I also reproduced this issue on ubuntu 8.04 LTS, french locale.
If I open a X session in an english (GB) locale, DDMS controls start to work.

In Windows XP, the problem is solved changing the numbers, time, date format from
your language to english.

same here, can confirm this. I am on Ubuntu, too.

maybe that feature is platform dependend? I saw it working for my very app on a
friend's Windows machine.

btw, that friend's Windows XP machine has a German locale set, so the locale cannot
really be the source of this problem.

The locale is definitely the problem! I was on a German locale on Win XP and just
changed the format of time and numbers to english (US). After restarting Eclipse the
DDMS GPS control just worked.

This happens for me, too (on Windows XP), and I'm in New York, so I don't think it's
a locale issue.

I'm using Win Vista, Italian, I'm having the same problem!
As soon as I switch to US, it starts to work properly...

I also tried on a Linux machine (Fedora 9), and, even if I've switched to english,
it doesn't seem to work...

I'm using Finnish Win Vista and same problem here... Hope this gets solved soon...

I'm using Vista x64, Czech locale and the result is pretty much the same as mentioned 
in previous posts. 

DDMS location controls started working after changing Vista to EN/US locale.

The telnet "gps" command works fine though, since it's independent on OS...

I can confirm this on Debian Testing. It works if one launches eclipse as LC_ALL="C"
eclipse , to force its locale without having to change the whole desktop. 

Same here (and not only eclipse, the standalone DDMS is also affected).
A workaround is to the the Java system property "user.language" to "en".

For eclipse you can do so by adding "-Duser.language=en" (without the quotation
marks) on a separate tine your eclipse.ini file.

For the standalone DDMS you can set your "java_debug" environment variable to
"-Duser.language=en" (again, without the quotation marks) -- the startup script will
then add it to the command line.

Indeed the same problem. Tested on Mac OSX 10.4.11, Mac OSX 10.5.7 and Windows XP.
The workaround is to set the system to EN/US or EN/UK locale.

Addition: this is also the case for the standalone DDMS and the 1.5-r2 SDK

And also 1.5 r3.  Note, this is an emulator bug, not DDMS.  I can use a 1.5 DDMS with
a 1.1 emulator and it will work fine.

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hoeferh, worked for me. thank you!

For eclipse you can do so by adding "-Duser.language=en" (without the quotation
marks) on a separate tine your eclipse.ini file.


it works!!

thank you hoeferh!

Appears to be fixed in 1.6 R1

Nope, this isn't fixed for me. I'm using 1.6 R1 on winxp with the german locale.