Recording of a track doesn't work

[welberger]

Hi,
I don't know if someone else already posted this problem - searching the forum didn't get me an answer.
So here comes my question: If I try to record a track the recording doesn't work. I already fixed the GPS settings of my phone and made sure that I get a GPS fix (usually I get one in about 30 seconds - outdoors that is). Now everything looks good: I start a recording walk or drive my way and then stop the recording now it says track xyzs saved and sure enough the track folder shows a track xyz - BUT: The track has a length of zero and also a time of zero on my phone. 1st I had it in my pocket inside its protection case then I removed the cover; the last test was carrying it in my hand - just to ensure the phone wasn't disconnected from GPS. But nothing worked - Locus just won't record the track.
Any help will greatly be appreciated.
Best
achim

[berkley]

Hi Achim,

what settings do you use for track recording? (Check Menu, Settings, GPS or Track Recording)

Cheers, berkley

[welberger]

Hi,
because all my settings are in German I thought it best to post the settings as images:
[attachment=0:384nav1u]Locus Settings GPS and Track recording.jpg[/attachment:384nav1u]

[welberger]

Well!?!

Is there no solution or is there a problem to interpret my posted images? Being the 2nd the case I could provide an English translation

[Menion]

I think that problem should be in "Maximale Genauigkeit ... " which say .. do not save points with worst accuracy then 25m. Are you sure you want this and also you have better accuracy of your GPS signal during recording?

[jusc]

For me this  works fine at least for cycling
Intervall (Meter) = 5
Intervall (Sekunden)=  5
Maximale Genauigkeit (Meter) = 250

J.

[welberger]

I think that problem should be in "Maximale Genauigkeit ... " which say .. do not save points with worst accuracy then 25m. Are you sure you want this and also you have better accuracy of your GPS signal during recording?

Well, because I don't really understand this parameter I set it to 25 m. I will try the settings of Jusc

For me this  works fine at least for cycling
Intervall (Meter) = 5
Intervall (Sekunden)=  5
Maximale Genauigkeit (Meter) = 250

J.

As soon as I got results I will be back and share them with you - thank you for your help so far.

Achim

[welberger]

Hi,

back again and here's the result. The settings didn't really solve the problem. But another thing did. I flashed my LG OS 2x and what you'd think: everything works just fine. Even with the phone in its case inside my trouser pocket did record the tracks I walked today.

So tomorrow I'll try the recording on my bike but I'm quite optimistic that everything'll work fine.

[Menion]

fine good to hear. Interesting that ROM have so influence to this service ...

[denialr150]

Hello! I have the same problem as you had with the Recording of a track on android , now I don't have any default software recognise the Recording of a track , but I am download software from android market.  software work with problem.Can someone help me please? Thank you!

[berkley]

Hi,

are you using Locus for track recording or is it any other app?

Cheers, berkley

[juefu2002]

I only can record a track if I set the time interval to 0 sec. The reason is a wrong datetime. See this snippet from today's track 20110517_195143.gpx :
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
standalone="yes"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="details.xsl"?>
<gpx version="1.0"
 creator="Android"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0"
 xmlns:topografix="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/Private/TopoGrafix/0/1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd http://www.topografix.com/GPX/Private/TopoGrafix/0/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/Private/T ... grafix.xsd">
<trk>
<name><![CDATA[2011-05-17 19:51:43]]></name>
<desc><![CDATA[0h:0m:0s | 348m

Distanz - 348m
Punkte // POI - 50
Erstellt - 1970-01-16 03:40:51
Max. Geschwindigkeit - 5.2km/h
Min. Meereshöhe - 212m
Max. Meereshöhe - 215m
]]></desc>
<topografix:color>c0c0c0</topografix:color>
<trkseg>
<trkpt lat="47.89708468231547" lon="7.624402073782538">
<ele>214.50244140625</ele>
<time>1970-01-16T02:40:51Z</time>
</trkpt>
<trkpt lat="47.89764907256435" lon="7.625193801052845">
<ele>213.28555297851563</ele>
<time>1970-01-16T02:40:51Z</time>
</trkpt>
<trkpt lat="47.897690790552275" lon="7.625242539606226">
<ele>213.1326904296875</ele>
<time>1970-01-16T02:40:51Z</time>
</trkpt>
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Because <time> is a constant value, I get only one trackpoint, if I set the time interval to > 0 sec.
How to get the correct time information ?
By the way, this is a smart app. Congratulations !

[Menion]

this is really interesing ... OK, I'll set time for points manually during recording, because this is surely some mistake in GPS hardware ...

so please try it in next market version

[juefu2002]

Thank you for quick response. Yes, this seems to be a hardware issue. Another track, recorded by Trekbuddy, shows the same wrong datetime.