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Well like everyone I had the GPS issue and it was frustrating. I do run an app killer and I always notice many apps (especially the preloaded ones) Keep launching themselves. It got rather irritating. Specifically Telenav.
I noticed with Telenav my GPS would be very flaky. Once I got "killed" it the gps seemed to improve. I thought to myself maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Did a bit of research and found an app called "Start UP Auditor" which completely kills an app and restricts it from every starting up again. My gps seems to be working much better now.
I drove a few miles and on the Verrazano Bridge here in NY and the GPS was super percise. When I was at the end of the block it was at the end of the block as well at the same time. Not like it was before.
Now I can launch google maps and it will find me exactly in front of my house and not 200 feet away.
Takes a solid minute to lock on. Not more but not less unfortunately. So there still is a bit of a problem but for me at least it has exponentially gotten better. Versus it not even locking on previously.
I think I might be on to something. I cannot give all credit to me because I saw on a Tmobile forum someone say that they think the problem might be with the self launching apps so that's where I started to draw conclusions.
EDIT: Scratch that one min thing. It seriously just now took me 10 seconds to lock on and the GPS to start talking to tell me where to turn inside my house. Issue fixed?
I completly removed TeleNav and I still have GPS issues... It is not any software causing this problem. It is a Hardware / Firmware / Driver issue.
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gravis86 said:
I completly removed TeleNav and I still have GPS issues... It is not any software causing this problem. It is a Hardware / Firmware / Driver issue.
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Same here, one of the first things I did after rooting was remove all the bloatware, and Telenav was one of them.
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I completly removed TeleNav and I still have GPS issues... It is not any software causing this problem. It is a Hardware / Firmware / Driver issue.
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Hmmm... Interesting.
My GPS issues seem to have disappeared after killing Telenav.
This just takes me back to the drawing board once more. I just do not understand...
I would like to see others responses. Does there happen to be vibrants with different firmwares?
So what happened to me?
Was it some magical stroke of luck?
Wow.
Initially, disabling TeleNav gave me a significant improvement in GPS performance. Indoors, I went from having 50-60ft. of accuracy (with multiple locks), to 12-15ft. of accuracy with a single lock. Initial accuracy was in the upper 40s, but quickly dropped to the highest accuracy I've seen with the device (the 12-15ft. figure) - indoor or outdoor - within a minute. Crazy.
Outdoor, on a perfectly clear sky, the best I've achieved was previously 25ft. of accuracy.
I rebooted (the phone froze, wheee!), with TeleNav still selected as disabled, and now, I'm only getting 30-52ft. of accuracy with a single lock. This took about two minutes to come down from 170ft. or so.
GPS settings have been switched to 'Automatic', from the stock supl server, for all of these tests.
Maps still shows me in Issaquah, initially (incorrect data), but quickly updates my position my exact location (within a few seconds). Previously, Maps would take at least a half hour to place me in even the correct city! Margin of Error: ~50ft. or so (shows me on the street, rather than on my property), within seconds.
Compass, as expected: still totally ****ing broken and ****ty.
I can confirm that - besides not being able to lock onto more than a single sat - I'm seeing drastic improvements. Thanks for pointing this out.
Still, I'm not sure the improvement will be enough to convince me to hang onto the device while we wait to hear from Samsung. :/
Jon C said:
Wow.
Initially, disabling TeleNav gave me a significant improvement in GPS performance. Indoors, I went from having 50-60ft. of accuracy (with multiple locks), to 12-15ft. of accuracy with a single lock. Initial accuracy was in the upper 40s, but quickly dropped to the highest accuracy I've seen with the device (the 12-15ft. figure) - indoor or outdoor - within a minute. Crazy.
Outdoor, on a perfectly clear sky, the best I've achieved was previously 25ft. of accuracy.
I rebooted (the phone froze, wheee!), with TeleNav still selected as disabled, and now, I'm only getting 30-52ft. of accuracy with a single lock. This took about two minutes to come down from 170ft. or so.
GPS settings have been switched to 'Automatic', from the stock supl server, for all of these tests.
Maps still shows me in Issaquah, initially (incorrect data), but quickly updates my position my exact location (within a few seconds). Previously, Maps would take at least a half hour to place me in even the correct city! Margin of Error: ~50ft. or so (shows me on the street, rather than on my property), within seconds.
Compass, as expected: still totally ****ing broken and ****ty.
I can confirm that - besides not being able to lock onto more than a single sat - I'm seeing drastic improvements. Thanks for pointing this out.
Still, I'm not sure the improvement will be enough to convince me to hang onto the device while we wait to hear from Samsung. :/
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Yea like I said in the OP the fix is better but there definitely is a problem that needs to be addressed. That might be either hardware or firmware, All thats left is to wait for sammy to fix it up. However my GPS performance for my needs is more than exceptional.
I have noticed that while running GPStest, Google Maps starts to work. Something is wrong with the API.
If anyone is getting black screen freeze ups, disabling GPS will clear that right up.
And, we're back to square one. So much for that.
Location services can no longer locate me, and show that I'm in a neighboring city. Nothing I adjust fixes this for more than a short period of time.
Oh, Samsung...
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I have noticed that while running GPStest, Google Maps starts to work. Something is wrong with the API.
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It seems to me that it is definitely a software problem. I don't think the hardware is bad. (The gps chip?)
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If anyone is getting black screen freeze ups, disabling GPS will clear that right up.
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I drove for miles and had nothing. Though if I am not using GPS I always turn it off to conserve battery.
Jon C said:
And, we're back to square one. So much for that.
Location services can no longer locate me, and show that I'm in a neighboring city. Nothing I adjust fixes this for more than a short period of time.
Oh, Samsung...
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I wonder if they can't even find the issue yet. It will probably be fix in the 2.2 update.
I removed TelNav within 4days of owning my phone and it really for me hasn't changed a thing.
What helped me was turning off the wireless location feature. From what I noticed it looks for your location based off the cell towers first then it looks for your location via GPS. If its slow to find you via wireless then well its slow to find you via GPS too.
I didn't really tried the GPS when I saw the threads saying there was a problem with it and I read somewhere about "how to fix it" so I applied the fix before even using the GPS before, so I have no clue if I had problems or not, but after the fix, the GPS locks in about 10 to 15 seconds and gest my location on the spot, even indoors.
just change the GPS settings to google servers
Directly after rebooting my gps/navigation seems to work much better.
To make it more clear... I'll be using my phone throughout the day and then i'll try to use navigation. Usually it will just keep trying to find the route but it never actually finds it. I'll reboot the phone and it'll find my location and the route in <10 seconds.
kizer said:
I removed TelNav within 4days of owning my phone and it really for me hasn't changed a thing.
What helped me was turning off the wireless location feature. From what I noticed it looks for your location based off the cell towers first then it looks for your location via GPS. If its slow to find you via wireless then well its slow to find you via GPS too.
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I believe the wifi and GPS share the same antenna. Anyone know which antennas do what for sure?
Our cellular antenna is at the bottom under the bump. The one at the top next to the antenna port does the rest.
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If anyone is getting black screen freeze ups, disabling GPS will clear that right up.
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Thanks for this tip, I hadn't caught this in the other GPS threads.
I ran and used My Tracks but forgot to turn on GPS. When I tried nav it could not get a fix until I restarted. Next time I'll try killing conflicting apps.
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I just deleted the Tel-Nav app and now my GPS locks on in about 10 seconds and is dead on accurate. I even drove 165 miles today and never dropped a GPS signal. I could never do that before.
Does anyone know why the times are off one the gps sensors? My local time is 10:51, but gps test has it as 18:51 that is about 8 hours off.
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My GPS totally stopped working after the update. What gives?
I have the same issue. It was bad before but no totally unusable. Samsung needs to get their act together and release froyo.
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I have the same issue. It was bad before but no totally unusable. Samsung needs to get their act together and release froyo.
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Hey bro try this, it's annoying but it worked for me. Turn off wifi, then go to "settings> location & security" and disable "use wireless networks" restart the phone and gps should be working. This is how a few other people have got the gps goin again after the update. it might or might not stop working when you turn wifi on again after gps is working
No issues indoors or out.
D107 changed the relationship between screen brightness and perceived ambient light. Prior to this update, the brightness vs. ambient light was PERFECT. Now, it's too dim in low-light conditions!
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My GPS totally stopped working after the update. What gives?
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Same here and nothing seems to be helping
I'm not having any gps issues. It actually locks on faster than it did before. I got a lock within 3 seconds inside my house.
I just got my OTA for D107. I heard alot of people were having problems that if they were rooted it wouldn't install. I didn't have that problem at all. I am rooted and it installed just fine plus I've had no problems with my paid apps or the market.
What I did was when the OTA came in I clicked on "more info", then I clicked on "Reboot and Install" or "Restart and Install". I can't remember exactly what it was. It turned off, it installed, and then started the phone. Everything works great including the media hub, paid apps, and the market.
Alright so I got mine working. Started Sprint Nav and had it search for something, it came back and said no GPS could be found, backed out and exited the program and openeds maps and it worked. Foursquare is working now too..
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D107 changed the relationship between screen brightness and perceived ambient light. Prior to this update, the brightness vs. ambient light was PERFECT. Now, it's too dim in low-light conditions!
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yea it sucks .
Agreed, I have the exact same issue, and it has led to me turning off the auto-brightness function...
Sprint Nav used to work fine.
This morning on a 40 minute drive to a photo shoot in Boston, it lost GPS 4 times without a cloud in the sky and twice when it came back up, it thought I was in Rhode Island.
is this what they call GPS Enhancements?
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Agreed, I have the exact same issue, and it has led to me turning off the auto-brightness function...
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I like my screen pretty dim so this kinda makes me happy... Different strokes for different folks it looks like.
GPS is locking on satellite, however I can only get it to put me within a 30 meter proximity.
The 30 meter distance is apparently coded into the software of the phone so pay not attention to it as it doesn't mean squat.
I have been trying google navigation a couple of times over the last months.
Most of the time I had set it to sat view just because it looks kind of cool.
In 9 out of 10 cases it will completely hard lock the HD2 after a minute or 30. Basically it means that you have to yank out the battery because the screen is frozen and nothing works anymore to kill the task.
My HD2 is not getting warm or anything, and other navigation software works perfectly.
So bassically it happens on any android build on mine, sd or nand, all the same issue.
Does anyone experience the same?
I drove nearly 400 miles the other day, took 6-7 hrs, used Google Navigation the whole journey without a problem.
Try it on Map view rather than Sat, and see if you have the same problems.
It's working like a charm to me. I'm actually starting to like it.
Yet, i would like to know if any of you know a way to change the navigation language while keeping the device language to spanish.
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I drove nearly 400 miles the other day, took 6-7 hrs, used Google Navigation the whole journey without a problem.
Try it on Map view rather than Sat, and see if you have the same problems.
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Yeah, I can imaging if it is the sat view that is causing this.
Haven't tried it without and to be honest not really nice if the whole thing locks up when driving at high speeds.
I can't get the Google compass to work properly. It won't calibrate. Anyone else?
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I will check on mine and let you know.
Mine's always off by 90 degrees
Mine's perfect. Make sure you hold it like it is on a table (flat).
My compass seems a little screwy too. Google sky is showing the sun below the horizon to the SSE. It's 9:07 AM local and the sun is well into the sky (in reality).
I notice Google Sky always seems to default to "Tomorrow at Sunset" (which should put the sun in the west), so I change it to "Now".
Does Google Sky use any other sensors besides the compass?
EDIT: ahh.. nevermind, seems the tablet lost the timezone (I'm sure I had set it). The time was set to 9:07 AM GMT instead of 9:07 AM CDT. Now all is right in the universe (virtually).
Read this...
Read this, maybe you have the same problem...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047894&highlight=compass
My compass was always pointing south. Doc gave me some little blue pills and I'm like Santa Clause at the north pole now.
Seriously though, you need to hold it perfectly flat. I've found with that it's close. I don't have a magnetic compass to compare to.
michaelh99 said:
Mine's always off by 90 degrees
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Mine is also off by 90 degrees. The East indicator is actually North for me. No amount of waving my tablet in the air like a lunatic seems to fix this. Even made sure my GPS was on in case that affected the calibrating.
cybermage1 said:
Mine is also off by 90 degrees.
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Aha interesting - market compass apps (tried 2) are off 90 degrees, but Google Sky works perfectly. The compass apps I've tried obviously detect tablet orientation wrong.
Hi there!
I have problem with Sport Tracking. When I pull my |Note to open surface, everything works great. But for biking, I am puting it into back pack pocket of cyckling dress, and maybe this is the problem. Tracking work for a few minutes and then stop (Endomondo, Sports Tracker, Runkeeper). Similary Nokia E52 have no problem. Have anybody the same problem?
A little test - on open space have 18satelites, most of them in green. When I take it close to body and covered by hands - 14satelites and 2 in green.
I've used my Note a few times with MyTracks and Glympse. The phone was in the inside pocket of my jacket, I was travelling by bus, train or walking and had no problems with registering the track for 30-60 minutes.
I don't know... I just came back from a 40 minute jog with it in my back pocket (using Runkeeper), and the path/distance were tracked properly.
Same here - I use Runkeeper all the time and it works perfectly.
So is it problem only of my device? Or of me
As I said - normaly 18 sat, fix in 5sec, aGPS every 6hours. But tracking only for a few minutes. (no root, Android 2.3.6 LA6)
Same problem here, w/root & LC1, tracks with Endomondo for about 23-30 minutes, before it just stops. Turning the gps on and off resumes the tracking. Strange, irritating stuff.
maybe you're running too fast for the GPS to track? this often happens to usain bolt.
I wouldn't complain if that was the case
No, I just went for a leisurely stroll, occasionally north of 6 km/h.
I've tried reinstalling a stock rom, will see how that plays out. If it doesn't work, I guess I'm back to the old trick of running GPSTest in the background.
Hapy not to be alone
Will try you trick. I hope, it will be functional.
Sharp2G - good joke - I´ll try to ride slowly
I'm on stock and use MyTracks everytime while cycling.
I never had a problem except yesterday when the app thought I climbed 30000km+ mountains in a few seconds.
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Endomondo works great for me and I use it all the time.
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Im using LB1 rooted, tried editing my previous post but the xda app wont let me.
Ive made a few 1.5hr runs using it with no issues in endomondo.
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I'm really curious as of how do you guys are able to run with the Note, my SGS2 died on me last week (my fault) and I'm being offered a Note as replacement or wait 1 month for another SGS2. I decided to wait because I thought it would not be practical to run with the Note, but if you are doing it with no problems, i might just pick it up today!
Heh yeah.. my back pocket is just the right size (so it's not loose) and has Velcro closure. If not for that, I wouldn't have tried it.
I run 3 times a week with the Note usually 3-4 miles at a time and recording it with sportstracker pro. I have had one incident in the last few months where it failed to hold lock but it has been very reliable otherwise.
David
So the trick works! Great! I used GPS Status instead, but it works! Thanks!
Maybe, my problem was/is, that I am puting my Note into back pocket and have backpack too. On the open country it never minds, but in forest is harder to catch signal. BUT- other devices haven´t problem and as I know, Note is good for GPS hardware. SO - there is something wrong with software or compatibility with tracking aplications.
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So is it problem only of my device? Or of me
As I said - normaly 18 sat, fix in 5sec, aGPS every 6hours. But tracking only for a few minutes. (no root, Android 2.3.6 LA6)
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check your radio... install XXLA4 e.g. check again.