Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2 GPS polling tweaks

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I just realized something what ROM are folks running (mine is in my signature).

I think WM 6.1 and 6.5.3 may behave different.

I also discovered something very odd tonight.

I wanted to try running iGuidance with it running faster than the normal once every 2 seconds to see if it ran any faster in actual updated data.

So I switched to COM4 again (WM GPS Virtual COM Port).
It was updating once every 2 seconds again. What the heck, it ran faster earlier today.

So I tried PollInterval at 100ms

Still it updates once every 2 seconds. It was updating every 1 second or faster earlier when I experimented on COM4. Why is it back to 2 seconds again?

Then I started GPSGate and went back to iGuidance and it started updating at 1 second or faster. iGuidance is NOT using GPSGate.

I then stopped GPSGate and it goes back to once every 2 seconds. Then I started GoogleMaps and it did the same thing (i.e. iGuidance started updating faster).

I also tried 10000, 1000, 100 Pollinterval and it made no difference in this behavior.

I think COM4 (WM GPS Virtual COM Port) may actually be fixed under WM 6.5.3 (it seems to run as well as with GPSGate) and even faster (as strange as that sounds) that if you start a second GPS Application which is very odd.

[RSD]

at pollinterval = 1:

Battery at start: 63%, 3.849V, 2.42mA

30 minutes using GPS:
Battery = 55%, 3.784v, 207mA.

LAG = 2.5sec - 3 seconds lag with Garmin Mobile XT at about 30 miles hour.

Back to pollinterval =100.
- Need to test and see.

..Ramesh
Verizon Touch Pro2
-touch pro cleanup
-Garmin mobile XT

[BooDaddy]

Im running the stock Sprint TP2 rom with a few very minor reg tweaks.

[saj070]

Originally Posted by BooDaddy

Im running the stock Sprint TP2 rom with a few very minor reg tweaks.

that exactly what i have sprint stock rom with goodlife tweak and pimp package.

i tried all the polling setting same result with naked eye did notice a quicker update with 100 but battery went down 20% in 1 hour than using 1000 battery went down 3%

so big difference in battery for me for .02 second quicker is not worth it

now if i can get it to work like igo8 with no lag what so ever then i am a happy camper

[RSD]

With Poll Interval at 100, my Garmin was more 4-5 seconds behind in updating this morning. With Poll Interval at 1, it was 2 seconds behind. With the original settting of 1000 it was way behind.

As I keep it plugged in when using GPS except last 2 days to see the how fast it was draining, I don't mind keeping at 1 for now. Hoping Garmin will update their sw to better support TP2.

..Ramesh