I love my HTC DNA, the only issue I've had so far is GPS accuracy.
I'll be driving down the highway, and the DNA/Google Nav will suddenly tell me "Turn left on Knotondis Road and ..." and show me OFF the interstate by about 300 feet or more driving on some side road! After bouncing around anywhere between 15 seconds and a minute or two, it corrects itself and shows me cruising down the interstate again! I could understand if this happened occasionally, but it happens way too much!
Also, I use Google Tracks when I'm hiking. I will get random "jumps" where suddenly it shows me 250 feet on the other side of the river!?! I've tried Trimble Outdoors and several other GPS hiking programs, they all had worse results that I get with Google Tracks. Another annoyance is the the DNA GPS always, always, always OVERSTATES the distance hiked. On three to six mile hikes on trails with known distances, it consistently overstates the hiking distance by 14% to 18%. On a shorter hike that is measured at 1.5 miles, it overstated the distance by about 27%!?! (1.9 miles instead of 1.5 miles) Of course it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is the extra distance of the spurious "jumps".
Is anybody else having similar issues? Are there any fixes or workarounds to get better results? I know that some dedicated GPS units use "averaging" to eliminate the spurious readings and jumps. Anybody know of any Android software that does something like that?
One thing I've tried with marginally better results is to go into "Location" under "Settings" and de-select "Verizon Location Services". That seems to have helped a little, not really significant enough for me to be sure...
I'll be driving down the highway, and the DNA/Google Nav will suddenly tell me "Turn left on Knotondis Road and ..." and show me OFF the interstate by about 300 feet or more driving on some side road! After bouncing around anywhere between 15 seconds and a minute or two, it corrects itself and shows me cruising down the interstate again! I could understand if this happened occasionally, but it happens way too much!
Also, I use Google Tracks when I'm hiking. I will get random "jumps" where suddenly it shows me 250 feet on the other side of the river!?! I've tried Trimble Outdoors and several other GPS hiking programs, they all had worse results that I get with Google Tracks. Another annoyance is the the DNA GPS always, always, always OVERSTATES the distance hiked. On three to six mile hikes on trails with known distances, it consistently overstates the hiking distance by 14% to 18%. On a shorter hike that is measured at 1.5 miles, it overstated the distance by about 27%!?! (1.9 miles instead of 1.5 miles) Of course it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is the extra distance of the spurious "jumps".
Is anybody else having similar issues? Are there any fixes or workarounds to get better results? I know that some dedicated GPS units use "averaging" to eliminate the spurious readings and jumps. Anybody know of any Android software that does something like that?
One thing I've tried with marginally better results is to go into "Location" under "Settings" and de-select "Verizon Location Services". That seems to have helped a little, not really significant enough for me to be sure...
