xGPS - GPS for iPhone / iPod touch

We are proud to present to you the new version of xGPS Software numbered 1.0.1-1. It corrects a lot of bugs and adds the support for iPhone 3G GPS and iGPSD cables. For more information about the changes, go to the ChangeLog page.

This version has also the support to search for cities or locations. Please keep in mind that if you want to search for a street you HAVE to enter also the city name. Because the search is Google based, you will have to have an Internet connection to search for places. Other important improvement is the support for other languages in the interface (Italian, German, French and Dutch for now). If anyone is interested to translate this software in another language feel free to contact us.

For those who want to use the xGPS software with iGPSD cable (sold here: http://store.igpsd.com), they have to provide a license number in the software. For the people they have bought a cable before the 27th September 2008, they have to acquire the license number on our store: http://store.xwaves.net. For the other you should have received your license number along with your cable.

Unfortunately we have a problem on our store. It is not currently possible to place an order because of some problems in our payment system. It will be restored on next Tuesday. Any news about this problem will be posted here.

Concerning the hardware question, we will not produce anymore xGPS Modules but support will still be available for this product. However we have still a few pieces in stock and they will be sold when the time comes (in about one month). More information about this will be also posted here. However we have made a partnership with the iGPSD team to provide a powerful GPS solution with their cable and our software.

We will end this post by thanking all the people helping us to develop this software. We have 3 people working on the translations of the software and one on the graphic part. So we would gracefully thanks:

• Suondmao (Website: http://www.suondmao.altervista.org) for the Italian translation, the xGPS Logo and other graphical parts.
• Gerard for his Dutch translation
• Difensiphone for the German translation

We are happy to say that all orders have been shipped (or will be shipped on Monday as the weekend is not working days). If you don’t already have received a shipment confirmation email, you should receive by Monday. If you still not have received it on Monday, please contact us.

The xGPS and xGPS Util softwares have some known bugs which include:

• The speed doesn’t get refreshed (or doesn’t work at all in some case). It is a software problem and NOT an hardware one.
• The software sometimes says that the xGPS Module is disconnected although it is connected. It is also a bug in the software and it is not due to the xGPS Module.

Next week will be holiday week for us. We will still answer to urgent email, but support will be less responsive for a week. Then we will start hardly developing the xGPS software to get something really stable.

For the iGPSD customers, we are currently in touch with this team to make our software working with their cables / products. So keep you updated by reading this blog.

Thank you all for your interest in our project.

We finally get a more or less usable version of our xGPS software (we are late of 2 hours, yes :-).

Before wanting to try the software, please make sure to understand the following sentences:

The current version of the software (1.0.0-1) is the first public alpha version. It means that not all the features are implemented and a lot of known bugs are present. You are entirely responsible to use this software.

The current version does not implement the driving directions or the possibility to search for a city. It will be implemented in the near future. The current version has also a problem with the detection of the xGPS module. Sometimes the button “Enable GPS / Disable GPS” disappear even if the xGPS module is connected. If you get that, you can relaunch the software if you want.

To download maps for using it offline, you can tap on Settings and then manage maps. Then you can select an area of the map and tap download to download it. Yes, we know that it is difficult to select an area without pushing the zoom buttons. It is being corrected :-).

This version is just here for testing purpose and it is in either cases not supported. We will not answer to any question if the software doesn’t work.

The xGPS software is only compatible on firmware 2.0 and greater (2.0.1 and 2.02 etc…) and works only with xGPS Modules (you can also use it without a GPS).

To install it, add the following repository to Cydia (if you don’t know how to do it, just read the quick start guide of xGPS module again):

http://cydia.xwaves.net/

Then browse the Navigation category and select xGPS.

Concerning the shipment of the xGPS modules, we have still a little delay. We hope to finish to send all the orders by the end of the week.

Thank you for your interest in our project.