Galaxy 3 (voda5800) Sat GPS issues

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old3eyes

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#73862 24-Dec-2010 16:36

Hi ,

Got one of these yesterday and loaded the voice speech prompt set. But I'm having problems with acquiring a satellite for turn by turn navigation. Last nite I got it working and it took about 3 minutes to acquire a sat. Today i tried it to get to work , about 6.5Km but not sat. Tried it coming home and it suddenly kinked in about half way home. Just tried it again now and 15 minutes later no satellite.

Has anyone else had this problem, is it a bug?? I see some posts about this with the Galaxy 550 and Galaxy s

Is there a solution as I was hoping to try it going from Auk to Tauranga tomorrow..??

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#421382 24-Dec-2010 17:06

I found what appears a fix on this link

http://www.themobileblog.in/2010/11/25/how-to-solve-gps-issue-on-samsung-galaxy-3-i5800/

I tried it and now it now takes about 30 seconds to acquire a sat. Tomorrow will be the real test..

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#421459 25-Dec-2010 05:48

Not sure if this will help (because the discussion is in respect of the Galaxy S) but have a look at this thread that I started a week or so ago - it might be generic to Android:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=73638

This thread shows where the settings are and what they should be:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842694

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#421766 27-Dec-2010 08:44

Thanx for the links. The discussion there seems to be about GPS accuracy. I have found that the 5800 is dead accurate here in Tauranga and the fix I posted seems to work well. I have found though that sometimes I need to reboot the fone first thing in the morning to get the GPS to sync with the SAT..

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#422868 31-Dec-2010 09:17

Btw, has anyone checked their galaxy 3 (nz version) to see if froyo is available?

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#423035 31-Dec-2010 17:13

miamiheatfan: Btw, has anyone checked their galaxy 3 (nz version) to see if froyo is available?

The sales guy from Voda said soon but John R may have better and more accurate info..

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