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ATT Gingerbread GPS.CONF flashable via CWR (CWR ZIP available now)

EDIT: This has led to a new thread with some helpful GPS stuff: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17298804#post17298804
You can grab my CWR-friendly ZIP's for stock GPS.conf and for an improved GPS.conf.
ORIGINAL POST:
It would be nice and useful if there was an installable ZIP, similar to those provided for HD2 (some which work fine for Inspire).
Several of us who have Inspire's naturally have issues with any ROM and the GPS locking or staying locked with sats.
I'd think if we had a general patch to flash with the original GPS from ATT, we'd be in better shape....espcially if it's flashable using CWR like the generic options at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953630.

If your phone is rooted why not just use a file explorer like Root Explorer to copy the original into the folder?

I no longer have the original ATT ROM to do that with...

most of the GPS issues will be because of the RIL or radio load you are running. I had this happen with a custom ROM so I flashed back to a rooted stock GB ROM along with the stock RIL and radio load. FTR, I had the GPS issue on the stock ROM before flashing the RIL and radio load i.e. the GPS could see not sats. It picked up several after the RIL/Radio load flash. Now that said, use GPS Status to remove the sat filtering and clear/re-download the GPS data. After doing this, it locked on faster simply because it could seem more sats.

Here is the original gps.conf file. It is not an installable zip file. You must extract the gps.conf from the compressed file and transfer it to your phone manually.

Thanks! I'm going to work on using this as a base and including the various variables from Angel Death's that are pertinent to our device.

If you pull the GPS.conf out of the cleardroid ROM you will then have an already custom made GPS.conf file by AngelDeath for the Inspire.

Allrighty, I made a nice little ZIP that can be installed through ClockWork Recovery.
http://derekgordon.com/ATTgps.zip
Thanks again for providing me with the config.
Not sure it will be worth anything, but it's something to try as I search for better GPS.

Dude, if angel deaths zip for south mid states doesn't make your gps awesome its either your rom, radio, or a hardware issue. I use an Otterbox Defender and get 18' locks within 8 seconds cold or pretty much instantly when hot. It'll take longer if you don't have a cellular data connection. If you don't have a data connection in the middle of nowhere it helps to put it on the roof of your car face down and leave it there for a few minutes if it isn't raining. If it's raining stick it LED's towards the sky through your windshield as best as you can. If you don't use a case it will work even better.
If you have tried the radios I have tried and angeldeaths zip and you still don't get good gps look up how to clear your efs data or something like that. It's on the first page of android revolution thread, I think second post. If it still doesn't work, unroot and s-on and load up stock gingerbread to claim your warranty and get a refurbished device. If that one's gps fails after doing the above, repeat the return to stock and keep swapping it until you get one that works right. I lucked out and mine worked right off the bat and has since I bought it in march. Some have not been so lucky and their gps antenna isn't making proper contact. This can be remedied through really voiding your warranty and following a thread I found in the dhd section. It involves a steady hand and taking the phone a little bit apart and messing with those contacts. It's easier to claim your warranty if no amount of software can fix it.
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The purpose of this was to get the default ATT gps.conf to provide and to use to test against scripts, radios, etc... to see performance differences.
I have built a full North America script based on Angeldeath's work and will be posting it soon thanks to his permission to do so.

Thanks man. I have always had trouble with GPS on asop roms but not on roms built from stock. This has help immensely. I am getting much quicker locks and more reliability on both miui and cm.
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Cool deal. Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17298804#post17298804 too. I'm working towards a great gps.conf solution for Inspire 4G devices.

[Q] July Baseband/ Custom Rom/ Instant GPS

Hello All
I Recently updated my baseband after much frustration with GPS and pleased to say i now have GPS instant locks. real instant locks 1-2 Second. Now, I am really wanting to flash a custom rom w/out losing my current GPS state. Can anyone confirm that has done the same thing (updated baseband and achieved instant locks) That after you flashed a custom rom you still have instant GPS locks? and which Custom rom you flashed? Thank you in advance EVERYONE.

You can flash a stock 2.3.3 based ROM, and GPS will work perfectly.
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Awesome thanks! btw which one did you flash?

shane1diamond said:
Awesome thanks! btw which one did you flash?
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I'm running Gigglebread, which can be found on RootzWiki.
I've never experienced an issue with it, and GPS locks are pretty good. I average 14-16 hours of battery life @ 1.2GHz OC with -100 mV underclock with Faux123 CM Kernel.
For a stock based ROM, I would recommend Tsugi's 2.3.4 ROM.

Thanks for your reply. I ran tsugi previous to updating my baseband and yes tsugi was great. Does it not matter that it is stock 2.3.4? And not 2.3.3 based. Gps wise?

shane1diamond said:
Thanks for your reply. I ran tsugi previous to updating my baseband and yes tsugi was great. Does it not matter that it is stock 2.3.4? And not 2.3.3 based. Gps wise?
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Nope, it's all based of stock ROMs.

12/26 update- I ended up reflashing weapon 3.0 (rom i had previous to Tsugi) I ran that the longest of any rom, i really liked the functionality of it: fast, quick panel toggles etc were super useful. only problem was GPS. After update/re-root/re-flash of weapon. I am excited to say still have instant GPS locks!! YAY. Thanks FatalityBoyZahy for helping me decide whether i should do it or not

shane1diamond said:
12/26 update- I ended up reflashing weapon 3.0 (rom i had previous to Tsugi) I ran that the longest of any rom, i really liked the functionality of it: fast, quick panel toggles etc were super useful. only problem was GPS. After update/re-root/re-flash of weapon. I am excited to say still have instant GPS locks!! YAY. Thanks FatalityBoyZahy for helping me decide whether i should do it or not
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I'm so glad I found this, cuz I'm xtremely satisfied with weapon 3.0 and dont wanna go back to stock,,,,
So just to recap a bit, you went back to stock, updated baseband, reflashed weapon and all is good? when you reflashed did your wipe cache & dalvik and format sys?
And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?

txr_maxx said:
I'm so glad I found this, cuz I'm xtremely satisfied with weapon 3.0 and dont wanna go back to stock,,,,
So just to recap a bit, you went back to stock, updated baseband, reflashed weapon and all is good? when you reflashed did your wipe cache & dalvik and format sys?
And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?
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Yes. I was running tsugi, then updated baseband, reflashed CWM using NV flash, Rooted using JBoxer posted root.zip, then reflashed weapon, before flashing I followed whitehawks directions in OP: I wiped/ data factory, wiped system. Then flashed the rom, Everything runs perfect as it did before only now I get instant gps locks, data, wifi, mounting ext and int sd works perfect as it always did. Hope that helps

Now an even more stupid question. I have service through Cincinnati Bell... if I want to update my baseband, do I need to find a special file? Or will the July basebanf thread work? Is that baseband file specific to T-Mobile ?
If I need a specific baseband for Cincinnati Bell, would anybody know where.to go for that information? It seems that the.Cincinnati Bell G2x users are an ultra small group .. so threads are limited.
Thanks in advance.
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I updated my baseband and now every ROM I've run has almost instant GPS locks. Granted, stock and 2.3.3 based roms like weapon and Tsugi or even Baka get quicker fixes, but to me, you can't give up the added functionality of CM roms like eagles or Phoenix blood. Flashing any other rom shouldn't alter your baseband at all. The new baseband in conjunction with apps like GPS fix and faster fix should add up to almost instant locks on any ROM.
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lawdawg45238 said:
Now an even more stupid question. I have service through Cincinnati Bell... if I want to update my baseband, do I need to find a special file? Or will the July basebanf thread work? Is that baseband file specific to T-Mobile ?
If I need a specific baseband for Cincinnati Bell, would anybody know where.to go for that information? It seems that the.Cincinnati Bell G2x users are an ultra small group .. so threads are limited.
Thanks in advance.
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Sorry im stumped on this one too. I had a few minutes to do a search and came up with nothing.

Caliyork said:
I updated my baseband and now every ROM I've run has almost instant GPS locks. Granted, stock and 2.3.3 based roms like weapon and Tsugi or even Baka get quicker fixes, but to me, you can't give up the added functionality of CM roms like eagles or Phoenix blood. Flashing any other rom shouldn't alter your baseband at all. The new baseband in conjunction with apps like GPS fix and faster fix should add up to almost instant locks on any ROM.
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Thanks. Ive actually ran those mentioned roms and gps fixes (when I was on old baseband) for me personally they had too many bugs in the features I used most. Great roms nonetheless, just lacked in areas I needed. Weapon s works perfect for me. I understand roms do not change baseband, I was just curious as to if it affected the gps functionalityThanks again for your suggestion s

Well I suppose that is why we have a recovery Nvflash.. I'm gonna give it a shot and see what happens.
I'll let you know and then we'll have the answer to whether basebands are carrier specific.
I would sure love to have GPS locks... on average it takes me over 10 minutes to get a lock. GPS status shows that I see and am using 5 or 6 satellites .. but when I open maps... it just takes forever to get a lock.
Lets see what happens ........
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txr_maxx said:
And also, are you having any problems with usb not mounting extrl sd to computer?
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Stock and CM7 based roms mount the internal and SD card differently. You will experience problems if you install applications to your SD card on one type of rom and move to another. Changing the mount point manually (editing vold.fstab) will fix some of the problems (ie. your programs will launch properly) but will disable USB mass storage as the rom will try to mount the wrong (virtual/)directory to the USB path.
This is just from my own experience going between EaglesBlood(CM7) and Weapon(Stock). I'm not an expert at this but I tried five or six different changed to the vold.fstab and couldn't get everything just right after switching from EB to WG2x.
Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way to make the current structure of your internal/external storage work with a new structure, and have USB mass storage functionality. I just haven't found it.

lawdawg45238 said:
Well I suppose that is why we have a recovery Nvflash.. I'm gonna give it a shot and see what happens.
I'll let you know and then we'll have the answer to whether basebands are carrier specific.
I would sure love to have GPS locks... on average it takes me over 10 minutes to get a lock. GPS status shows that I see and am using 5 or 6 satellites .. but when I open maps... it just takes forever to get a lock.
Lets see what happens ........
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Very brave! I would have done it in your position too. Instant Gps locks was a must for me. Looking forward to the update. I'll be praying for a good turn out

Flashed following instructions ... it appears the basebannd was not cell provider specific. Or, if it is, entering the apn information straightened it out. I have the July 15th baseband and my phone still works.
However, it makes no difference in my GPS locks. They are still slow. Maybe I will edit the GPS configuration file as mentioned in a couple other threads.. and see if that coupled with the new baseband will improve it.
If you care at all, I will post an update.
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lawdawg45238 said:
Flashed following instructions ... it appears the basebannd was not cell provider specific. Or, if it is, entering the apn information straightened it out. I have the July 15th baseband and my phone still works.
However, it makes no difference in my GPS locks. They are still slow. Maybe I will edit the GPS configuration file as mentioned in a couple other threads.. and see if that coupled with the new baseband will improve it.
If you care at all, I will post an update.
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Absolutely I'm always open to learning. Thanks for your update. Have you tried gps running stock? Immediately after updating baseband, our did your just reflash weapon immediately to test run gps?

Did.not test run ... immediately reflashed...
However, in the GPSconfig file I disabled the wifi wiper (very bottom of file, change value from 1 to 0) and I had instant GPS locks.!!!
I mean instant.... less than 5 seconds. May be a fluke so I'm gonna drive around and periodically open maps to see how long it takes to lock in.
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Absolutely made a huge improvement. Once I made that change to the gpsconfig file, I have had GPS locks in less than 1 minute.
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[Q] Any good ICS solution for Rogers users as of April 2nd?

I've read through the threads on all the forums, and nothing definitive yet. Also things are changing so fast over the last few days, I figured this needed asking.
I'm hearing people say that some of the zip cooked ROMs can be installed on the 727R but only if you have the leak installed first with ODIN.
When I go through the leaked ROM thread, it says it doesn't work on Roger's Skyrockets.
So is there any way to take a stock, or non-stock GB ROM and get either the leaked ROM or a cooked ROM onto a 727R?
Thanks

This works on Rogers. I flashed this from stock rooted Rogers GB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567817
Some minor bugs but there are solutions for them all so far.
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but to be honest my battery has been draining alot with this leak. also seems alot unstable atm. i know go ahead bash me but ive tried every rom to see if it would settle or be stable. but none so far and im just wondering if this leak is a problem for canadians or for "rogers" especially.

i didn't see anything about rogers incompatibility in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820

wali01x said:
but to be honest my battery has been draining alot with this leak. also seems alot unstable atm. i know go ahead bash me but ive tried every rom to see if it would settle or be stable. but none so far and im just wondering if this leak is a problem for canadians or for "rogers" especially.
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+1 today it's been unstable for me a lot and the battery leak is still happening

I think there may be slight differences between the Skyrocket & Rogers version, that only Samsung know about.
One only has to look at the Samsung Focus 1.3 & 1.4 revisions. Both are identical except for a minor difference, but it caused major headaches for MS when pushing updates. It wouldn't surprise me if Samsung does the same on the Android side.
So with this leak your running an unfinished ROM, & one that may not be intended for your revision of hardware

i think that could very well be true. because of this battery drain 2-3% every less than half hour is like does this rom really feel it should be like this. also reboot issues, rom hanging in here & there, its not about the "work-around" but actual work seems very unstable. their devs are even soo stupid that when i ripped dialer.apk they spelled dailer in 1 of the imgs rather then dialer..it made me laugh soo hard..

projectvirtue said:
i didn't see anything about rogers incompatibility in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820
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I've tried this version, Mostly worked ok but my caller ID stopped working?
I'm a newb so I can't post over there to find out if anyone else saw the same issue... maybe I did something wrong but everything else seemed to be great?

Thank you everyone for responding. Gonna wait a few days and see how this plays out for Rogers uses. Hope other Rogers users post results here.

If you are on Rogers, flash the thing from the second post then flash any of the other ICS ROMs.

GB-->ICS works
I used ICSMOD5 from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820
What I did:SGH-i727R
My ROM was running Malice from T989, with Streamline Kernel.
1)Backup!
2)Factory Reset
3)Advanced - Wipe Dalvik
4)Manual reset: - Mounts and storage, Format system,data & cache
5)Flash UCLA4 ICS radio
6)Flash the ICSMOD5_wipe version
7)Boot
8)Wait...wait even more...don't panic...
9)Enjoy
Everything including data and gps, and time issues were okay.
On the apex launcher, the messenger icon is bonked, just remove the shortcut and put the messaging shortcut again.
Wifi Tether: Starts up via toggle mod, can set password and stuff, computer connects to it but no data goes thru.
Will report back on battery use and possible issues.
So far so good.

how did you all get LTE to work?
i cannot for the life of me!!

johentie said:
how did you all get LTE to work?
i cannot for the life of me!!
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Flash this modem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24140728&postcount=5
Then type *#2263# into the Phone and Select "[4] LTE Band Preference" then "[7] LTE ALL". Once you get an LTE signal, then type *#2263# again and this time Choose "[1] Automatic" and it should work.
I've had to do this a few times, but I have gotten stable LTE on all the ICS builds so far.

i keep getting unknown id on my calls instead of it showing the number

shaeelasim said:
i keep getting unknown id on my calls instead of it showing the number
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I'm getting the same thing? No fix yet but have a look here

jwfraser said:
Flash this modem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24140728&postcount=5
Then type *#2263# into the Phone and Select "[4] LTE Band Preference" then "[7] LTE ALL". Once you get an LTE signal, then type *#2263# again and this time Choose "[1] Automatic" and it should work.
I've had to do this a few times, but I have gotten stable LTE on all the ICS builds so far.
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Thanks... i tried that but i couldn't get an LTE signal.. the best i got was 1 bar of just signal..
i usually get 45mbps download speeds in my area... I'll try it again elsewhere..

confirm ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727
I like to endorse the custom ROM ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727. it is a SUPER ROM, improves the battery life, smooth, uncluttered and simple to install. mhx did a fabulous job.
ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 is fantastic!

redleef said:
I like to endorse the custom ROM ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727. it is a SUPER ROM, improves the battery life, smooth, uncluttered and simple to install. mhx did a fabulous job.
ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 is fantastic!
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+ 1, actually this has become my daily driver. There are some quirks as in callerid coming in from a telus cell but other than that everything else is solid. Also got lte to kind of work but it's just been started to get setup in my area lol.
~PsyCl0ne
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I've been running Smooth Ice for almost 2 weeks with no issues. The first ROM I used to upgrade from GB was the one just called 'Working Rogers ICS ROM', or something like that. I used Superlite and then went to Smooth Ice and have no complaints.

well not to put my team's rom up. but if you use our rom after we're gonna update today you are not gonna wanna leave it =).. you think you had enough with other roms. haha you have seen nothing yet.

Stable ICS

Is there a stable ICS out for T959v? Stable as in GPS and wifi calling for t mobile is functional.

knicks791 said:
Is there a stable ICS out for T959v? Stable as in GPS and wifi calling for t mobile is functional.
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lol no.

I wouldn't consider WiFi calling a factor in a roms "stableness". Its more of a feature. Cm9 is stable and GPS does work

Yeah forget about wifi calling. I think cna 2.0 is great. Cm9 release 8 and well for as early as it was released beam is fairly stable.
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ICS AOKP is stable.....

Stable as in normal human definition, yes. Stable as in Wifi calling, no.

Wifi hotspot?
Theraze said:
Stable as in normal human definition, yes. Stable as in Wifi calling, no.
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How about stable as in wifi hotspot? I don't use it often, but when I do I need it to work well (business). Works fine on my Vibrant, but I also have SGS4G that I'd like to see if I can get better signals on cell (especially), gps and wifi. I had been sticking with GB ROMs since they seemed the best for GPS/wifi, but would like to move to ICS if possible.

The ICS hotspot has worked basically always worked fine unless you screw with services. My wife used AOKP when we were out of town a few weeks ago. I used Barnacle and Wifi tethering for root users while on JB.
Both ICS and JB worked fine for tethering.

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The ICS hotspot has worked basically always worked fine unless you screw with services. My wife used AOKP when we were out of town a few weeks ago. I used Barnacle and Wifi tethering for root users while on JB.
Both ICS and JB worked fine for tethering.
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Good. Is there a "best" for GPS? Seems most JB have issues and several ICS as well from what I've read so far.

JB doesn't have GPS yet. That's its issue, but airfluip1 thinks he might have some ideas on how to fix it. Hopefully he'll get it working, or Erik will, or someone else maybe. But for now, skip JB if you need GPS.
ICS has 3 different options for GPS, and it's not always apparent which is better.
1) Assisted GPS. This requires having a build.prop file that tells your phone how to use GPS for this. Most of our ROMs want to do this, but end up in number 3 instead. There are directions on how to fix this if you aren't using Ultragen, or just use Ultragen which comes with this properly configured from the start. First connection to GPS may take 15-30 minutes, but it should be much faster after that.
2) Non-assisted GPS. This comes from flashing YAGF. It disables the assisted GPS and just uses the satellites fresh every time. This CAN be much faster, but won't work well in clouded/wooded/indoor areas.
3) Bad GPS. This is when 1 or 2 fail, generally number 1. The phone is told to use AGPS but it's disabled in the build.prop, or any of a wide variety of other issues. GPS will work... sometimes... but it's highly irregular.
Best option? Start with Ultragen (remember... 1.0.1, not 1.0, which had several major issues) and see if the AGPS is good for you. If you don't like it, flash YAGF and go to unassisted. Decide it's worse and hate it? Wipe the ROM (to get out the modified system files) and reflash Ultragen.
Or start modifying your own files, but be careful that your phone boots up. Don't use Microsoft Word or Notepad or Wordpad or any of those tools. Use a proper hex or *nix editor.

Theraze said:
JB doesn't have GPS yet. That's its issue, but airfluip1 thinks he might have some ideas on how to fix it. Hopefully he'll get it working, or Erik will, or someone else maybe. But for now, skip JB if you need GPS.
ICS has 3 different options for GPS, and it's not always apparent which is better.
1) Assisted GPS. This requires having a build.prop file that tells your phone how to use GPS for this. Most of our ROMs want to do this, but end up in number 3 instead. There are directions on how to fix this if you aren't using Ultragen, or just use Ultragen which comes with this properly configured from the start. First connection to GPS may take 15-30 minutes, but it should be much faster after that.
2) Non-assisted GPS. This comes from flashing YAGF. It disables the assisted GPS and just uses the satellites fresh every time. This CAN be much faster, but won't work well in clouded/wooded/indoor areas.
3) Bad GPS. This is when 1 or 2 fail, generally number 1. The phone is told to use AGPS but it's disabled in the build.prop, or any of a wide variety of other issues. GPS will work... sometimes... but it's highly irregular.
Best option? Start with Ultragen (remember... 1.0.1, not 1.0, which had several major issues) and see if the AGPS is good for you. If you don't like it, flash YAGF and go to unassisted. Decide it's worse and hate it? Wipe the ROM (to get out the modified system files) and reflash Ultragen.
Or start modifying your own files, but be careful that your phone boots up. Don't use Microsoft Word or Notepad or Wordpad or any of those tools. Use a proper hex or *nix editor.
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Just a suggestion, but the Pimp My Rom application https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDYsImNvbS5hbmRyb2d1aWRlLnBpbXBteXJvbSJd under GPS Tweaks will download the proper GPS files for location, or alternatively, you can install the GPS Status and Toolbox App https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5lY2xpcHNpbS5ncHNzdGF0dXMyIl0 which you can set to download the newest AGPS File when you open it.
I am using AOKP ICS and have no issue with GPS. Was getting like 120 sec TTL for like 12 Satellites according to GPS Tools, which is not terribly life affecting for me.

Which... is irrelevant if your build.prop doesn't use those files. As I said. You can tell GPS Status to update every hour, but if the phone isn't set to use them, they're helping you as much as throwing the phone up 20 feet into the air (without twisting it). Slightly less, since they're using up storage and not getting your phone closer to the satellites.
That being said, the TopNTP app did have GPS modifications as one of its options. Not sure if it does the build.prop flag we need, but...

Wow, it seems the SGS4G may actually be worse than the Vibrant for GPS.

LoL
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Theraze said:
Which... is irrelevant if your build.prop doesn't use those files. As I said. You can tell GPS Status to update every hour, but if the phone isn't set to use them, they're helping you as much as throwing the phone up 20 feet into the air (without twisting it). Slightly less, since they're using up storage and not getting your phone closer to the satellites.
That being said, the TopNTP app did have GPS modifications as one of its options. Not sure if it does the build.prop flag we need, but...
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There is gps. It just no worky right! It will take a lil more then downloading a * "NIX" EDITOR and edit build.prop
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hechoen said:
We'll call this one hidden in plain site.
I've been testing a new kernel for Beastmode lately and was trying to get GPS to work. I flashed 3.1 google specific build and still no lockie. So I did what cryptic mentions in the OP and READ the notes. Well that note that I quoted up above is the thing that needs to be done for this phone to make GPS work. After I added that line to the build.prop and rebooted I got a lock in about 10 seconds indoors to an accuracy of 6 meters. Not bad for this phone at all.
Most of are ICS ROMs use CM as a base. So after going through and looking at most of their props NONE of them have that line. I don't know how it's escaped notice as long as it has. I've only tested it on CM9 8-29 build with Beastmodes yet to be released kernel. I doubt that it matters though. Flash the zip, add that line, reboot and you should be good to go.
So thanks to cryptic for this fix and one of the most detailed OP's I've ever had the pleasure of reading. And too erikmm(aka Beastmode) for the incentive to actually look into this.
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As I said...

Theraze said:
Best option? Start with Ultragen (remember... 1.0.1, not 1.0, which had several major issues) and see if the AGPS is good for you. If you don't like it, flash YAGF and go to unassisted. Decide it's worse and hate it? Wipe the ROM (to get out the modified system files) and reflash Ultragen.
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Thanks ! Where can I download YAGF for a T959v ? Is Ultragen v1.8 also good or only 1.0.1 ?

Remember that you have to flash something that actually works on our phone, unless you're making your own franken-build.
Ultragen 1.01 is available in post 4 of the Ultragen thread. There is no Ultragen 1.8... at least, not here on XDA for our phone.
Regarding the GPS, it's the same YAGF2 from the Vibrant forums... it's just a generic-ish fix that may or may not placebo you.

Unfortunately, I don't understand the technical jargon regarding all the GPS options...maybe I'm better off not knowing.
However, I'm running CM9 with Proton kernel & LB6 modem and everything works (except, of course, for wi-fi calling).
No problems whatsoever with GPS. Battery drains a little fast but I have a zillion chargers laying around the house,
office, & car...no big deal.

Problems with service and GPS after flashing.

I recently got my phone S-off'd and I flashed LineageOS 14.1 on it. Everything seems to work except my mobile data says "No Service" most of the time (even though it still works all of the time) and the GPS has become terrible.
When I try using Google Maps, it rarely updates my position and it always says im facing north. Waze straight up tells me I have no GPS reception.
So what did I do wrong? I'm fairly new to the whole flashing scene but I did at least try to search my problem. I came up with a bunch of "radio" version problems but that was tough to google because it kept linking me to actual FM radio apps.
specs:
Verizon HTC One M8
ROM: LineageOS 14.1
Android version 7.1.1
Radio version: 1.14.20.0930
Any help is appreciated

Sandi315 said:
I recently got my phone S-off'd and I flashed LineageOS 14.1 on it. Everything seems to work except my mobile data says "No Service" most of the time (even though it still works all of the time) and the GPS has become terrible.
When I try using Google Maps, it rarely updates my position and it always says im facing north. Waze straight up tells me I have no GPS reception.
So what did I do wrong? I'm fairly new to the whole flashing scene but I did at least try to search my problem. I came up with a bunch of "radio" version problems but that was tough to google because it kept linking me to actual FM radio apps.
specs:
Verizon HTC One M8
ROM: LineageOS 14.1
Android version 7.1.1
Radio version: 1.14.20.0930
Any help is appreciated
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i havent taken the N plunge yet, so i am not sure if this applies. for the gps issue, try flashing a sense rom, let it fully boot then use maps or a gps tool like gps test. give it a few mins to lock on. then flash your aosp rom, or restore a nand maybe. ive had to do that in the past with mine. while its on the sense rom, compare signal, aosp seems to get lower readings, but i honestly think its just the way the oem and carriers code their s/w. if the signal seems a lot better it may just be something in the rom, could try a diff N one or even MM for better comparison

izzaeroth said:
i havent taken the N plunge yet, so i am not sure if this applies. for the gps issue, try flashing a sense rom, let it fully boot then use maps or a gps tool like gps test. give it a few mins to lock on. then flash your aosp rom, or restore a nand maybe. ive had to do that in the past with mine. while its on the sense rom, compare signal, aosp seems to get lower readings, but i honestly think its just the way the oem and carriers code their s/w. if the signal seems a lot better it may just be something in the rom, could try a diff N one or even MM for better comparison
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Do I have to full wipe my phone if I want to switch between roms? I will try switching back to N after flashing a sense rom but if that doesn't work I may as well just stay on a sense based MM rom. Speaking of which, know any good ones? It's kind of heard to like Sense imo.

Sandi315 said:
Do I have to full wipe my phone if I want to switch between roms? I will try switching back to N after flashing a sense rom but if that doesn't work I may as well just stay on a sense based MM rom. Speaking of which, know any good ones? It's kind of heard to like Sense imo.
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full wipe when you flash between any rom. lol good sense rom... um, last one i used was fluent, by andybones. that was solid for me and i liked his tweaks. although i will most likely update to aicp's N rom when i get around to it

izzaeroth said:
full wipe when you flash between any rom. lol good sense rom... um, last one i used was fluent, by andybones. that was solid for me and i liked his tweaks. although i will most likely update to aicp's N rom when i get around to it
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It's been a while but I finally got around to doing this. I flashed to a sense rom where the GPS and service was working. I opened Google Maps to turn on the gps then shut the phone off with the app in the foreground. Now I reflashed back to Android Nougat and everything works as it is supposed to!
Although I did flash an entirely new ROM for nougat so that also might be the reason. It's still CM based and not Sense, so I don't think that was the reason.

Sandi315 said:
It's been a while but I finally got around to doing this. I flashed to a sense rom where the GPS and service was working. I opened Google Maps to turn on the gps then shut the phone off with the app in the foreground. Now I reflashed back to Android Nougat and everything works as it is supposed to!
Although I did flash an entirely new ROM for nougat so that also might be the reason. It's still CM based and not Sense, so I don't think that was the reason.
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its a htc thing actually. ive had this happen on m8s and a few other htc devices