Hi Neil, I finally managed to get a Mitac Mio A170 and I cannot reporoduce the problem you are seeing. I did notice however that mine has Windows Mobile 5 installed and did not find any updated model that would come with Windows Mobile 6:
http://www.mio-tech.be/html/uk_en/a701_specifications.htm Did you upgrade the OS yourself? Thanks, Andrei On Nov 6, 12:19 pm, npo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt replies guys. > > I have tried setting gearsLocationProviderUrls to null, and this does > allow the phone to wait for a fix. > If I leave the device to switch off backlight and the usual powersave > settings, then it never returns a result at all - so there may be a > bug that needs looking at there. > However if I keep the device alive by tapping the screen at regular > intervals, then it does return with an error - "Error retrieving your > location: GPS failed to get a position fix" after 5 minutes. > When I subsequently try a GPS application (GPSDash2) it connects and > gets a fix in under 2 seconds. > > Does anyone have a simple Windows Mobile GPS application that uses the > Inermediate Driver that might help us diagnose this issue? > > Out of interest what development and build environment do you use for > the Windows Mobile version of Gears? > > Thanks > Neil > > On Nov 5, 3:33 pm, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Neil, > > > Thanks for the report. > > > It sounds like you're right that Gears is returning a Cell-ID based > > fix. However, note that geolocation.getCurrentPosition() will return > > the first available fix. So if the GPS is slow to start up, it's > > likely that Gears will return the Cell-ID based fix before the GPS has > > acquired a position. > > > To confirm that the GPS is working, call getCurrentPosition() with > > options.gearsLocationProviderUrls = null and > > options.enablehighAccuracy = true. This will prevent Gears from using > > any network servers (for Cell-ID based fixes) and instruct it to use > > only the GPS. As you point out, if the GPS fails to get a fix, you'll > > need to wait at least 5 minutes before Gears times out and returns an > > error. > > > If you've followed the instructions for setting up the GPS > > intermediate driver, Gears should be able to make use of the GPS. > > However, we haven't tested on a Mitac Mio A701, so I can't be sure > > that there aren't problems particular to this device. The list of > > devices we have tested is > > athttp://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=105928. > > If you continue to have problems, I'll see if I can get hold of a Mio > > to test. > > > Steve
