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Hey, new here. I wanted to share how I fixed my gps.

Before I could never get a lock on my gps but now its almost instant. Here's how I did it.

I downloaded the gps status app and noticed that I still couldn't get a lock onto the satellites. So I went into settings and turned off google locations and left the standalone gps setting on. Then I went back to gps status and I was able to lock onto the the satellites instantly. I also confirmed this by going into google maps and getting/using the instant navigation.

You can switch google locations back on if you want.

BUT, I tested my theory out by restarting my phone and left google locations on and once the phone restarted I turned on the standalone gps setting. Guess what, I couldn't get a lock in gps status or google nav for some reason. software issue (?)

I had to turn off google locations to lock on. So I just repeated the steps and it worked out.

It worked for me, let me know if it works for you.
 
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Good idea OTD, the topic certainly merits a sticky. My only 2cents contribution is just make sure you try and sync up without significant overhead obstruction. I have accuracy to 2 meters in my car or outside. But in the lower levels of my house its off by hundreds of feet.
 
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I can just clear the cache again. (Hm..maybe I should make a widget to do that..)

You don't have to. I am pretty sure that the GPS Status app just released an update that does that. It checks the data and if it is old, it redownloads the data for you on startup of the app.

So all you have to do is launch the app get the lock and you are good to go.
 
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You don't have to. I am pretty sure that the GPS Status app just released an update that does that. It checks the data and if it is old, it redownloads the data for you on startup of the app.

So all you have to do is launch the app get the lock and you are good to go.

That's not the way I understand GPS Status. To use this new cache-refresh feature you have to expressly go to the app's Settings menu -> GPS & Sensors -> Manage A-GPS state. Once there, first tap Reset, then tap Download.

The effect of this new utility is still being tested on Galaxy S models.

If you are getting good results simply from opening the GPS Status app before you use some other app such as Google Maps or Navigation, that is probably just because you are giving the GPS chip a head start to get a lock. I actually have been in the habit of doing this for a couple of years to ensure that I have a good satellite lock before attempting navigation, etc. It also provides explicit evidence of failure.
 
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That's not the way I understand GPS Status. To use this new cache-refresh feature you have to expressly go to the app's Settings menu -> GPS & Sensors -> Manage A-GPS state. Once there, first tap Reset, then tap Download.

Have you compared the difference between doing just a Reset, and doing a Reset then Download? I've only done the Resets so far.
 
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This makes no difference on my SF. Its obviously a software issue if somethings are working for some and not others....this is the ONLY thing I despise about this phone. ARRRRGH.

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Yeah all in all 10ft accuracy puts you above/better than the SF average

That's true, I certainly can't complain about that. Or anything on this phone, really, unless I wanted to get nit-picky. And I shall attempt that widget, perhaps, even if it's just for my own laziness (and getting more practice in coding, anyways).
 
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That's true, I certainly can't complain about that. Or anything on this phone, really, unless I wanted to get nit-picky. And I shall attempt that widget, perhaps, even if it's just for my own laziness (and getting more practice in coding, anyways).
Yeah Im a within 2m accuracy guy myself so I love the GPS on this thing; although Im very aware of the sizeable minority who are hundreds of feet off and take minutes rather than seconds to lock in.

BTW, good luck on the GPS widget ;)
 
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That's not the way I understand GPS Status. To use this new cache-refresh feature you have to expressly go to the app's Settings menu -> GPS & Sensors -> Manage A-GPS state. Once there, first tap Reset, then tap Download.

The effect of this new utility is still being tested on Galaxy S models.

If you are getting good results simply from opening the GPS Status app before you use some other app such as Google Maps or Navigation, that is probably just because you are giving the GPS chip a head start to get a lock. I actually have been in the habit of doing this for a couple of years to ensure that I have a good satellite lock before attempting navigation, etc. It also provides explicit evidence of failure.

My point was that there is a new feature in the app that lets you auto-download A-GPS data on certain time intervals. In my case I have it set to download new data if the data is older than 6 hours.

Isn't that all that the manual approach is doing?
 
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That's not the way I understand GPS Status. To use this new cache-refresh feature you have to expressly go to the app's Settings menu -> GPS & Sensors -> Manage A-GPS state. Once there, first tap Reset, then tap Download. ....

My bad. I did not know about the latest version of GPS Status, which does adverstised the abiltiy to refresh the cache automatically upon startup. This new feature is still being user-tested on the Galaxy S phones. So I don't have a settled opinion about its efficacy.
 
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So glad I found this sticky. Hope someone can help. My navigation doesn't give me turn by turn voice navigation. Everything else works fine accept for the voice. I've download the latest version of google maps and google voice, not quite sure what the problem is. I read the sticky and surprise no one has had a problem with this. Please help.

And yes I checked the volume :)
 
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