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Anybody got this working on the hero?
I saw it on the gadget show where the presenter was seeing her friends current position (who was carrying a gps enabled phone) on her pc in real time and she was able to see where she was going etc.
Now i have paired up the pc and my hero but when looking at my profile on the pc it gives my position of a day ago or 23 hours ago!
Is it possible to see in "real time" or is it only able to see past locations?
Thanks in advance
Gaz
It's working right out of the box for me.
I've been using it since I got my hero.
It works great, I can see all my mates on it in real-time too!
Make sure you've set it up properly...
I set it up on igoogle on my laptop and just added a friend(my hero) and thats all i did. but like i say it doesn't show in real time!
Is there anything in particular i should check for?
Thanks
Gaz
I don't think so, since Latitude worked for me right out of the box, as I got my Hero (before it I was using Latitude on a Windows Mobile device). No configuration was needed at all.
@ngel said:
I don't think so, since Latitude worked for me right out of the box, as I got my Hero (before it I was using Latitude on a Windows Mobile device). No configuration was needed at all.
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Hmm. No special requirements are needed from the laptop or anything? Just seems strange.I can pair with the laptop ok but it always shows onw day ago???????
Gaz
Google Latitude works fine for me.
Not in realtime but it works
realtime would mean everyone have to update their location all the time with enabled GPS. oh god my battery
Gazaman said:
Hmm. No special requirements are needed from the laptop or anything? Just seems strange.I can pair with the laptop ok but it always shows onw day ago???????
Gaz
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Latitude works regardless of the device running it: if a GPS receiver il available you'll get the maximum precision, on a regular phone your location will be fixed out (rather well, to be honest) using WiFi hotspots well-known location, carrier geolocation (if available and applicable) and a number of other less obvious methods.
So, on your Hero it'll work using GPS, WiFi or cell tower location: a laptop is not required.
So, if Latitude isn't working for you I can suggest a double-check at its website, looking for some wrong setting. Please note that you'll have to explicitly activate your location sharing, as it's turned off by default. See here: http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge
oooops.............schoolboy error!!!
My calendar was out by a day hence being out by 24hrs....Sorry guys but didn't feel the need to check as it shouldn't be wrong
Do i keep having to refresh the page then to see where it is?
Sorry once again folks
Gaz
Got my new HD2 this morning - very happy with it - love the screen, love HTC sense. Don't like the big ugly camera lens sticking out of the back and I am not liking some of my data issues.
Location/Weather - this morning I was in Tokyo, lunchtime Paris and this afternoon I was in Province of MoscRU - wherever that is. I'm in Reading. If I go to weather then click on Update Now I just get the message 'There was a connection error while attempting to download weather data. Retry?' It does seem to know what the weather is like in London but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to predict it's going to be 'Partly Cloudy' anywhere in the UK so I. On my home page I get no weather and no location.
YouTube - I had problems with that not connecting at all - error message to do with the connection but a hard reset sorted that out.
Facebook - All I get is rotating coloured balls for a couple of seconds and then the word Fetching... in the centre of the screen. On every page - apart from Info and there is a little data on there. It seemed to log in OK but doesn't want to show anything.
E-mail works fine - after I removed the proxy server tick
Browser works fine.
This is all on mobile network - I will try with wi-fi tonight - although wifi is not much use as if I have wifi then 99% of the time I have a PC.
Sorry if you think this should not have been a new thread but after searching the forum I found nothing too similar.
Is this just WM probs - I had a WM6.1 Touch HD in the past and most things sort of work when you have tweaked and messed around. I am moving from an iPhone now and for all the negative points of the iPhone it does mostly work.
Hope someone out there can help
I'm having a similiar problem myself. Funnily enough I'm in Reading also!
My weather doesn't update from my location, and I'm constantly in Toyko!
Haven't managed to get outlook working at all. Hotmail syns well, for maybe the first 10 minutes. Then doesn't do anything. I have tried the proxy trick, it was already unticked.
If I hard reset then hotmail will work again for a while.
I'm on vodafone however.
Any help will be good, am completely new to win mob!
having problems with it myself on TMobile. I'm gonna ring them in a bit and ask them about that proxy setting stuff. seems strange to have it auto setup if everyone has to turn it off. my YouTube doesn't work with or without it. Igot them to turn the child lock off last night.
I'm on 3UK. I can confirm that everything works beautifully on both wifi & 3G. Sounds to me like a T-Mobile issue. Perhaps you can just use Google Map to do a simple test (without using GPS) to see what location it thinks.
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On my home page I get no weather and no location.
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Sorry if you've already done this, but I had exactly the same issue when I first turned on my HD2 - no Sense location, no facebook login etc. But then I turned the phone off and on again and it all worked fine....
Certainly not a T-Mobile wide issue. Location and weather work without issue for me.
Facebook isn't working currently, but that's a facebook not a HD2 or T-Mobile issue (can only currently log in through m.facebook, not main site or apps).
Youtube - fine.
Luapo said:
I'm having a similiar problem myself. Funnily enough I'm in Reading also!
My weather doesn't update from my location, and I'm constantly in Toyko!
Haven't managed to get outlook working at all. Hotmail syns well, for maybe the first 10 minutes. Then doesn't do anything. I have tried the proxy trick, it was already unticked.
If I hard reset then hotmail will work again for a while.
I'm on vodafone however.
Any help will be good, am completely new to win mob!
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My weather / My Location updated fine when I went home (small village outside High Wycombe - I was impressed because it told me the village - not the nearest big town.
Cannot get Facebook to work - tried it with an O2 sim card - same problem.
In response to Wilbur - it has been turned on and off numerous times as well as several soft resets and 4 hard resets.
In response to ahaaee - I did try Google maps - it new exactly where I was. I assume Google maps uses GPS whereas My Location uses Mobile network triangulation - just a guess???
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My weather / My Location updated fine when I went home (small village outside High Wycombe - I was impressed because it told me the village - not the nearest big town.
Cannot get Facebook to work - tried it with an O2 sim card - same problem.
In response to Wilbur - it has been turned on and off numerous times as well as several soft resets and 4 hard resets.
In response to ahaaee - I did try Google maps - it new exactly where I was. I assume Google maps uses GPS whereas My Location uses Mobile network triangulation - just a guess???
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The majority of people aren't in the situation where a few paces in either direction would change your weather or time zone, so I don't the precision of GPS is really required.
That also more likely explains the bad locations. It's more likely that there's a tower or two in Reading that Google is getting confused about than it is that GPS would give such a random location for.
My weathet problem solved
Got my HD2 today. Had the same problem with weather/Location. Here is a very simple fix which worked for me:
http://forum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=31017&start=30&sid=ac2d55db9769fa7a8f60fb5272a3a491
For some reason, Google's location service and AccuWeather don't play together nicely in some parts of the country. You can work around the bug though by tapping the clock on the home tab (to get the "World Clock" screen), adding your (nearest) city and selecting it - the weather and time for that city will then always be shown (it won't automatically change location when you do, anymore). Also, obviously you can just add the relevant location in the weather tab to fix the problem there. The Hero has the same problem in the same locations, which makes it likely (but not certain) that it's not HTC's fault.
so I bought a htc hd2 using it to type this, however gps wont lock (and kb Really is bad lol) im on o2
any ideas..
Re gps won't find anything
Hi,
A couple of questions. What software are you using? (like Google Maps). You say you can't get a lock, are you able to access any satellite? Have you selected Google Maps Use GPS Option. Have you enabled QuickGPS (Start/Tools/QuickGPS). There is a setting there to let you download Satellite data using your PC connection during Activesync which might help you if you have data issues.
Now, silly question, are you indoors or outdoors when you are trying to get a fix?. Im not always able to get a satellite fix from my living room).
Regards.
Re: gps won't find anything
Hi,
A couple of questions. What software are you using? (like Google Maps). You say you can't get a lock, are you able to access any satellite? Have you selected Google Maps Use GPS Option. Have you enabled QuickGPS (Start/Tools/QuickGPS). There is a setting there to let you download Satellite data using your PC connection during Activesync which might help you if you have data issues.
Now, silly question, are you indoors or outdoors when you are trying to get a fix?. Im not always able to get a satellite fix from my living room).
Regards.
sorry took so long to reply (keyboard really has issues ... or maybe i have the issues and just cant use it) so i came to pc to reply.
i was indoors at the time (trying to show my gf how great my phone is and shes with her iphone getting a gps location in seconds) so i was indoors , i have tried outside however and it dont seem to work, i had the same (and still do) with my xda ignito and just give up on it , but this is a new phone and i just want to be able to sit in my house and go oooh phone says im here haha.
i used quickgps however that has not helped
LOL, knowing that you couldn't get it working on your other phone might have helped in your original posting . Have you talked to O2?
gps does not care about the carrier...
BTW: What the iphone does (and your phone can do too) is the self positining using the google api. that works over the cellular network, using a table of positions where the antennas are lokated and not gps!
GPS indoors is not possible with a antenna like the HD2 or the Iphone has, aslong as you live in a "normal house" and not in some weird mobile home ect...
If it cant get a fix using google maps or tomtom outside of your house within 2minutes of not moving somewhere on the street, or the gps tuner did not even find one satellite, think of hard-resetting your phone and then try again.
if you sill can find anything your antenna might be broken so you need to return your phone to warrenty and get a new one, or yours fixed!
greetz
Intereseting, I've never actually seen a phone using nagigation software without data services from a carrier. I must live a really sheltered life. Good luck.
Usually, every GPS phone has trouble locking from inside houses, with the exception of when you are standing next to a window sometimes. My HD2 however locks in seconds when outside.
I would suggest running QuickGPS (or something along those lines) from Start->Tools, it updates the locations of the satellites so the GPS takes less to locate them when locking.
All the best,
shpatar.
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Intereseting, I've never actually seen a phone using nagigation software without data services from a carrier. I must live a really sheltered life. Good luck.
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what are you talking about? tomtom, garmin etc. never use the carrier to get a fixed gps position. thats why you call it gps, because it uses it and gps is not run by any phone carrier but by the us. forces... so you dont need any dataservice or even simcard to get your gps position with your gps-enabled phone...
larrytango said:
sorry took so long to reply (keyboard really has issues ... or maybe i have the issues and just cant use it) so i came to pc to reply.
i was indoors at the time (trying to show my gf how great my phone is and shes with her iphone getting a gps location in seconds) so i was indoors , i have tried outside however and it dont seem to work, i had the same (and still do) with my xda ignito and just give up on it , but this is a new phone and i just want to be able to sit in my house and go oooh phone says im here haha.
i used quickgps however that has not helped
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Are you using igo8? I know i had to manually set the correct com port (COM4) within igo settings before it would work.
Also you can manually set it in google maps. Try setting it to COM4 baud rate of 4800
The carrier locating in my area is useless when i am inside my house. Says i am like a mile away in the middle of a field! lol.
larrytango said:
sorry took so long to reply (keyboard really has issues ... or maybe i have the issues and just cant use it) so i came to pc to reply.
i was indoors at the time (trying to show my gf how great my phone is and shes with her iphone getting a gps location in seconds) so i was indoors , i have tried outside however and it dont seem to work, i had the same (and still do) with my xda ignito and just give up on it , but this is a new phone and i just want to be able to sit in my house and go oooh phone says im here haha.
i used quickgps however that has not helped
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As others have replied- the iPhone uses a different method of getting your position, as its GPS receiver is pretty poor (which is why TomTom needs its own GPS receiver in a dedicated cradle to work properly )
The HD2 has the best GPS receiver I've yet seen in a mobile device- no longer than 1 minute even from cold start in most cases- and I've used it in UK, Italy and Slovenia in the last 6 weeks. However, if you are indoors it will struggle.
Which software are you using to try and get a fix? Maybe it isn't initiating the GPS correctly.
The Ignito is also pretty good, so maybe you are in a 'dead' area? Have you tried in a different location?
brandi said:
gps does not care about the carrier...
BTW: What the iphone does (and your phone can do too) is the self positining using the google api. that works over the cellular network, using a table of positions where the antennas are lokated and not gps!
GPS indoors is not possible with a antenna like the HD2 or the Iphone has, aslong as you live in a "normal house" and not in some weird mobile home ect...
If it cant get a fix using google maps or tomtom outside of your house within 2minutes of not moving somewhere on the street, or the gps tuner did not even find one satellite, think of hard-resetting your phone and then try again.
if you sill can find anything your antenna might be broken so you need to return your phone to warrenty and get a new one, or yours fixed!
greetz
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i said what network i was on to imply what rom i was on (was first day with hd2 and i was typing using it .. and i wanted to make it as small as possible - hate the kb lol)
and my gf iphone does actually pick up gps in the house , mine doesnt tho.
i got a signal once since i started this when outside after about 20 mins.
i understand what you mean with regards to cell network etc and obviously that works fine .. however gps seems to not like me
Hello guys, im new to the forum and this type of phone so pardon me if i come across ignorant i can assure you this is not through arrogance, i have searched the website for 2days and could not find any advice on this matter and get this message 99% of the time! "Connection error while attempting to download weather data, retry?" (keeps happening no matter how many times i retry)
I have tried hard reset, soft reset even changed my network thinking the data reception was bad but this still seems to be the case where ever i am positioned with my phone.
This is an awesome phone, but an incredibly consuming one that can be frustrating at times! without the guys on this forum I dont think I would have lasted one day!
Any help would be much appreciated!
Make sure your 3G settings do not include "this network connects through a proxy".
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Make sure your 3G settings do not include "this network connects through a proxy".
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i have the same problem and already do that but nothing, always the connection error too!
just a question, you have problem with the connection only when you are trying to download weather update?
Hi,
I get this issue depending on my location. At my home I will get this message, but when I am at my office in Birmingham, it would update the my location weather no problems.
I think that if the place you are trying to get weather data for, is not on the database, then it will give an error. Because the software is not intelligent enough to find the 'nearest' place to your location.
The other problem can be caused by your telecoms, and how your 3g data is routed. As other have mentioned, this might be fixed with the proxy setting.
Oh, and I think you need to be receiving a 3g signal for this to work, I've never seen it work over GPRS...
To be honest, I've disabled the auto updating feature of this now. Because if I really needed to know about the weather of 'my location', I can always take a peek outside!
Sorry that you can't find any information on this. I'm surprised as I think it could possibly be the 2nd most asked question on here behind the old issues with slow SMS delivery. Here a summary of my understanding.
A local Cell tower is used to provide My Location data. Not all locations can be automatically updated Using My Location but most (can be automatically updated by adding the location to a list. A data connection is required and you need to enable Google location services.
It is known behavour for the My Location to all of a sudden start working when you are out and about as your phone connects to a different cell tower in a different location. I for one cannot get My Location dataq in Cheltenham but when I go to Gloucester I can get around 4 different "locations" on my way to work.
There was talk that part of this might be related to multiple locations having the same name and this causing problems with My Location selecting the correct data from the Accuweather database.
Hope this helps a bit althoughn I doubt we will get a fix.
I cannot currently remember if people with different service providers have different behavours with this service.
I got the same problem after using the Sim Contacts Fix... Found out that the stupid update changed the connection and told it to use a proxy server! Check if ur phone did the same thing as mine!
I can get my updates no probs without 3g, have no 3g coverage at the house at all, but what I have found is that when the weather would not work properly, and was giving the wrong location, I logged onto google maps, got a gps fix, and now the weather gives a spot on location, a very small village, that i would doubt being in any database.
I reckon weather pulls the location from the gps fix in googlemaps...
Just a thought.........
kjettern said:
I got the same problem after using the Sim Contacts Fix... Found out that the stupid update changed the connection and told it to use a proxy server! Check if ur phone did the same thing as mine!
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I think that is a slightly differemt issue caussing a similar effect. This issue has been around since the firat HD2 was released and mostly related to MyLocation successfully updating when in one area and not in another, with the same connectivity settings.
Regards.
to OP...
I too have failed to find a proper resolution to the "connection error...".
I know it can work on my phone, as I've seen it work perfectly around Devon & Bournemouth, both indoors and outdoors.
IMHO, it's definately a problem with Accuweather's database, regardless of connection type.
I used Duttys Disable Current Location cab to switch the pointless thing off.
Maybe one day someone will find a way to make it work for everywhere.
pastypacker said:
I can get my updates no probs without 3g, have no 3g coverage at the house at all, but what I have found is that when the weather would not work properly, and was giving the wrong location, I logged onto google maps, got a gps fix, and now the weather gives a spot on location, a very small village, that i would doubt being in any database.
I reckon weather pulls the location from the gps fix in googlemaps...
Just a thought.........
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Hi,
Im interested. How do you get your weather updates? Are you using Wifi or do you believe that it is all done via GPS? Now a silly question, sorry. Do you now have your village as a defined location or is it only "My Location" that is automatically updating?
Regards.
cMMY69 said:
Hi,
Im interested. How do you get your weather updates? Are you using Wifi or do you believe that it is all done via GPS? Now a silly question, sorry. Do you now have your village as a defined location or is it only "My Location" that is automatically updating?
Regards.
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At home, im using wifi, thelocation im referring to is the one that shows on the home screen after update, the nearest defined location that can be searched for is over 60 miles away in Plymouth.
I will try a non wifi update when i walk the dog again later, and see what that brings.....
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just a question, you have problem with the connection only when you are trying to download weather update?
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Yes all other apps and data features work like a dream, including google maps,
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Yes all other apps and data features work like a dream, including google maps,
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well i have the same thing here...happens to me as well, i was thinking may be it is acuweather and our current location. Having said that i have not changed any thing in my 3 g connections. 50% of the tome works. so i am not really fussed about it
To the OP (and anyone), please also report this issue to HTC self via their website. If they know about this issue, maybe they can make a fix for it .
I had same problem and tried these:
Switched to airplane mode and wifi on. Tried update and successfully updated.
Switched to phone on wifi off. Tried update and not updated.
Removed all cities. Tried update for my location and successfully updated.
Added some cities. Tried update and not updated.
Weird
For me the weather location is working generally fine, even if often it doesn't recognize a town (smaller ones) and instead shows "My Location" instead of a name. The update is only working when I have EDGE or 3G coverage (or WiFi), not when only GPRS.
What is very strange for me is, that when not on WiFi (then all works fine), i.e. when on the phone network, it updates well some cities, and some won't (the ones which won't are two of the cities I added in the beginning to the list, i.e. Geneva and Nuremberg). All other cities I added work well for the updated. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I added them at a specific moment. When I deleted these cities and put them back in the list it won't help. I wonder if you can reset the weather program without making a hard reset, in order to see if it would help.
Fixed
Settings>connections>connections>advanced>select networks>edit (your gsm operator gprs/3g settings)>edit>next>next>advanced>servers
Select use specific server address and enter a dns . I'm using google dns 8.8.8.8.
Click OK>finish and yes to do you want to save changes. Click OK until connections window. Soft reset and try to update weather.
This happened to me when I removed JVH3 Weather City Editor.
once I reinstalled it, my error has gone away.
Ron
Have had the HD2 for a few weeks now, with no problems with weather. Went on holiday, came back, and getting the error as per this thread. Strangely it seemed like I was getting the update, then getting the error afterwards.
Spoke to my provider (T-mobile) who were next to useless (well that's unfair, I guess they suggested a lot of things but none worked).
Took out all cities from the application and updated - worked fine (and this was over GPRS as one of things T-mobile had me do was switch Band under phone settings (All Settings/Personal/Phone/GSM/UTMS Services/Band/Get Settings)).
Could it be as simple as an error in the weather data for ANY city causing the problem - not just your location? My location at home always seems to be detected fine...
I guess its kind of network related, so I have found out that where I live it doesn't matter where I go My Location is not going to work the cell towers just don't have it turned on or support it, what I want to know is there anything I can do like moan at them request it or anything like that who would I contact, I'm on Virgin UK so would I contact Virgin them selves or would I go to T-mobile seen as apparently Virgin uses T-mobiles Cell Towers,
any advice would be great or if any one knows where t point me in the right direction will be much appreciated
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really no one??
Maybe try running QuickGPS and see if that helps.
no as my first post states, its doesn't work at all in the town where i live been confirmed by 4 network operators trying to find out who i can ***** at to try and get it working round here lol
Well the HD2 does GPS and aGPS so it doesnt matter if the cell towers do or dont support it aslong as you can connect to a satellite. And what program are you trying to use?
well quick gps has been updated, agps is turned on, i can get a lock on google maps and have full H signal, yet when i update my weather in the town i live
"Connection Error, there was a connection error while attempting to download weather data. retry?"
now if i go out of my town say 5 miles it will connect first time locate me and update the weather. strange hey, spoke to 15 people that have smart phones and not one of them in this town ever got the weather to update. we all have to use the Weather city editor to add our town
oh yeah i have tried with wifi on its own, H on its own, gprs on its own, gps, no gps, not one combo works around here,
I don't think it's a connection issue. I see that in some small towns in my area you can't get any weather updates for certain spots and it's not cuz of the connection it's because there are no weather dopplers or weather antenna's recording any weather data.
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I don't think it's a connection issue. I see that in some small towns in my area you can't get any weather updates for certain spots and it's not cuz of the connection it's because there are no weather dopplers or weather antenna's recording any weather data.
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kinda of my point in the first post lol, just wondering if there is anyone i could contact to find out how there could be?
Maybe its the weather city editor? I know on my Tmo HD2 it added my town after the GPS located me.
at that point my friend I think you would have to contact a weather station and find out if they have anything or contact the advanced tech support to even find out if they have any data at all for weather in that area. other than that your up a creek without a weather report lol
it doesn't work with or without weather city editor so it isn't that, I no why it isn't working that's not what im posting for lol
So contacting T-mobile wouldn't really help, I'll get some info from a weather station or something, got a week off see what I can do lol, keep ya posted