Is there still hope this is not a hardware bug?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Jim Morris <<a href="mailto:ml@e4net.com">ml@e4net.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jonathan Spooner wrote:<br>
> I've been playing with my GPS and finally got a fix using agps diag<br>
> tool. I stood the gta02 up on my garden table using a pop bottle :-) I<br>
> think bottom line the gta02 has a poor antenna.... in fact the first<br>
> time I got a fix I did so at the point I rested my free stylus on top of<br>
> the gta02!<br>
><br>
> Once I had a fix I used the signal strength screen in the agps diag tool<br>
> and its then plain to see the signal is precarious at best with an<br>
> average strength of around 28 which is greatly affected by orientation<br>
> and nearby objects from hands, stylus, people etc pretty much what you'd<br>
> expect in a device thats receiving a very weak signal.... except we know<br>
> the say system is working so that only leaves the gta02 internal antenna<br>
> as the problem.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
> Jon<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I found exactly the same thing, the unit has to be stationary for a while, you need to swizzle it<br>
around its vertical axis until you get the maximum signal strength, and then leave it for 10 mins to<br>
get a fix. It must not be touched or moved during that time.<br>
<br>
It is pretty impractical for a mobile device though to do that.<br>
<br>
Lets hope some of the techniques to preload data will help this.<br>
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Jim Morris, <a href="http://blog.wolfman.com" target="_blank">http://blog.wolfman.com</a><br>
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