Thread: 6/8/09 FIRMWARE UPDATE: Verizon GPS Unlocked
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Re: Better battery life - aGPS or QuickGPS?
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Originally Posted by FormerPalmOS View Post
I would assume that if I have achieved a conventional lock, the almanac downloaded conventionally would be saved somewhere, so why not as xtra.bin if QuickGPS works its magic by saving that almanac as xtra.bin. But I don't see said file anywhere on my device (recall, I don't have QuickGPS). Now if the almanac is stored in the GPS receiver memory (my thought) and QuickGPS saves the almanac as xtra.bin, how does xtra.bin get to the receiver? Does it know to look for xtra.bin as a possibly more recent download than what is in its own memory?

Anyway, the above is rhetorical - I don't have QuickGPS so I can't test it, and too many people swear by it for it not to work. I guess a hex edit trip through the GPS drivers could answer some of this...

qualcomm uses xtra.bin... i've never seen it but I know it's there...some "rocket scientist" over on xda schooled me on the GPS long ago... there is not doubt in my mind it exists... I even looked for it with qgps installed..
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