Thread: Better GPS receivers/chips or what
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cheve is offline cheve
2013-03-25 , 03:00
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Originally Posted by regulus View Post
I've noticed that my N900 can take quite a while to get hold of GPS satellites (especially has problems indoors). On the other hand, newer devices (e.g. iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Note etc.) immediately, sometimes within seconds, report a very accurate location, at the same position as N900.
Is this simply a matter of better receivers built in these new devices, or are they using some sort of other enhancements to make the process quicker?
I don't know what other devices do. However, if you want to improve the performance on N900, you may want to install the GPSJinni. I would start this application 1st and it seems to allow the GPS on N900 to have a good lock in about 2 minutes or so outdoor. Once the GPSjinni get a lock on then I start map -- This is done without wifi or gsm network connections. YMMV,

btw, I now run an external blue tooth reciever, so my locks are less than 15 sec.

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Last edited by cheve; 2013-03-25 at 03:06.
 

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