[ghettofreeryder]

Yes, it does. It is that lbsdriver i keep speaking of. At first, I thought it was for triangulation with cell towers, but later discovered it was for authenication of gps applications. What happens is, when you go to use gps, the driver looks at the application, and tries to verify that it is allowed to use the gps fuctions with the VZW server. I also think the VZW radio has slightly modified the gps function in the radio, hence the issue. I think without this driver, the challenge-auth step always fails. For me, when using GPS, my phone gots hotter then I have ever felt, so my guess is the auth keeps failing, and the radio keeps demanding it, so it over works either the cpu or gps chip, and overheats and fails.

To sum it up, if your carrier is VZW, and u are using the VZW radio, you need a os that has the lbs driver. If your carrier is VZW, and you are not using the VZW radio, then your OS does not need the LBS driver. If you are not with VZw, then i belive it might not be the best idea to use the VZW radio as having the lbs driver or not will probably cause the auth to fail anyways.

Just my theory.

Also, the Sprint radio with the APM driver seems to be good on battery.