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Hi.
Just for info I ran my MDAC3 on Tom Tom from a full charge and it lasted four and half hours. About the 4 hours 10 mark I got my first battery reminder, dimissed this and kept it running. I got one more reminder where it ran for a few minutes before switching off.
I run Tom Tom overclocked to 252 so this run time may be longer if you keep the processor running as standard.
My MDAC3 is recharging now and I will try a Memory Map run time later on. This will be at normal processor speed and with the backlight set to go off after 5 minutes.
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Hi,
Did a test using Memory Map today with backlight set to go off after 4 minutes. Also included hourly turn on of screen. Processor was running at normal speed. GPRS was also on downloading mail every hour and updating my weather program every two hours.
Run time was 7 hours 50 minutes which is pretty good. I know not quite as long as purpose built GPS but long enough for most days out in the wilds.
Not sure how much extra an extended battery would give you. Anybody know?
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Hi,
I dont know if this is pure fluke and this just works on my setup but i seem to have found a way to get a 5-6 second fix GPS, having said that i cannot guarentee that it will work for everyone, but you are all welcome to give it a go!
Firstly i will list my setup:
SwiftBL WWE v6.5 16Mb PP
Radio v1.00.25.07
TomTom Navigator 7.450.9028 for HTC Diamond
Process Used:
1: Load TomTom 7, and wait until you get the message "Waiting for valid GPS Signal" at the bottom left
2: Once the message appears select "Browse Map" -> "Find" and go to the page with "My Location" this will be greyed out.
3: Exit TomTom 7
4: Restart TomTom 7, once you see the message "Waiting for valid GPS Signal" it should fix
As i said previously, i dont know if this is a fluke, but i have had 100% success with this.
My Testing:
Everytime i have done this i have done this from different locations 30 - 40 minutes appart (I travel alot on the train) so my device has not been locking onto the same satelites
To ensure fairness in these tests i have powered down my device totally, started the device from cold, entered my PIN and loaded the desktop. Then launched TomTom 7
I have tryed 5 different locations in the UK over 2 Days:
Southport, Manchester, Bolton, Churchtown and Preston
I've never had a problem getting a fix with any of the diamond roms - often as quick as 5 or 6 seconds depending on where I am.
The issue that I think most people are having is the lag in providing an accurate fix.
chrisnash said:
I've never had a problem getting a fix with any of the diamond roms - often as quick as 5 or 6 seconds depending on where I am.
The issue that I think most people are having is the lag in providing an accurate fix.
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Im jealous!
Until i started doing this i was getting 1-2 minute lock on and fix my position, but as i said this seems to speed it up alot for me.
Also, there is no lag to get an accurate fix doing the process i suggest, once there is a gps signal detected, my location is zeroed instantaniously!!
My experience is as follow (I tested a lot):
With radio 1.00.25.05 cold fix takes about 5 minutes. After that a few minutes. Once I get a fix, it's stable.
With radio 1.00.25.07 cold fix less then a minute. After that about 5 seconds. It's also stable once I get a fix.
Quality of calls is the same, so is the signal strength and battery life.
So I would recommend radio 07 for those who use navigation.
It is weird indeed. I have 05. Sometimes I get a fix in 5 secs, sometimes it takes forever.
I also found that once I get a fix the accuracy fluctuates from poor to high indeed.
Once I hit the roads, np but need to do more tests
Trance
DFTrance said:
It is weird indeed. I have 05. Sometimes I get a fix in 5 secs, sometimes it takes forever.
I also found that once I get a fix the accuracy fluctuates from poor to high indeed.
Once I hit the roads, np but need to do more tests
Trance
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I would definately update your radio to .07, i have much better signal in general and GPS is much better
bennec83 said:
Hi,
SwiftBL WWE v6.5 16Mb PP
Radio v1.00.25.07
TomTom Navigator 7.450.9028 for HTC Diamond
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I have had the same problem as yours with those details...
I think it maybe to do with the ROM, mainly because I have not had an issue with other roms...
Hi everyone,
I try Radio .08 and the same thing. I fix GPS in 5-10 secondes...
Some people say that with the .08, less batterie is consumed...
I don't know need to do the test...
I try Radio .08 during 4 days, and my batterie is good !
My phone is charging during 1h30 - 2h and it's full...
less consumption, but when i use GPS.... my lifetime is very short....
No lag ! but high consumption.
I can call and use 3G, during 1,5 days !
I am losing my mind with my GPS. I have had my TP2 since last August and I have never been able to find a solution to the horrible GPS quality. I have tried matching up the ports, changing the ports, different software, hard-resets, I have installed the hotfix, I have called HTC, but things are still terrible. The only thing that ever cause an improvement was manually choosing the ports and such, however the improvement was only slight.
I have used GPS on Google Maps on the iPhone under the same provider (Optus in Australia) and the moment I opened the program there was always a GPS lock, not once did I ever have to wait or get it ready, but on my TP2 using Google Maps (or any other application), sometimes I am forced to wait minutes before getting a signal, if at all. I have searched and searched for a resolution but im not finding any. I just don't understand what I paid top dollar for, I chose the TP2 over the Xperia for it's GPS capabilities, but its hardly capable. I feel as if I am out of options, i've had it for too long to get my money back; I would really appreciate your thoughts on this?
I use iGuidance2009 and have no problems, though I do update quickGPS regularly. Google Maps I dont know about as I dont use it.
This has been a problem ever since the Touch Pro. My old Kaiser never had these horrible GPS issues, Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2 do.
What I have found to work well is to toggle the phone in the Comm manager when GPS is not working correctly.
Also, if you can get AGPS to work correctly, that does wonders for GPS lock time speeds! It would take minutes before, but once AGPS is set to work correctly, I can get a lock in 10 seconds! You have to go into the registry and make sure AGPS is set to use the right data connection.
This only improves acquisition times, it does not reduce the lag which was introduced in the original Touch Pro.
Google maps is probably the worst test app for speed. I use TomTom and iGo on Juicy R5 now, default rom before, and both have no lag. Google maps lags as much as 30 seconds, Garmin and also a few free gps apps I tried lagged 10-15 secs. So this is really, really app dependent. Don't know why.
As for lock speed, agps is a must. If QuickGPS/SEASGEE isn't working then you get the same lock speeds that you would get on old, old car gps systems (up to 5 mins to get a lock).
petard said:
This has been a problem ever since the Touch Pro. My old Kaiser never had these horrible GPS issues, Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2 do.
What I have found to work well is to toggle the phone in the Comm manager when GPS is not working correctly.
Also, if you can get AGPS to work correctly, that does wonders for GPS lock time speeds! It would take minutes before, but once AGPS is set to work correctly, I can get a lock in 10 seconds! You have to go into the registry and make sure AGPS is set to use the right data connection.
This only improves acquisition times, it does not reduce the lag which was introduced in the original Touch Pro.
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It's just you with such serious problems, maybe your phone has problems..
AGPS is key to getting a fast lock. That's where you should be focused.
Some registry tweaks may improve your fix. It rocks for me and others owners, but not sure for every body.
take a look there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523676
and there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524655
It could be a good beginning ;-)
khaytsus said:
It's just you with such serious problems, maybe your phone has problems..
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No, its not. Everyone has position lag. It isn't unbearable, but it is pretty annoying. You take an exit on a highway and it takes about 3 seconds to realize you took it sometimes. What is really weird is it keeps going on one road while the arrow turns in the direction you are headed until it finally places you on the correct road. That part may be due to TomTom though, but I'm not sure.
petard said:
You take an exit on a highway and it takes about 3 seconds to realize you took it sometimes. What is really weird is it keeps going on one road while the arrow turns in the direction you are headed until it finally places you on the correct road. That part may be due to TomTom though, but I'm not sure.
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As per my personal experience, this is due to internal GPS data filtering by WM, so tweaks recalled by woaloo (I mean reducing of WM's GPS-related data buffer sizes) can help here.
Be careful however with it as too low values will drives GPS to become "nervous" - your position will become unstable, starting to jump randomly with a radius of few hundreds meters.
Another reason of the lag is (most likely) related to the navi software one uses. I use iGO8 and there are for sure settings moderating position behavior from pretty quick (but unstable) to rather slow but noticeable more stable. I personally prefer this last one.
To the original poster, have you tried running a program like VisualGPS? If so, how much signal strength is it showing for the satellites? I see as high as 39 when indoors. I get quick and accurate locks and I am very happy with the GPS performance. I have to believe that you have a hardware problem.
As for the thread drift on the few seconds delay, yes, that is there, but not a big issue.
Personal experience with the GPS... initially could never get it to connect, basically because every time i tried i was inside behind venitian blinds..... never use GPS before so my bad.
Walked outside and it was great. About 10 secs or less to lock, the lag is only a couple of seconds, no more than 5 secs. Added the tweeks and it was improved slightly. The accuracy was within 5 meters or less (used the property boundries in google maps to verify).
Moving at high speed it was pretty good too.
Compared to other phones and iPhone borrowed from a mate there is negligable difference in the accuracy and lag.
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So the GPS performance on the Touch Pro 2 is not that much better than the Touch Pro? The receiver on the Touch Pro is extremely weak.
At my work we have a GPS re-radiator for use with the equipment that we build. Indoors using the re-radiator I can get a lock in seconds with 11 satellites (the signal is abnormally strong). Outdoors, I'm happy if I can get a lock with 7.
worwig said:
To the original poster, have you tried running a program like VisualGPS? If so, how much signal strength is it showing for the satellites? I see as high as 39 when indoors. I get quick and accurate locks and I am very happy with the GPS performance. I have to believe that you have a hardware problem.
As for the thread drift on the few seconds delay, yes, that is there, but not a big issue.
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I did try something like that, not sure if it was VisualGPS but it showed me the strength of GPS signal and it was quite accurate with how the GPS appeared to be behaving.
I got the phone's motherboard replaced and that fixed the issue. Thank you all for the replies though, it was possibly faulty.
Have the new Energy rom on but used the GPS hotfix. Seems to have increased lock time considerably.
I'll keep an eye on it though in case the lock time increases...
Wonder if we can find an app that would imbed GPS co-ordinates in any pics we take... Got a Samsung S8300t as well & it does this though the GPS navigation software is non-existant....
ultramag69 said:
Have the new Energy rom on but used the GPS hotfix. Seems to have increased lock time considerably.
I'll keep an eye on it though in case the lock time increases...
Wonder if we can find an app that would imbed GPS co-ordinates in any pics we take... Got a Samsung S8300t as well & it does this though the GPS navigation software is non-existant....
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One of the extra camera modes you can unlock in the TP2 is a geotagging mode that does exactly that. There's a number of ways to enable them...Rhodium Settings Tool has a switch for each of them individually (burst, sport, video share, and geotagging), or you can just run the cab below
....and, for anybody else on this thread who hasn't tried it already, I'd suggest checking out the cab fone_fanatic put together to help with GPS locks on the TP2, details HERE
I am not sure wether everyone is aware of this bug, but WP7 clock shifts few minutes every night, which with time accumulates into significant amount of time. The only way to fix this is by manually correcting your clock every week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899420
Purple11 said:
I am not sure wether everyone is aware of this bug, but WP7 clock shifts few minutes every night, which with time accumulates into significant amount of time. The only way to fix this is by manually correcting your clock every week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899420
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seems fine to me.. I have it set to update auto and it is showing the same time as my laptop which synchronizes with those NIST servers.
bug?
Purple11 said:
I am not sure wether everyone is aware of this bug, but WP7 clock shifts few minutes every night, which with time accumulates into significant amount of time. The only way to fix this is by manually correcting your clock every week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899420
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This bug does not exist on my Focus. What phone are you using?
i can actually confirm this as well. HTC 7 Trophy. I didn't touch the clock till reading this post (so approximately 2 months). within the 2 months, my phone became 5 minutes behind. so it's not a huge drop in time, but there is a drop in time.
The Gate Keeper said:
i can actually confirm this as well. HTC 7 Trophy. I didn't touch the clock till reading this post (so approximately 2 months). within the 2 months, my phone became 5 minutes behind. so it's not a huge drop in time, but there is a drop in time.
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5 minutes behind what? Is it synced with anything?
Both my phone and laptop have the same time - both are synced online - so no problem for me...
it was set to automatic so it should sync off microsoft website, but comparing the time to my laptop (running windows 7), it was 5 minutes behind.
you using a trophy as well?
No, I have an Omnia 7. Is your laptop synchronised with any servers? If they're both synced and there's a consistent 5 minute gap I suppose it could be an issue with the time servers used maybe?
the laptop is synced to times.windows.com which is default for windows 7. as for the phone, there is just an automatic and manual switch. it become 5 minutes behind under automatic. i'll switch it back to automatic now and see what it does after a few days.
The Gate Keeper said:
the laptop is synced to times.windows.com which is default for windows 7. as for the phone, there is just an automatic and manual switch. it become 5 minutes behind under automatic. i'll switch it back to automatic now and see what it does after a few days.
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I think the phone will sync with the Network time and not time.windows but I may be wrong.
Could be network time, but The Gate Keeper and I are both on the same network, and both our laptops are syncing with time.windows.com. So, something somewhere is a bit fishy.
I have a little problem since i have had my One V, despite the Rom I have : every time I connect my phone to the wifi or the 3G, I have a time synchronization that automatically runs in order to have the most accurate one.
What is weird is that I always have a difference of approximately -63 seconds to correct. It's not a problem with the apps as I tried more than one from the android market. If, for example, I connect 2 times during the same day, I'll have a difference of roughly -63 seconds each time to correct which is really a lot. On my tablet I usually have, at maximum, 1 or 2 seconds per week.
Any idea ?
Am I really the only one with this problem ? I have mySENSE 3.5 and nothing special added.
Thanks in advance.
I wonder how many people disconnect for that long. I can't say, add I connect to Wi-Fi several times per day. Sorry
mrcorey said:
I wonder how many people disconnect for that long. I can't say, add I connect to Wi-Fi several times per day. Sorry
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I just disconnect while I am not at home in order to save my battery
The problem described in my first post also occurs with Wifi. Today I disconnected and reconnected either to 3G or Wifi 4 times and every time I had a difference of -65 or -63 seconds.