February 2010
A simple Midlet that one can use to send your location info via SMS to a cell phone number.
Or send the info to your Twitter page.
Sends ... Pilot XXX ,Lat -32.75,Lng 19.001,Status Landed
It assumes that pilot got a GPS and will enter the coords by hand and then send the SMS or Tweet.
If you got a build in GPS in your cellphone, or got a bluetooth attached GPS, have a look at
http://gpstp.sourceforge.net/ for other code options
The original code was used for a paragliding competition to a SMS Gateway server.
Choose SMS to send an SMS
TWT to send a Tweet
Choosing SMS
Chossing TWT
The J2ME jar code to be installed on the phone is located at
https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/explorer.php?group_id=139961
in the PRS Midlet / PRS Midlet Version 2 Folder
as PilotRecoverySystem.jar file
Nokia PC Suite required
The code requires a prs.txt file in the Images Directory
Contents of the prs.txt file
Some identifier which gets used in the message
A cell phone number, in case you want to send a SMS to someone, with +27 for SA country code. No idea if it works also via 082
your twitter userid
your twitter password
and there has to be (must) be a carriage/linefeed (enter) after the password
Example
024
+27762341234
myuserid
mypasswd
An empty line after mypasswd
Use Nokia PC Suite to create/copy the prs.txt file to the Images Folder on the phone
File Manager
Phone Mmemory
Data / Images
And drag/drop/copy the prs.txt file from your PC into the Phone
Old Version 1 http://gpstp.sourceforge.net/PRS/index.html
Other related code http://gpstp.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpstp/
The code makes use of http://kenai.com/projects/twitterapime