I have a blackberry 8830 and did the ota install. It works I can see the tower that I am using but not the map info. I am with VZW also. I guess I would have to have navigator to see locations? It would be great to find exactly where to point my yagi antenna. Any suggestions? thanks in advance.
Sorry JC, must have missed that. There always seems to be some controversy with VZ Nav and allowing 3rd party apps to use the GPS, so I just figured I would post that I personally have had success.
I found one bug... if network connection is off, it will crash with java null pointer error.
It then keep trying to get information, so it's not a "hard" crash like bbweather does when profile doesn't exist.
Otherwise it's a nice utility app.
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I installed it this morning, very nice and informative app.
However, I noticed that even though the GPS info screen showed me as not moving, my coordinates kept changing and my elevation kept getting higher and higher and higher (no, I was not going up an elevator). I'll play with it more and see if that was a one-time thing.
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I installed it this morning, very nice and informative app.
However, I noticed that even though the GPS info screen showed me as not moving, my coordinates kept changing and my elevation kept getting higher and higher and higher (no, I was not going up an elevator). I'll play with it more and see if that was a one-time thing.
It's an artifact of the GPS error. Even when you're stopped, you'll appear to be moving around inside the sphere defined by the vertical and horizontal error. The GPS Details page displays exactly what the GPS is reporting. On the main page, I suppress the speed and course when the speed is < 1m/s.
Any chance it will eventually work with Google Maps? I really don't want to have BB Maps on my phone unless I need it.
I was working on it last night but it's not looking good. The only documentation I can find on how to start Google Maps with landmarks requires me to upload the list to a server, then start Google Maps with the network URL. I'm still investigating though.
Signal Location Utilities for BlackBerry Change Log
--- SignalLocBB - Build 0.1.710 - Released July 30 2008
* Added: [ 2032956 ] Allow export to KML
* Fixed: [ 2032917 ] NPE cancelling from file save
* Fixed: [ 2032914 ] NPE if Radio is off
* Minor UI tweaks and typo corrections.
--- SignalLocBB - Build 0.1.704 - Released July 29 2008