Hello I would like to take a quick consensus about people on tmobile us and if their gps is working. There are a few fixes around the dev forum but they do not work for me. A lot of people have been taking gps.config files from other roms or RUU and dropping them into the phone's system/etc and /etc folders overwriting the current one. I've tried this and it did not work for me, has anyone successfully fixed their own gps and got it to lock? Thanks.
I've tried about 5 roms and my gps locks instantly every time. I have a t-mobile sensation.
GPS has worked flawlessly for me on LeeDroid.
gps works flawlessly and locks instantly for me
used both leedroid and insertcoin(which im using right now)
No problems here. Fastest GPS lock of any android I've had to date.
I'm using a T-Mobile Sensation, debranded and running EU 1.35
haha oh man maybe this is a personal problem then, are you guys using stock kernels?
Yeah I'm on the stock kernel.
Leedroid kernel 1.4 beta, damo's gps fix, and first lock took around a minute. Now it's almost instant.
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Hello I would like to take a quick consensus about people on tmobile us and if their gps is working. There are a few fixes around the dev forum but they do not work for me. A lot of people have been taking gps.config files from other roms or RUU and dropping them into the phone's system/etc and /etc folders overwriting the current one. I've tried this and it did not work for me, has anyone successfully fixed their own gps and got it to lock? Thanks.
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I have almost no gps whatsoever...I'm in the same boat as you as I posted in the Q & A section.
Running Android Rev 1.1.5
I use to be able to get GPS lock in my room. But lately I'm unable to get a signal at all. When outdoors, Google Nav just keeps saying "Searching GPS...". I'm not sure what I did wrong but something isn't right. Also I already tried the gps.conf and gps fix apps and it didn't seem to matter.
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Leedroid kernel 1.4 beta, damo's gps fix, and first lock took around a minute. Now it's almost instant.
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After flashing the patch from 1.1 to 1.2 and also the 1.4 beta kernel I find that my GPS is very erratic --at times it will not lock at all and then it will lock within 20 seconds and then about 10 minutes later it will not lock--and just a few moments ago it would lock and then lose it and then in a minute or so it would lock again and then lose it and now it is not locking at all. I have used FasterFix and it would seemed to help and then after flashing patch and new kernel it does nothing. Could someone point me to the damo's fix? I would greatly appreciate it.
My GPS positioning is pretty sad on stock, and you made me reluctant to even try other roms now.
My gps works great in InsertCoin 1.06
Same here....gps is slow sometimes. I edited my buildprop. I blame mysrlf
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hmmm interesting can the people who have gps tell me what state you guys are in and if possible what your gps.config file says inside it?
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I am in the same boat. I thought it was just me. I can't get a location either with stock roms. I am in Washington State.
TMOUS phones have a file called SuplRootCert that their conf refers to. Once I added the stock gps.conf and that rootcert, GPS works again.
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TMOUS phones have a file called SuplRootCert that their conf refers to. Once I added the stock gps.conf and that rootcert, GPS works again.
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Are you able to upload the files you used? and is suplrootcert in system/etc/ also? I;m not by my phone to check right now. Thanks
Here you go. The first one is stock, the second one has additional NTP servers added. (north-america 0-3, us 0-3). push this file into /system/etc.
Once you're done, test it out by actually being outside. Remember, GPS rarely works inside parking structures or houses
Do not flash this in recovery. Push this onto your phone using adb. I'm assuming you're gonna know how to do that.
"adb push gps.conf /system/etc" is the command you'll be using. if it's telling you that you don't have permissions, do adb remount and try again. be sure to push the suplrootcert as well.
I downloaded astro and know how to use it..do i just copy and paste the zip in the file or do i flash it? and if i flash it do i do it from the recovery?
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I've been using CM7 on my phone for about a month and i really liked it but the GPS didn't seem to work very good.
Today I wiped my phone and installed CoreDroid 6.3 but the home and search button are not working (My phone is still using the CM7 Kernel so could that be the problem?) so I'll either try and fix it or flash a new rom (most likely LeeDroid). I am tempted to just flash the stock rom back on it and reroot the phone because I love the HTC Camera.
What would affect the GPS on the phone? Is it the ROM that would affect how well the GPS works or the radio?
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I've been using CM7 on my phone for about a month and i really liked it but the GPS didn't seem to work very good.
Today I wiped my phone and installed CoreDroid 6.3 but the home and search button are not working so I'll either try and fix it or flash a new rom (most likely LeeDroid). I am tempted to just flash the stock rom back on it and reroot the phone because I love the HTC Camera.
What would affect the GPS on the phone? Is it the ROM that would affect how well the GPS works or the radio?
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There are quite a few things, the basics being Radio, RIL(Radio Interface Layer), and the settings on the phone, such as the NTP connection. I have found that using the updated AT&T RIL and Radio with CM7 gives me like stock GPS. Full and quick locks. Like under 10 seconds (after the initial 45 second lock). At least, that is my experience.
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There are quite a few things, the basics being Radio, RIL(Radio Interface Layer), and the settings on the phone, such as the NTP connection. I have found that using the updated AT&T RIL and Radio with CM7 gives me like stock GPS. Full and quick locks. Like under 10 seconds (after the initial 45 second lock). At least, that is my experience.
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Can you post a link to the updated AT&T RIL and Radio? There are a ton of radios and I'm not sure which one is the right one.
I restored CM7 so it's on my phone again.
Try Angel Death's GPS files for whatever region of the states you live in (Northwest, Southwest, etc) I have CM7, and without it, the gps is so-so. With it, I can get a lock of 2m within 10-15 seconds, without use wireless networks enabled.
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Try Angel Death's GPS files for whatever region of the states you live in (Northwest, Southwest, etc) I have CM7, and without it, the gps is so-so. With it, I can get a lock of 2m within 10-15 seconds, without use wireless networks enabled.
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Thanks!
I installed the file for my region so hopefully that helps out.
I'd still appreciate the links to the updated AT&T RIL and radio so I can flash a new radio to my phone.
Here's the link to the radio. Use the one in the second post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002226
As for the ril. You can go into rom manager >gtg>ril flasher> select 26.06.06.30 and flash it through recovery. Ill try and find a link
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Here's the link to the radio. Use the one in the second post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002226
As for the ril. You can go into rom manager >gtg>ril flasher> select 26.06.06.30 and flash it through recovery. Ill try and find a link
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Thanks!
Both flashes worked fine.
EDIT: This has led to a new thread with some helpful GPS stuff: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17298804#post17298804
You can grab my CWR-friendly ZIP's for stock GPS.conf and for an improved GPS.conf.
ORIGINAL POST:
It would be nice and useful if there was an installable ZIP, similar to those provided for HD2 (some which work fine for Inspire).
Several of us who have Inspire's naturally have issues with any ROM and the GPS locking or staying locked with sats.
I'd think if we had a general patch to flash with the original GPS from ATT, we'd be in better shape....espcially if it's flashable using CWR like the generic options at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953630.
If your phone is rooted why not just use a file explorer like Root Explorer to copy the original into the folder?
I no longer have the original ATT ROM to do that with...
most of the GPS issues will be because of the RIL or radio load you are running. I had this happen with a custom ROM so I flashed back to a rooted stock GB ROM along with the stock RIL and radio load. FTR, I had the GPS issue on the stock ROM before flashing the RIL and radio load i.e. the GPS could see not sats. It picked up several after the RIL/Radio load flash. Now that said, use GPS Status to remove the sat filtering and clear/re-download the GPS data. After doing this, it locked on faster simply because it could seem more sats.
Here is the original gps.conf file. It is not an installable zip file. You must extract the gps.conf from the compressed file and transfer it to your phone manually.
Thanks! I'm going to work on using this as a base and including the various variables from Angel Death's that are pertinent to our device.
If you pull the GPS.conf out of the cleardroid ROM you will then have an already custom made GPS.conf file by AngelDeath for the Inspire.
Allrighty, I made a nice little ZIP that can be installed through ClockWork Recovery.
http://derekgordon.com/ATTgps.zip
Thanks again for providing me with the config.
Not sure it will be worth anything, but it's something to try as I search for better GPS.
Dude, if angel deaths zip for south mid states doesn't make your gps awesome its either your rom, radio, or a hardware issue. I use an Otterbox Defender and get 18' locks within 8 seconds cold or pretty much instantly when hot. It'll take longer if you don't have a cellular data connection. If you don't have a data connection in the middle of nowhere it helps to put it on the roof of your car face down and leave it there for a few minutes if it isn't raining. If it's raining stick it LED's towards the sky through your windshield as best as you can. If you don't use a case it will work even better.
If you have tried the radios I have tried and angeldeaths zip and you still don't get good gps look up how to clear your efs data or something like that. It's on the first page of android revolution thread, I think second post. If it still doesn't work, unroot and s-on and load up stock gingerbread to claim your warranty and get a refurbished device. If that one's gps fails after doing the above, repeat the return to stock and keep swapping it until you get one that works right. I lucked out and mine worked right off the bat and has since I bought it in march. Some have not been so lucky and their gps antenna isn't making proper contact. This can be remedied through really voiding your warranty and following a thread I found in the dhd section. It involves a steady hand and taking the phone a little bit apart and messing with those contacts. It's easier to claim your warranty if no amount of software can fix it.
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The purpose of this was to get the default ATT gps.conf to provide and to use to test against scripts, radios, etc... to see performance differences.
I have built a full North America script based on Angeldeath's work and will be posting it soon thanks to his permission to do so.
Thanks man. I have always had trouble with GPS on asop roms but not on roms built from stock. This has help immensely. I am getting much quicker locks and more reliability on both miui and cm.
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Cool deal. Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17298804#post17298804 too. I'm working towards a great gps.conf solution for Inspire 4G devices.
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I Recently updated my baseband after much frustration with GPS and pleased to say i now have GPS instant locks. real instant locks 1-2 Second. Now, I am really wanting to flash a custom rom w/out losing my current GPS state. Can anyone confirm that has done the same thing (updated baseband and achieved instant locks) That after you flashed a custom rom you still have instant GPS locks? and which Custom rom you flashed? Thank you in advance EVERYONE.
You can flash a stock 2.3.3 based ROM, and GPS will work perfectly.
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Awesome thanks! btw which one did you flash?
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Awesome thanks! btw which one did you flash?
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I'm running Gigglebread, which can be found on RootzWiki.
I've never experienced an issue with it, and GPS locks are pretty good. I average 14-16 hours of battery life @ 1.2GHz OC with -100 mV underclock with Faux123 CM Kernel.
For a stock based ROM, I would recommend Tsugi's 2.3.4 ROM.
Thanks for your reply. I ran tsugi previous to updating my baseband and yes tsugi was great. Does it not matter that it is stock 2.3.4? And not 2.3.3 based. Gps wise?
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Thanks for your reply. I ran tsugi previous to updating my baseband and yes tsugi was great. Does it not matter that it is stock 2.3.4? And not 2.3.3 based. Gps wise?
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Nope, it's all based of stock ROMs.
12/26 update- I ended up reflashing weapon 3.0 (rom i had previous to Tsugi) I ran that the longest of any rom, i really liked the functionality of it: fast, quick panel toggles etc were super useful. only problem was GPS. After update/re-root/re-flash of weapon. I am excited to say still have instant GPS locks!! YAY. Thanks FatalityBoyZahy for helping me decide whether i should do it or not
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12/26 update- I ended up reflashing weapon 3.0 (rom i had previous to Tsugi) I ran that the longest of any rom, i really liked the functionality of it: fast, quick panel toggles etc were super useful. only problem was GPS. After update/re-root/re-flash of weapon. I am excited to say still have instant GPS locks!! YAY. Thanks FatalityBoyZahy for helping me decide whether i should do it or not
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I'm so glad I found this, cuz I'm xtremely satisfied with weapon 3.0 and dont wanna go back to stock,,,,
So just to recap a bit, you went back to stock, updated baseband, reflashed weapon and all is good? when you reflashed did your wipe cache & dalvik and format sys?
And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?
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I'm so glad I found this, cuz I'm xtremely satisfied with weapon 3.0 and dont wanna go back to stock,,,,
So just to recap a bit, you went back to stock, updated baseband, reflashed weapon and all is good? when you reflashed did your wipe cache & dalvik and format sys?
And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?
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Yes. I was running tsugi, then updated baseband, reflashed CWM using NV flash, Rooted using JBoxer posted root.zip, then reflashed weapon, before flashing I followed whitehawks directions in OP: I wiped/ data factory, wiped system. Then flashed the rom, Everything runs perfect as it did before only now I get instant gps locks, data, wifi, mounting ext and int sd works perfect as it always did. Hope that helps
Now an even more stupid question. I have service through Cincinnati Bell... if I want to update my baseband, do I need to find a special file? Or will the July basebanf thread work? Is that baseband file specific to T-Mobile ?
If I need a specific baseband for Cincinnati Bell, would anybody know where.to go for that information? It seems that the.Cincinnati Bell G2x users are an ultra small group .. so threads are limited.
Thanks in advance.
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I updated my baseband and now every ROM I've run has almost instant GPS locks. Granted, stock and 2.3.3 based roms like weapon and Tsugi or even Baka get quicker fixes, but to me, you can't give up the added functionality of CM roms like eagles or Phoenix blood. Flashing any other rom shouldn't alter your baseband at all. The new baseband in conjunction with apps like GPS fix and faster fix should add up to almost instant locks on any ROM.
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Now an even more stupid question. I have service through Cincinnati Bell... if I want to update my baseband, do I need to find a special file? Or will the July basebanf thread work? Is that baseband file specific to T-Mobile ?
If I need a specific baseband for Cincinnati Bell, would anybody know where.to go for that information? It seems that the.Cincinnati Bell G2x users are an ultra small group .. so threads are limited.
Thanks in advance.
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Sorry im stumped on this one too. I had a few minutes to do a search and came up with nothing.
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I updated my baseband and now every ROM I've run has almost instant GPS locks. Granted, stock and 2.3.3 based roms like weapon and Tsugi or even Baka get quicker fixes, but to me, you can't give up the added functionality of CM roms like eagles or Phoenix blood. Flashing any other rom shouldn't alter your baseband at all. The new baseband in conjunction with apps like GPS fix and faster fix should add up to almost instant locks on any ROM.
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Thanks. Ive actually ran those mentioned roms and gps fixes (when I was on old baseband) for me personally they had too many bugs in the features I used most. Great roms nonetheless, just lacked in areas I needed. Weapon s works perfect for me. I understand roms do not change baseband, I was just curious as to if it affected the gps functionalityThanks again for your suggestion s
Well I suppose that is why we have a recovery Nvflash.. I'm gonna give it a shot and see what happens.
I'll let you know and then we'll have the answer to whether basebands are carrier specific.
I would sure love to have GPS locks... on average it takes me over 10 minutes to get a lock. GPS status shows that I see and am using 5 or 6 satellites .. but when I open maps... it just takes forever to get a lock.
Lets see what happens ........
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And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?
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Stock and CM7 based roms mount the internal and SD card differently. You will experience problems if you install applications to your SD card on one type of rom and move to another. Changing the mount point manually (editing vold.fstab) will fix some of the problems (ie. your programs will launch properly) but will disable USB mass storage as the rom will try to mount the wrong (virtual/)directory to the USB path.
This is just from my own experience going between EaglesBlood(CM7) and Weapon(Stock). I'm not an expert at this but I tried five or six different changed to the vold.fstab and couldn't get everything just right after switching from EB to WG2x.
Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way to make the current structure of your internal/external storage work with a new structure, and have USB mass storage functionality. I just haven't found it.
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Well I suppose that is why we have a recovery Nvflash.. I'm gonna give it a shot and see what happens.
I'll let you know and then we'll have the answer to whether basebands are carrier specific.
I would sure love to have GPS locks... on average it takes me over 10 minutes to get a lock. GPS status shows that I see and am using 5 or 6 satellites .. but when I open maps... it just takes forever to get a lock.
Lets see what happens ........
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Very brave! I would have done it in your position too. Instant Gps locks was a must for me. Looking forward to the update. I'll be praying for a good turn out
Flashed following instructions ... it appears the basebannd was not cell provider specific. Or, if it is, entering the apn information straightened it out. I have the July 15th baseband and my phone still works.
However, it makes no difference in my GPS locks. They are still slow. Maybe I will edit the GPS configuration file as mentioned in a couple other threads.. and see if that coupled with the new baseband will improve it.
If you care at all, I will post an update.
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Flashed following instructions ... it appears the basebannd was not cell provider specific. Or, if it is, entering the apn information straightened it out. I have the July 15th baseband and my phone still works.
However, it makes no difference in my GPS locks. They are still slow. Maybe I will edit the GPS configuration file as mentioned in a couple other threads.. and see if that coupled with the new baseband will improve it.
If you care at all, I will post an update.
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Absolutely I'm always open to learning. Thanks for your update. Have you tried gps running stock? Immediately after updating baseband, our did your just reflash weapon immediately to test run gps?
Did.not test run ... immediately reflashed...
However, in the GPSconfig file I disabled the wifi wiper (very bottom of file, change value from 1 to 0) and I had instant GPS locks.!!!
I mean instant.... less than 5 seconds. May be a fluke so I'm gonna drive around and periodically open maps to see how long it takes to lock in.
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Absolutely made a huge improvement. Once I made that change to the gpsconfig file, I have had GPS locks in less than 1 minute.
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When I try to use GPS with google navigation it takes what seems like forever for the phone to "search for GPS" and usually never finds it. If i'm on the road and hold down the magnifying glass button and say navigate to wherever, it takes so long to find GPS that it's not even worth it. Anybody experience this or know how to fix it?
Thanks
Thats an old version u got there buddy! v4.5.2 is the latest
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Thats an old version u got there buddy! v4.5.2 is the latest
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And if I wanted ICS I would have downloaded it but I don't. In my opinion it's still too early to convert to ICS so I prefer 2.3.5. Therefore buddy you didn't even make an attempt at answering my question, just spamming my thread.
Have you tried the various gps/agps fixes? When I was on GB, I was using crypted's fixes. I usually download the google one and delete any suplerootcert files.
Also kernel's don't play well with gps. I always defaulted to the default kernel the rom had. In my experience, faux always borked my gps and bricked worked for a little while, but I always reverted back to the bundled kernel or stock one.
No I haven't tried any of the GPS fixes, I'll have to browse around for them. Any idea where I could find them? I may just need to revert to stock, I've been running bricked and I've really liked it but I'm getting bogged down now for some reason. Thanks for the info.
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No I haven't tried any of the GPS fixes, I'll have to browse around for them. Any idea where I could find them? I may just need to revert to stock, I've been running bricked and I've really liked it but I'm getting bogged down now for some reason. Thanks for the info.
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Try the bundled kernel first with the gps before playing with the fixes I mentioned. If it still doesn't work then go and try here,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262652&highlight=gps
Hi,
i hope someone can help me.. I have some serious problems getting GPS to work. I've tried now almost all gingerbread roms and it's always the same. I get no fix or only after a really long time (15 minutes plus, standing still) I know that my GPS SHOULD work, because it did on froyo (even very fast).
Now.. Before you say anything (which I hope you will nonetheless of course) I want to tell you what my current situation is and what I've tried.
Right now I'm on the latest Hercolubus rom with the g3mod oc kernel. Very nice by the way and many thanks to hercolubus and especially marcellusb for their hard work.
I have already tried modifying the gps.conf and secgps.conf files as stated in some thread here. No luck. I checked permissions and they're set to rw-r--r--. I also checked that the ntp server is set properly (in my case to de. I also tried with europe). I've rebooted several times, deactivated and activated gps and loaded the agps data with gps status, fixed permissions and still no luck. I have no idea what else I should try but maybe some of you guys have.
So gps status shows max 4 satellites (yellow) after 5 minutes but none of them are fixed.
Oh and... yes I am trying this outdoors. I run a lot and would really like to use sports tracker and the like..
So if you have any suggestion, please reply and let me know!
Just stick to froyo ROM's for now or flash CM7 and then flash Venkat Kamesh's update zips from his CM7 fixing thread
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Flash a different Rom maybe
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Try a stock rom if it dosent work in stock its pretty much a hardware issue. meaning- "you are screwed"