Sprint Navigation after 8pm down?

shdwknt · #1 (**permalink**) 04-22-2008, 10:02 PM

OK so at first I thought that it was the POS moto q9 I was using .. then I thought.. OK Bad weather - no clear shot to the sky..

well now i believe that it is out of sat coverage / no gps at night..

wtf.. after 8pm est I can NOT get any GPS navigation to work on my mogul.. is the gps that flipping weak that it cant find any other gps sats??

I mean do all the garmins on the east coast go down after 8pm est?

what is the malfunction here..

This sucks.. I went on a late night trip the other day and was like OK.. cant read a map and drive - lets gps.. turned it on about 7pm - gave me the gist of where I was going - turned it off to save battery life.. turn the **** back on after the first 90 miles thinking ok - here we come.. and plop - NO SIGNAL. NO GPS.. cant find sat.. bla bla bla..

again.. THIS SUCKS.. any suggestions other then dumping a few hundred into a garmin style gps?

Thanks..

up2no6ood · #2 (**permalink**) 04-22-2008, 11:11 PM

my buddy has to "prime" his gps with a program called gps viewer. After he does this he picks up 5 or 6 more sats....Its wierd

shdwknt · #3 (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 03:50 PM

After 8pm? because I can be using the unit FINE I can BE on the gps - and then after 8 it just looses the connection,

shdwknt · #4 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 04:27 PM

So no one has an answer to this one huh?

skraz0x · #5 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 05:26 PM

Have you tried using GPS Viewer, or a similar program? I haven't heard anything about GPS working at certain times and not working at other times, so doing your own troubleshooting is the only thing that is probably going to work.. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=17032 check out the second post

**Young_breedent** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 05:36 PM

What i have found to work for me when i get the "NO SIGNAL. NO GPS" is i just soft reset my mogul restart sprint navigation and it works just fine....and im from Minnesota and recently took a trip down to houston and my GPS work very well down there i used it to find clubs and all types of other s**t and it was well past 8pm i know this isn't on the east coast but i doubt that it would just stop working after 8pm...try to do the soft reset and if that doesnt work i would say there might be something wrong with either the rom you have or your phone all together hope this helps