• If you are outdoors, move to a more open space.
• Ensure that your hand does not cover the GPS antenna of your device.
• If the weather conditions are bad, the signal strength may be affected.
• Some vehicles have tinted (athermic) windows, which may block the satellite
signals.
Position requests
You may receive a request from a network service to receive your position information.
Service providers may offer information about local topics, such as weather or traffic
conditions, based on the location of your device.
When you receive a position request, the service that is making the request is displayed.
Select Accept to allow your position information to be sent or Reject to deny the
request.
Landmarks
With Landmarks, you can save the position information of specific locations in your
device. You can sort the saved locations into different categories, such as business, and
add other information to them, such as addresses. You can use your saved landmarks
in compatible applications, such as GPS data.
Select Menu > Applications > Landmarks.
The coordinates in the GPS are expressed using the international WGS-84 coordinate
system.
Select Options and from the following:
New landmark — Create a new landmark. To make a positioning request for your
current location, select Current position. To select the location from the map, select
Select from map. To enter the position information manually, select Enter manually.
Edit — Edit or add information to a saved landmark (for example, a street address).
Add to category — Add a landmark to a category in Landmarks. Select each category
to which you want to add the landmark.
Send — Send one or several landmarks to a compatible device. Your received landmarks
are placed in the Inbox folder in Messaging.
You can sort your landmarks into preset categories, and create new categories. To edit
and create new landmark categories, open the categories tab, and select Options > Edit
categories.
GPS data
Select Menu > Applications > GPS data.
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