New Alltel 3.04.671.2 Rom Released, Rev A enabled

[jaytv]

Originally Posted by Torx

after some testing last night driving around the gps indeed acts like triangulation rather than real onboard gps or bt gps. It has the weird bobbing around, and "catch up" when going around 40+ mph.

i wonder if we can change the baud rate??

I've had nothing but smooth and fast accurate tracking in Google Maps, even at 80+mph.
Strange.

[kgphat25]

Originally Posted by mindfrost82

For those of you having a hard time getting GPS to lock onto a satellite, try this:

How-To Get GPS Working Everytime:
- Download Holux GPS Viewer (free)
- Run that program before you run any other GPS program
- Set it to Com4 and click Open
- Be near a window to get a fast lock on GPS (mine still works inside my house though)
- When you start to see what looks like lat/long in the display minimize it (don't close it)
- Now run Google Maps (or any other app) and set it to Com4 (or automatic should work too)
- It should pickup GPS right away since the GPS Viewer already has the locks
- Remember to close the Holux GPS Viewer when you're done or it'll constantly use GPS and drain your battery!

Yay it worked!!! Thank you At first it found about 12 satellites but could not triangulate so I stood outside for 20min and it finally said Acquiring: 3D. Tried google Maps and it showed me about 50 feet from where I am and its constantly bobbing around, same with Google Navigator, Live Search, and GarminXT, lol hopefully it will get better before I start driving with it, or else Ill drive into a store window or something .

On another note Rev A doesn't seem much faster. Previosly I had around 760kbps down and 125kbps up. Now I have 900kbps down and 240kbps up, I thought that uploading would go up to 1000kbps. Oh and btw I'm in NYC so there is plenty of Rev A here.

[Musicman247]

CAB Version of GPS viewer. Works great, by the way!

[badboy8813]

Originally Posted by Torx

after some testing last night driving around the gps indeed acts like triangulation rather than real onboard gps or bt gps. It has the weird bobbing around, and "catch up" when going around 40+ mph.

i wonder if we can change the baud rate??

did you install quickgps and the hack for it? mine works PERFECTLY and takes only 20secs to get a lock on both sprint navi and googlemaps

[theelite]

i'm on jd's rom and can't acquire any GPS sats with my phone by the window on the 15th floor, been running gps viewer for 45 mins, tried quickgps also.

[mrnamster]

Originally Posted by Torx

after some testing last night driving around the gps indeed acts like triangulation rather than real onboard gps or bt gps. It has the weird bobbing around, and "catch up" when going around 40+ mph.

i wonder if we can change the baud rate??

I've been using 9600 as my baud rate and it has been working fine.

[earthdan]

any advantages to setting a higher baud rate?

[naiserie]

Originally Posted by mindfrost82

For those of you having a hard time getting GPS to lock onto a satellite, try this:

How-To Get GPS Working Everytime:
- Download Holux GPS Viewer (free)
- Run that program before you run any other GPS program
- Set it to Com4 and click Open
- Be near a window to get a fast lock on GPS (mine still works inside my house though)
- When you start to see what looks like lat/long in the display minimize it (don't close it)
- Now run Google Maps (or any other app) and set it to Com4 (or automatic should work too)
- It should pickup GPS right away since the GPS Viewer already has the locks
- Remember to close the Holux GPS Viewer when you're done or it'll constantly use GPS and drain your battery!

thanks mindfrost, this is the only thing that's worked for me. i spent all morning walking around outside failing to get a lock with google maps or live search, come home dejected, fire up holux and bam, there's a lock.

[stealth-twinturbo]

I could get a GPS signal within 2 min on the alltel rom, but when i flashed to the JD rom i couldn't aquire a signal at all, i'm going to flash back to the Alltel rom and leave that until someone cooks up something real nice which i am sure is on the way!!!

[fredcatsmommy]

Originally Posted by naiserie

thanks mindfrost, this is the only thing that's worked for me. i spent all morning walking around outside failing to get a lock with google maps or live search, come home dejected, fire up holux and bam, there's a lock.

I get a message with gpsviewer, not a valid ppc program. Obviously I'm doing something wrong.