On 24/10/2012 06:50, Ramy Yanetz wrote: > We, including myself, often recommend the Dell Streak as the best > platform for XCSoar. While it has indeed an excellent sunlight readable > display, it has poor GPS. I received multiple feedback from people I > recommended to purchase the Dell Streak that it takes very long time to > acquire the GPS signal, and occasionally the GPS stops working for > hours. In at least one case someone bought a new unit believing he had a > faulty unit. Those of us who use it with external GPS source may not be > aware of it, but some want to use it stand alone, and as such this may > not be their best option. I suggest we mention this issue whenever we > recommend it.
I have been using a Streak for over a year. While I use XCSoar with a IOIO card connect to Flarm and gliding computer for flying, I also use the Streak for mountain biking, with its internal GPS. I log my rides using "MyTracs" application, and I have also played with other GPS software for mapping, navigation, geo tagging etc. I have noted the following: - When I had Andriod 2.2.2 installed, the internal GPS was faultless and I accumulated many logs of cycling GPS tracks without any errors. - Since I flashed Olleh 2.3 version, I have started having GPS issues. But the problems are not consistent, some applications, like the free "See You Recorder" IGC logger consistently have issues, while others applications do not. I can also get SY Recorder to work or stop working by opening and closing other GPS applications. - I have played with an application "GPS Status". Sometimes when there are problems, I open GPS Status and it shows no satellites at all for a long period, but if I close all GPS applications then open GPS Status it very soon starts picking up satellites, even if it takes a while to get a fix. - The few occasions I have used internal GPS with XCSoar, it worked fine. I suspect this is a software issue and it may have something to do with settings for AGPS and "Google privacy". Maybe it is related to a change of behaviour of different GPS API's provided by Android with the different OS version. I have not done any systematic testing and this is a bit off topic for XCSoar. But maybe the developers can comment. I never had any GPS problems with my Streak running Android 2.2.2, so I don't think that this is a GPS hardware issue. Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
