[Q] External GPS

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Has anyone experience with the connection of the galaxy with a bluetooth GPS ? My car's windows are provided with a heat shield made of a metal film, i can only use a bluetooth GPS in my cars GPS windows.
I would use Sygic.
I'm now using a HTC Touch Pro WM6.5 and it works fine with a Bluetooth GPS

I contacted Samsung with my question but the only answer i got was that i had tot contact route 66 ???

The bluetooth GPS is for me the point to buy a galaxy or not<;

Don't buy any android phone, far as I know, bt gps not supported on android. May be some workarounds for specific programs.

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Originally Posted by Bynar010

Don't buy any android phone, far as I know, bt gps not supported on android. May be some workarounds for specific programs.

Its a pity that android does not suport external gps.. I'd like to use that too. (I just got a Galaxy S).

I think the galaxy S has a socket for gps antenna on the back (under the cover).. so you can at least try to plug in one of those 5€ ebay gps 1.5ghz antennas to improve signal. Just put the magnetic box on the roof of your car.

As I've replied in the GPS Poll thread, I believe TrekBuddy supports external GPS just fine, so I wouldn't think it's Android limitation rather than a choice of the programmers of most apps - IMO they just don't bother supporting external GPS when there's not a single Android device that doesn't have internal...(I guess).

I guess you got a point when you say that all Android devices have a gps chip embedded. But I sill think it's an Android limitation not supporting an external gps.

On Symbian devices, you just have to say 'use bluetooth gps' in your application once you've paired it.
In WinMo the internal gps has a com port, so does the external when you hook it up. Again you tell the gps software which com port it has to use.

This kind of association does not exist inside Android. You can hook up a external GPS, but no program will access it. The OS itself doesn't have access to it.

BTW I looked this up, but I could not find what chip goes inside the SGS. Is it SirfStar III? Can anyone confirm?

Originally Posted by guibao

BTW I looked this up, but I could not find what chip goes inside the SGS. Is it SirfStar III? Can anyone confirm?

It is a Broadcom BCM 4751 chip. Designed on a friday afternoon, after a long, well-wined lunch. Or so I heard. But I hear a lot of nonsensical rumours.

Originally Posted by Beowulf_pt

It is a Broadcom BCM 4751 chip. Designed on a friday afternoon, after a long, well-wined lunch. Or so I heard. But I hear a lot of nonsensical rumours.

Beowulf_pt did you manage to redirect data from external GPS?

I can read data with "bluetooh GPS" aplication but i did not find any redirect software.

I have a Hollux receiver that say's 10 satelites in use rather then 8 of the galaxy.

Originally Posted by jllb

Beowulf_pt did you manage to redirect data from external GPS?

I can read data with "bluetooh GPS" aplication but i did not find any redirect software.

I have a Hollux receiver that say's 10 satelites in use rather then 8 of the galaxy.

You got me wrong. I'm not trying to use the BT GPS with the SGS as that is currently not possible in android. No native stack support nor navigation apps that use the units over the internal GPS. Only that little experimental app that reads NMEA data but has no real use. I hope Android gets this in 3.0 but I doubt it.

What I will try to do with the Samsung is to connect it to an external amplified GPS antenna (1.5 GHz) via the connector on the back of the samsung (net to the SIM card).

I have not recieved the antenna yet so I can't comment... but it should at least provide some better SNR results.

PS: I also have a Holux. It is quite nice, I use it a lot with my Nokia E72 and it works fine unlike the SGS :P

Originally Posted by guibao

I guess you got a point when you say that all Android devices have a gps chip embedded. But I sill think it's an Android limitation not supporting an external gps.

I can understand their decision not to invest time in this as all android devices have an internal GPS... but time has proven that that is a bad idea as many units have really poor GPS. The Galaxy S is probably the worst of them all.
Without the ability to use an externa receiver you're pretty much screwed... no alternatives at all.

Guys,

Did any one try this app ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...66#post7703266

Originally Posted by jllb

Guys,

Did any one try this app ?
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7703266#post7703266

this is the site of the developer :
mobile-j.de/snipsnap/space/start

wonder if it's works well, pitty it doesn't support sygic and others ....