GPS won't fix after moving

[codaine]

Hi,

I used my Touch Diamond and Touch Cruise in US w/ GPS for a while, then I came back to Istanbul for a trip. Now, both of my HTC phones won't have a fix to a coordinate, even if the GPS receiver is detected, and actually showing satellites in programs (say, iGO).

Does anybody know what I should do?

[wontcachme]

Have you tried updating the coordinates through the program quickgps?

[codaine]

Have you tried updating the coordinates through the program quickgps?

yes, I've ran quickgps, didn't work out. Then I hard-resetted the diamond, and tried again. Nothing got me a result.

Can you actually suggest a GPS software, to check if it is the software or hardware, acting weird.

[MrDerrickC]

Google maps?

[s_kates81]

Both of these units by HTC has the static navigation thing enabled. For more information, have a look at this link http://www.etenblog.com/2007/11/20/static-navigation-explained/

[akito]

If the GPS has been turned off while having travelled over a long distance (like you did from the USA to Istanbul), your GPS needs much more time to get a new fix. This is something you can't do anything about. QuickGPS should help, however since I have QuickGPS (just a cpl of weeks) I haven't travelled yet to the other side of the world :) With my older BT GPS it took me a very long time as well the first time when I turned it on after I exited the airplane.

How long have you been waiting to get a fix while standing still outside in the open air?

[codaine]

If the GPS has been turned off while having travelled over a long distance (like you did from the USA to Istanbul), your GPS needs much more time to get a new fix. This is something you can't do anything about. QuickGPS should help, however since I have QuickGPS (just a cpl of weeks) I haven't travelled yet to the other side of the world :) With my older BT GPS it took me a very long time as well the first time when I turned it on after I exited the airplane.

How long have you been waiting to get a fix while standing still outside in the open air?

Actually, I've used beelinegps (http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/default.htm). I've put a chair in the middle of backyard and kept the phone there for ~2hrs, in the night (so that it wouldn't overheat) w/ open sky.

The satellites are shown, but it simply won't fix.

After hard reset I haven't updated quickgps again, suspecting that it was deviating the calculation to the other side of the world :P.

In the worst case, I'll update quickgps and put the phone in charge and leave it to open sky for a night, and see what happens.

Is there any other solutions, btw?

Thanks

[codaine]

Both of these units by HTC has the static navigation thing enabled. For more information, have a look at this link http://www.etenblog.com/2007/11/20/static-navigation-explained/

Hi,

I've actually tried to figure out how to disable static navigation.
Neither sirfdemo nor sirftech.exe worked just the way they are.

I believe the problem was the intermediate driver/port of windows. So I disabled that, and let the programs scan thru the ports. But that way, they can't figure out actual hardware port number and baud rate.

Does anyone know how I can access gps chip directly?

Thanks

[codaine]

I finally solved the issue.

I got HTC GPS Tool from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360477 and installed it. After that choose clear memory and cold start. That was it, nothing much about static nav.

Thanks