XTRA function on Omnia II (i8000)

[Guest cybergenie35]

I just bought the Omnia II (i8000) from Bell. I'm having issues with my GPS where Garmin XT does not find any GPS at all. I've even left it overnight (8 hours) and still nothing. I've set the com port to 7 (hardware port 9 @ 4800). But I was reading some of the posts on this forum, and saw that I should also adjust the "XTRA" feature. But I can't find it anywhere on the menus. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

[Guest insane73]

I have Garmin xt and did not mess with xtra..in fact I do not even know what it is. You have to be outside to get a fix. in front of a window sometimes, but most outside.

I am in Canada and my settings are

Program port com7

Hardware port com9

Baud rate 4800 but works well with 9600 also

Set windows to manage gps automatically.

In Garmin I have it set to intermediate gps driver.

I have no idea what any of this means, but My Garmin works perfect with a fix in my van in about 30 seconds.

[Guest chrysstyann]

hy!

I have a similar problem!

I iGO8, and not receive a GPS signal.

in settings GPS-Connection I have:

GPS program port: COM7

GPS hardware port: COM9

Baud rate: 9600

Manage GPS automatically: tick

in settings GPS-XTRA I have:

Enable XTRA Server: tick

Download automatucally XTRA data:

- when data is expired: untick (because i don't have an internet connectiion from my provider)

- when connected to PC via ActiveSync: tick

Enable SNTP Server: tick

Download XTRA Data:

Download Time: 16/03/2010 00:32

Valid Time: 6 days 13 hours

so, I have the satellite position from XTRA data: 13.03.2010 at 00:32, valid 6 days but did not receive a signal!

I unchecked Enable GPS in IGO8 settings, to enable internal GPS, and the phone search, and search, and search on various combinations port / baud and does not receive anything!

Please HELP!

thanks

[Guest XeOS]

hy!

I have a similar problem!

I iGO8, and not receive a GPS signal.

in settings GPS-Connection I have:

GPS program port: COM7

GPS hardware port: COM9

Baud rate: 9600

Manage GPS automatically: tick

in settings GPS-XTRA I have:

Enable XTRA Server: tick

Download automatucally XTRA data:

- when data is expired: untick (because i don't have an internet connectiion from my provider)

- when connected to PC via ActiveSync: tick

Enable SNTP Server: tick

Download XTRA Data:

Download Time: 16/03/2010 00:32

Valid Time: 6 days 13 hours

so, I have the satellite position from XTRA data: 13.03.2010 at 00:32, valid 6 days but did not receive a signal!

I unchecked Enable GPS in IGO8 settings, to enable internal GPS, and the phone search, and search, and search on various combinations port / baud and does not receive anything!

Please HELP!

thanks

In iGO you must check enable GPS, set com port 7 and baud rate at 9600 for best results (at least in my case) Working like a charm with TMC as well from phj's gfmapi driver

Edited March 16, 2010 by XeOS

[Guest XeOS]

I just bought the Omnia II (i8000) from Bell. I'm having issues with my GPS where Garmin XT does not find any GPS at all. I've even left it overnight (8 hours) and still nothing. I've set the com port to 7 (hardware port 9 @ 4800). But I was reading some of the posts on this forum, and saw that I should also adjust the "XTRA" feature. But I can't find it anywhere on the menus. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

Depends on your firmware, I'm on JA5 (WinMo6.5). There you can find the XTRA feature under settings -> network settings (4th item) -> GPS

The only thing the XTRA (A-GPS) feature does is give you a quicker fix as it basically is a database with all information regarding the satellites. It then uses triangulation of your phone to roughly know where you are and give your GPS a short list of satellite frequencies to scan for instead of all and thus resulting in a quicker fix.

As you still don't have a fix, this is probably due to 3 possibilities

1) your phone is inside

2) wrong settings in Garmin

3) you GPS is broken

Edited March 16, 2010 by XeOS

[Guest chrysstyann]

I fixed the problem with the signal, now receiver ...

I have another big problem now: it disconnects the signal very often ...

I also used the Garmin but haven't this problem...

some ideas???/

[Guest prosxpal]

I found this somewhere on the net and saved in a txt. Give it a try:

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Drivers\Samsung GPS Hardware\InputBufferSize: set from 4096 to 512

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Drivers\Samsung GPS Hardware\OutputBufferSize: set from 4096 to 512

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Multiplexer\MaxBufferSize: set from 16384 to 1024

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Drivers\Samsung GPS Hardware\SleepOnNoData: set from 100 to 0 (for TomTom) or 5 (for Garmin)

Don't forget to softreset after changing these values.

Personally I changed the first three of them since I don't use tomtom or garmin. Now it seems better most of the time with any gps app... + I use xtra instead of agps.

Edited March 17, 2010 by prosxpal

[Guest jh787]

Have you tried typing in *#1472365# into their Omnia2?

It brings up some extra gps settings, some of which are similar to settings that can be reached in registry but some are unique.

The main one that was of interest to me was the start up mode of GPS.

Mine was set to cold start which meant that every time i started my tomtom it did so by deleting all previous data.

This meant i was on a cold start each and every time i used it which was why it took forever to lock sometimes.

I have now changed this setting to "hotstart" and my locks are instant.

There are various other settings that can be played with and tried out but this setting alone got rid of the only flaw i could find in the Omnia2.