Comments on: Updated “findme”: please test!

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:21:43 +0000

Thank you Erica for this, I just got an iPhone and I hope I don’t lose it but now I have this to keep me a little less worried.

I first tried muchbetter (because I didn’t bother to read the differences, Now I know I should have done my research) and it found me dead on, but I didn’t like that there wasn’t a link to googlemaps. then I tried findme-better, and it showed my location a mile or 2 away. so I copied both better and muchbetter to the same location on the iPhone, tweaked the tweet file abit now it’s spot on plus a link to google maps. also now I get two updates on twitter but it’s spot on.

can some1 help on how to get it to update through EDGE?

By: shaiss

shaiss — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:11:02 +0000

I will update the package with the finme-muchbetter tomorrow. Thanks for the comments

By: jaxx

jaxx — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:54:19 +0000

of course…

I meant “some” not “soma”

By: jaxx

jaxx — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:53:49 +0000

Hi Erica… I do try log, and most of the day (unless I play with my phone) my logs don’t move an inch… (or a centimeter on my Mediterranean coast).

Sometimes I even found it stuck on findme-better and once or twice on the curl, had to kill the script otherwise launchdeamon wouldn’t relaunch it (which means it’s no use putting a barbarian killall findme or killall curl at the beginning of the script neither)

Will give findme-muchbetter a try but I suppose this needs soma insomniac gearing.

Cheers

By: boomersmech

boomersmech — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:49:30 +0000

Erica,

Ive been looking into this and trying to make sure as well that the phone going to sleep isnt an issue.

I dont really understand fully how the launchdaemons control start and stops but I do know that it stops functioning. I have noticed that when the phone goes into sleep it stalls in the middle of the script operation…. I dont know what kind of problem occurs at that point.

I decided to take a diffrent approach to the launch daemon, and decided on using an ondemand launch. I then stall the sh at the end by using “sleep 60″. But to seal the deal I added a log script but instead of logging each time it runs it logs the time it starts and completes to see if that may be the issue.

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:34:56 +0000

I really recommend that if you think that sleep is interfering with launch daemons that you do a log call at the start of the script called by the daemon, e.g.

echo `date` >> /tmp/checklog

I suspect that your daemons are running fine, even while sleeping.

By: miahill9

miahill9 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:02:08 +0000

Idea for sleep function. The alarms from the apples clock work even when it is sleeping. May be we can track down how that works, and hock our script onto that action.

By: ramonk

ramonk — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:42:43 +0000

@shai… In your distribution package, please change the default update interval to 30 minutes (1800 sec) or so… That way not everyone that installs this automatically floods the skyhook servers.

Also fix the tweet script… The #! /bin/sh line really needs to be the first line in the script.

For the rest… Thanks! I was trying to install it straight from my iPhone, and without your package it wouldn’t have been possible…

By: jait

jait — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:24:06 +0000

Unless you’re looking at doing precision tracking, every few hours should be good enough.

erica & shaiss, this app is what brought me back into the jailbreak scene. What’s the community source to get this app installed? Thanks.

By: shaiss

shaiss — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:45:16 +0000

Erica,
Is there any way we can open additional skyhook accounts so that your account isnt overloaded?