Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-29 Thread Helge Hafting
jeremy jozwik wrote: window seat makes no difference : ) in fact for several minuets i was holding my freerunner against the window and got nothing... My experience is that a window seat is necessary. If I have a fix, I loose it by moving the phone half a meter away from the window. So it

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Petr Vanek wrote: - FSO is quite unable to get a fix while in 1m altitude and (or) high speed. it sees the satelites, get's a fix and then for some reason something happens and no satelite is being seen anymore. this will repeat fo as long as you leave it. Huh? My freerunner

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
jeremy jozwik wrote: window seat makes no difference : ) in fact for several minuets i was holding my freerunner against the window and got nothing... I was able to... When I tried while flying, I needed a lot of time to get the fix, but then I got it. Another time I've got the fix before of

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca writes: I was wondering if there was a way to make OM2009 safe for use on an airplane Hey, do you really believe using some electronic device (including various radio transmitters) might be unsafe on an airplane? Those stupid agencies prohibit bringing

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-21 Thread Warren Baird
Hey - no I don't particularly believe that the phone will cause a problem. However I also don't like lying to people - so if I got hassled by the stews, I'd like to be able to honestly say I've turned off the phone component. Warren On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Paul Fertser

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-21 Thread Petr Vanek
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:01:16 -0400 Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca (WB) wrote: Hey - no I don't particularly believe that the phone will cause a problem. However I also don't like lying to people - so if I got hassled by the stews, I'd like to be able to honestly say I've turned off the

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread Evgeniy Ginzburg
Petr Vanek wrote: you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock after leaving the terminal. so whats the point? i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock in the terminal, after sitting in the plane waiting to taxi i loose the signal hi, i

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 19 June 2009, Petr Vanek wrote: - FSO has a bug in reporting the speed - you will notice in speed above 200km - check between shr settings and tango - FSO is quite unable to get a fix while in 1m altitude and (or) high speed. it sees the satelites, get's a fix and then for

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Nijs
On Saturday 20 June 2009 16:00:10 Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 19 June 2009, Petr Vanek wrote: - FSO has a bug in reporting the speed - you will notice in speed above 200km - check between shr settings and tango - FSO is quite unable to get a fix while in 1m altitude and (or) high

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Al Johnsonopenm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: The GPS has several modes optimised for different use cases. The default one is suitable for ground-based vehicles, and sanity checks its output including speed and altitude. In a plane you are at insane speed and

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread George Brooke
On Saturday 20 June 2009 15:58:34 Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Al Johnsonopenm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: The GPS has several modes optimised for different use cases. The default one is suitable for ground-based vehicles, and sanity checks its output

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
omgps, my new favorite SHR app. i cannot tell you how happy i am to have tracks recorded while walking not look like a lightning storm On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Al Johnsonopenm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: The

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-20 Thread Gerald A
Hi, On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.cawrote: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetAntennaPower False I'm cleaning things up at work prior to a vacation, so I don't have time to add it to the

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14414ième jour après Epoch, Warren Baird écrivait: I'm spending about 4 or 5 hours on an airplane tomorrow, and I was wondering if there was a way to make OM2009 safe for use on an airplane - similar to the 'airplane mode' that QTEI provides. I know that there's no UI for it - but is

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread jeremy jozwik
thats something i would have liked on my last trip. perhaps some sort of scripting voodoo could disable gps, wiki, gsm, and bluetooth in one shot rather then having to sift through the 4 different shr-settings options. heck even a car mode could be good too On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM,

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Warren Baird
nytowl was kind enough to provide the way to turn off GSM to me on the #paroli irc chat: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetAntennaPower False I'm cleaning things up at work prior to a vacation, so I don't have time to add it to the

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
But you're allowed to use GPS on airplanes, aren't you? So there needs to be an option to turn GPS on, if wanted. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070622093234AAVSmN3 http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?s=498a551e1c059901bfe0bb8a2c2da5ccshowtopic=187898 r -- | risto h.

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread jeremy jozwik
you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock after leaving the terminal. so whats the point? i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock in the terminal, after sitting in the plane waiting to taxi i loose the signal On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Risto

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Jakob
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:26 PM, jeremy jozwikjerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock after leaving the terminal. so whats the point? i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock in the terminal, after sitting in

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread jeremy jozwik
window seat makes no difference : ) in fact for several minuets i was holding my freerunner against the window and got nothing... On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Jakob jackram...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:26 PM, jeremy jozwikjerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: you might be

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Marcel
Am Freitag, 19. Juni 2009 23:35:17 schrieb Jakob: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:26 PM, jeremy jozwikjerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock after leaving the terminal. so whats the point? i tried on several occasions to get it to work.

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Vincent MEURISSE
On Friday 19 June 2009 23:26:57 jeremy jozwik wrote: i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock in the terminal, after sitting in the plane waiting to taxi i loose the signal I tried once and got a fix :P IIRC it was with OM2008.12 in a B737 (Between Stockholm and Paris).

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Richard Kralovic
window seat makes no difference : ) in fact for several minuets i was holding my freerunner against the window and got nothing... I used gps on my freerunner successfully on several flights :-). I just pushed FR against the window and got a fix within few minutes. Afterwards, everything worked

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Petr Vanek
you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock after leaving the terminal. so whats the point? i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock in the terminal, after sitting in the plane waiting to taxi i loose the signal hi, i track flights on regular basis

Re: [OM2009] airplane mode

2009-06-19 Thread Sven Klomp
Hi, On Saturday June 20 2009 00:35:24 Petr Vanek wrote: - in terminals, the glass has metal coating so no fix And I wasted an one hour transit delay by sitting next to the window waiting for a fix..., - during the flight, the blinds get usually shut, but you can stuck your fr right behind