+northernpenguin Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I've had a few people ask about running the Wherigo Player on HTC Phones. When you attempt to start the application, it will lock up at the Autodetecting GPS screen and typically require a soft-reset to get out of the program. I have an HTC Touch CDMA running Windows Mobile 6.1 with the Internal GPS. The lockup occurs due to some interaction between the GPSID sharing built into Windows Mobile and the Wherigo GPS Autodetection. The solution is to simply disable the GPS detection in the Wherigo player. Here's how to get Wherigo running: Step One: Go to Start, Settings, System, External GPS Make a note of the GPS Program Port for later Go to Access tab, and disable (uncheck) "Manage GPS Automatically" Step Two: Start Wherigo Player (Autodetect GPS will fail) Go to Menu, Settings Clear "Auto Detect GPS" Put the GPS Program Port you noted earlier under "Comm Port" (Usually COM4:) Pick 4800 under Speed. DO NOT "Test GPS Settings" Hit OK to save your settings and ignore the error about GPS not working Exit Wherigo Player Step Three Go back to Start, Settings, System, External GPS, Access and re-enable the "Manage GPS Automatically" Step Four Open Wherigo while outside where you will get GPS Coverage and play normally * On some HTC Phones you may need to open Google Maps to 'prime' the GPS first. On Telus I had to go and fudge around with my ROM's GPS settings to make it work properly. Quote Link to comment
+swimmrguy Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Thanks for posting this northernpenguin! I had the Wherigo Player set up (and working) on my Telus HTC Touch for some time now. However, when I tried to help my friend with the Bell version of the Touch, we got stuck on the hanging screen. After many futile attempts of installing various versions of .NET, your suggestion is what got it work. I had completely forgotten about that step when I set mine up. I have never had luck on either of my HTC phones (the Touch, and previously the Apache) with autoGPS detection working successfully. Quote Link to comment
+Don Cerebro Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Thanks! I fiddled some time to get this Player working on my HTC P3300. After applying your "manual" it worked at once! Regards Heiko Quote Link to comment
flozza1 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Great stuff, i tried many ways of getting it to run. Thankyou for your step by step explanation. It works now, cant wait to try it. Quote Link to comment
+Katzenohr Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Thank you! This also helps on HTC Touch HD. Quote Link to comment
Twister65 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I have an HTC Touch Diamond. I first tried these instructions without success. Wherigo kept telling me that COM4 couldn't be opened, and then wouldn't save the change, so when I re-enabled the autodetect in the phones GPS config, Wherigo would fail upon launch. I then tried COM3 in the phone, and tried to configure Wherigo to use it. Again, it failed. For some reason, when I went back to the phone config and switched it to COM4 again, Wherigo accepted it this time. Scott Quote Link to comment
+jlhutch Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Thank You!! I just got an HTC Touch Pro and fought with it for hours last night before giving up out of exhaustion. Started up again this morning looking for answers in the forums and there it was. Now if only there were a real fix for the resolution problem... Quote Link to comment
+geddorna Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) Fantastic! It works on my HTC P3300 WM6. Thanks a lot! /B Edited March 27, 2009 by geddorna Quote Link to comment
+entogeek Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Also works on an HTC Touch Diamond, however the bottom line is cut off so I can't tell how far I've walked! Quote Link to comment
+northernpenguin Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 For those that are interested, I have upgraded my HTC Touch to Windows Mobile 6.5 and the instructions remain the same, although the "External GPS" icon moved to Settings -> Connections -> External GPS. Wherigo Player works just fine on Windows Mobile 6.5 Quote Link to comment
+MiVa Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Great !!! It worked in my HTC Touch 3g (Jade) Thanks a lot !! Quote Link to comment
+robnrsheils Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I have a 2 year old HTC touch with no gps. Does anyone know if Wherigo can be persuaded to run on it if I obtain an external blueooth gps? This would be my first experience of Wherigo but there are a number of such caches in my area. Quote Link to comment
+cagiva Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 (edited) Step Two: Start Wherigo Player (Autodetect GPS will fail) Go to Menu, Settings Clear "Auto Detect GPS" Put the GPS Program Port you noted earlier under "Comm Port" (Usually COM4:) Pick 4800 under Speed. DO NOT "Test GPS Settings" Hit OK to save your settings and ignore the error about GPS not working Exit Wherigo Player Step Three Go back to Start, Settings, System, External GPS, Access and re-enable the "Manage GPS Automatically" Step Four Open Wherigo while outside where you will get GPS Coverage and play normally How do I ignore the error about the GPS not working? I can't ignore the message. I have to click OK to get on. When I exit Wherigo player the settings are not saved. Edited August 22, 2009 by cagiva Quote Link to comment
+cagiva Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Thank you! This also helps on HTC Touch HD. I have a HTC Touch HD too. But how do you ignore the error message in step 3 and still save the settings? I have to click OK and then the settings where not saved. Quote Link to comment
+baygirls Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I have a Tmobile MDA (HTC P?? I think) with Windows mobile 5. The workaround works except for the COM port in step 3. The program port states COM4 and the hardware port states COM3 but I got Wherigo working on COM1. But it's working!!! Great thanks! Quote Link to comment
+billyrover Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Thank you! This also helps on HTC Touch HD. I have a HTC Touch HD too. But how do you ignore the error message in step 3 and still save the settings? I have to click OK and then the settings where not saved. Just done it my my HD, with a couple of extra steps Once you have manually set GPS in Wherigo, go back to home open gps settings, select automatically manage (again) then fire up google maps and let it aquire the GPS. Then go back to Wherigo press the test gps button, and away you go! Quote Link to comment
+NevadaWolf Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Thanks for the instructions!!! I hadn't been able to use Wherigo on my HTC Touch Pro 2, but at Geowoodstock was told of this handy guide. It was entertaining sitting in Carnation, WA trying to get mine working while all the Colorados were breezing by us! Now to fix the bloody VGA issue... :-/ Quote Link to comment
+judbud Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 This worked on my HTC Rodium Tilt2... Quote Link to comment
+erik88l-r Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Step One:Go to Start, Settings, System, External GPS Make a note of the GPS Program Port for later Go to Access tab, and disable (uncheck) "Manage GPS Automatically" I have a new HTC Touch Pro 2 and could not find a "system" section under "settings", or anywhere else where I could perform GPS settings. Anyone else get beyond this problem and have Wherigo work on this device? Thanks! ~erik~ Quote Link to comment
+Noedi Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Step One:Go to Start, Settings, System, External GPS Make a note of the GPS Program Port for later Go to Access tab, and disable (uncheck) "Manage GPS Automatically" I have a new HTC Touch Pro 2 and could not find a "system" section under "settings", or anywhere else where I could perform GPS settings. Anyone else get beyond this problem and have Wherigo work on this device? Thanks! ~erik~ Somewhere down there must be a menu like "All settings", click -> then you will find System and External GPS. cu Quote Link to comment
+donj51 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I've had a few people ask about running the Wherigo Player on HTC Phones. When you attempt to start the application, it will lock up at the Autodetecting GPS screen and typically require a soft-reset to get out of the program. I have an HTC Touch CDMA running Windows Mobile 6.1 with the Internal GPS. The lockup occurs due to some interaction between the GPSID sharing built into Windows Mobile and the Wherigo GPS Autodetection. The solution is to simply disable the GPS detection in the Wherigo player. Here's how to get Wherigo running: Step One: Go to Start, Settings, System, External GPS Make a note of the GPS Program Port for later Go to Access tab, and disable (uncheck) "Manage GPS Automatically" Step Two: Start Wherigo Player (Autodetect GPS will fail) Go to Menu, Settings Clear "Auto Detect GPS" Put the GPS Program Port you noted earlier under "Comm Port" (Usually COM4:) Pick 4800 under Speed. DO NOT "Test GPS Settings" Hit OK to save your settings and ignore the error about GPS not working Exit Wherigo Player Step Three Go back to Start, Settings, System, External GPS, Access and re-enable the "Manage GPS Automatically" Step Four Open Wherigo while outside where you will get GPS Coverage and play normally * On some HTC Phones you may need to open Google Maps to 'prime' the GPS first. On Telus I had to go and fudge around with my ROM's GPS settings to make it work properly. Quote Link to comment
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