GPS problem after updating to 2.2

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That is the Cell Tower location.

From there the GPS have an Idea of which Satellite is closer to help get a GPS lock.

This is called A-GPS or Assisted GPS.

GPS on the Galaxy S doesn't work. It's never worked and will probably never work. All the fixes I've seen on the internet rely on cell phone tower triangulation. The actual GPS fixes have no function at all as they always tell you to turn on the "use wireless setting" setting. If you don't you don't get a location -at all! If you use both "use wireless setting" and "use GPS satellites" together, you get exactly the same location error as you get if you use "use wireless setting" alone. Ergo, the GPS isn't doing a damn thing.

GPS DOES NOT NEED TO BE ASSISTED BY CELLULAR NETWORKS - that's just not how they work. I used to design systems that relied on GPS years before 3G systems ever exited. They would work in the middle of the ocean. I suspect Samsung just don't know anything about GPS. It's the only way to explain away this disastrous system.

i have the exact same problem....it ALWAYS showa me 2-3 streets away when i'm at home. my friend used her itouch next to me and it showed our exact location

I compared my Galaxy S to my friends Iphone 4. We both started at the same time.

I got a Network lock first, then I got the GPS lock a few seconds later. We were indoors under aluminum roofing.

I was amazed that it actually got a lock in that area. I was already scrolling through the map before he got a lock.

We were both using Google Maps.

The only difference was that he is able to use navi and I am not.


This is the Network lock, make sure GPS is enabled when you are trying to get a GPS lock.

Peace.
IronSingh