How's your GPS?

[angieutc]

It makes me wonder how the Iphone always got such a fast fix on Google no matter where I was. Weird.

Amen Ken! My iphone had the absolute BEST GPS of any device I ever used. It locked fast and was frighteningly accurate. That is the only thing I miss about that phone...and I do mean only!!!!!

 

[cltatenza]

Amen Ken! My iphone had the absolute BEST GPS of any device I ever used. It locked fast and was frighteningly accurate. That is the only thing I miss about that phone...and I do mean only!!!!!

That's because the iPhone is always watching you...

 

[angieutc]

That's because the iPhone is always watching you...

LOL! LOL! Good one

 

[hooskins]

Hopefully the ee4 update fixes the GPS time issue. Don't use the charge to generalize Android vs Apple. My D1s GPS was lighting fast and had no issues. In fact it worked a bunch of times when my friends iPhones' GPS were messing up.

 

[jkpitcher#AC]

gps issues here

GPS takes a long time to connect. When it does connect it works really good unless I try to do anything else. Was trying to listen to music from my phone using the headphone jack plugged into the car stereo. Within 2 minutes of starting the music GPS signal is lost and will not come back until I close the music program and the navigation app, turn off and back on the GPS. Then it still takes 2 minutes or so to find the signal. I thought at first it was a power issue even though I had it plugged in with a car charger. I am still within my 14 day period and may have to take the thing back if it cant handle two tasks at one time which are the same two tasks I could do on a blackberry.

 

[basscadet]

I love this phone but the GPS is just abysmal. I can be standing outside without any structures around and this thing just can NOT get a GPS signal. I've waited over a minute and I get nothing.

My iPhone would find me and lock in GPS every time, it was rock-solid.

Is there any connection between 4G and GPS issues? I am in a 4G area.

 

[Ken7]

You're not alone Skullbussa. Mine can take several minutes before locking on. I think the GPS is every bit as sensitive as the antenna that captures that 'robust' 4G signal. In other words it's pretty bad.

 

[basscadet]

Ken, you're right.

I just took my phone outside (I'm in downtown San Antonio, surrounded by tall buildings) and turned off LTE. I then fired up Google Navigation and I IMMEDIATELY got a GPS lock-on.

Sounds like there's definitely interference either in the antenna or on the chip itself where 4G/LTE totally jacks up GPS.

 

[skathol]

Re: gps issues here

GPS takes a long time to connect. When it does connect it works really good unless I try to do anything else. Was trying to listen to music from my phone using the headphone jack plugged into the car stereo. Within 2 minutes of starting the music GPS signal is lost and will not come back until I close the music program and the navigation app, turn off and back on the GPS. Then it still takes 2 minutes or so to find the signal. I thought at first it was a power issue even though I had it plugged in with a car charger. I am still within my 14 day period and may have to take the thing back if it cant handle two tasks at one time which are the same two tasks I could do on a blackberry.

I observed the same GPS signal lost issue - On a long driving vacation I spent many hours using the navigator in my car dock. Never had a problem with GPS signal loss. Until, on some long drives, I plugged in my headset and listened to audio. I started to occasionally get a pop-up with "GPS Signal Lost" and the navigator would freeze. After a minute or 2, the navigator would reaquire and continue. Without the headset - never had a dropout. With the headset - probably one dropout per 2 hours.