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Old 07-26-2009, 01:59 AM
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How to tell if GPS is defective?

Hey guys, me and phone GPSs evidently don't get along. Had an HTC Touch Pro and had nothing but problems with the GPS on it... but so did a lot of other people. But now I get a Treo Pro and I'm having GPS issues with this one too. ARGH!

I've got an Alltel Treo Pro on Verizon service. I have downloaded and run QuickGPS. I have installed Google Maps and GPSTest. I have tried different COM ports and baud rates. I after many hours of trying and saying to 'retry' in Google Maps I have never seen even ONE sat lock on. Always just "Seeking GPS satellites (0)...". With GPSTest I wasn't getting anything but left it on for over an hour and I got one yellow bar about 1/8" high.

I really haven't heard of too many issues with the GPS in the Treo Pro but could I have just gotten way unlucky and have a phone where it is broke? Got the phone on eBay so swapping for a different one really isn't an option. I do have insurance through Verizon but they don't even carry this phone so them helping me is unlikely (should just cancel the insurance... had it mainly for the HTC Touch Pro).

Does anybody have any additional troubleshooting suggestions that I might try? Do you know if it is possible that Verizon might have some type of "setting" wrong not allowing this phones GPS to function? Any ideas would be appreciated! I do have a Bluetooth TomTom receiver I could use but one reason I got rid of the Touch Pro was for the crap GPS and I didn't want to have to have an extra gizmo to carry around Thanks!

Also, I do have the Location Settings turned "ON" (was originally OFF on the Alltel). However, I thought I'd try to toggle it On/Off a few times and what I noticed is very strange.... It is now shown as "ON" but each time I turn it "OFF" then hit OK and go back into it, it is magically back "ON"??? Now I can't get it to turn OFF! I wonder if the darn thing is doing something weird like displaying the selection of "ON" but it really isn't? Pretty weird that I turn it OFF, hit OK, but when I got back into the setting, it is switched back to ON so I suppose about anything is possible with these things. LOL

Last edited by bfranker; 07-26-2009 at 02:14 AM.