Shane Conder's Whateveritis of Nothing

Do you have a Nokia N95? Do you want to use GPS? Does the GPS seem very slow? If so, check out these couple of tips to see if you can speed it up.  Mine is fast now, and works indoors.

First, check what your current settings are for positioning.  These are found pretty deep down in the menus at: "Menu->Tools->Settings->General->Positioning->Positioning Methods".  Is GPS on? Is assisted GPS on? What about Network Based?

Network based will work much like the iPhone currently works.  It'll get you the general area, and might be close by accident.  GPS is the true GPS.  Assisted GPS, however, is what didn't work for me.  Until I added Nokia's positioning server.  This setting is under Positioning->Positioning Server->Server address.  I made mine "supl.nokia.com" and now I can get a very accurate position indoors. 

If your phone didn't need this or already had a setting, let us know what it is.  Mine, which I just got from Amazon a week ago, didn't have any of this set up at all.

Also, if you want to tag images in a lighter way than ShoZu, try out Nokia's beta application, Location Tagger. The site implies this will eventually be in the firmware, but for now it's a beta application that runs in the background.

Posted by Shane on April 30, 2008 11:07 PM | Permalink