Hi. I've been experiencing severe issues about GPS and navigation on my OPO, which is exrtemely frustrating.
I can't have a decent navigation system on my device, as the blue pointer on Google Maps is usually extremely vague about the position and sometimes, even if I start the navigation, the pointer doesn't follow my track, stuck on my starting place.
I tried everything: the problem appeared to be solved on CM 12, but then I had to downgrade back to CM 11 because the battery was draining so fast.
Any idea? Thanks!
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GPS sucks and I think it's my phone.. GPS won't stay awake and keep the lock, needs wifi assistance and loses the lock as well. Google Maps navigation has been a nightmare.. dropped my phone too many times maybe?
With wifi assistance off:
GPS Status will get locks, up to 9 sats usually at best.
I have seen it lose locks.
When I close apps that use GPS the GPS icon disappears from the status bar.
I have seen this happen over multiple roms.
I have wiped my phone completely, no difference.
Google Maps navigation is terrible, often get "waiting on location" even before navigation and also get that my location is not available wifi on or off.
Any ideas?
I say maybe a equipment problem, I use my GPS daily for work and it works flawlessly everytime....
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+1 Going to have to agree with Rooster. If your having the same issue across multiple Roms, it's probably an equipment issue. Unless your changing the exact same thing on every Rom to affect GPS. Although this is unlikely. This is also based on that fact that I use my GPS daily. It locks in under 30 seconds everytime. I haven't touched a thing, having to do with it
Same Problem
I have the exact same problem across multiple roms (Cyanogen and Supreme Sense). I just re-loaded the entire phone. The gps still seems a bit fishy. Did you find a solution? It did work just fantastically when I first got it.
Thanks in advance.
VICODAN said:
GPS sucks and I think it's my phone.. GPS won't stay awake and keep the lock, needs wifi assistance and loses the lock as well. Google Maps navigation has been a nightmare.. dropped my phone too many times maybe?
With wifi assistance off:
GPS Status will get locks, up to 9 sats usually at best.
I have seen it lose locks.
When I close apps that use GPS the GPS icon disappears from the status bar.
I have seen this happen over multiple roms.
I have wiped my phone completely, no difference.
Google Maps navigation is terrible, often get "waiting on location" even before navigation and also get that my location is not available wifi on or off.
Any ideas?
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Hi everybody,
Just noticed I'm having some issues with sensors being used 100% of the time by navigation apps, eating up my battery like crazy.
First I've noticed Sygic 11.2.6 showing as the second battery consumer (about 25% of the total battery usage at any given time) with orientation sensor used 100% of the time even though no process related to Sygic was running.
Restarting would fix the problem, only for it to reappear as soon as I started Sygic again.
After I've uninstalled Sygic I noticed Google Maps 6.6.0 having about the same behavior, using the accelerometer 100% of the time even after force closing the app. Again, restarting the phone would fix the issue but running Maps once would make it appear again.
I tried uninstalling the updates, reverting to version 5.8.0 and no more accelerometer issues. Updated to 6.6.0 and started having the same issues again. Uninstalling the updates once more and again no sensor issue.
One interesting thing is that if I restart the phone and then disable auto-rotation, once I run Sygic or Google Maps 6.6.0 the apps start using the orientation/accelerometer sensor 100% of the time just like they use to (even though it's disabled!!!!...?!?!).
To me this would seem like a software issue. Anybody else experiencing something similar?!
Thank you in advance for your opinions!
Inginerul said:
Hi everybody,
Just noticed I'm having some issues with sensors being used 100% of the time by navigation apps, eating up my battery like crazy.
First I've noticed Sygic 11.2.6 showing as the second battery consumer (about 25% of the total battery usage at any given time) with orientation sensor used 100% of the time even though no process related to Sygic was running.
Restarting would fix the problem, only for it to reappear as soon as I started Sygic again.
After I've uninstalled Sygic I noticed Google Maps 6.6.0 having about the same behavior, using the accelerometer 100% of the time even after force closing the app. Again, restarting the phone would fix the issue but running Maps once would make it appear again.
I tried uninstalling the updates, reverting to version 5.8.0 and no more accelerometer issues. Updated to 6.6.0 and started having the same issues again. Uninstalling the updates once more and again no sensor issue.
One interesting thing is that if I restart the phone and then disable auto-rotation, once I run Sygic or Google Maps 6.6.0 the apps start using the orientation/accelerometer sensor 100% of the time just like they use to (even though it's disabled!!!!...?!?!).
To me this would seem like a software issue. Anybody else experiencing something similar?!
Thank you in advance for your opinions!
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Yes... noticed this with Sygic. It's a known app bug, and they still haven't fixed it yet. Haven't had this issue with Google maps though. Be warned however that any navigation app will chew up your battery very fast... Can't help it since it's accessing the Net, Compass, Accelerometer and GPS antenna - all at the same time at a high refresh rate...
Thank you fir your reply!
I know navigation is supposed to use a lot of battery but doing it even with processes closed?
It's good to know you confirm the Sygic bug. Honestly I've googled for 2 days and wasn't able to find any useful info about such a bug with Sygic. And for me, since Google Maps 6.6.0 acts the same way, it makes me think it's also a bug. For now I'm sticking to Maps 5.8.0 and I've reported the issue over to Google.
Thank you again!
I've been having trouble with Google Maps recently. GPS pinpoints my location accurately, but the directional/heading stability is horrible. Consequently, when in Navigation mode, the map is displayed properly for a second or two, but then it rotates wildly before settling again on the correct direction. It holds this for a second or two, then rotates wildly again. This is quite annoying, and makes Navigation unusable. When not in Navigation mode, the direction indicator can be seen rotating wildly, though the map itself doesn't rotate as it's not following me. The issue is also present in Google Sky Maps, with the map randomly rotating, though I'm holding the phone still.
I'm guessing the issue is with the phone's accelerometer and/or gyroscope, but I cannot determine if it's a hardware or software issue. It doesn't seem related to a specific ROM or version of Jellybean, though I've only been using TW based ROMs. I'm currently running the TW 4.3 based Alliance 22 ROM.
Has anyone see this issue before? Any ideas on resolving it?
Hi there,
i'm currently on the newest cm13 nightly and if i'm updating my system my compass is always completly wrong. After different solution for the compass calibration it will work till the next update again. Is there a way that the compass has not to be calibrated on every update? it's really annoying because sometimes the calibration works instantly and then sometimes it takes more than 10 minutes.
Especially if i want to use gps and have not calibrated after update, it can be that i need much time for calibration to get gps work..
Thanks
Hello all.
first of all I would like to make sure is this problem is only on my device. What kind of problem? My character is not accurately following my movements. When I walk slowly it is almost ok but sometimes it is auto rotating in wrong direction as I was walking from side point of view. When I am in the buss it is going totally crazy. When bus speeds up screen stops moving as I was standing and sometimes refreshes in different place than I am at the moment. GPS status app shows no problem with connection to satellites and car navigation on google maps works very well. One thing that I have noticed is that when I left the bus and started Google Maps it pointed bad my localisation(200 - 300 meters away from my real position)
I have turned on localisation and all rights are given to both Harry an GMaps. Wifi scanning in localisation menu is also turned on.
Any ideas?
It seemed to be tracking me okay, but when I get to the point where it uses the camera it crashes.
Are you on the 9.5.8 update? I don't play that game, but have been seeing some odd GPS activity in Strava and Google Maps since I took the last update.
I have the same problem with Harry Potter but it seems to work well with Pokémon. Maybe the problem is from the game ?