Hi.
I'm awaiting delivery later today of my FIFTH Galaxy S from Vodafone. The GPS on all of them has been absolutely shocking .. but I'd kind of resigned myself to that and was even considering getting an external bluetooth GPS receiver!!
This one is going back because it has a dead (or very alive!) bright red pixel right in the middle of the screen, and it kind of draws my eye to it because I know it's there! Maybe I'm being a bit fussy, but for a top-drawer screen like this I want perfection!! :-)
I tried the Waze 'solution' and the series of keypresses to enable SkyHook - nothing has made a difference here. My wife has the same phone and hers is exactly the same.
All have been the 03 firmware so far.
Very very impressed with Vodafone though - I'm well within my 28 day period so they've sent new sealed boxes out each time. I haven't had to jump through hoops with tech support, they take my word when I describe the fault and book a replacement.
I reckon though that if the next one is the same I'll be sorely tempted to go for an iPhone 4 or possibly an HTC desire. I got worried at the suggestion that the SGS GPS issue may be hardware as well as software / firmware related.
Shame because it's a totally stunning phone otherwise. But I'm sat with my old faithful Blackberry 8900 and the GPS on that is putting me (correctly) at the end of the garden, in the shed. The SGS will have me jumping all over the Google Maps screen - sometimes up to a mile away and then back! The best I get is being put in the road outside, but only for a second and then it jumps away!
Cheers
Dave
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