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I have both TomTom 7 and iGO 8 installed in my X7510. I noticed that everytime I want to use TomTom 7 or iGO 8, I have to wait a couple of minutes for the GPS Signal to actually connect or get a lock.
The original solution I used to do was activate another application that uses GPS first such as WiFiFoFum, GPS Gate, Google Maps, etc... and leave them running in the background before I activate either TomTom 7 or iGO8. The result was miraculous, INSTANT GPS SIGNAL FOUND and LOCK in a few seconds. No more long minutes of wait.
Recently, I found "GPS Toggle", a wonderful today application and it does the job by Toggling GPS signal ON and OFF with just one click on the today screen.
So basically, if you want an immediate GPS Signal found and LOCK IMMEDIATELY using TomTom 7 and iGO 8, use GPS Toggle to turn the GPS ON first, then launch TomTom 7 or iGO 8. If you prefer to leave the GPS ON, it is up to you, but it might drain your battery faster.
Read this first: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=21278
Developers Site: http://www.baf.cc/gpstoggle
Enjoy everyone and Happy Thanksgiving !!!
thanks for the super tip...
So I know a lot of us (probably you if you're reading) have had tons of problems with the GPS regardless of ROM vesrsion. I've tried several ROMS (currently using Romeros (great)) and several radios (currently .28).
And here's what I've found. GPS will almost never work - except if ATT Nav is running. Then it works every time. However, as we all know, once you log into the Nav - you're being charged. This brings me to my quesiton. Have any of you Moderators / Hackers tried seeing what's in the ATT Nav that's enabling the GPS. I spoke to HTC today and they told me that the phone was designed NOT to work unless ATT Nav is running in the background. So what's that program doing to activate the GPS. And (and I'm not sure if this is how it works) couldn't we just install the app, and take a picture of the used dll's and registry changes to see what it's actually doing - and write a small program to do the same thing?
Thanks,
BZ
My GPS works without even having ATT Nav installed. It just takes awhile to 'warm up'. When I'm planning to use the GPS I will just fire up my map program, iGo or Google Maps and wait. It takes about 2 minutes to start working and then I get good GPS signal until I'm done.
i dont think this is true, since people with the unlocked/unbranded touch pro are having the same gps issues.
cladeus101 said:
My GPS works without even having ATT Nav installed. It just takes awhile to 'warm up'. When I'm planning to use the GPS I will just fire up my map program, iGo or Google Maps and wait. It takes about 2 minutes to start working and then I get good GPS signal until I'm done.
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Same here. I go out to start the car and the nav program (CoPiolot or google maps) and come back in a couple minutes. THe GPSTest app doesn't seem to get it started any sooner, just tells you what sats it's seeing and the signal strength of each.
Regis
There is a whole thread on this subject with a cab file called GPS Tweaks.cab in it. Installing that CAB file fixed all my GPS issues .. Google, Windows Live Search, iNav all make proper use of the GPS now.
My gps works with google maps..
Launch quickgps, run google maps, it picks up sats in 1-3 mins.
ATT Fuze, stock rom, google maps
having gone through Advanced Configs and changed a few settings on the GPS, my GPS seems to be working perfectly within reason of a GPS on a phone. As long as i am outside or by the window, i get at least 4 sats in no more than 1 minute. most of the times, it is accurate to at least 20 feet if i am not in fast motion (car speed)
No problems here. Stock ROM, never installed AT&T Nav, takes about a minute or so to warm up, and loads Google Maps and Liver Search quickly. Very accurate - right down to standing under a tree in a park.
There's nothing to what you are saying - it must be a coincidence. It's been proven that the GPS is not locked to AT&T Navigator.
I've searched and didn't see this brought up. Apologies if this is common knowledge...
In a nutshell, plotting a route AT&T Navigator with AGPS enabled allows the camera's GPS photo function to work correctly.
More details below:
I have NEVER been able to get the GPS photo function of the camera to work. It would always stay on the "Initializing GPS" screen indefinitely, even if I had GPS lock in OCN8 (with AGPS disabled). With AGPS on, I have constant loss of GPS every few seconds with OCN8.
For grins, I decided to take advantage of the 30 day free trial of AT&T Navigator and turn ON AGPS to see if I could duplicate the claims others have that AGPS works well with AT&T Navigator. I've been skeptical of these claims.
What I've observed is if I fire up AT&T Navigator (with AGPS enabled) and have it plot a course, then concurrently run the camera app and select GPS Photo, it works immediately.
If I then shut down AT&T Navigator and go back to the camera app, the GPS Photo function won't work and stays on the INITIALIZING GPS screen.
Although I was highly skeptical that AT&T Navigator would do anything to the GPS, I am now becoming convinced that AT&T Navigator is somehow allowing AGPS to function correctly.
Furthermore, I haven't found it to be enough to simply go past the safety screen in AT&T Navigator as reported by others -- I actually have to plot a course to get it to enable the GPS photo function to work.
Just another GPS datapoint
have you tried google maps with gps enabled instead of messing with trialware? if it works you may just be able to use that instead and itll last forever since google maps is free. i have garmin, it pulls up gps faster than google maps but if you go to another program or if the screen turns off or something, the gps drops out.
I have never been able to figure out what GPS photo was. how does it work?
its basically adding a bit of data that gives longitude and latitude so if you bring the photo into a program like iphoto, it can put a little point on a map saying you took the picture where.
ive searched and searched, but am yet to find the answer....
i cant remember when, or what i had installed or unistalled etc, but one day, tomtom would never display any satellites in range.
i know it is locked on to satellites though, as it functions as per usual, i just dont understand why i doesnt display it in the program. all other programs work fine, its just this one.
its not "important" because the main thing is that it works, it would be nice to know what was causing the problem though. if anybody has any ideas, id like to hear them
You have to upgrade to v7.910.9185 to fix this.
I changed the RadioROM - from that day I have the same issue. Google Maps shows satellites, HTC GPS Tool shows satellites, only TomTom doesn't.
Let me try and shed some light on this.
I used Tom Tom with the default settings of:
Other NMEA GPS receiver and baud rate 4500 (well the one everyone was recommending)
Locks were so damn poor,
I purchased Nav n Go IGO8 and used same settings and pap, same results. Then by sheer luck decided to as it has a option to do so, set the GPS to AUTO. It then got great instant lock but on COM 4 Baud Rate 57600.
So then went back to TOM TOM and changed it to this and worked a TREAT.
Now i have Tom Tom 7.910 along with Nav n Go IGO8 but rarely use Tom Tom, as IGO8 is so much better in functionality.
Let us know if this helps you as i suspect it will help others.
make sure location mode is on in settings to activate GPS , and you are unlocked (if Verizon)
turns out it was the rom... i was on NRGs Series 1 Rom, but not on the latest 41609 build... updated, and now, miraculously, i have my satellites back!
but your consistent 15 second aGPS fixes may be history now. The new GPS drivers are what is breaking the TomTom display.
Recently my Google Maps has not been able to lock in on my location closer than 1500 to 1900 meters. I have hard reset and reinstalled GMaps with no luck. I have seen tweaks for Sprint and TMo users and have read that most VZW users are having no problems locking in. Are there any tweaks that I can try for the VZW TP2?
there are numerous gps tweaks to change the cache settings if you search for them. also try using the program quickgps which comes with your phone it will download the closest satellite info. inside my building i cant lock on any sats but outside i can get between 8-9 and within 10 meters of my location
Make sure location is turned on.
If you do the quickgps program on the phone it will turn location on for you and download the closest satelites for you and you should get a lock in like 10 seconds when you are outside.
Unless you turn on location you will just get your general location with google maps, mine said within 2800 meters till I used QuickGPS.
I have duplicated your problem by unchecking the gps option after you open google maps and pressing menu and the down arrow. Make sure the location setting is on as prior post stated and then after you open google maps make sure gps is checked in the menu and it will say that it is searching for satellites.
also make sure you change your gps settings in google to com4 and a baud of 4800
you also have to re-enable the "use gps" after changing this
I was able to dublicate the problem aswell, by accedent >_<, anyway, make sure the location setting for google maps is selected.
confirming what others here are saying, that's pretty much what I experienced with GPS unchecked in the main right softkey menu. If you don't have that checked it's using cell antennas or wifi to approximate your position. "Menu" > "Use GPS" and it should work by default.
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also make sure you change your gps settings in google to com4 and a baud of 4800
you also have to re-enable the "use gps" after changing this
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Leaving it set to the "Managed by Windows" setting works just fine for me. No issues, and definitely use the Quick GPS program, it saves a headache. In fact im sitting on my couch in my appartment on the bottom of three floors built on the side of a hill with 2 sides of earth, and I have a strong 8 to 9 sats.
I just got my TP2 yesterday and one of the first things I did was install google maps and I was getting result like the title of this thread "within 1800 meters" and it could be a mile off. also the sats were not locking at all. I realized that my position was based on the tower that I was connected to. By the way the google maps on my VX6800 never used the towers to triangulate a position but the gps lock were much slower. Once I ran the quick GPS in the programs menu it turned on the GPS to the right setting and now I get an accurate lock even inside within seconds.
Go to settings-all settings-personal-phone-cdma services-location setting and make sure that it is set to "Location On". If not, you are not actually using the GPS. With that on and with QuickGPS doing it's thing, you will lock instantly.
I have a Verizon TP2 that is two weeks old. It does not have QUICK GPS! Oh yeah, and the gps does not locate.
Do I?
Return it?
Hard Reset? (sounds like a lot of work)
Get the file somewhere?
I have had it twice to Verizon. They have no suggestions but are happy to see the device and get their hands on it.
Leaning towards exchanging it for a new one.
JG