Archive for the ‘Blackberry’ Category
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
I've worked with a few user's of BBTrackr to fix the Tunnel Failed error. If your on BIS you need to set your APN settings.
The value for your network can be found here:
http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/360-tcp_apn_wap_gateway_port_carrier.html
To configured the TCP settings in BlackBerry as follows:
menu => Options - Advanced Options - TCP and enter APN information per the link ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
I've added some screenshots and basic documentation to the BBTrackr page.
http://www.apsquared.net/blog/bbtrackr/Share This
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
BBTrackr 0.93 was just released, highlights of this release are:
Much improved GPS support (automatic retries, error handling and improved GPS fix logic).
Confirmed success on Blackberry Bold (on AT&T) and Blackberry Curve (T-Mobile).
Option to only update FireEagle based on GPS coordinates (not OpenCellID).
As always please let me know how it goes ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Just released version 0.81 of BBTrackr. It now has a Settings screen that allows you to set the intervals at which OpenCell updates occur as well as FireEagle updates. It also allows you to turn on AutoStart for both features (this just turns the tracking on when you launch BBTrackr).
Also ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
After releasing BBTrackr yesterday it became apparent that it didn't work on all phones. Basically the issue was that it did not work on CDMA phones (Verizon and Sprint in the US). A new version has been releases that does 'work' on CDMA phones. However the ability to update the ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
I've made a simple application call BBTrackr. It is currently in beta.
The application has two main features:
1) It uses both your phones GPS (or GPS Puck) as well as cell phone data to contribute to OpenCellID.org. The OpenCellID project collects cell/location information sot htat location aware applications can be built ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
I just got finished playing with the blackberry Location API. I was pleasently suprised how it easy it was to work with. The key to it is that your phone must be a 4.2 BB OS phone (or upgraded to 4.2 like I did with my8700g) for the Location API ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
We've just released the latest version of MLB Tracker, version 0.85. Amongst some minor bug fixes the biggest change is that we now have MLB Tracker working for both BIS and BES connected blackberry's.
If you own a blackberry and enjoy baseball be sure to give MLB Tracker a try!Share This
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
We've re-released MLB Tracker for 2007. It has basically the same features (and bugs) as the 2006 edition, but we've updated it for the new URLs used by the site we scrape data from.
MLB Tracker is an application for your blackberry that allows you to "virtually watch" a game by ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
As I prepped the release of our 2007 edition of MLBTracker, I found out that the software wasn't working correctly on newer blackberries (the 8100 and 8800 use the 4.2 OS). Unfortunately debugging the application wasn't easy at all. What I ended up needing to do was install the 4.2 ...
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