Hy guys!
I'm new to this forum. First post, but I'm reading other member's posts for a while, hope I didn't made a post in a wrong area.
I've just bought an Eten x500 PPC and I already have a problem with it.
The GPS is not working! And when I say not working, I mean it's dead (someone call 911).
It's not brand new. It's a second hand device. The first owner from which I got the phone, upgraded it to WM 6.0 After that, the GPS stopped working.
It's not a matter of warrenty since I'm not the one who bought it from the electronics shop.
Here is the deal:
I try to use the GPS but the device can't find any satellite. The blue light though, is flashing. But there are no satellites here. My car GPS is working fine.
I have Igo 2008 3d installed and running with no problem. I can see the maps, but there is no satellite connection. I've tried other versions of igo but with no success.
What can I do?
I'm new to PPCs world. I have never changed any ROMs or upgraded any device. If you have any clue about what is happening with my Eten x500 please let me know and I'll have a hot pizza and a cold beer for you when you stop by in my town.
I found some info about the TP2 and the TD2 that's confusing.
On htc's specification page of the TP2 and the TD2 it says that GPS is: Internal GPS antenna.
On Gsmarena.com it says:
TP2 GPS = Yes
TD2 GPS = Yes, with A-GPS support
Which gps device will the TP2 and TD2 have?
I've heard that some have had problems with the A-gps dropping satsync and that disabling the "A" solved this.
I previously had a Xperia which I got refunded because of the constant cracking backside.
The Xperia (A-gps) had a gps lag that wasn't fun at all.
When I compared the Xperia to my Mio P550 the xperia had a lag of roughly 30meters while the P550 had <5meters.
The P550 does not have an A-gps.
Which is better to have? Gps or A-gps?
Though it's not on the official sight, I could have sworn I saw somewhere it was AGPS. My understanding is that AGPS > GPS because it's using cell towers to assist it when satilite signal is low like in buildings and downtown areas.
Poke_N_PDA said:
Though it's not on the official sight, I could have sworn I saw somewhere it was AGPS. My understanding is that AGPS > GPS because it's using cell towers to assist it when satilite signal is low like in buildings and downtown areas.
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Htc lists the original touch diamond gps as a-gps, But on the original touch pro it's listed as Internal GPS antenna.
Is it only a typo? or do the original TD and TP have different gps devices installed?
As far as I remember AGPS is Assisted GPS that should start quicker as it is being assisted by phone network it self - it will know qucker the position you are in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Phone
Vipeone said:
As far as I remember AGPS is Assisted GPS that should start quicker as it is being assisted by phone network it self - it will know qucker the position you are in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Phone
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You are absolutely right about how the Agps works, but I already knew that
The question is wether the TD2 and TP2 are going to be equipped with Agps or not.
I remember the discussions when the mogul came out. The specs said the chips had agps in them. When ever the topic came up about if sprint would expose it to programs or if it could be hacked someone would come in and say,in their obnoxious condescending tone "The mogul **ONLY** has agps,not real gps so the answer to your question is the same as the last 100 times it was asked,NEVER!!!!"
Then sprint activated GPS for us.
AGPS is a superset of GPS btw,it has everything that a vanilla GPS chip has plus the ability to get information from the towers as well. So GPS is defiantly "better". As far as I know all the qualcomm chipsets have agps.
pflatlyne said:
I remember the discussions when the mogul came out. The specs said the chips had agps in them. When ever the topic came up about if sprint would expose it to programs or if it could be hacked someone would come in and say,in their obnoxious condescending tone "The mogul **ONLY** has agps,not real gps so the answer to your question is the same as the last 100 times it was asked,NEVER!!!!"
Then sprint activated GPS for us.
AGPS is a superset of GPS btw,it has everything that a vanilla GPS chip has plus the ability to get information from the towers as well. So GPS is defiantly "better". As far as I know all the qualcomm chipsets have agps.
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I had a Xperia that has the same qualcomm chip. It had a gps lag that was very annoying. HTC have used different ways of writing gps or agps in their specs on phones that have the qualcomm chip. That's why I asked this Q in the first place. But I don't think the gpslag is hardware related, it's more an issue of poor gps drivers.
As far as I know one can disable Assisted GPS in the register. You then keep GPS ...... so why should a phone with AGPS be worse then one with GPS. Again i believe when you disable the assisted part you keep the GPS
http://mobilitysite.com/2008/02/assisted-gps-2/
So in theory an AGPS system could be better. The only problem is that some software does not like the assisted part. I did disable ASSISTED gps in my registry and use the normal GPS with satisfaction in my Tytn 2.
dgh said:
As far as I know one can disable Assisted GPS in the register. You then keep GPS ...... so why should a phone with AGPS be worse then one with GPS. Again i believe when you disable the assisted part you keep the GPS
http://mobilitysite.com/2008/02/assisted-gps-2/
So in theory an AGPS system could be better. The only problem is that some software does not like the assisted part. I did disable ASSISTED gps in my registry and use the normal GPS with satisfaction in my Tytn 2.
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That's not the issue here...
I know what Agps is and how it works. So please do not post any links to www.agps.org or any other google on "how agps works.net"
Why did HTC use different names for the same chip? explain that instead.
the gps is not a spc chip it's in the qualcomm cpu along with 3g and wifi
will the touch pro be like the iphone, where you can go into maps and it will be of no additional cost other than the data plan, or will you have to subscribe to a gps data plan? anyone know or think they know?
EazyDeazy said:
will the touch pro be like the iphone, where you can go into maps and it will be of no additional cost other than the data plan, or will you have to subscribe to a gps data plan? anyone know or think they know?
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I don't get you. GPS costs nothing. Only internet and making calls, for that you have to get dataplan. No other costs.
quarintus said:
I don't get you. GPS costs nothing. Only internet and making calls, for that you have to get dataplan. No other costs.
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He probably was referring to some sort of maps/directions database subscription. I can't think of the name of any of them right now, but it's pretty common to get charged $10+ a month for stuff like that.
I assume the TP2's will work with Google Maps and you won't be required to subscribe to any database to get decent use out of the positional information the antenna provides.
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That's not the issue here...
I know what Agps is and how it works. So please do not post any links to www.aps.org or any other google on "how agps works.net"
Why did HTC use different names for the same chip? explain that instead.
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sorry mr. senior member
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sorry mr. senior member
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No problem. I guess you got me on a bad day... sorry about that.
Hi guys,
Previous Kaiser owner here upgraded to Rhodium recently.
I'm asking HTC the same question as well, does Rhodium support AGPS or not. I'm quite sure it does - though I don't have a answer from them yet.
Check this link out from HTC support site - http://www.htc.com/sea/faqs.aspx?p_id=250&cat=266&id=92408
The touch pro 2 has agps but it disabled by default you have to enable it using advanced config 3.3 then it works very well cutting time to sync from 60 seconds to 15 seconds when opening google maps.
Jeremy
I am opening a new thread because nobody replied to the gps issue some people have after flashing the Daxian t32 gps version phone with the "Dixian_x999_T32.zip" file.
(forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-390574.html)
Does anybody know how to activate the internal gps?
Does anybody have a rom that works with the gps version of that phone? - That would be great!
I tried several gps drivers (gpsmod and others) and none worked. I tried some standalone applications to talk to the gps as well as TomTom7 and google maps and none worked.
Somehow the gps connects to the satellite and gets the correct time stamp (TomTom with gpsmod driver) but it does not get any coordinates.
Is there a missing entry in the registry that activates the gps?
Help is appreciated, somone has to know how!
petevol
(Administrator: don´t shout at me for opening a new thread with a previously discussed topic )
hello!
as i haven't found a thread comparable to what I experience with commercial gps software, I decided to start one.
i have tried NAVIGON, SYGIC MOBILE, ANDNAV2 and finally COPILOT 8. Of those, only ANDNAV2 worked satisfying, the rest either crashed already at the start or got no gps lock.http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/mad.gif
In google-maps and google-navigation i am getting a very good signal, I have improved it with gps fix, gps aids etc.
has anybody any idea, why the galaxy s seems to defy anything that doesn't come from GOOGLE??!? http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
it's quite frustrating, and I have read similar experience on other forums.
thanks, yours, david
Hi, for me is the same. Yesterday I tried with Sygic and it was ok, today no gps lock. But if I go to NDrive 10 or google maps then I got a lock. Quite estrange behavior.
i find iGo for android is the best..
I was running the "AndroiTS GPS Test" app it only listed US and Russian sattelites for me.
Is that normal with the Nexus 5X, or just for me? And if it is, can Beidou be unlocked somehow with a qualcomm modem tool?