Flashing my Samsung Pixon phone
Having been a happy user of GooSync for keeping my Google Calendar synced with my Pixon phone, I decided it was time to centralise my address book too. GooSync claims to be able to sync Google Mail contacts too, so that seemed like a good way to go.
Sadly, once I'd got all my contacts into my Google Mail address book, running GooSync on the phone did two things:
- uploaded all my phone contacts to Google (with no apparent attempt to see if they were already there)
- restarted the phone
As a GooSync Premium customer, I figured I should be able to get some tech support. Sadly, all they could suggest was a firmware upgrade on my phone. I don't fancy being without my phone for two weeks while they get round to it. There are plenty of online guides to the process, and it looks reasonably straightforward.
After a fair amount of messing about uninstalling the Samsung PC Studio software (which had inexplicably stopped working) then reinstalling it all again, I got on with following this guide VERY carefully!
And it worked!
GooSync now works great for my calendar and my contacts, all the T-Mobile junk has gone (e.g. having to wade through pages of their browser bookmarks before getting to my own!), and Google Maps actually uses the phone's GPS now - it now shows me exactly where I am , instead of telling me to within 1500m!
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please tell me how did u do to mke the phone use it's gps...please mail me! thx
Hi Dan- thanks for dropping by!
I didn't do anything to make Google Maps use the GPS - it just worked, as if by magic. I assume either the firmware upgrade made the GPS more communicative, or the upgrade included a new version of Google Maps which could talk to the GPS. I didn't have to change anything in Google Maps (at least as far as I remember), or in the phone settings.
One thing to bear in mind - it can take quite a while to get the GPS fix (usually more than a minute, sometimes more like two or three), and I've never got it to work indoors. It's a bit ropey in forests too, or around tall buildings - the usual kind of GPS limitations.
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