We’ve just completed a first run at a simple Blackberry based mobile updater for FireEagle. This application does not directly tie in to theSUGGESTR.com, however it can work along side our Alerts functionality to notify you when you are nearby any of your personalized suggestions, wish list or favorite food television show locations. In a future post we’ll dive more into how to set this all up. Click here to learn more about linking your FireEagle account with your BB on Fire app.
The application’s main purpose is to update FireEagle of your location at a regularly scheduled interval (you can configure it to be very frequent or infrequent). Unlike some other updaters we do NOT use your GPS (although we may offer this in the future). Why is this good? Well for one if you have a GSM phone without a GPS you can use our updater AND using cellular triangulation instead of GPS uses less power.
The application has some other bells and whistles such as being able to map your current location and see all the locations you’ve been at since the application started. Also the application can run in the background to keep updates going even when your doing other things.
So far the application has only been tested on a 8320 running OS 4.5. However it should work on ANY GSM phone with OS version 4.2.1 and greater. We are looking for people to try the application out and give us some feedback (positive or negative). Let us know your phone / carrier and OS version.
Working On:
8320/Tmobile/4.5
Not Working On:
All CDMA (Sprint/Verizon)
Here are some screen shots of the application:
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Tested on Bold 9000 with 4.6 OS and 5.0 OS, as well as BB Curve 8900. Working well, but seems to have memory leak. If allowed to run overnight, device available application memory drops to close to 0.
Thanks for the feedback.
We’ve found one potential memory issue.
Just to confirm, were you using GPS or cell based locations? Also what was the refresh set to (how often)?
Thanks.
Hi, I was using 15 minute interval, cell only because device was indoors and I kind of like not showing “exactly” where I am all the time
The inaccuracy of cell-based location fix is good for showing in Facebook etc.
OK, I found another issue, if the device is connected to WiFi *and* cellular network at the same time, and you use cell-based location fixing, you *usually* get an error: “Cannot find location: 1″.
I am at the airport atm and my test BB is not with me so I am a bit vague on this one. I will replicate and send a screenshot sometime this weekend.