I too was having SIGNIFICANT delay with GPS location. Found on the thunderbolt forum that powering off device, pulling battery and sim card then reinstalling may help. tried it and so far so good.
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Standalone GPS Not Working
- Thread starter Viper Daimao
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Huh, guess I got lucky! I've been checking it constantly since doing it. Now at work and it still seems OK.
Been thinking about throwing a custom ROM on there to see if that helps. Heard Liquid Thundersense 1.45 has some tweaks to help GPS locking.
Been thinking about throwing a custom ROM on there to see if that helps. Heard Liquid Thundersense 1.45 has some tweaks to help GPS locking.
Or not ... it's back to taking FOREVER to lock :*(
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It pisses me off - pay all this money for a device it should work as advertised. WITHOUT having to root it!! GRRRR
Then why is it my D1 can lock on and the TB can't? Sitting side by side ...
yeah me neither - I think it was just coincidence it worked for me that first time. I rooted and loaded up a custom ROM that was supposed to have a GPS locking fix ... still no luck.
Between this and the battery life I am afraid this thing is gonna have to go back
yeah me neither - I think it was just coincidence it worked for me that first time. I rooted and loaded up a custom ROM that was supposed to have a GPS locking fix ... still no luck.
Between this and the battery life I am afraid this thing is gonna have to go back
Hate to quote myself, but I stand corrected. It appears (as of now) that this custom ROM has GREATLY improved my GPS lock - I rebooted after loading it and all seems OK ... for now lol
I saw this in another thread somewhere today and tried it. GPS works great now.
kenoshabrew
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I found a very interesting message from a guy on another forum regarding how the D3 gps works. I thought it was worth sharing.
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The Droid 3 GPS works exceptionally well but definitely differently than all previous Droid devices in that they all utilized the Qualcomm GPS receiver on the radio chipset and the Droid 3 uses the TI OMAP GPS receiver on the SOC instead. This would explain why the Droid 3 does, in fact, get a fix while in Airplane mode very quickly(avg. 3-7s) whereas the D1 cannot, because the radio is disabled and therefore the GPS receiver as well.
Another significant difference with the D3 is that the TI OMAP GPS receiver does not pass on the raw NMEA data from the satellites to the Android system and therefore you will not get a display of the satellite positions in GPS Status or other apps whether graphic or text based.
Rather you just get compass display and pitch/roll from the accellerometer and then the fix position data will populate.
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Original post can be found here:
Droid 3 - Standalone GPS functionality
Good luck everyone.
-Kenoshabrew
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The Droid 3 GPS works exceptionally well but definitely differently than all previous Droid devices in that they all utilized the Qualcomm GPS receiver on the radio chipset and the Droid 3 uses the TI OMAP GPS receiver on the SOC instead. This would explain why the Droid 3 does, in fact, get a fix while in Airplane mode very quickly(avg. 3-7s) whereas the D1 cannot, because the radio is disabled and therefore the GPS receiver as well.
Another significant difference with the D3 is that the TI OMAP GPS receiver does not pass on the raw NMEA data from the satellites to the Android system and therefore you will not get a display of the satellite positions in GPS Status or other apps whether graphic or text based.
Rather you just get compass display and pitch/roll from the accellerometer and then the fix position data will populate.
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Original post can be found here:
Droid 3 - Standalone GPS functionality
Good luck everyone.
-Kenoshabrew