[Q] FIX for GPS lock being painfully long on latest OTA - ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, on the latest OTA did your GPS get worse, or is it just me?
GPS always worked well on all ROMs but now it takes just too freaking long to lock, even when stopped on the street.
Is there a fix for this?

Download Faster GPS from the Play Store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fastergps
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Thanks timmaaa, will try it too.
badjoras, I got the same feeling
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GPS Troubles on Nexus S 4G

I have tried running a few different ICS roms and had very bad luck with the GPS working. Is there something I should be doing prior to flashing a a new rom or after flashing that would help get the gps to work?
I have tried GPS Status, GPS Test and GPS Fix but nothing seems to work.
I have read tons of posts and nothing seems consistent in gettting the gps to work.
I have used AOSP 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 and vhgomez roms.
jziggy101 said:
I have tried running a few different ICS roms and had very bad luck with the GPS working. Is there something I should be doing prior to flashing a a new rom or after flashing that would help get the gps to work?
I have tried GPS Status, GPS Test and GPS Fix but nothing seems to work.
I have read tons of posts and nothing seems consistent in gettting the gps to work.
I have used AOSP 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 and vhgomez roms.
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this will be moved into a different forum. dont post questions in development...but to answer your question, if you use those gps apps you sometimes gotta wait a while for it to pick up gps, u cant just hit clear agps data, redownload agps data and boom gps works. sometimes u gotta wait a little for it to find a signal. I've never in my whole history of owning an android phone have had gps issues that i couldnt fix by using those programs. and i've run the aosp oICS rom and had perfect gps.
If your GPS is not working at all, and you've tried everything. Try un-rooting your phone, go back to stock rom, see if that gets GPS to work. Then try to root again. I read on a Google forum that this guy did not have GPS working at all. He though he had a bad GPS chip or something. He un-rooted to return phone to Sprint and for some odd reason the GPS started working again. My GPS does not work also. It did prior to rooting. Im wating for the official OTA to un-root then root in hopes of getting it to work. I dont use GPS much so its not a issue for me at the moment. Good luck.
GPS seemed to be off for all the ROMs I was using, mostly in apps outside of the Maps app. I went back to 2.3.7 stock since I figure ICS OTA should be arriving soon.
Good to know I'm not the only one. I love ics too much to go back. But at least its a known issue. Anyone have any idea why?
How bad of GPS are we talking about here? This was done indoors just now...
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Try the QBANIN GPSFix app if you haven't already, otherwise try using your GPS in different areas.
For the longest time I would rage because I had no GPS (or so I thought) when I attempted to use google maps or anything. Tried all the GPS fixes with zips and various apps, unrooted, same thing.
A month later I was on a trip out of state, opened up google maps and got a lock instantly! When I got back home checked gps again, still wouldn't lock.
Turns out for whatever stupid a** reason... about a 1/2 mile radius around my house GPS will not work but as soon as I get out of that area, its almost instant haha. Hopefully you have the same issue as I did
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try this. this worked for me. I was having the exact same issues as you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22088356#post22088356
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How bad of GPS are we talking about here? This was done indoors just now...
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What GPS app is that your using? Looks like GPS Status but not quite.
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Thanks I will try that next time.
At the moment I have a working GPS all the time again.
On another thread a user indicated he shut all the location services off, then used GPStest or Status to clear the GPSA and then request a GPSA download. They he went back and turned all the location services back on. Sounds strange but it got my GPS working.
onovich said:
try this. this worked for me. I was having the exact same issues as you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22088356#post22088356
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I did try this and thought it didn't work but once I waited longer on the first gps fix now its working all the time.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Try messin with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165482
jziggy101 said:
Thanks I will try that next time.
At the moment I have a working GPS all the time again.
On another thread a user indicated he shut all the location services off, then used GPStest or Status to clear the GPSA and then request a GPSA download. They he went back and turned all the location services back on. Sounds strange but it got my GPS working.
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How long did you wait? I've tried this several times to no avail.

[Q] gps issues, copy/paste issues, OTA fix?

whenever i copy/paste, the app crashes.
whenever i try and use GPS and a run tracking program, it takes a LONG time to find a lock. sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. then, sometimes mid-run i will lose the signal, when my Droid Incredible would be strong in the GPS area during the same running route.
Will Verizon's newest OTA fix any of these issues?
funkpod said:
whenever i copy/paste, the app crashes.
whenever i try and use GPS and a run tracking program, it takes a LONG time to find a lock. sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. then, sometimes mid-run i will lose the signal, when my Droid Incredible would be strong in the GPS area during the same running route.
Will Verizon's newest OTA fix any of these issues?
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Bump, on cm10, but can't post there. My phone will often show me running parallel to the highway I am on. Or jump around g maps randomly.
UberSuber said:
Bump, on cm10, but can't post there. My phone will often show me running parallel to the highway I am on. Or jump around g maps randomly.
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You can use gps test to clear your agps and let it resync will probaly fix the gps issue. As for the others I dont know.
As for the latest OTA, it corrected the "no sim" issue, added remote connection for support, and a new radio iirc. No gps tweaks.
x714x said:
You can use gps test to clear your agps and let it resync will probaly fix the gps issue. As for the others I dont know.
As for the latest OTA, it corrected the "no sim" issue, added remote connection for support, and a new radio iirc. No gps tweaks.
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Thanks. I tried GPS Status & Toolbox and cleared/redownloaded the aGPS data. Should be the same thing, right? It didn't help. I flashed Bean's ICS ROM last night, so I'm going to give it a GPS workout on the highway tomorrow to see if it makes a difference. If not, isn't it likely the phone itself? Can a software GPS issue follow you across ROMS?
UberSuber said:
Thanks. I tried GPS Status & Toolbox and cleared/redownloaded the aGPS data. Should be the same thing, right? It didn't help. I flashed Bean's ICS ROM last night, so I'm going to give it a GPS workout on the highway tomorrow to see if it makes a difference. If not, isn't it likely the phone itself? Can a software GPS issue follow you across ROMS?
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I have been paying close attention to this issue and this is what I have come up with... On a stock (non-rooted) Verizon galaxy S3 I can lock indoors and even after rooting I can lock indoors. It is always after I unlock that damn bootloader that I start getting the gps issues... It still works but it is flaky! Gotta have the thing in clear view of the sky almost always... I say this cause I have had 3 different refurbs for the VZW S3 and so I tested my theory and to back it up I also have an at&t S3 and a T-mobile S3 and they don't require you to unlock your bootloader and I NEVER have had any issues with those models...? I really think it has something to do with unlocking our Verizon bootloader.... IMO Like I said, I have done extensive gps testing and this has been my only idea of what is borking the I535's gps signal strength or lack thereof! I can lock in my brick house with both of my other S3's but the Verizon model is **** as soon as you unlock the bootloader... I have played with just about EVERY app on the appstore and different mods on xda and some have made it better but nothing compared to the others.... Can anyone else chime in and let me know what you think...?
well, I installed the ota, but no fixed on the copy/paste and GPS. Went on my run and it didn't find a lock until the 3rd mile. I guess they will be sending me a New one. Maybe I'll try to root it and unroot Just to preserve my game data, etc. Can I still root it with this new ota? Never rooted before.
I might not root, in which case is have to transfer everything from the internal storage to a Harris data hard drive?
funkpod said:
well, I installed the ota, but no fixed on the copy/paste and GPS. Went on my run and it didn't find a lock until the 3rd mile. I guess they will be sending me a New one. Maybe I'll try to root it and unroot Just to preserve my game data, etc. Can I still root it with this new ota? Never rooted before.
I might not root, in which case is have to transfer everything from the internal storage to a Harris data hard drive?
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Well, mine took a long time to lock this morning. But it has been accurate all morning, which is improvement. I was having trouble with getting a lock before putting a ROM on, but I can't recall Having any issues before rooting, which I suppose does mean I pit a ROM on, really. But then, I rooted before I really had it long enough to test the GPS. Please post back if you try rooting the ota. Because if I keep having issues with GPS, that is my next step too.
UberSuber said:
Well, mine took a long time to lock this morning. But it has been accurate all morning, which is improvement. I was having trouble with getting a lock before putting a ROM on, but I can't recall Having any issues before rooting, which I suppose does mean I pit a ROM on, really. But then, I rooted before I really had it long enough to test the GPS. Please post back if you try rooting the ota. Because if I keep having issues with GPS, that is my next step too.
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First post on XDA!
Now to the GPS issue...My S3 had the same type of issues being described in this thread. My gps would take a LONG TIME (5-20+mins) to lock in and if it did lock in then sometimes it would have me driving along a road parallel to the road i was on and i would hear it trying to get me back onto the road i was already on. I talked with Verizon tech support in this issue and the person i talked with just took me step by step to try to nail down the issue. i told him i already tried GPS Status app with resetting AGPS and downloading a new file but that never really helped. So he had me hard reset the phone with holding power, home, and volume up after the powering off. We opened the Maps app that came stock with the phone and it didnt lock in in the few mins that i had it open. Then we downloaded the newest Maps app and tried locking in again...no luck. I was also not receiving the OTA update (phone was always stock and not rooted) so we checked for that through the setting on the phone and i still couldnt receive it. Before all this happened I already talked to Verizon support and they had send me a refurbished S3 a few days before i made the call to tech support. So i told the guy that the refuribished phone that i had received got the OTA update as soon as i put my SIM card in the first time i powered the phone up and i havent had an issue with the GPS on it. He wanted me to just double check the firmware and the GPS signal on both phones and he said there was definatley something wrong with my original phone so that phone was sent back.
So i would suggest just calling the carrier and have them send out a new phone for you if your having GPS issues.
they're sending me a new one, the tech service guy on the phone has a gs3, and he didn't have any of these issues, so they are replacing it.
hopefully it doesn't have this issue...
now i gotta find a way to save all of my game data...
I had this same GPS issue and I found a post that seemed to fix the issue.
Go to Google Services Framework in application manager and clear all data. Then go to Google in application manager and clear data plus uninstall updates. Reboot, installed google update, and now my GPS locks on within seconds. Good luck, hope this fixes your issues as well.
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I saw the post on this and tried it but it didn't help my phone.
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thanks, i tried clearing those places, and while i couldn't find "google," i cleared "google maps" and hoped it would work, however, it did not.
Verizon is sending me a new phone, hopefully this phone will be better...
Fwiw, mine seems better now on beans ICS rom

GPS signal / lock

Hi all,
I own the Nexus 5 for almost one year now.. Gps always worked flawlessly. Last week I started to have gps issues.. I was on the road signal was OK for 15min and suddenly it dropped. Since then I've tried everything:
Agps download
Several gps apps
Full Wipe
New gps.conf settings
Nexus 5 gps antena fix.
Nothing work. Today I was making a comparison with my wife's galaxy s3 and I noticed something weird. The orientation of North is different. I don't know if this has something to do with the GPS lock.
Also, I can get a lock from (usually) half of the visible satellites. When my wife's galaxy s3 can get a lock from 98% of visible satellites. My error margin is always to big for navigation 14-40meters.
Can someone help me?
I'm rooted and using linaro kernel..
Anyone?
@dahool What app is that?
GPS status
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GPS status
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By espresso3389?
Edit: never mind it's by MOBIWIA
My orientation on my GPS is a little off. Not sure if you can calibrate it but the location in general is normally perfect.
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Is there a cure for GPS issue? Or its better if I RMA my equipment?
It worked flawlessly for almost one year...
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dahool said:
Is there a cure for GPS issue? Or its better if I RMA my equipment?
It worked flawlessly for almost one year...
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I am suddenly having the same issue anyone else have a fix?
I will most likely to RMA my device, since I've tried everything...
It does not seem to be an hardware failure, because I can lock like 7 or 8 of 22 satellites...
I've tryed diferent rom, diferent kernel, diferent radio... Antena fix, nothing works.
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I was having similiar issues and after looking around on the internet and reading this thread on the google code pages I think I found a work around...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72311
You need to go back and install the Radio from 4.4.2, it seems the Radio that came with 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 cause lots of GPS Signal loses. Installed the Radio yesterday and cleared cache and Dalvik-cache and my trip to work this morning had no signal lose. Hope it continues to work as my last vacation the GPS was pretty much unusable and I was ready to do an RMA. But if it is software hopefully google will fix. Please "Star" the Google issue so it gets more priority if using older radio fixes your issue.
Can you please point me the link to 4.4.1 radio?
Thank you
I extracted it from the Nexus 4.4.2 Factory image and flashed the radio using Fastboot:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/hammerhead-kot49h-factory-02006b99.tgz
But you can also find the Radios as IMG or ZIP (flash with a Custom Recovery) files in the attached thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/modem-nexus-5-flashable-modems-efs-t2514095
Another thread that might interest you on similiar topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/flashable-4-4-1-radio-nexus-5-t2852120
Good luck
dahool said:
Can you please point me the link to 4.4.1 radio?
Thank you
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https://app.box.com/s/zvszfbzcj879e7app3pa
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Did this worked for anyone else?
Flashing the 4.4.1 radio did not fix the issue for me
dahool said:
Did this worked for anyone else?
Flashing the 4.4.1 radio did not fix the issue for me
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It worked for me in my testing yesterday. Did you also clear your Dalvik Cache? I did both at the same time and since then GPS worked for me.
Not for me
I tried flashing the radio yesterday and it didn't seem to resolve me issue. So I used the LG tool to go back to stock, and GPS locked last night. But this morning it was the issue. Of course if I reboot the phone, I get an immediate lock. Not sure what's up with that. But I'm going to try a few more things today.
schalmers said:
I was having similiar issues and after looking around on the internet and reading this thread on the google code pages I think I found a work around...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72311
You need to go back and install the Radio from 4.4.2, it seems the Radio that came with 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 cause lots of GPS Signal loses. Installed the Radio yesterday and cleared cache and Dalvik-cache and my trip to work this morning had no signal lose. Hope it continues to work as my last vacation the GPS was pretty much unusable and I was ready to do an RMA. But if it is software hopefully google will fix. Please "Star" the Google issue so it gets more priority if using older radio fixes your issue.
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wow! I'm trying that now! that would explain why my GPS started sucking so badly and I couldn't pinpoint what it was...
are there any xda threads discussing this?
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C--Dog said:
I tried flashing the radio yesterday and it didn't seem to resolve me issue. So I used the LG tool to go back to stock, and GPS locked last night. But this morning it was the issue. Of course if I reboot the phone, I get an immediate lock. Not sure what's up with that. But I'm going to try a few more things today.
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possibly reboot triggers A-GPS flush?
dahool said:
Did this worked for anyone else?
Flashing the 4.4.1 radio did not fix the issue for me
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Yes it worked for me I did a factory reset & unroot just because I was getting ready to send it back. Then I read about the KOT49E radio re rooted & flashed KOT49E & now it works perfectly. I don't know if the reset was necessary, but its nice to clean out the closet every now & then.
I can't believe how frustrating this has been & such a simple fix (if your are rooted that is)
Got my board replaced, and now it works xD
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[Q] What the heck it wrong with GPS?

I thought the latest update would fix it, but my oneplus sometimes wont lock on to GPS. It is really annoying since I use my phone to navigate to a lot of places when I am driving. I have tried third party apps (GPS status) and I have rebooted a million times, which sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. Does anyone have a fix for this? I am about to throw my phone into the river!
Perhaps you can try Nightlies? On stock GPS same will not lock, have to reboot your phone. Nightlies doesn't have GPS problems worked perfectly.
I've never had a single problem with GPS on mine, and I play Ingress on a daily basis.
Zero problems with GPS here. Try FasterGPS from the Play Store.
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timmaaa said:
Zero problems with GPS here. Try FasterGPS from the Play Store.
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I have tried faster GPS, maybe I should do the nightlies thing to see if it would work better.
Danskivich said:
I have tried faster GPS, maybe I should do the nightlies thing to see if it would work better.
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Works flawlessly here, used it a few times as a sat nav.
Could you tell us your setup? I assume you're on the stock rom but are you running a custom kernel or anything else?
Danskivich said:
I thought the latest update would fix it, but my oneplus sometimes wont lock on to GPS. It is really annoying since I use my phone to navigate to a lot of places when I am driving. I have tried third party apps (GPS status) and I have rebooted a million times, which sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. Does anyone have a fix for this? I am about to throw my phone into the river!
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Unfortunately I have the same problem as you. And I have tried nightlies and every other ROM posted on here, none have resolved it. FasterGps also doesn't help. It's a shame because otherwise the phone is perfect, but I can't use apps like Runtastic and Maps without gps working. I've opened a support ticket with OPO, it's been 10 days, haven't heard a word.
FSOP said:
Works flawlessly here, used it a few times as a sat nav.
Could you tell us your setup? I assume you're on the stock rom but are you running a custom kernel or anything else?
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Stock out the box, I havent even unlocked the bootloader or anything. It seems like maybe I should
I have the same issue, I'm rooted with stock CM and kernel and my GPS never worked. It's ****ing annoying
To be honest I never tried GPS stock as I unlocked the bootloader, rooted and installed Franco kernel as soon as i got the phone.
You could try franco and see if it makes a difference, if you're willing
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Its the luck if the draw as I have Franco and crdroid and also have the same GPS issues as others. I must say though I seem to have thus on all my phones so its not specific to OPO. There used to be GPS files to flash which improved it. I have been looking around
FSOP said:
To be honest I never tried GPS stock as I unlocked the bootloader, rooted and installed Franco kernel as soon as i got the phone.
You could try franco and see if it makes a difference, if you're willing
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Same issue with franco too actually.

Poor/Broken GPS performance

Hi,
The GPS on my Oneplus One appears to be very close to broken after the OTA update to 5.1. My phone is completely stock - ie not rooted, locked bootloader, the whole lot. Everything else on the device works beautifully.
I've searched around and it doesn't appear to be a very common problem with this phone.
The GPS worked flawlessly on 4.4 and I think on 5.0 (was only on 5.0 for a couple of days before the 5.1 OTA came through).
Using GPS test I can see 32 satellites, but it will very, very slowly fix to 7 or 8 and sometimes get a lock, mostly not.
Is this something anyone else is finding, or has a fix for?
I'm not against rooting and flashing another ROM, it just seems a little overkill when everything else works so well.
Thanks in advance for any help...
Did you tried GPS Fix from Playstore?
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^^^ Yes, often resetting and downloading new AGPS data can fix this. I use GPS Status & Toolbox.
Thanks guys. "The GPS Fix" app sorted it out. I'm not sure what it actually does behind the scenes but I'm getting a solid lock instantly now.
Is this something I'm going to need to do periodically, or after a reboot to keep it working?
Cheers...
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Is this something I'm going to need to do periodically, or after a reboot to keep it working?
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I travel a lot internationally and only have to do it when I go to another region. Once I'm in a region for a while, I just leave it alone.
This is what I used http://ejvyas.blogspot.com/2015/10/one-plus-one-bacon-gps-fix.html
Did it work well long term?
I thought I'd fixed this with the apps mentioned earlier, but it's still pretty poor. 30 seconds plus to fix and then drops out constantly...
Same issue here.. It started after the last update..I travel for business and I use the phone to plan my route.. Last trip had great weather yet horrible drop off. Hasn't gotten any better since..

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