I've installed all the files using Resco explorer, but am getting nowhere in Live Search.

Read the white paper- read my posts, and read the readme in the zip I posted. (I am not any expert but those are the documents)

The files are all the same from the 6800 version. EXCEPT you guys need to take the gpsapi.dll from your actual device and copy it to the gpsserver directory and rename it stdgps.dll.

that's the starting point to see if the valhalla server will work or not on your devices or if you need to fiddle with them.

You can't use M Moogle's files as - if I am reading correctly he is using the STOCK oemgpsone.dll instead of the oemgpsone.dll included in the zip that the gpsserver.exe and modifides gpsapi.dll need to work.

Unless I read his post wrong, M Moogles starting point is exactly as you stated it should be.

I figured he was the main one who got it to work, so he must have been doing something correct. I'll try with that method and see if it works. thanks!

To get it to show up, delete all of them, except for the "Redirect" entry. Then go in and change "Redirect" to "Dshow" and the value to 2. It should then show up.

The oemgpsOne.dll in the .rar I uploaded isn't stock - its modified in the same way that the oemgpsOne.dll was modified for the XV6800 afaik. I'll double-check when I get home to make sure I'm not remembering wrong, but the only difference between the XV6800's stock oemgpsOne.dll and the one included with GPSServer was that it was edited to reference stdgps.dll and not gpsapi.dll. I did a binary compare between the two files and this was the only difference. This makes sense if you think about it as oemgpsOne.dll references gpsapi.dll. But gpaspi.dll has been replaced with the GPSServer wrapper dll, so it won't work. That's why the original gpsapi.dll is coped to some other filename (in this stdgps.dll) and oemgpsOne.dll is modified to reference it - this way it will still work and VZNav and anything else using oemgpsOne as an interface doesn't know the difference.

Quoting from Skywing's documentation:


I've still been unable to get my phone to report my actual location outside of GPSTest - it still thinks that I'm at my house when I tell apps to connect to the GPS - I don't understand why this is happening.

Here is an e-mail responce that I received from Verizon:


"Thank you for your recent e mail regarding the GPS functionality in the new Samsung Omnia.

Verizon Wireless, like all carriers, orders devices to meet certain specifications inclusive of features. Each of these specifications is tested to determine if it meets our performance goals. There are instances when the phone will pass our extensive testing process but a specific feature may not meet the standard. We will often choose to introduce the phone without that feature but ask that the manufacturer come back to us with revised software that has to be tested to make sure the service works the same across our entire wireless footprint --from Maine to Hawaii. In the case of open standalone GPS, we are partnering with the Windows Mobile device manufacturers to provide a software upgrade that will add this capability to the existing assisted GPS capability. This is a complex development project to provide open standalone GPS while maintaining the assisted GPS capability with the level of performance and security that our customers expect. The recently introduced Windows Mobile devices including the Omnia, Saga, and Touch Pro are targeted to add open standalone GPS in the 1st half of 2009."

So looks like they might open it up after all. In the mean time thanks to everyone who is contributing to this thread. I am sure it will be working for us before Verizon Releases their promised fix.

Guys, can you clear up one thing, the folder \windows\GPSServer, are we supposed to create it, or on your phones, has it been created by running/installing a program? That folder simply didn't exist on my phone, unless i manually create it.

you create it, and it is NOT in \windows, it is in \program files

That does look hopeful, but would have been nice if they hadn't LOCKED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! ugh....

I sent some e-mails to Verizon and here is what i got today from an executive at Verizon. Notice the Last line of the e-mail. Also note that a civil suit starts in January of 2009. They know they cannot lock it down legally. Most of the E-mail is BS.


Verizon Wireless, like all carriers, orders devices to meet certain specifications inclusive of features. Each of these specifications is tested to determine if it meets our performance goals. There are instances when the phone will pass our extensive testing process but a specific feature may not meet the standard. We will often choose to introduce the phone without that feature but ask that the manufacturer come back to us with revised software that has to be tested to make sure the service works the same across our entire wireless footprint --from Maine to Hawaii. In the case of open standalone GPS, we are partnering with the Windows Mobile device manufacturers to provide a software upgrade that will add this capability to the existing assisted GPS capability. This is a complex development project to provide open standalone GPS while maintaining the assisted GPS capability with the level of performance and security that our customers expect. The recently introduced Windows Mobile devices including the Omnia, Saga, and Touch Pro are targeted to add open standalone GPS in the 1st half of 2009.

Duh.. I'm dumb. In the the registry there are values for - guess what - cachedposition and cachedpositiontime. Now that I cleared those out I'm back to it being unable to find a location in Google Maps. I wish I could figure out what the hell I did last night to make it work. It might have been a combination of trying to get a location in Google Maps and launching GPSTest at the same time...

Crazy idea, how about we get our best effort so far in a CAB for people to install, then maybe have a session in the MoDaCo Palringo room tomorrow or something to try and thrash out some ideas and make some progress in realtime?

P

ahhh....

thanks for explaining the changes to oemgpsone.

that goes a LONG way!

a little bird under NDA told me the same exact thing- so i think it's true.

Can someone please post the omnia stock files for gpsapi.dll, oemgpsone.dll, stdgps.dll?

I blew mine up **forgot to backup, got way too excited

thanks

M Moogle, I will cab it when it's ready for more testing. I have a few people on the forum that I am sure will help beta test.

Thanks, JASTECH ô¿ô

@M Moogle

When did you dump your rom. The fact that you have a gpsserver folder would imply that you installed the valhalla cab. If you dumped the rom with the cab installed wouldn't the extracted gpsapi actually be the one from valhalla not the stock dll?

Have anyone tried these steps to get gps to work.

http://www.pspmyspace.com/omnia/2008/12/en...hout-phone.html

This was a load of hot steaming crap.

Verizon doesnt care about the making sure the gps service is tested, they want you to use their app and their app only so they could get paid.

But since they have had CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS filed against them, now they want to save their a$$ by opening up the gps to everyone.

I HATE verizon.