hey

today i had to wait for the bus almost 17 minutes...
so i took my N810, loaded MaemoMapper i tried to get a GPS-Fix

behind me were some trees, but overall, there was a beautiful blue sky and therefore perfect conditions for using GPS

but in the entire waiting time, my N810 was not able to get a GPS-Fix...the status bar was at most half full...

in know, the GPS is not the best and it's always said that it could take some time to get a fix....but 17(!) Minutes under perfect conditions?


then i looked up my version, it's 2.2007.50-2
i found out, that there is at least one newer version available

now the question: could a new FW make the GPS better (getting fix faster etc.)

now to the real topic
i am a bit afraid of updating...of course i can make a backup of my settings and data on the N810, but i read that all my installed applications will be lost after flashing
i wonder if the benefits of an update would be worth all the work of installing and configuring my programms after the flashing

is there really no way to back up all applications and there configuration?