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Old 06-23-2010, 09:19 PM
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Re: GPS Switches on and off repeatedly.

Here's what the behavior of the GPS on my TP1 and TP2 look like as can be seen by the two video clips...

The TP1 gps losing lock video shows over 4.5 min period, the gps completely loses lock with all sats 3 times for no apparent reason even though the gps sat signal is very good. You can see how bad that is while using igo. It would trigger a route recalculation everytime and slow down or freeze the program momentarily. This is with Mightyrom 6.5 for the TP1. Before I upgrade, this losing lock would happen even more often, like just about every minute or even more. I was hoping upgrading rom would completely fix this problem but it didn't, indicating this is more likely some sort of hardware problem which is really unfixable....

Over the same 4.5 min, the TP2 gps never lose gps lock at all. It never ever does once it got good sat signals.

Hope that is similar to what happening to you, veedub. Sorry I don't have a solution (other than exchange it) but i do definitely share your frustration... Anyone else? I pretty much give up on my TP1 with regard to this a long time ago since I was never about to find a fix. I am just so glad that my new TP2 doesn't have this problem. I think TP2 does use a different gps chipset..

Much appreciated if anyone else with TP1 and TP2 also comment about the gps.
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File Type: zip TP1 gps losing lock.zip (5.53 MB, 0 views) Click for barcode!
File Type: zip TP2 gps solid lock.zip (2.76 MB, 4 views) Click for barcode!
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