Database Users

VOIP while visiting Orlando?

Am due to go on vacation to Orlando from the UK Oct 21st, and thought I might see about using my T-Mobile Vario (aka Wizard) to make VOIP calls home to family.
got me thinking, Orlando is a popular destination so wonder if the good folks here had been there to do this with this phone.
So, if anyone out there has done this then please let me know how you got on, was it easy to do, could you get WIFI access OK in "tourist" places etc. etc.
I am a newbie at this, have Skype account so colud put some money into Skype Out, but thought would ask here first for possible better ways.

I think pocket skype, overclocking and a free wifi access point will be your best bet.
I use pocket Skype with Omapclock set to 240 mhz. With a decent wifi signal it works very well in my experience.
There are many businesses that offer free wifi access - Restaraunts such as IHOP and Panera Bread as well as many smaller mom and pop eateries.
Of course there are the hotels that almost always offer free wifi for those who stay there as well as anyone in the parking lot
If you are visiting Disney while in Orlando you might want to check out this information:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/Resorts/wireless.htm
I wouldn't worry about running out of wifi if that is your concern.
Good luck and have a safe trip!

take a look at my site i got working voipcheap on the mda vario perfectly with wireless and it is documented how to do it.
but voipcheap now charge 1p a min as it used to be free before :evil:

eddieitman said:
take a look at my site i got working voipcheap on the mda vario perfectly with wireless and it is documented how to do it.
but voipcheap now charge 1p a min as it used to be free before :evil:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try Voipstunt.com. It is still free to certain countries

Bypass Wifi security program

I am travelling a lot and this would be very nice, to have a program to get onto a secured wifi network, for example the networks on airports and hotels??
Does anyone know if this excists for a PDA?

Bazzz66 said:
I am travelling a lot and this would be very nice, to have a program to get onto a secured wifi network, for example the networks on airports and hotels??
Does anyone know if this excists for a PDA?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't suppose you would mind giving out your address so someone can come by and steal some of your stuff while you are on these trips. That seems fair.

Even if we ignore the ethics of braking in to secure networks for a moment (something you can go to prison for in many places) you should know that PDAs simply do not have the processing power to break the encryption.
So the program you are asking for can not exist.

the legal issue is if one tag along on a unsecure network and spread provide kiddyP0rn or hack into goverment instalations the owner of the connection is legaly held responsible thats why it's seen as more
then a free ride on unused bandwidth

WiFi/Cell tower Navigation, earn money if you have GPS

This program is awesome.
If you have a bluetooth GPS receiver you can collect data and the company pays you.
It is a navigation progam the uses cell towers, wifi AP's, or GPS.
Maps load faster than google maps in my opinion.
BUT the coolest thing is that they will pay you to collect data for them. As your driving around it searches for AP's and cell towers and stores that info along with the GPS locations. Then you send that info to their servers and they give you points. 2 per wifi AP and 10 per cell tower. When you get 10,000 points they give you $20. I know 10,000 sounds like a lot, but I've used this a few hours while driving around town to the store and stuff like that and I already have over 2000 points.
Check it out, it's free
First goto:
http://my.navizon.com/Webapps/UserAdmin/register.aspx?referral_code=5D56565E5A56
and sign up for an account, then you can either download the free version from their site, or I've included a link to the .cab file here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/83451235/NavizonCab.cab.html

Navizon ... at the risk of sounding like an ad.

This may sound like I'm just spamming the board with an ad or whatever, but this really works.
Here is their email to send to friends.
I would like to introduce you to Navizon:
http://www.navizon.com
Navizon is a wireless positioning system that works a little bit like a GPS, only that it uses Cellular Towers and Wifi access points instead of satellites. In addition to being a wireless position system, Navizon offers cool features like the Directions, Buddy finder, Geotags and many more...
This software relies on a community of users who contribute data to the system (WiFi and Cellular towers) when they have a GPS device. And the cool thing is that we can earn money doing it with the Navizon reward system:
http://www.navizon.com/navizon_rewards.asp
I'm already using it and you could make money too with it if you're interested. All you need is to install it on your phone and have Navizon connected to your GPS. Every Wifi access points that you pass, every cell tower that you log will mean money in your pocket. So if you have a phone that is compatible with this software, you should really check it out.
If you plan on registering, please do so by clicking on the link below:
http://my.navizon.com/Webapps/UserAdmin/register.aspx?referral_code=5B5A595B575A
That way, I can also earn some referral points since I'm the one who introduced you to the system ;-)
End of email from Navizon
So before you call me greedy for posting my referral link, or calling this spam, try it out. I got 12000 points in the first day. I have 38904 now, after four days. I realize that as the data in navizon's database is filled up, the points will be coming slower, since the first discovery of an AP is worth more than subsequent discoveries, but it is still worth it. Remember also that new APs go in everyday. I was absolutely SHOCKED at how mny there are.
After all, this is meant for those without GPS to be able to use it like GPS, but more accurately than Google Maps for Mobile. (I tried the service without my GPS on, and it locked on me within 200 feet, much better than GMM) So, if you don't have GPS and want to use the service, you'll have to pay $24.95 per month, but it works really well. If you want to help build and improve the service, they'll pay you for it.
I wish I hadn't told my wife about this, so I could use the money for whatever I want to, but I had to justify the purchase of the bluetooth GPS unit. ($25 from CompUSA during clearance... was a $250 unit from Motorola! I should have bought all of them and sold some) Anyway, to keep her off my back, I can only spend half of it on XDA.
In addition, any points I get from users signing up with my reference number will go entirely to XDA.(and the ROM/.cab chefs, of course)
So it all comes back to you in the end. You lose no points by using this link, I just get more to spend on this forum. Ttran is getting the first chunk for his awesome ROM I'm using now.
http://my.navizon.com/Webapps/UserAdmin/register.aspx?referral_code=5B5A595B575A
Any questions, just ask. I can even try to help you set up your bluetooth GPS.

Now up to 54000 points. (That's $100) My thanks to those who've signed up, and as long as you keep it running, those points will add up. Just take it with you everywhere, and don't forget to start the WiFi on the phone comm manager.

GPS taking forever to track in while visiting france from US

This is a AT&T Atrix with a fresh darkside ROM on 0.1.9 kernel....
the GPS was working perfect over back home and would lock on within few seconds...
I just came on vacation here for a week and now it's taking FOREVER (from a minute to never) to get a lock. at times it'll 'see' 6-11 satellites and still can't track...
any ideas with this?

Clear data and cache for Google Maps, Mapdroyd and other such software.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

I reset AGPS on gps status
if i clear cache, i might loose pre cached maps as i ached it for walking around town

I was in Paris over the summer with the atrix. Unfortunately I felt similar issue. It takes about one minute or more to lock on to GPS. Sometimes I had to reboot the phone. Problem is I find that all phones that have GPS chips built in usually
have very cheap chips inside. Thing is I believe that phone manufactures put low end chips to save cost. Plus they rely on the fact that you are using data all time with google maps. With data, GPS can lock on very fast since it can talk to the cell towers and find out where it is. But there isn't really anything you can do since your traveling and obviously not paying for roaming. If you can get a WiFi hotspot that will make your GPS lock quickly again. Other than that you have to just wait in an area with a lot of open sky.

bummer... my dad's iphone connects well, but he bought data plan with it...
around eiffel it picked it up rather quick (open space I guess) but around buildings it was worse. much worse than downtown miami back home...
I was hoping on relying on that alot lol. too bad I gotta use maps now. omg, so old school (haha)

When the A-GPS is deactivated, which I guess it is, since you guys deactivated data (because of expensive roaming) it takes longer.
The GPS needs to "download" the Almanac and that takes time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Almanac
But once this happened, it should lock back on much faster. The case here might be that our phone relies on data/ A-GPS, so the Alamanac doesn't get stored.
Can someone with a stock-ROM confirm this?

It acquires a lock much slower because it can't use A-gps like it does in the US.
To tackle this you would need to connect it to WiFi in france, change your ntp server to a european one with FasterFix or manually, turn on gps and get it to lock on once.
After that time it will download a-gps cache relevant for European locations and things will go much faster.

Well using the wifi at the hotel. I downloaded the newest a-gps data with gps status. it's 0 days old...
at times I'd see 4-5 sats today, but still had trouble. but my dad's iphone (and my and their ipads) trac with GPS right away.
I even turned on data to check if this was the cause and it didn't help. that test cost me about 700kb which probably will cost me 10 bucks

Had the same issue in France and England last month
I was in Paris and London with my wife a few weeks ago and I saw the same thing happening in both cities/countries. I have an unlocked (free by AT&T) Atrix and I was using prepaid SIMs from Orange France and Orange UK so I had 3G data in both countries. Before I left for Europe I had pre-cached Google Maps of Paris and London as well but found out I didn't need to since it was pretty easy for me to get a data connection in both cities.
Anyway, when I tried to use GPS while walking around town it would sometimes take several minutes for it to get a lock on my position. Several times it took so long I just used the map itself to find my way around instead of waiting for the GPS to locate me.
Anyway, it's a bit off-topic from the original post but if anyone is about to go visit either of those cities/countries I would highly recommend getting your phone unlocked so you can buy a prepaid sim when you land. You can walk into an Orange store in Paris and for 10 euros you get your prepaid account setup with a remaining 5 euro credit and then you pay for a 10 euro "recharge" to your account which you can then use to get unlimited data for one month. In London you can get a prepaid "Dolphin" sim for 10 pounds and then another 10 pounds will buy you 250 MB of data (it's not unlimited in the U.K.).

no Agps. /thread

You can modify /system/etc/gps.conf to make gps start faster for the certain region, as I did (I have AT&T Atrix, but live in Russia). Here is my contents of gps.conf:
Code:
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
NTP_SERVER=ru.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
I think you can use europe.pool.ntp.org for France.