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[Q] Did v2.2 fix your GPS?

I was really hoping it would, but after installing Cognition v2.2 BETA5.5. my GPS is no better. I really miss this feature.
If others are having this fix theirs than I need to see about getting new hardware. If not, then ... I don't know.... Start shopping for another (not a Samsung) phone?

Phredeee said:
I was really hoping it would, but after installing Cognition v2.2 BETA5.5. my GPS is no better. I really miss this feature.
If others are having this fix theirs than I need to see about getting new hardware. If not, then ... I don't know.... Start shopping for another (not a Samsung) phone?
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2.2 helped my GPS immensely though it was already decent before hand.
and not to be a PITA but the really shouldn't be in the dev forum, shoulda posted it in the Q&A one.

This belongs in general.
That aside, froyo is better than stock but not fixed.
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cropythy said:
This belongs in general.
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I put it here since froyo is not official yet. Thus a development topic.
Thanks for the response.

Phredeee said:
I put it here since froyo is not official yet. Thus a development topic.
Thanks for the response.
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Google maps still can't get a fix very well, but its a software issue, my tracks shows that my gps has near perfect accuracy, sensor assist in settings does not work, it only makes the run on arrow, and driving through the woods worse.
Once you get a good fix in google maps you should then get fixes faster but the initial fix may take a while. Getting a fix with other software first seems to help, but may be coincidental.
Before you go trading in the phone make sure you do a clean install, master clear in odin one click, then odin flash jf6, then upgrade, either with odin or via clockwork mod recovery.
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Didn't really fix it for me. It takes a long time to get a fix and once I get it, it would lose the fix within a few seconds.
I'm not using a window mount so the GPS signal has to go through the roof of my car. That may or may not affect it.

Didn't fix it at all for me. Very frustrating.
-Can't get a lock while moving
-Can't get a lock inside
-When I do get a lock it will lose it If I start moving
-Accuracy is waaay off.

2.2 broke my GPS It pretty much worked fine before I updated... now I cant even get a lock!!!

Mine will lock fine if I'm not moving but will not work once I'm moving, so still no navigation. I've heard it works for some so I wonder if there are just alot of hardware issues or what

My advice to you guys is to learn how to tweak lbstestmode settings. You can make your gps a lot better or a lot worse with these settings. Read up on the best settings and apply them to your phone.
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I gave up on my gps ... I am now "hoping" that the official release fixes it for everyone

update, i previously reported that it had more or less fixed my gps, that was with beta 4. beta 5.5 cant seem to get a fix, bad install im guessing. any number of things could be responsible. and no lbs test mode settings do not fix the gps. i almost wonder if it has something to do with titanium backup which i did not use before. its all purely speculation though.

Using Cognition Froyo 2.2 b5, GPS works almost 100% out of all the apps, google (Nav mostly)is the one with issues but very few now. It just looses me sometimes, usually when going under 20 mph but it does find me again in seconds.
I don't have a dash mount yet (due to questionable GPS) so it sits on the seat next to me in a truck, not the best. My trick is to run GPS test for a minute before I use Nav, seems to work every time. I lock on 7-10 sats in 6 or 7 seconds and they stay locked which never happened before, A lot of the time I'll be locked on 9 to 10 while moving with gps test reporting my speed within 1 mile an hour. I've also noticed that I get very few mistakes from Nav if I turn on the satellite layer, don't know why but works solidly for me when I do that.
This phone couldn't do a thing with gps before I flashed Cog's froyo and I had flashed a lot of different fixes, files, and roms almost bricking the phone a few times but nothing worked like the cognition froyo. I haven't used the jupiter v 006 files neither, no need with the gps working well.

GPS
I'm hoping that there was some parallel development going on and Samsung hasn't included a GPS fix in the leaked Froyo ROM. The GPS is pretty bad now - it's taking forever to obtain a fix again.

With 2.2, mine works fine. It takes a full minute to get a lock that status solid while in motion, but it gets a usable lock in twenty seconds. It's not as good as an iphone, but it's usable. In eclair, it's useless. Most of the time I can't get a lock at all, even if I let it try for a half hour. It will see 8 satellites and not lock a single one. In short, 2.2 has fixed my gps.

Mine has yet to have the GPS functioning well enough to use it.

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No, not at all.
My old ancient TMO G1 running Edge on ATT had lock on GPS 100% of the time. It was dead accurate and GPS was always on point. Can't say the same about my Captivate.
I'm on my second Captivate. I exchanged my first one thinking it was a hardware issue but alas I've given up. I flashed my phone with a couple different versions of ROMS (but not before trying the OTA Official fix before flashing any customs or rooting) it updated successfully but the GPS was still hella slow.
I'm not sure what's going on but these workarounds and everything absolutely do not work for me at all.
The only time the GPS works is when I turn Wi-Fi on, which defeats the purpose of having a wireless device in my opinion since you won't ALWAYS be around a Wi-Fi network (especially on a highway connected between the middle of nowhere) ...

I drove 450 miles with the GPS on my Captivate using Google Nav. It was pretty darn accurate. Only lost me 3 times the entire trip and by that I mean it went off onto the sideroads that ran parallel with the highway and then immediately came back. I'd have to say that 2.2 definitely fixed my GPS without a doubt.

I recently was having the crazy compass issue where it jumps back and forth. But my gps had always worked well as long as I wasn't moving to fast... I know I know. But cog 5.5 fixed my compass and improved my gps as well. Note I said improved not fixed, lol.
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2.3.4 KG4 GPS settings?

So I'm having issues getting a GPS lock after installing deodexed KG4. I can't access LbsTestMode like in Froyo to mess around with the settings. Any ideas on how to check the GPS settings in Gingerbread (SUPL, standalone vs MS based, etc)?

try out gps aids donate. it has yet to fail me.

jager555 said:
try out gps aids donate. it has yet to fail me.
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Ack. Even with that I can't get into the settings. I'll give it another whirl and then let it sit forever to get that first lock.

sorry. i should have been more clear. download gps aid. go to gps doctor, and click regenerate. the phone will reboot. then go to gps status and let the phone sit for 5 min, but keep the screen on. then reboot and try the gps again

jager555 said:
sorry. i should have been more clear. download gps aid. go to gps doctor, and click regenerate. the phone will reboot. then go to gps status and let the phone sit for 5 min, but keep the screen on. then reboot and try the gps again
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Ya, I just started that. Got a lock in the status section TTFF 231 s, then went away. I'm leaving it for a while and we'll see what it comes up with. The first lock was a good sign, no doubt. Thanks jager.

Worked. Got my GPS fix.

fideli. said:
Worked. Got my GPS fix.
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glad to hear it, man. it is horrible when the gps doesnt work. i've gotten myself into very interesting situations because of it...

So this app (donated version) will fix the GB KG4 Issue with GPS? I am in the same boat.. no lock-ons. And I've been battling with it for a little bit now.. I've tried GPS Aids lite, but it seems to do nothing to help.. doesn't even d-load the "XTRA" file... refuses to even with a perfect net connection and GPS view...

I got a few quick locks with the help of GPS Aids, but overall it was just too slow to lock so I'm back on Froyo now (ICBINB). I get sub 30 s for TTFF, and 1-2 s afterwards, which I'm just too used to now in every app that needs location awareness.
What I want to try next is flash a GB rom and not restore my data. Maybe the Froyo LTO or XTRA is messing up GB locks. I've just been too lazy at nights to work on it; need my phone 100% in the daytime.

I'm guessing there is no overall big fix for the GB ROMs? Or particularly, KG4?

Jager here to save.the day once again
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GPS Troubles on Nexus S 4G

I have tried running a few different ICS roms and had very bad luck with the GPS working. Is there something I should be doing prior to flashing a a new rom or after flashing that would help get the gps to work?
I have tried GPS Status, GPS Test and GPS Fix but nothing seems to work.
I have read tons of posts and nothing seems consistent in gettting the gps to work.
I have used AOSP 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 and vhgomez roms.

jziggy101 said:
I have tried running a few different ICS roms and had very bad luck with the GPS working. Is there something I should be doing prior to flashing a a new rom or after flashing that would help get the gps to work?
I have tried GPS Status, GPS Test and GPS Fix but nothing seems to work.
I have read tons of posts and nothing seems consistent in gettting the gps to work.
I have used AOSP 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 and vhgomez roms.
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this will be moved into a different forum. dont post questions in development...but to answer your question, if you use those gps apps you sometimes gotta wait a while for it to pick up gps, u cant just hit clear agps data, redownload agps data and boom gps works. sometimes u gotta wait a little for it to find a signal. I've never in my whole history of owning an android phone have had gps issues that i couldnt fix by using those programs. and i've run the aosp oICS rom and had perfect gps.

If your GPS is not working at all, and you've tried everything. Try un-rooting your phone, go back to stock rom, see if that gets GPS to work. Then try to root again. I read on a Google forum that this guy did not have GPS working at all. He though he had a bad GPS chip or something. He un-rooted to return phone to Sprint and for some odd reason the GPS started working again. My GPS does not work also. It did prior to rooting. Im wating for the official OTA to un-root then root in hopes of getting it to work. I dont use GPS much so its not a issue for me at the moment. Good luck.

GPS seemed to be off for all the ROMs I was using, mostly in apps outside of the Maps app. I went back to 2.3.7 stock since I figure ICS OTA should be arriving soon.

Good to know I'm not the only one. I love ics too much to go back. But at least its a known issue. Anyone have any idea why?

How bad of GPS are we talking about here? This was done indoors just now...
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Dialer: *#*#GPSCLRX#*#*
enter MSL when prompted

Try the QBANIN GPSFix app if you haven't already, otherwise try using your GPS in different areas.
For the longest time I would rage because I had no GPS (or so I thought) when I attempted to use google maps or anything. Tried all the GPS fixes with zips and various apps, unrooted, same thing.
A month later I was on a trip out of state, opened up google maps and got a lock instantly! When I got back home checked gps again, still wouldn't lock.
Turns out for whatever stupid a** reason... about a 1/2 mile radius around my house GPS will not work but as soon as I get out of that area, its almost instant haha. Hopefully you have the same issue as I did
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try this. this worked for me. I was having the exact same issues as you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22088356#post22088356

JohnCorleone said:
How bad of GPS are we talking about here? This was done indoors just now...
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What GPS app is that your using? Looks like GPS Status but not quite.

strung said:
Dialer: *#*#GPSCLRX#*#*
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Thanks I will try that next time.
At the moment I have a working GPS all the time again.
On another thread a user indicated he shut all the location services off, then used GPStest or Status to clear the GPSA and then request a GPSA download. They he went back and turned all the location services back on. Sounds strange but it got my GPS working.

onovich said:
try this. this worked for me. I was having the exact same issues as you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22088356#post22088356
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I did try this and thought it didn't work but once I waited longer on the first gps fix now its working all the time.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Try messin with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165482

jziggy101 said:
Thanks I will try that next time.
At the moment I have a working GPS all the time again.
On another thread a user indicated he shut all the location services off, then used GPStest or Status to clear the GPSA and then request a GPSA download. They he went back and turned all the location services back on. Sounds strange but it got my GPS working.
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How long did you wait? I've tried this several times to no avail.

No GPS signal at all....

Has anyone else experienced this? I don't understand why I have no GPS signal whatsoever. Everytime I try to use Navigation it stays at "searching for GPS signal". for 20 minutes I had it in the middle of the road and nothing was blocking me. The only thing I can think of is that my GPS radio got messed up somehow from flashing CM10 for a day. I lost my data signal on it so I did a nand restore of my stock ROM. I never did the IMED backup or whatever it was for the CM10 ROM.

Anyone?
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Are you using the Navigation that came with the phone or are you using another app? Did it work on Stock before you flashed CM10? Also, having an IMEI (just check your phone settings and see if you do) and phone number showing could possibly play a factor.

JetBlue said:
Are you using the Navigation that came with the phone or are you using another app? Did it work on Stock before you flashed CM10? Also, having an IMEI (just check your phone settings and see if you do) and phone number showing could possibly play a factor.
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Yes the GPS did work and both my phone number and IMEI both show in settings.
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My GPS works great. But I am stock rooted.

I have the same issue on my phone, i can never get it to completely lock on to get the navigation working. I called customer service and I'm getting a replacement tomorrow. They did have to take me off unlimited but they said that if I called customer service back, they could put me back on it.

I haven't had any issues with my S3, but in the past I would use this for my Droid X when I had trouble:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5lY2xpcHNpbS5ncHNzdGF0dXMyIl0.
It has a couple of tools/resetting GPS options in there in the context menu...! Hope it helps

graymonkey44 said:
Has anyone else experienced this? I don't understand why I have no GPS signal whatsoever. Everytime I try to use Navigation it stays at "searching for GPS signal". for 20 minutes I had it in the middle of the road and nothing was blocking me. The only thing I can think of is that my GPS radio got messed up somehow from flashing CM10 for a day. I lost my data signal on it so I did a nand restore of my stock ROM. I never did the IMED backup or whatever it was for the CM10 ROM.
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GPS seems to get borked flashing to AOSP ROMs like CM. I remember for my Thunderbolt the trick was to load a stock ROM, attain GPS lock, then backup and flash the CM ROM. That might work for the S3 as well.

Aquila76 said:
GPS seems to get borked flashing to AOSP ROMs like CM. I remember for my Thunderbolt the trick was to load a stock ROM, attain GPS lock, then backup and flash the CM ROM. That might work for the S3 as well.
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I went back to stock after I lost data on CM10. I haven't been able to get it since.
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I had problem with my GPS, too. Went back to 100% stock and still the same problem. Takes forever to lock, though it does lock sometimes. And drift off even after it locks.
I went to the VZW store and they ordered a replacement for me.

GPS problems locking/staying locked

I've tried 3 different roms, wiping system data cache, dalvik, and gps takes forever to lock, and when it does it doesn't stay locked. I'll be driving and the signal will get lost, or it'll put me in the wrong location which causes it to give me a bunch of directions I don't need.
I've been using GPS lock to get a lock, but it's only a temporary fix. Could this be a phone issue?
Btw, this is also happening on my other s3
I've tried all the latest beans, tasteofbeans and galaxy mod releases
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Try faster fix GPS,GPS, test also
Clean Romed&themed the [email protected]#out

Tried that, it stays locked, but for only a couple minutes still
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ucpro said:
Tried that, it stays locked, but for only a couple minutes still
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Download the zip, unzip it, then copy the 2 files (gps.conf and certificate) to /system/etc of your device, reboot and try out your gps. Let me know how it goes. You must be rooted to do this.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o6pjy4gap7p4qu1

Simple mechanical GPS fix involving tightening the back frame of the phone
Hi,
I have a simple GPS fix that worked for me. I'd like to mention that the solution may not work for all but it did work for me after I tried just about every fix possible. For example I flashed back to stock, performed numerous battery pulls, used many of the AGPS patches, made numerous edits to the gps.conf file, reprovisioned my phone, checked different ROMs, uninstalled/reinstalled Google Maps, cleared data for Google Maps and Google Service Framework, and so on.
I tried all of the above methods because my GPS would take forever to get a fix both indoors and outdoors (I know it usually takes longer to get a fix indoors), wouldn't hold the fix while navigating and my GPS apps kept stating "Searching for GPS", would see 20+ satellites but would never lock on to them...man it was really frustrating. I just about gave up.
However, as I was trying to follow another procedure to fix my GPS which required me to pull my battery I noticed that when I removed my back cover that the back frame that has all the screws was slightly loose on the left side. Once I tightened them all up my GPS worked immediately! I've tested for a day and I consistently got a lock on the satellites in about 2-15 seconds depending on my location. My navigation also worked and wouldn't cut in and out.
Like I said it may not work for everyone but I would recommend that if you have a GS3 definitely check the back frame of your phone and make sure everything is secure. I've tried my GPS on the stock and CM 10 stable ROMs and I have achieved GPS locks consistently.
I hope this helps. Maybe this has already been shared but I figured I would post in case some of you haven't seen it yet.
Cheers.

buhohitr said:
Download the zip, unzip it, then copy the 2 files (gps.conf and certificate) to /system/etc of your device, reboot and try out your gps. Let me know how it goes. You must be rooted to do this.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o6pjy4gap7p4qu1
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Been using this method for over a month and it works great.
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