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Originally Posted by mardukeme
If anyone wants to see if agps works why don't you put your phone into flight mode. Which would shut off the phone radio, in turn not allowing the usage of agps, but do a soft reset first. Now see how long does it take you to get a signal. Then try the same procedure again eight hours later with the phone radio on, but first do a soft reset first. This would help determine if we are using agps or not.
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In my mind there is no doubt that we are using AGPS *if* we can get google maps to locate us while there is no way to get a true satellite lock. it clearly makes a difference in lock time.
I did find something new tonight. I did the USE GPS in google maps and the gps was obviously hung. I could not get any satellites Since I was going over to a friends house, I just kept driving, and since i wasnt plugged into dc oops....the phone went into standby, which is a no-no for gps. I killed everything and started again in google maps, and it actually reset the gps. I was able to get a true gps lock after the gps evidently died. I was also able to duplicate this twice. So if your gps isnt getting a signal, there MAY be no reason for a reset. Simply kill everything gps related, hit the power button to go into standby, hit it again and restart google maps. That MAY re-initialize the gps drivers. Its worked well for me multiple times. Keep in mind these are only observations.