Nokia N900

David Rysdam david at rysdam.org
Mon May 17 09:47:14 EDT 2010


On 05/17/2010 09:39 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>> I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS.
>>  Result: Invalid.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks.
> 
> Though I agree that the N810 is not as good a GPS is most others, once
> the AGPS package had bee installed my experience was much better than
> what you are reporting.  

But only if you start up near a WiFi point, I assume.  When I'm driving
around, this is rarely the case.  And even if it were the case, 4
minutes seems like kind of a long time to wait when my Garmin can do it
in around 10-20 seconds.

> You have not indicated if you had the AGPS
> package installed.  Last I knew, it was not a standard package.  If
> you didn't make a point to install it, its not there.  Without it, it
> is my impression that you always get a cold start.

I'm pretty sure it's installed.  I definitely had it installed at one
point.  When I read that it would improve the GPS performance, I jabbed
the "install" button before I even got to the part about "but you need
to be connected to the internet".

The only reason I'm not sure it's installed is I had to reinstall the OS
at one point.  However, the backups save your installed app list, so it
probably went back on.  And the data seem to back that up (heh): there's
the vast difference in fix times between when the network was and wasn't
available.


More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list