Frequent GPS signal loss

[CyberPonk]

Hey guys, I recently got a brand new HTC U11 , and everything was perfect with the phone until I had to use the GPS navigation.

Even on a clear day with no clouds in the sky, phone stuck to the car windshield and screen always on, the GPS signal will get lost very frequently, like every 10 minutes, and some times it won´t recover until a reboot.

I don´t think it is a case of poor signal, because using a GPS diagnostic app I can see that it is connected to at least 15 sats, and then when it loses signal, it loses all satellites, so it seems to me that GPS location is getting somehow disabled from time to time.

Could anyone point me out to a possible solution?
Maybe the Boost+ is the culprit?

 

[kf2m]

You have to take into consideration that in the last several weeks we have had several geomagnetic storm courtesy of the Sun. When the Sun produces a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), or sunspots develop they will have an effect on satellite communications. The RF output of GPS sat's is very small by time the signal makes it to the planets surface so any disruption in the upper atmosphere will have a negative effect on our GPS's.

 

[CyberPonk]

Wow, I had no idea about that.
But anyway, as I described, it seems to me that this is more like the GPS was turned of, maybe by some power optimizer or something?
In fact, I have an external bluetooth GPS, and when I use it, I get no GPS signal loss at all.

 

[j to the 4n]

Sounds more like a hardware issue to me.
The battery opimization wouldn't kill GPS in an active foreground app.
Actually batttery optimation just kills inactive apps, services.

A 3rd party app could just turn GPS off, when it has root rights.