Ok so I am starting to work on creating some apps with Android. Without giving away my idea I just want to describe basically what I need just to see if it even exists or I'd have to find a way to make one.
So what I need it a GPS unit that can be remote from my handset (I'll be using my Nook Color for dev in this case). Now normally you'd say, ok just use a bluetooth one, however I need its range to be far beyond what BT would provide. so I need something that would transmit signal over maybe RF to some sort of receiver that then I can hopefully connect to the USB port (or via blutotth) on the Nook or whatever other device. I need its range to be about a mile or so. Anyone know of something that exists like this?
If I were to build the device myself I would really only need it to transmit data every time the GPS unit crosses over a specific set of coordinates. This is why how it operates dictates how I will program this thing.
Any other suggestions of how to do this or ideas on if something like this even exists?
Hi friends
Since about 2 months I can no longer get gps fix with my HTC Desire. My 2 year old kids love it as much as I do, but unfortunelly they let it drop in the ground too often.
I'm afraid that the gps antenna is damaged, because the fact is that the gps really isn't working anymore.
A few years ago I used a windows mobile 5 phone with TomTom, and it accepted an external bluetooth antenna as wel as the integrated gps module.
Unfortunelly, TomTom is not suported on android. Do you know any android navigation software that accepts a bluetooth external antenna so that I can keep using my desire as a gps device?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
are you sure it's the antenna's fault? Maybe some settings are off (i.e. you're turning on 3G instead of GPS?). What sort of external antenna do you want to plug into it?
silentz0r_
silentz0r_ said:
Hello,
are you sure it's the antenna's fault? Maybe some settings are off (i.e. you're turning on 3G instead of GPS?). What sort of external antenna do you want to plug into it?
silentz0r_
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Hi
I´m not sure if the problem is really the antenna, but for sure it is not about the settings. I have this phone for about 1,5 years, so I know what to turn on.
Have already made factory settings and reconfigurated everything.
I know that the old phones without gps modules could be bluetotth paired with an external gps antenna. At least the TomTom supported this option. The question is to know if any android navigation software supports it now.
nj05
I found some very usefull information here:
h__p://androgeoid.com/2010/11/android-external-bluetooth-gps-apps-bluetooth-gps/
Already ordered the gps bluetooth antenna. I will post the results later.
Regards to everyone!
nj05
Hi!
I'm using Navigon for now on my One X and i would like to be able to move to a stationary car gps soon.
My question now is, how can i or is it possible to in some way with ANY car gps move or use my contacts addresses
with a stationary car gps? I've got 450-500 clients that i would like to put into this new car gps.
To me it seems like a long shot, but i feel i must ask before i buy this new gps for the car.
Thanks in advanced
ToddeSwe said:
Hi!
I'm using Navigon for now on my One X and i would like to be able to move to a stationary car gps soon.
My question now is, how can i or is it possible to in some way with ANY car gps move or use my contacts addresses
with a stationary car gps? I've got 450-500 clients that i would like to put into this new car gps.
To me it seems like a long shot, but i feel i must ask before i buy this new gps for the car.
Thanks in advanced
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Im sure its possible mate.
First off you need to ensure you buy a SatNav with BlueTooth, and Address Book capabilities.
You should then be able to transfer your contacts (over bluetooth) into your satnav's address book.
Also, its a long shot but if you don't get a SatNav with bluetooth, but it has a mini USB cable, then you could plug it in, mount it as a hard drive, and copy your contacts from your phone to your SatNav.
Hope this helps.
Edit: Sorry, misunderstood your question.
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Wilks3y said:
Im sure its possible mate.
First off you need to ensure you buy a SatNav with BlueTooth, and Address Book capabilities.
You should then be able to transfer your contacts (over bluetooth) into your satnav's address book.
Also, its a long shot but if you don't get a SatNav with bluetooth, but it has a mini USB cable, then you could plug it in, mount it as a hard drive, and copy your contacts from your phone to your SatNav.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, i've now looked into this and i must say i can't find any that says it support contacts or likewise...
Will do some more searching, but if you have any specific brand and model that handles this please tell me.
So i deiced to get the 10" Joying rx3188 unit with android 5.1.1 that recently came on the market. So far I rooted it and got it set mostly how i want, but I discovered an issue with bluetooth. Basic phone pairing and functionality works properly and ive also paired my OBD2link MX unit with it as well for the torque app, which works fine as well. the issue i'm having is that other apps that would use bluetooth, think that bluetooth is disabled on the unit. when i try to have them use bluetooth, they ask if they can turn bluetooth on. Selecting yes hangs the app and i have to force end the app to stop it. Even if i go in to torque, it reads bluetooth as disabled even tough the app itself works fine otherwise.
It seems as if the OS is not properly flagging to apps that bluetooth is turned on as far as i can tell. Is there a workaround for this, or something i can do to signal to apps installed that bluetooth is indeed enabled on the HU?
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ive also paired my OBD2link MX unit with it as well for the torque app, which works fine as well.
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Even if i go in to torque, it reads bluetooth as disabled even tough the app itself works fine otherwise.
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Sorry i don't understand, Torque is working for you or not?
But, what's the "bluetooth name" of your device? Because to work properly i think it must be "OBD" or "OBD2", otherwise you have to search an Xposed module that can help you.
I'm having the exact same problem with the same unit also on Lollipop. I've notified the developer in the Forum post below and he is looking into it. This now makes a total of 3 people with the same problem.
http://forum.carjoying.com/thread-52.html
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the issue i'm having is that other apps that would use bluetooth
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what apps are you having problems with?
also, what car did you put it in? How does it look? 10 inch screen sounds awesome
I'm having two problems right now. The first is that I am unable to pair my Logitech k810 keyboard, and I am unable to connect to a Bluetooth dongle that is used by my radar detector / laser Jammer with an application called Alp connect. I've found quite a few bugs with this head unit and I'm reporting them all to the developer. It works okay my main concern is that it is quite sluggish and I think that is due to the one gigabyte of RAM and lollipop. I installed it in a 2011 Subaru Impreza
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The first is that I am unable to pair my Logitech k810 keyboarda
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I'm fully on board with the concept "your money your car, do what you want" but what do you use a keyboard for in the car?
Quite often I'm too lazy to unpack my laptop when I have to compose a lengthy email on the go so I prefer to do it with a keyboard rather than try to use the touch screen to bash out a couple paragraphs.
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Sorry i don't understand, Torque is working for you or not?
But, what's the "bluetooth name" of your device? Because to work properly i think it must be "OBD" or "OBD2", otherwise you have to search an Xposed module that can help you.
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Torque is working, but if you go to adapter status in torque i shows BT not enabled. And thats the issue, the BT status is off when apps check it. For torque, it does not try to turn on BT to function. other apps do, and when they do, they hang.
I need to somehow flag BT as on for other apps so they dont say they need to turn on BT to work.
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what apps are you having problems with?
also, what car did you put it in? How does it look? 10 inch screen sounds awesome
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apps like tablet talk, or obdlink or solostorm. all think BT is off, and try to turn it on when you want to use the BT obd2 adapter.
its in a Mazda MX-5.
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Quite often I'm too lazy to unpack my laptop when I have to compose a lengthy email on the go so I prefer to do it with a keyboard rather than try to use the touch screen to bash out a couple paragraphs.
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If your objective is to solve the problem get a usb keyboard. They work. If your objective is to get bluetooth keyboards working you might have to wait a long time.
Well, I hope you are wrong as my previous NewsMy NU3001 head unit worked perfectly with it. I'm aware I can use a USB keyboard. In any case I'm happy the developer is willing to try and fix it. What is your source for claiming it will be a long time for it to be fixed?
Also to add to this, im also unable to pair my qstarx 10hz BT gps unit.
It may be helpful to post your Bluetooth concerns in the same thread as mine on the Joying Forum I linked to above so that the developer is aware it's not just me and may encourage him to work on this more quickly.
Just popped my head in over there. I was hoping that peeps here would know of a trick or flag for the OS to make all apps think BT is on. then they could get past the check and just access BT, kinda like what the torque app does.
Yeah if someone finds a way to do that I'd be interested to know how as well. Slightly off-topic did you try installing a custom recovery or the Xposed framework on this unit? I have tried and failed many different types of attempts to do it on this unit.
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Well, I hope you are wrong as my previous NewsMy NU3001 head unit worked perfectly with it. I'm aware I can use a USB keyboard. In any case I'm happy the developer is willing to try and fix it. What is your source for claiming it will be a long time for it to be fixed?
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My source? Joying didn't write the software.
And what relevance does that have to the speed at which the issue can be resolved? It seems that you are just being defeating for no purpose. The developer is willing to help and he has expressed that desire in many Communications I've had with him so far. I prefer to be optimistic and that he has the right people to contact to resolve the issue
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Yeah if someone finds a way to do that I'd be interested to know how as well. Slightly off-topic did you try installing a custom recovery or the Xposed framework on this unit? I have tried and failed many different types of attempts to do it on this unit.
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no. i just have it rooted so far with supersu installed. what feature in xposed could be used to help here?
None that I can think of I was just curious if you had been able to install Xposed. I am curious as to how you were able to install SuperSU, as I was only able to install King root.
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And what relevance does that have to the speed at which the issue can be resolved? It seems that you are just being defeating for no purpose. The developer is willing to help and he has expressed that desire in many Communications I've had with him so far. I prefer to be optimistic and that he has the right people to contact to resolve the issue
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Generic_Android_Head_Unit/MCU_Explained
I've just got a new (to me) car & BT isn't playing fair... It seems to be a known issue, but I'm keen to get it working...
The phone functions are working fine, but the music/audio function isn't. BT audio isn't showing up in the cars interface, nor on my HTC 10 when connected.
Is there a way to add more profiles or make the phone more visible to other BT devices. The issue is 100% with the car & it probably doesn't support enough protocols, but I'm hoping there's a useful app to help...
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I've just got a new (to me) car & BT isn't playing fair... It seems to be a known issue, but I'm keen to get it working...
The phone functions are working fine, but the music/audio function isn't. BT audio isn't showing up in the cars interface, nor on my HTC 10 when connected.
Is there a way to add more profiles or make the phone more visible to other BT devices. The issue is 100% with the car & it probably doesn't support enough protocols, but I'm hoping there's a useful app to help...
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Make and model of car?
I had a similar issue with a BMW and my wife's PRIV.
Had to update the BMW software. They had it on their website for download and install.
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The car's a Porsche Cayman. I'm not sure there's a firmware update available... Feckin cheap German engineering!
My last car was a 2009 Nissan Altima and it had a horrible BT stack. I had to do some workarounds to even get a call to work properly. Newer cars seem to do much better these days.
Like Anandlal suggested, I'd take a look and see if there are any firmware updates for your car. Some makers have them available for download and make it easy to do yourself (Ford comes to mind here). Others may require an update to be applied at the dealer, and that might incur a charge. If they have to do it, you may want to have it done with an oil change or other service to minimize cost and inconvenience.
I feel for you. Cars can be picky and if you get a lazy manufacturer that doesn't update their stuff, you're SOL. I'd hope that for they'd take good care of you considering what you paid for that Porsche.
Good luck!