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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] andrawer:
My Note's GPS performance is flawless and is my most loved feature of the device. Superquick and very accurate.

I use the GPS all the time for backpacking, motorcycling, running and of course general finding all the stores my wife makes me take her shopping on the weekend.

Even better than my previous iPhone 4 and 3g.

My Samsung Infuse's GPS was a disaster taking forever getting a lock, loosing it, placing on the next road over, and not performing if sitting in the middle of my car...constant frustration so I REALLY am happy with my stock Notes GPS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
GLONASS operates in slightly higher frequency range than GPS, so that makes sense. Although they are fairly close, so in decent conditions getting a lock should be pretty easy. I'm at about 4 seconds consistently.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnus:
I understand that. But across all phones and devices with GPS or even just cell triangulation, 15 miles away is...horrific. Even for a quick location check. Where the nearest weather station is located is completely irrelevant to what I was trying to explain. If I say, stand outside and have Google Maps open and tracking my location, and open a weather app (or something that attaches my location to messages, such as Facebook or Voxer), it will immediately have my current location set correctly. It will say my current city. If I don't have the GPS running in the background, it will think I'm 10-15 miles away. Even a phone with NO GPS HARDWARE WHATSOEVER is more accurate than that with a quick location check. So every weather app or widget I've tried that auto-detects my current location is generally showing something several cities away. Weather can differ a LOT even within a half-mile around here. It makes a huge difference. On my old iPhone 4, using cell triangulation and WiFi, it had my location accurate to about a block within a second, even before the GPS got a lock-on. It was also perfectly capable of resorting to other means, such as cell triangulation or WiFi, to detect my location when there's no GPS signal at all. I could be in the basement and it would still locate me to within a few hundred feet. The Note is incapable of doing this for whatever reason, even though I do have all the sensors enabled. It just strikes me as incredibly odd for something with such advanced location capabilities.

Using GPS Test, my indoor (I'm in the attic, effectively) lock time was 14 seconds from a cold start. Warm start is 5 seconds. I'm locking onto 10-15 satellites with an error of about 9 feet. Pretty good. But see I'm not trying to locate myself so I don't get lost from the kitchen to the bathroom. The problem is with apps that use a quick location fix to find out where you are, and they don't seem to be waiting for the phone to say it has a lock. I haven't had a problem like that on other devices, including other Androids.

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Can you explain this? I've never seen such behavior in a navigation device. Any other piece of hardware I have disables the compass and relies on GPS only after accelerating past about 5 MPH. There's too much magnetic interference in a vehicle to really be of any use (without it being calibrated TO the vehicle).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
littlewierdo is wrong about that. Actually, he had it backwards. As you wrote and implied, compass can affect the indicated direction momentarily at very low speeds or when stationary. As soon as the GPS gets the next fix, the correct location is indicated. At high speeds, the compass information is ignored.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
This is interesting. These other apps you mention--Facebook or Voxer, do they activate the GPS on their own if GPS is not on? Or, do they simply use network-based triangulation?

With all the little nuances I see with the Note so far (especially when comparing to the behavior of other phones, I would have to guess that it is some bug in Note itself.

Another interesting bug unrelated to GPS--I get random "Network time unavailable" on my Note. I stick the SIM into the Galaxy Nexus, Atrix, or iPhone4s, no such error message. I originally thought it was a cell site problem. Now I think it's the Note.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] terra-starr:
To the OP; what kind of car has those windows?

i generally see 22 satellites immediately, get a lock in under 2 seconds if stationary outside, and then holds the lock, unless i drive through a thickly forested area.

Locking is iffy if i start gps while moving a freeway speeds, and slower speeds sometimes.

I do not use the cell assisted location feature, it usually sticks me on the mainland until the GPS locks.

It locks comparably to my wife's iPhone 4s, but the Note is more accurate.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
A late-model V12 BMW imported from Germany ;)

I was thinking, perhaps it is not a limitation in the GLONASS signaling or frequency, perhaps it is the way Note has implemented the use of GLONASS or the antenna design.

Edit: It sounds like you live in a very cool area! Thick forest, island...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] terra-starr:
It's not bad:) i love it, just takes some getting used to clouds and rain.

But you definitely learn that no matter where you go, there you are.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnus:
Hmm... Testing Facebook, as soon as I start typing, the GPS icon starts blinking in the notification bar but never seems to achieve a lock. In Voxer, the GPS icon never appears but my location is spot-on, as in within a few feet of where I am (I'm currently inside). I don't know why that started working all of a sudden. In Accuweather, the GPS icon also never appears, but it thinks I'm 18 miles away after 6 seconds or so of "locating" me. Forcing it to refresh, it now thinks I'm 7 miles away. Refreshing again, back to 18 miles. If I stick it out the window and immediately refresh, it locates me to a neighborhood a half-mile away. The GPS icon still doesn't appear. Opening Google Maps, it starts blinking the GPS icon, and then remains solid after about 15 seconds, and it's pretty accurate.

So for Facebook and Google Maps using GPS, one gets a lock indoors easily, the other does not. For Accuweather and Voxer apparently not using GPS (even though I get an accurate fix from Accuweather while inside if I have Google Maps navigating in the background), I get entirely different responses as well, but each app remains consistent in accuracy. I just can't explain it...I've never seen anything like this in a phone before.

I had the network time unavailable error as well, sometimes I would receive it every minute when I'm at home. Less often away from home. I finally gave up and assumed it was AT&T, so I installed ClockSync and disabled network time. I'd much rather leave that enabled so it updates automatically as I travel, but it's far too annoying at this point. Interesting how it doesn't happen on your other devices...I suppose I should have assumed it was a Note bug as well, considering none of my other devices exhibit the issue either. I guess I like blaming AT&T too much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
I think both issues may be the Note and not the network. I put my SIM in an Atrix and never saw the network time issue. GPS is reliable and predictable.

You might try looking for an app called F GPS or Fake GPS. It inserts the location of your choice into the location manager as the current fix. Try opening the trouble applications. If everything reports correctly and immediately, at least you can eliminate somethings.

Edit: I have a replacement Note coming. If it is more reliable and free of the time sync problem, then I'd have to say that these are hardware (or at least phone-specific) issues. I started a thread about time sync some time ago. While some chimed in that they also had problems, it was not a large population.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] TexasBlack:
Guys i have a question i own the International Galaxy note ...I was wondering if the ATT version came with it...I havent seen any information on it any where ...I called samsung usa they gave me the run around and told me to call att. When i called att they told me to call samsung...So my question is does it have it ...where is the source ...Cause GLONASS was a big advertisment on the International version.... if it does have it i will be switching ...thank you for your time ....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lowspeed:
Definitely has GLONASS because i can see 22 sats.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
The Note which I wrote about in the OP had GPS issues. I got a replacement and it locks in 2-3 seconds. Johnus--perhaps yous is defective also....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] TexasBlack:
thanks ....now i will be getting one ...If you guys know anyone that wants to trade for a INt version let me know.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lowspeed:
Why would you?

I wouldn't mind trading... :-p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ryandelman:
+1 to this.

User experience is the key to everything, and it's subjective. What's a big deal to one person might not be to the next, but that doesn't make the one who its a big deal to silly for feeling that way.

He/she bought a top-level electronic device and expected top-level performance. Even if it weren't out of bounds to tell someone else what they should think is a big deal or isn't, this still would clearly qualify as a problematic issue to most people.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
What makes you think your using GLONASS and not GPS?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] camaroz28:
In relation the IR windows coating in snovvman's car, I highly doubt it plays any role in affected the GPS or GLONASS signal due to IR frequencies being about about 3 orders of magnitude higher than these radio signals which means it very likely passes these much lower frequencies. I have a feeling that the metal in the tint as well as the rest of the car body are more the culprit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] snovvman:
I agree that IR is at a much higher frequency than those used by GPS/GLONASS--THz vs. Ghz. Based on observation, though, it would seem that the coating attenuates other frequencies in the EMS. The windshield has a cutout/non-coated area for radar detectors, which also suggests that it blocks more than IR alone.

At the same time, my new replacement acquires quickly with no issues (although at a lower S/N ratio than if I were outside). If the device is hot, it acquires in 2-5 seconds.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] camaroz28:
Sounds to me like this is more of a EMF blocking coating rather than just an IR blocking coating. Luckily this phone is a beast and I have never been in a situation where I can't get a lock! (and needed one)
[General Questions and Answers] WisamHS:
I have a GS2 and I live in Dubai. I always install my firmwares from:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

and I only install official firmwares. So today I installed XXLPQ which ic ICS 4.0.3.

I was mostly concerned about the arabic language, so fortunately it did have it as read, and I installed another keyboard for writing.

After using it for a few hours I noticed a few bugs, like wifi bug, it wouldnt connect to points where I have to set up a static up or takes up a long time to connect to normal points sometimes.

the Internet browser doesnt open. Google+ doesnt open and when I try to update it from market it gives me 941 error. I tried like other people suggested of force closing it and clear cache then try again, but didnt work.

So i'm wondering if I install firmware DXLP7 which is newer on the list, will solve some of the issues? will still have arabic read? and whats the benefit of installing the stock kernel after installing the firmware?

what do you guys suggest?

Thank in advance.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cspiby:
I see there's some which allow CPU overclocking but can any do the GPU yet?
[XPERIA X10 General] jacko_oafc:
Hi all, Is it possible to unlock my BL on my X10. I unlocked my phone via MultiUnlockClient and before Xmas people said it was not possible to unlock my X10 unless i unlock it again via SEtools. Has this changed yet. I have been away for a while as i have not realy bothered with my phone much but now i want to try and unlock my BL again.

thanks for any help

Jacko
[XPERIA X10 General] THeLogiC:
nope you cant unlock still
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSG:
As the topic says which is better?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSG:
Bump
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icenight89:
mali 400...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jocke888:
I havent tested mali, but the downside with tegra 2 is that they say that nvidia haven't released the source code, leaving developers fumbling in darkness. I have an LG Optimus 2X with tegra 2 gpu, and I really like the smoothness and quickness of my graphics. I haven't seen any graphical problems yet, though I have played lots of demanding games.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
You could check these out: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4177/samsungs-galaxy-s-ii-preliminary-performance-mali400-benchmarked and http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-mali-400mp-gpu-and-vs-tegra-2/.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSG:
Thx bro.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad.green.robot:
That was Anandtech Feb 2011 benchmark.

I admit those scores also misled me for the longest time, which is what brought me to purchase a Tegra 2 tablet. Then after a while, seeing that there is little gaming support for Tegra 2 (couldn't even run Dead Space, and Real Racing 2 ran like a dog), I fell out of that wagon pretty fast and got an iPad 2, which ran basically ANYTHING, and freaking hell smoothly I might add.

Now I got to play with a friend's Galaxy that comes with a Mali 400MP. What amazes me is that it can run NOVA 3 relatively well, whereas Tegra 2 version can't even show you any shader effects, that is, if you get it to run at all. So after some more Googling, I found another benchmark from Anandtech that claims a totally different thing. Have yourself a look.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4686/samsung-galaxy-s-2-international-review-the-best-redefined/17

Now if you base your performance on the first 2 graphs, of course you'd think the Tegra 2 is so much faster than Mali 400MP. But hang on, scroll down a little further, and you'll see how wrong you are. For on every graph that follows, Mali 400MP freaking hands the other players their asses! All except Flash, which it ties with Tegra 2.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psierra117:
i think they are performing close together, any rumor? no i dont think so,

These Benchmarks are only theoretical values.

I'm running my Sony Xperia P which contains a cutted Mali400 with Chainfire3d fired up with Nvidia Plugin so i'm able to play the Tegra 2 Games and they are smooth like Hell even with 4xMSAA.

So Benchmarks are one Hand but real feel Values are the better one Solution to mention about Performance ;)

(Xperia P has only 1Core Mali400MP the SGSII has 4Core Mali400MP4)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad.green.robot:
And how does that contradict what I said about Tegra 2 vs Mali 400MP? Mali 400MP > Tegra 2, totally contrary to what a lot of people have asserted on this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=977412

And if you're a Tegra fan looking for more aggravation, just look up "tegra 2 NOVA3" and watch a few videos, and watch a few videos of how Mali 400 runs the same game.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BPaul:
Tegra 2 ;)

But mali400 have support more than tegra 2 video codecs
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Slagers:
Dear XDA-members,

Since christmas my beloved HD2 stopped working. I have the oh so fine problem [White Screen of Death] I did alot of

research

and I found out maybe my phone still can work fine. Let me explain the problem.

I can go into bootloader (3 color screen)

Then I go to HD2 toolkit

There I install the task29 (so my phone is clean)

After that I install magldr in the HD2 toolkit

I boot into magldr then I install CWM - recovery 400MB

I boot in magldr because no ROM is installed than I go into AD recovery

I download this rom [13.Feb.12][MAG/cLK] NDT MIUI 2.3.7 DEVELOPMENT V48.0|STABLE V6.0

Put it on my SD-card (16GB)

I do a install from zip in recovery

Install just fine

After 12 hour running my phone suddenly turns off and when I reboot my screen turns white.

Does someone knows the fix for this or maybe a heads up what im doing wrong?

Specs:

Radio: Leo_RADIO_2.15.50.14

HSPL: 2.08 HSPL

ROM: MIUI 2.3.7

MAGLDR: 1.13
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] armini0:
Did you try a different ROM or maybe even WP7?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Slagers:
Yes I did try a different ROM, and also WP7, but with WP7 I needed a account for the marketplace so I switched back to android.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beermotor:
I'm considering picking up a lapdock for my Atrix, but I understand CM (and Neutrino, which I'm using now) may not support it just yet. Anyone have any strong feelings pro or con on the lapdock's usefulness? Could I actually use it for light document work, that sort of thing? I use LibreOffice for my work.

Just wondering if it's more of an interesting idea that wasn't implemented well, versus a nicely useable thing once hacked properly.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotchishm:
I can't speak the lapdock necessarily but I have the webtop and I love (well loved, I'm on CM9 now) it. I did collaborative document editing using the web and application version of Google Docs. Can LibreOffice docs be opening with Google Docs? Playing music, browsing the web, and sending texts/gchat, etc are all relatively easy. If you can get a good deal I would recommend it. I used this before I rooted and was forced to use WIFI as opposed to my data connection but I'm sure there is a hack for that by now.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpolansky:
I use the lapdock everyday. I haven't found a rom that I like with the lapdock (settings issues, etc) so I am on stock but the .24 1.3 oc Faux kernel (I run it a 1.1 or 1.3) seems to boost lapdock performance. Keyboard is cramped and I wish the screen would tilt back further but these are minor complaints, particularly if you can get a lapdock for $100. My wife's desktop died so I gave her my laptop and I now generally use the lapdock. For documents, I have access to the Citrix Xen Desktop (from my office) so I can use Outlook/Word and Excel and they work fine (of course the Xen means the lapdock is just being used as a dumb terminal). Only other problem is that the lapdock hogs memory (and it doesn't free it after uplugging) so after I use the lapdock I always reboot the phone..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwchristensen:
If you can find a good price, I think you can find them for around $100 now, I would say it may be worth it. I have only used it when I travel for watching movies, etc on a plane or killing time in airports. Its a bit awkward to use without a mouse (IMHO) and if I had a tablet I would probably never use it. Its nice to have, but a little less user friendly than a tablet and more difficult than a laptop for productivity.

As for ROMs, I've upgraded to CM9 which is not compatible with the webtop, but I ran the Alien build for about 6 months with no issues. Its easy enough to just flash a ROM for a day or two that is webtop compatible and reflash back to your preferred ROM afterwards - that is my plan next time I travel.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickwood:
I don't think the lapdock is particularly useful. It's a memory hog, and pretty darn slow. My netbook is a lot faster. I also detest the lack of multitouch on the trackpad.

I got mine for Christmas, but also got a 7" HTC tablet at the same time. The tablet gets lots of use; the lapdock is sitting in the box. I guess I should sell it while it's still worth something.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dudeman Broguy:
While the non-Blur custom roms don't have webtop, they DO have landscape HDMI mirroring.

Mirroring the display is MUCH more useful for me. Everything responds perfectly, and the trackpad and keyboard work well too. The device doesn't feel bogged down, as it did under webtop, and I haven't found there was anything I could do under webtop that was more efficient than anything on the phone UI.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paravorheim:
I just wish the OS scaled better for the higher resolution of the laptop dock, but it's a minor inconvenience. The major inconvenience for me is that it likes to reboot once it stays idle while on the lapdock for longer than 10 minutes, but that might be due to undervolting.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyronJ906:
I found a couple tricks to work around both of these issues for myself.

I use LCD Density Modder Pro and lowered the density to 175, makes things seem kind of small on the phone interface but it looks great on the lapdock and is still usable (for me) without the dock as well.

For the idling, I set up a Tasker profile that sets the display time out to 2 minutes, disables autobrightness, and sets brightness to 1 whenever I'm on a charger. Generally, if I'm actually using the dock I'll touch it within 2 minutes anyway.

I also found that for some reason, my screen won't time out while on the dock at all lately, but if I know I'm not using it I can manually turn the screen off.

Obviously it's all work around and would vary from person to person, but there are options.

Also, Switch User would let you create a second profile for lapdock use (with a different LCD Density, screen time out, ETC) if you don't mind doing a reboot between using the lapdock and using just the phone.

^all of this referring to CM based ROMs without webtop
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V DidDy 210:
I think the lapdock is going to see a resurgence in usefulness when the CM9 roms start getting better and include the Tablet interface.

using the phone and then getting a full tablet UI to play with (ICS tablet interface is nice) will be much better than the webtop and yes, I'm a fan of the webtop
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0wnti.me:
+1
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyanide41:
I use mine often in the house (wi-fi). O pretty much just is it for web based applications. A wireless mouse makes things a lot better. Anyone tried unbuntu yet?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustkeg:
+1, cm9 with lapdock in native resolution would bei great
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luca5h:
But I can use the lapdock with the cm9?

Inviato dal mio MB860 usando Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultraman1966:
I have a quick question, does the lapdock feature speakers or is it purely a screen and keyboard + 2 USB ports?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Battery, (which charges your phone while it's docked), screen, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, and 2 USB ports.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultraman1966:
Thanks. Shame that it doesn't include a front cam (even a cheap VGA would do) as I would love to use it for Skype video calls.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Yeah, would have been nice given phone has front cam which is useless when docked.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultraman1966:
How responsive is the dock these days? Has there been much in terms of official software updates? I would use it mainly for web browsing and watching videos (on iPlayer for example).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Lapdock is great imo. No updates from Moto other than Firefox from what I see. You want the best out if it you need to install Gentop2, Debian, etc. Much more useful then.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerfman100:
Motoblur ICS will include an overhauled Webtop which is just tablet view with a different resolution. Unfortunately, we will be waiting a couple months for that.