How to unlock GPS on Verizon HTC Imagio

[lafester]

anything is possible. i bet someone will figure it out pretty soon after the first beta is leaked.

[digi]

I just got my Imagio a few days ago, and although the GPS is working just fine, I was not able to get the my location to work on the weather tab at all. Today I was messing around, happened to have WiFi on and it worked for the first time. Later I was across town, tried it again and no luck. Turned on the WiFi, and without even connecting to a network it instantly got my location. So after playing with it all day, the my location weather feature only seems to work with WiFi turned on, is this normal? I figured it would just use the GPS, just wanted to know if I'm missing something.

[briannowicki]

Originally Posted by digi

I just got my Imagio a few days ago, and although the GPS is working just fine, I was not able to get the my location to work on the weather tab at all. Today I was messing around, happened to have WiFi on and it worked for the first time. Later I was across town, tried it again and no luck. Turned on the WiFi, and without even connecting to a network it instantly got my location. So after playing with it all day, the my location weather feature only seems to work with WiFi turned on, is this normal? I figured it would just use the GPS, just wanted to know if I'm missing something.

No, thats not normal are u a verizon carrier?

[fwaits]

Originally Posted by digi

I just got my Imagio a few days ago, and although the GPS is working just fine, I was not able to get the my location to work on the weather tab at all. Today I was messing around, happened to have WiFi on and it worked for the first time. Later I was across town, tried it again and no luck. Turned on the WiFi, and without even connecting to a network it instantly got my location. So after playing with it all day, the my location weather feature only seems to work with WiFi turned on, is this normal? I figured it would just use the GPS, just wanted to know if I'm missing something.

Have you run QuickGPS in the Start -> All Applications menu? That should prompt to turn the location service on and also download satellite info to help GPS locking faster.

Also if you are not getting 3G service the My location service seems to struggle locking a location. Sometimes you don't get one, sometimes you get one that is near but not your exact location.

[TheShaz]

I also have the i910 Omnia - and I'm due for an upgreade

Waiting for the Omnia II to come out so I can compare. I love the Dev Base that HTC devices has but that AMOLED screen on the Omina II sounded real good. Want to compare.

I've played with the Imagio at the store, it feels fast, Touch Flo was very smooth. Nice knowing the GPS is not locked. The TV looks nice. The wife works for VZW and so if I get the TV service I only pay half the price.

I went from the Tmobile MDA - Sprint Touch - VZ Omina - now looking to upgrade

[boot]

OK...I just got off the phone with verizon tech support and they assured me that gps is not enabled for any third party apps including Bing which comes loaded on the Imagio. Mine definately does not work! I'm sensing that verizon has done the same thing they did with the xv6900 which I just got rid of, and that's disabled the gps except for their vz navigator. So explane to me how some of you got it to work on your phones or are you seeing your location via cell towers which my phone will do as well? When I use my bluetooth external gps everything falls into place. I get a moving triangle and dot on the bing maps in a matter of seconds....has anyone seen this without an external device??

[drhankz]

Originally Posted by boot

OK...I just got off the phone with verizon tech support and they assured me that gps is not enabled for any third party apps including Bing which comes loaded on the Imagio. Mine definately does not work! I'm sensing that verizon has done the same thing they did with the xv6900 which I just got rid of, and that's disabled the gps except for their vz navigator. So explane to me how some of you got it to work on your phones or are you seeing your location via cell towers which my phone will do as well? When I use my bluetooth external gps everything falls into place. I get a moving triangle and dot on the bing maps in a matter of seconds....has anyone seen this without an external device??

GPS in my Imagio works great with Google Maps and "QuickGPS"

I did NOTHING to unlock it.

[Timmy Likes to Click]

I did some major hardware upgrades this year...

Phone: 6700 (Apache) -> Imagio
Computer: P4 -> i7

My world is so much faster now...

[Shadowman]

Mine works fine with Google Maps etc; no issues and yes I am on 3G

Shadowman

[untitled]

Originally Posted by boot

OK...I just got off the phone with verizon tech support and they assured me that gps is not enabled for any third party apps including Bing which comes loaded on the Imagio. Mine definately does not work! I'm sensing that verizon has done the same thing they did with the xv6900 which I just got rid of, and that's disabled the gps except for their vz navigator. So explane to me how some of you got it to work on your phones or are you seeing your location via cell towers which my phone will do as well? When I use my bluetooth external gps everything falls into place. I get a moving triangle and dot on the bing maps in a matter of seconds....has anyone seen this without an external device??

All the reviews that I read and watched before I bought the phone said the gps is unlocked. Part of the reason I decided to get the phone.

And it definitely works with Google Maps. I can get as many as 12 satellites at times. It'll even show which lane I'm on on the highway.