GPS on, Phone Off

[rlmentz]

Originally Posted by strra

the problem here isn't with the GPS, it's with the tomtom software. it must be an issue with newer versions of the software because i was able to do it just fine a few versions ago on my touch... then again, i was using a QVGA version on there (can't imagine that'd make much of a difference tho)

I think you have hit the nail on the head here. I totally agree with you that its the program itself not allowing a GPS lock because it thinks the phone is in flight mode. Which by the way is exactly what it says at the bottom of the screen, flight mode.

[rlmentz]

Originally Posted by KcLive

I too use Garmin on my phone...Garmin Mobile XT and I can use it without the phones radio being turned on at all. I have turned the phones radio off and started Garmin many times and got a lock right off the bat. I love this gps program...works great. You might check into it.

Yeah, I have had others tell me their garmin works without the phone radio being on as well. Wish I had done more research before buying a program.

[rlmentz]

Well, I have discovered that if I turn the phone off, but leave bluetooth on, TomTom no longer thinks its in flight mode and everything works fine. I was wanting to turn all radios off and just use the GPS in order to save every bit of power i could, but I suppose that this is the next best thing.

[neoshi]

^Yeah, same. If I turn phone off and everything else is off too, it kicks into automatic flight mode. Leave BT on, it'll allow me to do phone off, GPS still on.

[grandpanda]

I found if you turn phone radio off, the phone goes to airplane mode. That's why GPS does work any more. So what I do is to turn bluetooth on. When BT is on, phone won't be in airplane mode if radio is off. GPS will continue to work.

[bedoig]

It's an old bug that TomTom hasn't yet bothered to fix. It comes from the time when built-in GPS was non-existant, but bluetooth GPS pucks were all the rage. TomTom thinks it has to have bluetooth on in order to get a GPS lock, which of course it doesn't.

You'd think we would have put to bed the old cell-connection-is-required myth by now, but I guess not. Rest assured that GPS functions just fine without cell towers. Unless of course Germany has a secret CDMA network that no one knows about, because my GPS worked fine in Europe

[rlmentz]

I just noticed. Even though the program says its in flight mode and the GPS signal was lost x minutes ago, it still has a GPS lock. It does not tell you how many satellites it has a lock with, but it does show your position correctly on the map.

[lacklustre484]

Someone help me? I've used Google Maps with the Valhalla cab before but haven't done so since January when I bought a real GPS device. My friend bought the Garmin XT software and wanted me to install it on his phone. I ran the software, but can't get a GPS lock. I haven't installed Valhalla. Do I need to?

[Mylt1]

if he is on VZN then he needs the bored GPS fix. valhalla(i believe) is for the titan with the MR1 update.

to the others. running a VZN TP in flight mode i had GPS lock in less than 30 seconds using SSK's 6.1 with bored's GPS fix and running the HTC GPS program then running XT. the phones radio has nothing to do with the GPS chip. the only time you need the phone on for GPS would be if your using google maps, or VZ nav and the such that downloads the maps from the internet/data connection.

[sherv]

Thanks guys, this has been very helpful (esp the bluetooth trick)! Is there any way to download the QuickGPS data on, say, a laptop and then xfer it over to the TP? I'm in the middle east and while I have internet, I have no way of securing a data connection through my phone directly (unless there's a way of doing so by connecting the TP to my laptop...)

Thanks!!