Are the GPS settings hard-coded in these ROMs?

[x99percent]

I have been trying, without success, to configure my external bluetooth GPS. Why? Well, because it works MUCH better than the internal GPS on my phone.

The problem is that the settings in "External GPS" on the "Hardware" tab will not accept any changes. No matter what I try setting them to, they always revert back to COM4 and Baud rate = (None).

I have tried selecting "GPS" and "no GPS" when building a ROM in the kitchen. I have also tried 5060 and 5067 ROMs.


Is this stuff hard-coded into the ROMs? If so, WHY? I should be able to configure my phone to use an external GPS even if I have cooked a ROM that enables the internal GPS.

[popdog54]

I basically asked this same question when the first GPS ROM was leaked and got no responses. I too wanted to use my external bluetooth GPS, but like you couldn't change the settings. And I still haven't been able to. I've looked for a registry entry, searched online, etc., to no avail.

[dan-htc-touch]

Only thing I can think of would be to try an untouched stock rom, and see what happens. if it works great, if not, sorry for wasting your time

edit: I wonder if no2chem changed the external gps proggy to only read the registry, not to write changes to it, find the entries in the registry and you might be a winner. but then again, this one aint easy to track down in the registry

[holo]

If you are thinking your bluetooth gps is superior, your gps is probably misconfigured. While I can't speak 100% about verizon (I don't know for sure if the gps will work in AGPS mode on verizon), if you're on sprint and getting better performance from a bluetooth gps, something is WRONG.

I had my gps for a long time unable to get locks even in my car without holding it up to the window, etc. My friend would tell me all the time how his connected very quickly with 8-9 sats indoors. I thought it was something weird and just maybe with his location or something. My bluetooth worked wayyyy better. He had the commercial sprint gps rom and let customizations run (I don't think I let customizations run before I installed a hacked rom).

However, after flashing the beta rom, letting sprint customizations run, my gps was consistently getting a lock within 5 seconds indoors in my house where I can barely get my bluetooth gps to connect (and could never get my phone's to connect). I have since installed nuerom 5060 and am still getting this kind of performance. A complete and total 180 on the gps performance.

It works amazing, wayyyyyy better than my bluetooth gps (and I have a nice SiRF III bluetooth gps, not a cheapie crappy one). I get locks in under 5 seconds in all instances, indoors, outdoors, in my car, etc. It is amazing. While I don't try it in highrise buildings, trust me, people are NOT exaggerating the performance of the internal gps. It is 10x better than any external gps when set up properly due to the fact that it can connect to an assistance server for help locking.

On another note, if you reallllly do want your bluetooth gps working, don't mess with the external gps settings, just set the com port manually in google maps or whatever to the actual com port you are assigning in the bluetooth connection to the gps receiver. That's what I did before I figured out that the internal gps could really be so powerful.

[x99percent]

Originally Posted by holo

If you are thinking your bluetooth gps is superior, your gps is probably misconfigured.

How could I possibly misconfigure it? There's nothing to configure, since the settings are hard-coded... even in a non-GPS ROM!

The internal GPS does work, but it is MUCH slower to update and lock than my external, and it's nowhere near as precise. My external GPS is so incredibly accurate, I am amazed... easily within 6ft on a satellite view... it will correctly show what lane I am in on the highway!

Originally Posted by holo

On another note, if you reallllly do want your bluetooth gps working, don't mess with the external gps settings, just set the com port manually in google maps or whatever to the actual com port you are assigning in the bluetooth connection to the gps receiver. That's what I did before I figured out that the internal gps could really be so powerful.

Now try doing that with a program that does not have it's own GPS configuration and relies on the settings made from the "External GPS" icon.

[holo]

Originally Posted by x99percent

The internal GPS does work, but it is MUCH slower to update and lock than my external, and it's nowhere near as precise. My external GPS is so incredibly accurate, I am amazed... easily within 6ft on a satellite view... it will correctly show what lane I am in on the highway!

Read my post, I had that problem for a really long time, then finally got my gps working. I have had 5 second locks for a few weeks now, and use my gps daily now that it works correctly. Once you get it working properly it is amazing...

[x99percent]

What should/could I be doing differently to make the internal GPS work better... other than upgrading the radio and flashing the latest ROM?

I *can't* let the Sprint customizations run, as I use Verizon.

[popdog54]

I was getting slow connect times with the internal GPS, around 3-4 minutes. I messed something up on my Mogul and had to do a hard reset. Since then the connect times have been about 10 seconds. I can't explain why but I'm not complaining. So, maybe a hard reset will help you.

[x99percent]

Why would a hard reset be any different than the *multiple* times I have tried different ROM versions (5054, 5060, 5067, etc.) ?

[dan-htc-touch]

because sometimes **** just starts working for no apparent reason