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Maybe you just need a new phone/device? With each new phone I had faster and faster GPS lock time.
by 21 8y ago
Maybe you just need a new phone/device? With each new phone I had faster and faster GPS lock time.
- nradov 8y agoCellular devices can get rough location fixes very quickly because the cell towers cue them with assist data, plus they can download the satellite constellation ephemeris data in advance. Stand-alone GPS receivers are much slower since they lack all of those clues. And if the device was just powered on and hasn't gotten a fix near the current location within the past few hours then they can get really slow. If you take your cell phone out in a canyon somewhere with no cell coverage, turn it off for a few days, and then turn it to get a GPS fix expect it to take a while.