New release rolling out - GPSTest v3.10.5

[Sean Barbeau]

Hi all,
I pushed a new release to production Google Play that is rolling out at 5% right now (pending Google review/approval).

I believe that means that anyone enrolled in beta testing should also be able to access it within the next 24 hrs or so (hopefully):
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.android.gpstest 

Please let me know if you're enrolled in beta testing and you can't access the update after 24-48hrs. If you're not part of the beta testing group you can join here.

This release was required to address Google's updated requirements for handling notification permissions as part of targetSdkVersion updates (https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk#pre13).

The biggest user-facing change is that for fresh installs you now need to grant notification permissions by enabling notifications in the app settings.  Additionally, this change should allow Android 14 and 15 users to download the app directly from Google Play again.

targetSdkVersion changes are the ones most prone to crashes, so please let me know if you find any problems - reporting them via GitHub would be ideal.

Full release notes are at:
https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/releases/tag/v3.10.5

Thanks,
Sean

Sean Barbeau
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanbarbeau/

[Jim bell]

I realize this is not the proper place for me to respond, but I'm stuck doing all my data entry on smartphones. If I was home with my laptop I would be generating a new subject and entering it, but I do not understand the system well enough to accomplish that with a smartphone. Long ago I noticed that there seem to be a problem entering new messages with smartphones. I very much wish someone would move this message to a new subject.
Here is the issue. Many months ago, I bought a used phone, and Asus Zenfone 8 flip, which I bought on the strength of the listing on the database that it supported gps, galileo, baidu, and glonass. It also had micro SD card support, which has become increasingly rare in the last 4 years.
However, when I received it I could see that it did everything except Beidou. 
I suspect that this device is somehow geofenced to prevent it from using Baidu when physically within the United States of America. I can understand to some extent why this might be true:  Asus is a Taiwanese company, and of course Baidu is red China. I suspect that the Taiwan people do not want Americans to be able to use Baidu.
The problem is that I specifically bought the Asus Zenfone 8 flip device precisely because it was going to support as many gnss signals as I could, and one of the newest set are Baidu.
I went back and forth with Asus months ago with no good result. I thought of an idea of finding somebody with a gnss simulator to make it look like the phone was somewhere other than America, but I would imagine such devices are very rare.
It is very frustrating to read on the database that the device should have implemented beidou, but then when I finally get it I discovered that it isn't. I understand, nevertheless it is still frustrating. I'm assuming that there is some sort of developer option that can be brought into play, but in my current location and with my current limited understanding I cannot implement this solution.
Thank you very much for any help you can give me.

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[Sean Barbeau]

v3.10.5 should now be available to everyone via Google Play.

Please give it a try and let me know if you see any problems!

Sean

[lodrog...@gmail.com]

screenshot link

https://i.postimg.cc/W3m7Czqf/Clipboard.jpg

1. just like the previous version i had said to my old post, also this new version does not show / recognize some sbas signals. Those ID's are

120, 121, 124, 132, 134

2. i had said a lot time ago, that it will be nice to have ... the ability to show at CF column - the frequency with Mhz or the type of band (L1).

It will be very helpful to exist into settings the option for the user to change the view

[Sean Barbeau]

>1. just like the previous version i had said to my old post, also this new version does not show / recognize some sbas signals. Those ID's are
120, 121, 124, 132, 134

Yes, this release doesn't address this. I still have an issue open for this at https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/issues/598.

Sean