GPS is bad anyone know why?

[laraiza]

I have been trying to download the best app for directory searches such as stores, restaurants, etc. I've tried a few but some r outdated or they throw in a bunch of off topic results. I'll type in pizza places and it will give some pizza places but it also returns dr offices dept stores whatever and its all mixed together. I recently tried google maps but the GPS seems to be off at least 50% of the time. I live in san antonio texas and it has been setting my location in san angelo, tx, houston,tx sometimes across town. Sometimes i'll get a relatively close location but most times not. It is frustrating me. I came from a BB tour and its gps was always on point 100% of the time. I love the hero but this sucks. Is it a google thing or is it a phone issue. Can someone please give me some feedback. Thanks, Leo

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

have you tried the App Good Food. I loved it on my Pre, and it works just fine for me on the Hero. After the update we can get Urban Spoon and ditch it as that was my favorite app on my ipod touch.
Also: make sure no other GPS app is on when you use it. Make sure you close out all GPS apps before opening another (this didn't give me troubles though when I ran google maps and trapster)

 

[Ginbill]

Yeah.. I had to drive to another store for work to get some things we ran out of stock on and I ended up 30 miles past where I was supposed to be going because my gps wasn't working correctly lol but then again also some operator errors in that haha

 

[bbrosen]

You may want to have it checked out by your carrier, My first hero had really bad GPS, it almost never knew where i was or it disconnected a lot, I swapped the phone and that issue was fixed.

 

[willy900wonka]

Sprint Navigation always matches the road. Btw it seems to deal with "re-routing" well, lol . The yellow pages always finds the proximal stores. The gps based tide prediction programs are neat too.
My marine gps needs signals from at least 12 different satellites. I'm amazed the htc does as well. IIRC they produce the garmin gps phone too.

 

[phearxxx]

Mine seems fine, possibly just a defective hero?

 

[bbrosen]

I have been trying to download the best app for directory searches such as stores, restaurants, etc. I've tried a few but some r outdated or they throw in a bunch of off topic results. I'll type in pizza places and it will give some pizza places but it also returns dr offices dept stores whatever and its all mixed together. I recently tried google maps but the GPS seems to be off at least 50% of the time. I live in san antonio texas and it has been setting my location in san angelo, tx, houston,tx sometimes across town. Sometimes i'll get a relatively close location but most times not. It is frustrating me. I came from a BB tour and its gps was always on point 100% of the time. I love the hero but this sucks. Is it a google thing or is it a phone issue. Can someone please give me some feedback. Thanks, Leo

I have the hero, my first one almost never knew where i was, it was a bad phone, getting it replaced fixed that issue..I use copilot live 8 gps navigation, 34.00 US and it is always spot on. Some of the search by augmented reality and gps programs are not as accurate as a true gps program. It is very hard to compile an accuarate and up to date business listing for these programs. Very data intensive that the average or small dev would not be able to implement too well.