GPS on alltel 6800 - easy way

[chevyforlife]

Originally Posted by docmofro

went back to stock and tried this today. It locked on fast and no problem. I used GPS-viewer and google-maps.

btw, anyone else notice that stock rom about 26-28mb free at startup? wow.

are you talkin ram? i dont get nearly that much im useually running 15-17 tops. any ideas?

[chevyforlife]

OK so im back from my trip lots of fun and i found that im getting a very strong signal even for having only five satilites. =P
~Chevy

works like a charm. thanks for the great guide!

[tsu708]

Program works for my 6800. Much Thanks!!

[alwims]

Is the another program besides Google maps that we can use the GPS with?

[azbobs]

Many thanks to Shadow-Tech. Worked like a charm I had tried the cab someone had posted and it did not work. When I did what your first post stated it works like a charm many thanks again.

Cheers,
azbobs

[phorqued]

I still have not been able to get this to work on my 6800 It does look for the satellites, but none ever update. From all of the other posts, I have the correct radio, setting, etc., but no luck it seems. Currently living in Florida, located somewhere in India close to the border of Nepal!

[Stevevo]

Originally Posted by phorqued

I still have not been able to get this to work on my 6800 It does look for the satellites, but none ever update. From all of the other posts, I have the correct radio, setting, etc., but no luck it seems. Currently living in Florida, located somewhere in India close to the border of Nepal!

When it sees the satellites try and push the sleep button on top and then back on and sometimes this triggers mine to come on fix. It doesn't seem to work every time but lots of times it does. Good luck

[shadow-tech]

make sure u soft reset after the install process.

make sure location settings are turned on. it is the the phone/menu/options/services

if you are using google maps. select 'use gps' but then also click on 'my location'. if u just click use gps it wont work. U NEED TO CLICK 'my location'

alarmman do u pay for the data service?

if not you can find other software out there that has all of the map data already downloaded. i think the software requires like 300MB-500MB of free space on your storage card.

if this is not an option you can always go thru wifi. but this is less practical.

let me know if you guys still have problems.

[alarmman]

Shadow, thanks for the reply. I do have a data plan, & can connect to the internet via wifi or cell. I did the "GPS enable " stuff on Sunday night, and then travelled a 100 miles into Sprint territory on Monday morning. I realized that morning my cell was dead. I dialed *228 on the phone to activate it and to learn roaming position and it worked. As did my GPS. When I returned to Alltel towers though, no cell again. I called Alltel they had to wipe my registry & I re-activated my phone. I now know to never do *228 away from home. The reason I mention all of this is that my GPS worked in the Sprint tower range. Any of this make sense?