Thank you. That was about what I expected, but it's nice to get a confirmation from someone who actually tried it. ;)
On Mar 19, 10:14 am, mike <enervat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/18/2010 06:01 PM, Andreas wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > Just out of curiosity, what would you say is a common time to first > > fix when your outside network coverage? > > I'm not sure if I have a common time, but it can take minutes. I'm > not entirely sure how it works in the guts of the GPS, but I think > it remembers which satellites it had sync with before and tries > to go from there. If it's thoroughly confused (eg, the GPS has been > off for a long time, and transported somewhere else), it can take > quite a while. AGPS helps all of this out because it very quickly > talks to the cell towers to get a rough idea where it is so that > the GPS software can have a better idea of where the satellites > for that area ought to be. > > At least that's my high level understanding, which isn't anything > approaching expert :) > > Mike > > > Andreas > > > On Mar 19, 4:46 am, mike<enervat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 03/18/2010 12:30 PM, Matias Alberto de la Vega wrote: > > >>> As Mike said, you will be able to use GPS even if you have no mobile > >>> signal or wifi connectivity, since GPS has it's own satellites, you > >>> can get coordenates as long as you have GPS friendly environment, some > >>> tips: you MUST be able to see the sky, no tall buildings around is > >>> better, and the bigger piece of sky you can see, the better GPS will > >>> work, but I think you may not have problems with that if you are going > >>> to be in the mountains. Take care. > > >> My experience with my Phresheez app is that it works really > >> well up in the mountains. There are certainly GPS-unfriendly > >> parts I'm sure, but for the most part it's pretty flawless (well, > >> as flawless as GPS can be). > > >> Mike > > >>> On 18 mar, 13:23, mike<enervat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> On 03/18/2010 09:12 AM, David Toledo wrote: > > >>>>> I refered , is in the montains without signal telephony > > >>>> Then yes, definitely, from much first hand experience :) > > >>>> Mike > > >>>>> Thanks > > >>>>> 2010/3/18 mike<enervat...@gmail.com<mailto:enervat...@gmail.com>> > > >>>>> On 03/18/2010 08:29 AM, David Toledo wrote: > > >>>>> Hi All > >>>>> Is possible that can using the signal GPS without signal the > >>>>> telephony active. I need save the gps location in the sqllite > >>>>> when the telephony is disabled > > >>>>> GPS works fine without the cellular network. If there's no network > >>>>> AGPS won't > >>>>> be of any help, but that's just a optimization for finding where > >>>>> you are quicker. > > >>>>> But I'm not sure what you mean by "telephony disabled" are you > >>>>> talking about > >>>>> Airplane mode? If so, Android still allows use of GPS in airplane > >>>>> mode, unlike > >>>>> iPhone. > > >>>>> Mike > > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> David > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the > >>>>> Google > >>>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >>>>> To post to this group, send email to > >>>>> android-developers@googlegroups.com > >>>>> <mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com> > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >>>>> <mailto:android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >>>>> To post to this group, send email to > >>>>> android-developers@googlegroups.com > >>>>> <mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com> > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >>>>> <mailto:android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >>>>> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>>> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
