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Originally Posted by Firon
It's standalone GPS. It should work ANYWHERE in the world that you can get a GPS signal.
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You would think, but if you check earlier in the GPS thread you will see that it wasn't the case. Earlier roms would fail to lock despite being set to scan all night. I did it myself on my last trip to Germany.
Even now, it takes a VERY long time to get a lock relative to a stand alone GPS unit doing a cold start. The current "driver" (I'm not sure if it's in the GPS chip, firmware, or ROM driver) is quite slow in getting a lock when there is no cell info to assist it. Using VisualGPS you can see it "see" sat after sat with great signal strength, but it takes forever before it will lock a sat. It also doesn't seem to use the list of available sats at a given time to reduce the possible solution space to speed the lock. My old Holux unit would cold lock significantly faster. Instead, this unit almost seems to do a brute force solution on all but hot boots.
So, it's better than it was since it actually works, but it's not great.