Help gps speed

[Lineman69]

how come when the gps is turned on it takes so long to pin point a location. if the gps is on in the phone should it not always have the satellites found? with the gps on, and go into my waypoint app it still takes about 1 minute to pin point.

I had an atrix before that seemed to pin point way faster

 

[ironass]

You can improve your GPS lock time and accuracy with this tip from the, "Tips n Tricks", sticky at the top of this forum.

See here:-

http://androidforums.com/2918122-post88.html

My lock takes 7-10 sec's and is within 4-6m.

Hope this helps.

 

[Russell Ng]

What firmware version are you on? I noticed that after jumping from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6, GPS lock was much faster, and more accurate too.

 

[led hed]

1 min to lock onto gps isn't that long at all. make sure you have a clear sky view for the phone when locking, but you already knew that

i haver a couple apps, and one of them takes longer to lock onto gps than the other.

 

[Hawker]

I usually get a lock in 10 seconds at most
I've tweaked my gps.conf file:


NTP_SERVER=europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=0.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.europe.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

DEBUG_LEVEL = 0
INTERMEDIATE_POS=1
ACCURACY_THRES=5000

SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
SUPL_SECURE_PORT=7275

ENABLE_WIPER=1

CURRENT_CARRIER=common
DEFAULT_AGPS_ENABLE=TRUE
DEFAULT_SSL_ENABLE=FALSE
DISABLE_AGPS_WHEN_ROAMING=TRUE
DISABLE_AGPS_WHEN_WIMAX=TRUE

DEFAULT_USER_PLANE=TRUE
REPORT_POSITION_USE_SUPL_REFLOC=1