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Re: Interesting Tomtom finding...
I decided to try this out. With the 4800 setting it took me 61 seconds with aGPS to get a lock. I made the change to 57600 and did a soft reset. 3 second lock. Reset again and got a 5 second lock. I am using Google Maps. I usually get faster locks when I am reconnecting in the location I was last connected to, so I will try this from the office tomorrow and see if it holds to its fast locking.
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I really wanted this to work, but I'm gonna have to go ahead and say it doesn't for me. After I changed and restarted I opened up Google Maps. It only took about 15 seconds to lock...unfortunately it decided I was on the equator just south of Nigeria and east of Congo. I rebooted and opened it again, but this time Google Maps just timed out.
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It was worth a shot, maybe it worked for some, maybe not. I tried again (it's 12:30am here) stepped out on my deck. Tomtom would find sats but, not lock, the HTC GPS tool, I got a lock in 15 seconds and data looked correct.
Very odd but, I want this to be dependable, even if it takes 4-5 min to get a lock. How it worked before, maybe 1 out of 3 times I could get a lock (even with it sitting for 10-15 min outside or in a car window). One time in my wife's car (this was about 2 weeks ago), we were not sure where we were (out of state visiting family), so I pop it on, and I could not get a lock after an hour in the front window (after a bunch of reboots). It needs to work better than that. I also want to avoid poping on-line to get the data. After all, what is the point of having GPS on your phone if it only works part of the time ? Last edited by DavidinCT; 06-26-2009 at 12:46 AM. |
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Re: Interesting Tomtom finding...
Tried it again. No go. It timed out without getting a lock. I am now reverting back to what I had before.
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Re: Interesting Tomtom finding...
An update here, a very interesting find, I will have to test it over the weekend a little on and off but, so far....Instant locks.
When I open Tomtom it goes to "No GPS device" (does this for a few seconds) then click screen, Change preferences, Show GPS status, by the time I get there, I am locked on at least 4 sats (even inside my house). Updated to 57600 as above and installed Astro GPSLauncher (when set to 4800 it did take longer to lock) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364199 I rebooted 3 times and tried this, 5 - 7 seconds I am locked. This AstroGPS Launcher will open the GPS port before opening the program (made a icon for Tomtom launcher) and it appears to have worked for me so far. People with out Tomtom or other listed apps will have to create a custom link for their program but, Try it, it worked for me !!!! I will update this post with my results over the weekend (crossing my fingers here, like I said, it needs to be dependable). If this helps, give me some thanks here ! |
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