Geocaching with the Blackberry Torch

[+mtyler0812]

I’m new to Geocaching and I’m using a Blackberry Torch as my GPS device. When looking for a multi-part cache today, found the first stage but could not figure how to enter the coordinates to locate the second stage. Every time I try and enter the new coordinates found at the first stage Geocache Navigator always seems to revert back to my current location. Can’t figure out how to save the new coordinates.

 

Thanks,

Mike

[NordicMan]

Hi & welcome to Geocaching! Which app are you using on your Blackberry?

 

And, how are you liking Blackberry's latest OS? Just curious

[+mtyler0812]

I'm using the Geocache navigator version 2.1.21 by Trimble

 

Only had the phone for a couple of weeks but so far I'm liking it. No problems to speek of.

[+OldLog]

Since this is a relatively new device I will be curious as to the response or if you have found a solution. Let me add I am considering the Blackberry or Iphone 4 right now.

Edited October 19, 2010 by OldLog

[+Wine-Os]

My wife and I both have the BB Torch and use it as our primary GPS while Geocaching. We use a program called CacheSense, which works well and allows us to enter coordinates when hunting for multi-caches. The GPS on the phone is also very accurate and fast. I hope this helps!

[+Huntleigh]

My wife and I both have the BB Torch and use it as our primary GPS while Geocaching. We use a program called CacheSense, which works well and allows us to enter coordinates when hunting for multi-caches. The GPS on the phone is also very accurate and fast. I hope this helps!

 

I was recently issued with a Blackberry Bold 9000 by my work. As our corporate policy doesn't allow software downloads I can't load any geocaching software and the only GPS facility is the phone's native GPS capability for locating the current position which you access from the options menu.

 

There is a 1st order benchmark across the road from my work and this lunch hour I tried the Bold's GPS by standing over with plenty of clear sky. I must say I was quite disappointed. Holding the unit horizontally I could only receive 5-6 satellites with the resulting listed accuracy of 20-30 metres. If I held the phone vertically I managed to get up to 8 satellites and a reported accuracy of 15 metres.

 

As I was standing over a precisely known location I could feed that location and the Bold's reported location into one of the many on-line calculation engines and find that the true error was more like 24 metres.

 

I'm in NZ so we don't have WAAS and (I suspect) cell assistance so I was just trialling the Bold's "real" GPS accuracy. How do you get on with your device out in the boon docks when you don't have a phone signal? What about under the forest canopy?

[+SeekerOfTheWay]

To enter coordinates manually:

Open Geocache Navigator

 

Click on Enter Manually

 

Enter Coordinates

 

Press BlackBerry Menu Button (button with 7 dots). Select NEXT

 

If you don't hit the BlackBerry Menu button, then select Next, you will keep getting your current location.

Edited October 23, 2010 by SeekerOfTheWay

[+Brady Bunch Hunters]

My wife and I both have the BB Torch and use it as our primary GPS while Geocaching. We use a program called CacheSense, which works well and allows us to enter coordinates when hunting for multi-caches. The GPS on the phone is also very accurate and fast. I hope this helps!

 

Hi,

Sorry for reply to a very old post but I have just started using Cachesense and the one thing that I can't work out how to do is manually enter coordinates when finding multi caches. Could you possibly let me know how you do it please?

 

Many thanks

 

Pete

 

Ps Anyone using Geocache Navigator and having the problem mentioned in this tread about manually entering coordinates and it not working, This was a bug with older versions of the software and newer BB O/Ss, however it has been sorted in the later versions of GN.

[+Donsfamilyofgirls]

Cachsense. Choose a cache to open, menu then compass. Menu and destination. Enter new coordinates and ok. Continue caching