Official Titan built-in GPS Thread

[jcvu]

Anyone successfully setup Tomtom 6 to sprint mogul?
I am able to get tomtom 6 to run and working properly on my phone, but there is no sound. I already unmuted as it starts out as muted.

[schettj]

Originally Posted by jcvu

Anyone successfully setup Tomtom 6 to sprint mogul?
I am able to get tomtom 6 to run and working properly on my phone, but there is no sound. I already unmuted as it starts out as muted.

Works fine for me. You've probably got a bad copy of TT6. If you buy a copy it works, anyway.

You sure you have a voice selected (and installed?)

[gof]

Originally Posted by frazell

I can't say it will work outside of the US or Canada since I'm not going to be leaving the US or Canada in the foreseeable future, but that doesn't make much sense to me.

How could the GPS work in flight mode (which should mean the CDMA radio is off so it can't tell if I am in a CDMA area or not), but only if I'm in an area with CDMA coverage? Since GPS is sat dependent and the phone can do that with all radios off it should work anywhere I can pick up a sat...

Unless I understand the technology or flight mode wrong?

Several of us have tried to get a lock out of the country. I have tried it in Europe. While (using a diagnostic app) it will briefly see sats, it fails for some unknown reason to establish a lock.

My personal belief (with no evidence to support it one way or another) is that the driver is optimized to lock quickly. As such it is limiting the allowable band of coordinates to North America to reduce the search area when doing a cold start. To double check your locking in flight mode, I suggest trying the following. Put the phone into flight mode, then do a full power down (hold the power button 5 seconds). Then turn it back on, and without enabling the radio, try to get a lock. Ideally, you'd leave it off all night to completely ensure the GPS state is cold as it may store it's last start sufficiently to recover.

[jaggy13]

Just flashed my rom with the current stock sprint upgrade. (3.35)
GPS is working with Google maps. I haven't tried too much else yet.

My issue is as follows. I can power up, run Google maps and everything works correctly. Initialization is quick and program works great.

After just a few minutes of not using the program, the GPS will fail to initialize. closing apps and anything short of a reset fails to allow the GPS to initialize. I have read most of the first page recommended apps. I have tried a few of them, but haven't had time to really give them a fair trial. Any ideas or recommendations? Thanks in advance.

[anddy78]

Hi everyone, first I want to apologize for my bad english, I will try to explain my problem. I'm from Venezuela, my cell phone carrier is Movilnet, my Titan setup is ROM DCD 3.3.4, Radio 3.2.50, PRI 2.03. The problem is: when I'm on cell phone service area my GPS never gets a lock, unless I let the phone all night with the GPS software trying to lock.
But, when I travel out of the city to an area whitout cell phone coverage, I can get a lock within 2 minutes, consistently, even after a soft or hard reset.
I'm using VisualGPSce to monitoring and priming the GPS, but I also had tried GPS Test, GPS Viewer, GPS toogle, etc. I had noticed that, when I'm trying to lock with VisualGPSce, the software give me a initial position that is 180º wrong, i.e. If the right coordinated is N8º 20,91 W62º 39,14, the software shows N8º 20,91 E62º 39,14. I had tried in flight mode with no success, also disabling aGPS in the registry, may be I will try a QPST config, but I don't know what config can I change.
My thery is that the cell phone towers create some kind of "conflict" and messed up all the GPS syncronization, may be the time syncronization, I don't know.

Thanks for your help.

[joojoobee666]

Originally Posted by frazell

I can't say it will work outside of the US or Canada since I'm not going to be leaving the US or Canada in the foreseeable future, but that doesn't make much sense to me.

How could the GPS work in flight mode (which should mean the CDMA radio is off so it can't tell if I am in a CDMA area or not), but only if I'm in an area with CDMA coverage? Since GPS is sat dependent and the phone can do that with all radios off it should work anywhere I can pick up a sat...

Unless I understand the technology or flight mode wrong?

Flight mode stops your radio from transmitting. Since GPS signals are passive (you only receive signals), there is no need to shut it down. The signals from the satellite are still getting beemed down. I used my Titan on a flight the other day with iGo8. It was interesting to see the ground on the screen flying by at over 508MPH. Was watching the altitude as well (With HTC Gps Tool). Kinda fun

[JimSmith94]

Originally Posted by joojoobee666

Flight mode stops your radio from transmitting. Since GPS signals are passive (you only receive signals), there is no need to shut it down. The signals from the satellite are still getting beemed down. I used my Titan on a flight the other day with iGo8. It was interesting to see the ground on the screen flying by at over 508MPH. Was watching the altitude as well (With HTC Gps Tool). Kinda fun

I've tried GPS on several flights in the last couple months and have never been able to find an satellites while in the air. Are you doing anything special, such as getting a lock before takeoff and keeping it running all the time?

[gof]

Originally Posted by JimSmith94

I've tried GPS on several flights in the last couple months and have never been able to find an satellites while in the air. Are you doing anything special, such as getting a lock before takeoff and keeping it running all the time?

You have to hold the phone in the Window to get the initial lock. Remember that you're essentially in a large metal tube which blocks a lot of the radio signal. Once you get the lock you can move the phone a little closer to you so you don't look like a total geek. But you can't do it obviously from the Aisle or middle seat.

Has there been any new discussion on the ability to use the GPS while overseas (on a Sprint CDMA model)? I've got a trip to Germany in October and was going to try it again (with the latest radio), but was wondering if anyone had a recent attempt. I'm using it with TomTom and EU maps. I'll also load up a low level GPS monitor just to see what's coming back from the unit. Any recommendations on something that will give the most (useful) info on sats beeing seeked, found, strength, etc?

[wheelsun]

ugh..having issues with Sprint Nav on my Titan now.. it just sticks at getting fastest route, gets to a 100%, and instead of starting to tell me directions the 100% bar just stays there and nothing goes on. its been doing this for about two weeks now, ive tried resetting the phone, messing with the GPS settings etc. does anyone have a fix for this?

[weedahoe]

The most locks I have gotten so far was 8 on my xv6800