Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2 GPS polling tweaks

[GreeNova]

Originally Posted by BooDaddy

I havent been able to use my GPS much today, so I cant say how it did on battery life. I will try to get out and about tomorrow to test the battery life with a GPS app running. Thanks again for the feedback... keep it coming

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I just added the link to my sig since I found the site useful and I haven't see any post about the site.

[BooDaddy]

Cool. Its back up now! That is a handy site

[RSD]

I checked the setting on my old Verizon 6800 (HTC Tytan) and noticed the Poll Interval was set to "1". So I changed settings on Verizon Touch Pro2 to be the same and now see just a lag of 1 to 2 secs and a whole lot better than before and almost the same as the built in GPS in the car.

Edit registry with the following entries: Under: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\
- Drivers\GpsOneDevice\PollInterval -> 100 (default is 1000)

** I changed mine to "1" after trying with "100" (100 helped but not significantly) **

I have not tried out to see what it does for the battery but I always plug it in while using GPS.

..Ramesh

[RSD]

By the way, I use Garmin Mobile XT not Tom Tom (I could not get Tom Tom working on XV 6800).

The cool thing was that I took the SD out of XV6800 and put it in TP2 and it asked if I wanted to install Garmin and I said yes, and viola it worked out of the box!

Now, if I can get the FM Radio working....

..Ramesh

[BooDaddy]

Awesome! Thanks for the input. I will give it a try on mine as well with the higher polling number. Hows the battery life when using the GPS with that number?

[RSD]

I will try it in few hours when I go to pick up my daughter from school and report back.

..Ramesh