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Re: so far epic gps sucks.
I walked outside, turned on both Google Maps and Sprint Navigation and in about 3 minutes it had my location to within 30 meters. I know there have been reports of the Galaxy S series having GPS problems, but mine works fine.
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Re: so far epic gps sucks.
Does the GPS usually take that long to lock?
Does it take that long on the EVO?
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If I'm near a window or outside, the Epic seems to get a location lock on a few satellites within about 30 seconds. A little quicker than my Touch Pro did. However, inside my home, and inside my work building, where the Touch Pro would still get a lock after about 1-2 minutes, the Epic just continues to search, not locking onto any satellites.
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3 minutes to lock outside is a problem. i can lock in about 15 seconds with my EVO. Samsung really wet the bed on this flaw and they best have it corrected in 28.5 days or my wife will have to choose another "pretty" phone
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Re: so far epic gps sucks.
the problem has persisted from the samsung moment days, what is that 2 or 1.5 years ago. they didn't bother to fix it then and only are doing it now because they want to take the second spot in the cellphone market.
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Re: so far epic gps sucks.
The first time GPS is run on any device (even top of the line Oregon series), it will take a few minutes to find, lock and calculate its position. After that and if there is not a major change in location, operation is much quicker.
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I don't even own the phone yet and I know the fix. wow people.
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Re: so far epic gps sucks.
I had the Moment and it had terrible GPS signal/lock, after playing with the Epic for over a day now every time I turned on GPS google maps it has worked flawlessly, no waiting more then 20 seconds or so and it has been IMO perfect so far. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
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