My experience with the n810 (I never installed any agps package) GPS was universally awful except in a few lucky circumstances when I randomly got a GPS signal.
The n900 GPS is quite good and almost always acquires a signal quickly. Granted, it is not good when you are away from signals such as wifi or cell. Eric Tyson Sawyer wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > >> I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS. >> Result: Invalid. >> > > [...] > > >> Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks. >> > > Though I agree that the N810 is not as good a GPS is most others, once > the AGPS package had bee installed my experience was much better than > what you are reporting. You have not indicated if you had the AGPS > package installed. Last I knew, it was not a standard package. If > you didn't make a point to install it, its not there. Without it, it > is my impression that you always get a cold start. > > Response to some other comments: > > It is well documented that GPS's typically assume that they are > restarted near where they where last used. The documentation of every > GPS I have ever bought says that if you turn it off and then transport > it a long distance before turning it on again, it will take much > longer to get a fix. The N810 without the AGPS package seems not able > to do even this simple trick. > > Though I've never seen any problem with slow movement, I have seen > (esp. on the N810) that highway speeds can hinder an initial fix. > > Cheers! > Ty > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
