[bobturismo]

hmmm...I originally unlocked my phone a long time ago to get a custom rom to use GPS, before sprint released the official release of a gps rom.

I've used that rom since up untill last night, I relocked the phone and install the official sprint gps release.

Before it would take a couple minutes for google maps to find the satellites, if we were driving in a car it would take forever untill we stopped moving.

Now, the version of google maps on the old rom is different than the one I just downloaded to my phone. In my house, in the room that I'm in, I'm away from two small windows, blinds closed and I have two large trees outside the window blocking the sky and the windows face north and west.

I click on "use gps" in google maps and it "supposedly" finds 8 satellites in a matter of less than 10-20 seconds.

It was my understanding that you had to be in direct line of sight with a satellite for gps, I know I dont have signal repeaters in my roof and I doubt that there aren't 8 statellites visible to the north.