app locks up or times out waiting for gps trianulation

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.loading app produces a very long wait time to main screen regardless of any 
functionality and no break with unresponding dialogbox even break keys are 
disabled if found times out with no way to respond or break sumtotal will run 
battery to the ground unless you pull the nmi and shutdown
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Explained above or break key exits app

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?os 2.2 
froyo G2

Please provide any additional information below.
Please quit making unavailable the positioning aspect I'm already leary of apps 
that want to know were I am and what I'm doing....decided to removeband not 
rate you a zero and blame

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Snaglp...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 4:30

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i'm having trouble understanding your issue. when you report "waiting", do you 
see the "refreshing ..." dialog or the "getting location ..." dialog?

if you don't want to give away your location, you can always disable location 
services. quakealert works fine in that case it just won't show your distance 
from the quakes.

Original comment by jeffrey.blattman@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 7:19

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Dialog box sits rotating indefinatly with or without locationservices and you 
click cancel and nothing happens and as far as location I can always enter it 
manually rather than be interrugated at startup sometimes network services are 
flakey why then tie up my phone waiting for someting to solve equasions if it 
ain't there that moment background it pull location from cell tower or wait 
speed the app by putting indicators of what failed not stall the app and for 
god sakes man if I hit the backkey close the app fail it if you have to if I 
want out I want out! I don't want it running in the background as a faild app 
that I can't close for sh*t that unless I reboot the phone won't ever go away

Original comment by Snaglp...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 7:33

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when you cancel the "getting location ..." dialog, what happens? do you get the 
"refreshing ..." dialog? or are you saying you get nothing in the list and no 
more dialogs at that point?

i understand that you don't want to provide your location. i could possibly 
provide a preference that says "never try to get the location". would that be 
helpful?

Original comment by jeffrey.blattman@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 7:40

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Cancel button turns grey and NOops indefinately nothing else releases or 
changes everything in limbo but NMI POWERBUTTON

Original comment by Snaglp...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 9:43

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what does NOops mean?
what's an NMI powerbutton?
by "turns gray" do you mean it's disabled?

you can *always* break out of an "activity not responding" by pressing your 
home key. if your phone is truly locked up and you need to reboot, that means 
there is a problem with your ROM or phone hardware.

it would help if you could send a screen capture if possible, and / or a log. 
to get a log, you can grab an app called "alogcat" also by me, then,

1. start quakealert!, wait for problem to occur (where it "NOops" indefinately")
2. press "home"
3. start alogcat
4. Menu > Send to me, send to yourself then me, or do Menu > Save and attach 
the file here

i'm going to post a new version (2.0.6) shortly, so it'd be nice if you could 
upgrade to that one first as it has a bit more logging data.

Original comment by jeffrey.blattman@gmail.com on 26 Dec 2010 at 8:23

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by the way, the new version (2.1) also allows you to disable use of your 
location.

Original comment by jeffrey.blattman@gmail.com on 26 Dec 2010 at 8:27

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added "don't use location" pref. haven't heard back from filer on other issues, 
so closing.

Original comment by jeffrey.blattman@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2011 at 7:11

• Changed state: Fixed