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Hi everyone
I been trying countless amounts of different ways to get my gps to work and it wont lock with different roms at all. Can anyone gimme some help i need my gps
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Make a nandroid of your current rom then flash the stocker. If it still won't lock, your phone is defective. It's a known issue w/ our devices, some are just luckier than others.
I'm on my second, a refurb, and it works a;most as well as my wife's Aria. I had to unroot and S-On to get it exchanged under the one yr warranty w/ ATT.
Good luck,
Tx
Old phone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFf_df-1oXU <--not working
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqDKFjNit58 <--what I had to do to get it to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWCyDEoHdw <--current phone
Hey tx i ran a gps test it sees some satellites but wont lock due to poor reception. This is a big step for me as i couldnt see any period
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Have you tried rooting and updating your device with the latest rom? I am running ninja by team pheonix and have no problems...
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Im on tb fusion and im outside and im getting a lock of 59ft accuracy . My gfs mytouch is 4 feet im jealous lol
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So tx i watched your vids how did u get it to work
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meddle70 said:
So tx i watched your vids how did u get it to work
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Some details of what you have tried so far would be helpful. Because you haven't provide any yet I'll be vague and indescrript with my suggestions. First make sure your radio and RIL match. This is ridiculously important!
Second, try flashing the GPS scripts file that has a thread in the dev section.
Lastly, are you trying to get a fix indoors? If so, just go outside
Good luck!
PS I have found some roms have much better GPS than others. No matter what I tried I couldn't get proper GPS on android revolution 5 but get awesome GPS on gingerbeast
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Hey sorry about being so vague man i have the latest ota radio right now from att. I tried cleardroids rom with different radios and how.do i check to see if my radio.and rils match ? And where do i find the scripts i never even seen them before.
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meddle70 said:
Hey sorry about being so vague man i have the latest ota radio right now from att. I tried cleardroids rom with different radios and how.do i check to see if my radio.and rils match ? And where do i find the scripts i never even seen them before.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106324
Read Post #1 throughly.
Ok, I finally got the RIL in order as I had the wrong one flashed on there, so thats all fixed and ready to go.
I also applied AngelDeath's GPS fix to no avail so far.
It's weird though, every time I reflash Fusions rom the gps works for about an hour than just calls it quits. This is the only rom that can actually get a signal at all comparing to the other ones I tried which cannot.
meddle70 said:
Ok, I finally got the RIL in order as I had the wrong one flashed on there, so thats all fixed and ready to go.
I also applied AngelDeath's GPS fix to no avail so far.
It's weird though, every time I reflash Fusions rom the gps works for about an hour than just calls it quits. This is the only rom that can actually get a signal at all comparing to the other ones I tried which cannot.
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the angel death gps fix is the gps scripts i was talking about. do you use gps status to download the newest AGPS data?
You may also want to try different Radios (with matching RILs) because some may work better than others in different areas.
good luck
angeldeath script fixed my problems..
my gps was not locking at all..
now its locking with in 40 seconds..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11342772&postcount=1
meddle70 said:
Ok, I finally got the RIL in order as I had the wrong one flashed on there, so thats all fixed and ready to go.
I also applied AngelDeath's GPS fix to no avail so far.
It's weird though, every time I reflash Fusions rom the gps works for about an hour than just calls it quits. This is the only rom that can actually get a signal at all comparing to the other ones I tried which cannot.
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A "double flash" of the radio and the RIL with a couple of reboots in between has been known to clear up weird behavior.
Ymmv, but it's something that has worked for people and is a good thing to do "just for good measure."
ahm12 said:
angeldeath script fixed my problems..
my gps was not locking at all..
now its locking with in 40 seconds..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11342772&postcount=1
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I was wondering what rooting had done to my GPS also, but then I removed my boxwave plastic case and my GPS signal locked on in 10 sec. Does anyone know where the GPS receiver is so that I can maybe cut piece out of my case? Does anyone have a case that does not effect GPS? Thanks
The gps module is behind the cover that hold the flash.
Rioplatense said:
I was wondering what rooting had done to my GPS also, but then I removed my boxwave plastic case and my GPS signal locked on in 10 sec. Does anyone know where the GPS receiver is so that I can maybe cut piece out of my case? Does anyone have a case that does not effect GPS? Thanks
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I use a Speck case, like what the AT&T store tries to sell you, and the GPS on my unit functions pretty well.
Rioplatense said:
I was wondering what rooting had done to my GPS also, but then I removed my boxwave plastic case and my GPS signal locked on in 10 sec. Does anyone know where the GPS receiver is so that I can maybe cut piece out of my case? Does anyone have a case that does not effect GPS? Thanks
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Use AngelDeath gps solution... I hade same problem
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Can't lock while moving.
My Inspire wont lock onto gps while in motion if going more than 2 - 3 mph if i open anything that locks like maps of navigation.
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My Inspire wont lock onto gps while in motion if going more than 2 - 3 mph if i open anything that locks like maps of navigation.
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lol please give us more information than that. for all we know, you're using a samsung captivate.
what is your:
rom
radio
RIL
are you using a case?
have you tried the angel death gps scripts (read the last page)
have you tried the fasterfix program?
help us help you
Downloaded a few ROMs and have been searching around here for a little while now, decided to join. Right now I'm using LeeDroid 3.3.1 (BFS) with Sense 3.0. GPS has been spotty on pretty much every other ROM so I just downloaded angeldeath's northeast USA zip file and I'm going to see how it works later. I still can't figure out why some places within a 15 mile radius I'll have 10 satellite fixes and other places my phone seems to be completely ineffective at locating even 1. I'm curious how the battery is going to last with this ROM.
Thanks for all of the posts and ROM's on here to get this phone operating 50x better than stock
Well, I have no gps signal still. I'm getting irritated. It found a max of 3 satellites but lost them just as soon as finding them. Signal switching between 3g and H constantly which is interesting. I love the format of this ROM but this GPS problem is not making me happy.
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Have you tried "Faster Fix" from the market? Also, this worked for me in Android Revolution, but I don't know if it'll work for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12764930&postcount=1
If you do decide to try it, I'd go with method 1...
Interestingly enough I downloaded that app from the market and set it at north America then noticed GPS Status and GPS Test both were recording between 3-5 sat fixes while Navigation (google) status was stuck at "searching for GPS". Seems like the problem is with Google not the phone, but I have no idea how to get it to recognize a signal.
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Could the "locations" or "car panel" apps cause a problem with Google nav? If so how the heck can you delete them?
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Try clearing the cache for maps. Then get a fix with gps status before opening maps.
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Caught a signal, had it lock on up to 8 sats on my drive home, opened Google maps and popped up navi through it and had everything working perfectly ... For 10 seconds. Then it lost everything. I'm less than 30 miles away from Detroit so its not like I'm in a rural area with no signal. I don't get it.
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Well, I just switched radio/ril from:
Radio: 26.09.04.11_M2
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM
To:
Radio: 26.06.06.30
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0079HM
Already one thing I notice is that my signal is back to "H" instead of the 3G it was getting with the previous radio.
FX4 said:
Downloaded a few ROMs and have been searching around here for a little while now, decided to join. Right now I'm using LeeDroid 3.3.1 (BFS) with Sense 3.0. GPS has been spotty on pretty much every other ROM so I just downloaded angeldeath's northeast USA zip file and I'm going to see how it works later. I still can't figure out why some places within a 15 mile radius I'll have 10 satellite fixes and other places my phone seems to be completely ineffective at locating even 1. I'm curious how the battery is going to last with this ROM.
Thanks for all of the posts and ROM's on here to get this phone operating 50x better than stock
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Well I rolled with the Inspire stock for about a month after purchase, and GPS was the suck up to the last day. Not so since flashed my first custom ROM. GPS is back to what I expect from an HTC handset. That's just my experience. For me, really, stock vs. GPS = the suck.
FX4 said:
Well, I just switched radio/ril from:
Radio: 26.09.04.11_M2
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM
To:
Radio: 26.06.06.30
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0079HM
Already one thing I notice is that my signal is back to "H" instead of the 3G it was getting with the previous radio.
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You're now using the updated stock radio/RIL matched combo. It seems to work well for many ROMs, particularly Sense based ones.
henrybravo said:
You're now using the updated stock radio/RIL matched combo. It seems to work well for many ROMs, particularly Sense based ones.
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2.1mbps download/1.5mbps upload and consistant service inside my house so far -- haven't been able to check the gps though. I accidentally downloaded and flashed the "GPS Libraries and AGPS support for HD2 Gingerbread" file last night at 2am when I was about to fall asleep, thought it was angeldeath's file and just didn't pay attention. I was hoping it wouldn't hurt anything and reinstalled the backed up ROM from 2 days previous just to be safe, still hoping it didn't hurt the phone at all :/
Driving right now. If I leave the phone on the dash it picks up 6-8 sats, navi starts workin, everything good....pick the phone up for a second and it all goes to hell. What the hell is goin on?
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I'm just a little bit outside Detroit too!
Using CM7 nightly 134 with inspiremod0.5 and I just get lock in about 30 seconds to 9 sattelites.
Jake33108 said:
I'm just a little bit outside Detroit too!
Using CM7 nightly 134 with inspiremod0.5 and I just get lock in about 30 seconds to 9 sattelites.
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My last lock was in 55 seconds, found 8 sats, then lost them as soon as I picked the damn phone up. I'm about to lose my mind with this crap, no idea what else to do considering it finds the GPS Satellites, fixes on them, then loses them for no reason. Changed ROMs, radios, RILs, wiped cache from MAPS, used GPS Status, GPS Test...
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My last lock was in 55 seconds, found 8 sats, then lost them as soon as I picked the damn phone up. I'm about to lose my mind with this crap, no idea what else to do considering it finds the GPS Satellites, fixes on them, then loses them for no reason. Changed ROMs, radios, RILs, wiped cache from MAPS, used GPS Status, GPS Test...
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I really reccomend trying this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953630
My GPS travails with the Inspire are: Stock; sucks bad! Rooted and a few custom ROM's; pretty good no real issues. The aforementioned + the solution contained in the above post? Wow. I get locks...indoors now. Let me say that again. I get locks, indoors. If not locks it often picks up some satellites, indoors. I haven't tried it as a nav with the car though yet.
I guess I'm really lucky. The longest mine has ever gone before a lock indoors is two minutes.
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Yeah, I think there's something seriously wrong with the phone, which I will spend the next few hours attempting to figure out. I finally got the nav to work relatively well and now it just shuts down whenever it feels like it (the entire phone). I tried unrooting and turning S-on. it unrooted but it's still set on S-off so I'm rooting again to see if I can't get it to set it back on. This is just pissing me off lol.
Followed ace-hack and had the software version 1.32 or something on the phone after I was done, back to s-off. Backing up that ROM right now. I pulled up the GPS with that old radio, RIL, and software package in my house and it fired up and got a lock within less than 30 seconds...no other apps necessary. I took the phone off the charger, didn't shut down on me so wish me luck! I'm going to flash ClearDroid and start from there I guess...with the newest software update for that phone and the newest radio from ATT...
I am having trouble with the GPS receiver on my phone. I don't think it's an app-specific issue, as I've tried several different apps, including one called GPS Status, and none of them can give me an accurate GPS location anymore.
Brief history: I've used the GPS function before with no problem. Using Google's Map app, it previously worked perfect. I could get a satellite lock almost instantly, and the accuracy was superb. Using the navigation app, I was getting equally superb performance. I have used that app several times over the last 4 months since I've owned the phone.
More history: I rooted it and put a custom ROM on it about a month after getting the phone. I put LeeDroid on it (v2.2.3, IIRC), along with the recommended kernel, and the recommended radio (12.39.60.19x_26.06.04.06_M). The GPS functions worked both before and after the initial flashing of the ROM. I've been on LeeDroid v2.2.3 for about 3 months or so. I took a road trip to Atlanta with my wife, and all of a sudden, the google map app couldn't give me an accurate location. Navigation also wasn't working, so initially I thought there must be something wrong with the updated version of the app. So I uninstalled updates, relaunched the app, still no luck. Thinking perhaps the app was broken, I removed it completely, reinstalled, and still nothing. So, I tried different apps: Mapquest, GPS Status, GPS Tracker, all to no avail. I then rebooted the phone. Again, no dice. Then I disabled the location services, restarted them, and that didn't work either. So I tried a hard reset (pulled battery while phone was powered on). No luck with that, either. Then, I figured perhaps something went wrong with the ROM/Kernel/Radio, etc. (I'm sort of a n00b when it comes to android hacking). So, I figured it wouldn't hurt to update to the latest LeeDroid version, updating the kernel and the radio (probably the most pertinent here is the radio, right?) while I was at it. And then, after all that, GPS STILL won't work right. I even went so far as to delete and restore the location services app itself, to no avail.
My current software is LeeDroid v3.3.1 ROM, LeeDroid v3.2.0 kernel, Radio = 12.39a.60.19x_26.06.06.30_M (the latest radio update from AT&T that I could find). I've also tried the recommended radio from LeeDroid thread, and that didn't help, either.
Could the GPS receiver itself have gone bad? It's strange, the only location data I get inside Google Maps is from the cell towers, which is not accurate at all. I know this, because if I disable "Use wireless networks" under Settings -> Location, I don't get any location at all. And, if wireless networks is on, it's terribly inaccurate, showing me several blocks away from where I really am (standing outside w/ clear line of sight to the sky). Under GPS Status, the status bar just scrolls and scrolls, never giving me a reading or satellite lock.
FYI, most of these tests were done standing outside with clear skies (maybe a few clouds or whatever, but no buildings or trees nearby). A few were done in my car on the road, but that has never hindered my GPS signal/performance before, both on this device, and my previous phone (iPhone 3GS).
I'd take it to an AT&T store, but I'm afraid if the store clerk looks in my phone data, he'll see my software #, realize I've hacked the device, notate my account, and I won't be able to get any warranty support at all. The only thing I can think of is to restore to factory ROM, and then test it and take it in to the store if need be, but I figured I'd give the great folks at XDA forums a shot first, in case you guys have any ideas I haven't thought of yet.
Thanks.
You could try doing a full wipe and re-install as a last resort. But I have read MANY posts in this forum from people who had to return an Inspire because of faulty GPS, so that could very well be your problem.
Thanks for the insight, Jake. I forgot to mention that when I flashed the newer version of LeeDroid I did a full wipe. I didn't wipe Dalvik cache. I'm not sure if that would make any difference. It certainly helps to gain the knowledge that I'm not the only one with this issue...
Try to flash the gps fix that angeldeath created
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dooyoo222 said:
Try to flash the gps fix that angeldeath created
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+1. Link to AngelDeath fix is in my signature.
Thanks guys. I will give that a try today.
Tried the angeldeath GPS fix. No luck. Still no satellite lock. I sat outside (it's pretty clear today) for 10 minutes trying.
dvsone79 said:
Tried the angeldeath GPS fix. No luck. Still no satellite lock. I sat outside (it's pretty clear today) for 10 minutes trying.
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If you have a case on the phone, take it off. Some cases cause interference with the gps.
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dooyoo222 said:
If you have a case on the phone, take it off. Some cases cause interference with the gps.
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I thought of that, and tried it once. It didn't make a difference. Not to mention, I've had the same case since the day I got the phone (I'm particular about cases and screen protectors on touch-screen phones), and it wasn't interfering during the 2 or 3 months where the GPS functionality was working great.
I restored to the stock ROM found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058042
No dice. It seemed to work for a moment immediately after booting post-flash, but now it is not getting any sat locks. I am going to take it in to the store and see what they say...
Hey guys just wanted to stop by and ask if you ever thought it was not rom or hardware related? The US government will from time to time take sats out of commission for repairs and tests. Not to mention they can kill any sats they feel like without telling anyone. Just a thought
Yeah, but your gps usually connects to 5-10 sattelites at once, I'm sure they wouldn't all be out at once.
http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us...uncher&action=devloc&q=htc+inspire+gps+issues
I suggest you Unroot and run the ruu after calling att to get your replacement on its way. Myself and others have had to do it due to faulty hardware.
I thought I was having issues with my GPS but here's what I did:
Use GPS Status and reset and download the agps information.
Let phone sit near window or outside with screen timeout set to never.
After 5min or so I had a lock on 8 satellites. So now that the device has had it's initial lock it should be able to lock quickly from there on.
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zelendel said:
Hey guys just wanted to stop by and ask if you ever thought it was not rom or hardware related? The US government will from time to time take sats out of commission for repairs and tests. Not to mention they can kill any sats they feel like without telling anyone. Just a thought
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Hey, not a bad thought. However, this problem had been ongoing for 2 or 3 weeks, and several of my tests involved another device (iPhone 3GS, a different HTC Inspire, and a few others) side by side, with one working and getting a sat lock, while the HTC continued to fail, so it's safe to say I ruled out the possibility of no satellites available.
akira02rex said:
I thought I was having issues with my GPS but here's what I did:
Use GPS Status and reset and download the agps information.
Let phone sit near window or outside with screen timeout set to never.
After 5min or so I had a lock on 8 satellites. So now that the device has had it's initial lock it should be able to lock quickly from there on.
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I also tried to re-install the agps information. No luck for me.
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http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us...uncher&action=devloc&q=htc+inspire+gps+issues
I suggest you Unroot and run the ruu after calling att to get your replacement on its way. Myself and others have had to do it due to faulty hardware.
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I finally got my issue resolved. After my 2nd trip to my local AT&T store, speaking with the same rep, I was able to get a warranty exchange in-store. I refused to do that XBM (Exchange by mail) thing. That gets you a refurb, and I would have sent mine directly to HTC to let them repair it before I exchanged my phone for a refurb model. I unrooted and returned completely to stock before I went in. So, I've got a new Inspire, and sure enough, GPS is working. It had to be a hardware failure.
Thanks everyone for the ideas and feedback!
Wow, I just ran across this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101066
Looks like the hardware issue I was having could have been fixed myself, using the instructions found there. I will keep this in mind if I have any issues with my new phone...
dvsone79 said:
Wow, I just ran across this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101066
Looks like the hardware issue I was having could have been fixed myself, using the instructions found there. I will keep this in mind if I have any issues with my new phone...
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Had to thank you for sharing that link. I was having GPS problems on multiple roms and tried every fix I could find on this forum. I did the hardware trick 2 days ago and (due to tinkering) had to flash my rom 3 times of the last couple of days. Each time though I tested the GPS and it's working perfectly.
This is the first time I'm completely stumped.
I cannot get a lock on my GPS. No matter what ROM I put on my phone, it will not connect to the satellites. It will fix to about 3 or 4, not connect, then lose the connection to all and start over to find more fixes.
I was running CM7 when I first realized tthis problem. I have had GPS working before on that ROM. I still got the symbol in the status bar so I didn't think I needed to do he sense fix. But I did anyways. And I can't even get a lock on sense! Same issue!
I looked at the GPS file in system/etc but even at us.pool instead of north-america.pool I'm still getting the same results.
I have also tried downloading new AGPS data from GPS status and still no luck.
This also happened on the stock radio as well as the newest leaked radio.
I need my GPS. Any help is appreciated!
I am having a problem with the two newest leaked radios connecting to GPS. It will just say "searching for GPS" and never connect when trying to use navigation.
Try GPS Essentials and put a waypoint on your location. That should help. I am running the latest radio and have no problems getting a lock.
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Try running https://market.android.com/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en
Thanks,
After downloading that it seems that the conflict is not with the GPS but with Google Maps Navigation App because I was picking up a location.
Navigation just still says "searching for GPS" and wont give me directions.
I downloaded Map Quest and that works so it has to be some sort of Google Maps thing.
I used MapQuest and it locked on my address in secs. I does try auto wfi and worked with out it. Gps must be Google issue however gps status and others haven't work. Kinda confused !
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brownsfan said:
Thanks,
After downloading that it seems that the conflict is not with the GPS but with Google Maps Navigation App because I was picking up a location.
Navigation just still says "searching for GPS" and wont give me directions.
I downloaded Map Quest and that works so it has to be some sort of Google Maps thing.
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Make sure you can lock w/Navigation and not just w/Map Quest or Google Maps. The latter two use a different network than your actual GPS. When I used CM7 I found I could lock w/Maps and still not having a working/locking GPS in my navigation app.
Another test is try a weather app w/a "My Location" feature (e.g. Weather Bug) and see if it actually gives you your location or some other remote locatio.
Weather bug works fine.
So you are saying that Google Maps, Mapquest, and Weather bug use something different then the Navigation app does?
Ok so if that is the case then the newest two radio leaks that came out have conflict issues with the navigation.
I found this for a fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035665&page=2
Ok so I read through that thread, did the fix and still nada. I installed the leaked RUU and it still didnt work. The fix didnt work for everybody so maybe its just an outage in my area.
The VZW 3G and 4G updates they are working on all around the country are causing a lot of the GPS problems from what a vzw rep told me. They were working on a site 200 miles from where I live and all I could get yesterday afternoon was a 1X signal for several hours.
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NY is having a problem as well.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3b0a8b1c97a9ea23&hl=en&start=40
http://androidforums.com/incredible...g/399357-gps-stopped-working.html#post3103668
Thanks for the info...
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It definitely could be unrelated to anything on your phone. I experienced the East Texas outage several months ago, and nothing that we did ever fixed it until one day supposedly they sent engineers down and did something, and everybody's phones started working again and we never had another issue.
Wish I had a better explanation for it, but unfortunately it does seem possible for Verizon to do something with their antennas that can affect GPS. Sounds like the OP's phone is behaving just like mine was at that time. Hopefully you are in a more populated area where they will fix it more quickly than they did for us.
Try using GPS Status to clear the cache, download aGPS, etc. (there are many threads where this is described) and if that doesn't fix it, complain to Verizon and wait for them to fix it. Don't drive yourself crazy like I was for several weeks!
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NY is having a problem as well.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3b0a8b1c97a9ea23&hl=en&start=40
http://androidforums.com/incredible...g/399357-gps-stopped-working.html#post3103668
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Thanks gfro. Im in Buffalo so this applies to me. Unfortunately both of my phones are having this issue.
brownsfan said:
Thanks gfro. Im in Buffalo so this applies to me. Unfortunately both of my phones are having this issue.
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Yeah , I have a friend in NY and he said vzw has got the wi-fi all screwed up now, working on 3 & 4G towers.
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brownsfan said:
Thanks gfro. Im in Buffalo so this applies to me. Unfortunately both of my phones are having this issue.
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No prob. I'm in Buffalo too! [:
It's definitely all on Verizon's end cause I have checked 3 androids including mine with the same issue.
Nothing to do with radios or being rooted or not.
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Yeah , I have a friend in NY and he said vzw has got the wi-fi all screwed up now, working on 3 & 4G towers.
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That's what people are thinking. As for NY, something went wrong with the Albany, Syracuse, and Ithaca 4g installations.
Just got a fix!!! [:
Mine locks in 3 seconds now. Wow I went back to stock and the rerooted with revolution . OK so if something goes wrong im screwed Cuz i can't unroot now.
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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.