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P6200 support glonass gps network...?

I've always been delighted about gps performance on my p6200...
Checking the satellites it's catching it looks to me it is making use of glonass satellites too...
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As you can see from the screenshot above it receives informations from satellites numbered with high numbers like 77, 86, 80 and so on that are not reached (on the same position) by another android phone that supports only the gps system (nexus s)
What kind of gps chip is this tablet making use? Could it be the same broadcom that powers the galaxy note?

The GTPlus does have a stronger GPS, it pulls down 18 satellites while my Bionic only pulls down 10. It's hard to say if those extra ones are being run by the Russians though. I wouldn't put it past them being they have been sending subs to our Gulf of Mexico and Bombers over Alaska lately....

fozzir said:
The GTPlus does have a stronger GPS, it pulls down 18 satellites while my Bionic only pulls down 10. It's hard to say if those extra ones are being run by the Russians though. I wouldn't put it past them being they have been sending subs to our Gulf of Mexico and Bombers over Alaska lately....
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Samsung is not American company and btw I phone 4s has glonass too
Btw I'm pretty confident those additional satellites (and the very good gps performances) are due to the additional glonass network

GPS FIX Samsung G SIII

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As with practically any other device, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has its fair share of complaints. Some have workarounds, some can be solved with mods or apps, and some seem to have no fix at all.
One common issue on the GS3 is that the GPS won't seem to work at all, refuses to lock onto any satellites, or frequently loses the connection, making it pretty much useless. But there does seem to be a quick (and somewhat unthinkable) solution to this—tightening a few screws.
You don't even have to take the battery out for this!
Just pop off the back cover on your GS3 using a flat head screwdriver, spudger, or your fingernail. Around the phone's edges, there are 10 screws. Use a small Phillips screwdriver to tighten them as much as you can.
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Once you're finished, put the back cover back on and try out your GPS again. You should be able to get a lock on more satellites along with faster navigation and less signal dropping.
If you start to notice issues again, just retighten the screws, just like you would for that wobbly dining room table that always needs retightened.
It may be annoying, but it's free and a lot quicker than getting a new phone. And this should be your first DIY fix tried before resulting to installing new ROMs, flashing back to stock, trying aGPS patches, editing your gps.conf file, uninstalling/reinstalling Maps, etc.
Did this trick work for you? Let us know in the comments below.
Got wonky working Wi-Fi on your GS3? Try out this trick for getting a better signal.

Umm, you're about 4 days late on this one. There is already a thread announcing this fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201668

Wi-Fi poor reception

So my Nexus gets very poor reception. And I've seen some other reports, but I think this problem is also responsible for all the people complaining of inconsistent connections and drops as well as bad battery.
When the signal is less than -90dBm the phone drops connection, so because the reception is poor this happens A LOT. When laying the phone on the router, I only get -40dBm, and 2 feet away -75dBm. 20 away it hovers high -80's or worse.
Also the bad battery because the dropped connections lead to scanning and scanning leads to battery drain. In my bedroom, where I have bad reception, my battery drained completely from full over night, but when left down stairs near the router I just only 10%.
And I know it's not the router because when comparing with my Galaxy Note 8 tablet I'll get -56dBm in my bedroom compared to -87dBm with the Nexus.
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So look at Dominion SSID...
The first 2 pics are from the Nexus and GNote respectively. Dominion and Dominion2wire SSIDs are about 20dBm stronger on the GNote, and you'll notice the GNote gets far more SSIDs in the scan.
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Second 2 pics show a range extender for Dominion I have setup upstairs in the next room. The Nexus only sees the Extender, not the downstairs signal. GNote sees both and sees the extender very well. Almost 30dBm stronger in this picture.

Have you rooted and/or flashed a ROM on your Nexus 5?
If not, you might want to try that, go into recovery, then wipe your data and fix permissions. Not to sure what's happening with your device, but it's worked for me when I've had similar issues with other devices.

Location Services Terrible on T-Mobile S7 - Keeps Defaulting to my house

Hello All,
On both my wife's and my Tmobile S7s running 6.01 on the November security patch, the location services are terrible. The phone keeps thinking I am at my house when I am 20 miles away at work. My wife has the same problem. If I toggle location services off then on, it instantly updates to the correct location. Eventually if defaults back to my house. This wouldn't be such a huge deal if I didn't have a SmartThings home automation system. SmartThings keeps unlocking my front door, turning on lights, and putting the heat back on because according to the phone I am at my house and the automation kicks in. Here is what I have done to try to fix the location issue:
- Location on with method = GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks.
- Improved accuracy on with Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth Scanning enabled.
- Under Optimize Battery usage, I have unoptimized Location Services (meaning it should always be running).
Does anyone else have this problem with their S7s? If it were jsut mine, I would chalk it up to a faulty device, but it is happening to my wifes as well. Any other tricks to make this stop happening?

Check your apps to make sure the location permission hasn't been unchecked. Exactly which app could be missing that is hard to say. A factory reset might be your friend for this kind of situation.
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Frequent GPS signal loss

Hey guys, I recently got a brand new HTC U11 , and everything was perfect with the phone until I had to use the GPS navigation.
Even on a clear day with no clouds in the sky, phone stuck to the car windshield and screen always on, the GPS signal will get lost very frequently, like every 10 minutes, and some times it won´t recover until a reboot.
I don´t think it is a case of poor signal, because using a GPS diagnostic app I can see that it is connected to at least 15 sats, and then when it loses signal, it loses all satellites, so it seems to me that GPS location is getting somehow disabled from time to time.
Could anyone point me out to a possible solution?
Maybe the Boost+ is the culprit?

You have to take into consideration that in the last several weeks we have had several geomagnetic storm courtesy of the Sun. When the Sun produces a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), or sunspots develop they will have an effect on satellite communications. The RF output of GPS sat's is very small by time the signal makes it to the planets surface so any disruption in the upper atmosphere will have a negative effect on our GPS's.
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Wow, I had no idea about that.
But anyway, as I described, it seems to me that this is more like the GPS was turned of, maybe by some power optimizer or something?
In fact, I have an external bluetooth GPS, and when I use it, I get no GPS signal loss at all.

Sounds more like a hardware issue to me.
The battery opimization wouldn't kill GPS in an active foreground app.
Actually batttery optimation just kills inactive apps, services.
A 3rd party app could just turn GPS off, when it has root rights.