Excuse me for resurrecting an old thread but there don't seem to be any newer ones. I can't believe there's so little comment on this.
The docs for Location still say that getExtras should return satellites. How's it going with you Richard? Regards Neil On Oct 6, 9:53 pm, Richard Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Update to this problem. > > Version 1.1 of the SDK uses just LocationListener. > Version 1.5 introduces GpsSatellite class. Apparently you can get a > list ofsatellites, but the satellite count still is delivered as an > extra in Location objects whenever LocationListener.onLocationUpdate > is called. > Version 1.6 breaks this behavior. Apparently, satellite count only > comes through the GpsSatellite class. > > You broke my client.... Or, am I missing something? > > Richard Schilling > Mobile Operating Systems Engineer > Root Wireless > > On Oct 6, 11:34 am, Richard Schilling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > And, here, folks is the exact day the earth stood still in Android > > Land: > > > TIMESTAMP (UTC) SATELLITE COUNT > > 2009-10-02 23:24:09.0 8.0 > > 2009-10-02 23:32:53.0 0.0 > > > Is anybody out there ... ? Is anybody at all? > > > Perhaps a new space war started that knocked out oursatellitesand we > > weren't told.....? > > > Mayhem? Armegeddon? > > > Richard > > > On Oct 6, 11:01 am, Richard Schilling <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Just upgraded my phone firmware to 1.6, and it looks like Location > > > objects don't have satellite counts in them any more: > > > > locMan = (LocationManager)con.getSystemService > > > (Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); > > > Location loc = locMan.getLastKnownLocation > > > (LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER); > > > Bundle extraBundle = loc.getExtras(); > > > > extraBundle is null. So, I can't call > > > > extraBundle.getInt("satellites") > > > > anymore to get the satellite count. > > > > What happened? > > > > Richard Schilling > > > Mobile Operating Systems Engineer > > > Root Wireless > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
