Thread: GPS on N900 without connecting to Internet?
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abill_uk is offline abill_uk
2010-04-25 , 15:41
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Originally Posted by myk View Post
I noticed this too. I had some success with running a different map program (e.g. Mæmap) , wait until it gets a lock (might be 20 minutes!!), then start Nokia maps.

Or use a cheap external bluetooth GPS, which works so much better (away from the city).

Of course Ovi/Nokia maps on the n900 is such a piece of junk, why bother? I miss maemo mapper from the n8x0.
The reason Ovi Maps dont work on the N900 is because the prgramme itself does not drive the gps device in the N900 the way it should as Ovi Maps was written for a broad spectrum of gps chips and as the app does not allow configuration to the N900 gps chip direct it will never work, the reason GPSjinnie works so well is because the writer obviously had the spec or enough info to write the app to drive the gps chip properly in the N900.
Your advice to get an external bluetooth gps is fair comment and probably the only way to get gps working on the N900 as long as it is configurable to the bluetooth gps device directly within its software from within the os of the N900.