Hi,
On my tab, the gps lock in Google maps or any other maps seems kinda slow when compared to that of my HD2 running WM6.5...also, it seems to lose the gps connection quite often when driving around and then takes a lot of time to lock back in.
Anyone else noticed this? And any way of improving the gps lock? A nudge in the right direction would be really helpful.
Thanks
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I thought my DroidX was slow. It now seems fast compared to the tab.
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My hd2 is faster then my tab too but my tab is fast enough and dont loose signal
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I did a direct comparison of the Tab versus my Nexus 1, without fail the N1 would find more satellites, and find them faster, than the Tab does. Seems odd as I would've thought the Tab would have a larger antenna for such things.
Data on / wifi on? A-GPS and GPS or just GPS.
Makes a big difference on mine for sat-fix time.
I find the lock on my Tab QUITE fast... usually within 10 seconds. I even get locks inside my home sometimes (allbeit weak)
When Im using it as a gps unit in my car it more or less locks on by the time the route is finished calculating in Navigator.
Mine takes its time to get the satellites but once is done it works like a charm. Unlike my galaxy s wich get the satellites very fast but looses signal very often and has no precision at all.
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Are you all using jm6 or jma sine you started to have slow GPS lock time?
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mine locks with 10 satellites in less than 15 secs inside house. JM6
@vs2 - tried with both gps and data on...
@clubtech - am in India and the latest firmware update released for my region is JK3 (which I updated yesterday)...does that make a difference?
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@spirit - I get a lock of 4-7 satelites outside in non-obstructed space at Max...that too drops down quickly to 3/4...
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Has anyone of you owners of DHD able to get the gps lock just incase you don't have internet connection for A-GPS to work. I had an iPhone 4 who will lock to GPS in few seconds even without a sim card and on dhd its impossible or will take very long to lock location without AGPS . IT'S THIS a problem or I am doing something wrong
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I was recently out of my own country and data roaming was set to off. I never realised it at the time but everytime I tried to use GPS (Copilot Live) it took literally 20 mins to get a lock, apart from once and then I had access to wifi. Sounds like this was the problem
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Has anyone of you owners of DHD able to get the gps lock just incase you don't have internet connection for A-GPS to work. I had an iPhone 4 who will lock to GPS in few seconds even without a sim card and on dhd its impossible or will take very long to lock location without AGPS . IT'S THIS a problem or I am doing something wrong
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i usually get the lock well under a minute without any DATA connection like edge or wifi when i'm outdoors,
indoors it needs good 4-5 mins to get a lock.
Strange because iPhone 4 locks in minimum 7 seconds even without a simcard . That's means that DHD is using a cheap GPS receiver which will become unusable without data connection.
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There is something called "Hotfix".
If you have previously locked on a GPS signal, it will be faster to lock for the 2nd time.
BUT, if you started from a "coldfix" (means if you try to lock for the first time or quite some time after the 1st lock or far away from the location of your first lock), it could take minutes to lock.
However, I have to admit that DHD tends to have a slower lock...
Correct me if I'm wrong.
A-GPS dosent need a web connection, it uses the internet once a week to download the latest sat data to make gps lock quicker..... you can use apps like gps toolbox to download the latest A-GPS data.
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Doesn't the DHD download the A-GPS data automatically in the background?
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Doesn't the DHD download the A-GPS data automatically in the background?
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No you need an app to download the data, maybe some apps can be set to auto download the data though
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Then what app is the best? It only needs to be able to download the A-GPS data, nothing else.
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Then what app is the best? It only needs to be able to download the A-GPS data, nothing else.
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Search for gps toolbox in the market, there is a free and paid version, both let you download the latest sat data
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I checked while reading this topic and my DHD got a lock within one minute of GPS (satellite only) being turned on. I had the phone in airplane mode before I turned it on so it was in effect a cold lock. I'm indoor at night so there's no direct line of sight either. Quite fast in my opinion.
I get gps lock within 3 to 10 secs with or without wifi,data. I have installed open gps tracker and first I ran it for 30 mins.
I don't know if that app is helping in gps lock.
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IPhone 4 locks in 7 seconds without a sim. You will never be able to geotag your photos in any android phone cause most of them have cheap and lousy GPS which relies on AGPS data for lock. Geotag will work best on iPhone if you give AGPS option to iPhone it works instantly
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IPhone 4 locks in 7 seconds without a sim. You will never be able to geotag your photos in any android phone cause most of them have cheap and lousy GPS which relies on AGPS data for lock. Geotag will work best on iPhone if you give AGPS option to iPhone it works instantly
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is that all ur guna say? shut up, unless your guna bring sumthing useful to the discussion. Maybe the iphone locks in 7seconds in ur wet dreams, but in reality thats bollox.
I mean you didnt even know what A-GPS was you thought it required a constant gprs connection while navigating lol
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Yes it does require a constant gprs connections you fool. Google yourself for details or create a post for replies
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Yes it does require a constant gprs connections you fool. Google yourself for details or create a post for replies
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AGPS is only used to locate the sats, you fool lol it downloads a file with the latest sat positions, so you device knows where to look speeding up sat lock lol no wonder you love the iphone, you have about as much processing power as one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
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Has anybody tested the gps out on the retail tab? If it's like my captivate I'll stay away, if it works well I'm going to have to get one.
Thanks
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I've got a retail from June 8th and I'm not sure wether or not GPS works. I've enabled it and the status bar icon shows up but I don't think it ever finds any satellites. I've got GPS test installed and it doesn't have any GPS show up.
so is there a GPS in the device?
10.1v works like a charm. 100% good
I hope it works as well. I rarely was able to get on a lock on satellites with the Iconia. I'm hoping the GT will do a better job.
Just fired up my 10.1 I/O and the GPS-Status app found 9 satellites in 5 seconds.
Retail version - GPS is working!
Thanks for conforming guys !!
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Thanks for the info
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My GPS works fine. Retail. Got mine early.
I had a retail version to review and GPS seemed to work fine for me. Of course, lock on works best outside in clear spaces away from tall buildings (ie not between buildings in a large city)
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Gps works fine here too, althouh i also have an external bluetooth gps that ill probably use with it for better battery and accuracy.
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PImping GPS here, looks on, in doors to 30 feet by the time the splash screen on GPS Test goes away. and I thought i had the gps on my Vibrant dialed in good.
Hi everyone. I upgraded my sgs from jg4 to jvp but now my gps seems insatiable of getting a lock. It can see 6-9 says after about 30s, but it rarely gets a position.
The old gps was terrible because it dropped the lock but at least it used to give a reference fairly regularly.
Anyone else seen this?
I'm running jvp with speedmod's kernel.
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Bloody auto correct.
Unable to get a lock, and can see 6-9 satellites
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Use GPS Aids app to improve your GPS lock.
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start by going into cwm recovery and making advanced/fix permissions
first lock always take a bit longer to make
jvp gps is best one presented so far (aside few carier 2.3.3 versions) so you should not have any problem with it
such apps as mentioned are unsafe imho
Thx man, this solved my issues. Now I have a fix in about 10-15 seconds, before I was only sometimes able to get one in 2-3 minutes!
@spenceee: Like I said I was doing that what $omator wrote, then I was going into gps aids and changed the ntp server under settings for my region.
your gps should work best with your regional modem, so replace your modem with suitable modem
ntp server change got no major impact on fix
Same as changing modem. JVP modem is ok
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I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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Haven't tested it on a drive yet. But it came up and hooked up virtually instantly in maps today. From inside my house. Never able to even hook up on my Captivate in the house, let alone quickly.
Fingers crossed...
Used it today for about 50 miles and it never dropped once. Did awesome. I was so used to my old captivate I almost forgot that a phone GPS can actually work.
It locks fast and stays locked
It was just the galaxy s 1 that had this issue. Sgs2 gps worked perfectly and same with sgs3 both lte and international
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bigb252 said:
I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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I used the Charing Cross app to test, and it was impressive for the number of satellites detected in my area which is partially blocked due to a hill, but it took a minute or two to go from accuracy of 260 ft down to 9.1ft. I had a Google maps navigation started cold, that showed my start a block away from where my blue arrow was actually located on the map.
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On the official Samsung site, it says GPS, rather than a-GPS. I did test it here in San Diego - cached my area, airplane mode, reboot, and maps got a tight fix on me in under a minute (closer to about 20 seconds).
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Accuracy of 3 m in about 6 seconds.
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quick accurate lock with mine as well. maybe sammy is finally starting to figure things out ;-)
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When sitting in my bedroom the gps says that I am in my neighbors house.
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I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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Absolutely fantastic. Best I have ever seen. Phone saw 20 Sats and was able to lock in on 12 in about 15 seconds. Within 9 feet accuracy which is best I've seen here in Hawaii.
I'm not getting great gps accuracy with this phone. Usually between 16-30 feet. My other devices are accurate up to 3 feet. I'm wondering what everyone else is getting with this phone. Using GPS status from the play store.
I just tested. I'm getting 10-12 feet.
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gps signal drops
I noticed that when I am using a map program like Waze or google Maps, the gps signal gets lost more often than when I had the Note 3.
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I noticed that when I am using a map program like Waze or google Maps, the gps signal gets lost more often than when I had the Note 3.
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I notice this as well. My old S3 was very accurate, whereas the Note4 seems to "jump" around.
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10 feet
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10 feet
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What app are you using for this?
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Temetka said:
What app are you using for this?
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That's GPS Test /GPS Test +(paid). Great app.
I've noticed this as well when playing the game ingress. I wonder if it's due to the steel frame? My Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S5 was spot on.
Hmm.
Never thought about that.
My GPS does seem to perform better now that I have FireKat ROM on my phone.
Re tested.
Rooted running Firekat ROM and using some tweaks from the lag thread. GPS assist is running in the background.
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I too tested it on FireKat and got the same results. 10 ft. Makes me think it can be enhanced by a software update. Maybe in a future patch.
atrohde said:
I'm not getting great gps accuracy with this phone. Usually between 16-30 feet. My other devices are accurate up to 3 feet. I'm wondering what everyone else is getting with this phone. Using GPS status from the play store.
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Depends on your location and how many satellites are in sight but ~3 meters/~9 feet is about as good as it's going to get with just GPS. Maybe if phone locks into some Glonass satellites it could do a bit better.
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I notice this as well. My old S3 was very accurate, whereas the Note4 seems to "jump" around.
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I made a change on the WiFi settings and my GPS signal improved. I put a check on "Always Allow Scanning." Because I remembered that I had taken it off to try another app and that was around the time that GPS stopped working correctly.
go to Settings>Wi-Fi>Advanced>Always Allow Scanning; Put a check on this option.
Google maps says GPS signal lost a lot with the note 4... doesn't seem very good at getting a location.
Definitely love the phone. Came from the s4. My first note. Thought I was the only one that noticed crappy GPS signal
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I notice my phone says searching for GPS in the drop down thing. Goes away in a few seconds but is annoying.
10' Lock almost Instantly. Fastest lock of any phone I ever owned. And keeps its lock perfectly.
Here's my VIDEO
My GPS works great on my phone.
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Even to the room I'm at. Best GPS I've had on a phone
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I made a change on the WiFi settings and my GPS signal improved. I put a check on "Always Allow Scanning." Because I remembered that I had taken it off to try another app and that was around the time that GPS stopped working correctly.
go to Settings>Wi-Fi>Advanced>Always Allow Scanning; Put a check on this option.
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Won't that eat battery more?
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I checked the scanning off because when driving using the maps WiFi spots pop up and I can't see where I'm going. LoL
To all those who saying they don't have issues with the GPS they probably don't use it enough to see that.