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by antrover 5811 days ago
I have a Droid incredible. Here is my experience:

If you have "use wireless networks" and Gps turned on, things don't always work right. If you have just Gps turned on the experience seems to work better.

I live in Madison, wi and having both turned on makes my phone think I'm in appleton (100 miles away). Using Gps, my location is reported correctly.

When out of Madison, and turning on "use wireless networks", things work correctly.

I have no idea why!

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I'm not experiencing this issue with my own HTC Incredible, for what it's worth. Maybe there's some glitch with Google's wireless network database...

As for the Incredible's GPS performance, I couldn't be happier. It's accurate enough that when I go cycling and let My Tracks record my ride, I can zoom in and see where I headed out on one side of the road and came back on the other. The biggest downside is the elevation inaccuracy, but from what I can tell that's an issue with all devices that gather altitude data from GPS (rather than an internal barometer).