I am about to get a new phone and considering xperia SP. My question is, is gps on SP any good? I need a phone with good and working gps for strava and car navigation and sony had its fails with gps and xperias before. Cant get from reviews if gps is actualy working. Thanks for any answers
I use gmaps alot and GPS and not had any probs....I have rooted and use faster gps app to speed up connection.
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My 5303 is running the gps like hell. I can get over 6 satellites indoors if 2m from a window. The old Ray didn't come anything near this
I'd say one of the phone GPS's.
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Certainly better than GPS on HTC Desire S. SP has also Glonass, the lock time with AGPS is less than 10s, more than 7 satellites.
unevoljitelj said:
I am about to get a new phone and considering xperia SP. My question is, is gps on SP any good? I need a phone with good and working gps for strava and car navigation and sony had its fails with gps and xperias before. Cant get from reviews if gps is actualy working. Thanks for any answers
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Its having GLONASS GPS which is fastest for latest smartphone i can lock more than 12 satellites under full open sky within 3-5 seconds
I am using gps with sygic mmi.
And I have to say that lockin preiod is very less and gps is very accurate.
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Thanks for all the replys, I guess thats the phone for me
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I have used the Hero for 1.5 years and was very satisfied with its GPS. But the GPS in IS is a real let down. It takes much longer to get a lock (several minutes vs seconds in Hero) and is very unstable even after a lock is acquired.
I thought maybe in Hero I've updated to the latest radio. But not sure if more updated radio will be available for IS later.
Anyone has a different experience?
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My GPS is absolutely fantastic. Same as my Hero.
But waaay better then my Galaxy S.
Have you tried using an app like GPS Status? Using that you can download localised assistance data for the A-GPS chip in your phone to allow it to lock on faster. I start that up when Maps is struggling to lock, refresh the data and it fixes every time.
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My IS gps is better than my Hero gps was, maybe you have a faulty phone ?
My works perfectly aswell
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Have you tried using an app like GPS Status? Using that you can download localised assistance data for the A-GPS chip in your phone to allow it to lock on faster. I start that up when Maps is struggling to lock, refresh the data and it fixes every time.
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Yes, already tried to clear cache and recalibrate with GPS Status. Still not as good as Hero.
Hi all,
I'm facing a terrible problem that i could only realize this weekend when i had to travel to a far place that made me use my GPS for real.
I could only use it for like 10 to 20 min max... the phone gets the hell of hot and then hot reboots. After that i can use GPS no more that 5 to 10 min that it hot reboots again and again.
I use MOTONAV as my GPS app and also using latest CM7 rom.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
W.F
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No one so far?
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See the Motonav/iGo related comments here: http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod4milestone/issues/detail?id=438
E.g. the Sygic Mobile Maps 10 v.8.24 works perfectly on CM7 for Milestone.
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See the Motonav/iGo related comments here: http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod4milestone/issues/detail?id=438
E.g. the Sygic Mobile Maps 10 v.8.24 works perfectly on CM7 for Milestone.
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Thanks Kadalban... even being a superior one among us, you are always here to help.
Thanks a lot!!
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For me the problem persists; I think the GPS just reports too many connection drops, and this finally stalls the software (google maps, motonav, mytracks...).
I have found different software packages to present different behavior.
I have trouble running for example IGO and Mireo Don't Panic (I have to note though that mireo sometimes runs for more than 2 hours before crashing and rebooting the device).
So far the software I have found to be trouble free is Copilot.
Hi,I've updated my note to latest ics lpy..
I noticed gps isn't as precise as it was in GB.
I always lock 2 sats less than GB and the track are not good as GB.
Did anyone niticed that?
thank you!
What GPS app are you using? I have noticed no difference in performance, I still get a lighting fast lock in any app I use so much so I show off indoors with the Note's great GPS ability.
GPS working fine on my lpy Note, but in the beginning i have problem with lock, after restart Note everything is ok.
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What GPS app are you using? I have noticed no difference in performance, I still get a lighting fast lock in any app I use so much so I show off indoors with the Note's great GPS ability.
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I'm using oruxmaps to record tracks.I did the same journey and ICS tracks are less precise.
Also in gpstest shown satellites in ICS are 14 instead of 17 in GB..also the precision in ics is always switching among 6-8-12 meters and in gb in constantly 5 meters..
what is the best precision you can get in ics using gpstest?
thank you
Yep you are right 8-12 metres, 14 satellites v/u. 10 minute test. No clouds,
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Yep you are right 8-12 metres, 14 satellites v/u. 10 minute test. No clouds,
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even the tracklogs are not so good as GB..
does anybody know why?
maybe something to change in the settings?
I use gps very often,if there isn't a solution I'll go back to GB..
Maybe try LPF rom?
Hi all, i wanted to ask which is the best rom for gps navigation because i will travel and i need the best gps rom could anyone help me ?
For what I know the thing that affects GPS is the baseband, ril & kernel. Not really about the rom itself.
I use temasek rom and kernel. Gps works great, very fast fix!
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Any recommendations on which gps app to use?
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Any recommendations on which gps app to use?
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Sygic 11.2.6. been using it since i got my phone. Great
its important to use mobile data for A-GPS for quick fix.
and i use navigon, its very good navigation software.
i would also suggest you Sygic (3d, new maps, high quality), as well as FasterGps (by Dominik Schürmann, creator of AdAway)
In addition, you can also use GpsFix by Android Labs for a faster gps fix
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Sygic 11.2.6. been using it since i got my phone. Great
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I use sygic too and am so far pleased. If you have a car charger use it or change the settings for better performance (more battery drain but lot faster). It is the default profil if the phone is charging. I don't use A-gps cause the data over mobile network is still expensive here in Greece!
Thanks everyone for the reply! I just installed Sygic and it's wonderful. Thanks.
Just a simple poll to find out the general opinion of Xperia SP users here. Answer and leave any comments :highfive:
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Just a simple poll to find out the general opinion of Xperia SP users here. Answer and leave any comments :highfive:
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Will decide it after 4.3 update...but till now very satisfied with everything except the camera and wifi
The bad wifi range is very annoying also the broken auto brightness.
Hopefully 4.3 can bring improvements
It is a pretty good device seeing as I came from xperia arc which it had it's faults like low internal memory, small amount of ram.
For me the Sp had decent specs like all phones it has problems. Which phone don't? WiFi, camera, could be better, will see if new update fixed anything
satisfied except for the RAM issue.
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Satisfied
Being my first expensive smartphone i am satisfied with the phone expect following issues:
>CAmera
>Flat Surface touch Prob.
>RAM Management problem
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Being my first expensive smartphone i am satisfied with the phone expect following issues:
>CAmera
>Flat Surface touch Prob.
>RAM Management problem
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Not my first phone but I agree
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Best phone I ever had I don't have any problems and my RAM management is good and the phone is very fast
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Everything awsome................ except wifi lux sensor. Camera n ram management......
Is the wifi dorp issues due to the aluminum frame?... Where is the antenna located on our devices???
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Everything awsome................ except wifi lux sensor. Camera n ram management......
Is the wifi dorp issues due to the aluminum frame?... Where is the antenna located on our devices???
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Not facing any wifi drop problem after using Some fix mentioned in thread.
Btw root is needed
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Oh ok kinda hoping for the best with the new update..... If still not resolved will root n try the fix
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I am happy, altho there are some small bugs I can live with them
satisfied, but annoyed with:
bad camera (i seldom snap pics though)
bad ram management (walkman fc, keyboard fc, launcher redraws quite often)
touch screen sometimes loses sensitivity (leaving glove-mode switched on solves this, glove-mode doesn't need to be activated)
no led indicator in stamina mode (wth)
wifi seems weak (tbh i think it's fine, just the signal not showing true strength)
Highly Satisfied.
What I love:
-Impressive UI, It was my first Xperia Since I've been using Galaxy before. Xperia UI is MUCH better.
-Smoothness
-I love the LED illumination lights.. (But I wish it was like before that i can customize the color for some contacts even New Message or Unread.)
-Gaming Experience..
-Fast data connection..
-Good battery Life..
-Updates..
-And of Course Active Developers of this phone. )
Downsides but i can live with it:
-Camera.
-Wifi Range.
Overall.. I am Highy satisfied with my XSP C5303 experience. )