Vibrant gps receiver does not work well. If you every used an app or the lbs test mode to monitor the gps signal you'll know that the vibrant is barely hanging on to gps signal even when outdoors. Most of the sat's come in with ~20db signal strength.
One trick to boost gps signal (to speedup lock) is to place vibrant on a metal surface. I noticed when I place the phone on my car hood, I get much faster and reliable gps lock.
What's more interesting is that I can get gps signal boost by placing vibrant over a DVD!
So now I can get much stronger gps signal inside the car by placing a DVD under vibrant.
I see about 10db improvement in signal strength using a DVD.
With this trick, you don't need to muck with the agps setting, instead just make the standalone gps work.
Will try it
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Hi, I've got TomTom Navigator 6 installed on my Trinity and it all works fine, except it takes about 5 minutes before it picks up any satellites when I run it - does anybody know if there's a fix to enable to gps chip to pick up satellites a bit quicker than this? Even when I'm outside and away from tall buildings it's the same. Any help or suggestions would be great.
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Seagee
Did u try that software?
keep QuickGPS updated.
tjw2007 said:
Hi, I've got TomTom Navigator 6 installed on my Trinity and it all works fine, except it takes about 5 minutes before it picks up any satellites when I run it - does anybody know if there's a fix to enable to gps chip to pick up satellites a bit quicker than this? Even when I'm outside and away from tall buildings it's the same. Any help or suggestions would be great.
Thanks
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it will save a couple of minutes
aquiring a satellite regardless of whether you're using an internal gps antenna or an external bluetooth antenna usually takes a few minutes when you are booting it cold (ie.. turning it on initally) There really isnt any way around this that I know
Aaron McCarthy said:
gps antenna or an external bluetooth antenna
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Try your GPS antenna with an other software or with a GPS diagnostic.
I am 99% sure your GPS antenna does not work properly or at least try your tom tom with an other antenna.
Info : GPS antenna have to connect with 3 or more satellite to determine the position.
When I use Tomtom my status of gps signal goes on and off. When I am not moving the fix is not constant. Is this normal? When I use a bluetooth mouse the fix is constant.
dikko said:
When I use Tomtom my status of gps signal goes on and off. When I am not moving the fix is not constant. Is this normal? When I use a bluetooth mouse the fix is constant.
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I usually get a good steady fix with TomTom quite fast. Compared to my old Dell Axim with a CF GPS card the Cruise get's a fix much faster. I'm even able to get a fix (although weak) from inside my living room.
Just wondering... when I go camping far up north, there's no reception on my HTC TyTN. But, using a bluetooth GPS receiver I'm able to navigate with my TOMTOM or Google Maps. Now just wondering... since there's GPS reception, any way to use this GPS reception for phone calls? Somehow? There are GPS phones out there right? So what about making this work?
By GPS, I guess I meant Satellite.
satellite phones use different satellites than GPS units.
so...no.
Any way to connect to phone satellites with bluetooth receivers?
Hi - no you would need a completley separate phone to do this. As far as I remember calls are quite expensive.
ThaiM said:
Just wondering... when I go camping far up north, there's no reception on my HTC TyTN. But, using a bluetooth GPS receiver I'm able to navigate with my TOMTOM or Google Maps. Now just wondering... since there's GPS reception, any way to use this GPS reception for phone calls? Somehow? There are GPS phones out there right? So what about making this work?
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Just an FYI. Your GPS receiver can only receive signals from the satellites. It can't send them to the satellite, so no two way communication would be possible even if they used the right satellites.
holmanm said:
Just an FYI. Your GPS receiver can only receive signals from the satellites. It can send them to the satellite, so no two way communication would be possible even if they used the right satellites.
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You probably meant that "it can't send them".
Is there anything I need to do except turning GPS on in settings to get GPS working? My Nexus 7 can never find GPS signal, even when I am outside. Any APP to test it?
Apparently rebooting nexus 7 worked. Not sure why though, I didn't change anything settings either.
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GPS Status is a good app to see what the GPS is doing.
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The nexus 7 have no data connection do download AGPS data, be sure to connect to a WiFi network and try using apps like GPS status to try and get a lock. And as long as you are near a windows, no need to go out, the gos chip in the nexus 7 is pretty sensitive.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
Hello, i found the "Bug" on my Nexus 7 - and it was Hardware.
There was simple no Connection between the GPS Antenna in the Backcover and the GPS Receiver on the Mainboard.
How to fix this? Pull off the Backcover, locate the GPS Antenna. Then locate the GPS Antenna Contacts on the MAINBOARD, and bend them upwards a bit, so that they will connect to the Metall Pads in the Backcover.
Have Fun!
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Hello, i found the "Bug" on my Nexus 7 - and it was Hardware.
There was simple no Connection between the GPS Antenna in the Backcover and the GPS Receiver on the Mainboard.
How to fix this? Pull off the Backcover, locate the GPS Antenna. Then locate the GPS Antenna Contacts on the MAINBOARD, and bend them upwards a bit, so that they will connect to the Metall Pads in the Backcover.
Have Fun!
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Thank you! My GPS had been so reliable up until a few weeks ago that I figured the radio was damaged. Never thought to check those contact pins... I could see sattelites and get a fix, but the signal was so noisy that it wouldn't detect any movement, and it usually placed me a half mile away from my actual location.
Saw this post last night, popped the back off, gently bent all of those contacts up a degree or two, and BAM! All my radios are working very well again. :good:
Any GPS / antenna experts able to think of a way to increase GPS strength? I want to use my table as a GPS inside of a really thick metal truck. How could I rig up an antenna of sorts to improve GPS strength?