TD's GPS thread

[sashik]

Hi all,

Could you please, be kind and post you experience with TD's GPS...

Since I got my TD(4 days) I have not been able to test the GPS at all:(
I have loaded some soft that could help me here. ( I travel a lot between Korea and Japan). Cannot really use the phone here, but WIFI works great and I thought I would give the GPS a test run.....no luck YET..
TD's own: QuickGPS has downloaded(through WIFI) all the info and it is up to date......But how do I set up the GPS itself???
Phone did not come with preloaded GPS software so,I have loaded following soft on it:(none of them would recognize the gps)
i.e. " no GPS found."

1.Google Navigator 3.4
2.GPSvp (http://gpsvp.com)
3.Effica GPS Utilities (http://www.efficasoft.com/gpsutilities/index_wm_ppc.html)

I would really like to test out the GPS here first.I am returning to EU (home) in october or november and I would like to use it there as well.

[sashik]

I tried the search...not just this forum but all of XDA.....I cannot seem to find one successful step-by step activation as of yet???

Nobody has internal GPS running on their TD??


Anyone?

[Riel]

Runs perfect and is good quality.

Make sure you let windows manage gps (in external GPS settings):


programport COM4
hardwareport none

and in last tap check the checkbox.


Programs find gps at Com4 at 19xxx baud.

[sashik]

thank You for you reply.
Will try tommorow morning.

[TML1504]

Runs perfect and is good quality.
Don't you have a problem with the static navigation? This behavior "drives"
me nearly crazy, because beside of that, the GPS in TD is superb...

[PaulusUK]

On mine, no programs can access the GPS and the programs will lock and crash the phone when it tries to connect to GPS.

The onlt one that does not lock the phone is TomTom, but it wont connect to GPS.

I've tried combinations of the recommended port stttings, but I still get no GPS.

I have not activated A-GPS, so I don't know if the phone came with this already activated - how would I check this?

[saveferris]

My GPS is a pain in the arse, From what i have read its because of the static navigation. So far it says i live in house number 20 when I live in house number 16 and when i'm on route I'm yet to hear a " You have arrived at your destination" because its accuracy is off about 50 metres.

Hopefully there will be a fix for this very soon. :)

[racerx_]

can someone get me up to speed a bit? what is the 'static navigation' that i keep hearing about..

admittedly, i find sometimes the gps is slightly less accurate at placing my exact location compared to my old Trinity, but otherwise its worked great for me..

[akito]

On mine, no programs can access the GPS and the programs will lock and crash the phone when it tries to connect to GPS.

The onlt one that does not lock the phone is TomTom, but it wont connect to GPS.

I've tried combinations of the recommended port stttings, but I still get no GPS.

I have not activated A-GPS, so I don't know if the phone came with this already activated - how would I check this?

Hey, have you got installed TomTom 7? I'm running TT7 and when I select "internal GPS receiver" it connects perfect. I know this doesn't exist in TT6, but I can also get my GPS running in TT7 if I set it to use a BT receiver on COM4 at 57600 baud. (Assuming you didn't mess around with the standard GPS settings, like HTC meant them to be :p)

Google maps is using the selection of "use windows settings".

[saveferris]

can someone get me up to speed a bit? what is the 'static navigation' that i keep hearing about..

admittedly, i find sometimes the gps is slightly less accurate at placing my exact location compared to my old Trinity, but otherwise its worked great for me..

Check this thread out.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=402039&highlight=static+navigation

and this.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401833&highlight=static+navigation

[tararura]

hi guys
Same problem here. AGPS is disabled. I have tried Garmin,TomTom, iGo and google. 95% of the time it can not lock onto the sats. Once in a while it will work fine. Last night it picked up the sats in my bedroom on the second story and this morning outside in clear sky it found 4 sats but with very low signal and could not give me my cordinates, gave up after 15 min.
I have tried GPS tools and even that won't lock onto the sats. Data is upto date with quick gps.
So is it the hardware problem or has it to do something with radio? It can't be faulty TD because there are a lots of people with the same problem, and why lots of other users have no problems accessing the sats?
How is your gps working?

[sashik]

great going sofar...thanks to all. We still have no real answers.
Let's keep this one going.
Looks like GPS is an issue with TD.
( Other than GPS...I am loving this sweet phone:) )

[tararura]

Now I am trying different roms to see if it is related to that. Will let you guys know if find anything.

[Riel]

Strange, on all ROMS my GPS reciever just works perfect.

Almost the best piece of hardware on the device :p
As I mentioned in Another topic, I use the GPS for TrackMe, at the same time I am navigation via Igo, and at the same time I showoff Google Maps with GPS support.
It functions very well!


Did you get the GPS-Fix downloads? It speeds up a lot.

[tararura]

Yes got the gps fix downloads but still no go. Still have not lost the hope. I hope its not some hardware problem.

[PaulusUK]

I was fed up messing with mine, so I did a hard reset, and its sorted ...... for now!

[sashik]

I did a hard reset....and it works perfect. No other adjustments done.

Tried the TomTom, Tracky Pro, GPS VP, and the HTC GPS Tool....all work no problem...outside I get a fix within a minute sometimes seconds.:)

[marauderz]

I think one of the quirks that the TD's GPS has is that, when it's in Acquiring Satellites mode it doesn't seem to spit out any sort of status. The first time I noticed that I thought my internal GPS wasn't working, since with my external Holux unit I can see the satellites which the Holux was trying to lock onto.

Whereas with the TD's built in GPS it just snaps from nothing to.. acquired. So it's hard to see wheter it hasn't gotten a signal because it's in a poor area of reception or not. Usually I'll just try and stay still till I can get a lock.