[petermg]

Ok, I think some of you are familiar with my saga to get GPS working on the Vogue. Finally got it working. So what's the problem?

Problem is that I'm not seeing it respond to setting changes and that makes me wonder what is really controlling the GPS.

What do I mean?

I went into QPST and on the GPSONE tab, turn off every GPS feature. Set Position Calculation to PDE and PDE Transport to DBM. Everything else is blank. I went into the registry and disabled agps. I even deleted the xtra.bin file that QuickGPS uses to speed up position calculation. The device will get a lock in the living room within 30 seconds from a cold start. Weird.

When I turn off the location settings in the phone however, it went for about 5 mins and saw one satellite for a split second and that was it. So basically it was off, or at least maybe truly GPS standalone as it had no view of the sky from the living room, all windows closed and blinds shut.



What? I got it working so what got me fired up again? This is what, a friend of mine on another CDMA carrier (Sprint) hated his Vogue, poor guy was running WM 6.1 still. I hooked him up with NFSFANs final WM 6.5 ROM. Guess what, his Vogue gets locks within 5 seconds in a room where my wife's Vogue can't get a lock at all. I read somewhere on here (can't find it) where someone had three Vogue's, all with the same settings, and some got locks in under 10 seconds while the others took a while to get them, and he was speculating that maybe there were different GPS Chips put into some at a different production time? Dunno. But there are posts on here that people swear that the QPST GPSONE settings help with GPS, and I would tend to agree, but with at least my wife's Vogue, that doesn't seem to be the case, or maybe there is a lot of misinformation about those settings and what they do and I just don't understand.

Anyhow just thought I'd see if anyone else has noticed this or wants to see if they get different results by changing their GSPONE settings in QPST. Remember to backup your settings first [WRITE TO FILE] that way you can just load the file and write it back to your phone if you forget the settings. Seemed very curious to me.