Just got the phone today. It's awesome absolutely love love it. The only problem that I have is with the gps. I've done a little test and first of all it took him ages to find the signal and even after the accuracy of it was hit and miss. Back at home I've done another test with"gps test" app vs my htc desire. Sensation found faster more satelites but didn't lock in as fast as desire. After it knew where it was the accuracy was up improving from 184ft to 48 within 20 sec and was extremely unstable. On desire it was 36 ft and was all the same all the time. Is that normal or is it faulty unit?
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Restart your phone and if that doesnt work do a hard reset, and if that doesn't work have it replaced
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Tried. Didn't help. Sending back my sensation and sticking with my desire. Not worth paying 550 euro for it?
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Lasqa said:
Tried. Didn't help. Sending back my sensation and sticking with my desire. Not worth paying 550 euro for it?
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go to settings>power>turn off power saver.... if that is on and your battery is under 70% it will make your gps suck!
Experiencing same problems.
T-Mo, phone made on 4th of June. I feel like the newer is the phone the worse are the components.
Try this:
Get the Chartcross GPS Test app. Turn off GPS, start the app, go to Settings, at the top click on Clear AGPS, then Update AGPS. Turn on GPS. It may take a bit longer than normal to get a lock the first time, but should work fine after that. Repeat if you find locks taking abnormally long. Sometimes the ephemeris data stored on the phone can become corrupt. Clearing and updating can fix that problem.
Test outside with clear sky view for most consistent results. Also, when comparing GPS accuracy between different models of phones don't rely on the reported numbers in GPS Test apps, use the actual location on the map. My Sensation locates me on Google Maps very accurately.
*KNOCKS ON WOOD* My GPS is heavensent compared to my Vibrant and guided navigation is amazing *KNOCKS ON WOOD*
I have exactly the same issue on my sensation. I do a lot of running with micoach and during the workout the signal is often weak and my location jitters all over the map.
mouzaihem said:
Restart your phone and if that doesnt work do a hard reset, and if that doesn't work have it replaced
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Agreed. Mine locks quickly and accurately.
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Hello I'm having some problems with my gps it doesn't show exactly where I am, its always a street over or something like that.
I'm stock, and I even checked to see if it was my case but when I took it off the gps was still off.
Any ideas?
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Ok now its right for some reason, but it always does this, it'll be in the wrong spot and then be randomly right, but this doesn't happen all the time.
I hope someone has an idea.
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baconissweet said:
Ok now its right for some reason, but it always does this, it'll be in the wrong spot and then be randomly right, but this doesn't happen all the time.
I hope someone has an idea.
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are you outside with a clear view of the sky?
No I was in a friends car at the time
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You get better results with gps if you have a clear view of the sky. I put mine in the front windshield when I'm in a car.
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this may sound strange, but have you tried it without the case from a cold boot (turn off, remove battery, wait, put in battery, turn on).
I've noticed that in order to get proper GPS testing results, I've had to do something similar to this.
I'm running stock and my GPS is incredibly slow. Using GPS Fix can never get a fix within 15 minutes. Any ideas? Should I just return the phone? I bought it at a tmobile store over a month ago. Would they even accept returns this far out?
You only have 14days to return but I would go plead a case how your not satisfied with the product
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Bspence415 said:
You only have 14days to return but I would go plead a case how your not satisfied with the product
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30 days in California.
I'm having this problem too. Nothing seems to fix it!! arghhhhhhhhh
I think installing a Gingerbread build breaks the GPS.
strung said:
I'm having this problem too. Nothing seems to fix it!! arghhhhhhhhh
I think installing a Gingerbread build breaks the GPS.
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That's when my problems started.
Hopefully the official GB update provides some fixed GPS drivers.
I noticed that it goes back and forth for me. Sometimes it locks right away, other times I have to close and reopen slash turn off and on GPS. Do remember though there are always areas that are hard for any GPS to fix a location on. I know some of them here in the twin cities.
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unique77 said:
I noticed that it goes back and forth for me. Sometimes it locks right away, other times I have to close and reopen slash turn off and on GPS. Do remember though there are always areas that are hard for any GPS to fix a location on. I know some of them here in the twin cities.
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That's what I thought...at first.
But I have 2 G2xs. One that has never been flashed, and one that was flashed to CM7 and back to stock.
Never been flashed picks up GPS everywhere, indoors, outdoors in under 5 seconds. It's perfect.
Flashed one hardly works. Sometimes never gets any GPS satellites. Other times it gets them but never locks, even with 9 or more satellites in view. Before flashing, it worked fine.
Any one else have their GPS fail on them? Mine just stopped working yesterday.
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Shagman68 said:
Any one else have their GPS fail on them? Mine just stopped working yesterday.
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you have it enabled?
Shagman68 said:
Any one else have their GPS fail on them? Mine just stopped working yesterday.
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Happened to me to had to reboot. Also find it hard for it to lock 100 % ..
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I used this app GPS status on my mytouch 4g to fix it. Give it a shot.
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Yep, rebooting, non fast boot did the trick. That was really strange. Thanks.
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Never had problems with my GPS, so far so good. It's been finding my locations pretty quick.
Out of the box mine wouldn't see any sats in any of the GPS apps. The GPS antenna icon wouldn't even show up in the notification bar. Yes, GPS was on, but it was dead. Reboot did nothing.
Ended up doing a shutdown, removing battery, and when it booted up everything worked normally. GPS has worked very well since, quick locks and very accurate map location.
Yes, have had as well.
I've had flaky GPS as well. Sometimes fast lock, sometimes 15-second lock, sometimes full shutdown and pull the battery.
I used that GPS check applet (their is a free and paid version). It seemed to help confirm issues, since Maps and such just show that little sat dish at the top.
Seems like it may need a little FW fine-tuning or something.
As I said use GPS status clear your GPS chase then select your region of the world again and you will get fast connection to satellites. The app has a built in compass and you will be able to test
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I've had to do most of the above including battery removal, full power-downs, etc.
I use GPS test and it takes a while but I get up to 10 or so satellites with accuracy to as little as 2-3 meters.
Switching amongst multiple apps like Latitude, Maps, GPS test, etc. seem to take the heaviest toll on the ability of the unit to quickly lock on when I launch the next app.
I can "death grip" it as well and kill the Wi-Fi, cellular radio, and GPS antenna, FWIW.
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I've had to do most of the above including battery removal, full power-downs, etc.
I use GPS test and it takes a while but I get up to 10 or so satellites with accuracy to as little as 2-3 meters.
Switching amongst multiple apps like Latitude, Maps, GPS test, etc. seem to take the heaviest toll on the ability of the unit to quickly lock on when I launch the next app.
I can "death grip" it as well and kill the Wi-Fi, cellular radio, and GPS antenna, FWIW.
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I had an instance of GPS Test (the Mike Lockwood version) not locking yesterday. In the Settings on that app you can Clear Aiding Data. I turned off GPS, did the clear, turned GPS back on, and it locked within 10 seconds. But for the most part the GPS on the Sensation has worked very well.
First post in this forum, coming from both HTC Desire HD and Motorola Defy forums.
Just got a Atrix 2 from the market place and I like it. I was having issues with reception on my HTC phones in my basement. Someone suggested I try a Motorola because of they get great reception. I bought a Defy and sure enough 15 -20 dbMs better in my basement.
I just couldn't get use to the smaller screen on the defy so I picked up this phone to try it out.
My issue is that the GPS works, no issues with maps, nav or GPS status and tools. However, faster fix and my golfing app won't work? Faster fix just sits there with a white screen and my golfing GPS app tells me that my settings for the GPS are wrong?
Anyone else with these issues? I have my phone rooted but haven't flashed any new roms yet.
Thanks in advance.
Wow, over 200 views and no response! Am I the only one with this issue?
Would be nice to know if flashing a different rom solved this issue as I'm still on the original. I thought I would wait a couple of weeks before I started flashing again as it's been a nice break, lol.
I am having the exact same issues but with my jogging apps. None of them can get a location for me.
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I am having the exact same issues but with my jogging apps. None of them can get a location for me.
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Thanks for the reply, now I know its just not me.
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Nope.. my GPS is perfect... actually so good that when I zoom to maximum and walk around my apartment it shows accurate movement... I mean accuracy is within 3 to 4 metres... and ya.. usually fixes within a few seconds.. I m running rooted stock Indian rom...
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Ravikirancg said:
Nope.. my GPS is perfect... actually so good that when I zoom to maximum and walk around my apartment it shows accurate movement... I mean accuracy is within 3 to 4 metres... and ya.. usually fixes within a few seconds.. I m running rooted stock Indian rom...
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Can you try using an app called fasterfix and see if it works, much appreciate it.
I was just wondering if any of you guys has experienced losing GPS signal and voice signal while GPS is used? I have had this happened to me several times. I was driving with GPS on and suddenly the phone just lost all signals. It'd not be that bad if the issue came from poor signal, but after that, it never regained signal. I had to manually turn on and off all the signal switches several times before it could reconnect.
Was there a triangle in the upper left side of the notification bar?
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I don't think there was, the phone just lost signal completely. And it happened on 4.0.3 as well as 4.0.4
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I don't think there was, the phone just lost signal completely. And it happened on 4.0.3 as well as 4.0.4
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I would definitely recommend getting a replacement Phone, assuming you still can. If not, then you can try 1) restarting the phone 2) wiping and starting from new (backup first!)
I wish I could but I'm way out of the 30 days replacement. And I think it's software related as it doesn't happen that often and when it works it works real well too.
And I always wipe completely before installing new rom, but it still happened on 2 kernels. I'm thinking it maybe heat related as I was mounting it on the dash. Any thoughts?
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I wish I could but I'm way out of the 30 days replacement. And I think it's software related as it doesn't happen that often and when it works it works real well too.
And I always wipe completely before installing new rom, but it still happened on 2 kernels. I'm thinking it maybe heat related as I was mounting it on the dash. Any thoughts?
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It's very unlikely that its because of the dash. But you can check to see if the GPS locks at all by downloading an app called "GPS Test" by Chart cross Limited from the Play Store and see if the GPS even works. Good luck.
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