Dash 3G GPS Help?
- T-Mobile Dash 3G — First Impressions
- T-Mobile Dash 3G: Closer Look at the GPS
- Dash 3G Camera – Not Bad At All
- T-Mobile Dash 3G — Another Short GPS Update
- T-Mobile Dash 3G – Ongoing Update #1
- I’ve Officially Given Up on the Dash 3G GPS
- Dash 3G GPS Help?
- Updated List of My Windows Mobile Software
- Another Dash 3G Update – Upgrading the Radio
- The T-Mobile Dash 3G Summary Post
- T-Mobile Signal Strength and Bad SIMs
GPS Satellite
After more than a month of struggling with the slow GPS lock on the Dash 3G I may have found something that speeds up the lock times a little. Using a freeware program called GPS Test (freeware from a British company called Chartcross), the onboard GPS seems to use a much more efficient search algorithm and finds a lock faster. Still not as fast as my OnCourse bluetooth GPS, but in a few tests much faster than the built-in GPS by itself.
I’ve found that starting GPS Test and letting it find the satellites, and then switching to Google Maps or another application works fairly well. I’ll keep trying this and we’ll see if it really makes the system more usable.
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- 23 September, 2009 @ 18:43 [Current Revision] by Rob
- 23 September, 2009 @ 18:41 by Rob
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