Thread: [Symbian]TrekBuddy 0.9.82 Final to 0.9.99 - GPS tracking application update 12/06/10

TrekBuddy 0.9.98 S60 J2ME
{application to be used with a GPS receiver}

* GPS tracking and simple navigation
* bitmap maps (without zoom, you can store bitmap maps with different resolution instead)
* arrange maps as atlas for increasing and decreasing resolution
* trackloging in NMEA or GPX format
* simple navigation (to a single waypoint or along a route)
* compas screen (HPS)
* cockpit screen (CMS)
* location sharing via SMS with other trekbuddies

and more.

It supports most commonly used map projections and grids, such as:

* Latitude/Longitude
* Mercator
* Transverse Mercator
* Universal Transverse Mercator
* Swedish Grid
* British National Grid
* Irish Grid
* Swiss Grid
* Lambert France I-IV
* Lambert Conformal Conic

as well as custom datums.

As a location source:
* bluetooth or serial port GPS
* internal (integrated) GPS
* NMEA file
* HGE-100 device
* O2 Germany network

may be used.

Requirements:

· MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1
· In order to get position info, the phone should either:
· have internal GPS and support Location API (JSR-179), or
· have bluetooth and support Bluetooth API (JSR-82), or
· have serial/USB/IrDa port and support CommConnection
· In order to use custom maps, it is very important that the phone supports FileConnection API (JSR-75/FileConnection).

Change-log

- fixed field notes file encoding, timestamp is editable

- fixed groundspeak cache info parsing
- fixed StringOutOfBoundsException in CMS
- improved taking photos by using autofocus and autoflash (if supported)
- reduced power consumption on Android
- enhanced bluetooth location provider to fallback to manually paired devices when none is found during discovery process (this helped me on Samsung S5230, but it neeeds one more trick - see next line)
- new option Settings->Location->address fix - this option helped me on Samsung S5230 with connecting to GPS, because the phone reports incorrect bluetooth address for cached device (shown as "PREKNOWN" in TB)
- new option Settings->Misc->lowmem I/O helped me avoid OutOfMemory errors with larger tar-ed maps on Samsung S5230, but it makes map browsing slower, I'd recommend using unpacked maps on this device
- new option Settings->Location->time fix as a tweak for broken internal GPS when it reports time 1970-01-01 (report on some LG Arenas)