maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Every time I try to save a track in Maemo Mapper on my n800, the application crashes.

It is extremely annoying.

Any suggestions as to why?

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Try clearing your track first. Perhaps the track is corrupt.

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

I just had the exact same problem. Clearing the track first seems to have helped indeed.

My first suspicion was that it has to do with me using ext2fs instead of the standard vfat. I expect that maemo applications usually are not tested on ext2 and might fall over permission or character case issues.

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Sorry, but it still crashes.

I'm struggling with maemo mapper generally. Anyone know of a good guide?

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Are you sure it is crashing? For longer tracks (>100 miles) it takes a REALLY long time to save it and the app appears to have crashed. Get a task monitor and see if the mapper process is still using cpu power.

Fred

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Fred,

It definitely crashes. I don't even get a Save dialog - the app dissappears from the screen and from the apps thing at the bottom left of the screen.

It also just crashed when I was trying to look at the Settings. The only thing unusual at the time was that it was struggling to establish a GPS fix (the GPS is on my windowsill with a poor view of the sky). Maybe the problem is bigger.

The behaviour I observe is very like that described in a post in another forum, although no answer was forthcoming:
Does MM have a log file?

Any pointers to good documentation/help for Maemo Mapper?

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Maemo mapper crashes regularly on N770 too.
But the problem is not exactly with program itself but with
gps driver enabled if no fix is avaliable.
Gps driver isn trying to establish gps fix
and on fix established, is trying to read gps data, calling this process getting fix as well (not good name for reading gps fixed data).
There is a little chance to kill gps process as it is 3 sec. loop delayed.
I suppose gps driver is eating up slow processor's time
and OS can't cure it.

There is an easy fix to it.
If your maemo mapper crashes and screen is white or not displaying maps try to put your N800 into metal case for few secs back and forth
and it should start working again.
It works like reset button in PC computers.

darius

Re: maemo mapper crashing on n800
 

Darius*,

Many thanks. I can now save tracks as long as I first disable the GPS.

I guess that's what I should have been doing all along.

Now I won't have to carry a metal box around with me all the time!