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    n900+gps: saving/restoring satellite data?

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    arne.anka | # 1 | 2012-08-25, 21:33 | Report

    i am sure the question came up already, but due to the ... eh ... suboptimal search facilities of these fora i am unable to find any post related.

    gps in n900 is bad -- the only reliable way to get a fix bevore you grown old and died, is using a-gps, via data connection in particular, at least for me. i seem to recall a particular stupid and insolent statement from one nokia employee, that they did not expect anybody to use the n900 without a data flatrate. obviously that guy has never been abroad ...

    my question: is there a way to store the gps chip's data when it got a fix and feed it back the next time?

    iirc this kind of data stays valid even if you move a couple of hundreds of kilometers. and imo the same thing was done with the openmoko freerunner (and that one has a gps chip which gets fixes in less than a minute already -- without assistnace!)

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    enne30 | # 2 | 2012-08-26, 17:12 | Report

    My device fixes satellites after 10-15 min. in open spaces, without data connection, too; it does not seem to me an enormous time for GPS to fix (anyway I come from N97, where it would NEVER fix without data connection).

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