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Re: Is the GPS Supposed to work overseas no matter what? with or without service?

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Originally Posted by fred_dj View Post
This is what I thought.... I traveled to south america and my GPS says seeking gps .... but no fixed sats. and it was working minutes before I left the us. My phone is on digital roaming, but it shouldnt matter right? I have a world map with tomtom nav, but no signal.... any thoughts? Thanks
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Originally Posted by arparent View Post
Its called Agps... The A is for Assisted. It uses Cell towers to orrient itself so that it can locate the satellites. Without a signal, it doesn't know which way to look.
What kind of phone/what carrier are you using because arparent's answer is right (from what I know) for CDMA carriers.
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