Hey guys the idea that you need wireless for gps to work is false. I drove all the way home yesterday with no wireless and with gps status running. I go 0 locks until i reached my village. Once I hit my village satellite signals came in like mad. It was crazy like 13 satellites I had never seen that many and locked on to 11,12 at a time. This was all with no wireless. The only reason I can think it worked in my village is it is a low lying area that is watched heavy by weather satellites I know because it is a tornado area and its always making the weather forecast for bad weather. They always name my village in my little old town as possible area for bad weather. Now my friend that has his unit can barely get his to work at all but he never let gps fix run for full 15 min. Not sure if that helped mine or not. Here is the response he received from ASUS.
Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.
The ASUS Transformer Prime is made from a metallic unibody design, so the material may affect the performance of the GPS when receiving signals from satellites.
Please note that this product is not a professional GPS device and signal performance can be easily influenced by factors including, but not limited to: weather, buildings and your surrounding environment.
Please understand there are some limitations when using the GPS function.
Some scenarios you may encounter when experiencing weak GPS performance:
1. Using the GPS while traveling in a car: The roof of a car, the insulation, bridges and other factors can affect signal reception.
2. High density areas with large buildings and structures that can block line of sight communication with GPS satellites.
For more information feel free to refer to our self-help pages by clicking
the links below:
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http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
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http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
Live Support -
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If you continue to experience issues in the future, please do not hesitate
to contact us.
Best Regards,
Jerry
Maybe they should explain that to people before they purchase them.