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Old 07-18-2009, 09:20 AM
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Re: Use GPS without VZ $10 navigator plan
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Originally Posted by crobs808 View Post
Same with me...I have had a TouchPro and a XV6800 that both worked perfectly using the GPS w/o a data plan, but with my new XV6900 tha tI got last week, I have done all the suggested steps on every forum on this site as well as XDA-Developers, yet it just says "Searching for signal" and does not even SEE any satellites.

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(1) First make sure that under settings->phone->services->location make sure it is NOT set to 911 only.

(2) Also I have read that the XV6900 shipping from Verizon with WM6.1 has the 'crippled' gps drivers already installed. This link

http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?t...IX_VERIZON_GPS

explains how to put it back to the pre-crippled release.
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