I understand the Galaxy Note can use Russion satellites and it's barometer for better Satnav performance and that seems to be confirmed by some early reports from users. I've always found it difficult using satnav on small phones because of loss of signal. Has anyone else tried using the Note as a Satnav? The large screen on the Note should be much better for viewing routes whilst driving.
It's the best satnav I've ever used - Even on the seat of car It regularly locks to 8 - 10 satellites. On the dash it gets 15 or so. Really want the official Samsung cardock to replace my Nexus One dock.
I'm getting 11-12 sats locked INDOORS
I couldn't even GET a lock indoors with my SGS!
I got 17 satellites outside. Can anyone beat that?
Frank
I can now get a satellite lock on my Note indoors compared to my Nexus One which struggled to get a lock outdoors.
What application are you all using to check this? And does it show how many you are connected to?
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What application are you all using to check this? And does it show how many you are connected to?
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Here is a screencap from my Note using the Charcross app from the Android Market called GPS Test. It shows the number in view and in use as you can see.
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I got 18 satellites
hope it does better than that
really? it sees 17 satellites and only has a 15 feet accuracy. that is easily two lanes of traffic. the next thread sees 18 satellites and has a 30 feet accuracy.
I am hoping that it gets better than that.
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really? it sees 17 satellites and only has a 15 feet accuracy. that is easily two lanes of traffic. the next thread sees 18 satellites and has a 30 feet accuracy.
I am hoping that it gets better than that.
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You're not gonna get sub-meter accuracy on a consumer GPS of any kind, regardless of how many satellites you have locked. The military puts intentional errors in the GPS signal to prevent non-military GPS hardware from being too accurate. You're not relying on the GPS to pilot the vehicle, so 3-5m is more than accurate enough. With WAAS, you can get down to 1 meter accuracy and that's considered adequate enough to land an airplane with.
The reasons the Note gets a GPS lock so fast are:
1. It has a barometer enabling it to narrow down its position above sea level quickly.
2. It can use the Russian GLONASS satellites concurrently with GPS satellites.
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I'm not sure if this was covered already but if it was, disregard my post.
There is another tab for the WiFi antenna on the back of the Galaxy S' casing. I took a Floss-Toothpick, cut off the end.. smashed it down a little and shimmed it inbetween and now my WiFi signal strength is much MUCH better. This replacement phone has been cutting out constantly in my room and now it's working great.
Wow cool~I personally was not aware that people really had widespread wifi problems though.
between my 2 vibrants we have and the 2 original before they replaced them due to GPS issues which the replacements also have none of them have had wifi problems. I guess we are half lucky. I have seen a number of people complain about Wi-Fi problems, good to know it's a hardware problem. Hopefully I'll get my GPS problems fixed with the next replacement phones and also have working GPS.
Well since i was going to open the phone i did both of them the GPS and the WIFI, Both have been working great ever since..............
Do you have any idea what your wifi speeds were like before? I'm curious what most people get on their wireless n networks.
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I'm not sure if this was covered already but if it was, disregard my post.
There is another tab for the WiFi antenna on the back of the Galaxy S' casing. I took a Floss-Toothpick, cut off the end.. smashed it down a little and shimmed it inbetween and now my WiFi signal strength is much MUCH better. This replacement phone has been cutting out constantly in my room and now it's working great.
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It was more of an on or off thing. If it dropped down to 1 dot (not the bars) my WiFi would basically cut out on the Vibrant. If I had one bar it would be exactly what I have this router capped at which is 2500Kbps
Can you give more details on this fix?
Thanks!
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I saw the fix for the GPS and I am now able to get locks and use navigation. I can even now use my Cardio Trainer program that tracks your running. Where is the wifi at? Mine is not great. I have the phone sitting 3 feet from the wifi router and it is down a bar. My laptop can hit it at full strength 2 rooms away.
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this is a picture I took from the GPS thread. It's to the far left of the GPS antenna and looks exactly the same. I probably should have took pics myself but I didn't think of it while I had my phone open.
Jk... Sorry
can you post a pic on what you did like with the toothpick?im not really satisfied with my wifi signal and id be really glad if this method could help.thanks
I'm glad I didn't buy into apple saying you needed the 3G MaxiPad 2 to get aGPS. I have successfully gotten the EVO running CyanogenMod 7 with the built in WiFi Hotspot to pass GPS data to the google maps program on the MaxiPad 2. I'm sure it would work on the first MaxiPad as well, and other ROMS too. I't seems it passes GPS data to the MaxiPad every 30-60 seconds, so it's not good enough for turn-by-turn (but aGPS really never is). If you need turn-by-turn, you can do what I did and buy a bluetooth GPS receiver (very cheap, under $30) and install roqyBluetooth on your MaxiPad and then youll have real GPS. Unfortunately we need a jailbreak first before we can instal roqyBluetooth, but that will be coming any day. So for any of you considering buying the 3G version soley so you could have GPS like I was, don't bother. You can 4G/3G tether for free, and have aGPS for free, or spend the $30 and have real GPS. I thought I'd post this as many people in line were talking about getting 3G models solely to have aGPS. Now you know.
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I thought a MaxiPad was some type of tampon ?
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Well...seems lots of douches have ipads. So I guess it fits?
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The other option is a bluetooth GPS connected to the ipad, which is in turn, tethered to your Evo. i used that on a road trip recently and it worked great. Gps cost me about $20 on ebay.
What the ****? Just use Google Navigation..... No need for a ****ty iPad or tethering and all that ****.
Well if your gonna cough up the $$ for an ipad that can do everything your evo can do, you better believe your gonna have a mess of wires and syncing just to use the ipad as a gps and show it off.
Hey guys here is a picture of GPSstatus app being used on the galaxy s ii
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http://twitpic.com/4nxshb
Theres a video aswell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6wFi7H8&feature
another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAbpwg9aIo0&feature
Great, Thanks...
So for those who ALL ASK ABOUT THE GPS... It works great.
It was understood that Samsung wouldn't repeat the same mistake and rectify their flaws in the next revision.
yeah agreed, I really think that samsung has learned alot from the previous generation and listened to their unhappy customers (ext4 FS, good GPS, LED Flash, etc...)
MAN!!!
This guy is having a ball playing with the SGS II and uploading YouTube videos. He is making us feel more jealous each time he publishes a new video.
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Do you know something we don't? Because according to GPS Status as shown in the video (EDIT: This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6wFi7H8) it may well be usable but it sure ain't great and no, not even for a (stationary) mobile phone.
The number of sats found is fine, but with this many sats the accuracy could be much better and, more importanty, it shouldn't fluctuate so much.
Don't get me wrong, I want it to be great as well as the next guy, but ...
What ? it finds 8 satelites and catched 5 of them while he is indoor ! just look at the second vid he even launched GPS status after a fresh reboot of the phone! what do you want it to have
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What ? it finds 8 satelites and catched 5 of them while he is indoor !
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I was referring to the OP's first video, not the one in #4. That one is certainly more impressive, though I wouldn't know what a good indoors lock looks like. Over here in the old world we have proper buildings and there's no such thing as an indoors lock with consumer equipment.
For comparison, the LG P500 has a lock almost as soon as GPS Status has finished loading, then the accuracy slowly gets better (typically 30-6 m in ~30 sec).
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Do you know something we don't? Because according to GPS Status as shown in the video (EDIT: This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6wFi7H8) it may well be usable but it sure ain't great and no, not even for a (stationary) mobile phone.
The number of sats found is fine, but with this many sats the accuracy could be much better and, more importanty, it shouldn't fluctuate so much.
Don't get me wrong, I want it to be great as well as the next guy, but ...
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Yes I agree, I don't know how LG does it but my brother currently holds a LG G2X aka Optimus 2x. The first thing I did with his phone was open up GPS test and I locked 10/10 satellites in litterally 3 seconds after a fresh boot and the accuracy started at 50ft and after about 10 seconds dropped down to 5ft. This test was done inside my house as well. So I don't know about Samsung but LG really got their GPS **** in order.
The only thing that interests me is how does it react when tracking gps in a car.
I always get a good lock, even indoors, but as soon as I start driving the gps on my sgs shows me in another zip code.
I managed to get a GPS Lock while on the plane (Boeing 777-200) at 6000m altitude going at 900km/h ground speed. I thought consumer GPS was not supposed to work at these speeds?
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Hehe thats a nice "score"!!!
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hahaha though you are asked to put the phone in airplane mode
Though what is the name of that app ??
My phone was in airplane mode. GPS works - it is an antenna (receiver) only and does not transmit any data. That's GPS Test app.
I used to do that with my previous phones (nokia N95 8GB and Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V) and they both worked fine.
I was traing last year that also but I had a Galaxy S. No fix was possible with that phone. The trip was 45min, plane landed and i could get a GPS fix in 46min.
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900km/h at 6000m? Flight number an date pls!
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900km/h at 6000m? Flight number an date pls!
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lol y so serious ?
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lol y so serious ?
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oh, that wasn't meant to be so serious. it's rather interesting.
Probably its some bad readings, I read somewhere that GPS wont lock if you travel at a speed superior to 300+ Km/h
I did the same about an year back. Will post the screenshot, it's there somewhere on my laptop.
LOL interesting
Actually one or two people using their phones on a plane doesn't interrupt any radio data of the plane or something like that, but if everybody would use their phone, well that would generate problems. Also I'll attach a pic of sport tracker when I was skiing last week, unluckily it's in finnish but maybe you'll get something from it. For exsample top speed of 1102 km/h xD. Yeah Aparently sport tracker doesn't work very well with cm10.1. Btw sorry for off-topic
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AFAIK your GPS will stop reporting at 1000km/h+, so 900 is normal.
How did you manage to get lock all the time?
I've been recently travelling from Eindhoven by Airbus A320. I managed to get fix but it stopped to receive correct data after 15 min of flight.
When I was in return to Eindhoven again I could get lock only for ~15 min too.
I used GPS status - after while it seemed app froze (same as others GPS apps) and I could get GPS data only for a few seconds few hundred kilometers futher.
After I exited the plane I could get immanent fix.
What can be wrong?
Here is my track to view:
http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/activity/816741
When i check in compass altitude it is always around 300m even though i went in the mountains at approximately 1600m above sea level. It seems that altitude measurements does not work correctly. The same is with trail run. it does show correct elevation gain and loss. but just wrong altitude. i started at 1200m above sea level. it shows that I start at 350 m ?? Does anyone notice same issue?
Yes me too.
But if you wait 45s/1 min before start running when the watch is GPS ready, altitude is correct.
Here is ss of my watch. Using Bike exercise. I'm on the sea level, and watch is showing minus 43 meter.
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Yes me too.
But if you wait 45s/1 min before start running when the watch is GPS ready, altitude is correct.
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I did that. I wait it for a minute ant the altitude was correct. thx man
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Here is ss of my watch. Using Bike exercise. I'm on the sea level, and watch is showing minus 43 meter. View attachment 4114651
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if you tap on compass it does show air pressure. Average sea-level pressure is 1013.25 mbar. you can check there. But i don't know if altitude is then calculated based on air pressure or gps coordinates. it would be nice if it was on air pressure. but i don't see possibility to calibrate watch. I hope someone else know i bit more.
Nice.
Following the latest update 1.3.4f, I started having height measurement issues.
Up until this update all was really accurate and fine.
Any idea for recovery?
i do wait for GPS fix before starting my bike ride.
Today in a bike ride that everyone had with ~1600m accumulated, I had more than 2150m...
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Well I got my Amazfit Pace today , updated to 1.3.6d, but after I just went to the cellar and climbed back the two floors to our flat, the Pace said I climbed 13 floors.
After like one hour at the desk it were 18 floors and after walking 1,5km without any hills to climb, the watch shows me I climbed 50 floors.
Is that a known issue like this one addressed here or is the barometric sensor not working properly?
I have had a few Samsung Gear Fit 2 which had similar issues with the barometric sensor.