[magicbbird]

Thanks for your feedback, but I did try to format the phone several times, reset the phone, remove the battery cover, etc. Nothing work for me.

I finally had enough and trade it away.

Maybe when the newer firmware is out, and the forum members are not complaining this issue, I would get it back with lower price.

I use Nokia Sports Tracker frequently, so I value this GPS feature very much.

I am using my E66 for now.

[alisam44]

hey guys
i have the same problem with N85 GPS,i couldn't connect with Satellite.i used nokia map and Smart com!
my framware is 11.047.
i guess,i have hardware problem!

[grbeltran]

To all that have had problems  connecting to GPS satellites, make sure you are outside! GPS is not meant to be used indoors at all because of the attenuation caused from the roof and walls of your house.   Make sure have open skies and are not surrounded by lots of trees or that will affect your signal strength as well.  Hope it fixes some problems.

-Gabe

[panki_86]

The N79/N85 is a milestone for NOKIA to show us what is quality. Stability, GPS, Music, Net Browsing in every way they are the standard now. Of course there are bugs (very fewer, if I remeber my horrible experience with earlier handsets), but they WILL BE, and we are here to help each other on that.

This is not TRUE!!! I am a user of N85 and i thing i am a beta tester of this low-quality phone! When i open two or more apps phone restart with 128MB of ram and you call this stable??? GPS connecting 10-20min (on N78 and 5800 it connect in 10sec.) Music quality is very bad when i copmared wit N95 an N73. My buttons are hard to press and very loud! Nokia seems to doesen't work a firmware for this phone! I am old symbian user (3650,6600,6630,N70,N73ME,N95) and i am wery  disappointed with this phone! N-series are become low quality for a large price!

[grbeltran]

I agree.  The sound quality on my N95 was far superior to the N85 as well as the camera i low light as far as noise.  There is also poor poor firmware support for FP2. It seems like they are giving all the attention to touchscreen 5th Edition these days. 

I have not had any GPS problems other than Google Maps prompting me every ten seconds which data connection I want to use (very annoying but its seems like its an FP2 compatibility bug).  But I have no problem aquiring GPS satellites.  The build quality seems better than the N95 as far as the slider goes as well.

[panki_86]

I agree. The sound quality on my N95 was far superior to the N85 as well as the camera i low light as far as noise. There is also poor poor firmware support for FP2. It seems like they are giving all the attention to touchscreen 5th Edition these days.

I will change my N85 for other phone i don't know what phone but sure not Nokia. I am Nokia User since year 1997. I am changing my phone 3 times on year and that was only Nokia. But not anymore. I am very disappointed of quality and support for Nokia N85!

Sorry for my bad English.

Bye-Bye Nokia

[andrewl]

Hi all,

I was having exactly the same problem with my Nokia N85. Luckily through trial and error I managed to solve the problem in the following way:

a) Go to the menu.

b) Select 'Search'.

c) Scroll down and select 'Applications'

d) In the list of applications scroll down to 'GPS data' and open this application

e) Once the application has oppened you should see 3 items. Namely 'Navigation', 'Position' and 'Trip distance'.

f) Select the 'Options' menu (bottom left)

g) In the optiions menu select 'Positioning settings'

i) In the positioning settings menu select 'Positioning methods'

j) Remove the ticks/checks so that the only ticked/checked item is the 'Integrated GPS'

k) Exit the GPS data application

You can now restart the GPS data application or any other application you may have that uses GPS. Within a couple of minutes, you should have a working GPS connection. At least this is how it worked for me. 

GOOD LUCK!

Regards,

Andrew 

[doonit]

igenandrewl, you are a genius and I LOVE YOU. I did what you said and my gps was locked in less than 10 seconds!!! It has at times locked on quickly but mostly it would take more than half an hour...and sometimes not at all. I'm still going to test this on the road. I need gps for nav all the time and I'm praying that I wont have to go out and buy a dedicated gps gadget as I was planning to do. YOOO-HOOO!!!

[doonit]

Woops, dont know how I got the igenandrewl...Meant andrewl !!!

[magnus82]

Just wondering if anyone else is still having GPS issues? My GPS seems to play up intermittently. I had the same problem with another n85 handset, which I returned. Both were working fine for the first couple of days, then got progressively worse. A-GPS is supposed to assist you GPS locking, so I don't believe disabling this is a solution.

Also, I'm in Australia, and still on v11.047 firmware. I don't think the v20 update is available here. Just wondering if the upgrade solves the problem?