How can I check the current status of the GPS receiver?

Question

How can I check the current status of the GPS receiver? I already checked the LocationListener onStatusChanged method but somehow it seems that is not working,

Answer 1

After a few years of working with GPS on windows mobile, I realized that the concept of "losing" a GPS fix can be subjective. To simply listen to what the GPS tells you, adding a NMEAListener and parsing the sentence will tell you whether the fix was "valid" or not. See http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm#GGA . Unfortunately with some GPSes this value will fluctuate back and forth even during the normal course of operation in a "good fix" area.

So, the other solution is to compare the UTC time of the GPS location against the phone's time (converted to UTC). If they are a certain time difference apart, you can assume you lost the GPS position.