Is there a reason for why Daydream View requires GPS to be enabled?
Looking for technical and actual answers, not just it helps with movement. Like what exactly is GPS doing that makes it required?
AndroidRaven said:
Is there a reason for why Daydream View requires GPS to be enabled?
Looking for technical and actual answers, not just it helps with movement. Like what exactly is GPS doing that makes it required?
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I would think for the street view use, it can go to your location.
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Does the HTC TP2 come with software that geotags photos (adds lat long GPS data to jpg) ? I cannot seem to find this function?
If not any good solutions?
In the camera app, click the menu icon (lower right corner when held in landscape mode), then the camera icon. This should bring up the Capture Mode menu -- hit Next, then GPS Photo. This will turn on the GPS receiver and will place the GPS co-ordinates into the picture's EXIF data.
You may need to install the 'Enable_All_Camera_Modes.CAB'.
So, once you Geotag a photo, what good is that?
I did it a few times, but you have to wait for a GPS connection before you can take the photo. It was annoying and I couldn't find any reason to even do it.
Setting GPS Mode on the camera is one good option, albiet sometimes it can be tedious waiting for it to lock to take a quick shot.
GPSToday can also geotag images in the background automatically or on-demand after taking the shot. Also does a horde of other cool stuff.
worwig said:
You may need to install the 'Enable_All_Camera_Modes.CAB'.
So, once you Geotag a photo, what good is that?
I did it a few times, but you have to wait for a GPS connection before you can take the photo. It was annoying and I couldn't find any reason to even do it.
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Thanks. Seems like my HTC TP2 came with no software to do this. I guess I will try GPS today and Enable_All_Camera_Modes.CAB when I can find them to download.
I find geotagging a useful tool as I often need to share photo locations with colleagues at work either using Google Earth or some other photo location display. I'd have thought HTC would have built this in when I bought the device but guess not.
palatkik said:
Thanks. Seems like my HTC TP2 came with no software to do this. I guess I will try GPS today and Enable_All_Camera_Modes.CAB when I can find them to download.
I find geotagging a useful tool as I often need to share photo locations with colleagues at work either using Google Earth or some other photo location display. I'd have thought HTC would have built this in when I bought the device but guess not.
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It is built in. The 'enable all modes' CAB file turns it on. Not sure why they disabled it.
So where's the 'enable all modes' cab file located....can't find it??
KCBaur said:
So where's the 'enable all modes' cab file located....can't find it??
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Here, plus much much more. Camera modes are in post 5, but read it all, probably other things there you'll be interested in.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524655
Check the pocketnow website!
http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/comprehensive-windows-phone-7-demo
There are 4 Youtube videos up there which show quite a good hi-res walkthrough for WP7.
I like the fourth part where he shows off Bing navigation! (The rest is mostly well known already...)
I watched these earlier. They fluidity of the OS is great. Just hope they can get those much needed feature in soon and this will be my next Phone.
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I hate the internet at my job, they block youtube and all I get are the above statements.
Damnit!
Will have to wait until I get home
But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
doministry said:
But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
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Why would you want your screen to be sideways?
RustyGrom said:
Why would you want your screen to be sideways?
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I don't understand your question.
I'm talking about screen orientation.
I would like to deactivate changing orientation through accelerometer
and leave it only for qwerty opening on my device.
doministry said:
I don't understand your question.
I'm talking about screen orientation.
I would like to deactivate changing orientation through accelerometer
and leave it only for qwerty opening on my device.
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Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
RustyGrom said:
Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
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Well basically any I imagine possibly because it's my device and I want to use it how I want it,
like viewing photo from different angles instead of device deciding for me how I should watch this.
All the automatic processes are always buggy to some extent. I want to be the only deciding factor to it.
This should be available to anybody who wants this feature
and possible for beeing disabled by the user whenever one wants to.
doministry said:
But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
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+1 I hate having auto rotate on, it always manages to find a way to piss me off
havox22 said:
+1 I hate having auto rotate on, it always manages to find a way to piss me off
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ditto...I basically disabled it on all use cases except for photoviewing. I don't even have a keyboard anymore, but I have swype and swype is better in portrait than landscape (less line drawing).
doministry said:
Well basically any I imagine possibly because it's my device and I want to use it how I want it,
like viewing photo from different angles instead of device deciding for me how I should watch this.
All the automatic processes are always buggy to some extent. I want to be the only deciding factor to it.
This should be available to anybody who wants this feature
and possible for beeing disabled by the user whenever one wants to.
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I would suggest using a device before declaring it buggy. Yea, it's been buggy on WinMo but all of WinMo has been buggy. There very well may be a "disable accelerometer" option. Not sure, I haven't seen it.
Hey it's getting offtopic already on page 2
RustyGrom said:
Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
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For instance while reading in bed. Apple added it in iOS4 as it was a strong request from the community.
Nice feature if you ask me, as developers don't need to provide a "switch" it within their apps
kooled said:
For instance while reading in bed. Apple added it in iOS4 as it was a strong request from the community.
Nice feature if you ask me, as developers don't need to provide a "switch" it within their apps
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Agreed, happens often enough. It'd be a nice plus to the OS, allthough not at all required.
Rotation is defined on a application level:
Code:
<phoneNavigation:PhoneApplicationPage x:Class="PhoneApplication1.MainPage"
SupportedOrientations="PortraitOrLandscape"
Does the GPS rely entirely (or majorily) on cell tower connection?
Can it function when you don't have cell tower service?
Wow...umm...use wiki and google please, save yourself a bit of embarrassment.
GPS is a separate chip, ie: apps like CoPilot store maps on SD card and use just the GPS instead of gps+data like Google Maps.
Don't really care about being embarrassed, so um wow nice thanks for the response?
PolarWind said:
Don't really care about being embarrassed, so um wow nice thanks for the response?
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Not sure if this means you found the answer you were looking for or not but the final answer is yes it will work with out phone service but it depends on the GPS app you use.
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Are there any that actually work? Google Skymap won't change position when I point the device anywhere else. SkEye changes position, but can't find the moon when I'm looking right at it.
My compass is working fine.
These types of apps would help with nighttime landscape photography, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Are there any that actually work? Google Skymap won't change position when I point the device anywhere else. SkEye changes position, but can't find the moon when I'm looking right at it.
My compass is working fine.
These types of apps would help with nighttime landscape photography, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hmm, Google Sky, InvisiVerse ans SkyEye all work fine for me.
If you're in the UK I think TPE and Rainwatch would be a better suited to night time landscape photography :laugh:
compact_bijou said:
Hmm, Google Sky, InvisiVerse ans SkyEye all work fine for me.
If you're in the UK I think TPE and Rainwatch would be a better suited to night time landscape photography :laugh:
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Thanks compact_bijou,
I have and use TPE a lot, I was just wanting to use something to help me find the north star and milky way and constellations before it gets dark so I can set up my composition while I can still see. I'll look into Rainwatch, unless it's UK only. I couldn't find InvisiVerse.
I'm running stock, so I don't know why Skymap and SkEye won't work correctly. On my captivate, neither work, but I think that has to do with the Rom I'm running.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Dug
Invisible Universe, shows nebulae and other invisible to the naked stuff in the sky.
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Hello experts,
Does any APP for SWR50 able to display the GPS ALTITUDE exist?
Thanks
Enrico
freewing70 said:
Hello experts,
Does any APP for SWR50 able to display the GPS ALTITUDE exist?
Thanks
Enrico
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There is an option in dev options to check all sensors. GPS sensor can be found there and I remember that we've the altitude info.
Calvin Gross said:
There is an option in dev options to check all sensors. GPS sensor can be found there and I remember that we've the altitude info.
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Well, thanks for suggestion. It works great.
But I do was looking for "something" (an app) that directly was giving me the gps altitude.
Still didn't find it.
Thanks again
Enrico
freewing70 said:
Well, thanks for suggestion. It works great.
But I do was looking for "something" (an app) that directly was giving me the gps altitude.
Still didn't find it.
Thanks again
Enrico
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Try my app I quickly put together a while back, it will show altitude in meters http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2931689
WOW! FANTASTIC!!
Thanks a lot: now I can go fly and check my altitude from the watch (even).
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I think this is a great app: BRAVO!
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