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2007-12-08 , 17:35
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Originally Posted by crawdad View Post
Inside my house, it will NEVER get a lock, but if I bring the 810 inside already GPS-locked, the lock holds firm, rather than degenerating and breaking off as I would have expected.
A GPS receiver can track signals at lower signal strengths than it can acquire them. So if you've acquired with a higher strength signal, it can keep tracking it when the signal gets weaker, but if you try to acquire under those same weaker conditions, it will fail to acquire.