Warning the procedure below will remove your bookmarks.
For the past few days I've been puzzled why the Google Gears application that used to work on my G1 phone just stopped working? The social networking site Brightkite makes use of some Gears code on its mobile web page at http://i.brightkite.com/ to allow your device to report back your location to the Brightkite website and automatically 'check you in' at that location.
This seemed to work fine for about the first two days with my new G1 phone. However it seemed to stop working about the time I accepted the software upgrade to Android Rc9. After this time it just sat at the screen trying to determine my location.
If I went in to the browser settings on the G1 I noticed that the 'Gears' settings/menu did nothing when pressed, it just ignored your press.
I tried resetting the browser to defaults but this also seemed to just do nothing, it did not even get rid of the bookmarks that I had set, as you would expect.
So I decided to go to the phone Settings and did the following:-
Applications -> Manage Applications -> Browser -> Clear Data
What do you know? It worked! It also removed the couple of bookmarks I had set, the Gears menu worked and best of all the Brightkite mobile web page was able to guess my location once again!
3 comments:
Nice find! If I ever find an Android in my hands with that problem, I now I have you to thank. :)
Well that fixed my problem but obviously that deletes all bookmarks and saved pwds... fail... I wish there was another work around.
But thanks for the post none-the-less
Hi Chuck, yes it's not ideal but I had seen people say the only way to fix it was a phone wipe/reset, at least this was easier. I'll make the mention about loosing bookmarks in the post a little clearer so people know what to expect.
Just wondering if you knew about the Android Brightkite beta application? It's much nicer :)
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