Regarding GPS support in Indian A780 models.

[ageraldnaveen]

I read in one of the thread in this forum, that indian models A780 do not have the GPS hardware also. I know that I can reimage with a new firmware with GPS support. But is there a specific hardware for GPS thats missing?

Is there a way to figure out if my phone has the GPS hardware?

PS: I asked this question in another thread, but I am not sure if thats the right thread to ask this. Please reply or point me to the appropriate thread.

[jumit]

I have both versions of A780. With and w/o GPS.
You must remove the keyboard, please search forum for howto,
then you will see a square flat metal cover plate of approx. 25x10x5 mm.
With GPS you see smd-parts inside the box, w/o GPS there are no parts.

jm

[ageraldnaveen]

thanx jumit. I will try out, and update the thread.

[vidhan_rana]

my phone too doesn't have the gps s/w now if it has the h/w or not ,i don't know...will soon open the phone as mentioned and lets see...if we ca do something about it.....but i have read t in other forums that people have made their GPS work by changing the firmware...i have one such firmware...if any one wanna try it i will post it here ....in the zipped format it it around 78 MB[181 MB uncompressed] ....since i use this A780 to surf the net it will take me hell of a time to upload the firmware which has copilot in it ....

anyone need it?