[GeoStL] Re: it never fails
- From: Craig Ingram <seaeye@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:11:47 -0700 (PDT)
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I just got this from cachemate seconds ago maybe this will explain part of your
woes.....
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It seems that a change made to Geocaching.com's pocket query generator a couple
of days ago made things difficult for several geocaching applications. The
Windows Mobile versions of CacheMate were affected, but oddly enough CMConvert
(and, thusly, the Palm OS version of CacheMate) was not. Updates have been made
to the affected versions, and once again things work as they should.
There... crisis abated. Back to working on the Google Android version of the
app...
--- On Sun, 4/26/09, Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [GeoStL] it never fails
> To: "SLAGA" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 4:54 PM
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> Geocaching on a trip. Seems something goes wrong every time
> I leave town.
>
> Any time I get ready to go out of town all my stuff quits
> working. Today Cachemate has successfully updated itself
> with all the gpx files for the state EXCEPT the one for Mark
> Twain Lake. Recheck, resent... it crashes cachemate every
> time. Hmm.
>
> I can work around that. Fire up gsak on the laptop, update
> and spin out a new gpx file. The laptop was working fine
> last night when I updated gsak. Today it is caught in some
> sort of endless boot, fail, reboot cycle. sigh. I guess i
> could reinstall XP reload gsak and rebuild Streets&
> trips and everything else I have to operate the mobile
> groundspeak office. I dont have That much time. (note try
> boot into safe mode and work from there) No problem, I can
> work around that. I will get several more PQ's of the
> lake area between now and leaving time. Maybe one of those
> will work in cachemate.
>
> Once I get cacemate right i can push the cache locations
> out to Garmin Mobile XT (Nuvi software for the Windows
> Mobile platform) so the phone can navigate just fine. If
> everything else blows up I guess I could use the GPS to
> navigate (new concept) and just skip reading any cahce
> descriptions. I dont read them much anyway.
>
> My Backup to everything is GCz
> http://www.nicque.com/PQz/GCz.htm that is installed on the
> phone (At&T Tilt) . GCz it the Windows Mobile equal of
> the Iphone geocaching app. It even looks the same. I could
> get to a general area, have GCz search for the nearest 20
> caches and go from there. That may be the easiest way to
> go. No messing with broken gpx files, the cache pages are
> current as GCz polls the groundspeak database real time for
> info. That sounds like a better plan all the time.
>
> I think I will still try to fix cachemate, Garmin Mobile XT
> and the laptop just in case. I am sure that half way there
> the phone will catch on fire and I will loose my regular
> GPS. I have done more with less in the past. I better
> buy a map and print some cache sheets before anything else
> goes wrong.
>
> It never fails.
>
> Glenn
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