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Pocket geolocation is quite common in Lately familiar. Now on all models modern phones there is a GPS system. But users often have questions about it. For example, they are interested in how to improve GPS reception on Android or iOS in order to receive more accurate location information or more conveniently play games that require detailed geolocation. Let's look at this problem and find out what can be done.

GPS is a system that allows a smartphone to use navigation applications and determine your location in order to build best option route to your destination. It is based on receiving data from satellites located in outer space.

Why do I need it?

GPS navigation is used by navigation applications. Together they help get to the right place without detailed study paper maps of the area and polling others on the topic “Where to go next and where to turn?”

The most famous free "Yandex.Maps" or "Yandex.Navigator", GoogleMaps and MapsMe. You can also find it on the Internet pirated version"Navitela". But the program may be from an old year. In this case, it can lead you onto non-existent roads and under “bricks”. In addition, the program may be infected with a virus. Then there is a chance that it will “break” the system of your smartphone, and you will have to change not only the navigator, but also the phone or at least its firmware.

Now the most common and modern models phones - these are IPhone based on IOS and phones that support a different system (“Android”). They use GPS in a more advanced form - A-GPS. This is a function that increases the speed of the application during cold and hot starts, due to other communication channels (WI-FI, cellular), and also increases positioning accuracy.

A situation where the phone cannot connect to new satellites when the application is turned on. In this case, it operates autonomously based on the data transmitted during the previous switching on by the satellites to which it was connected. Hot start - when the satellites immediately start working. They appear on the application screen or in a special tab for tracking their operation and data reception.

The first signal improvement option

Ways to improve GPS reception on Android or iOS, great amount. Let's look at the 3 most famous ones. The first and most in a simple way The way to strengthen the GPS signal is to enable the appropriate mode in the phone settings. To do this, we take the following steps:

Turn on GPS (geolocation) and go to the phone settings.
Find the "Geodata" section.
Choose top button"Mode".
A window called "Detection Method" opens.
Select the item "High accuracy".

The phone's performance will improve by enabling accuracy. At the same time, its operating time without recharging can decrease several times. The thing is that the turned on navigator will simply “eat up” the battery.

The second way to improve GPS reception on Android

The second option is more complicated. But it helps as often as the first one. You need to download an app to clear your GPS data. Once the satellite information is updated, the navigation system will work better than before. But this option may not be suitable for some phones due to incompatibility of the application and model, lack of space, etc.

The most difficult but reliable method

There is also a third, most difficult option solutions to the problem of how to improve GPS reception on Android. It is more suitable for computer geniuses. Its essence lies in altering the system file that controls the operation of the phone’s GPS system. Let's figure it out in order:

You need to extract the GPS.CONF file located in the system/etc/gps/conf folder via special programs, which give access to system files. Then we move it to internal memory phone or SD card so that you can open it on your computer later.
Changing GPS.CONF settings is done through the Notepad++ program on a regular PC. The phone is connected to the computer via a standard USB cable.
Next, you need to change the settings of the NTP server, which is used to synchronize time. They usually say something like this - north-america.pool.ntp.org. The entry needs to be rewritten - ru.pool.ntp.org or europe.pool.ntp.org. As a result, it should look like this: NTP_SERVER=ru.pool.ntp.org.
It would also be a good idea to add additional servers without making any changes to them: XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin, XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin, XTRA_SERVER_3=http ://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin.
Next, you need to decide whether the GPS receiver will use WI-FI to strengthen the signal. When entering the ENABLE_WIPER= parameter, you must enter a number that will allow (1) or prohibit (0) use wireless connection. For example, ENABLE_WIPER=1.
The next parameter is connection speed and data accuracy. There your choice is as follows: INTERMEDIATE_POS=0<—— (точно, но медленно) или INTERMEDIATE_POS=1 <—— (не точно, но быстро).
In the type of data transfer use, knowledgeable people advise installing User Plane, which is responsible for the wide transfer of subscriber data. Then DEFAULT_USER_PLANE=TRUE is written in the program line.
The accuracy of GPS data is monitored through the INTERMEDIATE_POS= parameter, in the line of which you can set whether to take into account all data without exception, or to remove errors. If you put 0 (zero) after the "=" sign, then the geolocation will take into account everything it finds, and if it is 100, 300, 1000, 5000, it will remove errors. Programmers recommend setting it to 0. But if you want to try, you can use error removal.
The use of the A-GPS function, as mentioned above, is supported or automatically enabled on all modern devices. But if you still want the function to work, then in the A-GPS activation line you need to set DEFAULT_AGPS_ENABLE=TRUE.
The final version of the file needs to be saved and transferred to the phone, and then rebooted.

An important point: if you don’t want to do all this yourself for various reasons, for example, laziness, fear of breaking something in the system, etc., then you can find the GPS.CONF file with the parameters you need and simply copy it to your smartphone. All that remains is to restart the phone and use the improved GPS.

Why doesn't GPS work on Android yet?

There are other reasons for the problem. It happens that GPS on Android does not work at all (does not turn on, does not search for satellites, etc.). Resetting the system to factory settings can help resolve this problem. This is done through the phone settings. In addition, the gadget can be reflashed or given to service center employees, who will “dig” into the electronics and correct the defect.

Don't you like that the GPS on your Android takes too long to "search for and acquire satellites"? The location accuracy is worse than 10 meters? Did you think that “this is how GPS actually works”? Nothing like this. Your GPS can provide an accuracy of +-5 meters, or even more accurately. And I will tell you how to achieve this. And no more “patches” or third-party and “gemorrhagic” in the use of “GPS utilities that speed up the search for satellites and increase accuracy.” Everything you need is in your device. The manufacturer simply enters “medium-light” “calibrations” there - naturally, he won’t calibrate each phone individually. And where is the manufacturer? In China, but you need to calibrate where you actually use it. The instructions below were collected by me from different sources in parts and checked, except for the part “ensuring maximum accuracy,” which I will check later and make an addition, but even without it, time “ Cold start" GPS, after rebooting the phone, it was possible to bring it to less than 20 seconds, instead of 1-2 minutes before calibration. At the same time, the capture of the first satellites occurs in less than 3-4 seconds, and “GPS capture” (localization by satellites, when the “GPS search” stops blinking and the body switches to working on satellites) - less than 10 seconds (sometimes up to 40 seconds, but less often - depending on the accuracy of your smart watch and satellite visibility).
To decide which one you prefer, you can read impressions of both methods here: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-gps.html. I personally recommend the “native GPS calibration method” (described below) - it gives the same results, and in my opinion is much preferable and easier to use.
It should be noted that with the help of the program described here: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-gps-6.html, the activation speed from the “cold” state is still a little faster. but it’s more dangerous, and due to its “deep penetration into the Android GPS system”, it can “throw down” the calibrations of its “native system”, which are discussed below. Plus, everything that needs to be done with its help, before each turn on, the GPS makes the startup using it really slower than in the option outlined in this note.

Added 08/30/2013. Before starting calibration, look at this note and follow the procedures described in it: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/08/gps-android-jb-411-cink-king-gps.html. This is especially true if you have serious problems with GPS, such as “it holds the satellites very poorly” and the “lock” “falls” at the slightest weakening of the signal, plus after that, the GPS will “hold” more satellites at the same time, which will improve both stability and accuracy . Without these procedures, I could not “bring the GPS back to normal” under JB 4.1.1 Cink King. Then perform calibration according to the method. outlined below in this note.

*italic font The points necessary to achieve generally theoretically possible accuracy are highlighted. Italics may be omitted, this will slightly reduce the accuracy (actually 2 times), and will not affect the “cold start” speed.
**Before the procedure, find out the code for the engineering menu of your device - you will need it.

GPS accuracy, and especially the speed of “capture after a cold start,” greatly depend on the accuracy of the time setting on your device. Usually, in the “Date and Time” settings, “synchronize time over the network” is set. I had it too. But as it turned out, the device uses the operator’s cellular signal to set the time, which in some cases can give time setting accuracy worse than + - several minutes, and in my case (Kiev, Life operator) it gave a difference from real time of as much as 3 seconds. In general, feces, and not “exact time signals”. There is also the option to “determine the time using GPS,” but if you don’t live in a village, then this will consume a lot of battery, and will be of little use - neither in an apartment, nor on the subway, nor in a minibus, nor in the office... Well, you get the idea.
Therefore, let us first take care of setting the most accurate possible time. To do this, I installed the free ClockSync program, from here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.org.amip.ClockSync&hl=ru, you can also get it from here: http://4pda. ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=171610 . You can also use the technique that I described here: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-gps_12.html - it does not require installing additional programs, but does require manual editing of several system configuration files.
Next, we decide on the reference exact time server that we will use. It is important that it be as close to you as possible and that the ping time to it be minimal. To begin with, the addresses of the “pools” - for Ukraine this is ua.pool.ntp.org, for Russia ru.pool.ntp.org. If you are in another country, look here: http://www.pool.ntp.org/ru/.
Now we launch the terminal, and in it the command “ping ua.pool.ntp.org”, and look at the response time. We do this 10 times - each time it will contact a random “pool” server, and usually a different one. Even for Ukraine, the “response” time for different servers ranges from 5 to 60ms (on land), let alone Russia with its size. Accordingly, we write down the IP address of the server whose response time is minimal. We will use it.
Launch the installed ClockSync program, Menu > settings. The first item is "NTP server". Enter the selected IP address there. Next, check the “automatic synchronization” box, then select “Interval”. The smaller the interval, the more often the synchronization will take place, and this means “a little traffic and a lot of battery”, on the other hand, my device “goes away” by as much as 160-180 milliseconds in 3 hours... I settled on 3 hours for now. Next "Precise interval" checkbox - you don't have to check it - it will save the battery a little, I personally checked it. "High precision mode" - check it, especially since synchronization will sometimes take place through cellular data transmission at a very unstable speed (you don't have to check it - the accuracy will drop, but Battery consumption will be significantly reduced during synchronization.) We also set “detect time zone”
Exit the settings menu, click “menu”, and select “synchronize” - how much your device is “past time” can be seen on the screen. Yes, in the settings menu after a day you can see how fast/late your device’s clock is per day (my Fly IQ 450 is 9.21 seconds per day).
PS automatic time synchronization is only possible on a “rooted” device. If you are not rooted, there is a “manual mode” in the program, but the accuracy will not be the same.
Note - added later. There is also a second way to accurately synchronize time, without installing an additional program, I described it here: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-gps_12.html. After comparing the results, I chose this method, but it requires some editing of the configuration files.
It is also advisable, if you have a rooted device, to edit the /system/etc/gps.conf file. Namely, in the first line, after “NTP_SERVER=", replace the “default” one indicated there with a more suitable one for your country - for example, for Ukraine at ua.pool.ntp.org, or even with a previously defined IP address, but this will less universal and sometimes fraught with failures if a specific server does not work, so ua.pool.ntp.org is more universal, but the IP address in this field can further speed up the initial cold start. Editing can be done using "Root Explorer".
Over time we figured it out. Further.
Let's go to the phone settings. Location. We mark the items: “By network coordinates”, “GPS satellites”, “Auxiliary data”, “AGPS”, the rest is “to taste”. Now go to the "EPO Settings" item. Turn off "EPO" during calibration. Everybody is here.
Launching Google Earth , In the settings, we switch it to show coordinates in the format of degrees and fractions. We are looking for a place nearby where we will carry out calibration. It should be a fairly open place, such as a square. We select the point where we will stand during calibration (select signs to stand exactly at it later), point the cursor at it, and write down the shown coordinates to the last digit. The preparation is over - let's go "to the field" :) with the phone.
If you used p3- we stand EXACTLY at the point we previously selected. Launch "root explorer", go to the /data/misc folder, delete the mtkgps.dat file. We download the latest AGPS data - for example, through the GPS Status program (menu>tools>AGPS Data>Download). We check the time, for example with the ClockSync program (we check it several times, look at the typical deviation, and then click synchronize - how to use the program and where to get it - see earlier in the article on time calibration). Go to the engineering menu, LocationBasedServices, select “GPS” in the menu, and press the “GPS” button (the inscription on it will change from OFF to ON). Go to "View". We wait until the “fix” appears (the GPS indicator stops blinking), and then for at least another 2 minutes. Then click RefPosition, and in the windows that appear, enter the coordinates previously written out from Google Earth for the point where you are calibrating (there will be zeros there). Click "OK". Go to the View screen again, and wait after the "fix" for at least 2x minutes, preferably 5 minutes. We go back to the engineering menu. If step 3 was not performed, simply choose any fairly open place. Taking out- don’t even try to do the calibration on the balcony or “from the window” - you’ll only make it worse.
****Before calibration, you can also check the correct choice of SIM card for AGPS - if your cellular operator is “glitchy”, and there are two cards and two operators, then you can choose a less buggy one, this, if “buggy” was selected, can significantly speed up the operation of GPS, ATO and “revive” “GPS that is completely not working”, the procedure is described at the very end of the note.
Go to the "Engineering Menu"(for my FLY IQ 450 and many Chinese clones, this is the code *#*#3646633#*#*, which we dial where you usually dial the phone number when calling, you may have a different one). Find "YGPS location" and launch it. Hold your phone vertically.
Go to the Information tab. Click the "Full" button.
Go to the "Satellites" tab, wait for at least 5 satellites to appear (preferably more - I had 11 of them when setting up), and after they “appear and turn green”, wait at least another 2 minutes, holding the device motionless (it can be longer - it won’t be worse - only better ). This is the initial calibration. It took me about 3 minutes, but for some devices, according to reviews, it can take up to half an hour.
Go to Information", click "Cold". Continue as in point 8. Repeat point 9 3 times. More is possible.
Back to Information. Click "Warm". further as in paragraph 8. There is no need to repeat it anymore.
Back to Information". Click "Hot". Continue as in step 8.
If you followed step 3, go to the engineering menu, select the "LocationBasedService" item, go to the "View" tab (remember to activate GPS as described in step 4), and wait until the maximum satellites are determined. Minimum 7, better more (the more, the more accurate the calibration), and after the maximum is determined, wait another 2 minutes. Then go to the tab GPS, and click "RefPosition". You will have two numbers, from the one you previously recorded using Google Earth, they will most likely differ in thousandths. Correct both to those that you wrote down earlier in step 3. Click "OK". Now go to the GPS tab and wait for 5 minutes holding the phone motionless. Here in this place - the longer the better. The GPS program, having received real coordinates, compares them with those that it “obtains” and makes corrections. clarifying them. Below in the window you will see a “process” counter and data that changes from time to time.
Exit the engineering menu and reboot the phone.
All. We rejoice in the fast and accurate GPS.

After completely following the instructions, the real accuracy of determining the position (calculated from google earth and not the one shown by the GPS itself) was ~2.3-2.5 meters (GPS showed an accuracy of 5-6 meters in the status), with 9 satellites “visible”, and 8 meters (GPS showed an accuracy of 10.5 meters in the status) with 7 satellites visible - the satellites move and do not happen from time to time in the sense of day to day.

PS If you are also going to use the program described here: http://vyacheslav.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-gps-6.html, then keep in mind that you need to calibrate it after installing it. And if it is uninstalled, calibrate it again - it resets the calibration data during uninstallation, and the GPS again begins to “search for satellites for several minutes.” Loading its “acceleration” data does not SEEM to affect the calibration, but it also makes no sense - the difference in speed is “within the limits of statistical error.” But it seems that the real accuracy is a little better, with freshly downloaded data (by 20 percent, but also within the statistical error in essence). Also keep in mind that the downloaded data from the above program quickly becomes outdated, and after a day or two, on the contrary, it will slow down the GPS and reduce accuracy (compared to a simply normally calibrated native one using the method described above in this article). Plus, I took it down nafik :) Bo, firstly, is not needed, and secondly, with it you can get “GPS which does not determine anything” if you forgot to download new data. Even if you clicked the “reset downloaded data” button and do not launch the program itself. At least this happened to me once - I didn’t check the rake again.

PPS There are rumors on the net that “turning on EPO data” (specific GPS data for MTK chips), which gives some acceleration of the “cold start”, reduces the number of “captured satellites”. This is unlikely. The number of captured satellites is determined by their “number overhead at the moment” and their height above the horizon (in the city, those above the horizon are usually not visible). But still, when calibrating it is better to turn it off. And use only if you are traveling to a place where the Internet may not be available. Then it will give you a real launch acceleration (it downloads data a month in advance). In a normal situation, it is better to use only AGPS - its data is fresher, and therefore more accurate, so the “start” speed with it is typically higher.

PPPS Below is “reference information” for those who received a device with a completely non-working GPS. It’s worth checking it - the reason may be that you have something different from the following listed in your settings:

In the engineering menu, in the LocationbasedService item, in the AGP tab S:

Enable A-GPS, MSB, User Profile, SLP Template - GOOGLE, supl.google.com, 7275, TLS Enable, RRLP, IMSI, K-Value must be enabled.
Horizontal Accuracy - 22, Vertical Accuracy - 0, Location Age - 0, Delay - 0. Location Estimate is selected.
*********Selecting a SIM card for AGPS
Go to the NET tab - select - click look at the map (Map tab), the address where you are located, or close to it, should appear there. We do the same with . We compare what is more accurate to your real position, and on the AGPS tab select your preferred SIM card.
On the AGPS tab, click
Yes, if any of the things listed in this PS differed from the settings of your device, or if you changed the SIM card to which you have AGPS attached, you need to perform a new calibration.

PS About the influence of clock accuracy on the GPS cold start time.

From the “inconvenient place” - a balcony, everything on top is covered with concrete, a courtyard-well - houses on 4 sides, the sky is “a piece from above”, 4 satellites are barely visible (then you can barely see 3, and the 4th one appears and disappears). the phone was calibrated according to the method outlined above (before calibration, there was no capture at all under these conditions). The clock “lags” by ~160ms (2 hours have passed since the clock was calibrated by the ClockSync program). Cold start time ~250-300 sec. After forced time calibration by the ClockSync program, the “cold start” time is ~100 seconds. However, these are the conditions. in which GPS usually does not work at all, but clearly illustrates the effect of clock accuracy on the “cold start” time.

PPS To force the loading of AGPS data, for example, if you are far from the place where they were downloaded - for example, you went 200 kilometers for fishing/vacation, etc., and the AGPS data downloaded at home has become irrelevant, which can negatively affect the “cold start” time.

You can use the GPS Status program from here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=ru. Launch this program. At the bottom left under the “coordinate circle” is the age of the AGPS data in hours. Click Menu > Tools > A-GPS Data. Then "download".

All smartphones, without exception, have a GPS chip - it receives signals from satellites in low-Earth orbit, calculating the coordinates of the device. Thanks to this chip, you can record your track in one of the applications, as well as get directions between cities or from home to the desired hypermarket. Satellite navigation in your pocket has become so commonplace that even people who went hiking with a compass and a paper map in their youth can no longer imagine how they managed without it. However, sometimes navigation works poorly or doesn't work at all.

The reason for poor performance of a navigator is rarely the poor build quality of the smartphone. Of course, sometimes it’s a matter of assembly, but much more often it’s enough to dig into the settings and the navigation module will work like a clock.

Antenna installation

Improve quality satellite communications An antenna will help. This good news for motorists: many use a separate GPS device for navigation rather than a phone. Car navigators provide a connector for the antenna - it is located either on back cover, or from the side. All that remains is to find a suitable antenna and install it. The news is not very good for smartphone owners - phones do not have an antenna connector. Therefore, we will have to act using software methods.

How to set up GPS on your smartphone

Go to "Settings".
Find "Location". The item may be called differently: on Samsung tablets– “Connections”, where you need to find the “Geodata” tab.
Enable high location accuracy. To do this, the device will have to use all sources: cell towers, wireless Internet and satellite navigation.

The cheaper the phone, the worse it works satellite navigation. This happens because cheap models use old navigation chips with low speed and weak receiver. If the settings fail to make the operation of the navigator more stable, then the problem is in the receiver itself, and you will have to come to terms with the shortcoming. But first make sure that the setting really doesn’t help: in most smartphones GPS module disabled by default, and the device determines its location only by cell towers.

Be prepared for the fact that when the satellite module is activated, the device's power consumption will increase. Owners of new smartphones will not notice the difference, but the older and inexpensive model, the more noticeably the battery life will be reduced.

How to calibrate a compass

If it can't be strengthened satellite signal, you can influence the navigation in another way: adjust the digital compass. On most smartphones it is not calibrated, so the system does not immediately understand how the device is located relative to the cardinal directions. As a result, the sat nav may seem to be working poorly.

Download and install GPS app Essentials.
Launch the application and enter Compass mode.
If the compass does not correctly determine the cardinal directions, calibrate it: rotate the smartphone with the screen up, turn it from left to right.

The same application for Android will help you clarify how many satellites the built-in module accesses. Old and cheap modules are requested limited number satellites, but if there are more than a dozen satellites, the problem is definitely not in the chip. To check this, find the Satellites item in the application menu.

Finally, if everything previous methods did not help, there is one more remedy: resetting the navigation data. Problems may arise due to the smartphone being tied to certain satellites for a long time: the binding can be maintained even when they leave the field of view of the device. To reset your data, download special utility Status & Toolbox, launch it. The display will display information about the number of satellites and sensor readings. Go to the main menu and find “Manage A-GPS states”. A menu will appear in which you need to select the “Reset” option, and after resetting, the “Download” function. Through the same application, you can configure the compass if you were unable to calibrate it before.

If after all the above operations the navigator does not work better, the only remedy remains: buy new model smartphone with a high-quality satellite sensor.

Modern smartphones are equipped with a GPS chip, which greatly simplifies our travels or searches for a specific address. However, there are often cases when GPS does not work well. And this is not always the fault of an insufficiently well-built smartphone. You can often improve the functioning of the navigation module by tinkering with the settings.

Many motorists have a full-fledged GPS navigator. Some of these devices have an antenna connector on the back wall or side. This allows you to enhance signal reception several times - you just need to get the appropriate antenna.

As for modern smartphones, we hasten to disappoint you. You will never find a special antenna connector in their composition. Improve GPS reception On Android it is possible only by software methods. If they don't work, then you will have to come to terms with the current state of affairs. As you might guess, budget devices work worst with GPS satellites. This is explained by the fact that they are equipped with the cheapest and oldest navigation chips that have low speed work and weak signal receiver.

Visiting the settings section

In many smartphones and tablets, the GPS chip is completely disabled by default. In this case, the device determines its location using cell towers and Wi-Fi networks. To enable the navigation chip, you need to configure the device. To do this, do the following:

Step 1. Go to the section " Settings».

Step 2. Here you should be interested in the item “ Location».

Step 3. On different devices This item may have a different name. For example, on Samsung tablets you need to select the “ Connections" and click on the item " Geodata", at the same time activating the corresponding switch.

Step 4. In this section, you need to enable high location accuracy. The device must use all sources for this - GPS satellites, Wi-Fi networks and data from cell towers.

It should be noted that in this operating mode, energy consumption increases. And if this is practically not noticeable on new smartphones, then owners of budget and older devices will definitely feel the reduced battery life.

Compass calibration

If it is impossible to enhance the signal reception on smartphones, then no one can stop you from improving the performance of the digital compass. The fact is that on some devices it is not calibrated, as a result navigation program cannot understand in time which direction of the world your smartphone is facing. At this moment it seems to you that the device does not pick up GPS.

To calibrate the compass you will need an app GPS Essentials. Download and install it, then do the following:

Step 1. Launch the program.

Step 2. Enter the mode Compass.

Step 3. If the compass works stably, then the problem is not with it. If the compass refuses to show the cardinal directions correctly, then calibrate it.

Step 4. First, rotate the smartphone around its axis with the screen facing up. Next, turn it over from bottom to top. Well, then turn it over from left to right. This should help. In some versions of the application, you must first select Calibrate in the section settings.

Viewing the number of visible GPS satellites

In the same GPS Essentials you can look at how many satellites your smartphone connects to. If it is large enough, then the navigation chip should not be blamed - the problem is in one of the programs. To view satellites, you need to select the item in the application menu Satellites.

Resetting GPS data

A common problem with some devices is that they take a long time to lock onto specific GPS satellites, even when they have managed to move out of sight. The application can help in this case GPS Status & Toolbox. It will reset the GPS data, after which the connection to satellites will be made from scratch.

Step 1. Download and install the utility.

Step 2. Run installed application, agreeing to the terms of the license agreement.

Step 3. On the main screen of the program you will see readings from various sensors, as well as information about the number of GPS satellites overhead.

Step 4. Click anywhere on the display, after which you can pull out the curtain with the main menu on the left. Here you can calibrate the compass if this was not possible using the application discussed earlier. But now you need to click on the item “ A-GPS state management».

Step 5. In the pop-up menu, click the button " Reset».

Step 6. After the reset is complete, return to this pop-up menu by clicking the " Download».

What to look for when buying a new smartphone?

Now you know the answer to the question “How to set up GPS on Android?” But all this will not help you very much if you want to use your smartphone as a GPS navigator on permanent basis. It’s better to get a good quality one for these purposes. modern smartphone. When choosing it, be sure to read the full technical characteristics. You need to find a mention of support in them A-GPS technology- it greatly reduces energy consumption. The ideal smartphone for you will be one that also works with GLONASS satellites. Fortunately, with the support of the Russian navigation system Almost all devices that are imported into our country throughout last year. But, again, you still need to look at the specifications of the device before purchasing it.

It's no secret that analog media is gradually becoming a thing of the past. This circumstance also affected navigation maps, which are now found in almost every smartphone or tablet. Finding your location using a GPS receiver makes navigating in an unfamiliar area much easier. Besides, this function allows you to plot routes, creating comfortable travel conditions.

However, many owners are faced with poor performance of the built-in GPS receiver: the device takes a very long time to search for satellites, constantly loses connection, or is completely unable to determine the user’s position in space. Of course, the “stuffing” of the device has a direct impact, especially when it comes to budget devices(when creating them, the manufacturer often uses the cheapest components).

In addition to the hardware side, there is also a software side that can be influenced by the user. Below are some tips to improve the GPS signal on your device. operating system Android.

Besides, this application allows you to clearly verify the number of connected to the device GPS satellites. The absence of satellites is a sure sign of poor receiver performance. To view, you must select Satellites on the main screen.

It is worth noting that in this utility the user can also easily calibrate the built-in compass by clicking on the corresponding section in the side menu.