I've gone through the steps as been precisely articulated in the wiki on seting up the dcd 3.0.1 on a verizon. My phone is working now after a few minutes with Verizon tech. But for some strange reason I can't get the GPS to work. I tried using the google maps but it doesn't lock the satelite at all. Is there a specific settings that I must do? Or a special program I need to install? Please help!!! I've searched on the forum and everybody said their not having problems with the 3.0.1. Thanks for the help
I've used wififofum and still got no fix on GPS. What do you think is the problem here? Please some one help!
Just to be clear that you did flash the spring radio...3.35....Try using holux gpsveiwer(they show if you are trying to get satelites) and see if you are actually trying to get a fix
edmund7s said:
I've gone through the steps as been precisely articulated in the wiki on seting up the dcd 3.0.1 on a verizon. My phone is working now after a few minutes with Verizon tech. But for some strange reason I can't get the GPS to work. I tried using the google maps but it doesn't lock the satelite at all. Is there a specific settings that I must do? Or a special program I need to install? Please help!!! I've searched on the forum and everybody said their not having problems with the 3.0.1. Thanks for the help
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1st - Read TalynOnes EXCELLENT internal gps FAQ Post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363431
2nd - If it still doesnt work, try cooking a new rom and reflashing. I dont know why it should be so, but it does work sometimes. I have flashed a cooked rom with exactly the same options and one works with gps and the other doesnt. There is a lot of variability with the titan units when it comes to the operability of the internal gps unit so you might have a dud. But I thought that too at times, but a reflash and a studious look at the post above has made my gps work "almost" perfectly.
maccaberry said:
1st - Read TalynOnes EXCELLENT internal gps FAQ Post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363431
2nd - If it still doesnt work, try cooking a new rom and reflashing. I dont know why it should be so, but it does work sometimes. I have flashed a cooked rom with exactly the same options and one works with gps and the other doesnt. There is a lot of variability with the titan units when it comes to the operability of the internal gps unit so you might have a dud. But I thought that too at times, but a reflash and a studious look at the post above has made my gps work "almost" perfectly.
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Thanks maccaberry,
It worked after reflashing it with 3.04. Although I don't know how to use the voip...I'll be looking on the thread for some more info.
Thanks guys dcd is awesome. Thank you all
Hello All,
I would like to know whether anyone has tried the new Iguidance 2009 for PPC. If so, please share the experience and I'd like to know whether it works without using GPSGATE like Iguidance V4.0
I've never used it, but have used many of the solutions out there. By far the best I have found is iGO8 with the US maps. Absolutely incredible interface, fantastic graphics and sound, amazing. From the looks of the Iguidance 2009 screenshots, iGO8 blows it away as well.
I Dont Think Its Out Yet.
If it is let me know. I heard October 8 2008.
Thanks
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Iguidance isnt out yet, but it seems they are fixing the PPC GPS issue with us. It is also the only one i know that does TTS, so for me its the winner. And how do u get US maps with iGo8? might try but without TTS, always feels like im missing something
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Iguidance isnt out yet, but it seems they are fixing the PPC GPS issue with us. It is also the only one i know that does TTS, so for me its the winner. And how do u get US maps with iGo8? might try but without TTS, always feels like im missing something
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igo8 does have TTS support, but for the mogul, not enough ram to use it, however using Oncourse with TTS works fine for me. (Oncourse uses the same core as igo8 but rebranded)
There are definitely US maps for iGO8.
Actually the US maps are for MioMap software, they just happen to be easily changed to work with Igo since they use the same file structure.
Igo (as far as I know) has never released maps of North America, tho they do OEM their software to other vendors who may have NA maps available.
BTC
Great Software, BUT...
urcboss07 said:
Hello All,
I would like to know whether anyone has tried the new Iguidance 2009 for PPC. If so, please share the experience and I'd like to know whether it works without using GPSGATE like Iguidance V4.0
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I really like the iGudance software. This worked great with my NATF 4.1 Fuze. HOWERVER, they ship this on a 4gb microSD, AND they do not allow you to copy the software to your own SD card. Well, you can copy it, but it won't run. In my case I wanted to copy it to my 16gb card. Their copy protection won't let it run that way.
SO, ONLY buy it if you are either willing to use their SD card or you are willing to swap cards every time you want to run GPS. I'm not.
i just got iguidance 2009 and it works pretty good. I have tried lot of gps softwares on my tmobile wing but none of them really worked. I think it's cause all of the gps softwares were for wm 5 or 6 and not for 6.1. But this one is for 6.1 too. I can't really compare it to other softwares but to what I have experienced it works pretty well. The poi missing few destinations but again I can't compare that to other softwares.
Ken98045 said:
I really like the iGudance software. This worked great with my NATF 4.1 Fuze. HOWERVER, they ship this on a 4gb microSD, AND they do not allow you to copy the software to your own SD card. Well, you can copy it, but it won't run. In my case I wanted to copy it to my 16gb card. Their copy protection won't let it run that way.
SO, ONLY buy it if you are either willing to use their SD card or you are willing to swap cards every time you want to run GPS. I'm not.
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Wrong. You can easily run the maps from any SD card. Trust me.
iGo8 is a waste. No TTS is basically worthless. iGuidance 2009 works really well. I'm still using it with the astrolauncher mortscript and gpsgate, but I'll try it without tomorrow.
ok this stuff gets expensive trying all the different ones to find the one you like....soooo.. lets start here..
Mapopolis - not great on graphics - no TTS and was cheap
iGuidance 3 - was awesome and i liked it alot but no tts and got it with my gps bundle so forget the price
iguidance 4 - was at a truck meet and a guy had it.. got to check it out and it was cool... tts and all... was going to buy it but then looked into tomtom
tomtom - ok so it is really nice... expecially the gui but it still lacks something
iGuidance 2009 - funny i found this thread as I was talking to a guy at work since I just started there... and he knew one of the guys there that is into this stuff too... so he has it installed... I got to check it out and he has it running on a mogul!!!!! on sprint stock rom (I told him bout the roms here so he should be dropping by )
now in addition to all that up there i have also tried trial versions of software like
GPS Speed SEntry
GPS Gate
GPS Meter
GPS Skinner
Beeline GPS
VisualGPSce
I have teste EVERY one of them in this quest of trying to figure out what is the best and what to use...
ALL have worked on my mogul (on the bottom list as trials are available) and top where I have bought or had the oppertunity to check them out....
so I feel that I will be upping for an upgrade to iGuidance 2009 as I see some changes...hopefully for the better.. im gonna ask the guy if I can borrow his phone during the day (hah borrow a phone... if it was stand alone gps maybe easier to do).... but his Mogul connected with just the sprint rom and radio (dont even know what versions) in less than 10 seconds!!!!!!!
I like some features of TomTom yet some of iGuidance... so hopefully iGuidance grabbed those features...
features I like of tomtom
online update to POI (dunkin donuts YEAH BABY!!!)
look and feel - doesnt feel like a phone
ease of use
features I like of previous iGuidance which I know they must have not got rid of
click on screen while navigating and it shows you the current location... do that on tomtom and it does nothing
look and feel - always been on par with stand alone gps but not to tomtom standards though...
ease of use - I have always found it easy to use and connect quickly....
well that is it for me for now.. time to hunt down the cheapest place to buy the software!!!!!!
Tomtom locks slightly faster on my mogul, and is a bit more "pickup and play" friendly.. but iguidance '09 has it beat in everyother area.. especially mem usage(tomtom gives out of mem errors too often for me)
Well I am searching for the best PPC iNav as well .. so far I like TomTom,
I currently have TomTom v6, iGuidance v4 and I ordered iGuidance 2009 last
week .. should have it tomorrow or Friday .. so I'll report on iGuidance 2009 ..
The only issue with TomTom v6 is no TTS .. other than that .. I never get loss
and never have any memory issues running it .. hell its been the only stable
Nav software on my phone .. over all others!!! "so far anyways"..
major issues I have with iGuidance v4 is that, it does not show live position!!
and you have to keep tapping the screen to get your current location ..
I even got loss using iGuidance v4 as I drive the phone would idea and the
software also seems to idle and have a major lag in updating the location
that cause me to miss my tunes a few times .. end up had to Run TomTom to
save my a$$ and get me where I needed to go.. iGuidance v4 seems like its
best for ppl walking lmao.. lol
Well I'll have iGuidance 2009 tomorrow or Friday so I "hope" it will be 1000x
better than iGuidance v4 cause the only good thing I found about iGuidance
v4 was its TTS and the fact it seems to work in stand-along mode..
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major issues I have with iGuidance v4 is that, it does not show live position!!
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It probably doesn't matter anymore since you bought iGuidance 2009, but the fix for v4 is to run GPSgate in the background. iGuidance v4 will then update your current position automatically and work just like a standalone device. There was a problem with the gps driver that is built into the v4 interfacing with winmo. GPSgate outputs the GPS info on a different port, you just point iGuidance to look at the new port. Check the big GPS fact thread either here or on PPCGeeks and there are some awesome scripts to start up GPSgate when you start iGuidance. Works great for me. Big props to the people that did the work in that thread.
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Well I am searching for the best PPC iNav as well .. so far I like TomTom,
I currently have TomTom v6, iGuidance v4 and I ordered iGuidance 2009 last
week .. should have it tomorrow or Friday .. so I'll report on iGuidance 2009 ..
The only issue with TomTom v6 is no TTS .. other than that .. I never get loss
and never have any memory issues running it .. hell its been the only stable
Nav software on my phone .. over all others!!! "so far anyways"..
major issues I have with iGuidance v4 is that, it does not show live position!!
and you have to keep tapping the screen to get your current location ..
I even got loss using iGuidance v4 as I drive the phone would idea and the
software also seems to idle and have a major lag in updating the location
that cause me to miss my tunes a few times .. end up had to Run TomTom to
save my a$$ and get me where I needed to go.. iGuidance v4 seems like its
best for ppl walking lmao.. lol
Well I'll have iGuidance 2009 tomorrow or Friday so I "hope" it will be 1000x
better than iGuidance v4 cause the only good thing I found about iGuidance
v4 was its TTS and the fact it seems to work in stand-along mode..
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Either there's something wrong with your IG install, or you're not using it correctly. I've used it for years on several devices and never have had to tap the screen to get the current location. With IG, you have to use a program like gpsgate to keep the titans internal gps alive when using IG.
Will I be able to transfer iGuidance 2009 to another MSD card after purchase? I want to transfer it to a class-6 MSD card. If so, is it just a matter of copying from the original and pasting to the new card or is there anything else involved? Also, has anyone got this working in an Xperia X1? Thanks.
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It probably doesn't matter anymore since you bought iGuidance 2009, but the fix for v4 is to run GPSgate in the background. iGuidance v4 will then update your current position automatically and work just like a standalone device. There was a problem with the gps driver that is built into the v4 interfacing with winmo. GPSgate outputs the GPS info on a different port, you just point iGuidance to look at the new port. Check the big GPS fact thread either here or on PPCGeeks and there are some awesome scripts to start up GPSgate when you start iGuidance. Works great for me. Big props to the people that did the work in that thread.
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Correct. Noobs should search a little before bashing products that they clearly don't understand how to use.
Any answers to my earlier question will be much appreciated.
sabesh said:
Any answers to my earlier question will be much appreciated.
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Read post #10. It can be done.
Just FYI...Ive done the GPS changes so it gets a lock in 5 seconds and iGuidance runs perfect.
Hello, does anyone know if a 6.1 ROM with stand alone gps works for the p4000 on telus mobility networks yet ?
Absolutely, and for 3/4 of a year. If you had paid attention to the stickies at the top of the forum, read the Wiki, or done a forum search you would've more quickly and directly found your answer.
If you mean by "stand-alone-GPS" as not applying any Network Assistance (Assisted portion of AGPS), then that is achieved on any GPS enabling ROM with the registry key of:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\SUPL AGPS]
"EnableAGPS"=dword:0000000x (x=1 for on, x=0 for off)
"GPSMode"=dword:0000000x (x=1 for only GPS, x=2 for the default GPS & assisted, x=4 for assisted only with GPS off)
...or if you mean by "stand-alone" GPS being an external GPS (ala bluetooth) then certainly. Just pair up the device and configure your GPS app to use the appropriate COM port.
Yeah I've had WinMo 6.1 and GPS working for close to a year now. Telus' official 6.1 ROM with GPS sucks though. Use DCD 3.2.6 instead. It's way better.
You probably should've done even just a little reading before posting this though and you would've found this out already...
I am using ROMeOS and can only get GPS to connect 1 out of 20 tries. It is beginning to look like It is a hardware issue since so many people are having trouble and they all have different situations-different ROMS.
Is there a particular ROM that is having luck with GPS?
Hi,
there are several threads on the GPS issue. It's not hardware. Search for "HTC GPS Tool" and run that. It will get a lock within a few minutes and after that your other programs should be fine.
I have switched to NATF's ROM and am having better luck. If it is not a hardware issue than I bet one of the cooked ROMs is better than another for GPS.
What I dont know is how well a particular ROM works with GPS. I could flash every ROM and find out for myself, I could read all 200 posts in every cooked ROM thread to see if anyone is having good/bad luck with GPS or I could ask;
"Is there a particular ROM that is having luck with GPS?"
I'll go first. I am now using NotATreoFan's ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444784 and am now locking on to GPS with in 1 to 5 minutes.
Any other ROMs working better for GPS?
I am using PROven's 1.03 and get the lock every time in about 10 seconds (with latest iGO).
I applied some tweaks mentioned in GPS lag threads.
I've used both NATF and ROMeOS and both I get a lock within a 1 minute if that much. Before I ran HTC GPS Tool, it took a very long time to get a lock. After I ran it, I can now get a lock in TT very quickly. I also get a lock in Google Maps fairly quickly.
One other thing I did do was within the WinMo Systems, there's an External GPS setting. I changed the hardware port from Com4 to Com1. Not sure if that helped also. Give that a shot.
My idea is if the gps is working fine on the htc hd2.
Is it possible to cook those files and software in a rom for the raphael.
And then look if the raphael gets a faster gps fix without 3de party software or other tricks.
This is just an idea of my to try it out and watch what happens.
So if you like this idea can you try this out in your new rom ?
Thank you already
Do you think that 10-30 seconds is too long for a GPS fix? That's how fast is GPS fix on my Raph.
If it is 10 -30 sec a would be happy.
I would get nothing or i would wait 1h 30m.
It's very annoying if i have a fix and then it is gone again.
I have used a lot of programs registery tricks or other tweaks roms and radio's but i won't work for me.
I am using the gps for walking in the forest so i can get my way back.
Several times i was lost and needed to find my way back on my own.
And it won't hurt to try this out.
If this works out with the htc hd2 files and programs other cooks can use those files in there roms.
Check your radio number, then install suitable rilphone to it and then use QuickGPS
Currently getting GPS location under 30 seconds consistently by directly starting google maps.
Using:
Latest Energyrom 10/29
Radio 1.14.25.35 with corresponding rilphone.dll
I've never found any benefit to using 3rd party apps except maybe for enjoying the beautiful screen gpstest shows for 5 minutes before it even starts to work.
There are rare times when I can't get a gps lock with google maps when i actually tried gpstest only to realize that it can't get a lock either.
One thing you can try is to simply run quickgps before you use gps...especially if you're in a new area.
Seems like in the woods (geocaching), the GPS really fails to track anything. If you move slower than 1mph, it really doesn't update your location, and you can be walking for a mile. Walk faster and it'll find your location lickety split.
I get a fix in about 15 seconds on the second floor of my house with my Raphael. It just hates tracking when you're walking slow. :/
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Seems like in the woods (geocaching), the GPS really fails to track anything. If you move slower than 1mph, it really doesn't update your location, and you can be walking for a mile. Walk faster and it'll find your location lickety split.
I get a fix in about 15 seconds on the second floor of my house with my Raphael. It just hates tracking when you're walking slow. :/
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Interesting... Now I know why my raph gets a fix faster when in a moving car, rather than when I sit at home
And yes, running QuickGPS before Google Maps really helped me a lot...
So that is why i can't get a fix in the woods i need to move fast really fast to get a fix.
So raphael gps is only useable in my car.
But what will happen if whe use the htc hd2 gps drivers on the raphael ?
If this makes the raphael gps better why not trying it out?
I would like to port it to the raphael but i don't have the know how to do it.
menomenic said:
So that is why i can't get a fix in the woods i need to move fast really fast to get a fix.
So raphael gps is only useable in my car.
But what will happen if whe use the htc hd2 gps drivers on the raphael ?
If this makes the raphael gps better why not trying it out?
I would like to port it to the raphael but i don't have the know how to do it.
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Those drivers won't work on your device. The hardware is different. I can't even use Topaz GPS drivers on my device without breaking GPS completely.
Thank you captain for your answer.
So i now know it won't work because of the hardware now i can spend the time on something else.