Poor GPS performance.

[wynand32]

Swapping the phone will do nothing. The GPS bugs are in the firmware shared by all Epics. Neither Sprint nor Samsung acknowledge them to be bugs. But users are hoping they get fixed anyway.

If you can't live with these shortcomings, I advise you to return the Epic while you can and wait. Then, after the Froyo release, you can try buying another one and maybe the GPS bugs will be fixed. (Anecdotal reports, without controlled testing, indicate that they might be.) The Froyo release is supposed to be out Real Soon Now, if you believe that.

Thanks for all that, much appreciated. I have 30 days, so I suppose I'll wait for Froyo (seriously, can't go much past Christmas, can it?!?) and see if it's fixed. If not, then I can always get an Evo. Heck, that's even a bit less expensive.

 

[Paul627g]

Just a little of my 2 cents thrown in...

One, my wife and I are rooted and running TrulyEpic and Mammon's Bonsai ROMs. I've tried many of the current DK28 based custom ROMs and GPS isn't too bad. Every once in a while I get a burp in Google Maps at home where it locks in a few blocks away and I have to reboot the phone and then its back to locking in my location in about 10 seconds at 2-3 meters.

Last night my wife and I went for a drive about 300 miles round trip, from the city life to the middle of nowhere. First we never went off Sprint's network once, no roaming which was a thumbs up on Sprints part considering at points nearest city life was at 20-40 miles away. Second I ran Google Navigator and my wife had Sprint Navigation running on her Epic and rolling at 80 mph down the highway things were right on the money always when coming up to exits and interchanges. GPS was working really nice.

Not too sure what it does on stock Eclair 2.1 since we never really did a drive of this type/distance when stock. I do know that when I was on Eclair the best I could do was a 15-30 second lock at about 30-50 meters on Google Maps at home. Running rooted on DK28 ROMs with the latest GPS fixes in place things were just as you would expect from your GPS, just perfect....

By the way out of that 300 miles round trip from big city to middle of nothing where you saw a farm house on the side of the highway once every few miles we only lost GPS signal one time for a brief 2 or 3 seconds... Not bad..

Just thought I would share my little experience with 2 Epic's running side by side using 2 different GPS programs.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

I can't seen to get any gps signal today or yesterday. I don't know what it is. Really hope its fixes in 2.2.