[ALL] openbmap logger and quit (power, accidental close, etc...)

Onen onen.om at free.fr
Sat Aug 22 22:57:12 CEST 2009


Hi Rui,

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
>> On 8/22/09, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
>>> Yesterday night I did about 350 Km of scanning, and the phone was
>>> plugged to an USB car charger I bought (from TuxBrain). Unfortunately,
>>> even though the phone was in charging mode, it seems that while using
>>> the GPS is wastes more battery than the charger can give it, so even though
>>> it lasted longer, somewhere near the end the phone just powered off.
>>>

Surprising. With obm running, my FR charges, when plugged into my car. 
As another response states, maybe your charger brings less power than 
mine...

>>> Is there a way to recover the logging that was done and maybe upload it,
>>> or is it all on RAM and tough luck for me?
>> Just open openBmap and click "Upload". Logs are splitten into smaller
>> files, you'll probably lost only really small part of your logging
>> near end.
> 

That's correct. The only thing that could happen, is that the power was 
lost during a log file being written (one file usually represents about 
5 minutes of logging, but your mileage may vary depending on the density 
of the area you are in). This would leave a truncated file. But even 
though, you should be able to upload it. I guess the server would accept 
it, but then ditch it because malformed. But I am not sure here. Anyway, 
all the other files are located in $HOME/.openBmap/Logs. And are ready 
for upload.

> Ah, good, I feared they were just in memory. Anyways, sniffing around the
> files I saw that the maximum GPS speed for logging was 150. erms... I may
> have lost some logging...
> 

:-D No comments ;-)

> Anyone knows if can I freely change this value? <:)
> 

This one is free to change. Nevertheless, we consider that above this, 
the GPS position becomes inaccurate. Thus we fear this brings only low 
quality data.

Onen



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