Sorry, I missed the thread and would like to suggest also Tracker Booster as a small tweak for Android smartphones. It runs in the background and doesn't use too much battery. Il giorno 03/mar/2012 15:58, "Brian Wolford" <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Hey, > So there has been a problem with some androids I have encountered and met > another person running into the same problems. > Some phones were taking very long times to get GPS fixes (ussually not at > all) and after they did they were putting points out in Jamaica or the > ocean south of Cuba. > > A common thread between the problem phones seemed to be that they were > from Europe. North American phones seemed to have no problem. > So the solution seems to be changing the NTP server in the 'gps.conf' > file to the North American server. > > This can be accomplished two ways: > 1: The app FasterFix > https://market.android.com/details?id=com.Double.FasterFix&hl=en > 2: Manually > http://www.xda-developers.com/android/fix-your-european-android-gps-lock-manually/ > > You of course need to be a 'root' user. But you should do that when > unboxing anyway. > > This is caused by using Assisted GPS (A-GPS) for the first point, which > uses the network to get faster fixes. > > Thought this would be useful to share and hopefully save some headaches. > -brian > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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