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Originally Posted by SporkLover
The modified driver I posted was a free alternative to GPSGate. It's a little more than an emulator; it also includes software generated position updates (instead of polling the GPS chip again) to smooth out map display movement and scrolling.
Regardless of whether it was developed by a Diamond owner, it is developed for the WM platform and there are plenty of users on XDA with WVGA devices that use this software package.
The only strikes it really has against it IMO is the setup doesn't have the polish of a commercial solution.
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I don't doubt that the what you posted may work as an alternative to GPSGate.
My point of this thread is HTC/Qualcomm didn't suddenly get it wrong with TP2.
It behaves perfectly normal and the same as the last 3 generations or so.
If an update every 8ft while walking, and an update every 200ft while doing 60 mph isn't good enough for you, have at it.
And if folks have not managed to get GPSGate working (free trial) they will probably have a more difficult time getting some of these less polished alternatives working. How many of the 6 downloads do you actually have to install now?
And I don't like seeing it pushed as "the solution" that fixed the broken TP2 chip set. Because it isn't broken (any worse than last 3 generations).
I think if you update any faster, all you do is chew up more battery/cpu/resources for very little gain in practice.
But if it's the $23.00 that scares folks go for it. I agree there are other solutions and I posted the EASIEST for folks having trouble. I added GPSProxy too to the top post which I believe has been around for a long time. I've not personally used it. GPSGate did it first eons ago and it has worked great ever since.
I also want folks to realize that updating 10 times a second is not needed for walking or driving. If your walking and do a sudden turn; which is better, an incorrect interpolation or waiting for the next true update. Some Nav apps have their own interpolation/animation as well.
Again I think folks are confusing "Normal 2 Second Lag" (which is not a problem) with the misconfigured GPS that gives excessive lag. It so happens the "Driver" you pointed out main purpose is to reduce the 2 Second Lag and as a side effect can do what GPSGate does. I don't know how well it does it either. As I can run several GPS apps with GPSGate and it cruises along just fine.