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Originally Posted by johnnymac

All I have to say is that the GPS is useless. I am in New Jersey for business. We went to manhattan tonight and I couldn't get a lock on a satelite in the car the entire 30 miles. I got absolutely nothing in Times Square and all around the city. On the way back, we caught the bus and accidentally got off at the wrong stop. I thought to my self, "no problem, we aren't lost., I have GPS". Well F*** me. I couldn't get a lock for the hour and a alf that I wandered the New Jersey streets looking for my hotel. I even hard reset my device while walking hoping that the GPS would get a lock..... and NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't find a single satelite.

And here is the thing that pisses me off the most, when I finally got back to my hotel in Englewood, I placed my phone in the hotel window and I got a lock in about 30 seconds.

So here's the question, "Why could I not get a lock outside with wide open skies for almost 2 hours with a hardreset and multiple softresets. But as soon as I stopped and placed the phone in the window, it got a lock." -A GPS device is absolutely useless if you can't get a lock on it when simply walking around town. I had the phone in my hand and pointing at the sky ....... ARGGHHHH!!!!!!

I'm really going to give up on this device soon. It has been fun trying to get GPS working on it. But I guess, at the end of the day, it's a gimick. You certainly can't rely on it as I just proved this evening.

The thing that made the biggest difference for me was installing the new gps drivers AND running gps viewer and leaving it open before running any other gps related app. My GPS now locks on within about 30 seconds 100% of the time whereas before it would not lock on at all.