GPS is not Very good

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The gps is not very good atleast it is not working very well in my phone.
I tried using cardio trainer. And the gps jumps about. Plus the gps signal shown is very low can anyone put their phone gps through the paces and then tell me should I ask for a replacement or its in all phones

Mines fine.

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Mine works fine, GPS is actually pretty good as navigation tells you the road names..!

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

The gps is not very good atleast it is not working very well in my phone.

Can you clarify if you're talking about hardware or software?

And did you compare GS with other GPS at the very same time and place?

I too am seeing poor performance with the GPS. Seems to be a hardware issue.

I did a test over the weekend comparing my Galaxy S with a friend's HTC Desire. Using one of the many GPS utilities the Desire was consistently seeing and locking more satellites when stood in an open area outside. When running Google maps and showing the current location I found that the "accuracy circle" (for want of a better description) was growing and shrinking several times a minute causing the map to zoom in and out.

I've also noticed that the compass is almost unusable and showing a much lower signal compared to the Desire. I did perform the figure of 8 calibration several times.

Not tried the GPS yet, but I'm amazed how accurate network location is on this thing.

On my old G1 network location was laughable, but this thing knows pretty much exactly where it is without GPS.

Originally Posted by MarvinTheAndroid

Not tried the GPS yet, but I'm amazed how accurate network location is on this thing.

On my old G1 network location was laughable, but this thing knows pretty much exactly where it is without GPS.

probably having wifi on? google can locate you more precise cause it has registered every wifi network during the streetview picture taking.

Originally Posted by tommy34

probably having wifi on? google can locate you more precise cause it has registered every wifi network during the streetview picture taking.

No, this is with wifi turned off.

Originally Posted by tommy34

probably having wifi on? google can locate you more precise cause it has registered every wifi network during the streetview picture taking.

Lol what kind of anti-google propaganda have you been reading?

Google streetview cars collected data of open wifi networks.
Besides from the fact that google doesn't use the data (which it isn't allowed to have), there are by far not enough open wifi networks to find your location.
Also. You have to have at least 3 networks to be able to determine a location using wifi access points.

So the statement you just made is rubbish and ofcourse nonsense...

Originally Posted by BasieP

Lol what kind of anti-google propaganda have you been reading?

Google streetview cars collected data of open wifi networks.
Besides from the fact that google doesn't use the data (which it isn't allowed to have), there are by far not enough open wifi networks to find your location.
Also. You have to have at least 3 networks to be able to determine a location using wifi access points.

So the statement you just made is rubbish and ofcourse nonsense...

i dont care about it, i like it.
hmm. just figured this because where i live there arent any open networks and with wifi on it knows my exact location. Without wifi it has a 1600 m radius.

The GPS seems to work flawlessly for me at least.