[Blackberry, Cachberry, Verizon]

Ok so I dont know anything aboiut verison but I am on bell network here is a quick summary of what I did.

This is from memory which I forgot I had

Go to advanced option and enable gps

You are premium member so i would get a couple gpx files and zip them up and email them to my BB

or create a pocket querry ( I would limit to 250 at first)

Open caceberry import them into cacheberry

select the gc you want and select compass

there are a bunch of things you can do but this is a start

you can also use find next and it will list them by closest to you

You notice no VZ navigator required

 

Thanks Dakin: I can't seem to make the compassy-thing work.

[Blackberry, Cachberry, Verizon]

Verizon has crippled the GPS in the Curve. It only works with the VZ Navigator and BlackBerry Maps applications.

 

The GPS won't work with CacheBerry at all but I really like to use it as my paperless option so I will open the cache with CacheBerry and then use it to open the cache in BlackBerry maps to route me to it or Google Maps to show me on the satellite view where it is. As long as you are not in a trackless forest, it works okay.

 

I asked Verizon about the lack of open GPS and got a long, stupid reply. I can post it if wanted.

 

Hi Crawil -- augghggh!!! That's OK -- no need to repost the stupid reply from the stupid Verizon people. Dang it anyhow. It's enough to make you switch carriers or just say to heck with the phone and buy a dedicated GPS device.

 

Appreciate the help!

[A little help for a newbie]

Most of the caches around here that are regular sized(ammo cans) are underneath or behind logs, under piles of rocks, not big piles, but 5 or 6 rocks. Moss is a good way to hide stuff as well.

 

Moss! You've given me new hope! Thanks!

 

[Blackberry, Cachberry, Verizon]

Hello all -- I'm not even sure what questions to ask, but I'll try.

 

I have a Blackberry Curve 8330, Cacheberry V2.1.7 (OS 4.2+GPS), and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get things to work together. I'm doing this very awkward thing at the moment where I open the VZ Navigator program with the coordinates written down on a piece of paper in the DDD MM SS.SSS format (because I think that's what VZ navigator has) -- and then mostly go with maps and descriptions anyway because that's what works for me. So: is this lack of coordination a Verizon thing? A "me" thing? How do I figure this out?

 

I can totally see going to equipment dedicated to geocaching someday (mostly for a larger screen so my husband and I can both see it), but I want to work with what I have for now.

 

Thanks for the help.

[Verizon Phone.]

Thanks all -- looks like I need a BB Storm while I'm a Verizon Customer -- or switch to another network and keep the current phone. In the meantime, I'll muddle along.

[Verizon Phone.]

"That leaves picking the phone and the plan. I have to say, after abou two hours trying to figure things out my head is about to explode."

 

I hear you. What I'm trying to figure out is what works with what and how and can I get something else?

 

I have:

 

Blackberry 8330

Cacheberry

 

And I bought a subscription to

VZ Navigator.

 

Is VZ Navigator the only software that will work on a Blackberry with a Verizon subscription?

 

Thanks,

 

Leslie

[Did something happen to geocaching.com yesterday?]

Yesterday afternoon (GMT), the geocaching.com seemed to go offline for a while and then it came up and for some reason I am now getting "HTTP Error 413: Request Entity Too Large. Please try loading a different page."

 

I had problems as well, but this morning I reset my blackeberry (turned it off, took out the battery, put the battery back in, turned it back on, waited), and things seems OK.