Poynt gave me my location last night but it stopped working almost immediately and hasn't worked since. In fact, I noticed that when the gps was working in Poynt a new icon appeared on the main screen called "Gas" which allowed you to look up local gas prices. Now that icon is gone.
Poynt works about as functionally as GPS when you're on wifi. But if Bridged....nope. Bummerrr for me since I'll be traveling a lot and won't have WiFi for a lot of places
you can get GPS estimates via wifi and probably via the bridge. This might explain the "working" some people have seen
Poynt pinpointed my location to my exact house number and street last night. That was very precise. And now it doesn't even show me anything. It really seemed that the gps was working for a bit of time last night, but I don't really know much about how gps works. The "Gas" icon was really neat and now it's gone.
My GPS is working fine. I turned on poynt and left it sitting in my window. Took at least 10 mins if not longer to get a lock which is common for many gps devices when they first start up. Now works great.
My GPS is working fine. I turned on poynt and left it sitting in my window. Took at least 10 mins if not longer to get a lock which is common for many gps devices when they first start up. Now works great.
GPS lock should take 10 seconds max, not 10 minutes...
My GPS shows my location in POYNT and in Bing. It is off by maybe 200 feet. POYNT used to show Calagery like everyone else but now it is correct. Very interesting.
Gotcha.. any other ideas to get the gps working? I still can't get any apps to read my location.
I don't think it's working correctly. It HAS worked for me, but without rhyme or reason. At midnight outside on a clear night, nothing. I even received a message that the geolocation was muted. Then out of the blue in the morning POYNT found my location. One thing I THINK I noticed is that after a successful GPS connect, starting another GPS app will ruin the connection until a reboot. A reboot also seems to help the GPS work. That said, if this does not improve, the GPS feature will be near useless.
today i used nokia maps to track my progress from palm springs to long beach. it kept track of my location, real time, with no problem.
when you first use a gps location, you do have to normally wait 10 minutes or more to get a first fix, then all the registers in the gps is filled and there after the fix might take seconds rather than minutes. the same is true if you change your location by 100 miles, sometimes less.
i use nokia maps because i cant got google to work on the PB. someone mentioned use google maps to check the accuracy of your location. how did you do that on the PB?
