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N95 v12 firmware on the way?

Published by Steve Litchfield at 12:58 UTC, June 21st 2007

So there I was chatting to the AAS team yesterday and wondering how long it would take until the N95 received its next firmware update - and it turns out that v12 firmware is on the horizon at least, Ricky Cadden has got himself a preview and some screenshots. The main addition so far noticed seems to be Assisted GPS, in an attempt to solve the N95's legendary GPS lock-on problems.

Categories: Hardware, Links of Interest
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

Unregistered
Do any operators in Europe have Assisted GPS available now? I see Orange trialled it in 2005.
Unregistered
The best part about it is that it's not carrier-dependent. Nokia has (wisely) setup their own A-GPS server, so that as you (and other users) use it, the database is strengthened. Brilliant.
jrmt
The best part about it is that it's not carrier-dependent. Nokia has (wisely) setup their own A-GPS server, so that as you (and other users) use it, the database is strengthened. Brilliant.

So it sends your current cell-id, LAC and operator id back to their database once you've established a GPS lock? Then subsequent users could find a match, and use this to pre-seed their GPS to approximate area. From memory, the LAC for East Anglia is 165 on Orange. Presumably even just an area code rather than a cell-id (specific to a few miles) will speed up the GPS lock. Anyone have any good links explaining a-GPS?
Steve_R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-GPS

Not very in-depth though......
iantaylor27
Hi all
The update is available now for certain product codes, i have no N95 to try etc.
tsupatsupa
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Originally Posted by iantaylor27 View Post
Hi all
The update is available now for certain product codes, i have no N95 to try etc.
i don't think so. not unless you can provide the "certain product codes".

i have checked all product codes from AAS using nokia's Software update availability site and still v11
Unregistered
there's more than one cell in east anglia though, i'm sure i picked up 3 or so when travelling across from one end of lynn to the other :S this is a few years ago on O2 on a 6260
Unregistered
Mobile Cells your phone is connected to has
- Mobile Country Code: 310
- Mobile Network Code: 260
- Location Area Code: 2461
- Cell ID: 10162

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