GPS is 100 percent useless on my phone... does not work in vehicle at all.

So the GPS is absolutely USELESS while traveling in a car. I have a "universal" cradle and use the instinct as my primary GPS with a power adapter plugged in.

The problem is I can be inside my 4 story apartment building (my apartment is on the 2nd) with 2 whole floors of building above me and get a FAST GPS placement.

When I'm at work and pull up the Map location it gets my GPS DEAD ON (I work in a large warehouse with lots of fluorscent lights and metal roof etc...

However when I'm sitting in my car and the phone has a CLEAR line of sight through the windshield and a tiny metal roof it FREAKS OUT. It half the time never gets a  GPS signal, or it says that I'm "Off track" (about 75 feet driving though the woods!) or the GPS just stops updating. I exit the application completely and re-start it and it comes back with the same location I was 1/2 mile back.

Note also... I live in a VERY VERY well sprint covered Rev A area as well. ANYTIME I'm outside i always have 5 full bars. Flat terrain, no tall buildings.

Even pulling the battery while its one and re-cycling it screws up.

It is honestly COMPLETELY useless for me as a GPS device. Its been like this for the past month and a half now... before the MR3 release.

Think its a problem with the phone? This one is getting kind of dinged up and I never put a screen protector on it. I have the best buy mobile insurance with no cost replacement.

Dead on here too.  Never have a problem in my car. 

That's really odd. Do you have one of those de-icing windshields? Some windshields have these special coatings that allow you to defrost them electrically, and those panels tend to block EM signals.

Mine works beautifully in the car. Hell, it works beautifully in the back of a windowless van.

I first read this post because I had the same plight!  But while driving today my gps was putting me in a field half a mile away.  Same old same old.  I got frustrated and thought it was broke but I remembered that I tried to speed up my internet by changing the buffer length.  So I put that back to the original setting and let it reboot.  Last ditch effort but when it booted back up it was actually working!  It's been bad for around two months and now works!  So long story short, this may be a reason, idk.

My GPS is awesome and always right on target!  In fact, I often test it just to see how good it is.  It never fails.  The other day, for example, there was this major accident on I-35.  I stopped at a red light before entering the highway.  When I entered my destination, the GPS came back saying it was checking for traffic.  Then it told to take another route and not enter I-35 because of the accident.  What was really awesome was that the accident had happened only 30 minutes prior to this.  How quickly the GPS got its update!  I complain about a few things with the Instinct, but its GPS is by far the best app the phone has.

did you make the internet fast hack to your phone?  trying to see if there is a relation between GPS and the hack...somebody above I belive mentioned something along those lines.  My GPS has been pretty inaccurater too lately (always catching up, saying I am off track etc etc). Please let us know.

What internet fast hack?

I know of all the hacks already.

None of them are going to affect internet speed. Which one do you think accomplishes this?