Modern phones and tablets can be used to determine the location. Such a service appeared after equipping Mobile GPS devices by navigators operating with the Android operating system. To start the navigator, it is not enough to press the buttons in a specific sequence, it is necessary to perform individual settings, study the conditions of the GPS.
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Before the first turning on the function (for example, after buying a phone), contact the network operator and get information about your subscription plan and information transfer cost. Perhaps you have to pay the use of the service.
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Check the battery charging level. Phone operation In navigation mode, reduces the operation time of the device in an autonomous state. Charge the battery.
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Decide how your location is to be determined - by the triangulation method (through a mobile network or wireless Wi-Fi communication) or the method of satellite coordinates. The first method shows the results with an accuracy of at least 150 m, the second is no more than 5 meters.
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For the use of triangulation requires a steady mobile communication. Enter the "Setup" section of the phone, select "Location" or the like, in the menu that opens, click on "Wireless Networks". For five minutes, the result will appear on the screen.
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To use the coordinate method of the satellite, go out to an open place so that the open sky can be seen. Perform the same operations as in paragraph 4, only activate GPS satellites. The coordinates will be known in a few minutes.
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Log in to the "Mode" section and select Navigation Mode. The "High Accuracy" mode displays the combined results obtained from the GPS, mobile and Wi-Fi sensor. Battery saving increases the phone's battery life, data is used only from mobile network and Wi-Fi. In the "device sensors" mode, information is displayed only with the GPS module.
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In the "Location" section, enter the "Sending Data" subsection and find "sending geodata" and "Location History". These options allow you to use the information about the location of the user of the Google services. Optionally, they can be turned on or off.
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Make sure that search results on the screen specified by the factory settings satisfies your requirements. Conduct an individual device setup, for which you download various applications from the Internet with which GPSs work. It can be a compass, google maps or Yandex. Check the compatibility of applications, devices and operating system.
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If the quality of the signal is low, configure the Virtual Som port. Download programs (GPSInfo, Scangps) and scan all Som ports, make information about running ports in the navigator settings. With the help of special programs for smartphones, for example, GPS status, Clear Cache-data A-GPS.
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Download the application that allows the phone to connect to the nearest server.
Phone with a properly configured program for GPS is not inferior to the navigator. It is necessary only to spend additionally for several minutes when the product is turned on - and you can pave the optimal movement route or find an object in the village.
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