Hi Steve, The program works fine in windows mobile 6.1 emulator.
But still the position fix is my IP. Can Gears assume the fakeGPS to be a possible position fix? I will start a new thread for this regards, renuka prasad On Sep 9, 4:50 pm, Renuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Thanks again for the reply :) > My emulator could access the internet. > > I opened the sample page for Geolocation..... The page loaded but the > status message showed : 'Getting location...'Neithor the emulator's > browser notr my emulator hanged, but the status always remained > 'Getting location...' for, I waited for 15 minutes and once even 30 > mins. :) > > But, strangely and incredibly, Google seems to have fixed this now. I > havent done any changes, in the internet settings of my emulator. > Today, the GeoLocation sample worked on my mobile and I could get my > location. > Here, apparently, the position fix is my IP address. I get the > location, the same as that of my desktop. (Bangalore, Karnataka, India > (12.971606, 77.594376) ). This location would be around 10 Kms from my > actual location in the city, which again complicates things I have > been trying to do. > , > > But Steve, I have got another query again. (plz try to be patient with > this) > > Can the position fix for the sample application I referred to earlier > be set as my fakeGPS program ? > I hope you are aware of the fake GPS program in the windows Mobile 6 > sdk inbuilt tools.... or, plz let me know. > > Can Gears on my emulator consider the fakeGPS to be a possible > position fix? > > Thanks again in advance, > Renuka Prasad. > > On Sep 9, 3:58 pm, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Renuka, > > > It seems there are two problems here. First, the emulator should be > > able to get a fix from the network server using IP. Given that the > > host desktop machine gets a valid fix with IP, and your emulator can > > clearly access the internet, I'm not sure what the problem is. If you > > can capture the HTTP traffic (with Ethereal or similar) to and > > fromwww.google.com/loc/json, I'll take closer look. > > > Second, from what you have described, Gears should be able to use the > > GPS emulator you're using. However, I've never tried this, so I can't > > say what the problem is. > > > In any case, the sample page should never hang indefinitely. It should > > report either a position fix or an error. Is an error reported in your > > case? > > > Steve
