Verizon XV6900 upgrading tutorial and troubleshooting!!! GPS enabled!!!

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Originally Posted by arianhojat

dling your rom negamann, seeing if gps will work downtown tomorrow. gps worked at first quick then

Well I'm happy to report that the negamann ROM GPS is still pretty awesome today for me. This morning was very overcast and raining and I couldn't get a lock from in my house, but when I drove to work VisualGPS took 3 minutes to get a fix.

When I left work this afternoon it was clear and sunny but Live Search failed to get a lock after 10 minutes. I pulled over and started VisualGPS and the fix was instant. I started LiveSearch again and it picked right up on where I was.

I drove home using the LiveSearch navigation and it was spot on. Even told me to make the right turn into my driveway which was really interesting because my address is 100th Avenue but my driveway is around the corner on 7th Street.

I'm going to have to see about getting TomTom (or something like it) working. I really need the turn-by-turn. On my way to work this morning I was all discombobulated because LiveSearch displays it's map with North as up.... but I was driving South. So everything that was actually on my left, was displaying on the right. I made a left turn at a busy intersection and then a minute later noticed my right turn signal was on. LOL

Also, the LiveSearch directions are pretty sad. It keeps wanting me to go out on US41 and make U-turns.


UPDATE: Just tried VisualGPS again sitting in my living room now that there are clear skies. 50 seconds to get a fix. Pretty damned impressive. Works as as well as my Dad's $500 Garmin!