Hi! Eactly! If your connect to your GPS using rfcomm and then make a "cat" on the rfcomm device and then close the cover you will recognise that the connection happily stays connected and produces data (look at the timestamps). This is just a feature of Maemo-Mapper. Cheers nils Armin Warda schrieb: > Hi Frantisek, > > probably you are right, because in > http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18259&postcount=122 > the author of Maeomo-Mapper, John Costello alias 'gnuite', writes: > >> Maemo Mapper currently detects when the cover is put on, turning off the > scanning when that occurs > > I had a look at the Maemo Mapper source: > > static void > osso_cb_hw_state(osso_hw_state_t *state, gpointer data) > { > [...] > if(state->system_inactivity_ind) > { > if(_must_save_data) > _must_save_data = FALSE; > else if(_conn_state > RCVR_OFF) > { > set_conn_state(RCVR_OFF); > rcvr_disconnect(); > [...] > } > } > [...] > } > > It seem like this is the place I have to patch if I want Maemo-Mapper to > keep recording GPS track info even when I close the cover. > > regards, Armin. > > On 7/14/06, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote: >> >> Armin Warda wrote: >> > To me it looks like this option indeed only affects Bluetooth/WLAN >> > _Internet_ connections, not Bluetooth GPS connections. >> [...] >> > Isn't this user software problem? i.e. maemo mapper or other gps sw >> going to sleeep properly when cover is closed and display/keys is turned >> off. This is recommended way of doing things to save power. >> >
