Using a stand alone smart phone as a GPS
I still have a dumb phone but have been reading threads on here about how folks are using their smart phones(I phones and Androids) and downloading the Co Pilot APP for $10 and using it for a GPS. Fro...
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docj wrote:
With all due respect this is not correct. Try loading an app such as Satellite Check-GPS status and you will find that your phone can track and display all the available GPS satellites.
You are correct that the S4 does have satellite GPS capability...sort of. Perhaps its a poor implementation, poor antenna etc. Any time I'm out in the middle of nowhere, far from cell phone service I find the GPS functionality fails completely on 3 S4's I have. This is with GPS satellite turned on in settings. I also have a Garmin GPS as well as GPS in each of 3 vehicles. All of them easily get GPS signal. The S4 does indeed receive GPS but with difficulty. Works if I'm out in the open on flat ground. The others work even when I'm in rugged mountains. None the less, you are correct, the S4 does have true GPS.
