Might be related to the region. I'm in Austin w/TMO and it works perfect for me both on EDGE and 3G. Or perhaps it is the network settings for your particular data plan? If they have you going through a proxy that could potentially hose up things. Try a different APN (there's the internet2.voicestream one and the epc.tmobile one...if you have one configured try the other).
I had the same issue when I switched from ATT to Tmobile. I cleared the "use network positioning" checkbox, rebooted, checked the box and then launched Maps. Works great. 5 second GPS fixes again.
Might be related to the region. I'm in Austin w/TMO and it works perfect for me both on EDGE and 3G. Or perhaps it is the network settings for your particular data plan? If they have you going through a proxy that could potentially hose up things.
It may be a region thing, but it seems pretty widespread. The technicians I spoke to verified my data plan should be OK, and there is no proxy in use.
Try a different APN (there's the internet2.voicestream one and the epc.tmobile one...if you have one configured try the other).
Tried both. No change. [Side note: T-Mobile tech said epc.tmobile.com is generally faster (probably because it's under less load).]
Thanks for your suggestions, though.
There's a Nokia Support Discussion thread that has reports from several other people experiencing the same problem. One person reported fixing the problem with disable/reboot/enable/reboot. This did not work for me.
I'm still interested to know if there are further diagnostic steps I can take. I'm out of ideas. Anyone know a OMA-UPL expert that can help out?
I've noticed the same behavior with T-Mobile USA (but have no way to try ATT). I found, though, that if I run the Ovi Maps program, I suddenly get a fix and my IM availability publishes my street location as determined by Ovi Maps. Once I close Ovi Maps, it goes back to Searching...
Does anyone know how to read the NMEA data from the internal GPS receiver? Is there an app yet to grahpically display the signal quality from each GPS sat and the current fix quality?
Wow, thanks for the tip dude, you just made my day! I just switched the server to supl.google.com and it instantly finds a location based on the cell-tower which happens to be atop the Triborough bridge here in NYC.
supl.nokia.com must not be working or supplying incorrect data.
You also made my day! I thought it was something like windows time server that never worked for me until practically windows vista lol. I set it to supl.google.com and got an instant lock.
I'm also using T-mobile in upstate ny. It must be something with nokia's server.
