Back ground history first, skip to second paragraph for my fix.
I got the droid online when it released. I used this forum to answer all my pre and post buy questions with great results with even registering. My original phone (43/09) had the random reboot problem, it got progressevily worse and I finally swapped it today. I had zero problems with the return. I spent sometime with the new phone (39/09, odd right?) In the parking lot. Then on the way homde I tried google nav. It was weird it knew where I was kinda, but it kept searching for sats and never started to navigate me. at my house I tried to locate me but it was always way off (over a 1000ft). Well after reboots, battery pull and even a factory reset with no luck nothing seamed to help it. Any apps that used gps would not work, weather, compass, a dyno program. I found on this site an app "gps status" and it tells u how many sats you are using. So I had 2 sats above me and no lock.
Solution came from the help page of "gps status" he talked about re calibrating the magnetic sensors in the phone (classic figure 8 came to mind) but he said the theroy was to really spin the phone 3 times on each of its three axis. Well sure enough I did it, and before I was even done I was locked onto 6 of 7 sats, accuracy was with in 6 meters! So I went to google nav, everything worked perfectly!
I will keep an eye on it the next few days and post an updat. I hope this info helps
I got the droid online when it released. I used this forum to answer all my pre and post buy questions with great results with even registering. My original phone (43/09) had the random reboot problem, it got progressevily worse and I finally swapped it today. I had zero problems with the return. I spent sometime with the new phone (39/09, odd right?) In the parking lot. Then on the way homde I tried google nav. It was weird it knew where I was kinda, but it kept searching for sats and never started to navigate me. at my house I tried to locate me but it was always way off (over a 1000ft). Well after reboots, battery pull and even a factory reset with no luck nothing seamed to help it. Any apps that used gps would not work, weather, compass, a dyno program. I found on this site an app "gps status" and it tells u how many sats you are using. So I had 2 sats above me and no lock.
Solution came from the help page of "gps status" he talked about re calibrating the magnetic sensors in the phone (classic figure 8 came to mind) but he said the theroy was to really spin the phone 3 times on each of its three axis. Well sure enough I did it, and before I was even done I was locked onto 6 of 7 sats, accuracy was with in 6 meters! So I went to google nav, everything worked perfectly!
I will keep an eye on it the next few days and post an updat. I hope this info helps