new dlls. When I put them on, GpsDaemonService ceases working. It won't start by my app and dotFred acts like it can't find the file.... like when we were trying before. (reference to mardukeme)

EDIT: Also, I don't think it is the GpsDaemonService.dll. At least not exclusively. When I tried to replace it with the dll I had before, the same problem occurred.

EDIT2: I put qccmquery.dll back on and it starts now. Any comments?

I also updated my kickstart program... exe and cab with dll's+exe in the first post.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...22&postcount=1

This has made my phone VERY unstable. It has locked on me about 3 times since installing it this morning. Sometimes after a soft-reset I'll get the calnot.exe and repllog.exe errors too.

[Success100]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

Here is where I am so far. I use GPSViewer.
Whenever I want to get a lock, I run gpsviewer, let it scan for the gps. It finds it on COM4. I then set the baud rate to 19200, then click OpenGPS. I hit the "Cold Start" button and within a minute I'm locked onto 7 satellites... I could only get 4 before. Any body else wanna try this? And whose idea was it to set it at 4800? That is so 1990's! But who else wants to try this and who can automate it?

4800 is the default baud rate for most consumer GPS devices

Have you guys seen the new ppckitchen for vogue gps roms. I just build one and seem to be having more luck. I am using iGO and anm getting locks right away using Astro. I cannot however seem to get a lock on google maps...

[mardukeme]

Originally Posted by mindfrost82

This has made my phone VERY unstable. It has locked on me about 3 times since installing it this morning. Sometimes after a soft-reset I'll get the calnot.exe and repllog.exe errors too.

I updated the files in the first post, if want to give a try now. I never received those errors. Though the phone seemed like it was locking but it was not. The GPS was using the majority of the phones resources, which gave an illusion of a lock. Well anyways the new files do not cause those problems anymore.