How good is your GPS working?

friguy33 · 27th January 2008, 08:31 PM

How good is your GPS working?

So I went out and used my GPS for the first road test. After turing on iGuidance i got a fix very quickly and it saw me...but then it was horrible in updating. I would start driving and sometimes it wouldnt even move for 30 seconds. the accuracy was not there either. With my ext GPS it would tell me I was a few feet from an intersection, now im lucky if im near it. I was getting 6-10/10 sats also, so very good. maybe the software? So what are everyone else's driving experiences and with what software? I dont have data so i cant use gmaps/live.

coffey_joshua · 27th January 2008, 09:06 PM

i just had google maps up and drove to the store this morning and it followed me very well....

then it followed me around the golf course almost exactly on the edge of the greens maybe 1-2 feet off at worst

l33tlinuxh4x0r · 27th January 2008, 09:44 PM

My GPS sucks too. I have used googlemaps and geoscout(which I think actually works better than googlemaps) I am off by about 25 feet in a random direction with googlemaps using satellite maps. I too have 6-10 satellites.

Anyone have a cab for TrackyPro v3.0? I hear that that is really good especially for off roading.

dcd1182 · 27th January 2008, 10:16 PM

google maps seems very accurate to me. also last night i was out of town and used the sprint navigator to find parking very easily. we were moving slowly, but i would estimate it had us within 10 foot.

vaxick · 27th January 2008, 10:16 PM

It's been working great for me. I tried it out last night while on a quick drive and it tracked me the whole way which about 5 satellites much of the way. It was only a few feet off the entire time.

defaultdotxbe · 27th January 2008, 10:55 PM

my google maps is accurate to within about 5-10 feet, i was in line at the mcdonalds drive through last night and for kicks i brough tup the satellite picture and watched my dot get closer to the window, lol

l33tlinuxh4x0r · 28th January 2008, 02:57 AM

My gps is working better now. This is how I fixed it. First I relocked my phone. Then I upgraded to the original leaked version of 2.16.651.0 and let it do it's thing. DO NOT USE A MODIFIED 2.4/2.5 BOOTLOADER!!! For some reason the gps is of by about 20 feet when using the modified/hacked bootloader and is almost exact when using the original. The original is also much faster not only with gps but in genreal.

dcd1182 · 28th January 2008, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by l33tlinuxh4x0r

My gps is working better now. This is how I fixed it. First I relocked my phone. Then I upgraded to the original leaked version of 2.16.651.0 and let it do it's thing. DO NOT USE A MODIFIED 2.4/2.5 BOOTLOADER!!! For some reason the gps is of by about 20 feet when using the modified/hacked bootloader and is almost exact when using the original. The original is also much faster not only with gps but in genreal.

no offense, but this is completely false. the bootloader has no effect whatsoever on gps performance.

l33tlinuxh4x0r · 28th January 2008, 03:02 AM

That may be true but for some reason that is what I have noticed. I have not changed any other settings either. Oh and dcd since you are here are you planning on releasing a kitchen for the new gps rom?

hohnan · 28th January 2008, 03:05 AM

Used TomTom on the way home from a Sprint store and the thing followed me the whole way. Told me to turn the split second I got in front of the driveway. I am liking the added feature very much. Only complaint is why do I have to turn on google maps to get the GPS to work?