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Old 11-19-2009, 04:44 PM
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Re: "My Location" and Weather Not Working? Possible cause.

I can add some information to this topic as I've done a fair bit of research.

First of all, I believe you are correct, the My Location GPS weather feature of HTC TF3D seems designed to pull GPS information from the cell towers in the default case.

From these posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1&postcount=38
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sear...rchid=30456804

You can see that the radio can make or break My Location GPS weather.

Something interesting though, is that when WiFi is enabled and a connection is present, the required data (GPS?) is pulled correctly - perhaps from the internal GPS? Regardless of whether the actual data connection is through cellular or WiFi, take a look at this user's research here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=587

I can confirm Tim HD's observations through my own experimentation.


So my estimations for a fix, would be to modify the radio or radio related phone settings (is there a setting we can change with QPST?) to pull GPS from cell towers in a manner acceptable to TF3D, or, more preferably, for someone to make a modification somewhere which tells the feature to always prefer the internal GPS, regardless of whether or not WiFi is enabled or there's a connection in range.

Information consolidated. Fin.
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