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Originally Posted by Big D5
I just want to throw in some personal experience here. I travel a lot, I can tell you with out a doubt that Sprint navigation needs a tower signal to track your location this is true it wont work at all with out it, but live search works much better on my 800w. I drove from Fort Stockton Texas to Fort Worth Texas last week there are some stretches of highway 18 that have no Sprint signal but my GPS continued to track my location, the map was completely blank because the maps couldn't update but the GPS was still tracking. If what you say is true please explain how this is happening. This is not the first time I have experienced this, could you link me to where you are getting your information I would like a read.
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You need a tower to start the GPS using programs. If you start in range of a tower and then you drive out of a tower range it will hold for a while (from my tests about 10 to 15 minutes) and then GPS stops functioning.
Test: Next time you are in a location with absolutely (for certain) no tower signal, cycle your 800w with a soft reset and try to acquire GPS sats. You will see. No go no matter how long you wait.
aGPS has certain benefits. Standalone has certain benefits. 800W is advertised as having both. It doesn't.