9900 Poor GPS

[decypher44]

Running .362. Using Telenav.

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[belfastdispatcher]

In London today and yes it's bad, on my 9900 and my wife's Pearl 3G.

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[DangerMouseUK]

Hmm so it is a London thing ! Or is it !

I need to get out of the city !

[catwoman66]

Originally Posted by belfastdispatcher

In London today and yes it's bad, on my 9900 and my wife's Pearl 3G.

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I found most of the networks pretty awful in London and south east - compared to where I reside (Italy) I was surprised thought the Uk would be so ahead of us - thought wrong obviously, here we can even get 3G down on the underground in Milan, food for thought!

[supraking]

my GPS has been taking forever to locate me, it's sometimes not even usable with Google Maps. Definitely WAY slower than my 9800. I'm in Montreal, Canada on Telus. Not happy with this, can anyone else say the same? Considering take it back and getting another one.

Also, A-GPS doesn't even seem to work. What is going on??

[belfastdispatcher]

Mine was fine in Belfast and all the way in the train from Stansted Airport to London, fast and without a glitch, once in London different story.

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[axe50]

9900 on TMO in NYC, running stock TMO OS .250

Locking onto my location takes much longer than my 9700 did. Hopefully an update to .35x will make a difference.

[cyberoid]

Have a 9900 on T-Mobile (USA). I had to downgrade my Bold 9900 to the stock OS version 7.0.0.250.

After I upgraded to the 7.0.0.353 the GPS would not lock on to any satellite. I let it sit in the car trying to lock for about an hour and no going. After downgrading to the stock OS it only took a few seconds to lock.

I am sticking with the official T-Mobile OS for now.

[supraking]

Does anyone have Assisted GPS working? For example, go into a basement and open Google Maps, does it show your location within x00 meters (at the cell tower site)?

In reality, I think this is both Google Maps' problem and the A-GPS problem. BB Maps works fine at times when Google won't get a fix. Too bad BB Maps sucks.

[papped]

aGPS working fine on Poynt

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[tedesco]

I have GPS issues with my Bold 9900. OS updates have not helped. Not sure why, but indoors or in busy downtown (Toronto) areas it takes forever to get a lock.

Even worse is that I can't use foursquare because unless the native BB Maps app has located me, Foursquare can't either. So I have to start maps... wait for it to locate me, start 4sq and hope that everything communicates. I asked foursquare about this and the following was their response.

Hi there! Your support ticket (#194003) has been updated.

To review the status or add additional comments, please see:
http://support.foursquare.com/tickets/194003

You can also add a comment by replying to this email.

Thanks for using foursquare support!


Keyana S., Nov-21 19:19 (EST):

Hi Tony,

We're really sorry to hear that! Certain types of Blackberry have problems with location, and we have actually been advising users to do just what you were doing before, which is open up Maps before opening foursquare to help get a better geolocation fix.

Other than that, there's not much we can do right now, as this is a hardware issue with the blackberry model. We're always working on solutions, but in the meantime we hope the map fix helps!

--
team foursquare
@4sqSupport

Not Good.

I will be writing Blackberry about this. I'm sure they will tell me it is a carrier issue.

[kevinnugent]

My 9900 takes forever to get a lock here in Brisbane.

[data77]

Originally Posted by kevinnugent

My 9900 takes forever to get a lock here in Brisbane.

I had no problems with my base OS and GPS. I was getting signal inside my home.

Once I upgraded to .540 it has gotten really bad. It doesnt work indoors and doesnt work sometimes outside as well.

Anybody else notice this in .540?

[BuddyL]

Originally Posted by data77

I had no problems with my base OS and GPS. I was getting signal inside my home.

Once I upgraded to .540 it has gotten really bad. It doesnt work indoors and doesnt work sometimes outside as well.

Anybody else notice this in .540?

I'm on .540 and in Los Angeles and have had no problems with location.

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[9900Boldfan]

I'm located in Taipei and mine takes a bit to get a lock on Google Maps. Worst part is it crashes and says low memory if I open street view. If you move around a few times on a street then it pretty much is an instant crash due to low memory. Why on earth did RIM give this device such low memory? What is a few bucks more for better hardware to make sure a device runs properly They must know that these days people instal applications and use Google Maps. When they become stingy and their smartphones start crashing people start switching smartphones. Not a good move on RIM's behalf to be stingy with their RAM.