GPS STILL NOT WORKING since 4/24

[dta]

I am going to post a NEW message EACH day in hopes someone fixes this.
This ap is superior to all others, I have gotten alot of people to use
it, I LOVE IT, HOWEVER... since April 24th the GPS IS NOT WORKING!
WHAT did you do?

It goes for maybe 100 yards then stops. Nothing new on phone!
REinstalled rebooted, changed settings, but it worked on 4/24/2012

[BradM]

I have been experiencing this problem lately as well. Sometimes it struggles to get a GPS lock at the start but shutting down the program and restarting seems to help that problem most of the time. Lately, however, I've also been experiencing the problem described in the original post. It starts up and I think it's working but shuts down, the last time at .02 miles, and you don't know it until you check how you did. Too late...

[Marko Teittinen]

I experienced this issue today, but luckily I was able to discover a work around relatively quickly (~10 min).

Short summary: before launching CardioTrainer, launch GPS Status, GPS Test, or Google Maps, and wait until that app gets a GPS lock. Only then launch CardioTrainer, and it should acquire the location lock almost immediately, and keep it through your exercise.

Longer story: when I was starting my exercise, I first launched CardioTrainer, and then Endomondo (I am seriously considering switching to it exclusively as CardioTrainer seems increasingly abandoned). To my surprise, my phone wasn't able to get a GPS lock which it usually does in seconds. I figured that I'll reset the AGPS state using GPS Status, and everything should be OK, but I still couldn't get a lock. GPS Status showed only one or two satellites available under wide open skies. Well, surely Google Maps can get a lock, I thought, but it failed as well.

At this point I decided my phone was in such an unusual state that a reboot might be in order. I terminated both exercise apps which had been running this whole time, and decided to try GPS Status one more time to save myself the wait time for the reboot. And it got GPS lock almost immediately! I then proceeded to relaunch CardioTrainer and Endomondo both of which immediately reported excellent GPS lock.

I can only guess that CardioTrainer codebase contains some strange hacks around limitations of early Android versions -- CardioTrainer was after all launched at the same time as the first Android phone, G1. And those hacks are probably now failing with newer OS versions (and if they rely on some proprietary servers,  those servers might be down periodically, especially if Noom is not maintaining them anymore).

It really starts to look like it is time to leave CardioTrainer behind. Too bad, as it has always been one of my favorite apps for Android. I even supported the developers by buying extra modules for it in the early days. Well, life goes on...

Marko Teittinen

On May 22, 2012 3:59 AM, "BradM" <br...@bradminion.com> wrote:

I have been experiencing this problem lately as well. Sometimes it struggles to get a GPS lock at the start but shutting down the program and restarting seems to help that problem most of the time. Lately, however, I've also been experiencing the problem described in the original post. It starts up and I think it's working but shuts down, the last time at .02 miles, and you don't know it until you check how you did. Too late...

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