Since i started using the nmea gps data from the lowrance 4 it has been fine. A 3rd party battery app solved that by effectively disabling the power save function. My current unit has mostly worked well, Originally it would occasionally drop into power save mode and disable gps, even when always plugged in. GPS reliability clearly wasnt a concern when they made it. You can pick these up quite cheap at times on ebay, my one was 65 quid as it was described as having a scratched screen which didnt matter to me as its gonna be tacking about the deck and tbh you cant see the scratch when switched on.
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Not sure it it was some issue with the hardware drivers or the actual hardware.Įdit: i even removed the protective phone case, thinking it may have some metal particles and weakening the reception. I use a sony experia z3 compact tablet with android 6 running navionics including relief shading. But in this case the signal was far from reliable and evidently borderline. It's a data signal so if it gets the data it's obviously gonna do the same calculations as any other GPS. This app has access to several different types of oceanic and maritime charts including an electronic copy of NOAA Rasters. It did consistently show a weaker signal that day compared to the old Garmin. Navionics is a very detailed app that offers multiple features. I assume on startup it was downloading new almanac data from the satellites, so maybe it was getting corrupted and that was why it seemed to help ? Turning the GPS on the phone, on and off, would sometimes seem to solve it.
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It could be suddenly off by as much as 400ft and occasionally, but rarely, miles. The handheld showed strong signals where the Galaxy would show a weak one and occasionally lose lock on satellites in the same.location. My concern is based on situations where it took ages for my previous Galaxy note to acquire enough satellites for a position and to keep them.Īt one point i decided to test it, using "GPS status and toolbox" against my old Garmin.