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Re: 3.37 radio vs 3.35 radio

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Originally Posted by slypher View Post
Does anyone know how the heck GPS viewer can detect sats but you get no lock?? This never really made any sense to me, is it going off of cached data? Meaning - it thinks the sats are where they are, but doesn't know for sure, hence no lock?

Just curious.

-s
The problem is that your phone is able to see the sats, and it needs a minimum of three to triangulate your position. Unfortunately it can not calculate your position so it keeps trying with all the different sats it has in view till it can.
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