Tilt GPS not working

[jsachs]

I've had my tilt since Jan 2007. In that time I've probably flashed at least a 100 different roms onto it in an effort to reduce the general shittiness of the phone's performance (GUI).

At one point, I had working GPS - but considered it more of a novelty. I have a renewed interest in using the GPS but now programs behave as if it doesn't exist. I've tried the OEM Rom, WinMo 6.1/6.5 (AthineOS) and Android.

WinMo 6.1/6.5
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QuickGPS, installed with latest gps data downloaded.
GPSTest, installed. When I run it I get "GPS Starting Up", but the message never changes. I also see 4 or 5 green/yellow bars which I assume indicate signal from various sats. This indicates to me that the GPS unit on the phone isn't broken at least?
Google Maps installed. When I attempt to use GPS I get "Seeking satellites (0)" until it appears to give up.
TomTom installed but doesn't work either.

Android
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Attempting to use any location service returns "Your location is temporarily unavailable." I'm under the impression that the 1.5 builds have GPS support now....


While ultimately I would like to use Android, I would settle for at least getting google maps to work from within WinMo. Can anyone give me any suggestions? Or a definitive way to determine if the GPS unit is just broken/bad?

Thanks
Josh

[jsachs]

Just as a quick update for any googlers.

The issue is that the GPS radio is taking upwards of 10minutes to get initial lock. Google maps/Tom Tom just give up I think.

The Android fix was to download GPSTest from the Market and let it run for ~600seconds until Lat/Long were obtained. Subsequent locks were very fast. The procedure must be repeated whenever you powercycle the phone.

For windows mobile, I am under the impression that QuickGPS is supposed to allow the GPS to bypass the initial Satalite Search by obtaining location info off the net. I haven't figured out why the windows managed GPS is not utilizing this data though, but I suspect there is a setting somewhere to tell it to use QuickGPS data - Maybe someone else can elaborate.

-Josh