GPS without network coverage?

[weedahoe]

well provider has nothing to do with GPS, if you dont want to prime with data usage using a aGPS then I dont know what else to tell you. I cant explain why sometimes you can get a sat and sometimes you cannot or why sometimes it takes longer. I do know that when I was doing just GPS like you I would get the same results. Most of the time it would lock. It locked faster when I was more recently locked previously. At other times it would never get a lock even after I would reboot it once or twice. After waiting so long I would eventually give up. GPS for me on the device is something to play with bc I have a stand-alone GPS unit in my truck

[PDAPhoneJunkie]

I like the aGPS fix but I still can get a lock with standalone in 15 seconds.

[Mylt1]

i had GPS working on my alltel 6800 before i had service on it. all i did was upgrade to a GPS radio then build my rom. i started out with google maps but switched to garmin XT because i didnt want to pay for data. what nav program are you using or are you using it for something like geocaching?

[Daved]

Originally Posted by Mylt1

i had GPS working on my alltel 6800 before i had service on it. all i did was upgrade to a GPS radio then build my rom. i started out with google maps but switched to garmin XT because i didnt want to pay for data. what nav program are you using or are you using it for something like geocaching?

I use Garmin Mobile XT, that's all I need but it's almost impossible to get Garmin to get a lock. At this moment, under clear sky, Garmin sees 4 sats and it still says searching for sats, it doesn't lock.

Do you know what GPS settings did you have in your Alltel 6800?

[Mylt1]

have you updated to the newest firmware? it should be 5.xx. if not go to garmins site and download it. i could never get a lock with just running the older verison of XT. now all i need to do is fire up XT and less than a min i have a lock, no primer needed. as a side note when you up to 5.xx you can change the arrow to one of the pointers from the garmin garage. its pretty sweet.

[Daved]

Originally Posted by Mylt1

have you updated to the newest firmware? it should be 5.xx. if not go to garmins site and download it. i could never get a lock with just running the older verison of XT. now all i need to do is fire up XT and less than a min i have a lock, no primer needed. as a side note when you up to 5.xx you can change the arrow to one of the pointers from the garmin garage. its pretty sweet.

Yeah, I do have the latest version of Garmin Mobile XT... I love to be able to change the vehicle icon

[Mylt1]

thats weird. i havent had any problems getting a lock with the 5.xx update. again, i would remove XT and reinstall it. also check your location settings. make sure you have it ON and not 911 only.

[nullifier]

I have actually succeeded at this very thing, as my Mogul does not have service anymore. I had the same problem initially, but I fixed it by disabling aGPS via EPST. Apparently the aGPS polling causes programs that access the GPS to fail to sync if aGPS is waiting for data from the cell radio that never comes. Garmin XT and TomTom7 both work flawlessly, with QuickGPS priming I get a lock in about 6-10 seconds.

[Daved]

Originally Posted by nullifier

I have actually succeeded at this very thing, as my Mogul does not have service anymore. I had the same problem initially, but I fixed it by disabling aGPS via EPST. Apparently the aGPS polling causes programs that access the GPS to fail to sync if aGPS is waiting for data from the cell radio that never comes. Garmin XT and TomTom7 both work flawlessly, with QuickGPS priming I get a lock in about 6-10 seconds.

Would you please tell me exactly what you did to disable aGPS?

Thanks

[markppc6700]

Originally Posted by Daved

Would you please tell me exactly what you did to disable aGPS?

Thanks

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