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Really slow GPS lock

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.

I have perfect gps

This was the last thing I was expecting from this phone. Did they finally fix it or am I an anomaly?
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i dont know about fixing it because this is my first android phone but it works well for me too

today, I tried it out for the first time.. and omfg. it was fine for about 3 seconds, then it started jumping around on the map like I was teleporting or something.

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today, I tried it out for the first time.. and omfg. it was fine for about 3 seconds, then it started jumping around on the map like I was teleporting or something.
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That's what samsung gps usually does and what my gf's captivate always did. That was the reason I got her the inspire.
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Phateless said:
That's what samsung gps usually does and what my gf's captivate always did. That was the reason I got her the inspire.
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gps has been working perfectly for me since out of the box

I can't complain. Mine has always been perfect.

Same here. Never had a gps issue. Even at street level. Must have been fixed with the first ota maybe?
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I get 15 sec cold locks with 9ft. accuracy all the way down to 4ft. after a min or so. my vibrant takes 45sec to lock with 20-40ft accuracy. (and thats with gps mods). id say they fixed it.

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I get 15 sec cold locks with 9ft. accuracy all the way down to 4ft. after a min or so. my vibrant takes 45sec to lock with 20-40ft accuracy. (and thats with gps mods). id say they fixed it.
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I agree. GPS was always my biggest reservation with Samsung phones. That and lack of a stable cm7.
When cm7 finally comes out for this phone I might sell my mt4g.
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R3velation issue

First, sorry for the new thread & odd spot. I looked for 30 minutes to see if I was duplicating a question, but the search function on this app seems to do absolutely nothing. I also can't post in dev, yet; so I hope The Collective checks this forum.
R3velation works great, and looks even better; I'm very happy I gave it a look.
That said, I have 2 issues:
1. The battery drains FAST. Sitting idle with WiFi & Bluetooth turned off, I lose 50% of the charge in 6 hours. I'm still researching how to operate things like the voltage app that came with the ROM, but if anyone has tips I'd love to hear them.
2. The main reason for this post; sometimes when the screen is off, it just won't come back on. The only thing I can find that works is to remove the battery. Any ideas what this might be!?
Thanks to The Collective for this awesome ROM!
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Question 2 is a sod which they are working figuring out what is causing it. add for battery drain there is an app on the forums called better battery stats you may have to search for it on a computer to find it because i agree the search on this xda app sucks. But that app will help find the cause of the battery drain
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Awesome, thanks! I'll look it up when I get home.
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I'm having a major issue with R3V v2 and I need help fixing this ASAP because it is the best ROM I have flashed to date!!!! Everything works like clockwork except data. I can send text messages but any other app that requires a data connection does not work (no network connection). Does this sound like a modem flash error? X- I downloaded the ROM from your sig.

Have you tried re-flashing? I had a similar issue with a different ROM on my tablet. Re-flashing the ROM fixed it.
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AllWrong74 said:
Have you tried re-flashing? I had a similar issue with a different ROM on my tablet. Re-flashing the ROM fixed it.
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Yes, I had tried re-flashing the original ROM I had downloaded for Experiments signature. That file might have been faulty? idk. Last night after posting about my issue and not wanting to wait another moment to enjoy this awesome ROM I did some research on XDA and found a post where Nun had a link to download R3V v2 but the file had the letter "F" at the end so I figured it to be a different file. Long story short, a little late for that huh? IT WORKED!! Thanks to the Collective, especially Experiment for this splendid ROM.

I know, right? This ROM is the nicest I've seen for Android, yet. Run R3velation OTA, and look at some of the further mods you can get for it. Under "Themes", there's one called "Mongo Toggles (blue)" by X and Mongo41. It looks VERY sweet. The light amounts of blue mixed with the beautiful toggles for the quick panel are awesome. I need to get in touch with them and ask them to make one that has purple in place of the blue. I'd never need another theme if I had that, heh.
Glad you were able to get up and running.

Did you battery life ever smooth out? There is a typically a period of three days or so where you need to wait for a rom to, "settle" before the battery will calm down. Then it should start acting much better.
The SOD issue is one that has been driven to the point of extinction. I ran R3V for a long time, and had no issues. I am now running another rom, and I am having issues. It's all what your phone likes and doesn't like I think. Good luck figuring it out man.
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It's still draining fairly quickly. I didn't get that battery stats app, because it's a pay app, and I don't have the money until payday.

AllWrong74 said:
It's still draining fairly quickly. I didn't get that battery stats app, because it's a pay app, and I don't have the money until payday.
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Hint: you can find a free one on XDA. and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1510745
[Tips & Tricks] Battery Power Saving on Samsung Infuse
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I had the same battery trouble as you. I flashed the KL2 modem over the LB3, and now my batty life is hundreds of times better.

bigryedog said:
I had the same battery trouble as you. I flashed the KL2 modem over the LB3, and now my batty life is hundreds of times better.
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Thanks for the heads up. I just put the KL2 on the phone, we'll see how that does me.

Maybe it's my imagination, but this modem seems awesome. Battery life seems to have tripled, and I'm not dropping calls at the dead spots in town. What all does the modem cover, just phone & AT&T data? It doesn't handle Bluetooth or WiFi, does it?
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As far as I understand, a modem is only responsible for pulling the voice and data connections from your provider. The best explanation I've found on it is from this thread here:http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22913686&postcount=1

That's what I thought (I had originally misunderstood, and thought there was a modem for voice, for data, for WiFi, for Bluetooth...found out a couple weeks ago that was wrong).
Anyway, that KL2 modem is great. I've only lost 13% of my battery in the last 9 hours with WiFi, Data, GPS, and auto-rotation all turned on. This is as opposed to 50% in 8 hours with WiFi only turned on. (Idling both times, as I was asleep.) It also seems to not be affected by the same dead spots the other modem had, as I didn't drop calls while driving past them like I used to.

I keep getting a FC when trying to open play store help please
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Answered my own question thank you
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L2 modem
has anybody flashed this modem over a stock setup (rooted of course)

Faster GPS Lock

My Charge gets GPS lock in 2 to 10 seconds because I did this. I'd recommend it to everybody.
GPS Mod

stueycaster said:
My Charge gets GPS lock in 2 to 10 seconds because I did this. I'd recommend it to everybody.
GPS Mod
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Cool, I just flashed the zip as is and it works really really well!

I just followed the directions. Flash with CWM and mount System first. The first lock takes a while. After that it's way fast.

This works great on my charge
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I saw this earlier, does seem to work quite well.

awesome
just wanted to say thanks for bringing this up. i was amazed how well it worked knowing how horrible my gps was before. this works almost instantly for me.

I have a huge problem with Gps. It takes like 3 mins even with stock config or one in tweaked... There's a lot of instructions here for non captivate users and I'm worried about messing it up... How exactly did you go about it? ... Thanks stuey..

thechaoz said:
I have a huge problem with Gps. It takes like 3 mins even with stock config or one in tweaked... There's a lot of instructions here for non captivate users and I'm worried about messing it up... How exactly did you go about it? ... Thanks stuey..
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Just click on "GPS Mod" in post #1 and follow the directions.
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Sweet! I'll give it a shot
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GPS/maps

Is there fix for GPS/google maps to show you facing the right direction? When in compass/normal mode I turn to the left and it shows me going right, I'm facing one way its facing the other and vice versa..it's really irritating.. and it places me a block from where I actually am so I can't really get directions with Google maps..
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+1 i have this problem
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Just tried the compass appfrom play store, its almost 90 degrees off....odd....maybe this could be why? (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/14/perfect-solar-storm-sun-activity-to-peak-in-2013/) I seen something like this on the news a couple weeks back....
Edit after a little more research , where in a geomagnetic storm as of now (http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html)
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Yeah but when on stock rom the compass works fine with no issues only on AOKP and CM roms is there an issue

woodzx67 said:
Yeah but when on stock rom the compass works fine with no issues only on AOKP and CM roms is there an issue
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I haven't been on a stock ROM since a week after i got this phone lol so I wouldn't know the behavior comparison. If someone could shed some light on this issue because just like you guys I'm having the same problem.
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Yea I'm having the same issue. On google maps our phones are as much as 90 degrees off at some points and as little as 10 or so minimum off. Using "compass" from the google market they show about 20 degrees off when stacked on top of each other. One is running stock ICS and the other is running CM10 12/8 nightly with Blue Lightning kernel.

dispozable said:
Yea I'm having the same issue. On google maps our phones are as much as 90 degrees off at some points and as little as 10 or so minimum off. Using "compass" from the google market they show about 20 degrees off when stacked on top of each other. One is running stock ICS and the other is running CM10 12/8 nightly with Blue Lightning kernel.
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Please , you can put ThE link of app ?
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yuyoelmero said:
Please , you can put ThE link of app ?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hcGtzb2Z0d2FyZS5jb21wYXNzIl0.
Nothing special just the first one I seen in the market. Seems to be pretty close to google maps when standing still for me on stock and CM10 so I used it as a reference.

Seriously... -_-
My phone is sitting on my desk..facing 90 degrees clockwise..and the locator keeps moving in the street or across the street..facing to 90 degrees to the left..makes no sense..
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I use Waze for GPS its actually really on point, but i wanted to give a more accurate reading with the "compass" app on 4g and GPS and where the sun sets it says estimate around 340° to 350° North?
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DiViNEX said:
I use Waze for GPS its actually really on point, but i wanted to give a more accurate reading with the "compass" app on 4g and GPS and where the sun sets it says estimate around 340° to 350° North?
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Has anyone tried the a-gps fix in the dev section? I remember it decreased my lock on time down to like 2-4 seconds but I dont know if it actually will fix direction or anything. I'll try and flash again when my other phone gets home.

dispozable said:
Has anyone tried the a-gps fix in the dev section? I remember it decreased my lock on time down to like 2-4 seconds but I dont know if it actually will fix direction or anything. I'll try and flash again when my other phone gets home.
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I have seen it in the dev section just never tried it, I would now but I don't have enough time, when you get around to it message us the results I'm interested to see if it'll make it a little more accurate or not.
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DiViNEX said:
I have seen it in the dev section just never tried it, I would now but I don't have enough time, when you get around to it message us the results I'm interested to see if it'll make it a little more accurate or not.
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Sure thing, I remember the lock on time was insane with it. I hate using the stock ROM but I need wifi calling at work I never thought I would be using stock while my gf is rolling CM thats for sure.

Off by 90 degrees
Running Blaz3r 4. compass off in all apps including GMaps. I suspect its a kernel issue, any insights?

Can someone link to the thread? Did a search but it didnt show up. With liquidsmooth I always have to restart my phone to get it to lock on to GPS.

rasafrasit said:
Running Blaz3r 4.
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Don't you mean XXXXXX 4? :laugh::silly:

anactoraaron said:
Don't you mean XXXXXX 4? :laugh::silly:
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