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Just a few questions.

With all the custom programs out there for the mogul, I'm in heaven. So far most everything has worked great. I'm running DCD 3.0.1, with the newest radio. A few small issues, but for me nothing to get worked up about.
Recently, I did alot of researching into GPS software. I wanted a program that was kinda like a all in one. One GPS program to do it all. I've tried quite a few and settled on the Garmin XT. It does pretty much everything for mobile Gps. As for Geocaching or "on foot" GPS, I use Tracky.
Now with this in mind, I was noticing some of the things I've seen other people talk about. Jump Starting the GPS. Very critical, especially with garmin. So I decided to give that Astrolauncher program a shot. For Garmin, it works like a champ. Only problem I find is with the Time. The first thing I noticed was the garmin part switched to night mode in the middle of the day time. Didn't think much about it. I closed the program out and later on noticed the time was WAYYY off on the phone. Only way to fix it is to restart the phone. I can't seem to narrow the problem down. Is this a program that is being initiated with Astrolauncher? Or is it a problem with the Garmin GPS? Does anyone else notice this? When it does happen, if I restart the phone, then restart Garmin, it is fine. But it seems like its the initial startup where it happens.
Any ideas?
Just for info, I will do a review on my findings for all my GPS software I've played with.
Thanks for the ideas in advance.
Chem

Chemdawg said:
With all the custom programs out there for the mogul, I'm in heaven. So far most everything has worked great. I'm running DCD 3.0.1, with the newest radio. A few small issues, but for me nothing to get worked up about.
Recently, I did alot of researching into GPS software. I wanted a program that was kinda like a all in one. One GPS program to do it all. I've tried quite a few and settled on the Garmin XT. It does pretty much everything for mobile Gps. As for Geocaching or "on foot" GPS, I use Tracky.
Now with this in mind, I was noticing some of the things I've seen other people talk about. Jump Starting the GPS. Very critical, especially with garmin. So I decided to give that Astrolauncher program a shot. For Garmin, it works like a champ. Only problem I find is with the Time. The first thing I noticed was the garmin part switched to night mode in the middle of the day time. Didn't think much about it. I closed the program out and later on noticed the time was WAYYY off on the phone. Only way to fix it is to restart the phone. I can't seem to narrow the problem down. Is this a program that is being initiated with Astrolauncher? Or is it a problem with the Garmin GPS? Does anyone else notice this? When it does happen, if I restart the phone, then restart Garmin, it is fine. But it seems like its the initial startup where it happens.
Any ideas?
Just for info, I will do a review on my findings for all my GPS software I've played with.
Thanks for the ideas in advance.
Chem
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I have stated before that VisualGPSce is my fav for this as it seems to lock the fastest for me. However, the new Sprint radio seems to lock for me in less than a minute on the highway every time. I rarely use VisualGPSce anymore.
If you can get TomTom, try that. I find it better and more user friendly than garmin. I do believe there is a way to turn off night mode within the settings on Garmin though.

I have not tried those two, but I will. I'm always willing to give new things a shot. As far as Garmin goes, I already have a Garmin Street Pilot, so I'm very familiar with how they work. I'm still baffled about this time thing. It doesn't do it all the time. I think if using Astrolauncher, to start the program, if it doens't lock like RIGHT away, the time goes to the GPS time which (Being that it's not locked yet), is wrong.
Make sense?

Chemdawg said:
I have not tried those two, but I will. I'm always willing to give new things a shot. As far as Garmin goes, I already have a Garmin Street Pilot, so I'm very familiar with how they work. I'm still baffled about this time thing. It doesn't do it all the time. I think if using Astrolauncher, to start the program, if it doens't lock like RIGHT away, the time goes to the GPS time which (Being that it's not locked yet), is wrong.
Make sense?
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I didn't see a link to Garmin in the install for Astro, I thought only TomTom and iGuidance. It may not help you with Garmin, but having not used it I can't say. You may be better with another primer program.

While I am not using either of those aps, I would wonder if going through the setting, you should be able to turn off the 'time sync w/ satellites' and just rely on other means for setting the time. i.e. phone network, or synced computer.
On the other hand, I have been using navizon to prime my gps w/ no time problems.
You may want to give it a shot, you can even make a little money while traveling around...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2057112

Chemdawg said:
With all the custom programs out there for the mogul, I'm in heaven. So far most everything has worked great. I'm running DCD 3.0.1, with the newest radio. A few small issues, but for me nothing to get worked up about.
Recently, I did alot of researching into GPS software. I wanted a program that was kinda like a all in one. One GPS program to do it all. I've tried quite a few and settled on the Garmin XT. It does pretty much everything for mobile Gps. As for Geocaching or "on foot" GPS, I use Tracky.
Now with this in mind, I was noticing some of the things I've seen other people talk about. Jump Starting the GPS. Very critical, especially with garmin. So I decided to give that Astrolauncher program a shot. For Garmin, it works like a champ. Only problem I find is with the Time. The first thing I noticed was the garmin part switched to night mode in the middle of the day time. Didn't think much about it. I closed the program out and later on noticed the time was WAYYY off on the phone. Only way to fix it is to restart the phone. I can't seem to narrow the problem down. Is this a program that is being initiated with Astrolauncher? Or is it a problem with the Garmin GPS? Does anyone else notice this? When it does happen, if I restart the phone, then restart Garmin, it is fine. But it seems like its the initial startup where it happens.
Any ideas?
Just for info, I will do a review on my findings for all my GPS software I've played with.
Thanks for the ideas in advance.
Chem
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Garmin does that to me only if I do not prime the GPS enough. I have been using GPS Test 1.04 because I am too lazy to find something better. I find if I wait long enough for it to find the first satellite, I don't have an issue with Garmin. If I launch GPS Test then immediately launch Garmin, I get the time zone change. I was going to try astrolauncher (that's why I'm reading this thread), but apparently I shouldn't bother... On to find something else.

GPS "Car/Peformance" Application

Hey All
I am looking for a GPS application which gives you your 1/4 (400m) Time
I am aware of Gps Performance but im looking for something else?
what other apps of this sort are there?
thank you.

Mr_GTI said:
Hey All
I am looking for a GPS application which gives you your 1/4 (400m) Time
I am aware of Gps Performance but im looking for something else?
what other apps of this sort are there?
thank you.
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Would be awesome! I wonder how accurate you can get with GPS, because of the slight delay. It could have 0-60 timer, etc.

GPS Tuner, but not very accurate, the refresh times are too slow

Would be awesome, especially if you could tie in some accelerometer readings on new phones like the Diamond. Unfortunately, GPS typically only feeds new coordinates every 1 second, which is far to slow for 1/4 mile, 0-60, etc. Also, I doubt that the accelerometers in phones come anywhere near the sensitivity of those used in devices like G-Techs.

GPS Skinner http://www.gpsskinner.com/index.htm

GPS performance works well, gives you 400m times, 0-100km/h, lap times
but the trial version counts your time in chunks of 0.50 so
whats the delay like on GPS
Say for instince i get a 400m time of 14s with the GPS program what would my actual/real time be?

this soft is exactly what you looking for :
http://www.chronogps.com/
and it's done by a friend of mine

thanks, i will try it out later.
any other contributions?

pehun said:
this soft is exactly what you looking for :
http://www.chronogps.com/
and it's done by a friend of mine
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That's awesome! I saw that the program will support a bluetooth accelerometer (and even the WiiMote on the PC version, cool) but are there plans to accomodate built-in accelerometers in new devices like the Diamond and Touch Pro? That would be perfect.

that application is not working properly, i have tried it but nothing happens when testing

Never mind

Lol are you seriously trying to measure your 1/4mile times with kaiser gps? How about 0-60 time using a google cellphone locator? lmao

i dont have a kaiser, i have a hermes and i use a bt gps receiver..G-SAT and it works pretty accurate.

Garmin XT 5.0.20w loosing GPS fix and more....

OK Guys I was searching this forum and not only this but could not find any answer or tip to my problem, so as far as i do not like to start new thread here we go....
It is a bit weird as it started to happen recently...my Garmin XT working ideally with TOPO maps when u hiking but as soon as i get into a car and connect my HD to power and try to navigate home it starts to loosing the plot... basically it will find the route and start navigating and then suddenly loosing GPS fix and switch screen off sometimes, and even once or twice unload itself so phone went back to main screen. also once it lost fix i can see that Garmin switching between full screen and full window view...as i can see top bar every now and then.
contacting Garmin is a waste of time....as they did not offer any solution except hard resetting the device, and i wont do that, to much work to put back everything together and not enough time.
if anyone have a clue what it might be please share ur thought, and give me a tip to sort this out.
I'm using non modified HD with standard WWE version on Orange UK.
Thanks for any help
PS. For MOD, do not know if I posted in right place so if need to be moved, just move it.

Oh and I thought my Garmin was going crazy ! Actually Sygic is working fine with me except that I get some lags sometimes but it is all fine. But yeah tell me about it ... I tried Garmin and it looked for me better with much more POIS than Sygic but few days ago I was driving and suddenly the software started to go into other direction, like it was tracking something else. I think it is a bug with the software maybe. Thank God I am not the only one aware of many things going on with my HD

have u ppl tried 1.13.25.24 radio rom??
with this update... getting fix is very fast (basically it does not search for com ports, shows u connected when u start GMXT).
only drawback is that u can not see the satellite bars in info section.
used gps for short distances (@ 140kmph not much lagging and no disconnection). maybe i'll go for a long drive this weekend... then i'll know if there is a problem of disconnection or lagging etc.

With TomTom i get the same problem, however i don't know what the problem may be because A-GPS is turned off, but it has happened twice where it would take 4 times as longer to find the signal, and whenever it did it would go find then lost.
Soft Resetting fixed it up however i did notice my QuickGPS was not up to date anymore, must have went out of date the day before and possible cause for it acting up.
Try updating QuickGPS, might fix it up and be sure to have A-GPS off.

still no solution
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Try updating QuickGPS, might fix it up and be sure to have A-GPS off.
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i did forgot to mention that my A-GPS is already switched off. the problem is that Garmin keep switching between full screen and full window view and i suspect that my be the bottom of losing fix in the car... i want to stress out that while walking & hiking i have no such problem..... ONLY IN THE CAR and that is most frustrating.
and changing radio....well i'm not convinced as this could halt my phone if something go wrong and i cannot let it happen, as it's not only a toy but business tool, so i rather dont play with it.
any solution????

marasp said:
i did forgot to mention that my A-GPS is already switched off. the problem is that Garmin keep switching between full screen and full window view and i suspect that my be the bottom of losing fix in the car... i want to stress out that while walking & hiking i have no such problem..... ONLY IN THE CAR and that is most frustrating.
and changing radio....well i'm not convinced as this could halt my phone if something go wrong and i cannot let it happen, as it's not only a toy but business tool, so i rather dont play with it.
any solution????
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Changing radio won't halt your device. As long as you have Hardspl on your phone beforehand you'll be fine!

And pelase report back if it does solve your problem

Is this a solution????
Hi there, I see we lost some posts over here....so again latest update...
On the way to work this morning I tried garmin with Intermediate Driver and it worked!! but....there always has to be some but....I saw increase in lag...also i did it a bit different way then usually as I did not connected HD to power... will test it again with power connection tomorrow.

i have extensively tested gps of touch hd while driving from 0 to 120 km in open highway
i never lost the fix
it kept locked to satelites but major problem was battery drain
so i have to disconnect gps latter on
i belive with gps on and satelite fixed driving around 80 to 100 km battery with die with in 2 hours .
otherwise there is lag of 5 to 7 km/hr in speed calculated via gps and its normal
my SiRF III CHIP based cowon q5 gps also shows 5 to 10 km /hr differance from actual speed of car
its normal i belive

laggy but working
commando0 said:
otherwise there is lag of 5 to 7 km/hr in speed calculated via gps and its normal
my SiRF III CHIP based cowon q5 gps also shows 5 to 10 km /hr differance from actual speed of car its normal i belive
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from what i experienced earlier with garmin i can say that lag become much bigger...now when i'm past the junction, on the map i suppose to be either on or even before the junction... never had that before so i suspect that intermediate driver might be responsible for that. also i can say that when using tomtom i have no such experience.
wanted to ditch tomtom but with such a laggy response i will have to use both... garmin for off road navigation and tomtom for car navigation.
the only thing i can confirm is that using intermediate driver solved switching between full screen and full window problem as well as loosing gps fix... at least for me. but u get bigger lag instead....

sat nav sygic McGuider

Ok
I have used many kinds os sat nav software on pdas and smartphones over many years in my job as a driver.
In most cases all have good points and bad, or you wish if only tom tom did that or if igo was as good or what every.
A week ago I got a trinity an up grade to my s620exc so I set about learning as much as I could, which is still not a great deal lol.
So I put on tomtom 7 not very good in my eyes slow.
I went back to tomtom 6 faster and no trouble setting up or useing internal gps, but indoors it was very slow to find a fix.
Now after reading a report on sygic McGuider sat software I installed it and well I can only say it has to be the best sat nav programe around.
link to site belowe
http://www.sygic.com/manuals/manual_en.html#first
If like me you like your sat nav and a good map and easy to use lay out then I would give this ago.
I have always used tomtom but i am always trying other hoping to find a better one well I think I have found it.
what I found was just unreal was the sat fix indoors toomtom would take up to 5mins to find a fix. on the same phone same place 4 to 7 secs.
and out side in open space it was to fast to tell 3secs from a cold start.
give it ago I think you will like it.
Oh and let us know what you think of it, did you have any trouble installing, has it locked up your phone.
bug reports
as yet Iv not found any no lock ups still testing

Used it for the first time today running on a Touch HD alongside TT6 on an Orbit. Seek time for position fix floored the TT6, seconds against minutes, the Orbit has been getting slower for some time. Took me on a slightly longer route than TT6, cannot say if it was quicker. Minor differences on time and speed, only goes to one decimal instead of two. Takes a bit longer to set a destination, more keys to press. Running it on a screen with a larger display, I kind of hoped that that the keyboard keys would be a bit larger and easier to hit.
Seems easy to use, basic and fairly simple. Not impressed with Simon, the voice!
The only issue I have so far is that when I use another app on the device ie the phone, McGuider does not return to take over the screen and I cannot get it back. It must be still running in the background somewhere. If I go to programs and try to call it up, the button press is recorded but the program will not re-appear. The only way round it is to soft reset and restart the app. Not what I am prepared to live with.
Any ideas on what I need to change would be really appreciated.

Having been an avid TomTom fan for years I find Sygic Mcguider a breath of fresh air. Crisp and clear graphics which I feel are better presented than TomTom. In my experience the 'Lane assist' is a worthy inclusion which I find helpful. I'm aware later versions of TomTom have something similar to Lane Assist as I'm comparing Sygic to my TomTom V5.21.
Mcguider is in my opinion a highly polished version of TomTom and as such I haven't used TomTom since. Very easy to install on your smartphone etc. I would recommend Sygic to anyone. I have used Garmin,Navman,TomTom in the past but I see Mcguider as the future.
Hope this is useful to someone who wishes to try a TomTom alternative.

I want to test Sygic Drive on my Trinity (default Greek WM5 ROM) but the program doesn't autodetect the GPS port of my device. I have version 7.71 and the map Cyprus 2009 07. The program works fine, I can use the map without problem, but without GPS. I have tried autodetect several times without result. I have also tried manually COM9 and baud 57600 but no result again.
Which port and baud should I choose?

cyprus map
please send me the cyprus map. [email protected]
thank you very much

cy
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[Discussion] GPS Problems, Lock speed, Accuracy, Fixes - The Poll

Few people are complaining now about the low quality of gps. Can you prove this?

oxylos said:
Few people are complaining now about the low quality of gps. Can you prove this?
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Hmm, I did try and track myself on the bus this morning and it did seem to have a problem finding me - it kept flipping between near where I was and about halfway back home. Used it walking down the street and again it didn't seem to be very good at nailing where I was (HD2 seemed much better). I've enabled location via cell location as well as GPS, so I'll see if that makes much difference.

This doesn't sound too promising :/
I've been using my iPhone 3G to track my runs when I head out, and I assumed the Galaxy would do just as good (or better!) at it. Hopefully it's something they can fix with a software patch and not a hardware problem...

Nicolopolus said:
Hmm, I did try and track myself on the bus this morning and it did seem to have a problem finding me - it kept flipping between near where I was and about halfway back home. Used it walking down the street and again it didn't seem to be very good at nailing where I was (HD2 seemed much better). I've enabled location via cell location as well as GPS, so I'll see if that makes much difference.
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Did you get it from Expansys? I am trying to find out whether it is just a batch or it is a more generic issue.

I too am seeing poor performance with the GPS. Seems to be a hardware issue.
I did a test over the weekend comparing my Galaxy S with a friend's HTC Desire. Using one of the many GPS utilities the Desire was consistently seeing and locking more satellites when stood in an open area outside. When running Google maps and showing the current location I found that the "accuracy circle" (for want of a better description) was growing and shrinking several times a minute causing the map to zoom in and out.
I've also noticed that the compass is almost unusable and showing a much lower signal compared to the Desire. I did perform the figure of 8 calibration several times.

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Did you get it from Expansys? I am trying to find out whether it is just a batch or it is a more generic issue.
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Nope, got mine from Handtec. Really hope it's just a software issue that can be easily solved! Also noticed that google homepage in browser keeps saying I'm in China?!

Think I've read somewhere that samsung galaxy (the first one + the spica) have a broken gps driver causing such issues...don't remember if it was in sportypal forums or for a similar application. Very sorry to hear it's not fixed.

Nope I tried out google navigation at the weekend and was really impressed by the accuracy, it made my old tom tom look really bad.

So can we say that GS favours google navigation?
Can anyone confirm that?

This is very worrying, GPS is important for me, I don't want to have another N97 on my hands... fingers crossed it's a software issue....

Tyxerakias said:
This is very worrying, GPS is important for me, I don't want to have another N97 on my hands... fingers crossed it's a software issue....
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I'll have another play on the way home and let you know if there's any improvements.

Nicolopolus said:
I'll have another play on the way home and let you know if there's any improvements.
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I've not noticed any problems in Google Navigation. It found me almost instantly, and was so accurate in terms of showing me where I was while driving that there was almost no perceivable lag.
Whatever people are seeing it very unlikely to be a hardware issue, most phones use GPS chips from only 1 or 2 suppliers, its much more likely something temporary like a driver issue.

TravUK said:
I've not noticed any problems in Google Navigation. It found me almost instantly, and was so accurate in terms of showing me where I was while driving that there was almost no perceivable lag.
Whatever people are seeing it very unlikely to be a hardware issue, most phones use GPS chips from only 1 or 2 suppliers, its much more likely something temporary like a driver issue.
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TravUK, have you tried google maps - did you have any problems with it? (although I assume navigation would be using the same data to find you)

Nicolopolus said:
TravUK, have you tried google maps - did you have any problems with it? (although I assume navigation would be using the same data to find you)
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Yep, Maps works fine, including latitude. Also used Waze which took a little while to get a fix, but was also ok.

Well the journey home was much better! Probably helped that I was sitting by the window on the top deck of the bus, but I managed to get a much better fix, using both google maps and navigation. It wasn't like 100% accurate or anything, but certainly no worse than my hd2. Hardly got the large blue circle, but it did think I was in a field a few times, but that's to be expected. To note, didn't seem to make much difference whether I had both gps and cell data selected, or just gps.

My gps works perfect. Google maps finds it instantly and waze and speedometer apps work fine too. Localization is spot on. The gps even connects when I'm inside the house wich my Diamond never did.

I tested Navigon, which can be download from Market for a tryal period of 30 days now, and it working great on my Samsung i9000

it may be a firmware issue , everyone who is having problems should post the sw. version for comparision with others

Comparison of Galaxy GPS and iPhone 3G gps.
Hey everyone,
There's been some discussion regarding the "quality" of the GPS function in the Galaxy S, and after testing it out today, I sure hope it's a software bug or I'm going to be very disappointed.
This is my run as recorded by my iPhone 3G (with Fitnio): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/810054/samsung_fail/Picture%203.png
Now this is the same run as recorded by my Galaxy S (with RunKeeper): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/810054/samsung_fail/Picture%202.png
Take a wild guess which one actually reflects reality. Can anyone shed light on if the new "leaked" firmware fixes these problems?

They're all based on standard chipsets so its unlikely there's anything wrong with the GPS receiver itself. I hope it gets updated soon as it seems to be affecting a fair number of people.