Reflections and comments from an Old Timer in the Technology World.
I reported in my last post of what I thought was a heat problem causing the GPS to stop finding any satellites. Well I opened up my Acer Iconia A500 and find that it is using an Active Antenna. What is that, well it means that the Antenna is external to the GPS chip and contains an Antenna (Aerial) and […] Read more »
I am just back from few weeks in the tropics of Far North Queensland. I now have ICS and the GPS seemed to be working a lot better since the update. Now I have found that my Iconia A500 Tab when warm, the GPS fails. All Satellites disappear after A500 has been on for a few minutes! The ambient temperature […] Read more »
Just thought I would share with you a link to what’s inside the Acer Iconia A500. Bill Detwiler Head Technology editor of TechRepublic has done a marvellous job of opening up the A500 16GB Iconia Tablet and providing 68 images of his exploration. I was interested in where the GPS antenna was located. Image 25 shows the Antenna, a long […] Read more »
Today I used my Iconia A500 GPS for first time in 4 weeks! I received a fix within 4 minutes. However the Altitude at my location is 262m once the fix occurred it was showing a height ASL of only 20m and this progressively increased for the next 17 minutes to reach 262m. I had fixes from 9 satellites. Not […] Read more »
Google Maps Now Starts The GPS OK In my last post I reported that if I started Google Maps Application the GPS appeared to start but the Maps never received a fix. A new version of Google Maps arrived by Auto Update last Friday 21st October (I have ‘Update’ set on most of my Apps). I had not used […] Read more »