Omnia II and GPS bad searching signal

[Guest pavel1234546]

Hi,

I have Samsung Omnia II, and if I want to use it as an GPS navigation following behaviour is done>

• in iGO and TomTom searching for satelites takes ages!
  
• if it find some green satelites, it usually lost signal very soon
  
• in other apps searching for sat. takes ages as well
  

I tried to locate satelites outside, on hill near house, on ride by car, always the same.

Ive got following settings:

app COM: 7

hw COM: 9

speed: 4800 (already tried all other till 57600, no change)

GPS management: automatic (tried manually, no change)

allow XTRA server: yes (if no, no change) + I have actual data from XTRA server

allow SNTP server: yes (if no, no change)

I had HTC Touch Diamond 2, and there was not problem with signal, but with SOII there is:-(

Any solution ? I thing there should be some patch or setting, but didnt find any.

Thx for any help!

Edited February 7, 2010 by pavel1234546

[Guest cass_m]

Hi,

I have Samsung Omnia II, and if I want to use it as an GPS navigation following behaviour is done>

• in iGO and TomTom searching for satelites takes ages!
  
• if it find some green satelites, it usually lost signal very soon
  
• in other apps searching for sat. takes ages as well
  

I tried to locate satelites outside, on hill near house, on ride by car, always the same.

Ive got following settings:

app COM: 7

hw COM: 9

speed: 4800 (already tried all other till 57600, no change)

GPS management: automatic (tried manually, no change)

allow XTRA server: yes (if no, no change) + I have actual data from XTRA server

allow SNTP server: yes (if no, no change)

I had HTC Touch Diamond 2, and there was not problem with signal, but with SOII there is:-(

Any solution ? I thing there should be some patch or setting, but didnt find any.

Thx for any help!

I have the slow start up thing happen as well and I just use Google Maps. I think the GPS gets turned off and when you start an application, you are also turning on the device GPS. My stand alone Nuvi has a bit of a boot up time as well. I don't know how to make the GPS just stay on and/or it it's worth the battery drain. Also I've hear TomTom doesn't work on anything other than iPhone in NA

[Guest gchris7]

I have the exact same problems. Takes around 20 minutes to lock max 2-3 satellites and then signal gets interrupted every 30-60 seconds.

I'm trying to find a solution to this as well, but its probably a hardware problem. Anyways, just wondering... do you use sktools clean feature alot? Do you soft reset alot?

[Guest acastiyo]

I have had both HTC Diamond 2 and Omnia 2 during some days and I did some tests with the GPS reception of both phones.

Diamond 2 outperforms Omnia 2 by faaaaaaarrrrrrrr... it has a much much better GPS reception and satellite locking times, there is a huge difference in performance. I don't know what exactly is causing this but it is a pity because O2 makes you wait for minutes before you can start driving whether with Diamond 2 you turn on TT7 for example and are ready to go in 20 seconds.

I don't know if it is a software or hardware thing but... it is a flaw of this phone.

[Guest abdelrahim]

Garmin Mobile XT works perfect ....only takes 5 seconds.....

[Guest inllh]

Hi,

I have Samsung Omnia II, and if I want to use it as an GPS navigation following behaviour is done>

• in iGO and TomTom searching for satelites takes ages!
  
• if it find some green satelites, it usually lost signal very soon
  
• in other apps searching for sat. takes ages as well
  

I tried to locate satelites outside, on hill near house, on ride by car, always the same.

Ive got following settings:

app COM: 7

hw COM: 9

speed: 4800 (already tried all other till 57600, no change)

GPS management: automatic (tried manually, no change)

allow XTRA server: yes (if no, no change) + I have actual data from XTRA server

allow SNTP server: yes (if no, no change)

I had HTC Touch Diamond 2, and there was not problem with signal, but with SOII there is:-(

Any solution ? I thing there should be some patch or setting, but didnt find any.

Thx for any help!

This isn't true! I got my i8000 working GPS very well.

1. try com4 instead of com7

2. use BeelineGPS to ensure gps receiver working normal

3. not XTRA nor A-GPS needed

[Guest Nomad70]

No Problem to me.. ;)

I use Garmin XT w/ GPSmodDriver..

it only take 35 seconds to lock on Satelites...

[Guest cass_m]

This isn't true! I got my i8000 working GPS very well.

1. try com4 instead of com7

2. use BeelineGPS to ensure gps receiver working normal

3. not XTRA nor A-GPS needed

Wow - thanks for the tip, inllh! It was embarrassing to get get blown out of the water by an iPhone LOL