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Those helping with testing of GPSSppc

Updated 1530 Friday 21st November 2008 UK time

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Robin These are the kind people who have tested GPSS for the Pocket PC .

Mio P350 The list was moved here, since it became too long for the beta testing page.

I'd like to thank all those who have helped - particularly Rob, Nick, Bryan, Jan and Alex. But all of your feedback is valuable to me: it helps us find and fix the bugs more quickly. Some will find the page useful, to see if anyone has GPSSppc working on the same hardware, or may be experiencing similar problems.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, and tell me of progress or problems.

e.g. most platforms, such as from HP or Mio, work perfectly, but the HTC TyTn ii with WM6 needs GPSGate for the GPS.

Some of you may be happy to join those listed below. Move your mouse over the pictures to see what hardware product.

Mio P350

beta testers helping us test latest GPSSppc ...

Robin is grateful to those helping test the pre-release GPSS for Pocket PC. If you wish, We can add contact information about you, but normally it will be limited to first name, town and country. e.g. "Robin in Sunninghill, UK". You can find the information below on your iPAQ via Start-Settings-System-About. Please email your latest report to Robin, with content similar to those below. Please say what version of gpssppc.exe you last used.

These people have tried GPSS on their Pocket PC: 186 are OK with the GPS; best or recent results first (roughly).
* indicates those who also have had full Windows GPSS working with GPS and done download steps 1 and 2.

these have GPSSppc working, but not with GPS: from Jeroen in Uganda
  • Hanan in Israel: GPSSppc v10p on Samsung i780. WM6. 320x320 screen. GPS not yet OK.
  • Jon in LA, USA: GPSSppc works on iPAQ 6515 but not with GPS on COM7. Interference from MS Trips?
These don't have GPSSppc working at all:
  • Ricardo with Moto q9h Global. WM6.1 "Error gpssppc.exe notsupportedexception ..." Tried to install the microsoft compact framework but got an error. ... trying to install version 2.0.5238 but had a new version 2.0.7045 already installed and would have to remove it before trying to downgrade.
  • Martin in UK: GPSSppc v11 on HP iPAQ 514. WM6. Latest MSCF. Gives "not supported exception".
  • Steve in Tunbridge Wells,UK: GPSSppc v9 on Orange SPV E650. WM6. Gives NotReportedException.
  • Tony in Scarborough,UK: GPSSppc v 7 on Orange SPV C600. WM5. gives NotReportedException.
  • Fred in Kelowna,Canada: GPSSppc v7 on HTC S621. WM5 upgrade to WM6 gave NotSupportedException. runs on emulator under WM6 Pro.
  • * Arnost in Plzeò,Czech Republic: GPSSppc on ipaqrx4240. WM5. Cannot install NetCFSetupv2.
  • Fernando in Caracas, Venezuela: GPSSppc v3 on HTC S620. WM5. gpssppc.exe gives NotSupportesException - In Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr()
  • *Chris in Codford,UK with O2 XDA IQ (badged HTC Tornado) Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. GPSSppc gives NotSupportedException.
  • Bernard in Paris, France: HP6515c (UK model) version 1.04.00 WWE under Windows CE 4.21, screen resolution 240x240. GPS on COM7. Just getting started. Soft reset needed. Orange M3100 I-Mate JasJam
  • * Costantino in Monza, Italy: NSBasic gives message "Impossible to install NSB runtime.cab. It is not possible to use the installation file on this equipment". NSBasic say "do not support this smartphone". (Qtek 8010, Windows Mobile 2003 SE, ver. 4.21.1088, build 15045.2.6.0). Then tried vb.net gpssppc.exe below. Tried to install .net runtime 2.0 at provided Microsoft link: says that it is not compatible with current operating system. Costantino later reported: "I surfed some blogs: Windows Mobile 2003 SE for Smartphone is based on Windows CE 4.2 and it seems that .net 2.0 does not yet support Windows CE 4.2 (it is supposed to have this support within 1H2006)."
  • Malcolm in Castle Cary, UK: ipaq 3850. Cannot run GPSSp or GPSSppc. Compact Framework would not install on old Windows Mobile 2002. Hopes to upgrade to Windows Mobile 2003.
  • Doug in Gloucester,UK: ADVENT GPS 400. has replaced Navigon s/w by TomTom but not any of above yet.
  • Mohammad in Eindhoven, Holland. GPSSp 1 Feb 06. Mio A201 has windows mobile 5.1.70 (Build 14406.1.1.1) operating system, processor: PXA270 312 MHz, memory: 53.53 MB. Did not work - but stopped TomTom working. WARNING TO OTHERS.

Platforms giving problems: I've received emails and Forum postings, with these problem reports ...
Samsung i617 BlackJack II. WM6. GPSSPPC.EXE aborts, even after installing latest Microsoft Compact Framework.
Orange SPV C600. WM5. Similar problems of giving NotSupportedException.

But, of course, there are a lot of platforms above that give no problem at all :-)

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