Re: Are the GPS settings hard-coded in these ROMs?
If you are thinking your bluetooth gps is superior, your gps is probably misconfigured. While I can't speak 100% about verizon (I don't know for sure if the gps will work in AGPS mode on verizon), if you're on sprint and getting better performance from a bluetooth gps, something is WRONG.
I had my gps for a long time unable to get locks even in my car without holding it up to the window, etc. My friend would tell me all the time how his connected very quickly with 8-9 sats indoors. I thought it was something weird and just maybe with his location or something. My bluetooth worked wayyyy better. He had the commercial sprint gps rom and let customizations run (I don't think I let customizations run before I installed a hacked rom).
However, after flashing the beta rom, letting sprint customizations run, my gps was consistently getting a lock within 5 seconds indoors in my house where I can barely get my bluetooth gps to connect (and could never get my phone's to connect). I have since installed nuerom 5060 and am still getting this kind of performance. A complete and total 180 on the gps performance.
It works amazing, wayyyyyy better than my bluetooth gps (and I have a nice SiRF III bluetooth gps, not a cheapie crappy one). I get locks in under 5 seconds in all instances, indoors, outdoors, in my car, etc. It is amazing. While I don't try it in highrise buildings, trust me, people are NOT exaggerating the performance of the internal gps. It is 10x better than any external gps when set up properly due to the fact that it can connect to an assistance server for help locking.
On another note, if you reallllly do want your bluetooth gps working, don't mess with the external gps settings, just set the com port manually in google maps or whatever to the actual com port you are assigning in the bluetooth connection to the gps receiver. That's what I did before I figured out that the internal gps could really be so powerful.
Last edited by holo; 06-02-2008 at 06:48 PM.
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