SkyPro GPS Status Tool
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About SkyPro GPS Status Tool
The SkyPro Status Tool is an application for use with the SkyPro GPS Receiver (XGPS160) from Dual Electronics.
This app shows detailed information from the SkyPro GPS Receiver including:
- The GPS and GLONASS satellites in view and their signal strength
- The current location, or an indication that the device is still waiting for satellite information
- The connection status of the GPS receiver
- The battery level and battery charging status of the GPS receiver
- The recorded route information such as date and number of data points
This app will also allow you to turn on/off automatic route recording, export the recorded routes stored in the internal memory of SkyPro GPS Receiver, and save the recorded routes from the receiver into the app.
This app includes the GPS helper app function which is required for an external Bluetooth GPS receiver to connect to Android devices. A third-party GPS helper application is no longer required when using this app.
Please make sure this app is running in the background at all times. This will allow all apps to use GPS information from the XGPS160.
Android devices require “Allow mock location” to be enabled in order to receive GPS information from an external GPS device such as SkyPro.
To enable this feature, please follow the steps below:
Android version 2.0 to 4.1:
1. Go to the Settings menu
2. Find "Developer Options" under the Settings menu
3. Find and check “Allow mock locations.”
Android version 4.2 and later:
1. Go to the Settings menu, and find "About phone/About device".
2. Find “Build number" under "About phone/About device".
3. Tap “Build number” seven (7) times. A “You are now a developer!” message will appear.
4. Go back to the Settings menu.
5. Find the “Developer options” setting under the Settings menu.
6. Find the “Allow mock locations” under the “Developer options”
7. Check “Allow mock locations”
Note: Compatible ONLY with SkyPro GPS Receiver, model XGPS160, from Dual Electronics.
This app shows detailed information from the SkyPro GPS Receiver including:
- The GPS and GLONASS satellites in view and their signal strength
- The current location, or an indication that the device is still waiting for satellite information
- The connection status of the GPS receiver
- The battery level and battery charging status of the GPS receiver
- The recorded route information such as date and number of data points
This app will also allow you to turn on/off automatic route recording, export the recorded routes stored in the internal memory of SkyPro GPS Receiver, and save the recorded routes from the receiver into the app.
This app includes the GPS helper app function which is required for an external Bluetooth GPS receiver to connect to Android devices. A third-party GPS helper application is no longer required when using this app.
Please make sure this app is running in the background at all times. This will allow all apps to use GPS information from the XGPS160.
Android devices require “Allow mock location” to be enabled in order to receive GPS information from an external GPS device such as SkyPro.
To enable this feature, please follow the steps below:
Android version 2.0 to 4.1:
1. Go to the Settings menu
2. Find "Developer Options" under the Settings menu
3. Find and check “Allow mock locations.”
Android version 4.2 and later:
1. Go to the Settings menu, and find "About phone/About device".
2. Find “Build number" under "About phone/About device".
3. Tap “Build number” seven (7) times. A “You are now a developer!” message will appear.
4. Go back to the Settings menu.
5. Find the “Developer options” setting under the Settings menu.
6. Find the “Allow mock locations” under the “Developer options”
7. Check “Allow mock locations”
Note: Compatible ONLY with SkyPro GPS Receiver, model XGPS160, from Dual Electronics.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Update notes:
- fix battery information
Update notes:
- fix battery information
Version update SkyPro GPS Status Tool was updated to version 3.4
What are users saying about SkyPro GPS Status Tool
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App is terrible. • Unable to share saved tracks. • App crashes on exit. • Unable to locate saved tracks on phone or tablet. • Need option to set track save location. • Battery meter does not function properly.
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Clunky UI, doesn't save or share tracks. No firmware update. Crashes.
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After importing tracks from the GPS to the app, there is no way you can use them. The klm files are no where in the filesystem. There is a share option that doesn't work.
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Given the number of complaints both on Amazon, various forums and in Google Play, you would think this company would be bordering on fraud or flat out incompetence. The XGPS app does not function correctly and there is no option to update the firmware, via the app, as stipulated in the online support. Battery indicator always looks like it was completely drained, after charging all day. Hell, the XGPS160 alone has issues. It takes 10-20 minutes on average to lock onto satellites several times a week. Then at least once a day, the GPS is so inaccurate that every reputable navigation software I have tried eventually drifted me onto a completely different street/location altogether or it spinned in a circle like it doesnt know where it is. And this is in Kuwait, out in the open!!! WTF Dual??? Use this in aircraft.... oh hell no!!!!! Dual is better off not making this crap and ripping off customers!!!!!!! And guess what, when I switch back to the internal GPS, it works fine.
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Practically useless for android. Extremely difficult to access gps tracks and download. No support or useful updates
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Hardware is acceptable but this software is useless. No firmware update , buggy, crashes frequently. Do not get this. Worthless. Better not install, or uninstall if you get it.
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Constant crashes
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App is free, and lousy. Stops/crashes from time to time. If they get the app to work, it would be great. I use the free Bluetooth GPS app instead -- less buggy, stays connected, and better coded. The Dual XGPS hardware, however, is brilliant (that's 5 stars); the app that comes with it (this one) should be labeled BETA or even ALPHA software. When they get it right, it'll probably be good. For now, stick to the other freeware like Bluetooth GPS.
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Android version cannot update firmware, supposedly the ithing version can. App does not resize screen to suit host device, so text is microscopic on a tablet. Satellite display does not correspond with reality, SATs are in the wrong locations - although other software using the same data gets it right. App doesn't seem to close properly. JULY 2016 - Visited again one year after the preceding review. Absolutely no updates or improvements to this rubbish app.
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Crashed right after I installed it. It also doesn't offer firmware updates like the iOS app does.
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Crashes so i keep losing GPS. Crashes when downloading tracks - cannot download. Piece of junk.
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Android version cannot update firmware, supposedly the ithing version can. App does not resize screen to suit host device, so text is microscopic on a tablet. Satellite display does not correspond with reality, SATs are in the wrong locations - although other software using the same data gets it right. App doesn't seem to close properly. All in all the app is as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
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Screens cannot be resized, all far too small on Nexus 7 and virtually unreadable on HTC smartphone. Satellite status screen almost useless; SVs correctly identified but positions wildly incorrect. No apparent ability to enable 'Mock GPS Provider' feature under 5.1 so app cannot act as 'helper' to interface XGPS160 with other software. Does not offer option for XGPS160 firmware upgrade, unlike Apple version. XGPS160 battery life indication erratic. Very heavy on tablet battery power. Often stops working when other apps invoked and will not re-link unless XGPS160 turned off and on again. All in all, poorly implemented and ultimately pointless -- Bluetooth GPS much more reliable and useful. Definitely not recommended for aviation use.
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The device is brilliant. This app is truly appalling. If I'd known that I couldn't download tracks, couldn't control the on-device logging, couldn't upgrade software on an Android device, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT THE DEVICE. Frankly, I feel that I have been mid-sold an expensive device and now have to decide whether to buy an iThing which I hate. If I'd known how broken the software was if have bought a different device.
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it is not working correctly on back ground and stop working all the time .
by W####:
New version is supposed to fix battery meter, it does not. Battery level still reported low even though GPS unit is fully charged. Also app seems to not like to run in the background. It crashed when I switched into another app or went to OS home screen. I only wanted to use app to determine firmware, so in that respect it did connect to device