johnpolasek wrote:Initially, it looked like gtreece's procedure was working for me; my phone was registered as in the back yard rather than in the house, but that was OK, and the home fence showed up on the map. BUT, then this morning, I noticed that the phone hadn't moved from it's original location, it still showed 0.5 charge and was listed as not charging even though it has been sitting on the charger all night and the phone shows 100%... I thought that maybe the plugin simply hadn't been refreshing, but the timestamp for the device was this morning at 5:12. Does the plugin not change any data (other than the time) until the phone moves some significant amount?
As I stated in a different email..... How often the data is updated depends on Apple.
Find my iDevices can request an update as often as wished. For example, I could request an update every minute. But Apple, may only update the Find My iPhone data every 15 minutes? Every 30 minutes? Every 5 minutes? Or maybe, the iPhone is smart, and if it is moving it will update more often to the Find My iPhone server...?
The simple fact, is that we don't know, and we don't have any way to find out.
Out of frustration with this, I decoded to experimented with Google's Latitude.... I loaded Latitude on my iPhone, and according to Latitude, at 1 am, my iPhone was 5 miles away (near a college), and for the next 3-4 hours, roamed within a 1 mile sphere around the college. This happened multiple times over the next two nights....
Now this was with Google's own Latitude client.... I'm pretty sure that the iPhone didn't leave the bedside....
Now back to Find my iPhone / Find my iDevice. FMID relies on the data that Apple returns, since I don't have any way to validate the data that is returned, I have to treat it as valid....
So, if for some reason Apple decided to return unchanged data from 2 hours ago, I don't have a way to reject it... Or to caution you about it...
Until Apple opens the feature to developers officially, there isn't much that I can do....
- Ben