I'm not getting great gps accuracy with this phone. Usually between 16-30 feet. My other devices are accurate up to 3 feet. I'm wondering what everyone else is getting with this phone. Using GPS status from the play store.
I just tested. I'm getting 10-12 feet.
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gps signal drops
I noticed that when I am using a map program like Waze or google Maps, the gps signal gets lost more often than when I had the Note 3.
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I noticed that when I am using a map program like Waze or google Maps, the gps signal gets lost more often than when I had the Note 3.
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I notice this as well. My old S3 was very accurate, whereas the Note4 seems to "jump" around.
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10 feet
deeznutz1977 said:
10 feet
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What app are you using for this?
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What app are you using for this?
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That's GPS Test /GPS Test +(paid). Great app.
I've noticed this as well when playing the game ingress. I wonder if it's due to the steel frame? My Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S5 was spot on.
Hmm.
Never thought about that.
My GPS does seem to perform better now that I have FireKat ROM on my phone.
Re tested.
Rooted running Firekat ROM and using some tweaks from the lag thread. GPS assist is running in the background.
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I too tested it on FireKat and got the same results. 10 ft. Makes me think it can be enhanced by a software update. Maybe in a future patch.
atrohde said:
I'm not getting great gps accuracy with this phone. Usually between 16-30 feet. My other devices are accurate up to 3 feet. I'm wondering what everyone else is getting with this phone. Using GPS status from the play store.
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Depends on your location and how many satellites are in sight but ~3 meters/~9 feet is about as good as it's going to get with just GPS. Maybe if phone locks into some Glonass satellites it could do a bit better.
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I notice this as well. My old S3 was very accurate, whereas the Note4 seems to "jump" around.
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I made a change on the WiFi settings and my GPS signal improved. I put a check on "Always Allow Scanning." Because I remembered that I had taken it off to try another app and that was around the time that GPS stopped working correctly.
go to Settings>Wi-Fi>Advanced>Always Allow Scanning; Put a check on this option.
Google maps says GPS signal lost a lot with the note 4... doesn't seem very good at getting a location.
Definitely love the phone. Came from the s4. My first note. Thought I was the only one that noticed crappy GPS signal
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I notice my phone says searching for GPS in the drop down thing. Goes away in a few seconds but is annoying.
10' Lock almost Instantly. Fastest lock of any phone I ever owned. And keeps its lock perfectly.
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My GPS works great on my phone.
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Even to the room I'm at. Best GPS I've had on a phone
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I made a change on the WiFi settings and my GPS signal improved. I put a check on "Always Allow Scanning." Because I remembered that I had taken it off to try another app and that was around the time that GPS stopped working correctly.
go to Settings>Wi-Fi>Advanced>Always Allow Scanning; Put a check on this option.
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Won't that eat battery more?
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I checked the scanning off because when driving using the maps WiFi spots pop up and I can't see where I'm going. LoL
To all those who saying they don't have issues with the GPS they probably don't use it enough to see that.
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Samsung galaxys S2 GPS... does ur galaxy lock without Agps and will we be out of gps if we dont have an internet connection
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congratulations on the most irrelevant post ever.
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Lol. What?
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Riiiiight... luckily not the case for me, GPS works great!
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niks_5in said:
Samsung galaxy gps work without A-GPS. iphone 4 does not need A -gps to work
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Samsung galaxy gps work without A-GPS. iphone 4 does not need A -gps to work
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How nice...
Ok, this was weird ...
SGS does not need A-GPS to work its an add on for areas where the sky/GPS signal may not be in full view .Therefore better GPS unit than IPhone where wek signal exists .
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samsung will lock without agps but it will take minutes to lock on. i need the gps to work likes it used to work on iphone 4.. maximum 8 seconds to lock even without a sim card which gives triangular location
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samsung will lock without agps but it will take minutes to lock on. i need the gps to work likes it used to work on iphone 4.. maximum 8 seconds to lock even without a sim card which gives triangular location
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Go back to your iPhone 4
niks_5in said:
samsung will lock without agps but it will take minutes to lock on. i need the gps to work likes it used to work on iphone 4.. maximum 8 seconds to lock even without a sim card which gives triangular location
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Use agps then? That's how your iPhone gets such a quick lock, and galaxy s ii gets one in similar time with agps activated.
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samsung will lock without agps but it will take minutes to lock on. i need the gps to work likes it used to work on iphone 4.. maximum 8 seconds to lock even without a sim card which gives triangular location
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Just like my Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 does then .
jje
Iphone 4 gets a fix without a sim card in 8 seconds. Samsung totally relies on. Agps
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if you know something about gps, then you will know 8sec is just a warm fix,not a cold fix
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Has anybody tested the gps out on the retail tab? If it's like my captivate I'll stay away, if it works well I'm going to have to get one.
Thanks
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I've got a retail from June 8th and I'm not sure wether or not GPS works. I've enabled it and the status bar icon shows up but I don't think it ever finds any satellites. I've got GPS test installed and it doesn't have any GPS show up.
so is there a GPS in the device?
10.1v works like a charm. 100% good
I hope it works as well. I rarely was able to get on a lock on satellites with the Iconia. I'm hoping the GT will do a better job.
Just fired up my 10.1 I/O and the GPS-Status app found 9 satellites in 5 seconds.
Retail version - GPS is working!
Thanks for conforming guys !!
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Thanks for the info
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My GPS works fine. Retail. Got mine early.
I had a retail version to review and GPS seemed to work fine for me. Of course, lock on works best outside in clear spaces away from tall buildings (ie not between buildings in a large city)
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Gps works fine here too, althouh i also have an external bluetooth gps that ill probably use with it for better battery and accuracy.
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PImping GPS here, looks on, in doors to 30 feet by the time the splash screen on GPS Test goes away. and I thought i had the gps on my Vibrant dialed in good.
I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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Haven't tested it on a drive yet. But it came up and hooked up virtually instantly in maps today. From inside my house. Never able to even hook up on my Captivate in the house, let alone quickly.
Fingers crossed...
Used it today for about 50 miles and it never dropped once. Did awesome. I was so used to my old captivate I almost forgot that a phone GPS can actually work.
It locks fast and stays locked
It was just the galaxy s 1 that had this issue. Sgs2 gps worked perfectly and same with sgs3 both lte and international
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bigb252 said:
I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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I used the Charing Cross app to test, and it was impressive for the number of satellites detected in my area which is partially blocked due to a hill, but it took a minute or two to go from accuracy of 260 ft down to 9.1ft. I had a Google maps navigation started cold, that showed my start a block away from where my blue arrow was actually located on the map.
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On the official Samsung site, it says GPS, rather than a-GPS. I did test it here in San Diego - cached my area, airplane mode, reboot, and maps got a tight fix on me in under a minute (closer to about 20 seconds).
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Accuracy of 3 m in about 6 seconds.
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quick accurate lock with mine as well. maybe sammy is finally starting to figure things out ;-)
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When sitting in my bedroom the gps says that I am in my neighbors house.
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I know the Samsung Galaxy S series aren't too stellar when using GPS; how is it on the S3?
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Absolutely fantastic. Best I have ever seen. Phone saw 20 Sats and was able to lock in on 12 in about 15 seconds. Within 9 feet accuracy which is best I've seen here in Hawaii.
Anyone know any app that is wotking fine with our Nexus? I have tried a few but all of them are not acurate at all. Showing odd speeds and distances...
Maybe my phone is broken?
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Anyone know any app that is wotking fine with our Nexus? I have tried a few but all of them are not acurate at all. Showing odd speeds and distances...
Maybe my phone is broken?
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I use endomondo.
Seems very accurate to me.
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drpepe said:
I use endomondo.
Seems very accurate to me.
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Tried it today and it showed me I was cycling at 326km/h... I am on Cm10.1 and Franco 28. Are you on stock?
Update:
Just tried My Routes from Google and it seems to work fine
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Tried it today and it showed me I was cycling at 326km/h... I am on Cm10.1 and Franco 28. Are you on stock?
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Yikes, something isn't right. How do things like Google maps, locations in Facebook etc work on your phone?
I'm stock, rooted.
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I'm having similar issues: I'm using MapMyRun on Xylon/Franco, and it reports very strange distances. It's very weird because I can pull up the map on the app, and it looks right. When I upload the route to their web interface and access it from my computer, the distance gets calculated correctly. But the phone vastly overestimates the distance traveled (up to 10x--i.e. 30 miles for a 3 mile run).
Google maps and Foursquare are dead on, and GPS activates quite quickly.
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I just saw we're both using Franco's kernel. Maybe that's the problem?
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I'm having similar issues: I'm using MapMyRun on Xylon/Franco, and it reports very strange distances. It's very weird because I can pull up the map on the app, and it looks right. When I upload the route to their web interface and access it from my computer, the distance gets calculated correctly. But the phone vastly overestimates the distance traveled (up to 10x--i.e. 30 miles for a 3 mile run).
Google maps and Foursquare are dead on, and GPS activates quite quickly.
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I just saw we're both using Franco's kernel. Maybe that's the problem?
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Also if you dont wait until Endomondo says GPS ok in the bottom left of the screen the it uses the last know GPS location, and moves you to where you actually are when it gets GPS lock. I hav experienced this on ALL older devices (havent been out with the N4 yet)
RunKeeper has been working fine on the other Nexus 4 in my house (distances are almost exactly the same as the Inc's were).
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Anyone know any app that is wotking fine with our Nexus? I have tried a few but all of them are not acurate at all. Showing odd speeds and distances...
Maybe my phone is broken?
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http://www.sports-tracker.com/
SportsTracker works perfectly for me. Much better than on the crappy GPS of my g2x, and better than my old Nokia c7.
Much better than Endomodo
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Anytime I run an app like MyTracks or MapMyRun or Strava, my GPS is spot on but it calculates the miles wrong. It also get's progressively worse as it gets farther along. It starts saying 1 mile is at about .7 miles, then 2 miles at like 1.3 miles by the time I hit about 8 miles I've really only gone about 4.
Anyone have any idea? It's really driving me nuts. I'm running Vanilla Rootbox with franco kernel. I had this problem with two different versions of both the rom and the kernel, I doubt it's related to those.
Sounds like it's a app issue.
If your gps is spot on then the gps is working as it should.
All calculations on distance traveled would be done by a app reading the gps info. So if your gps is accurately reporting your location it's not at fault.
Sure the apps aren't giving you results in km? Sounds like it may be just that.
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Sounds like it's a app issue.
If your gps is spot on then the gps is working as it should.
All calculations on distance traveled would be done by a app reading the gps info. So if your gps is accurately reporting your location it's not at fault.
Sure the apps aren't giving you results in km? Sounds like it may be just that.
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That's what I thought too, but I doubt 3 apps are miscalculating the same way.Its not in km, first thing I checked
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The correct answer is GPS isn't 100% accurate its always off by at least 10m which adds up over the course of 4 miles. This isn't an issue with the nexus 4 it happens on all phones.
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The correct answer is GPS isn't 100% accurate its always off by at least 10m which adds up over the course of 4 miles. This isn't an issue with the nexus 4 it happens on all phones.
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That's not even close to the correct answer. Thanks though!
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The correct answer is GPS isn't 100% accurate its always off by at least 10m which adds up over the course of 4 miles. This isn't an issue with the nexus 4 it happens on all phones.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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Eh. Unfortunately that's not how gps "tracking" (or math) works.
I don't think either of you actually read the problem, or I just explained it like ****. Gps Accuracy is not the issue, even the speedometer was correct. Only the mileage was off.
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