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Support => Troubles & Questions => Topic started by: silber1 on August 14, 2013, 18:57:06

Title: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: silber1 on August 14, 2013, 18:57:06
On my first flight with Locus I used a gps mouse and got 15 and more satelites displaid. But none could be used by Locus : --/20.
There were strong signals, but no fix in Locus?
No way using Locus in flights?
Title: Re: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: silber1 on August 16, 2013, 23:14:59
On the next flight with intern gps in Samsung S3mini the same: many sats, but none in Locus  --/18.
Title: Re: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: tommi on August 17, 2013, 05:33:15
Did you get no fix at all or only as long as the plane was staying on ground?
With S3 I made the experience that the fix got lost after some time in air like above a certain speed. But on the other hand somewhere over the Atlantic the fix was gained again and some time later it was lost again during landing phase. So, I do not have a clear opinion about that, it's more that it is kinda unstable.
Title: Re: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: silber1 on August 17, 2013, 23:09:09
I only tried in flight. The satelites were received, but did not produce a fix.
Title: Re: AW: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: druki on August 18, 2013, 03:44:29
Can you get a fix with some other app i.e.gps status ? :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... gpsstatus2 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2)
Because maybe it's not a bug of locus but a bug in S3?

After googling arround in forums I found several posts with gps fix problems. It seems to be dependent on the gps chipset in your device(s) if it can handle the high speed of an airplane (that would explain the display of many satelites without a fix).
Title: Re: No gps signal in airplane??
Post by: silber1 on August 18, 2013, 17:08:15
I have to correct: in both cases I used not an external gps mouse, but the intern S3mini gps. You may right  it will not work with 900km/h