GPS Configuration Utility from Microsoft (and MoDaCo) [Archive]

Mike Temporale

01-10-2008, 12:00 AM

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartphone-Standard-News/263776/Finally-the-Microsoft-utility-for-configuring-GPSID-on-Smartphone/' target='_blank'>http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartphone-Standard-News/263776/Finally-the-Microsoft-utility-for-configuring-GPSID-on-Smartphone/</a> </div>"Well well... i've been bleating on for *ever* about how hard done by Smartphone users are compared to their Pocket PC counterparts with no UI in the OS to configure the GPS Intermediary Driver (GPSID), and what happens? One springs up! It turns out that a GPSID configuration utility that exactly mirrors the Pocket PC version is nestling away in the 'Tools' directory of the Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh! If you're a BlackJack II owner, a Motorola Q9H owner or basically anyone wanting to configure GPS on a Smartphone, then you NEED this utility!"<img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//spt/auto/1199917321.usr3.png" border="1" alt="" />Sweeeet ! Paul from MoDaCo has done a really cool job of making GPS usable on the Moto Q9h and then BlackJack II. His GPS cab files helped everyone and now it gets better - an actual application to help you configure the GPS settings. You can either download the 200MB SDK or use the small bundle Paul created with just application in it.

Rocco Augusto

01-10-2008, 02:43 AM

Awesome! I'll have to give this a go when I get home. Hopefully it solves the whole eating-the-battery-quicker-than-you-can-say-battery problem. I loved the GPS when I used the reghack before, I just did not love charging my phone every couple of hours! ;)

leslietroyer

01-10-2008, 03:18 PM

I've had it on the phone for several days.. seems to work fine. I really like the reg-hack in the same thread that puts up a display on what the state of the GPS (off,seaking,have fix) -- so you can go back and exit the programs that have that data stream open...