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Posted by kneeman Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Downloading now and trying it out on a trip this week.

 
 
Posted by Connor83 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Well since I have google maps I use the latitude feature. Is does a pretty good job. But I still may try this out to see if it may have other features.

 
 
Posted by devGOD Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

latitude is nice but power hungry

 
 
Posted by dreamthemez Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Ha that's my town! i'm going to give this a try on my devices

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

You live near me then? lol.

 
 
Posted by joski Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Going to try this out here at work for our service department!

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Thanks Bla1ze! - Most important (IMHO) to know is, that this application does not make use of the GPS-Signal (Antenna) - it's "just" CellTower based - with that the location is just approximated - but should be sufficient enough for the use case.

Please take the time and read the "Theory of Operation" in order to understand what the app is doing (and what it does not do)...

Also I would like to add that the slogan:

The "zero power consuming" tracking solution

have to be proven during the beta phase - currently I just can say that the app is designed in a way to be way less power consuming then the available GPS-Signal-Based application.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Matthias

 
 
Posted by bessemercityburgess Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

So I guess once again this will not work on verizon

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

it's not GPS-based - so it should "work" on all CDMA & GSM Networks

 
 
Posted by Jordy357 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

"Thanks" "for" "putting" "quotations" "around" "the" "word" "'work'" *thumbs up*

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

since I am developing BlackBerry applications for quite some time there is at least one thing I have learned: you never know, what the combo RIM & providers have implemented additionally in order to make code not working in certain conditions - so I am quite carefully with statements like "This will work on all devices..." :-)

In Germany we say: Ich hab' schon Pferde kotzen gesehen [which means I have seen horses that have thrown up...]

I'll keep my fingers crossed, that LB will work for all devices - no matter what the provider have decided to lock - in any case this is a beta version...

 
 
Posted by devGOD Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

would be cool if it had the option to send your location every 5-15mins and not just saying your not in the preset area. because you can call and say i'm home or at work. but having it auto sms/email with your location regardless of where would be best.

 
 
Posted by Mike_Luchia Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

...the 911 service on a cell phone can pinpoint a caller down to a couple of meters even when the GPS is set to 911 Only and yet all these tracking and mapping programs have to have the GPS actually set to on in the phones programming? Blackberry's have obviously been programmed to have a call to 911 use the GPS without having to have it on constantly, why can't a mapping or tracking program be setup to do the same thing on a longer time frame, like once ever 1 or 2 mins, then shut the GPS off as soon as the location has been determined until the next time interval comes along?

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

... and many other apps as well - nevertheless when you don't move around (like myself when I am in the office) then it's waste of energy to check every x minutes the current location via GPS...

 
 
Posted by GensBB Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

...so I guess Ill need to wait to test this app out.

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

just go ahead - it should be working on all devices that have OS 4.5 or higher installed... if 8530 is not listed on the site - no worries...

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

... when RIM's MAP-App is not installed

-> if you had issues before (getting a map for your current location) please update to 0.3.0.2

 
 
Posted by sedalia066 Monday, Jul 05, 2010 689 days ago

Installed and run today. Did its job just fine. The message was not one my wife understood but that is remedied now. Non-techies are funny folk. :)

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 689 days ago

So looks like that a way to modify the message that will be send could be helpful here :-)

 
 
Posted by visortgw Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 688 days ago

Absolutely! I could see where it would be more useful to identify a person as opposed to a device PIN in addition to customizing the text.

Amazing work in progress!

 
 
Posted by sedalia066 Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 688 days ago

last night. No problem now, but my wife thought she got a message from Mr. Spock yesterday. :)

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 689 days ago

I am very happy with all the positive responses I have received so far - there are already over 700 installations and the number of cell tower locations that have been recorded is way beyond my wildest speculations - all that in just ONE day.

All I can say is: Thank you so much for all your support and your confidence in installing an so early beta 0.3.

 
 
Posted by AlexManics Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 688 days ago

I can't get this working.
Installed it on two 9700's but I get no emails telling me the phone has left the cell area.
The cell location list is growing, so it seems to be logging information ok, but just no email alerts.

I am in the UK, is that an issue?

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 688 days ago

this might be an issue - depends on your sector definition and all the other configurations - hard to tell remotly

 
 
Posted by joesworld Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 688 days ago

This is an amazing app, so simple yet useful for my needs.

I would love the ability to set multiple zones (i.e. an alert when I leave work, and another alert when I'm approaching home). Are there plans to extend this functionality?

Keep up the great work!

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 688 days ago

multi sectors are for sure on the list - have in mind, that this is a early beta version - more or less a "proof of concept" - I have to admit, that I am totally surprised that it works that good for so many people and that the number of installations have just passed 1200...

 
 
Posted by airrage Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010 688 days ago

Works pretty damn good but i wish there were more funtions say multible zones and such!
one wierd thing happened though. I was just sitting at my house and it said i left the area and minute later said i returned when i never left at all. Only happened once!

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 688 days ago

increase the radius - even if you are stationary at home the device constantly looking for other/better cell towers - here I home I am cycling between three different ones...

 
 
Posted by airrage Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 688 days ago

Yea i did to 2000 meters

 
 
Posted by visortgw Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 687 days ago

Depending on location, network (i.e., CDMA or GSM), terrain, etc., a radius of 2000 meters may still not be enough. I live in a rural area, and I changed my radius to 12000 meters in order to avoid the cyclic in sector/out of sector messages. While at home, I typically cycle between three towers, including one of which is less than 2500 meters away and another that is 10000+ meters away -- this is the nature of the cellular architecture.

This is yet another amazing work in progress from Matthias Marquardt!

 
 
Posted by airrage Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010 688 days ago

I spoke too soon. All night it was saying i was leaving and coming back into sector atleast 20 times!!!!!!!!!