I am trying to login with no luck. "Logging you in." for 10-15 minutes or longer if I just let it go. I tried "Connect with BIS/BES" and also without. I have an unlimited data plan, I've turned on the GPS through BBMaps.

This is different bbtracker application, this one doesn't have login requirement.

Hi, Thanks for great application.

It works fine on my BB, but I just noticed that export file is somewhat unreadable in google earth and found a comment that I need to set encrypt mode off.

But I cannot turn it off because that's against company security policy and my BB doesn't allow do that.

Is there any way to decrypt the file out of BB?

but does 8100 have GPS support integrated?

Pirata, please use the search button. It's in red at the top of the forum.

There is no GPS built into the 8100. You'd have to use an external GPS with your 8100.

I think if you use the Desktop Manager and/or Media Manager for downloading your files from the BlackBerry, then they will be decrypted. I've not tried that myself, but heard that it works.

If even that fails, you could try sending the files per E-Mail.

ups! really sorry...

can I use any external bluetooth GPS device?

I have a BB8200 with Tmobile and use the GPS with the maps program that comes with it and it works fine.

I want to be able to read lat/lon directly so I downloaded and installed bbTracker 0.5.3.1

The program starts and I can switch between screens but no data is displayed. What am I missing?

Also I notice on the display screens there is no cursor showing so I cannot scroll down.

Do I need to "enable Java" or something of the sort?

In the options menu I get "Location API / Bluetooth API / No GPS". What does this mean? The program does not detect a GPS unit? As I say, I am using the GPS with the maps program included.

Well, after fumbling around with it for a while it is now working. I have no idea what was the problem. I had to reduce the size of the font so the information would fit in the screen because there is no way to scroll down.

One useful feature would be to be able to diplay lat/lon in decima degrees ( 38.34567 N, 108.24356 W).

I've used bbTracker for several months on BB8830 with Holux 236 puck.
I've had problems getting bbTracker to connect to the BT service for the device. The procedure that seems to work best is to turn on the puck, start bbTracker with noGPS, go into options and start the GPS. If I run Google Maps with the puck, then try to start bbTracker, the puck will not be found. Have to power off the phone, occasionally pull the battery. Turning off the GPS while bbTracker is tracking is also a no-no.
Is there a debug or log mode for bbTracker that I can use to try to figure this out?
Once it is running, it works very well.
In some future version, it would be nice to have the rest of the GPS point info: fix, sat,
hdop, vdop, pdop put into the GPX export. I have other applications that make use of this information. No need to display it.
Also nice to have view showing the NMEA messages - occasionally useful.

Yes, there is a debug log. When you go to the About Screen you'll see two menu Items: "Show Log" which displays the last few log messages and "Log to file" which will write all log messages to a file named "debug.txt" in the track directory.

Showing the NMEA messages would only work with external GPS pucks, because when I'm using the GPS API (for accessing the internal GPS), then I only have access to very stripped-down NMEA sentences.

BBTracker still doesn't work for me. It just decides to stop at random point.

8830 4.5 OS.

Wirelessly posted (Blackberry 7280)

This is great! I wish I'd found this app sooner. I've tried it out on the train, which makes for a pretty boring track, but I want to try it for running. It's got everything that Garmin's wrist system has except for the timers.

When I've had that problem it's because the GPS is having trouble getting a signal, either in a vehicle or when surrounded by tall buildings. From memory I've sometimes had it refuse to continue logging after I get into the open, and have gone into the GPS option in Blackberry Options and told that app to refresh the coordinates.

8830 cannot refresh position. There is no Refresh menu in 8830 gps settings.

So you're going to Options/Advanced/GPS? On the 8800 it tells me the lat, long, time of fix, number of satellites and accuracy. If I press the Option button it offers a Refresh option. Maybe the 8830 is different.

CDMA devices do not appear to have the 'REFRESH' option under the GPS menu, just GPS Data Source and GPS Services options. My 8330 does not have it.

Although the 8830 is a world phone right? Perhaps it is only available if your using the GSM based service provider (not sure how you switch between them)

edit: never saw the refresh option/menu available running both 4.3 and 4.5 os.

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I'm sorry if this question has been asked before or is out of place, i tried searching for similar queries but couldn't quite find the answer.

The problem is, after marking 3 waypoints (by selecting the "mark current point" option while tracking), i saved the track and export it to kml and gpx. When I open the gpx track in any application (I used easygps), it shows the track, but does not show 'my' 3 marked points as waypoints along the track (which is what I'm looking for).

When i converted the exported kml file to gpx (using gpsbabel), and then opened it using easygps, gpsbabel had converted ALL the points that make up the track into waypoints, but also added the 3 points I marked as waypoints. So I just deleted all the other waypoints and get what I want in my gpx file. I'm just thinking there should be a more elegant way to achieve the same effect. Shouldn't bbtracker be exporting my marked waypoints to the gpx file in the first place?

To sum up, I want the gpx file to contain my marked points as waypoints along the track.

And might I say that bbtracker is a wonderful application, and thanks so much for making it and supporting it. A maps feature would be amazing too

Has anyone heard if there is a fix for the negative altitude/elevation issue? I have a BB Bold and it also shows a negative elevation for my various installed GPS programs.

thanks for this great info..

Downloaded new 4.5 OS from Verizon. bbTracker starts up and shows messages:
initializing bbTracker 0.5.3.1
Checking GPS abilities
JSR-179 available
Bluetooth available
Checking Storage abilities
RMS available
File available

at this point, I get a security message from BBOS saying that bbTracker is trying to open a connection inside the firewall and outside the firewall and this violates a communication policy. The application hangs and all I can do is close it from the menu.

Connection is Bluetooth
GPS is HOLUX GPSlim 236
Units are Imperial
Files are on a directory on the SDCard

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Thanks, Jim

Saua, I don't know much about GPS, but I am having some basic questions. If you can help on that.
1. Can we use 8310 + Tom Tom navigator 6 software together. As I understand 8310 is having GPS.
2. As per some of details Tom Tom navigator software can be installed on some of PDAs and with the help of GPS bluetooth device both can work to give turn-by-turn details.

Kindly suggest if it is possible to have 8310 + Tom Tom navigator 6 software for turn-by-turn details.

I've just installed this on a Verizon Blackberry Curve 8830 and the application loads and runs ok.

I am unable to acquire any satellites from the internal GPS, even though the Verizon maps program acquires between 8-10 satellites within 10-60 seconds.

I have tried bbtracker with the Verizon maps connected to satellites and disconnected.

Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)

Verizon's gps is locked to 3rd party apps.

First things first, this software is great. I have been using it to track journeys on bikes and even used it on trackdays to trace my lap times!

A couple of queires:
Is it possible to find the maximum speed without going through the whole track?
Also is it possible, once exported to google earth, to get the speed displayed in mph rather than kph?

Thanks

I'm not sure if there's a simpler way, but you might want to have a look at GPSBabel. They have (free) software for doing all sorts of conversions to GPS files.

Have used bbtracker for 1 year+ on my 8130 Pearl (Sprint service, integrated GPS) with good performance. I really like the simple & effective program interface and capability.

Problems/requests:

The elevation never works correctly. Sometime it appears that there's a simple sign switch, as the recorded data show negative elevation. And on other occasion there's a definite discrepancy between the measured data (taking absolute value of "below sea level"!) and true elevation.

Why does bbtracker need to access network when initializing the internal GPS? If I start the program while in a non-data-access area, the program will not show any GPS data or begin tracking. If I start the app while data access is working, then I can let the app "sleep" for a while and have no problem measuring via the phone's GPS and saving tracks.

My requests are for correct elevation measurement and -more importantly- to be free from any required network data access when starting the app for GPS data tracking.

Thanks for a great little utility!