[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lorend24:
FREE & Effective Fuze GPS Solution

I, like nearly everyone with a Fuze, has been more than frustrated at the intermittent or nonexistent performance of the Fuze's GPS capability for third party software; so much so I was just about to return the phone to AT&T. Then I took the advice of others partially and I believe I have the NO cost (except a little RAM) solution - DOES NOT require TeleNav or TeleNav subscription.

THE FREE and WONDERFUL Solution in Brief

1. Leave AGPS Settings turned on - can be found at Start>Settings>System tab

2. Download latest QuickGPS data - can be found at Start>Programs>Tools

If you have an unlimited data plan I recommend going to Menu>Options in the QuickGPS program and checking "auto download when data expires."

3. Install AT&T Navigator software

4. Run AT&T Navigator software and acknowledge the Warning message by clicking on Go. This is THE KEY - AT&T lawyers want an out should you crash or kill yourself using the GPS on the Fuze.

5. Exit AT&T Navigator software and run any GPS software of your choice and the GPS will work beautifully and consistently - at least until soft reset or maybe after some amount of time (I haven't done extensive testing yet, but has worked beautifully so far). The solution is quick and painless. Just start AT&T Navigator and acknowledge the lawyer statement with a Go if you don’t get quick satellite lock-on times.

Microsoft's Live Search GPS acquisition was instantaneous - 1 to 2 seconds tops. (I was in my car.) It even was able to acquire enough signals to lock-on satellites within 30 seconds inside steel studded two story office building with me on the main floor!

More details:

AT&T Navigator software is required but you don't have to upgrade to the TeleNav software. There is NO cost to the AT&T Navigator software(also called AT&T Maps on initial running of the software). I called AT&T and the rep verified that that is the case. The only charges you have is for data services that gets map, POI, etc data.

Again, AT&T Navigator does not cost any money just a little RAM on the device. And AT&T Navigator is actually a fairly nice application. Oddly, the AT&T Navigator software doesn't have any GPS features but is enough to turn on the GPS feature. The key is acknowledging the lawyer statement with a Go in the AT&T Navigator software. As soon as you do you can run any GPS capable software of your choice, i.e Google Maps, Live Search, etc.

The REALLY cool part is you get ALL the benefits of acquiring satellites quickly with QuickGPS and AGPS!

I suggest downloading the latest version

On a new or freshly reset phone press on Start>Programs>AT&T GPS (sorry don’t have a link yet). This will open Opera and want to download a fairly large (1.68MB) ATT-Navigator-touch-pro.cab file. I would recommend saving it to your storage card.

I downloaded this file on 01-15-09 so if you downloaded it earlier it may be different now – I don’t know as I never downloaded it before.

Browse to where you saved the ATT-Navigator-touch-pro.cab file with File Explorer and run the cab file by double clicking the install.

After installing the software just the steps outlined above.

Hopefully this is the quick and effective solution to the GPS problems with the Fuze. I’d enjoy hearing about others that test this out too.