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Originally Posted by dishe
A proper test:
Try without the reg change.
Then change the reg entry, and turn off the phone.
Drive about 5-10 miles, turn it on, and get another fix. Compare the time from that to the original.
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5-10 miles is not good enough. There will not be much difference in the orbital pattern of the satellites above you in that short distance. 150+ miles is a better test (as any owners of a Garmin device can tell you since it prompts you when you can't get a fix). I enabled this setting 2500 miles since my last fix (was traveling in California) and there was zero difference in satellite fix time.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this doesn't really work... it seems to be placebo. When I was in California and turned my device off then traveled 10-20 miles before turning it back on I got a fix within 30 seconds without this registry tweak.. sometimes I got a fix within a few seconds.