Comments on: BBWeather Experimental GPS Feature Added by Tateu

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:50:06 +0000

@mirren:
Try weatherbug. Works flawlessly on Tour. I’ve recently been in DC, SC, RI, CA, and WA and it GPS located and pulled proper data no issues.

By: mirren

mirren — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:17:14 +0000

Great app. Had the 89.1 version already. But it simply is not currently working for the Tour. I tried all of the 12 possible combinations but it states “Invalid location provided.” Oh well.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:21:01 +0000

I’ve tried on my Tour also. When I enter “@gps” it tells me it is unable to ascertain LocationID.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:23:11 +0000

I downloaded this and installed it on the Tour. Set it the way the directions say but continue to get an error while trying to use the GPS. I was going to switch to this instead of WeatherBug since I know it takes up less memory, but I want the GPS to work. It won’t even work as a ‘cellsite’ location.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:46:06 +0000

Nobody is going to Ed. At least not get GPS to work. Unless Verizon has a wholesale change of heart for old devices and decides to open up the PDE severs, the ONLY apps that will ever work with the internal GPS on a Verizon 8130/8330/8830 are VZNavigator, TeleNav, and BlackBerry Maps. Those three are the only ones that can authenticate with the PDE’s (which the LBS API’s make apps do), and even attempts to hack other apps into making themselves appear to be one of the authorized apps have failed to authenticate even using proper credentials.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:28:05 +0000

Anybody get this working on a verizon curve?

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:24 +0000

IT WORKS! ITS AWESOME! I LOVE IT! WELL DONE!! Now please add aupport for non-US GPS locations, like Canada, Europe, etc…

By: Suspiria

Suspiria — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:27:52 +0000

Wonderfull !!!
It even works outside of the USA (I’m in small city in France) on BB8820.
Thanks a lot, it’s'a feature I waited a long time to be available.

By: andrewnyc

andrewnyc — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:40:33 +0000

Tateu has done great work keeping BBWeather alive and kicking! He definitely deserves praise for it!

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:50:53 +0000

Get error from above OTA link:
“Cannot find file (-3): BBWeatherEX “

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:38:12 +0000

Adding GPS is awesome! Weatherbug beta for Storm does that. Its great when traveling to not have to ask someone for the local zip code or input a city name!

By: conedude13

conedude13 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:08:46 +0000

I stumbled across this one yesterday and installed it. so far so good. i still had to add my home zip code in order for it to work though. i was hoping that i would be able to skip that and it just pick up my location via gps. you CAN, however, make weather underground your source for weather in the app. i don’t know if that was the case for the pervious version! love it!!