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Location request time out

Asked by: Explorer

dear experts,

l'm trying to write a simple midlet that read the location information from nokia 6110 Navigator inbuild GPS, the code as below and the midlet responsed "Location request time out". l'm using pretty sure that the phone supports Location API as mentioned in this link http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/6110_Navigator, anything wrong in my code? appreciate any helps. many thanks.


import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.location.*;
import java.util.Date;

public class TestLocation extends MIDlet implements LocationListener{
    private Display display;
    private Form form;
   
    private LocationProvider locationProvider = null;
    private Coordinates oldCoordinates = null, currentCoordinates = null;
    private float distance = 0;
    private int azimuth = 0;

    public TestLocation(){
       
    }    
   
    public void startApp() {
        display = Display.getDisplay(this);
       
        if (form == null) {
            form = new Form("TestLocation");
            display.setCurrent(form);
        }
       
        try {

            // Create a Criteria object for defining desired selection criteria
            Criteria cr = new Criteria();

            LocationProvider lp = LocationProvider.getInstance(cr);

            // get the location, one minute timeout
            Location l = lp.getLocation(60);

            Coordinates c = l.getQualifiedCoordinates();

            if (c != null) {
               // use coordinate information
               displayMessage(String.valueOf(c.getLatitude()));
            }else{displayMessage("Nothing");
            }
               
        } catch (Exception e) {
            displayMessage(e.getMessage());
           // not able to retrive location information
        }
    }

    public void pauseApp() {}

    public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
    }
   
    public void displayMessage(String s) {
        Alert a = new Alert("", s, null, null);
        a.setTimeout(Alert.FOREVER);
        display.setCurrent(a, form);
    }  

    public void locationUpdated(LocationProvider provider, final Location location) {
    }    
 
        // one of the required methods of the LocationListener interface, not used by us
    public void providerStateChanged(LocationProvider provider, int newState) {
    }
   
}

regards
eddie

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2007-09-13 at 19:36:29ID22828023
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Java 2 Micro-Edition (J2ME)

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Answers

 

by: viliaPosted on 2007-09-14 at 15:55:49ID: 19895646

It is possible you need to enable GPS from your app prior to using the one.

Did you tr any Java demo app that takes data from the GPS?

You can download VGPS179 to test VGPS with your 6110 from here:
http://vllp.sourceforge.net/vgps/download/VGPS179.zip

 

by: ExplorerPosted on 2007-09-14 at 17:40:03ID: 19896003

hi villa,

ok i will test it later, btw..i've tested some shareware GPS java midlet in my nokia 6110 navigator and it automatically used embeded GPS to get the position. how to enable the GPS in my phone? there is no function or button to enabled it. how to enable in java midlet code? please help...really appreciate your help.

many thanks.

regards
eddie

 

by: ExplorerPosted on 2007-09-15 at 01:22:46ID: 19896892

hi villa,

appreciate your hints.

i found the caused of problem, i can retrieve position information from built-in GPS when the "Buetooth GPS" at nokia phone menu \Settings\Phone Settings\General\Positioning\Positioning Methods is disabled, the problem occured when this option is enabled. means the MIDlet will try to connect to the bluetooth GPS when the option is enabled and it will not try the built-in GPS if failed to find the Bluetooth GPS.

so my question here is how can i write a MIDlet to search for available built-in GPS else try to search for the bluetooth GPS.

since the early issue already solved by myself and this is new issue, should i withdraw this question and post to another new question?

 

by: jimmackPosted on 2007-09-15 at 09:51:23ID: 19897969

Yes, you should close the question and ask another :-)  I think villa's answer deserves the points since he did guide you to the solution.

If you do ask another question, can you add a bit of detail to say why you need to use the built-in GPS rather than the Bluetooth one and what (if any) differences there are between them that J2ME might be able to identify.

You can give hints to the LocationProvider factory to suggest what provider it should return by using Criteria objects (I notice that you set one up, but you don't set any values for it).  I'm not sure if you will be able to specify which provider to use unless there is something that can be defined in the Criteria.

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