New rom and gps preping?

[JustusIV]

Do you still have to prep the gps in the new rom? For example in tom tom i am not picking up a signal. But i though others had said you don't have to do this anymore, but i think i am probably wrong.

[ms30250]

you still have to

[JimSmith94]

Before the new ROM, and with a "prepper", it would take several minutes to get three or four satellites in my apartment. With the new ROM and also with DCD's 3.0.0 kitchen, WITHOUT a "prepper" I get up to 10 satellites in under 10 seconds.

This goes against what others are saying, but so far it works for me.

[dkincaid]

I timed it several times today. I get a lock within 6 seconds.

[phazed]

no prepping or GPS priming needed.

[OmarBadu]

i still need to prep for iguidance with astrogpslauncher

[JustusIV]

I still have to prep for tomtom using dcd 3.0.0, any ideas why?

[MrHappy]

ok so i am on new radio and 5053 no2chem rom and i stil have to prep tomtom.

launched tomtom...waited 5 min, stil no valid gps
launched gpslauncher, went to sat view and already had 8 sats... watched for 5 min and closed tomtom..
imediatly launched just tomtom... waited 5 min, still no valid gps.

repeated 3 times with same results. if i use gpslauncher it finds the sats in under 5 seconds. without it, never finds the gps.

[JustusIV]

Originally Posted by MrHappy

ok so i am on new radio and 5053 no2chem rom and i stil have to prep tomtom.

Same boat on DCD 3.0.0, I wonder if the people claiming no preping are people not testing with tomtom, but testing with googlemaps and stuff LOL

[EWS2112]

Originally Posted by MrHappy

ok so i am on new radio and 5053 no2chem rom and i stil have to prep tomtom.

launched tomtom...waited 5 min, stil no valid gps
launched gpslauncher, went to sat view and already had 8 sats... watched for 5 min and closed tomtom..
imediatly launched just tomtom... waited 5 min, still no valid gps.

repeated 3 times with same results. if i use gpslauncher it finds the sats in under 5 seconds. without it, never finds the gps.

Maybe it has something to do with the software package used to access the GPS. I'm using iGo and I still have to use the 'prepper' (no salt, though )


My tests and results are the same as those of MrHappy.

I do, however, have 8 or more locks even before the interface is up...so I'm not really too concerned about it!