After more testing (on Nokia C7), I'm not sure sure anymore how/if the positioning settings really affect position updates. However starting Ovi Maps in the background definitively helps.
Did someone already create a bug for this? If not, I could do it. Cheers, Conny On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 09:36 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote: > Hi, > > this is very interesting. I wanted to start a thread about not getting > position data, when I saw this thread.... > > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 19:38 +0300, Juha Turunen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Harri Pasanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also it would seem to me that mobility has sometimes trouble waking up the > > > GPS, in that I get no position updates at all, unless I "prime" it by > > > running > > > Nokia Maps first. Would that be possible, or does it sound hogwash? > > > > I've noticed the same, so it's probably not hogwash. My app might > > simply not get any coordinate updates for minutes and instantly after > > starting Nokia Maps they start pouring in. I've also noticed that on > > some devices (S^3, unlocked, nothing special) the QtMobility's > > positioning doesn't work at all unless you manually disable the > > network/wi-fi (not network based) positioning module from the device's > > settings. > > My (not always reproducible) experience so far on Nokia C7 with Qt 4.7.2 > and QtM 1.1.1: > > Indoor WLAN and GSM: > - Running my app alone, I don't get any position updates at all. > - Ovi Maps gets a position just fine. > - Running Ovi Maps and my app in parallel I can get at least some data > when calling lastKnownPosition(). > - After disabling the "Wi-Fi/Network" positioning method I get position > updates. > > Outdoor GSM: > - It looks like if I have a GPS fix, I also get position updates. But > I'm not completely sure about that yet. > > Also it looks like the Symbian implementation differs from the Maemo5 > implementation. On Maemo5, if I do setUpdateInterval(1000), I'll get a > signal every second whether or not the position has actually changed. On > Symbian it looks to me that I only get a signal if the position really > has changed. > > Cheers, > Conny > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-mobility-feedback mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-mobility-feedback _______________________________________________ Qt-mobility-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-mobility-feedback
