I don't travel through any tunnels nor have I experienced any gps drop. I have assisted gps turned on in Kaisertweak. If I am not using any of the above benefits of assisted gps would I get any better gps performance or accuracy from turning off the assisted gps?
when reading the forum i think people are confusing the two
our diamond has quick-gps standard. this means that it will download a list of sattelites from the internet and use this to get a faster lock.
a-gps is also available, but with adanced config only.
a-gps helps you inpositioning your device with the help of your phone network.
turning on a-gps has a negative impact on tom-tom. (reported on this forum) quick gps works very good with tomtom.
a-GPS is a logical extention to GPS if a wireless (not wifi) signal is present it allows the phone to maintain a GPS signal indoors, or areas of low gps signal.
It is NOT what some phones have reported as GPS by giving you the Cell area you are located in which may be accurate to > 100meters
It uses the cell phone to pin point the rough area it is in, then using incomplete GPS signal at the phone and / or the strong GPS signal at the A-GPS trasmitter to work out your location, it is possible for a trasmitter to be stationed indoors which will allow you to maintain a GPS lock indoors.
there is no reason it should have any effect on tomtom or anything else because its still getting accurate GPS signals all be it relayed from an earth based trasmitter.
quick GPS is a system that lets you lock on to sats quicker by giving the GPS reciever a list of information that "should" be in that area, by having this info it doesnt have to fart about to much getting GPS locks on sats that are not totally available.
I just got this phone a few days ago and I'm camping in Maryland now and I've been playing with it. Is the GPS on this thing true standalone GPS or is it track-you-like-a-tagged-animal-thru-the-cell-towers-GPS? The way GPSTest and Google Navigation behave gives me hope it is the better standalone type. Any confirmation?
the SGS is not standalone GPS.. But mine works well and has stopped me from getting lost a few times.
for some is works well for others it dont.
you are one of the lucky ones
Correct my understanding, are u asking that our SGS has gps capability without network signal?
If thats ur question, then the answer is Yes
/nik on MIUI
So I've got one answer for NO and one answer for YES, LOL. So does it or does it not have independent GPS hardware in it?
SGS I9000 has standalone GPS hardware .
It also has A_GPS thats the network/Wifi add on for faster GPS lock etc .
GPS on cold boot no Wifi shows 6 satellites indoors with a 10 m error .
The specifications show it .
Broadcom BCM4751 chipset
The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S comes with a GPS receiver, which got a satellite lock in about three minutes with A-GPS turned off. A-GPS can speed this up quite a bit, but requires Internet access.
jje
Check your model as their are some variants .
GPS test remove sim card turn off wireless .
Delete GPS data .
Get satellite lock or show satellites = GPS hardware as the A_GPS and Network Towers cannot work .
jje
KDOG2020 said:
So I've got one answer for NO and one answer for YES, LOL. So does it or does it not have independent GPS hardware in it?
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Yes it does, at least on the internation version. But as JJEgan said it won't lock on as quickly if you have your WiFi/mobile network turned off, as it would if you had them turned on.
hi,
just out of curiosity, is there a way to disable beidou and/or glonass so there is just gps, or just gps and glonass for example running on the device?
Hello. I need help. With GPS. He works on rom for S3 LTE. The problem is that the satellite receiver sees GLONASS satellites only when the device is turned on after installing the romu. If it is restarted, GLONASS satellites can not see. I discovered that one thing, namely when you do not install the csc is every time a GLONASS satellite is found. I do not know where the problem is. Please help.