Case that does not block GPS?

ToneyEricsson · 25th February 2012, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by The Specimen

Did you notice any difference with GPS from pop to tough?

In honesty I haven't noticed any difference with GPS with any of them cases GPS works the same.

Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium

sale52 · 25th February 2012, 10:54 PM

I have beautiful silver Case-Mate Pop and I can say that it kills GPS on my DHD.

o4kareg · 27th February 2012, 06:09 AM

Bought this case, didn't notice any GPS troubles.

sale52 · 27th February 2012, 08:12 PM

I bought this the other day, arrived today and thankfully no GPS problem.

komigo · 29th February 2012, 10:19 PM

I have just bought a case-mate barely there (black). No problem with GPS.

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JSLEnterprises · 2nd March 2012, 02:55 AM

A thin layer of plastic/rubber does not degrade signal enough to have any noticeable impact (not even half full db).
Shiny cases that sparkle have a very slight impact due to metal flake in the silicone/plastic/paint that makes it its sparkly/metalic color.

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Dr. MaRV · 4th March 2012, 08:04 PM

The GPS from DHD is generally not so good. I'm geocacher and had many trouble with it. I recommend you an external bluetooth gps receiver, that's a very good, precise and powerfull solution, which also at very bad conditions works.

Cheico · 4th March 2012, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by komigo

I have just bought a case-mate barely there (black). No problem with GPS.

Sent from my HTC Desire HD A9191 using XDA App

I can confirm that GPS works fine with this case.

Dlog · 6th March 2012, 09:17 PM

I've use google maps navigation for the last two days.

Normally gps and even the normal location thing (i guess that's agps?) are turned off.

When i turn on both and then start a navigation in google maps i get a gps lock within 5 seconds.

I did install some "gps fix" from this subforum (don't remember which one) but i haven't modified the hardware for the 5 second lock!

/edit:

okay so i forgot to mention: i'm using the otterbox commuter.....no problem with gps at all!

inspire4gfreak · 18th March 2012, 10:47 PM

well, I use silicon case on my Inspire 4G and I suspected it is the reason for poor GPS performances. but then, i followed all possible threads from this forum related to Inspire 4G GPS issues and got my GPS to work. so I recommend silicon case, best choice there is for phone case