Samsung with ozi GPS dropping in and out

Christian

Lets try and narrow this down.

The GPS satellite system has been working OK, and WW3 hasn't been declared (yet).

Google Maps and OziExplorer are both fairly reliable bits of software.

From your photo we can see that 12V power is getting through to tablet and radio.

That leaves the hardware. I have a Samsung TV which works quite well (albeit with crap pre-installed software). It locks up and has to be turned off if I broadcast on the HF band though. Perhaps your UHF is interfering with the tablet.

Its probably not designed to be a mission critical navigation solution.

ShamScum - they can copy the look but they can't copy the quality ;-)

Bob

I know absolutely nothing about tablets but from what has been said and from the photo showing that it is a little way back from the windscreen, I would be suspicious of the device or circuitry getting the position from the GPS birds.

Forget Ozi for the moment. It is a stable bit of software. I have one of those Interior Design pocket thingumys that sits on the dash. It had shifted over the GPS antenna and "shaded" the GPS antenna from the satellites. The program would lose GPS location (an audio warning) and then it would come back again. I moved the pocket thingumy back to the bcenter away from the antenna and all good.

How does it get it's position?

I use a 2012 Samsung note 10.1 tablet with Oziexplorer, but I disable the internal GPS and use a Holux M1000C Bluetooth receiver and data logger, which sits at the front of the dash on Velcro. Never had an issue with losing the Sats and has the added advantage of recording your track and being able to download and view on Google Maps along with lots of data showing speed etc.

As others have said it is probably the inbuilt GPS losing signal, usually worst when heading in a southerly quadrant as the GPS sat are in an equatorial orbit and the vehicle shades the signal.
Another easy solution is to use a reradiating gps antenna. Just has an external antenna and then reradiates the signal inside the vehicle for any GPS devices to pick up the signal.
We've had one for about five years now which works well.
Bought it on ebay for about $40.

Hi Christian,

I also have a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 running Ozi but I haven't had it set up in the car to play with it as yet :-(

I notice what appears to be a RAM mount cradle that fits your tablet quite snugly. Do you happen to recall the part number for it? I couldn't seem to track one down when I bought mine recently so I went for a multi fit RAM-HOL-TAB-LGU. It's OK but I'm not sure that it's up for the corrugations that the CAR will throw at it.

Vince

Christian, I run a toshie 7" android in the car mounted in a similar position. The satellite "fix" does seem to have improved since I changed from my original mount. Not that I was having as much trouble as you though, I just wanted to alter the position for the usb charger cable. It meant the tablet is now mounted with the opposite side clear of the dashboard, I suspect the gps antenna may be situated on what was the lower edge of the tablet and of course it would now be on the higher side.
Just a thought have you tried turning the tablet around 180 degrees ?
Cheers
Peter

Hi Christian,

A long shot but could it be that you are only using the wi-fi and mobile network to get a location fix?



I have a 10.1 and never have had any problems with getting sats.

Cheers
Alan

I also have the same and also have problems getting sat lock, I got the deal where you use the garmin navigator software for free but not a good app.
I might try the blue tooth gps soon but I shouldn't have to.

Does ozi work well on the samsung, I was told it's not as good as the pic version

Hi Christian

Maybe a hardware problem with the tablet (discounting Google maps as they often use an internet connection and I'd expect them to have difficulty out of the city).

I've just been through the Gibson Desert up to Kintore, over to Alice and back to Perth via the Great Central Road using a Samung Tab3 8" running Ozi Explorer for Android without a single glitch. Similar mounting to yours and sometimes even had my hat thrown over the tablet for some shade....still 100% reliable.

Only thing I noted was charging can sometimes be an issue during low voltage (vehicle off). I used a 2 amp cigarette lighter / USB adapter for power and a couple of times, when the car was not running, I notice battery charging for my phone and / or the tablet would sometimes stop. Charging resumed as soon as I started the car.

Good luck with resolving the issue.
Chris