Monday, April 6, 2015

Tips and tricks to improve your Android GPS signal

It's not surprising that today all smartphones include GPS. This basic feature allows us to access our location either to browse through Google Maps or other mapping applicationrecord our sports outings or locate a form and check -in geographical location services like Foursquare. However each phone has different GPS sensors so performance may vary from one to another and also influenced by other factors such as the actual construction of the terminal configuration and system software and even used the ROM everything can be reason for the variation of the GPS signal quality.Let's do a review of the tips to improve the performance of these symbols on your device. First of all and to avoid unnecessary steps you should make sure you have the correct GPS enabled on your phone. To do this go to System Settings Location and activate it.

Calibrates the GPS in your Android

If you get a weak GPS signal or is it lost or not arrive if you want to connect you may have a problem of calibration on your smartphone. That makes the miscalibration coordinate calculation done is wrong and therefore it won't reach you. Settings If you want to try to calibrate the compass on your Android  you can test the application GPS Essentials is free from Google Play and has many settings and GPS related tools. You can calibrate the compass by following the steps shown on entering the Compass section and clicking Calibrate menu.

Reset the GPS data

If after doing so your GPS device continues to erroneous readings can try to reset the GPS function because sometimes it can stay locked in a certain satellites that are out of range so you can not get a signal. In Play you can download GPS Status & Toolbox through which to view the status of your signal number of satellites connected and more data. Sign Tools and click "Manage A-GPS state". With this option you can restore the data from the GPS  once done reboot your phone and go. If the problem is after flashing a ROM check if that solves redoing the process or pay attention to the post of cook in the forum that you get the ROM in case the problem was known and available patch solution. Remember to always back up your data in case something goes wrong in the process. Do you make heavy use of the GPS in your Android? If you've had problems and got settled leave it in the comments!

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