I was having a play with the Sat Nav on my recently purchased Desire Z yesterday (the built in one) and it seemed to work pretty good until I went off the suggested route, then it just reported message about no data or something.
It still tracked me on the map but the highlighted route didn't "re-direct" in any way like most Sat Navs would/do. Wasn't a problem at the time because I was only driving locally but thought not much help if I am actually using it for it's purpose.
So........ is there a way around this for the built in Sat Nav, or does it simply calculate the route before you set off and thats it?
Or, are there better Sat Nav apps out there which you all use?
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I am having some problems with sat nav Both paid for Co pilot and google maps.
Both progs run fine for a bout 6 hours then crash. The phone completly siezes and requires a battery flip to reboot. The sat nav then runs but crashes frequently
The general thoughts are that there is a hardware problem but I am open to suggestions.
To add to the problem. I bought the phone off ebay but it is still within the first 12 months warrenty. So if I need to send it back to HTC where do I stand with regards to its rooted and has a custom rom. I dont think the phone was a network phone as it has no netwok logos on it.
I was out using my phone GPS on 3 local golf courses and noticed my GPS was always 10-20 m off from known distance markers on the course. I had been using my GPS and a few different golf apps early in the season, March and it was always right on 0-2m difference. I did update to the newer radio since march from 7.28, would this cause an issue? I am going to try GPS status app and reset Agps data as suggested by a few others, but thought I would ask if anyone else is seeing this consistent offset?
I am now using
CM7.1RC
Incredikernel 6/272011
radio 2.15.10.05.06
Very well could be the new radio. I'd flash back to 7.28, I've found it to be the most solid.
i've had all sorts of GPS issues with cm7 and the newer radios...cardiotrainer and google nav (and maps) always seem to jump all over the place. this was with the newest gingerbread radio, i've also used either 11.19 or 09.01, i can't remember which (i might have even tried both).
i just flashed back to 07.28 (from the newest gingerbread radio) in an attempt to resolve it. i'll let you know tomorrow what i find when i drive into work...
edit: after just going outside, i don't hold out much hope for this having fixed it. it's almost like every time i turn the screen off or put an app in the background, i lose gps lock. if i'm in maps and it sees my location, and i go back to the home screen then back to maps again, it'll see me a few yards away then quickly jump back to my current location. it's really annoying...
I am going to give that radio(7.28) a shot as well. Any update on your GPS, did you get a chance to try it on your commute?
I've got a really short drive (only about 5 miles or so), but the results so far look promising. As soon as I pulled out of the garage and opened maps, it got a gps lock within a few seconds. Tracked me all the way to work and seemed to be spot on the whole time. Even checking into foursquare once I got here it was on the mark more so than it had been lately.
Like i said, promising ....but I don't wanna say it's fixed for sure yet. I've got a longer drive coming up this weekend that ill test it on.
Also, I'm wondering how it would fare if I were to turn the screen off (like I would if I were running with cardiotrainer) ...
EDIT: Well I took a drive with gingerbread radio 2.15.10.05.06, had me off the road on google maps. Flashed 7.28 and had me in the correct lane. I will check with my golf apps tonight and see how it is looking.
Dan
Good to hear, I am going to flash old radio in an hour and try on the golf course, and I will track in google maps as well and see. I'll post tonight again with my results.
Thanks for the update
crackers8199 said:
I've got a really short drive (only about 5 miles or so), but the results so far look promising. As soon as I pulled out of the garage and opened maps, it got a gps lock within a few seconds. Tracked me all the way to work and seemed to be spot on the whole time. Even checking into foursquare once I got here it was on the mark more so than it had been lately.
Like i said, promising ....but I don't wanna say it's fixed for sure yet. I've got a longer drive coming up this weekend that ill test it on.
Also, I'm wondering how it would fare if I were to turn the screen off (like I would if I were running with cardiotrainer) ...
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GPS working with the 7.28 radio. My GPS went from 10-20 yards off any marker on the golf course to 0-3 yards off.
Same here, I think.
Standing inside subway, went to check in on foursquare...says I'm 43 feet away. Other radios would consistently have me anywhere from a few hundred feet to a half mile or more away.
Seems 07.28 is the best radio for GPS.
On my long drive this weekend (2.5 hrs roughly), GPS was pretty much dead on the entire time.
7.28 seems to fix GPS issues, at least for me.
i tested on to road trips over the July 4th weekend and GPS was working perfectly. I guess we will have to wait for a new radio from the upcoming Incredible update everyone keeps mentioning. Guessing the leaked Radio still has some bugs to be ironed out.
Perhaps I spoke too soon, my run today with endomondo was off by a bit but only in one direction (ran around a track, had me on the track for the length of the field but the turns on the ends of the track were off by about 10 feet).
I'll check it again tomorrow if I get a chance to run...
Edit : much better today. Yesterday must have been anomaly, although I did clear the gps earlier today. Perhaps that helped.
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i tested on to road trips over the July 4th weekend and GPS was working perfectly. I guess we will have to wait for a new radio from the upcoming Incredible update everyone keeps mentioning. Guessing the leaked Radio still has some bugs to be ironed out.
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Have you been ok since? Endomondo is jumping all over the place again today on my run...
Seems clearing gps data fixed it, at least momentarily. Went into gps status app, cleared gps data then downloaded a gps data, then did a quick reboot and walked a mile...dot was spot on every time I checked it.
I have my phone rooted stock but this problem has been around since before I did that. It seems an update to Google Maps changed something a while back and it is really starting to drive me crazy.
Scenario: I am driving, using navigation, and listening to podcasts in BeyondPod. I switch from Navigation to BeyondPod to change something and when I switch back to navigation it's as if it forgot everything and has to find the route all over again. It goes through the "Getting Driving Directions" thing and this is very annoying if I'm in an area where there is weak cell signal and it can sit there for over a minute or two.
This did not used to happen. It just ran in the background and I could switch to and from without it having to reload every single time.
Has anyone else experienced this?
If I try to navigate from the Zenwatch, the phone brings up google navigate even if the phone is sleeping. I would think that might be an issue in a pocket, but that's not the biggest issue.
The destination seems to get set correctly but neither the phone or the watch continues to navigate. They both seem to lock up.
Subsequently any other Nav app (I hope Waze gets Wear support soon) is unable to navigate as they are unable to get GPS lock. Looking at other GPS helper apps shows zero sats in range. Stopping/Restarting location services doesn't solve the problem. Only resetting the phone does.
Maybe it's just me. Sprint HTC One Max, stock. Anybody else?
I noticed this the other day when I was testing out navigation for fun. Once I took my phone out of my pocket, it seemed like it was able to get a lock again and things went more smoothly. I know gps can be a bit sensitive sometimes and maybe having it right next to your leg like that blocks the signal?
When the problem (GPS lockup) manifests there is nothing that will get it going other than a phone reset. I normally have my phone in a holder high on my dash where gets good reception, but when it gets in that state, not even one satellite shows a hint of a signal. Today I even made sure to stand outside holding my phone up in clear sky just to be sure.
Even if I don't access nav Google maps or Micro Maps from the watch it still locks up at some unknown point. I normally keep GPS on all of the time and have a number of apps that store locations from time-to-time. When I get in my car, Waze automatically starts but I can't get any sat signals until I reset my phone.
I'm experimenting with a theory that another member brought up in a different thread that there may be a connection with using a watch face that also includes weather and the number of GPS requests it makes. I've changed to the basic face that is in all of the marketing photos and continuing to test. I guess my next step will be to leave the watch at home :crying: to make sure that something wonky hasn't happened with the phone itself.
Are there any other frequent GPS users out there that can confirm or haven't experienced the problem? It doesn't seem to matter if you use the nav functionality on the watch.
The updates this morning seem to have fixed the problem.
Having issues with waze app and GPS. I've always had GPS issues with all of the Note series, so this doesn't surprise me. But this time around it seems like waze is the only one acting oddly. Specifically when I'm on a guided route waze intermittently sees me in a different area, most commonly when I'm on the highway it will see me on a side street running parallel to the highway. So then it thinks I'm off course and routes me back onto the highway or another direction, but I'm still on the highway. Sometimes I think it even sees me traveling a different direction, many times I'll be on the highway and it will want me to do 2 u-turns, changing directions twice but ending up going the same way as before. I also see the arrow icon representing my car on the map will constantly turn as if waze can't tell which direction I'm traveling.
My first thought is faulty GPS. I've ran Google Maps and it seems pretty solid, with none of those errors, but I'll have to test some more. Just wanted to see if anyone else got this? I may switch back to an older APK and try that as well.
No problems here. I noticed the 7's gps is way faster than my note 4 too. It finds my location on a second. My note 4 would take 5 to 10 seconds to lock in
I am having the same issue with Waze on my Note 7. It thinks i have turned onto a side road so it trys to redirect me to the the road im acually on. Its seems to think im about 30 to 50 feet to the right on the screen no matter what direction on the compass i am going.
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I've been having an issue when I'm stopped at the light, and the screen will start to spin around. It's like Waze forgot which way I was going so turns me around & recalculates the route...repeat.
Improvement over my Note 3 which regularly couldn't find a GPS signal or lost it in the middle of driving somewhere.
Were issue
I have been having issues also bit but only with the voice guidance. I get hazard alerts but that's it. Any thoughts on this?
waze always seemed to place me about 50 feet to the right of the road. It spent a lot of time recalculating on/off ramps when it didn't think I was driving through corn fields. I figured it was just a calibration issue with my device and didn't do anything about it before swapping it for a non-exploding phone.
I had no problem with my recalled Note 7. The replacement is messing up with waze. All the symptoms listed above are happening. Ugh
Hmm..that's not good..I still need to get mine replaced...
No GPS issues with Waze on my note 7. I use it daily and mine is a replacement. The only issue im having with Waze is the voice commands. The three finger option and waving just don't do anything! Anyone have an issue with that? I want my one eyed purple monster back!
IDK, I haven't checked on my Note 7 yet, I find this a bit funny though, Most GPS's should be accurate to within something like 5 feet, They are really accurate to within fractions of an inch but the Government and Military makes sure that the firmware on the GPS's for use by the general public are locked out of that level of accuracy. It really is a joke these days.
Do a search and in the search box enter in 2##2 to enable debugging and then enter in ##@rawgps and it will show you what your phone is reporting as the actual raw GPS via a yellow arrow. Send in a debug log on the very bottom of the settings every day. Could be possible that Waze can make adjustments to the note 7. I personally haven't noticed any issues with either phone yet, I do also keep my phone in a case and in a windshield car holder with a good view of the sky. When I ran the app for the first time though I did have to toggle location off and on to get Waze to get a GPS lock.
I returned my replacement unit and got another Note 7. No change. Waze is still showing me taking exits and being on the side road before correcting. Very annoying and the constant recalculate and accompanying chime make it onerous to use. Google maps seem to be fine. I submitted a ticket to waze as well as sending log files. I hope a fix comes soon. I need my alerts when commuting.
I fixed my Wave problems. Apparently when you do the smart switch transfer, it transfers some settings or calibrations maybe. I went into phone settings, application, waze, long press storage, clear cache, clear data. Then Uninstaller and re-download and install waze. Mine has been rock solid since doing this. Hope it works for you too.