I thought the the A500 was GPS enabled when not connected to data (wi-fi). Is this even possible?
If not; why would Navigation be included if u have to be in ur house to use it with a wifi connection? That just doesnt make sense to me.
Help?!
Not sure what you mean by GPS and wifi. My understanding is they are two separate things, but are "linked" if the software your GPS is using needs wifi to run. In other words, GPS does not need wifi to run, but certain nav programs need wifi to run. Hope that helps.
ptgptg said:
Not sure what you mean by GPS and wifi. My understanding is they are two separate things, but are "linked" if the software your GPS is using needs wifi to run. In other words, GPS does not need wifi to run, but certain nav programs need wifi to run. Hope that helps.
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That is what I mean. In order to use Nav, I need to be connected via wifi. Its not like I can take my house router with me and work, LOL.
marcos.lennis said:
That is what I mean. In order to use Nav, I need to be connected via wifi. Its not like I can take my house router with me and work, LOL.
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With Google nav, you can pre download map data.
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With Google nav, you can pre download map data.
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Now thats interesting, I'l have to find that feature.
There are navigation apps and they are downloading maps on sd card (copilot live or other which can be found on the market ( sorry for my english).
And google maps - you can download map to use it offline but for navigation you need wi-fi 3g modem
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looking for an app that will let me know whats apps use GPS? thanks
anth75 said:
looking for an app that will let me know whats apps use GPS? thanks
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I use Co-Pilot, or if you want a free gps, try to port the htc locations to your device, using adb, or flash the rom that has the included htc locations (mordoco i believe)
jark, i am not looking for a GPS app but an app that will tell me whats apps i have installed are using GPS or location. i am having a problem with my GPS so i wanna try and see if theres another app thats using GPS is screwing it up. thanks
menu>settings>applications>show permissions>fine (GPS) location
this will show you what apps are using what security permissions on the phone
Hey everybody,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I was messing around with the GPS setting trying to get my location to be correct on the first try with Google Maps. After tinkering, I found that if I unchecked the Google location Services box in menu>settings>location my location was read almost instantly and accurately! Bidding me farewell to Google Maps saying I was 50 miles away from where I really was.
Hope this helps for everyone, I know it did for some friends.
Let me know if it works, and good luck!
Cool. My Google maps tracked exactly where I was. Even the corner of the intersection(where is my house is located on the street)
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I installed the zip file, after it took about a minute to lock on, and after it locks almost instantly. Is this normal to take so long first time locking on?
If you are using a custom ROM then yes it is. I know that from my experience, even after installing the zip I was getting a little lag and even getting the wrong location for about 3 second then it would lock on correctly. Doing what is mentioned in the original post fixed that problem for me entirely. Hope this answers your question!
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Hey everybody,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I was messing around with the GPS setting trying to get my location to be correct on the first try with Google Maps. After tinkering, I found that if I unchecked the Google location Services box in menu>settings>location my location was read almost instantly and accurately! Bidding me farewell to Google Maps saying I was 50 miles away from where I really was.
Hope this helps for everyone, I know it did for some friends.
Let me know if it works, and good luck!
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This is the greatest info I have read regarding the GPS issues with the Thunderbolt! Such a simple fix but one that doesn't make sense at all. Regardless thanks a heap OP! A mod should sticky this information for all to see!
Seems to break location altogether for me when I disable Google location services. Can't get a fix in maps or the sense flip clock weather.
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DigitalDementia said:
This is the greatest info I have read regarding the GPS issues with the Thunderbolt! Such a simple fix but one that doesn't make sense at all. Regardless thanks a heap OP! A mod should sticky this information for all to see!
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Great bud! Glad I could help!! I would love for a mod to sticky this, it is such an easy (odd but easy, lol) fix yet so many people absolutely hate that the gps won't work right. Hope more will see it and get their GPS working the way it should. Again glad I could help. That's the beauty of a community like this, between all of us, we can make so damn phenomenal phones! lol
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Great bud! Glad I could help!! I would love for a mod to sticky this, it is such an easy (odd but easy, lol) fix yet so many people absolutely hate that the gps won't work right. Hope more will see it and get their GPS working the way it should. Again glad I could help. That's the beauty of a community like this, between all of us, we can make so damn phenomenal phones! lol
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Glad this works for you but its clearly not a fix.
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adrynalyne said:
Glad this works for you but its clearly not a fix.
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Sorry about that, i figured it would be safe to call it that since there is clearly no true fix to this issue anywhere as far as i know at least. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. It worked for quite a few people I know so I thought i would try to help some people out.
Thanks. At least its more accurate now.
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I think what we are seeing here is that the gps is not using agps at all. Proper operation would be the agps actually assisting the quicker lock. Instead the agps and gps are working separately and by disabling agps....the locks should still be slow no matter what.
It is for me anyway.
That said, standalone gps will always be more accurate.
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Funny thing is, standalone how isn't even working, since when you turn off Google location services it shuts off completely. Also for me it seems to be attached to WiFi so if its off it says I'm within a 2 mile wide area...
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Joanni said:
Funny thing is, standalone how isn't even working, since when you turn off Google location services it shuts off completely. Also for me it seems to be attached to WiFi so if its off it says I'm within a 2 mile wide area...
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No...that's how agps works. It will be within a few miles.
WiFi triangulation will always give quick locks.
Standalone gps does work, its just slooow.
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No...that's how agps works. It will be within a few miles.
WiFi triangulation will always give quick locks.
Standalone gps does work, its just slooow.
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This. And it's frustrating
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I too was having the lag in getting a gps fix. My solution was:
1. Download GPS Status from the market
2. Under menu/tools select Manage A-GPS state
3. Press reset
4. back to menu/tools Manage A-GPS state
5. Press download
I now get instant fix.
Hope it works as well for you.
Alan
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I too was having the lag in getting a gps fix. My solution was:
1. Download GPS Status from the market
2. Under menu/tools select Manage A-GPS state
3. Press reset
4. back to menu/tools Manage A-GPS state
5. Press download
I now get instant fix.
Hope it works as well for you.
Alan
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This just proves ephemeris data is not being downloaded, or used by the GPS automatically. I'm sure HTC will fix it in the future.
I hope, anyway.
AlanPototsky said:
I too was having the lag in getting a gps fix. My solution was:
1. Download GPS Status from the market
2. Under menu/tools select Manage A-GPS state
3. Press reset
4. back to menu/tools Manage A-GPS state
5. Press download
I now get instant fix.
Hope it works as well for you.
Alan
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This works for me!
AlanPototsky said:
I too was having the lag in getting a gps fix. My solution was:
1. Download GPS Status from the market
2. Under menu/tools select Manage A-GPS state
3. Press reset
4. back to menu/tools Manage A-GPS state
5. Press download
I now get instant fix.
Hope it works as well for you.
Alan
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Worked for me. Going from no lock to lock in under three seconds.
why is this in Development, nothing was developed, just a simple suggestion of changing settings which doesnt work for everyone.
AlanPototsky said:
I too was having the lag in getting a gps fix. My solution was:
1. Download GPS Status from the market
2. Under menu/tools select Manage A-GPS state
3. Press reset
4. back to menu/tools Manage A-GPS state
5. Press download
I now get instant fix.
Hope it works as well for you.
Alan
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This totally works thanks
I am able to install Google Maps 6.1, but it cannot determine my location via wifi. Anybody can help to get this done ??? I tried to put NetworkLocation.apk into /system/app
No gps thingy on the fire. There's a gps tether thread around here where you can use another devices gps info to. Do navigatin
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I just want to use Wifi to determine location, I think I can do that in CM7, but I cannot find way to enable it in stock ROM
cruel91 said:
I just want to use Wifi to determine location, I think I can do that in CM7, but I cannot find way to enable it in stock ROM
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See the other (long) thread about this ... it does NOT work, sadly, and nobody can say why it doesn't, nor is there a fix.
I have issues with Google maps navigation. It's stuck at the "looking for location".
I tried it on my 16GB and my wifes 8GB and got the same.
When I tried to navigate on Copilot it worked well so I don't think it's the GPS issue.
Anyone else has similar problem?
This may or may not help, I am just tossing it out as something for you to try. My google navigation app was doing the same thing. It turns out because I switched off location access (to see if that conserved power) it stopped google navigation from working properly. So check your location access settings and make sure you have them turned on.
Download gps test from market and see if it locks onto a satellite
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CharmingCharlie said:
This may or may not help, I am just tossing it out as something for you to try. My google navigation app was doing the same thing. It turns out because I switched off location access (to see if that conserved power) it stopped google navigation from working properly. So check your location access settings and make sure you have them turned on.
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I have it on and still have the problem
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Download gps test from market and see if it locks onto a satellite
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GPS test locks onto a satellite with no problem.
Check Settings->Accounts->Google->Location Settings and make sure the "Let Google apps access your location" is ON.
Mine did the same thing, when I tried to re-plot the course whilst in a call.
It appears to only do it when in a call, too.
A reboot resolves the problem. Slightly annoying.
Phil
ChrisJ said:
Check Settings->Accounts->Google->Location Settings and make sure the "Let Google apps access your location" is ON.
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That did the job right away.
Appreciate the help.
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My navigation is locking on and navigating me instantly... Where are you located? Might not work in certain countries?
Strangee
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That did the job right away.
Appreciate the help.
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Not a problem.
You didn't force the 4.2.1 update with the Google Services Framework trick by any chance did you?
I had the exact same issue...
ChrisJ said:
Not a problem.
You didn't force the 4.2.1 update with the Google Services Framework trick by any chance did you?
I had the exact same issue...
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Actually I did use the trick.
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shlemik said:
Actually I did use the trick.
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Lol. Thought so! It clears that setting.
It took some Ninja Googling to find out what was going on. Don't know why all the Location settings aren't located in the one place, it would make life a bit easier.
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Check Settings->Accounts->Google->Location Settings and make sure the "Let Google apps access your location" is ON.
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I also had the same problem and forced the 4.2.1 update with the Google services framework trick, and this seems to have fixed the problem.
Thank you!
Google Maps/Navigation issue...
ChrisJ said:
Check Settings->Accounts->Google->Location Settings and make sure the "Let Google apps access your location" is ON.
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Thank you, this resolved my issue as well...
Hi guys
I've a few applications that really want Wi-Fi to function. I want to trick them while on 3G.
Can this be done?
On iPhone you've a great app on cydia which is fixed in 1 minute.
Android should be easier right?
Emiinn said:
Hi guys
I've a few applications that really want Wi-Fi to function. I want to trick them while on 3G.
Can this be done?
On iPhone you've a great app on cydia which is fixed in 1 minute.
Android should be easier right?
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interesting, what apps are these?
entwicklun said:
interesting, what apps are these?
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for example "my people massenger" need wifi to make video calls
Emiinn said:
Hi guys
I've a few applications that really want Wi-Fi to function. I want to trick them while on 3G.
Can this be done?
On iPhone you've a great app on cydia which is fixed in 1 minute.
Android should be easier right?
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it s first time to read this problem!
in all apps that need internet i didn't see any request to connect just wifi and not working on data!!!
IF an app ask for just wifi and thr s no setting inside it to change... SO uninstall that **** and use another app
all apps in android have setting to choose internet over wifi or 3g or both
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x102x96x said:
it s freak time to read this problem!
in all apps that need internet i didn't see any request to connect just wifi and not working on data!!!
IF an app ask for just wifi and thr s no setting inside it to change... SO uninstall that **** and use another app
all apps in android have setting to choose internet over wifi or 3g or both
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Nope Dude ligtv Needs Wifi to Stream the Summary video of Football matches.
Same for my yelo tv app to watch tv, Needs Wifi While 3g should be possible.
Same for triiing app that is a VOIP app from my house telephone Carrier to call for FREE thru wifi
All this apps i tricked with my iphone and it worked there has to be a way for android
These apps and more apps havent Got the option to set 3g
None?