GPS and 3G speeds?

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was reading over at Androidforums.com about people turning off GPS on the Shift and getting faster 3G speeds because of it.

my results are always inconsistent where i am (jumping between 300 and 600kbps) but my fastest speeds are going from 600kbps to 1mbps and i have never gotten 1mbps where i am with any phone. (blackberry tour, palm pre, Evo)

wondering if some of you want to try it out and confirm what i'm seeing?

I shall try this outside but right now at work I have crappy signal because of the building itself

Just tested on mine, 556k down with GPS on, 1555k with it off.

Interesting. I'd have never noticed that because I keep GPS Off all the time unless I have an app that needs it. Sometimes every drop of power counts.

I wonder if it would change wifi speeds too?

I've tried this and it didn't make a difference. I do, however, get slower 3g speeds with this phone than with the other one i had.

Originally Posted by Kirby Baker

Just tested on mine, 556k down with GPS on, 1555k with it off.

Wow, are you sure you are not on 4G? Speaking of 4G, anybody see improvements disabling GPS there as well?

Originally Posted by silex

Wow, are you sure you are not on 4G? Speaking of 4G, anybody see improvements disabling GPS there as well?

Yeah quite sure. I live in the sticks. I wont ever have 4G here. But the 3G here is super fast (probably because nobody is on it?). On my Heroc, I think I maxed out around 1720k down once (using Speedtest app and a server 45 miles north of me).

Just for the hell of it, I tested again just now and got 1815k down, 585k up. So looks like I beat my old record!