GPS Location Error

[hearntho]

Hello all,
I am currently working on a program for a school project that will be polling gps data off of the 7520 GPS-embedded blackberry. I cannot get it to run for the life of me, and I keep getting the following error:

Starting BlackBerryGPS
Class 'net.rim.device.api.gps.GPSRegistry' not found.Error starting BlackBerryGPS: Class 'net.rim.device.api.gps.GPSRegistry' not found.

I have searched EVERYWHERE for this specific class and to my knowledge it doesn't even exist. The code that I am calling the GPS information from is:

public String getLocation() {
LocationProvider prov;

try {
prov = LocationProvider.getInstance(null);

if (prov==null) {
Status.show("GPS not supported on this device");
return(null);
}
} catch (LocationException le) {
Status.show("Failed to instantiate GPS provider.");
return(null);
}

try {
String loc = prov.getLocation(30).getExtraInfo("text/plain");

Status.show(loc);
} catch (LocationException le) {
Status.show("30 sec timeout");
} catch (SecurityException se) {
Status.show("You do not have permission to query loc info");
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
Status.show("An unexpected reset() called by another thread");
} catch (Exception unknown) {
Status.show("Unhandled exception, exiting");
}
return("test");
}

I'm not even calling this function yet, and as soon as the application begins to run on the BB, it crashes with the exception posted above. I have no idea what I am doing wrong here, any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Cheers!
Tom

[Skipper_Joe]

We had similar problems with old device OS versions 4.0.0.XXX. It was solved after we upgrade devices to 4.0.2.

Hope it help!

[hearntho]

Joe,
Thanks for the reply! Did you mean upgrade the BlackBerry OS to 4.0.2 or the JDE?

Cheers,
Tom

[Skipper_Joe]

You are welcome
BlackBerry OS on device itself.

JDE 4.0.2 is more comfortable for development and build compilation, because it contain GPS API out of the box, but it is not required. I compiled my code with JDE 4.0 and it worked on 4.0.2 devices too.