[Jan 15th New Sprint Radio V1.11.00F] Official CDMA Diamond Radio Thread

[JoeTreaf]

Originally Posted by highlife22

That really has nothing to do with the radio. Google maps or any other gps program doesn't really knows where you are until it pinpoints you via the satellites once you load the program and let it find you. What the radio willl do however is possibly speed up response time. Usually, Google will default somewhere in California until it locates you on the map and sets that as its new default location.

Actually, I believe the "my location" function does not use the GPS satellites. Instead it triangulates your position off of the cell towers so it would in fact depend on the radio and not the satellites. All that being said, I didn't think that "My Location" worked with the CDMA network, I thought it was a GSM exclusive.

[sandsage]

Originally Posted by JoeTreaf

Actually, I believe the "my location" function does not use the GPS satellites. Instead it triangulates your position off of the cell towers so it would in fact depend on the radio and not the satellites. All that being said, I didn't think that "My Location" worked with the CDMA network, I thought it was a GSM exclusive.

Google Maps will use GPS for "My Location" if the GPS is functioning. You need to select "Use GPS" on the Menu - and should see a status bar in the upper right corner stating the number of satellites in use. Selecting the blue square in the lower right should bring up a message bar with info about how accurate the fix is...

If GPS is NOT enabled... It will default to the 'tower' method as Joe explained above.