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Question for the Android gurus out there:

Is there any inherent reason we can't have network location and/or aGPS running on Android? I love all of the apps available that use my location to find restaurants, etc. But these are essentially useless with the current state of the GPS, which takes several minutes to achieve a lock, and loses it as soon as it goes to sleep.

Are these things inherently unachievable, or is it just something we haven't delved into yet?

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Question for the Android gurus out there:

Is there any inherent reason we can't have network location and/or aGPS running on Android? I love all of the apps available that use my location to find restaurants, etc. But these are essentially useless with the current state of the GPS, which takes several minutes to achieve a lock, and loses it as soon as it goes to sleep.

Are these things inherently unachievable, or is it just something we haven't delved into yet?

TIA

Mike
you have to tell us what build you are running. agps works fine for me with myns warm dount. google location does not. has to be unchecked

 
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Question for the Android gurus out there:

Is there any inherent reason we can't have network location and/or aGPS running on Android? I love all of the apps available that use my location to find restaurants, etc. But these are essentially useless with the current state of the GPS, which takes several minutes to achieve a lock, and loses it as soon as it goes to sleep.

Are these things inherently unachievable, or is it just something we haven't delved into yet?

TIA

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i guess you didnt read my search before asking thread
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i guess you didnt read my search before asking thread
I guess you didn't read my question. It has not been answered anywhere here before, I follow these forums daily.

But thanks, anyway, for the useless and douchebaggy post.
 
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I guess you didn't read my question. It has not been answered anywhere here before, I follow these forums daily.

But thanks, anyway, for the useless and douchebaggy post.
As incubus pointed out, aGPS works fine with Myn's Donut build. It lacks Location though, but the port is still not perfect, which is why we still have some features that might not work properly or at all.

As much as I don't agree with the tone in your post, I have to agree with you in the sense that cp0020's answer was a bit out of place. Having said that, try to ask the cook for the particular build you are concerned with about the issue that you are having by posting in the respective thread, rather than opening new threads. This way, it will make the forum cleaner as threads with questions have a bad tendency of repeating. Thank you for understanding.

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I guess you didn't read my question. It has not been answered anywhere here before, I follow these forums daily.

But thanks, anyway, for the useless and douchebaggy post.
dude if your gonna act like a little kid and have no respect for anyone, especially in this forum then you shouldnt be here. and there are tons and tons of posts about this so dont even sit there and get an attitude with me cause i said to search. if your gonna put a new thread out then you need to say that you have searched the forum and cant find anything. that simple. now if your gonna continue to to be apart of this community then you need to change your attitude and have some respect for others. hope im being clear enough!!!!
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THis thread has been reported and due to the lack of respect to other users (against xda rules) this thread is now closed.

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