I tried many apps including GPS Test, GPS Reset, TopNTP, GPS status & toolbox. Reseted and everything. I get 0 Satellite coverage. I even used the GPS testing from the secret menu of the phone. ( 277634#*# ) and i get nothing.
This happened after i downgraded my phone, it was stuck on a bug before were it couldnt update anymore so i had to downgrade it to try and update the phone after and it worked. Except for the GPS which seems to be dead
I found a solution i havent been able to try on this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/how-to-fix-gps-location-locking-to-t3176151
but its for a different phone and the steps arent working for me, i also found out searching that there was a way ADB shellkit can do it too but i too was unable to find out how.
I hope someone has an answer.
android version is 6.0.
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GPS was working fine for Google Maps and Live Search with the ATT ROM. After upgrading to the HTC ROM I had to manually tell both apps which COM port to look for the GPS on to get them to work (although I couldn't get the camera to see the GPS because I don't know where to specify the COM port).
Now, I accidentally opened the External GPS utility and, even though I didn't make any changes, none of the previous apps can connect to GPS. I know this problem has been reported before and the solution has been to do a hard reset but I though I would check and see if anyone has found a way to get it working again without a hard reset.
Hello I recently bought this phone from geekbuying. The phone works perfectly, everything up to the smallest detail! Just the GPS.. It tried to search for a GPS and can't find one at all.. Google Maps finds a location around 2 miles away from me and that is the closest it gets to "GPS"
I have tried several things such as all the GPS fix things like GPS doctor and all that stuff.. I am just wondering if there is anything left I can do, I mean I can't change the ROM cause there is no CMR for this phone. It is currently rooted, I have also tried re-setting the whole phone and formatting it. And tried out GPS on safemode.
I have tried the A-EPS and the EPO download. But alas, nothing.
Thank you for your help if you can!
Hi guys,
I need help. Once I encrypted my phone. Location service/GPS is not working on my phone.
Before encryption. There is the location icon always comes up when I access something like Google Maps. even tried installing GPS toolbox. Able to see the satellites and all.
But after encryption, the location icon does not come up. But somehow in High Accuracy mode, it does get somewhere of an approximation of my location.(from network and Wifi).(This does not go well when you are navigating around)
Have you guys encountered this. I have even tried flashing the new L09 Rom and it is still the same.
Also searched around the forums (Looks like the old Samsung phones had this issue where after encryption the GPS would not work). But the post is way back in 2011. And they din follow up on the posts on how it was fixed.
I have factory reset my phone a number of times, flash new rom(the one shared on this forum)
Also played with the settings nothing happens. I still cannot get GPS to work after encryption.
Also another thing I notice is that during the encryption a strange error came up and say that Settings have stopped working. I do not know whether there is a coincidence or not and whether it has anything to do with this GPS problems..
Any help is welcomed. as having a phone with no GPS is really driving me up the wall.
nchee said:
Hi guys,
I need help. Once I encrypted my phone. Location service/GPS is not working on my phone.
Before encryption. There is the location icon always comes up when I access something like Google Maps. even tried installing GPS toolbox. Able to see the satellites and all.
But after encryption, the location icon does not come up. But somehow in High Accuracy mode, it does get somewhere of an approximation of my location.(from network and Wifi).(This does not go well when you are navigating around)
Have you guys encountered this. I have even tried flashing the new L09 Rom and it is still the same.
Also searched around the forums (Looks like the old Samsung phones had this issue where after encryption the GPS would not work). But the post is way back in 2011. And they din follow up on the posts on how it was fixed.
I have factory reset my phone a number of times, flash new rom(the one shared on this forum)
Also played with the settings nothing happens. I still cannot get GPS to work after encryption.
Also another thing I notice is that during the encryption a strange error came up and say that Settings have stopped working. I do not know whether there is a coincidence or not and whether it has anything to do with this GPS problems..
Any help is welcomed. as having a phone with no GPS is really driving me up the wall.
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Really sorry for late response - but you can fix this problem using attached file - this is apk from China version of Mate7 make you be able to give (or revoke) access to system data storages (including GPS) to applications.
I had the same problem as you - and using this apk i've fixed it successfully.
it doesn't work for me - can anybody sent printsceen of settings of this app?
Thanks
@nchee + @mireczeque
Have you BOTH re-flashed the stock rom by using the official HUAWEI procedure (i.e. three buttons pressed togheter and ROM saved on DLOAD folder)? If so, do you have ALSO applied a WIPE DATA FACTORY RESET plus a WIPE CACHE PARTITION?
I had some problems with APPS crashing when I tried restoring my HAM with B130. I WIPED everithing and THEN re-flashed fresh B130 from DLOAD sdcard procedure, and everithing worked perfectly. I hope this help.
mireczeque said:
it doesn't work for me - can anybody sent printsceen of settings of this app?
Thanks
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restore phone
So I bought this phone a month ago, and I just noticed that it wont use waze properly or g maps for that matter. Then upon checking Phone tester, to my surprise it doesn't detect any satellites. Is there a fix for this?
I also tried other apps and look, it doesnt detect satellite
Hi there,
I'm having the same problem. At first I thought it was Google Map apps but I've tried other navigation apps as sygic, tomtom and waze, all with the same problem. When I install the GPS apps I can see the the phone is unable to lock the GPS signal. I've send the phone back to the service center and what they did was a software update (though I think what they did just hard reset the phone) but the problem still occurred. I've done the hard reset myself numerous time but no difference whatsoever.
Is this a random problem to the P20 model or is it region based problem? I've read somewhere not all the P20 is having this issue. Could this be related to Android Oreo (8.1) itself? Currently I'm on version EML-L29 8.1.0.132 (C636patch01). Mine was purchased from Maxis Malaysia. I've been thinking either to install custom firmware, downgrade to Nougat or rebrand to other region but am not sure whether it will solve the problem. Anybody else with the same problem and is there a fix for this?
I have the same problem. Tried to install other apps, did a hard reset as well... But problem still exist.
I also had the same problem, I performed a hard reset and nothing happened, I returned where I bought and they sent me a new one, it is now working correctly
send it back to Huawei service centre. I just had mine fixed. Changed motherboard, with new IMEI. 2 weeks phone. it sucks to be honest. hopefully nothing goes wrong after this. #fingercrossed
Hallo everyone,
after many years of use without problems and with the Stock Android OS my GPS stopped working. I noticed that using first Google Maps, then I had the confirmation using the app "GPS Status" (Screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xikt3yd4fz4sen/Screenshot_20190113-135600.png?dl=0).
I tried to use the "Hard Paper" fix under the GPS contatcs, but It didn't change anything.
Any tipps?
Update: I changed the Backcover (inclusive GPS antenna) with a new one, but It didn´t change anything. Could maybe be a software problem?
The contacts may be busted. Neither NFC or GPS work on my N5 anymore. The contacts failed after the years of use/abuse. I didn't dig much deeper into fixing it than just confirming the problem as I only use my N5 as my snowboarding phone/media player.
Thanks for your answer. I checked the contacts of the Motherboard too, but the seems completely fine. I didn't had any Problem with the NFC, but the GPS still doent work. I have done a factory reset of the whole OS, hoping it was a software problem, but there's no difference and the GPS still doesn't work.
I still want find the cause of this. Any other tipps?
Maybe the gps.conf file is broken (it usually happens when you install a custom rom but maybe it happened on stock aswell)
Try to replace your gps.conf file with this one here. (need to be rooted)
Klyno said:
Maybe the gps.conf file is broken (it usually happens when you install a custom rom but maybe it happened on stock aswell)
Try to replace your gps.conf file with this one here. (need to be rooted)
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Thanks for your tipp.
I first installed Lineage 14.1 (the OS works really well in comparison to the old Stock Rom) but the GPS still didn't work. So I tried first to install the new gps.conf via this guide, with no change. Then I tried the the app TopNTP, seems that it doens't work. So I gave a change to another App, GPS Fix/Optimzer, but even if it install of the .inf file succeded, the GPS don't work.
Im running out of ideas an hoping for a miracle. :angel:
Sorry, I thought that with the Lineage OS installation there was an automatic root of the phone. Of course I was wrong, and that's why the TopNTP and GPS Fix/Optimizer didn't work.
I rooted the phone right now, and tested the Apps in order to fix the GPS Issues, sadly without much success.
I tried different combinations with TopNTP, then used the GPS Fix/Optimizer standard options for my country. With both the Phone GPS can't reach a better accuracy of 1,5 Km. I don't remember if before was better, but the GPS is still not usable.
Still looking for help, every tipp is welcome! :good: