Comment by masimunes | August 5, 2008 | 2:19 pm

This does the trick and works great!
Thank you Erica!

Comment by nyquildotorg | August 5, 2008 | 6:59 pm

jer-s-iPhone:~ mobile$ findme
Killed

What am I doing wrong?

Comment by eins78 | August 5, 2008 | 7:19 pm

i installed in cydia, tried the same as nyquildotorg (in MobileTerminal.app)

“command not found”

“Filesystem Content” in Cydia does not list findme along with the other utilities… (checked beta11)

but still, thank you very much for your effort till now, maybe someday it will work for me (i will be quite happy then

Comment by eins78 | August 5, 2008 | 7:30 pm

ignore the last comment. i realised that i had to download the beta12.zip, i moved it to iPhones /usr/bin, 777ed it, now i get the same “Killed”. That’s how far i got with all previous versions on 1.1.4, now i get it on 2.0 (1st gen iPhone)

Comment by Erica Sadun | August 5, 2008 | 7:35 pm

Sign it: ldid -S findme

Comment by Erica Sadun | August 5, 2008 | 7:37 pm

to get ldid:

$ aptget install ldid

Then

$ ldid -S ./findme

then

$ ./findme

Comment by jaku | August 6, 2008 | 5:15 am

Doesn’t appear to be working for me. I keep getting odd results like, 38.000000,-97.000000. Other times it will make up a number and put me 8 states over.

Comment by rebellion | August 6, 2008 | 3:01 pm

How can I use findme with the tweet script when it ouputs XML?

Comment by masimunes | August 6, 2008 | 7:59 pm

the Google Maps Cell Tower Location is giving me odd results as well it tells me i’m at 77.729225,-178.343491, hereiam gives me 27.389343,-82.447983 which is much more accurate. I tested both with wifi turned off to make sure it wasn’t skyhook kicking in.

Comment by rebellion | August 8, 2008 | 6:08 am

Is it possible to force findme into using the GPS and not the Skyhook og cell tower location?

Comment by Erica Sadun | August 8, 2008 | 7:22 am

I don’t personally have a 3G iPhone and am unable to work with GPS. It can’t just be guesswork, unfortunately.

Comment by JeremyLaurenson | August 8, 2008 | 9:36 am

Yup, I am getting some erratic skyhook info - a few states away, whereas the Maps app shows a pretty accurate location.

Comment by JeremyLaurenson | August 8, 2008 | 9:46 am

Erica - it looks like it gets SkyHook IP location results even if WLAN is off. Cel tower info is far more accurate in this case. A force cell option would probably solve the issue.

Comment by rebellion | August 9, 2008 | 4:17 pm

At least here in Norway, where I’m located, even the cell tower location is very off target, I would love to use the GPS location, as this is more accurate.
Anyways, Erica, thanks for some pretty awesome applications!

Comment by scottywz | August 9, 2008 | 6:01 pm

Funny. I’m in Central Texas, and when I put the results into Google Maps, it put the marker right next to my old house in Roanoke, VIRGINIA! No, I’m not kidding! Yeah, VERY accurate. Too bad I don’t have a 3G for if/when findme gets GPS support.

Comment by LKM | August 10, 2008 | 2:48 am

When I run “findme” on a Swisscom iPhone 3G, I get

# ./findme
false

Location works just fine in other applications. Does anyone have any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

Comment by LKM | August 10, 2008 | 2:50 am

Sorry, the blog software ate the xml. Removing the brackets, the result of findme is

?xml version=”1.0″?
SearchResults
Success
false
/Success
/SearchResults

Comment by LKM | August 10, 2008 | 4:15 am

Well, uh… Now it works, so never mind, I guess

Comment by LKM | August 10, 2008 | 6:05 am

It’s back to its non-working ways. Sorry for spamming the comments. Anyone have a hint what could be going wrong?

Comment by ajr9166 | August 10, 2008 | 8:11 pm

Got the beta12 apps running. My only question is how do you activate the GPS radio to ensure you get the most accurate coordinates possible? I opened up google maps and hit the locate me button in hopes to activate the satellites but 5 minutes later, findme still shows my SkyHook location.
I can’t wait to get this running. I am going to run it in a cron job running every minute that calls a script I write ultimately dumping the lat, long, and type into a sql db.

Comment by Erica Sadun | August 10, 2008 | 8:13 pm

I don’t own a 3G iPhone. I can’t program GPS without one.

Comment by nlieb48 | August 11, 2008 | 3:16 pm

Hi Erica,
Do you think you could post a new tutorial, like the iPhone LoJack on TUAW from 2/21? I got lost with all the changes from the first findme to the current, and especially lost with how to wake your iPhone to tweet.
Thanks

Comment by pskerrett | August 11, 2008 | 4:28 pm

Erica

Thank you so much for all your hard work. I’ve been looking for a way to get the findme info for my scripts ever since I got the 3 g phone. If I could afford to buy you a new 3g, I would. But barring that, could I donate access to my phone via ssh & static ip forwarded to it for development?

Thanks again for your work!

Comment by Pavel | August 11, 2008 | 9:18 pm

I would like to write a program just like pericam for 2.0 OS. Is there any possibility that snapshot / snap2vid imported to 2.0 utility?

Comment by boomersmech | August 12, 2008 | 2:43 pm

Eric,

It works but will not use GPS radio. It will skyhook / Google tower search only. In that order, so if you make a successful skyhook request it just gives up there.

Eric, do you plan on adding some of the old commandline switching so it can use this to post our location to a twitter account?

Thanks..

Comment by boomersmech | August 12, 2008 | 2:44 pm

LMAO It sucks when your name is Eric you always call everyone Eric rather than EricA..

I appologize Erica

Comment by JeremyLaurenson | August 13, 2008 | 11:46 am

The current problem is that SkyHook is using the IP from AT&T to determine (inaccurately) the location and is often missing by several states.

Comment by deeeep | August 16, 2008 | 12:14 pm

what happened to the old switches? in 1.1.x you could use -d for diagnostics and -g for GSM-based location… is this all gone now? I’d love to see fireeagle compatible firefindme come back to 2.0…

Comment by icepick | August 18, 2008 | 5:58 pm

are there any plans to release this update to cydia?

Comment by jasch | August 20, 2008 | 3:45 pm

I keep getting the same error.

iPhone:/bin root# ./deviceinfo -p -c -s -i -m
Killed
iPhone:/bin root# ./findme
Killed

Comment by MountainDew | August 20, 2008 | 3:55 pm

jasch, I guess you have to sign it.

apt-get install ldid
ldid -S findme

But I keep getting an error when I try to install ldid for some reason.

Comment by JeremyLaurenson | August 22, 2008 | 8:22 am

Erica,

Does this findme use the Apple location services (s we can look forward to switches to force cell tower lookups), or does it just do a direct query to skyhook?

Comment by dragoran | September 30, 2008 | 11:45 am

Hi Erica,
I can confirm that findme outputs bad coordinates It palces me few blocks away from position that for example maps.app gives me. Please, can you fix it? I really like the findme app.

Comment by ironicsky | November 8, 2008 | 7:56 am

Hey Erica,
I love the app! But I get very, very wierd results.
Right now, my actual GPS Coordinates are
49.8XXXXX,-97.1XXXX

However, findme shows me @ 49.2, -122.9
(Which is another city all together)

The App was working fine until yesterday when it started randomly positioning me thousands of km away from my actual location. Now, it seems to be fixated with the 49.2, -122.9 location. Doesn’t matter where I go in town, its always the same results.

The google map app in the iPhone gets my location pretty spot on, however.

Any ideas?
I’m running the latest findme, iPhone 3G 2.1.x

Comment by Quint | June 23, 2009 | 4:24 am

I think the findme utility has many possibilities and opportunities for extended development.

the tweet is sweet (no pun intended), but other options (without building it into a monster) would be cool.
possibilities include:
1) updates for change in location as opposed to time.
2) maybe instead of 1 tower, use the 3 closest. Thats how you triangulate.
3) Option to log, tweet or both…
4) Some towers just dont give out the correct ip. But, you can still track it by tower id as well.

Just a few suggestions. But i really like the size and would hate for it to grow into a monster app..