Gears windows mobile 6.5 support

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Downloaded and Installed gears plugin in Windows mobile explorer 6.5
Emulator through browser.
2. Opened Databse demo and any other Demo.
3. Got error "Could not create database: Google Gears has not been
initialized correctly.Please ensure that you are using the most recent
version of
gears_init.js " 

Version 0.4.24.0;official;opt;wince;ie-mobile

I am developing a Widget application. I want to use Gears in  this.I
would like to know how its supported and what are limitation with respect
to database size , speed, size data retrived, memory, speed etc.,

Is Gears supported on Windows mobile 6.5(IE)?

But Gears is working in lower version of WM5 and 6.

Regards
Kiran Muduthanapally 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2009 at 7:37

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Hi,

I am facing the same problem as well,
all working fine while testing in windows mobile emulators 5 and 6,
but gears raises error with emulator 6.4.1

I have debug the gears_init.js,
and found that "factory.privateSetGlobalObject(this);" raises an error,
error description was "Failed to initialize google gears".

I hope gears developers help us to solve this issue,
atleast let us know the compatibility of gears with windows mobile 6.5 

Regards,
dipak

Original comment by imzala@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2009 at 10:07

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Hi

I have been waiting for Gears release that supports Windows Mobile6.5 a long.

Please, let us when it will it be available.

An update will really be helpful.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2009 at 1:14

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Is there any further update on this? We are unable to get Google Gears to work 
on 
any device 6.1 or higher.

Original comment by araski...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2009 at 6:55

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Hi

I have been too waiting for a respone.

We are developing a Mobile based browser application and using only gears 
application.

I seems that the project is dead for win32, since there are no updates in SVN 
since
June2008,

I have even downloaded the source and tried to build of my own but getting some
unknown error.

There is even other Guy who has posted about this. I think we can come together 
to
find some solution for this.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 4:19

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It's really a shame that support for Google Gears is so poor on Windows Mobile. 

Is your issue only relating to Win 6.5? Or are you having trouble with Windows 
6.1 too?
For us, we have seen issues with Win 6.1 too.

Regards,

Alon

Original comment by araski...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 1:42

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I have developed the whole application using Gears database on 6.1WM 
Professional
Emulator. The project is almost done and Now I am experiencing while deploying 
and
testing in Client Mobile. The gears is not supported in few Mobiles even with
WM5,WM6,WM6.1

example It worked in Acer Mobile with 6.1 Prof , But its not working in HTC 6.1 
Prof

The OEM makers are making some changes to the original WM6.1 Prof and selling 
them

Is there any other way to have Javascript local database like Gears Sqlite.

We Silverlight for local storage but its not available for Mobile.

I think we have to build our own from the Gears Source code.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 4:33

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Interesting. Is there a list of Windows Mobile devices that work and ones that 
dont?

Original comment by araski...@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 12:35

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Don't have complete list.

Is there any alternative you have.

What are you planning next, any other alternative for gears Database.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2009 at 7:30

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Kiran, Have you found an work around yet? I'm having the same issue with 
Windows Mobile 
6.5. 
Ganesh

Original comment by gku...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 10:30

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The project seems to be be dead.

And the team seems to have stopped support For WM since June 2008, since there 
no
updates to the code base since.

I even tried to build my own from the Gears SVN code base, but failed trough 
several
errors.

For our current applications,the current version of Gears is OK with Opera 
Mobile
Browser on WM6.1

(As a solution download OperaMobile, istall gears and you can run your 
application.)

For future application development,As an alternative we are working using 
HTML5.0
local storage specification.

As of now CHROME, Safari, Opera(latest versions, and betas) are supporting.

For further info you can check their corresponding websites.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2010 at 4:32

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Kiran, What version of operamobile did you use? I tried 9.5 and version 10 beta 
2,
installed gears(for operamobile) but the samples do not work either version. Am 
i
using the wrong version, or do we need a different gears_init.js for opera? 
Thanks

Original comment by gku...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 10:49

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Hi

We have our application on WM6.1 Professinal

For this we are installed opera_v9.5beta2_gears.cab for Opera browser.

After installing this browser download and install the Google gears from opera 
browser.

(We are giving the above package as whole including opera browser,gears)

For future version of WM6.5 we are developing using HTML 5.0 database 
support.(We are
still in development phase)

Rgards 
Kiran Muduthanaplly.
kiran.mply@gmail.com

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 12:28

Attachments:

• opera_v9.5beta2_gears.cab

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Hi Kiran,

We had to take the same approach. Here is a summary

Windows Mobile 6.0 - Google Gears works fine in IE
Windows Mobile 6.1+ - Google Gears requires opera Mobile 9.5 (interestingly the 
latest Opera doesnt work). 

I was interested in your comment regarding HTML 5. in WM6.5 . I wasnt aware 
that WM 
6.5 supported HTML 5 database. Do you have any sites or documents you can share 
regarding this.

In Summary, it is clear that Google Gears is dead. Especially for mobile 
development. I guess Google understands that HTML5 is the way of the future. I 
just 
wish we had known this before we commited ourselves to this technology.

Original comment by araski...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 1:39

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Kiran, The cab file helped. It works. So does the WM6.5 support HTML5. I tried 
with 
emulator and it does not work for me. I cannot get even the localstorage to 
work on the 
WM6.5 IE.  Thanks.

Original comment by gku...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 2:30

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araskin,

You can have a look of its implentation from below link
http://experimenting.in/other/demo_websql.htm
You can check the code from view souce of the page.

In our project mobile is a part of the whole solution based on local storage.
We had our whole solution on Gears.Now we porting evthing using HTML5.
Right now we are porting the desktop UI using latest browsers of 
Chrome,Opera,Safari.

Since we don't have any physical device available for WM6.5 and we haven't 
stated yet
on porting Mobile UI
also we haven't come at that phase of project.

One thing sure that few months now there wil be many devices and browsers 
availble
with HTML 5 support.
Because that's the future of web development.

You can start developing using a desktop browser(with screen fixed with mobile 
screen
size), 
the code will run automatically with few changes once mobile browsers are 
available.

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 6:34

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Hi Araskin,

We have good expertise in building Mobile applications using technology of the 
future
i.e., HTML 5.

We are also aware of Mobile devices that can support these technologies. The 
roadmap
for Mobile devices is exciting...

If you need something, we will be more than glad to help. Contact me offline on 
my
below mentioned id.

Regards
kiran.mply at gmail dot com

Original comment by kiran.m...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2010 at 12:04