Possible GPS idea

[drama2747]

I was thinking that everyone is waiting on the new sprint rom to unlock the GPS and blah blah blah.

yes it is determined that the phone DOES have full GPS to be unlocked the first quarter of 2008, but if we didnt want to wait, thanks to OLI unlocker would we be able to load the Att Tilt rom which has GPS unlocked, would it work? Has anyone tried this, and did it or would it work. Im going looking for the rom now to give it a whirl

[armstrom]

I'm no expert on custom ROMs, but I would say the answer is most likely no. First, the tilt is a GSM phone, so it has a different radio driver for the phone, a different dialer, different networking support, etc etc... Secondly, even if you don't care about the phone not working (which I suspect you do ;) ) there's a good chance that other non-phone hardware like the video, audio, keyboard, etc require different drivers. That also includes the GPS. Clearly the GPS in the titan is not hard-wired to a real serial port, otherwise we would be able to use it. It requires special drivers to enable the hardware and enable the virtual serial port on your device.

Now, if by some chance the tilt shares the same GPS chipset with our Titan it may be possible for someone to cook a custom rom using all the regular drivers for the Titan but drop in the GPS driver (only) from the Tilt. However, since the GPS chipset seems to be capable of deriving some information from the cell towers, my guess is that even this approach is not possible.

Perhaps the biggest nail in the coffin is the fact that no one has done this yet. You would think that if such a mod were possible one of the people making high-quality custom roms would already have done it.

Sorry :(