Would you rather have 2-4 hour battery life (that's what people get when the GPS is left on)?
Well currently on my 3GS i get about 4 hours of usage in a day. Kinda sucks! I might hit up the apple store and have them check it out.
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Well currently on my 3GS i get about 4 hours of usage in a day. Kinda sucks! I might hit up the apple store and have them check it out.
Would you rather have 2-4 hour battery life (that's what people get when the GPS is left on)?
Of course, it might be better to have a background app (if one were to be allowed) that polled every 5-10 minutes or so.
honestly, the best thing that could happen is Apple picking something up like this and incorporating it into their 'Maps' app. I will continue using loopt. but if every iPhone user had latitude built in to their Maps program.. that would be pretty amazing
Have you tried rebooting the phone? With my old 2G, I'd have to reboot periodically, because something seemed to be stuck, running in the background.
Isn't 4 hours of usage in a day kind of a lot? I mean, people generally work 8 hours a day, so where do you find time to spend a constant 4 hours on the phone? Assuming your accessing the web and some intensive apps, 4 hours of usage isn't bad. Maybe its just me but I usually am lucky if I clock in 2 hours of usage a day.
I don't think they'll do it, but the loopt folks would probably just have to do a forced, periodic push, which would force the iPhone to update its location. (This does, of course, assume that the push API allows for "silent" push -- that is, a push event that doesn't force the display of a pop-up message box. As I'm not a developer, I don't know if this is true.)
Edit: Foo, I took a look at the iPhone push docs, and the push API doesn't appear to allow for this. The push API appears to only force the display of a notification dialog box, and the user must push a button on the dialog box to actually cause a non-running application (e.g., loopt) to run. There seems to be no way to cause a non-running application to automatically run in the background.
I've tried it all, reboot, restore, everything. Nothing works.
Every here and there i'm on it. Not 4 hours constant, but throughout the day from wake up to bed, definitely! Most of the time is internet stuff. Some 3G some wireless. But i mean i mean after 10 min of usage, i was down to 93% today with only 2 hours standby. That's crap.
this isnt updating in the background for me.. even though i can verify safari running through sbsettings
Ok so for the past hour i had latitude running in mobile safari with safari minimized and with the phone locked. I was checking from my web browser and no updates. I turned on the phone but did not go into safari, still no updates. I went into safari and the site was already there, and it updated. I hope that we don't have to have it up to update, that defeats the purpose. Oh well, why can't apple just have apps run in the background. Sucks.
can someone try using Backgrounder to enable safari even more to work in the background?
Safari runs in the background anyway. It sounds like the page has to be actively viewed for latitude to update its location anyway though.
Official announcement http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-latitude-now-for-iphone.html
Looks like they wanted a native app but stupid apple killed it. And no it won't run in the background. So basically apple killed its main functionality! So stupid. As much as I love the iPhone, this sounds like something Verizon would do, cripple the phone!
Looks like they wanted a native app but stupid apple killed it. And no it won't run in the background. So basically apple killed its main functionality! So stupid. As much as I love the iPhone, this sounds like something Verizon would do, cripple the phone!
does anyone know if backgrounder will enable loopt to run in the background?
I wasn't impressed with this. They need to add this capability to google maps, instead of writing a web application.
Let me restate this comment. It works for me while Safari is open (doh!). I am spoiled by Latitude on the Bold that works no matter what you are doing on the phone....
Apple should have allowed them to incorporate this into google maps in 3.1. They should also have allowed them to respond to request in the background like mobileme's FindMyiPhone.
eg.) Friend requests your location, google sends request to phone, maps runs gps in the background and feeds back location then shuts off gps, location presented to friend.
This is the only way you could actually save battery and have it working as intended.
Would have been even better if google had different levels of friends... Those in the top level are able to request your location without your intervention. Those in the level below require your approval first in the form of a push notification to the phone and you either deny or allow your location to be uploaded.
eg.) Friend requests your location, google sends request to phone, maps runs gps in the background and feeds back location then shuts off gps, location presented to friend.
This is the only way you could actually save battery and have it working as intended.
Would have been even better if google had different levels of friends... Those in the top level are able to request your location without your intervention. Those in the level below require your approval first in the form of a push notification to the phone and you either deny or allow your location to be uploaded.
very good ideas. unfournately i doubt apple will ever implement this, maybe they will in the mobileme form but never with google. just doesn't reallly make sense in apple's business style
Sounds good to me. But I'm sure we'll have to wait for the jailbreak community to fix Apple's flaws yet again.
I am trying to add my husband on my google lattitude. but the response I get is "Oops! cannot process your request--try again later"
And this is the response I get from anyone that I try to add from my contact list.
(I am using my MB to do this, not the iphone.)
What should I be doing differently??
And this is the response I get from anyone that I try to add from my contact list.
(I am using my MB to do this, not the iphone.)
What should I be doing differently??