Altitude on Windows Mobile devices
Some of you that are using the Windows Mobile version of SportyPal may have noticed that the altitude graph on the website always shows your altitude as having a value of zero.
This is a known issue with Windows Mobile’s GPS Intermediate Driver and there’s most likely nothing you can do about it. For most Windows Mobile devices, the altitude recorded is always zero. We’ve read about people working around this by manually configuring the GPS driver, but we’ve never had much success with it on our devices.
If you want to give it a go, go to Start -> Settings -> System -> External GPS. In the Access tab, uncheck the “Manage GPS automatically” option, then choose a port and baud rate in the other tabs.
Be sure to write in if this actually works for you.
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June 5, 2009 at 11:54 am
Hello, altitude does not work in SportyPal as described in article, but is works perfect in BeeGPS software… No idea why…
PDA is HTC Diamond.
June 15, 2009 at 10:24 am
My ride on the weekend seemed to work fine, showing the altitude etc.
This was a iMate JasJam running Windows Mobile 6 and an external GPS running over Bluetooth.
See http://www.sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/5799?key=UwuADk2EHNcB2gePZ1AN7wp17zxmEXK511lDZpN786o=
Cheers,
Whytey
June 18, 2009 at 10:09 pm
My X1 (windows mobile with internal GPS) also captures the altitude with GPSed but not with SportyPal…
June 25, 2009 at 7:58 pm
altitude works fine on sportypal on my HTC Diamond and some other apps as well
July 5, 2009 at 1:38 am
Hmm. Altitude does NOT work on my HTC Diamond. Australian/Telstra version.
June 29, 2009 at 9:46 am
after flashinf WM 6.5 ROM and new radio, altitude is correctly captured.
Solved
July 9, 2009 at 3:31 pm
My HTC diamond with internal GPS doesn’t show altitude either.
Mike, ¿could you explain your answer a bit more? ¿Where can I get WM 6.5 and how can I flash it?
July 13, 2009 at 8:44 am
you can get WM 6.5 ROM and new radio (which is the part of ROM, which is managin all radio partn in your phone – GSM, Wifi, BT and GPS) on http://www.xda-developers.com in forum section in Diamond ROM development.
There are several 6.5 ROMS available for download, but be sure you get to understand how to update ROM in your phone (reading the sticky topics and how-to) so you don’t brick it…
Mike
July 9, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Where do I find the altitude information in the application (on HTC Diamond). I don’t see it on the mainscreen, only on the website / uploaded tracks
July 9, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Altitude isn’t shown in the application, because we could never get it working on our devices (except on simulated signals).
July 16, 2009 at 8:51 am
I tried this on my HTC Touch Pro – the GPS totally stopped working
I’m also using Cycle Computer v3 with Crossingways and it works perfectly.
I hope SportyPal fix this issue as the interface on the device application and web application are much better.
August 4, 2009 at 1:19 am
So it looks like its an issue with SportyPal. If other systems like beeline etc work ok. Dissapointing for all mountain bikers because Sportypal really is the best software around for this. Please fix this soon. (Also it has to calculate altitude changes in the calorie count)
August 4, 2009 at 11:27 am
I tested the ‘GPS Cycle Computer’ program and, although its not as attractive as Sportypal, it does read altitude on a Windows Mobile Device. It also looks like the source code is shared on their site so hopefully the people at Sportypal can take a look at it and see if they can figure out what makes altitude work on Sportypal.
The website is: http://code.google.com/p/gccv2/downloads/list
August 11, 2009 at 10:08 am
Wow,
my HTC Diamond doesn’t show altitude with the old firmware.
This morning I updated the ROM (using the original from HTC site) and my radio was updated from 1.00.25.03 to 1.09.25.23 and now I’m happy because on my workouts I can see also altitude information
bye
September 14, 2009 at 11:24 am
Hi,
Same problem with HTC Touch Pro, Sportypal does not read the altitude but some other softwares can read it.
I think we can do the log with “GPS Cycle Computer”, export to gpx format and upload the file to sportypal on the website. I will try this in my next outdoor workout.
Of course sportypal working will be mutch better!
September 14, 2009 at 11:29 am
We believe that we’ve found a solution (it works on our devices, at least) and we’ll include it in 1.0.8.
September 14, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Thats exaclty waht I’ve been doing. (Uploading GPX collected from GPS Cycle Computer) Can’t wait for V1.0.8 so I can have it all in one great app!
Ian
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