+team tinker Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 I just need a little help. A few months ago I downloaded that program to my phone, The one that shows you all neaby caches when you enter you current co ords, Ive been using this daily and its great, im now a paper free cacher. The last couple of days the program has not been working, so I was going to redownload it to see if that helps, 1 problem I cant remember where I got the instructions from, Can someone post a link to the page which tells you how to download it! manyt thanks Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 What sort of phone have you got, I have a Nokia 3510i, any chance that this would work on mine (when you find out where to get it again) or is my phone too outdated and decrepid. I don't own my own GPS have to share Cavetroll's it would be nice to be a little independant. Joan Quote Link to comment
+snaik Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 If you have WAP phone try http://rtr.ca/geo i find it really useful or http://www.geocaching.com/wap Quote Link to comment
Big Black Bunny Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 Was it this one http://www.geocacheuk.com/midlet.shtml Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 (edited) It's possible that the problems currently being experienced on the G:UK site have caused the failure. I would wait to see if the problem resolves it'self once G:UK is up and running again. [EDIT] Just tried a down load to my 3510i (yes... it used to work with that model) and it failed so I suspect the problem is at the G:UK end, not your phone. Edited May 12, 2004 by Pharisee Quote Link to comment
NeilFord Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 Please see this thread on the GeocacheUK forums for details of the current situation. The server providing the service is currently down :-( The sys admins are working on it, but as they provide it all for free, we really have to give them as much time as it takes. The thread detailing progress is here. - Neil. Quote Link to comment
+Daisy&me Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 http://www.geocaching.com/wap looks really useful, but has anyone worked out the correct format for the coordinates?. Whatever I try it just sends back the form again. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Just tried a down load to my 3510i (yes... it used to work with that model) and it failed so I suspect the problem is at the G:UK end, not your phone. Have just found out that the Trigpoint data base is back up and running so I've tried to download the nearest 10 caches to my current location...... Yep.... it's all working again on my 3510i Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 (edited) Am I just a poor confused femail? or do we have two topics containing similar threads, I have just put a question on the other topic Mobile Midlet, now Im not sure whether it should have been this one. I have tried the www.geocacheuk.com/midlet one on my nokia 3510i and just keep getting a message "File Format Unknown?" I would be grateful for help pleeeeeese. Joan Edited May 13, 2004 by Cave Troll & Joan Quote Link to comment
NeilFord Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Yep, we do sem to have two threads active on this subject at the moment :-) I suspect things are in a state of flux right now and that the service may only be available sparodically at the mo. Probably best to wait until The Cat/Teasel announce that things are completely back to normal with the stats/trigpointing server. Once it's back up, then we can start to debug any remaing problems better. - Neil. Quote Link to comment
+TheCat Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Just to let you all know we have the stats database working again now and the mobile midlet should work again. Sorry for the down time. Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Just tried again and my Nokia 3510i still will not connect to website still saying "File Format Unknown" Joan Quote Link to comment
+dogastus Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Just tried again and my Nokia 3510i still will not connect to website still saying "File Format Unknown" I just tried it on my 7210 and get the same message. Quote Link to comment
+DomHeknows Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 works fine on my 6210i at 6.40 this morning. Quote Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 You may need to change a setting on your phone, Go into the following menus: Services, Settings, Edit active service settings, Session Mode Make sure this is set to permanent, rather than Temporary. Tony. Quote Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) Hmmm, I've just tried accessing mobile.guk2.com through my browser, I get a 'Under construction' Icon.... Very strange, and defiantly the reason it's not working. Try entering this link instead.... Unfortunately, this will take time to enter just using your phone keypad!! stats.guk2.com/caches/mobile_midlet.jad I'm sure the folks at GUK will fix this when they get around to it...., Cheers, Tony. Edited May 14, 2004 by westonwanderers Quote Link to comment
+dogastus Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) Try entering this link instead.... Unfortunately, this will take time to enter just using your phone keypad!! stats.guk2.com/caches/mobile_midlet.jad I tried this and I just get "page not found". I didn't know if you had to include "http://" so I tried it with and without I can access this address on my PC and also download to the PC the .jar file, so I would assume that the site is doing all the right stuff and it is down to how I have my phone configured. I can access WAP pages with my phone ok. Any further thoughts? Edited May 14, 2004 by dogastus Quote Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 Hi... Just tried it.... Looks as though the Mime type are set up incorrectly on GUK servers. Untill this is fixed, I don't think you'll be able to download the midlet.... Wait a few days!! Cheers. Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 (edited) http://www.geocaching.com/wap looks really useful, but has anyone worked out the correct format for the coordinates?. Whatever I try it just sends back the form again. Do you figure the format out after? Also just found this for mobile logging... http://wap.geocaching.com/ Edited December 12, 2004 by stonefisk Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 (edited) http://www.geocaching.com/wap looks really useful, but has anyone worked out the correct format for the coordinates?. Whatever I try it just sends back the form again. Do you figure the format out after? Also just found this for mobile logging... http://wap.geocaching.com/ Looks like the format for the search at http://www.geocaching.com/wap is thus <snip I got it wrong, see other post> And who runs the logging portal http://wap.geocaching.com/ ? is it official, would not like to thing that it was possible that a 3rd party could log users login credentials. Edited December 12, 2004 by stonefisk Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 (edited) Looks like the format for the search at http://www.geocaching.com/wap is thus for the co-ords N 51° 20.100 W 002° 13.360 it would be formated this way Latitude ( 51.20100) Longitude ( -002.13360) opps, close but wrong ! for the co-ords N 51° 20.100 W 002° 13.360 convert to the format DEG.DDDDD which makes Latitude ( 51.33500) Longitude ( -002.22267) Using - (minus) for West and South coordinates Edited December 12, 2004 by stonefisk Quote Link to comment
+Sue and Bernie Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Phew! that all looks complicated... ...I'm glad my Vista C will do all that stuff automatically. I just wack in umpteen million caches from GSAK in seconds via USB2 then it displays the nearest one to your present position and, when you mark that one as found, brings up the next nearest. Nice 'n easy and no connection charges! ...or am I missing something? Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Phew! that all looks complicated... ...I'm glad my Vista C will do all that stuff automatically. I just wack in umpteen million caches from GSAK in seconds via USB2 then it displays the nearest one to your present position and, when you mark that one as found, brings up the next nearest. Nice 'n easy and no connection charges! ...or am I missing something? I didn't know you could load the full cache description onto the Vista C as well as the umpteen million caches coordinates. The benefit is for unplanned cache trips. Enter your location, voila a list of caches and access to the full description. And possibility to log those FTF's on the spot. At the moment my provider is not charging for GPRS usage at all, so I am just taken advantage of that. Quote Link to comment
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