How to to activate the gps photo

[travegliaesogno]

How to to activate the gps photo on the TytnII (like the Artemis)

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1.

Now if you launch the camera you must find a new menu called "gps photo".

When you shot a photo in this way the tytn write the position (lat and long) in the exif data of the photo.

[3waygeek]

Cool. Note that GPS photo doesn't show up in the menu -- it's another camera mode, like photo/video/contacts/etc.

[travegliaesogno]

Cool. Note that GPS photo doesn't show up in the menu -- it's another camera mode, like photo/video/contacts/etc.

Sure, excuse me for my bad english and poor explanation.

For a free exif reader
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/

You can use the lat and long in google maps, in TomTom etc.

[gogol]

How does this work?

Do you need to connect the GPS first? ... with what? The Camera software?

Please if you can be more detail ....

[kaiserchief]

When you select GPS Photo, the camera software turns GPS on itself if you're not connected already...

[isomaniac]

Thanks for the info. This is like adding GPS function to the Trinity :)

Now I have photos with GPS coordinates. How can I add them into Google Map? Thanks

[travegliaesogno]

Thanks for the info. This is like adding GPS function to the Trinity :)

Now I have photos with GPS coordinates. How can I add them into Google Map? Thanks

If you want to simply view the point in google maps:

with exif reader read the coordinates of the photo i.e

GPSLatitudeRef : N
GPSLatitude : 41 0706 [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 14 5225 [DMS]

Now open google maps and write in "find" the coordinates in this way
41 07' 06'' 14 52' 25''

Google maps show you the point were you have take the photo!

[angelus1753]

Now I have photos with GPS coordinates. How can I add them into Google Map? Thanks
It's called geo tagging in google.
Use the picassa image software from google. if you load the photo's in there, the tool will recognize the coordinates and by following a menu it will bring you to the location in google earth (which you already have of coarse). It shows the photo (and all other photo's geotagged) indexed by picassa in Google earth.

[isomaniac]

It's called geo tagging in google.
Use the picassa image software from google. if you load the photo's in there, the tool will recognize the coordinates and by following a menu it will bring you to the location in google earth (which you already have of coarse). It shows the photo (and all other photo's geotagged) indexed by picassa in Google earth.

Thanks, but I want to see them in Google Map, is this possible? Any different procedures?

[isomaniac]

It's called geo tagging in google.
Use the picassa image software from google. if you load the photo's in there, the tool will recognize the coordinates and by following a menu it will bring you to the location in google earth (which you already have of coarse). It shows the photo (and all other photo's geotagged) indexed by picassa in Google earth.

I have Picassa and Google Earth installed. But I do now know the steps, would you mind list the steps?

Thanks.

[duttythroy]

KOOL stuff guys lets get playing with the kaiser:cool:

[Raymongo]

I saw some register string 2 days ago but i didn't dare to mes with it. But now i will give it a try and hope it will not messup my phone!

Thanks!

[austinsnyc]

I have confirmed this wors great it starts the GPS as soon as you select this option in camera mode! Nice find thank you!

[Lavachild]

How to to activate the gps photo on the TytnII (like the Artemis)

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1.

Now if you launch the camera you must find a new menu called "gps photo".

When you shot a photo in this way the tytn write the position (lat and long) in the exif data of the photo.

why dont settings/features like this ship on? makes me think im missing a ton of things???

[RPG0]

why dont settings/features like this ship on? makes me think im missing a ton of things???

Well, that's because you are missing a lot of things, that's why this forum is here, to show us what we're missing :D

[peter7]

Hello - I changed the registry and I do have no the GPS item under camera but the pics are normal and there is no added information ?

What I`m doing wrong ?

[SierraDelta]

Hello - I changed the registry and I do have no the GPS item under camera but the pics are normal and there is no added information ?

What I`m doing wrong ?
Read post #1 and #3 again..... The position information is stored in the EXIF information of each photo.

[Davebravey]

Hi, I've just activated this and I am getting the GPS photo on screen with the GPS on. But when I take a photo there is no location data on it. Anyone have any ideas?

[cman6453]

How to to activate the gps photo on the TytnII (like the Artemis)

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1.

Now if you launch the camera you must find a new menu called "gps photo".

When you shot a photo in this way the tytn write the position (lat and long) in the exif data of the photo.

Forgive my ignorance. I'm assuming the regedit for the TyTN II? How do I get there?

If for the PC, I don't have it and can someone explain how that would adjust the setting on the phone?

[Bacco]

Here is the link http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/

[peter7]

Read post #1 and #3 again..... The position information is stored in the EXIF information of each photo.

OK I tried it again but this is my answer which I get on the photo

FileSource : DSC
SceneType : A directly photographed image
GPS Informtion
GPSVersionID : 2,2,0,0
GPSLatitudeRef : N
GPSLatitude : 0 0 [DM] 0 0' 0,00" [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 0 0 [DM] 0 0' 0,00" [DMS]
GPSAltitudeRef : Sea level
GPSAltitude : 0/1 meters
GPSTimeStamp : 06:57:36
GPSMapDatum : WGS-84
GPSProcessingMethod : HYBRID-FIX
GPSDateStamp : 2007:09:30

[SierraDelta]

OK I tried it again but this is my answer which I get on the photo

FileSource : DSC
SceneType : A directly photographed image
GPS Informtion
GPSVersionID : 2,2,0,0
GPSLatitudeRef : N
GPSLatitude : 0 0 [DM] 0 0' 0,00" [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 0 0 [DM] 0 0' 0,00" [DMS]
GPSAltitudeRef : Sea level
GPSAltitude : 0/1 meters
GPSTimeStamp : 06:57:36
GPSMapDatum : WGS-84
GPSProcessingMethod : HYBRID-FIX
GPSDateStamp : 2007:09:30

Strange, it works fine on mine:

GPS Informtion
GPSVersionID : 2,2,0,0
GPSLatitudeRef : N
GPSLatitude : 50 5024 [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 4 2843 [DMS]
GPSAltitudeRef : Sea level
GPSAltitude : 0/1 meters
GPSTimeStamp : 11:24:57
GPSMapDatum : WGS-84
GPSProcessingMethod : HYBRID-FIX
GPSDateStamp : 2007:09:27

[peter7]

SierraDelta - is the little red light for GPS on ? On my Kaiser not. What I tried is to start TomTom and then make the pic - no change . same result ??? Do you change something in the menu of the camrea when you are under GPS photo ?

[peter7]

TomTom and Google maps are working excellent but the camera ???

[Bacco]

When you switch to GPS photo, do you see a message indicating that the TyTN II is initializing the GPS?

It you don't, then something may not be set properly.

[peter7]

No this doesn`t happen - no GPS is starting - but where shall I look for the mistake ???

[peter7]

"Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1."

When I change the 0 to a 1 is this value hexadecimal or decimal ? Mine is hexadecimal !

So where else the problem be ?

Pls help me !

[Bacco]

Peter, it should be decimal. Try that and see what happens.

[Churchill]

Works perfect here. One thing is a shame thought that Vista does not seen to show this info if you look at the detais of the picture

[rvdgeer]

"Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1."

When I change the 0 to a 1 is this value hexadecimal or decimal ? Mine is hexadecimal !

So where else the problem be ?

Pls help me !

The decimal systems counts like:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

The hexadecimal system counts like:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11

So 10 in hexadecimal is 16 in decimal and 11 is 17...
But up to 9 everything is the same, so 1 in hexadecimal is 1 in decimal and 9 is 9.

When you use Resco Explorer with the registry add-in to edit the registry, you see both, hexadecimal and decimal, untill you edit the value. There you have to choose to use hexadecimal or decimal. After saving, you see both values again...


My point is:
There's no difference between 1 hexadecimal or 1 decimal, so 'changing' it won't help...

Please forget this:
Because in some settings 1 stands for 'on' or 'enabled' and 0 for 'off' or 'disabled' it's used nor as a hexadecimal number, nor as a decimal numer, but actually binary...
But that's another story...
:)

Note:
Did you try to change the external port in your GPS settings?
Because this is known to cause problems...
After that pretty much all you can do is hard-reset and try all over again...
I believe it's much safer not to change anything in the GPS settings menu...

[peter7]

Hexa oder Decimal - doesn`t bring a difference !

Wonderful - now I made a hardreset and it worked - but then started the backup file and the same result - it does`t work - so when I do the backup which part do I have not ! to backup - does this anyone know ????

My comp port is before and after the backup on com4 ???

[freecall]

Could anybody help me with how to display the pictures in Google earth by using picassa or any other tool?

- GPS picture works
- Picassa has tools, geotags, show in google earth
- google earth opens with a new temp picassa link

but nothing happens after .. and when I zoom into Google World I can not see a picture or tag at the location

What else do I need to do to get a marker displaying the picture direct into google earth

Thanks

[richardfishburn]

I get exactly the same thing when I try freecall

[Burko]

Flickr recognises the GPS info, but doesnt recognise the "-" in the longitude info, resulting in an incorrect position, if i manually enter the coordinates including the "-" i get the right location.

Any suggestions?

[pmuschi]

Is there a way to change the format of the lat/long? Instead of "degrees minutes seconds" I'd like to use decimal degrees.

[peter7]

WHAT can the cause be that my photo doesn`t start the GPS function automatically despite I changed the registry ???

PLS help me

[Burko]

Open the camera, press left on the d pad, or keyboard. and voila, you have GPS photo mode.

Although it measures in hours, minutes and seconds and doesnt seem to like negative longitude figures. lol.

[ofiaich]

Hi!

I am reading and searching but at the moment, can't find a solution to this.

I changed the registry and can now launch GPS Camera, but it does not connect.

I have also launched Tom Tom and got a fix, then GPS Camera,

and Google Maps then GPS Camera..

The software displays 'initialising GPS.... .... ' but doesn't succeed!

Any advice appreciated, back now to re-read and see what I can find!

Ofiaich :D

[jpresencia]

the same for me. registry changed and gps menu available,, but it keeps showing "inicio de GPS", which means starting GPS.

i tried hard resetting. and it's the same

[daniel.eriksson]

with the software gps viewer, select com 4 and open gps. close and start camera with gps-photo instead of normal photo. gps is live.

[oscilx]

i've been doing the same... Run google maps then hit the camera button !
all good...

But what have people been doing with it ? Picasa, flickr et al...

[jpresencia]

i have already tried this. i can have a gps program working (like tomtom or google maps. but if i open my camera with one of those running and hit "left" to see gps picture menu it only shows the message "initializing gps"

maybe my spanish version ROM has a different camera software version....

any idea?

[Burko]

Just wait for about 30 secs, itll get a fix on your position.

Patience!!!!!

And by the way, GPS needs line of sight, so if your indoors, your signal will be very weak/non existant.

[ofiaich]

Hi Burko!

Just wait for about 30 secs, itll get a fix on your position.

Patience!!!!!

And by the way, GPS needs line of sight, so if your indoors, your signal will be very weak/non existant.

I was in the middle of a field and waited for 5 minutes. Then tried again for another 5 minutes!

Ofiaich :confused:

[peter7]

After I changed the registry it start in the gps photo mode but no gps is starting !

This only happens after a hard reset but as soons as I do the backup it doesn`t work. Can someone give me a hint ?

Or could someone export me his english camera registry so I can import to mine - would be great !

Thank you

myrin

[jpresencia]

i also waited for like ten minutes with ni success. we will have to wait for a new camera software or something...

[mikechannon]

After I changed the registry it start in the gps photo mode but no gps is starting !

This only happens after a hard reset but as soons as I do the backup it doesn`t work. Can someone give me a hint ?

Or could someone export me his english camera registry so I can import to mine - would be great !

Thank you

myrin

Camera reg attached

Mike

[tuncayt]

hi from Turkey,

i will explain how i run the gps photo...

1 download modaco gps for kaiser
2 soft reset u phone
3 open tomtom and wait the gps signal
4 open camera( if the signal came)
5 select category of the photo type '' GPS''
6 you ll see the '' GPS initilaze''
7 when the info cant visible you can take photo easily
8 now you can upload the photo to http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ site
9 now,you can easily see where u are..

thats really useful website also useful kaiser tweak!!

[kinski]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308688&highlight=exif
Might be the same problems as with the Artemis.
In the latest version of Irfan View, there is also an exif mode and a link-up to google earth implemented.

[ofiaich]

Hi !

sorry for being a bit slow... but what is - 1 download modaco gps for kaiser

Is it an application ?

and why is it needed?

I have edited the registry, and get a fix with Tom Tom, but the GPS Camera still doesn't get a fix!

I will check my registry again now, then go outside, and try again!

EDIT - --- No luck again, Tom Tom worked.... Google Maps worked... I even run QuickGps...

Ofiaich

[mikechannon]

Hi !

sorry for being a bit slow... but what is - 1 download modaco gps for kaiser

Is it an application ?

and why is it needed?

I have edited the registry, and get a fix with Tom Tom, but the GPS Camera still doesn't get a fix!

I will check my registry again now, then go outside, and try again!

EDIT - --- No luck again, Tom Tom worked.... Google Maps worked... I even run QuickGps...

Ofiaich

I had your problem. In fact I had given up meaning to look into it sometime. However, yesterday I accidentally slipped the scroll wheel onto GPS Photo. I decided to leave it to see if it would get a fix. It did.

No settings were changed. Like you I could run tomtom and others GPs apps. I ran quick GPS. I double checked ports etc etc. In the intervening two weeks the only things I had done were:

1
Reset the registry tweak to NOT show GPS Photo (as it was a pest trying to find a lock)

2
I installed jongma's Kaiser Tweaks application.

On the Kaiser Tweak application I selected Camera save GPS position.
I promptly forgot about it until yesterday when I tried it and it worked.


I do not offer this as a solution but merely a comment on the vagaries of life and TyTn II.
Mike

[ofiaich]

Thanks Mike,

I will give this a try, and will report back!

Ofiaich

[mbritten]

I edited the registry yesterday and tested out the GPS photo, it worked fine, I pulled the image up on google earth and all was well. Today I tried again an it connects to the GPS, I have green gps icon on the camera screen, but now it is not saving the coordinates. The only things I've done are backup's, I have not restored anything. all other GPS programs (tomtom, google maps, live search, gps tuner) are working fine, and everthing in the camera program is acting the same way it did yesterday, only difference is there is NO gps info with the picture anymore.

[mbritten]

Ok finally tried a hard reset and restored a backup I made earlier today (backup was after gps photos stopped working) and now everything is working. I have no idea.

[kinski]

With the Artemis this occurs, if you choose the SD-card as storage space before entering the GPS-Mode. With the internal starage everything works fine.

[nikosroy]

i have a kaiser and look what is going on
the menu you are searching for is camera -> menu -> capture mode -> gps photo

[peter7]

KINSKI - you are great - I tried everything - got many good advices - but your advice is the solutuion - thanks so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rakh1]

Hi all,

I have the same problem.... Did the reg hack - I know it works because I have the option of gps-photo. However, starting it just gives the message 'initializing gps...' which sits there until I get bored and cancel it. I can confirm using other GPS utils that I have signal and I have left it for easily long enough to require (10 mins) when other apps aquire after 15 to 20 secs...

Weird....

R

[_kansei_]

Is anyone else getting weird GPS info?

I took a photo in Rochester, NY, USA and I this is in the EXIF
============= VALUES, GPS IFD ============
@0x0000296=662 : Latitude = 43,29,20
@0x00002ae=686 : Longitude = 77,48,4

I put those into google maps and that's in Kazakstan??

I uploaded the photo to flickr and it says the photo is in Lake Ontario, about 20 miles into the lake (toward Canada) --the lake is only about 10 miles from here, but still.. something just isn't right. Maybe it thought it had a fix but I should have waited a bit longer.

[3waygeek]

Note that in Google maps, west longitude and south latitude are specified using negative numbers. I just did a GPS photo here, and Google Maps puts it about 50 feet south of my living room.

Sounds like you may not have had a good fix. Use VisualGPS or some other utility to determine how many sats you're seeing -- you need at least 3 to get a good position fix.

[kinski]

That is normal!
With WM5, there is always a deviation up to 300 m in east west direction. Its a software bug.

With WM6, the decimal place of the position is not stored in the exif data. Therefore, You have a deviation up to 30 m in all directions

[pmow]

Flickr recognises the GPS info, but doesnt recognise the "-" in the longitude info, resulting in an incorrect position, if i manually enter the coordinates including the "-" i get the right location.

Any suggestions?

Umm, works for me. It's at my apartment. Good thing it doesn't do altitude or someone could pay me a visit :) I'm using the ATT rom.

[topps]

"Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\
in the folder called P9 change the value "enabled" from 0 to 1."

When I change the 0 to a 1 is this value hexadecimal or decimal ? Mine is hexadecimal !

So where else the problem be ?

Pls help me !

The good news on that is that 0 and 1 are the same no matter whether you are using decimal, hexadecimal (or binary for that matter).

But to emphasise the point, you do need to perform this registry hack on the TyTN II or else GPS Photo will not be an option.

Now...for me, I have got this piece working and am pleased so far. But I do find that the first time "GPS Initialising..." is run, it takes 2-3 minutes to find the satellites, even in open space. It is worse if you don't run the Quick GPS utility first. After that, the camera/TyTN takes a more reasonable 10 seconds from powerup for the GPS Initialising bit to run.

Has anyone found a way to speed up that first GPS fix so that it does not take 2-3mins to initialise the GPS satellites?

[rmg]

Same issue as others - stuck on GPS Initialising even though Tom Tom has a fix.

Im assuming that the cab file only changes the reg setting?

Anything else that we can try?

People who have it working what COM port is your GPS set to please?

[inv!nc!ble mind]

i have htc x7500 after change 0 to 1

i found this problem

http://prof.naif.googlepages.com/Screen002.png

Cannot initialize the GPS service

what can i do?

thx

[kinski]

goto start ->settings ->system -> external GPS
Programs ->com4
Hardware -> none
Access -> GPS automatic enabled

These are the settigs for the Orbit; never know if it works for the Kaiser too

[firewall2612]

Finally found a work around for the failure to initialize. I started "Windows LIve" let it grab the sats then went to the camera (while keeping WL running), started the 'gps photo" and within seconds the green gps button on the camera came to life. Snapped a picture upload to GPS Visualizer and it was very accurate.

[Imanoltxo]

Sure, excuse me for my bad english and poor explanation.

For a free exif reader
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/

You can use the lat and long in google maps, in TomTom etc.

...that the tomtom or another navigator could read the photo for not to use the exif reader.
I make the photo, and I open the navigator; I say to it that find the poi in the directory and ok. But I have tu use an exif reader for see the coordinates.¡buf!
Thanks and if a person has the capacity of make better this, thanks to him.

[mrabie]

I got the GPS Photo to work and extracted the data, i tried to pin point the location using maps.google.com and it found it. But whenever i try to search for the same location using google maps mobile it comes up with "No results found for: "

any ideas?

[flexte]

Is anyone else getting weird GPS info?

I took a photo in Rochester, NY, USA and I this is in the EXIF
============= VALUES, GPS IFD ============
@0x0000296=662 : Latitude = 43,29,20
@0x00002ae=686 : Longitude = 77,48,4

I put those into google maps and that's in Kazakstan??

I uploaded the photo to flickr and it says the photo is in Lake Ontario, about 20 miles into the lake (toward Canada) --the lake is only about 10 miles from here, but still.. something just isn't right. Maybe it thought it had a fix but I should have waited a bit longer.
yes i having the same problem it shows my photo was taken in kazakstan as well. we must be neighbors.

[tdupton]

Guys, is there a way to simply mark a waypoint with the Tilt? I have the GPS photo tactic working, but it seems like a hassel if I just want to mark a waypoint and upload to Google Earth/Maps. Any ideas?

Tommy

[nybom]

GPS Photo works for me but the pictures aren't saved on the phone! If i choose to send the picture as a mail it works, but if i just save it the picture dissaperas. I found a reg entry in the same place where you enable the function that is called "SaveFolder", it was set to "My POI". I changed that to "My Pictures" but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

[Softwaremaker]

Yes - same here. I have resigned to the fact that I have to copy from "My POI" folder...

Another question I have is a problem I have with the GPS Photo and how the geo information is stored.

From the EXIF metadata, it stores coordinates as space-delimited, eg: 2 18 54.

However, Google maps doesnt recognize this format. I had to manually edit through another EXIF tool to this 2 18'54 before Google Maps recognized it as:
2 deg 18, 54.00 north.

I see some of the folks here having comma-delimited geo values in EXIF. I suspect that i am missing something in my config/registry.

Can anyone share with me their GPS Photo registry, please ?

[Scann69]

Anyone tried GPS Photo with Mapking? How does GPS Photo help with Mapking? I have read all 8 pages but nothing on Mapking.

[volcomnator999]

i get "initializing GPS"....and thats it..do i have to have a GPS program running before i can use the GPS photo?

[GarciaM25]

thought i might add, i think newer versions of the phone come pre programmed with this already in the registry - i took my phone out of the box and it had it already in the camera menu.... not sure if that was something new or not, but i thought it was cool! regedit software shows "enable" already set from 0 to 1!

[ilordvader]

I have a At&t Tilt & would like to know
After we get the GPS Photo working

will we be able to do what the Garmin Nüvifone Phone
does in the Video (after 16sec Video)
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtD4USzpoLI&eurl=http://www.geekalerts.com/garmin-nuvifone-videos/)

Snap a Picture & navigate right to it :)
Or is there another way ?

[ilordvader]

I have Picassa and Google Earth installed. But I do now know the steps, would you mind list the steps?

Thanks.

We need to have Picassa and Google Earth installed in PC or Phone ?

[ilordvader]

It's called geo tagging in google.
Use the picassa image software from google. if you load the photo's in there, the tool will recognize the coordinates and by following a menu it will bring you to the location in google earth (which you already have of coarse). It shows the photo (and all other photo's geotagged) indexed by picassa in Google earth.

I had older phone so insatled Kasier Tewak & Adv Cofig
& have it enabled

But its still not loging on GPS

what could be the problem :(

[AllTheWay]

I had older phone so insatled Kasier Tewak & Adv Cofig
& have it enabled

But its still not loging on GPS

what could be the problem :(

Are you sure you have a GPS fix when your taking the picture?

[ilordvader]

Are you sure you have a GPS fix when your taking the picture?

It just keeps Loading

[i1135t]

For those who have GPS problems, try the following methods that I posted here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375172&page=2

Good luck!

[ilordvader]

All had to do was
start & set my Telenav & works Fine Now

Thank you for Help tho :)

[Foxhunter123]

Hmm I have the issue where I have GPS signal/connection, take the picture but the picture is nowhere to be found... I have tried both setting it to save on the card and the device - any solutions yet? :confused:

[ilordvader]

Hmm I have the issue where I have GPS signal/connection, take the picture but the picture is nowhere to be found... I have tried both setting it to save on the card and the device - any solutions yet? :confused:

It should be in a - My POI folder
could be in my documents

[keefer_monster]

Now that alot of us has this working there is a new option under capture settings called grace period with the selectable options of ; none, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 minutes. So far i know this has nothing to do with the time out for initalizing the GPS since that setting remains unchanged in the registry nomatter what i set the grace period to. Also it has nothing to do with the review time.

So far my only guess is that maybe its a grace period on you GPS Fix in that it will only grab a fix every 5, 10 or 30 minutes or if set to none it will grab one for each time a photo is taken.

Is there any one out there that has this option standard so that maybe the setting are in the brand specific manual. Since even HTC doesnt even include the info of this option in the manual.