Why is the GPS sensor so bad?
- Before people respond with "mine is great", hear me out.
I've owned three GPS-enabled BlackBerry devices, and they've all been bad.
My current Bold, which worked "okay", has become a nightmare (with OS 5.0.0.983). It now takes 10-20 MINUTES to pick up a signal - especially when I'm out of town.
Back to my first comment - it's worked okay for a short period of time - but that is like saying that you can play in the PGA because you made par on a hole...
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com02-08-11 10:41 AMLike 0 - I found the GPS in the 9650 to be more responsive than my 9630. I've found the 9650 OS6 GPS to be more responsive than OS5. I mostly use the GPS with my weather app and it seems to lock in fairly quickly....2-3 minutes at most. On OS5 I used .975. Sorry...really don't have any constructive suggestions other than to search the GPS and Mapping threads. Good luck!02-08-11 10:51 AMLike 0
- Thanks for the quick replies.
I'm able to get to 1000-2000m pretty quickly. In the past (about a month and a half ago), that was goofed up (it had me 1000 miles away in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico).
Now, I'm getting a pretty quick lock in my home area (8-10m). But once I travel, it's crap (back to the 1000-2000 for the first 20 minutes).
For comparison, my wife's phone (Droid Incredible) gets an INSTANT lock (GPS and direction/compass).02-08-11 12:35 PMLike 0 - I use the VZ Navigator all of the time. Suddenly, I too had difficulty in getting connected, and all the Verizon Techs did was reinstall it, but that actually made things worse. I kept getting an error message that no one understood, and I also could not update the roaming capabilities. After three hours, I was put through to a "VZ Navigator Specialist", who told me there was definitely a problem with reloading. I had to leave, so decided I would deal with it the next day. When I came back that next day, the first think I did was sync, and it offered me the upgrade to OS 6.0.0.431. Immediately, the problem was gone. VZ Navigator was perfect. The only thing I had to do was to do several battery pulls, and everything seems to be in working order. I have had no difficulty with battery drain and other problems that several other readers have. I am no techy - I don't know what was wrong or why 6.0 fixed it - but it did!02-09-11 08:48 AMLike 0
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