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tower locations only
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:24 am
by raphaelsmith
I have only been getting cell towr locations for the past 18 hours ... no fence alerts no speed alerts ... it just jumps from 1 tower to the next tower with nothing in between .. Can you tell me what causes this ... all my signals read full strenth ..
Re: tower locations only
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:33 pm
by hutch109
This is caused by poor GPS lock - but if you say that all your signals are full - you may have had a section of time that was zero GPS for a long time - and its been locked up and unable to re-acquire.
If you have access to the phone - power it off, and back on - that should take care of the issue - if you are in open sky conditions.
Eric
Re: tower locations only
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:53 pm
by raphaelsmith
but if im getting tower signals the shoulnt it be working fine ... it was in a mall parking lot when it first started .. and its in open view of the sky
Re: tower locations only
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:11 pm
by hutch109
Tower signals and GPS signals are 2 different things. You could put the phone in the trunk - and have full cell signal - but zero GPS signal.
There is also a chance the application hung when/if it had zero GPS signal - and it has never recovered.
Tower signals are NOT provided by the on-board GPS - they are provided by the cellular carrier.
Eric