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Originally Posted by dkhomdds
But if you go and add telenav at the end of the description there is a "*" that says some phones need a BT-359 bluetooth GPS reciever for this to work??? So can someone confirm the GPS thing without a bluetooth reciever???
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So yeah i can confirm, NO TELENAV needed and the GPS works INSIDE the house! I dind't go anywhere yet but i'll be testing it later 
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Originally Posted by amar_raavi
Modaco's Paul created some kinda application to set the port or whatever. I am not having BJ 2, i may get it on Monday. But if you want to try the solution link is here.
http://www.modaco.com/content/Smart...-GPS-ACTIVATED/ |
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Originally Posted by SHoTTa35
google maps worked, COM 4 and baud rate was 19000 i think. I forget what i set it to but it was working and i had 4 satalites. I only did it to test it tho but i generally use Live.
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Originally Posted by blacksrt4guy
Update: My first attempt using Google Maps failed. Tried again put the phone down and came back to find it connected to 6 sats. So I quit the app so I could see how fast it connected, took about 10 seconds to connect. I know this off topic but is the status light useless or what?
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Originally Posted by beaups
food for thought here...perhaps the gps not working is power related? Had no problem w/gps and google. this morning I have low (1 bar) battery and after the first low battery popup message the gps stops working. perhaps the os disables it when power is low?
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Originally Posted by redbluff
One other thing I noticed that makes me believe this is really and assisted GPS via cell tower is if you turn off the radio GPS Test nor any of the apps find the GPS. Only when the celluar radio is on does any of the apps find the internal GPS.
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Originally Posted by Jnowak1981
Maybe returing the phones and getting new ones would solve th eissue fro some of us?
As there are people out there who had this workign right out of the box. But what do we say is the reason for exchanging the phone? |
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Originally Posted by Jnowak1981
they didn't change my pda plan when i got the new blackjack and kept the previous one from bj1. Maybe that's the reason it isn't working. LONGSHOT.....
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Originally Posted by SHoTTa35
now do a reboot and that's when you're with a "cold start" That's when it takes forever to lock again.
Now i loaded up Live when i was coming home and that worked right off the bat. I didn't install telenav EVER but i've since uninstalled GMaps and live still works. It just seems like once the system has been "activated" somehow then it's fine but after you reboot it's hell trying to get it to work again for some reason. |
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Originally Posted by znutar
I'm having the exact same sort of issues. From cold boot it takes forever and sometimes you have to try google or live a few times before the GPS finally kicks in (and make sure to be outside for initial startup or you are wasting your time). After the initial startup it works much better and locks within 15 seconds upon subsequent attempts.
Tried the modaco hack and that did absolutely nothing for me at all. |
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Originally Posted by znutar
I'm having the exact same sort of issues. From cold boot it takes forever and sometimes you have to try google or live a few times before the GPS finally kicks in (and make sure to be outside for initial startup or you are wasting your time). After the initial startup it works much better and locks within 15 seconds upon subsequent attempts.
Tried the modaco hack and that did absolutely nothing for me at all. |
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Originally Posted by Cabrera
Tried telenav, copilot, gmaps. Could not lock onto any satellites. I live in a 3g area. Spent over an hour standing in a Walgreens parking lot. I guess I'll exchange the phone....and spend another couple of hours setting it up and downloading software...after I test the GPS.
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Originally Posted by beaups
yep. one very nice feature of bj2 vs bj1 is that if you pull the battery while the unit is plugged in IT WILL STAY ON. this is very handy for those of us that swap batteries a lot...obviously it will be more handy once you can actually buy a spare battery ;-)
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Originally Posted by Cabrera
On the way to the ATT store to exchange the BJ2, I left gmaps searching for satellites and of course it locken on 5 in under a minute. Go figure.
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Originally Posted by solo118
Anyone else seeing a huge decrease in battery life with the modaco hack?
Without even using the gps it kills the battery |
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