Help GPS ???

dan409 · Sep 14, 2013

Coming from a Galaxy S3 I am finding that locking onto satellites with the G2 is much slower and picking up a lot less satellites.
With the GS3 I usually average 15 out of 20 sat locks almost instantly when I use GPS status, maps or navigation.
With the G2 I usually get 8 out of 20 sat locks and it take almost 2-4 minutes to complete locking on.
GS3 has no problems even working indoors, G2 not so much taking forever to get a lock.
While driving home today the location to my home was off a few blocks.
Not trying to bash here, just trying to get an idea of how it is working for others. Also not a sammy fanboy as the S3 is the phone I am replacing with the G2.
This is huge to me as I need the GPS to work properly as I use it constantly in the line of work I do. It would be nice to continue to be able to just use one device for all of my traveling.
All of the comparisons I have done were side by side comps.
Thanks

nj02vette · Sep 14, 2013

dan409 said:
Coming from a Galaxy S3 I am finding that locking onto satellites with the G2 is much slower and picking up a lot less satellites.
With the GS3 I usually average 15 out of 20 sat locks almost instantly when I use GPS status, maps or navigation.
With the G2 I usually get 8 out of 20 sat locks and it take almost 2-4 minutes to complete locking on.
GS3 has no problems even working indoors, G2 not so much taking forever to get a lock.
While driving home today the location to my home was off a few blocks.
Not trying to bash here, just trying to get an idea of how it is working for others. Also not a sammy fanboy as the S3 is the phone I am replacing with the G2.
This is huge to me as I need the GPS to work properly as I use it constantly in the line of work I do. It would be nice to continue to be able to just use one device for all of my traveling.
All of the comparisons I have done were side by side comps.
Thanks

Seems to lock quickly for me. I'll keep an eye out.

stew930 · Sep 14, 2013

I have brought up Maps at home and work and it was accurate. How can you tell how many satellite's the phone grabs?

dan409 · Sep 15, 2013

I use the free GPS status app from the play store..

darkestred · Sep 15, 2013

very fast gps lock for me.

1up5dn · Sep 15, 2013

I've only used the GPS for Waze so far. But it locks super quick and is very accurate. I don't have any way to quantify that, I don't use any GPS diagnostic apps, but it always shows me exactly where I am at (while driving) and finds me within seconds of launching Waze.

I can try it some more and let you know how it works for me.

Chris....

nj02vette · Sep 15, 2013

dan409 said:
I use the free GPS status app from the play store..

Perhaps it was a particularly crappy day and the signal wasn't clear.

How is it working for you now?

dan409 · Sep 17, 2013

nj02vette said:
Perhaps it was a particularly crappy day and the signal wasn't clear.

How is it working for you now?

Still not that good. From a cold startup still taking almost 2 minutes to get a good lock. I'm going to go to a corporate store and do a side by side there to see if it just my phone. Not a deal breaker, but just was used to how fast and accurate the S3 was. I hate going backwards in any aspect when upgrading.

jikhead · Sep 20, 2013

I'm not having a locking issue, but simply the navigation directions being completely off. I've been to two clients sites this morning. Both addresses in Maps is correct. The first place had the location on the wrong side of the road and was short by about 1/4 of a mile. The next location was simply way off. It was off by about 4 miles in the wrong direction.

hollywoods14 · Sep 20, 2013

Got 12 satellites locked in about 15 seconds using Gps status and tools app.

jikhead · Sep 20, 2013

jikhead said:
I'm not having a locking issue, but simply the navigation directions being completely off. I've been to two clients sites this morning. Both addresses in Maps is correct. The first place had the location on the wrong side of the road and was short by about 1/4 of a mile. The next location was simply way off. It was off by about 4 miles in the wrong direction.

I believe my problem was Google Maps and not the phone's GPS. I checked the addresses on Maps on my PC back in the office and it showed both location like I mentioned. Makes me feel better that it wasn't the phone. I sent map corrections to Google.

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