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GPS strength problem after going back to HC

I tried out some ICS builds, none of them are close to ready for daily use as I use my TF as my primary workstation as I'm out and about a lot of the time.
One thing that really matters to me is GPS strength as I use offline navigation (sygic) and before upgrading to ICS I had great signal strength.
I used the super wipe (full wipe version) zip from ARHD mike1986 and reflashed a fresh install of revolver 3.11, which was my main daily driver before ICS.
However, my GPS signal strength isn't much better than it was on ICS, and I'm not sure what happened? I then used the NVflash version to ensure a clean install, although I'm pretty sure the super wipe zip does the same thing, just from recovery.
Does the ICS ROMs somehow change low level code aspects of the tablet that remain even after a full wipe?
I feel like my TF has been ruined by these ICS builds.
Any ideas?

My TF101's GPS could not get locked signal using ICS even outside under clear sky

rickyt63 said:
My TF101's GPS could not get locked signal using ICS even outside under clear sky
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Yes, ICS is a big fail with GPS, but honeycomb used to work great.
I'm back on HC 3.2.1 and it's not much better, so I fear something has been royally screwed up by whatever installing ICS did?
It's nice to be back on revolver 3.11, stuff just works again (GPS excluded) . I'm staying away from ICS builds for at least 2-3 months until it's reliable.

Mine has actually improved with ICS. I regularly obtain a lock within 5-6 seconds. With HC it took the GPS a minimum of a minute to lock.

Stable rom/kernel?

I'm running a rooted stock kernel/rom from VM
I wanted to ask in the dev thread but I don't have enough posts for it but I suppose this is more of a newbie question anyways.
If I put in the bkernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322982 would I be able to use it with the stock rom?
The part about 66mhz support, Whyzor's latest touchscreen driver (don't know what they changed but my touchscreen is driving me crazy), and tethering is always useful. I just want something stable and my phone auto-reboots randomly so I'm ready to try something new.

Not certain but I think you can. Why not give it a try? Just do a nandroid backup before making the change so you can restore your phone if you don't like the result.
If you want improved performance but want to keep the original look and feel of your phone try the 'Triumph Stock Re-Imagined' ROM by chairshot215. I think it comes with a version of whyzors kernal. I am using it and it runs great, Quadrant score about 2700.
On the other hand, to my knowledge there are 2 things CM7 can't do, WiFi and Blue tooth will not operate at the same time and HDMI is broken. If you must have one of those well I guess you need the stock ROM.

That is pretty unfortunate. I don't use the HDMI out very often but it does prove useful when I want to show things off. And I am usually on wifi when I'm home >.<
I was somewhat hoping a stock rom would preserve the HDMI feature (did not see the wifi/bt issue) and I had hoped changing out the kernel would theoretically fix bugs and add features in the background while preserving the other stuff.
I really need to make a nandroid backup, I still use the stock recovery and one click root.

to my knowledge B_randon has 2 different B_kernels available, one for Stock roms and one for CM7 roms, im not 100% sure if the stock one will work on purely stock or if it has to be running a stock froyo type rom, but i cant see why it wouldnt
as for CM7, the having Wifi and BT enabled causes CPU to max and phone to crash is i bug that im pretty sure was resolved in the later builds
the rom by G60madman called CM7 G60 Style Final no longer has this issue to my knowledge, Altho it still does have the issue where leaving Wifi or BT on may cause it to not go into Deep Sleep Mode, but so far all my research has returned is that is a side effect of the workarounds needed to get wifi and bt to function properly
i currently am running the G60 Style Final on my device and i love it, im Not however running it with the b_randon kernel, due to the fact that in my case atleast the cm7 version of the kernel seems to not get battery life as good as the whyzor based kernel included in the rom

[Q] List of ROMs with HDMI/MHL working

Has anyone had any luck tracking down a decent ROM (much preferably one as close to vanilla android as possible) that actually still has working MHL? I've done a good bit of searching through most of the individual ROM threads and it seems like this is something that is hardly ever mentioned. I realize that it's missing in CM, much to my sadness as that has been my best experience with a custom ROM thus far. need something that works with my appradio 2!
I'm on $droyd$'s jellybean nonsense build 6 right now and it's not bad, but still too HTC-y for my tastes (plus i'm on hboot 1.14.0004 right now so no wifi for me )

cabasse84 said:
Has anyone had any luck tracking down a decent ROM (much preferably one as close to vanilla android as possible) that actually still has working MHL? I've done a good bit of searching through most of the individual ROM threads and it seems like this is something that is hardly ever mentioned. I realize that it's missing in CM, much to my sadness as that has been my best experience with a custom ROM thus far. need something that works with my appradio 2!
I'm on $droyd$'s jellybean nonsense build 6 right now and it's not bad, but still too HTC-y for my tastes (plus i'm on hboot 1.14.0004 right now so no wifi for me )
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Dark jelly s edition supports OTG im using bubba kernel along with this... Will check the MHL availability and will post back...
Cheers

This interests me too. In my test of different ROMs I found that trick droid and viper work but make the phone freeze after the mhl cord is removed. Black bean, avatar, jellybam and codename lungo don't work with mhl. None of the awesome cm based ones are supposed to work with hdmi
I keep going back to nonsense which has since been closed. I only have version 4 and version 6 seems to be unavailable for download. Now after almost 5 months as my daily driver I started having Bluetooth issues and I have to load music via USB from the recovery since that must have been removed from it.
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I got the same results
jillora said:
This interests me too. In my test of different ROMs I found that trick droid and viper work but make the phone freeze after the mhl cord is removed. Black bean, avatar, jellybam and codename lungo don't work with mhl. None of the awesome cm based ones are supposed to work with hdmi
I keep going back to nonsense which has since been closed. I only have version 4 and version 6 seems to be unavailable for download. Now after almost 5 months as my daily driver I started having Bluetooth issues and I have to load music via USB from the recovery since that must have been removed from it.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
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I have the same problems, freezing when disconecting mhl cord y trick droid and viper. And with trickdroid 10.x.x there is no output.
I also have opened thead in Q&A, to see if Torxx can help us with trickdroid 10.x.x

Fastest Way to Change Kernels on Xoom?

So two years ago (summer '11) some guys in a bar stole a gym bag from me that included a pre-rooted Xoom I had picked up off eBay for cheap: seizing the opportunity when I walked a girl from that bar up the street at her request. I tried installing Plan B at the time; watching eBay/Craiglist for a few months; asking for the security tape at the bar; asking people there if anyone knew the guys, but no dice. I figured it was just gone...I didn't even report it stolen. Fortunately for me, this past weekend, I got a call from a policemen who is a family friend. My Xoom had been sitting in evidence for a year, and he'd bought a cable thinking it'd be a nice tablet for the squad, but he recognized my brother's name (somewhere on the device) when he booted it up. I guess they took it off a transient, yet it's in pristine condition; as good as the day I lost it. LOL, I must have gotten the Jack Kerouac of modern day hobos.
Anyways, to the point. This thing is running:
Android Version: 3.2
Kernel Version: 2.6.36.4Tiamat_Xoom-v2.0.0-Katana-GPUOC-gfed7aa6 [email protected] #1
Build Number: HTJ85B
Since it was stolen the Xoom here has gotten a firmware update to Jellybean 4.1.2. I'd like to update to that Android version, then run this stock AOSP root of that version, What would be the simplest way to do that on this device? Should I unroot, then take the firmware update to 4.1.2, then re-root directly to a compatible kernel like that one, or is there a method with Tiamat of simply updating to Jellybean without unrooting the device? Note: I do not want to run a Jellybean ROM from Honeycomb. I want a rooted kernel of Jellybean.
I've already created a Nandroid in CWM and also backed up all apps + system data with Titanium Backup Pro. I also have ROM Manager Premium if that simplifies my steps. Thanks.

Meh, nevermind, I got impatient waiting for confirmation that this was kosher, so I factory wiped in CWM and flashed the zip (with fingers crossed that some major issues shared by a few old GB phones had going from 2nd Init back to AOSP ROMs wouldn't brick my device beyond nandroid recovery). For a minute it looked like I was stuck in a simpe boot loop, then the lovely JB boot animation greeted me.
Easy peezy. Overthinking it.

So how are you find the stock JB? I should give the CM10 a try, 10.1 is a bit buggy (black screen of death) but very smooth across the board.

Ultraman1966 said:
So how are you find the stock JB? I should give the CM10 a try, 10.1 is a bit buggy (black screen of death) but very smooth across the board.
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I didn't give stock Jellybean much time. I didn't want to waste my time organizing my tablet and restoring apps from TiBu yada yada because I knew I wanted to get onto 4.2 due to Google Now.
Sweet Mother Mary, is 4.2 worth it. Google Now just destroys Siri on the latest Android. It's ridiculous how good the voice recognition and the relevancy of the results are. I love being able to press the home menu to pop up the semicircle, then drag to the Google button to automatically bring it up from any possible page/app that I'm currently viewing.
Right now I'm trying our the difference between the official CM10.1 Wingray Nightly and the Team EOS Wingray ROM for 4.2

[Q] Mix up JB with HC modem.bin

Hi everyone,
maybe this is a stupid question, but I want my silly problem go away.
Current situation:
I bought my Tab last year in Austria with Honey Comb 3.2 stock rom installed. Every thing was fine, except sluggish reactivity of the tab. Especially GPS worked very well even in flats:good:. After installing stock ICS GPS didn't work as expected. With the austria version of ICS GPS was able to find a few satelites, but not as much as with HC. Fixes were only possible under clear sky. Using the tab for car navigation was not possible any more:crying:. The change to roms from other locations made things even more worse. Even with all the tweaks available from the internet GPS did not work as it should. It needs minutes or hours for a fix and loses the fix instantly or after some seconds. New hope came up with the release of jelly bean. I've installed the xse version from indonesia via odin, made a factory reset and rebooted the tab. And guess what: nothing changed compared to ICS. GPS did not really work.
My idea:
As far as I know, the GPS functionality is implemented in the modem.bin. What will happen, if I combine the modem.bin out of HC with the rest of JB? Is it possible to combine parts of HC with parts of JB? Is there a chance to bring the the good working GPS from HC to JB:
Arathorn

you can flash the modem.bin
there wont be a problem and you might got what you have when you using hc.