Last month I wrote about using my mobile, with a built in GPS, to transmit my current location so that my movements could be tracked on a map. I couldn’t ever get it to work with my mobile reporting a ‘Network Error’ each time it tried to transmit location data. In the end I gave up having reached dead-ends with whatever I tried.

And then I bought a Bluetooth stereo headset to use with my Blackberry because I’m fed up with headset cords! Then I discovered that my Blackberry whilst having Bluetooth 2.0 didn’t have A2DP support for Bluetooth stereo headphones. A bit of digging and I found that the latest firmware for the Blackberry did have A2DP support so I found a download and upgraded the firmware. Not quite as simple as that last sentence makes it sound – I think the technical term is that I ‘bricked’ the Blackberry. However, I finally found a way of turning a brick back into a working mobile.

Then for some unknown reason I thought today I’d go back and have a play with tracking again – it worked immediately! I guess this unexpected success can only be put down to the firmware upgrade. I’m not going to leave tracking active on my mobile all the time but here’s a taste of how it looks. If you’re seeing this shortly after I post you’ll see that I’ve been to the local Tesco and back as my most recent tracked journey. Since the map updates everytime I switch tracking on you may see something different.