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So I just thought that I would share this with everyone. I flashed the Desire HD leaked GB radio from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996630
Now my phone locks on to the tower it gets the strongest signal from and stays there... I'm monitoring my signal with Open Signal and its currently -75 whereas it would jump all over from -83 to -105 and beyond with the stock radio because it was constantly switching towers. The weakest the signal has gotten is -85 and the monitor has been running for 6 minutes now.
Call quality is fantastic and data speeds are FINALLY above junk since I'm connecting to the tower that is about 3 miles away instead of the one that is at the end of my block (when I connect to that tower, that's when I lose my signal entirely, I'm just too damn close to it). It keeps connecting to the tower that is about 3 miles away, even when I reboot the phone, put it in airplane mode, etc. I'm definitely keeping this device now but I wanted to share my success - I read through the thread over there and it seems to be a winner all the way around. And yes, GPS still has near instant locks.
EtherealRemnant said:
So I just thought that I would share this with everyone. I flashed the Desire HD leaked GB radio from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996630
Now my phone locks on to the tower it gets the strongest signal from and stays there... I'm monitoring my signal with Open Signal and its currently -75 whereas it would jump all over from -83 to -105 and beyond with the stock radio because it was constantly switching towers. The weakest the signal has gotten is -85 and the monitor has been running for 6 minutes now.
Call quality is fantastic and data speeds are FINALLY above junk since I'm connecting to the tower that is about 3 miles away instead of the one that is at the end of my block (when I connect to that tower, that's when I lose my signal entirely, I'm just too damn close to it). It keeps connecting to the tower that is about 3 miles away, even when I reboot the phone, put it in airplane mode, etc. I'm definitely keeping this device now but I wanted to share my success - I read through the thread over there and it seems to be a winner all the way around. And yes, GPS still has near instant locks.
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You do know that radio performance will vary greatly by region so what might kickass for you, might not kickass for me? Either way, thanks for the heads up on the new radio.
I've been using this radio paired with the latest CM7 nightly for a while up in Seattle and it seems to be pretty good. Much better than the LeeDroid one that was floating around for a while.
xero91 said:
You do know that radio performance will vary greatly by region so what might kickass for you, might not kickass for me? Either way, thanks for the heads up on the new radio.
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I do understand this, however radio performance should really be universal on a device, its just the actual device performance will vary based on the region.
Either way, I'm happy its not connecting to the tower that I live right under all the time anymore and my signal has increased by a good -10 to -15 across the board.
does it affect the wcdma bands?? or keeps the 850/1900??
Is there a pd98img file of this for easy flashing?
Personality for me the new m3 radio has been great improvement on GPS lock time. But my cell signal and wifi aren't as good as 12.41 or 12.35. I do live in a city that is relatively remote in regards to cell signal. But even with all that I prefer the new m3 just becuade the GPS is lightyears better than the previous ones.
harlenm said:
Is there a pd98img file of this for easy flashing?
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Nah, have to make your own. I used the radio zip from the hack kit.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
It keeps the US bands intact (I still have HSPA) and no, I haven't seen an image zip for it. Its not that difficult of a process though.
lrs421 said:
Nah, have to make your own. I used the radio zip from the back kit.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
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Do you mind sharing it? I don't have any idea how to do that. I tried once and was lost.
harlenm said:
Do you mind sharing it? I don't have any idea how to do that. I tried once and was lost.
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Here You Go Enjoy!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?8densskdc9ht95t
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Here You Go Enjoy!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?8densskdc9ht95t
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Thanks. Keeps me from turning my pc back on
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
Doo Doo said:
Here You Go Enjoy!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?8densskdc9ht95t
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Thanks. Flashed and booting now.
When I was on 26.06.04.06_M with di11igaf's 2.0.1 rom.. GPS lock was in seconds.. with this new radio GPS has taken 30 mins and still no lock. Data networks and WiFi were definitely faster though.. but I think I'll go back to my previous radio.
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When I was on 26.06.04.06_M with di11igaf's 2.0.1 rom.. GPS lock was in seconds.. with this new radio GPS has taken 30 mins and still no lock. Data networks and WiFi were definitely faster though.. but I think I'll go back to my previous radio.
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Same here. I use GPS a lot, otherwise I wouldn't mind...my wifi/data signals have definitely improved using this radio.
heh, well, looks like this isn't work well in my area after all, I am in salt lake city utah, might just the crappy weather tho. I will check again on a sunny day.
GPS takes about 30 seconds for me - are you guys using a gingerbread ROM because this radio is made for gingerbread - I am running MIUI, I have tweaked my GPS with the instructions in the MIUI first post (GPS Status I think was the biggest factor) and I get locks in 30 seconds indoors. Accurate to 5 meters after a minute with 10 satellites.
The stock radio got me accurate to 25 indoors with only 7 satellites. Even outdoors, I got 8 maximum. I just checked it. Maybe try making sure that GPS settings are set up so that Google is the SUPL server and run GPS Status?
I don't really know what to say on the fact - I just used TeleNav (BTW, the Captivate TeleNav that I ganked from the Vibrant 4G in ota.telenav.com/tn works on the Inspire as well - its definitely worth it as you gain speed traps, it tells you the speed limit of the road you're on, it even tells you what lane to be in when you make an exit) and it was dead on accurate. My Captivate would have been *****ing at me to get back on Iliff Ave because it curves so much. My Cappy got me lost more times than I can count.
this old thread discussed about this radio:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002419
someone complained about the battery drain of this radio
pollux1151 said:
this old thread discussed about this radio:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002419
someone complained about the battery drain of this radio
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Seems to have less battery drain than the stock radio IMO. I was looking at *1%* on my phone and purposely trying to drain it, I ran it through Quadrant 12 times before the phone finally died. I was losing about 1% ever 45 minutes on the stock radio.
Again though, this radio seems to prefer the tower that is further away (and thus, I actually get a signal from that tower) whereas the OLD radio preferred the tower that is literally .65 miles away - I tested it with GPS until I got to the tower - and thus I spent a QUARTER of my battery life with the phone trying to acquire a signal.
Its possible 100% that this radio has a higher battery consumption for some - but that goes for any radio. Some work better than others for different people in different situations. That's why you flash them all, monitor performance for at least a day including notations of dropped calls, battery performance, etc., then you figure out which radio works best for YOU.
The bottom line though, this radio is made for Gingerbread. A lot of people will sit there and argue that RIL hasn't changed between versions but I am willing to bet that it has. My own personal experience with it tells me that this radio is willing to jump towers if it can't get a good signal while the old radio locked on to the closest tower it could find about 75% of the time.
Anyone that knows anything about cellular technology knows that living so close to a tower is extremely detrimental to me actually getting a signal from that tower because of the way that the signal is broadcast. I won't go all technical, many people have done that before me, but if you live within half a mile of a tower broadcasting 850, you are likely to suffer dropped calls and the inability to make calls.
07th March 2011:Radio_12.41.60.19_26.06.04.14_M_Test - HTC Ace Gingerbread S Generic 2.16.0.0
17th March 2011:Radio_12.35d.60.140fU_26.08.03.07_M_Test - HTC Ace Gingerbread S Generic 2.25.0.0
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20.06.04.14M is also for Gingerbred. Have you tried and compared with the 140fU?
Hi.
I'm from Russia. Sorry for not perfect english.
I bought my HTC Desire S about 2 weeks ago on clove.co.uk.
It is cool phone but i have problems with GPS.
Applications can't show my place if i uncheck flag "Location->Use wireless networks " in phone Settings.
I tried to use Google maps, open gps tracker, Yandex maps.
Also i tried "GPS TEST". I waited 15-20 minutes. It finds 9-10 satellites, but latitude and longitude equals 0.
I tried "GPS FIX" but it also useless.
Can anyboby help me?
Is it hardware or software problem?
Thanks.
Are you outside (not in building)? From my previous experiences, I can say GPS doesn't work in buildings (or isn't that accurate).
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Are you outside (not in building)? From my previous experiences, I can say GPS doesn't work in buildings (or isn't that accurate).
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Same thing here. I'm from Russia too. I've just bought the device, and have almost the same problems. I tested the device outside my office - still 10 minutes to get GPS locked
I have been experiencing the same issues outdoors in south west UK makes foursquare impossible
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Have the same problem here
Installed "GPS Test" and it shows the strengths of the signals of the satelites.
I haven't had a value over 36 SNR but it finds about 10 satelites very fast. Then it takes 5 min to lock and it is impossible to lock if you are walking.
Is the GPS better on your devices. Would be interesting to hear values from people who don't have problems.
Hi guys...this is most probably cause by the presence of built-in A-GPS feature....due to that feature DS can no longer lock on it's own...or it means a great struggle...Locking onto GPS requires a great computing power... apparently the GPS chip in DS isn't the top product...
Hey, if you're root/S-OFF, did you try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060963 ?
I had the same issue but it's gone after restart.
Having the same issues here, this is a return the phone type fault, and no gps = key things missing from the phone.
It was hard for me to get a fix accurately but GPS Fix really helped. But definitely go outside to use it.
seems like a-gps has old data, dunno how to refresh it on it's own, but the free app "gps status" will do it if necessary. be sure you have internet access (wifi or cellular), gps is on, and start the app, it should update the a-gps data and the phone should find a fix. otherwise the gps sattelites are transmitting the same data (almanach) but very slow and it takes sometimes 15-20 minutes. the alamanachs contain the latest corrections and without them any gps device will give rubbish as output.
i cant lock gps...any suggestion?
It's always worked pretty well for me.
GPS Fix works wonders.
I have the same problem and I have tested with the HTC Hero as well with the same problem. I have been on the Orange to see if is there problem but with no luck! Trying GPSfix now! I am wondering if this is a Radio problem or a handset problem! I hope it is not a handset problem!!
Using GPS Status is saying I can lock on to 2 satellites in my room but I lose them very fast. I need to test in other places around Newport and Cardiff to see if I can get similar results.
hi
gps working normal in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzJyKtPkHw
this means each time i want find my position i must wait for about 2 minutes?
thanks
Jiimbo said:
hi
gps working normal in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzJyKtPkHw
this means each time i want find my position i must wait for about 2 minutes?
thanks
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basically yes...
Basically it's because this phone uses aGPS, not GPS. And Qualcomm's aGPS chip has some issues. Read this...
http://m.wpcentral.com/gps-vs-agps-quick-tutorial
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Basically it's because this phone uses aGPS, not GPS. And Qualcomm's aGPS chip has some issues. Read this...
http://m.wpcentral.com/gps-vs-agps-quick-tutorial
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA Premium App
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yes but i think that radio play his part too...i was on 20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11 and now i'm on 20.28d.30.0805U_3805.04.02.01 and i can see that gps lock much faster now
maybe is placebo
Adidas108 said:
yes but i think that radio play his part too...i was on 20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11 and now i'm on 20.28d.30.0805U_3805.04.02.01 and i can see that gps lock much faster now
maybe is placebo
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Yes likely as aGPS pulls satellite info from your cell towers. You may still find though, as I do, that even with the best radio, you'll still need to occasionally run GPS fix every few weeks. My old desire never had this. Mine will get a lock in 2 seconds now, but for some reason if I don't use GPS for a couple of weeks, I'll be back with waiting and waiting for a lock.
I may be noticing it more because oranges 3g service in my area for months (t-mobile merger issues it seems) has been so poor that I've turned 3g off to avoid shocking battery drain and hopeless intermittent data services. I rely on wifi. Now I know why I'm not getting a good lock sometimes. I use an off line gps app as I can't rely on orange 3g to let google maps work. With 3g off I'm not pulling down the aGPS data. This GPS fix app (however it does it) solves it.
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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
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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...
Just recently it seems every ROM I use has a problem with GPS accuracy when using RunKeeper to track my running... basically it thinks i've covered way more ground than I actually have so I can now run the speed of a top marathon runner (even though I can't). Looking at the runkeeper maps I can see that the gps tracking is bouncing around, ie, it thinks i'm zigzagging from one side of the road to other as I run which makes the app think i'm covering more ground. For the past 2 years it's been straight lines and fairly accurate. CM9 was doing this and now Android Revolution latest tmo/6.7.0. It did it with two different radios and 3.32 and 3.33 firmware.
I have no idea what to do to fix it ... maybe it has something to do with the gps.conf ? it's using t-mobiles default settings.
I figured out a fix. use the 11.69A radio. the newer radios do NOT work properly with GPS, not for runkeeper at least.
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Just recently it seems every ROM I use has a problem with GPS accuracy when using RunKeeper to track my running... basically it thinks i've covered way more ground than I actually have so I can now run the speed of a marathon runner (even though I can't). Looking at the runkeeper maps I can see that the gps tracking is bouncing around, ie, it thinks i'm zigzagging from one side of the road to other as I run which makes the app think i'm covering more ground. For the past 2 years it's been straight lines and fairly accurate. CM9 was doing this and now Android Revolution latest tmo/6.7.0. It did it with two different radios and 3.32 and 3.33 firmware.
I have no idea what to do to fix it ... maybe it has something to do with the gps.conf ? it's using t-mobiles default settings.
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I figured out a fix. use the 11.69A radio. the newer radios do NOT work properly with GPS, not for runkeeper at least.
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Great! A fix! Had the exact same problem....
Bump!
Ok, this seems fixed for you guys, but I'm running a completely stock (shock, horror!) XE (4.0.3, with 11.76A radio) on O2 in the UK and I'm getting the exact same problem. Oddly, my GPS navigation is fine, it's just tracking in Strava and RunKeeper gives a crazy zig zag trace, showing I've covered WAY more miles than I have.
Any ideas?
J
I too have this problem. It feels like a hardware problem. It has worked fine until recently. I never had to flash any special radio for it to work. But I might try flashing this radio..
Hi, I have same problem. Now I'm testing to sync system clock before every activity by ClockSync and problem seems to be away.
Yesterday I rode a bike and before a start activity I forgot sync clock. After 3 km I noticed that my track is "zigzag". I turn on data a I noticed that my system time is -1.7 sec against atomic time from ntp. I synced time and track was OK.
Somewhere I read that is important to use time from ntp server, not from GPS.
Please, leave a feedback if it solved your problem
Thanks, kayn
Just reboot your phone before using the runkeeper + gps.
I also tried to use clocksync, didn't work for me.
Noticed that android1234567 updated to a later radio (in 15 aug build) and got my hopes up. But it still looks like in the image attached. I'm standing still and the GPS thinks that it has good reception, but it is bouncing around.
EDIT: hmm flashing latest firmware/hboot/radio provided from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348361 might have fixed it. Will do more testing tomorrow...
EDIT2: Ran for two hours and it seems to work! It must've been the old firmware..
Ok I have looked everywhere for a fix.
On Stock and stock based ROMS my gps works great, no problems, however in any CM/Aokp/Slimbean/etc. My gps is wayyyyyy off. Its not using the gps satellites but the cell towers, it marks me as 1500+ feet away from where I really am. Re-flashed tweaked and it worked perfectly,
I have downloaded every GPS app to calibrate, fix, re lock, you name I have done it but it still will not use the GPS satellites, just the cell towers, This is in Google Maps mind you. 4 different versions of Google maps did nothing.
With WI-Fi on it works perfectly, but I drive for a living and cant be on WiFi all the time. Sucks. Any ideas?
chjema said:
Ok I have looked everywhere for a fix.
On Stock and stock based ROMS my gps works great, no problems, however in any CM/Aokp/Slimbean/etc. My gps is wayyyyyy off. Its not using the gps satellites but the cell towers, it marks me as 1500+ feet away from where I really am. Re-flashed tweaked and it worked perfectly,
I have downloaded every GPS app to calibrate, fix, re lock, you name I have done it but it still will not use the GPS satellites, just the cell towers, This is in Google Maps mind you. 4 different versions of Google maps did nothing.
With WI-Fi on it works perfectly, but I drive for a living and cant be on WiFi all the time. Sucks. Any ideas?
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Did your phone ever go to full stock ICS before you went on to the AOSP based roms? I'm asking because I wonder if maybe there's something with the ICS versions of the firmwares, or maybe the lack thereof.
EDIT: Btw, if you install the full stock rom (including all the firmware partitions) and then try the AOSP roms, and it works, please let me know via PM... I've been thinking about specifying that people have come from the stock ICS rom just to make sure they have the latest firmwares on the phone.
chjema said:
Ok I have looked everywhere for a fix.
On Stock and stock based ROMS my gps works great, no problems, however in any CM/Aokp/Slimbean/etc. My gps is wayyyyyy off. Its not using the gps satellites but the cell towers, it marks me as 1500+ feet away from where I really am. Re-flashed tweaked and it worked perfectly,
I have downloaded every GPS app to calibrate, fix, re lock, you name I have done it but it still will not use the GPS satellites, just the cell towers, This is in Google Maps mind you. 4 different versions of Google maps did nothing.
With WI-Fi on it works perfectly, but I drive for a living and cant be on WiFi all the time. Sucks. Any ideas?
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Have you tried messing around w/ the gps.conf file in /system/etc/ ? This thread has got some stuff that (at least by the reports of others) has achieved some amazing improvements across a number of different phones/roms/carriers/etc. Not sure it'll help, but worth a shot
No...I have not been on full stock in a long time.
Right now on CM10 GPS not working right. Will do a full wipe and install Tweaked 2.0 and it works on that perfectly.
I will check out that thread and see what I can do.
chjema said:
Ok I have looked everywhere for a fix.
On Stock and stock based ROMS my gps works great, no problems, however in any CM/Aokp/Slimbean/etc. My gps is wayyyyyy off. Its not using the gps satellites but the cell towers, it marks me as 1500+ feet away from where I really am. Re-flashed tweaked and it worked perfectly,
I have downloaded every GPS app to calibrate, fix, re lock, you name I have done it but it still will not use the GPS satellites, just the cell towers, This is in Google Maps mind you. 4 different versions of Google maps did nothing.
With WI-Fi on it works perfectly, but I drive for a living and cant be on WiFi all the time. Sucks. Any ideas?
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I just started using Mytracks a few days ago for my bike rides/dog walks and mine is pretty accurate on CM10. The only thing I notice goofy with my Google Maps is sometimes when I take a break and look at my phone, the compass doesnt always show the correct direction I am facing til I start moving again. This may be cause I have the phone in my pocket or on the dog but fixes as soon as I move. Lock on is under 20 secs as well. Did you change the min/max values in the settings?
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Have you tried messing around w/ the gps.conf file in /system/etc/ ? This thread has got some stuff that (at least by the reports of others) has achieved some amazing improvements across a number of different phones/roms/carriers/etc. Not sure it'll help, but worth a shot
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FFS man. You alone have pimped my phone out more than I can say. Thanks man. This worked. It is now accurate to within 2 meters. Hell it shows what room I am in. lol
Thanks again!!!
To all flashing a non-stock ROM I highly recommend the ADB Push Installer seen here
You have to use the ADB Push file...it took me 20 secs.