Basically, the GPS on my Sensation wont find any satellites. I tried OpenSensation and ARHD and the GPS doesn't work on either. I read on Google that someone flashed the appropriate RUU for them and reflashed their custom ROM and the GPS started working again. I was going to do the same but was wondering if I flash the T-Mo ICS RUU, will it lock the bootloader? If so, how would I unlock it again? Also, if anyone has any tips to fix the GPS, any help is appreciated.
munkyvirus said:
Basically, the GPS on my Sensation wont find any satellites. I tried OpenSensation and ARHD and the GPS doesn't work on either. I read on Google that someone flashed the appropriate RUU for them and reflashed their custom ROM and the GPS started working again. I was going to do the same but was wondering if I flash the T-Mo ICS RUU, will it lock the bootloader? If so, how would I unlock it again? Also, if anyone has any tips to fix the GPS, any help is appreciated.
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RUUs are ideally last choices.
Also, I'm assuming you are HTC Dev unlocked (you need to confirm this), if yes, then did you enable smart flash in 4ext recovery before flashing or flash the boot.img manually?
Try performing a full wipe/format before installing the ROM.
If you are S Off, then try installing 3.32 base firmware
If all of the above fail, use my guide to find & flash the correct RUU: www.tinyurl.com/RUUGuide
I am unlocked through revolutionary, I don't know if that is HTC-Dev, but I doubt it. I don't know about smart flash either, what is it? I full wiped and installed 5 different OpenSensation builds and the T-Mo ARHD version with no GPS on either. I also flashed the 3.32 firmware from the official ICS T-Mo firmware. Radio's too, went from 11.69 to 11.72. I want to flash the RUU to reset all the radios, firmware and such. But I am worried the bootloader will get locked down again.
My plan is to flash the RUU, test the GPS, then restore my clockwork backup of my current ROM and go from there. Would it be easier to just flash a Gingerbread RUU?
munkyvirus said:
I am unlocked through revolutionary, I don't know if that is HTC-Dev, but I doubt it. I don't know about smart flash either, what is it? I full wiped and installed 5 different OpenSensation builds and the T-Mo ARHD version with no GPS on either. I also flashed the 3.32 firmware from the official ICS T-Mo firmware. Radio's too, went from 11.69 to 11.72. I want to flash the RUU to reset all the radios, firmware and such. But I am worried the bootloader will get locked down again.
My plan is to flash the RUU, test the GPS, then restore my clockwork backup of my current ROM and go from there. Would it be easier to just flash a Gingerbread RUU?
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Here's what happens after flashing the RUU:
You will lose all data (except data on SD Card)
Your bootloader will be locked, but if you're S Off, you will remain S Off (You can get back to Revolutionary bootloader by flashing 3.32 base firmware from firmware thread.)
You will lose custom recovery if custom recovery is installed (this can be re flashed if you are S Off )
You will lose root if you are rooted. (this can be re done)
I recommend you flash the normal 3.32 base firmware from the firmware thread before flashing RUU.
i used to have the same issue as yours...
i tried this fix ..it works for sensation too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12764930&postcount=1
i used method 2 to do that ..method 1 failed for me
but be careful when using dd commands..you need to be extremely careful while typing that
also the fix..messes up your splash screen ..but you can easily flash the splash screen again
I tried the wiping thing, but it didn't work, I'm going to flash the RUU. If it doesn't work, it's borked, I guess.
Nothing, I flashed a Gingerbread RUU and the ICS RUU with no change. I am going to take it to T-Mobile in a few days. Any final, shot in the dark, tips?
munkyvirus said:
Nothing, I flashed a Gingerbread RUU and the ICS RUU with no change. I am going to take it to T-Mobile in a few days. Any final, shot in the dark, tips?
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Yes. Open up the back cover & check if all antennae are making contact. If not, apply aluminium foil. Take a strip, fold it till it's the right size, but ensure it isn't very thick, just a little more than enough to make contact & not tear.
First of all, Hello.
I don't want to make another GPS topic, so i write it down here. The thing is that i bought a used HTC Sensation XE and everything is working great except the GPS. I have read all the sensation threads about fixing the problems with GPS and i think i tried most of them without any luck.
I installed the free GPS apps from Market (GPS Status, GPS Test and the fix named FasterFix). It just won't find any satellites and that's it.
It wont lock on nothing and it wont find nothing.
* At the beginning when i started FasterFix it showed that the conf. is set to America. I live in Europe. So that really made sense, that if i change it to Europe, then it should work because the conf. is just wrong.
I have tried all kinds of fixes (FasterFix, modifying the gps.conf file), tried the Sensation topic named AGPS patch and flashed the gps fix .zip.
Tried all kinds of gps.conf files and putting the right server names in there Europe, Estonia. Tried the wipe and format and reinstalling Locations.
I didnt want to root the phone and use custom ROM, but nothing seemes to help fixing the GPS problem, so in last option i rooted phone, did the S-OFF and all the stuff so its unlocked and tried custom ROM.s. I was fingers crossed and hoped that the ROM change will magically fix my whatever errors with GPS but nothing. I tried :
* [ROM][Sense 4.1][20.01] Team Venom presents: ViperS 1.6.3
* [ROM][CM10][Kang][Pyramid][4.1.2][09 JAN]
Yesterday after i did full wipe and tried the vision wipe fix (Method 1) + Reinstalling Locations. I went outside and started up the GPS, i used AGPS fix configuration file. So i started GPS Status and waited for ~30sec. it magically found 5 sats and after waiting couple minutes or so, it finally locked up and managed to get the right position. I was so happy and thought that i finally fixed it after tried everything in 2 days. So later on that day i went driving with my car and wanted to test the GPS in real. I fired the sucker up and NOTHING. No sats, nothing. And here i am, again searching for help.
I really like this phone and i need to get that god damn GPS working. Please any help is welcome. What else can i try?
Can it really be the GPS unit itself what is defective? Well it found sats and locked up on them yesterday, so i think something has to work but there is some error somewhere.
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OOh my god! I managed to FIX my problem! What a relief and of course im telling you how.
My problem was that antenna contacts didn't give a good connection between the housing. I played with the housing and watched the GPS Test software, so if the connection was OK, it automatically detected sats and if i moved the housing again, they disappeared.
I tried the aluminium foil trick and it helped but i didnt much like the idea of some loose foil inside of my phones housing. So i checked up the antenna contacts and tried to figure out what the heck was the problem, because if there was a cap between the housing and phone itself, there was a signal and as soon as i locked the housing to the phone - Baah! nothing, the signal was gone. I opened the housing and took a scalpel. Next i really carefully bended the antenna contacts, so if first they were shaped like "/\" then after the bend they looked like " L ", with that trick applied they now get a good contact with the housing and the GPS is working as it should.
I hope it will help someone, who might have the same problem. The phone is Sensation XE with beats audio.
The easy was is to first try the foil trick, if it helps then you know it's the contacts.
The GPS antenna contacts are located between the camera lens and the battery. At least these contacts worked for me, after the bend.
hi
i upgraded my phone to another ROM and also upgrade to higher firmware, everything works great except the speaker(the small one that is closer to the ear) i tried to change to other roms and also tried to use different radio version but it still doesn't work.
if i plug an earphone or i push the loud speaker than i do hear the conversation but when nothing is plugged and i want to use the default speaker so there are no sound at all
what should i check?
where can be the problem?
thanks!!!
First have you tried downloading the firmware again? Could be something with the download.you said you have tried different roms and the issue still persists? Some roms I've noticed make my volume lower than others. Have you tried viper Rom? My volume is very loud on that Rom. If the issue still persists then I would guess it's a problem with the device its self. Perhaps take it for repair in a local shop.or send it and use warentee. Try downloading firmware again? I wish I knew of a better fix but I don't. And if the problem persists on several different roms, then my guess would be its device related. Sometimes for issues your better off finding a local repair shop, they usually repair same day and you don't have to send your device away. My local shop has fairly reasonable prices for repair. I'd look into that if no one else knows of a fix ...I hope this helps and best wishes to you! But do first try a fresh download of the firmware incase the first download was corrupted some how. Make sure it's a new download don't use the old one. Then try the different roms, if it still persists take for repair.
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still doesn't work
I tried installing again the firmware and the viper ROM but the results are the same.
I also disassembled the phone and checked the vibrator engine and the speaker and they both work (I took a AA battery and wired it to the vibrator and it rotats and the speaker make noise, so the hardware is o.k)
I took it to the nearest shop and they also dont know what is the issue about.
everything worked fine before i upgeated the firmware and tryed different roms.
what else should i try?
maybe i should to downgrade the firmware? how should it be done?
no
why no one answer?
is there any problem in my post?????????
Hi I suppose you could try to downgrade the firmware but ics must be ran on 3.2 or 3.33 .to change your firmware you would do the exact same procedure as when you upgraded it. So to change to 3.32 from 3.33 you put the pg58img file at root of sd card. Boot into bootloader by pulling battery insert battery and then press volume down and power at the same time. The device will recognize the file and Ask to continue, press power for yes . Remember once it's up loaded to remove the pg58img file from sd card or device will continue to try to update in bootloader. Hope this helps. Best wishes.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
I picked up a used one s (s4), so I dont know what was done with it before i got it, but it looked stock with the 1.08 radio flash w/rom and stuff (1.14 hboot). After a few hours the audio died, speaker, ear speaker, headphone, and bluetooth audio would cause a reboot. I have tryed rooting/flashing just about everything kind of combination of things. After a new wipe/flash the audio will work for a bit (sec to hours) and sometimes after reboots. This makes me think its a software bug. I have yet to downgrade hboot (next step?) and play with the radio. But i think openDSP in hboot may be related. can someone point me in a direction to find our more about openDSP? i tryed to google it, no sutch luck. Is there a way to flash openDSP? Any help would be great!
[Q] what is openDSP? can it be flashed?
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Please help me i don't know what to do!!that phone drives me crazy!!
plus i can't lock the bootloader for some reason and can't flash RUU
EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS FORGET ABOUT THE RULES FOR A SECOND AND HELP ME PLEASE! :crying::crying:
Hey there everyone.
I flashed skullface's CM, and one of the bugs is that the vibration isn't working, which I am fine with, but later when I returned to stock firmware, the vibration still isn't working! I tried installing stock 4.1.2 and then upgraded to 4.2.2, still vibration isn't working.
I am pretty sure that it isn't a hardware problem since I don't remember dropping it before the problem appeared, and I am sure I did the flashing steps right. Any help would be truly appreciated.
strange,i i did flash skullface's cm in the past,and my vibration still work afterwards.
try flash again and do a complete wipe,see if it got any change,if not,i think you have to send it to service center(make sure you reset the binary count first)
I tried reflashing the stock multiple times after making sure I wiped everything, I can't return it to the service centre cause I bought it from another country.
been running my vzw snapdragon s8+ rooted pretty much since root was an option, getting ready to hand it off now so I did a factory reset, flashed stock firmware, then updated to current
however when I was using it before I'd been experimenting with different modules like dolby atmos, volume booster, etc
somewhere along the line I wrecked the mic input so that the only time the mic worked for anything was on speakerphone, which was fine for me the last couple years
now though I'd like to hand off a fully working phone and can't figure out what I need to reset that part back to stock
any tip is appreciated
Flash stock rom
TheMadScientist said:
Flash stock rom
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did that, didn't help
welp the phone was destroyed at work so new phone from insurance, fixed the problem...