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Help GPS slow to find me when 1st turned on

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joeymogul

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Hello All,

My GPS takes about 5 minutes to first find me when I turn it on and load up Navigation or Google maps. I have assisted location with cell towers enabled at all times. Does anyone else's GPS take so long to find you?

This is a 2nd Ally and was slow on Stock ROM as well as the V2 I'm currently running.
 
GPS also takes atleast 5 minutes to find my location. But i am running the custom rom Velocity v0.3 atm so maybe it's not a rom thing but a google thing.
 
ya i think its just an android thing, i know 4 or 5 people and they have the same issue with different phones. when i had my iphone it found me almost instantly. but with my ally it takes anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds. its a little bit faster ever since i got the update. sometimes it still says gps unavailable, but its alot more rare now since the update/
 
I got it. I ran the update posted on the V.3 post. Didn't change the version number but now GPS finds me in 30 seconds. Big difference

Scratch that. Mustve gotten lucky during earlier testing. Still takes 5 minutes
 
Do you guys keep GPS antenna off and turns it on before using Google map/navigation? Then it could take a while before locating your position. I noticed that if I turn on the GPS antenna way before using map, it finds me faster.
 
We don't really want to leave it on. Basically, I enable the GPS when I'm immediately in need of setting up navigation. To avoid traffic or find a route somewhere. That five minutes from the moment I click Enable GPS to Navigation finding me is bad
 
It may be a little early for me to jump up and down with joy, but I downloaded GPS Booster from the market earlier this morning, and so far (fingers crossed) my GPS locks in within a minute! I've turned the GPS on and off, I've turned the phone on and off, I've accessed GPS through Navigation and through GPS Test, and so far, so good. Yesterday afternoon it took about 10 minutes for my GPS to lock, and I didn't need it by that time, so I'm hoping this continues to work for me. (I had tried every other suggestion that I found here with no luck.) I should mention that I get a little popup sometimes that says "GPS Booster failed," but it doesn't seem to be actually failing. I read a comment from another user that he was getting that popup too but the app didn't seem to be failing. Is anybody else using this?
 
Takes me a good 5 minutes too. I'm going to try your solution and see if it helps.

EDIT: Hmmm GPS Booster is not showing up in the Market now.
 
netizenmt said:
Takes me a good 5 minutes too. I'm going to try your solution and see if it helps.

EDIT: Hmmm GPS Booster is not showing up in the Market now.
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I just checked, and it's there, but has a strange filename in the market:

pname.com.octy.gps.booster

Try searching for that. I got there by scanning the QR code off a webpage, but I don't remember the url. You might be able to find it, though.

Edit: Found the webpage with the QR code:

GPS Booster (Android) - Download


It is still working, btw, and working well. It's been 24 hours and I keep finding excuses to test it. :p
 
bjones6416 said:
I just checked, and it's there, but has a strange filename in the market:

pname.com.octy.gps.booster
Click to expand...

I already tried that - when I do so, the Market Search comes up with "There are no matches in Android Market for the search: pname:com.octy.gps.booster.

It really isn't there.

I'm using something called FasterFix which appears to do the same thing and was free.
 
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