Thursday, March 18, 2010

[android-developers] Re: GPS without gps signal

Hi Mike,

Just out of curiosity, what would you say is a common time to first
fix when your outside network coverage?

Andreas

On Mar 19, 4:46 am, mike <enervat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 12:30 PM, Matias Alberto de la Vega wrote:
>
> > As Mike said, you will be able to use GPS even if you have no mobile
> > signal or wifi connectivity, since GPS has it's own satellites, you
> > can get coordenates as long as you have GPS friendly environment, some
> > tips: you MUST be able to see the sky, no tall buildings around is
> > better, and the bigger piece of sky you can see, the better GPS will
> > work, but I think you may not have problems with that if you are going
> > to be in the mountains. Take care.
>
> My experience with my Phresheez app is that it works really
> well up in the mountains. There are certainly GPS-unfriendly
> parts I'm sure, but for the most part it's pretty flawless (well,
> as flawless as GPS can be).
>
> Mike
>
> > On 18 mar, 13:23, mike<enervat...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >> On 03/18/2010 09:12 AM, David Toledo wrote:
>
> >>> I refered , is in the montains without signal telephony
>
> >> Then yes, definitely, from much first hand experience :)
>
> >> Mike
>
> >>> Thanks
>
> >>> 2010/3/18 mike<enervat...@gmail.com<mailto:enervat...@gmail.com>>
>
> >>>      On 03/18/2010 08:29 AM, David Toledo wrote:
>
> >>>          Hi All
> >>>          Is possible that can using the signal GPS without signal the
> >>>          telephony active. I need save the gps location in the sqllite
> >>>          when the telephony is disabled
>
> >>>      GPS works fine without the cellular network. If there's no network
> >>>      AGPS won't
> >>>      be of any help, but that's just a optimization for finding where
> >>>      you are quicker.
>
> >>>      But I'm not sure what you mean by "telephony disabled" are you
> >>>      talking about
> >>>      Airplane mode? If so, Android still allows use of GPS in airplane
> >>>      mode, unlike
> >>>      iPhone.
>
> >>>      Mike
>
> >>>          Thanks
> >>>          David
>
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