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Okay, I have never had a problem like this until now. I recently had to replace my VX6800 because of a cracked screen. When I got the replacement, I updated to the newest Radio and cooked a ROM based on 20270. Everything works flawlessly until I am at work. I worked at a power plant where the reception in buildings is very little. The company purchased and installed a few cell phone boosters with the external antennas and the whole nine yards. Before this new phone, new Radio, and new ROM I was able to use the signal from the repeaters, now I can't. My phone sees the signal, but will not use it for data or voice. I can't even dial *228. I can walk outside and use my phone no problem. I am totally confused at what to do next. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions? I am also running PRL version 51056.
Well if you want to experiment, flash on Radio version 3.42.40 via MicroSD (since it's SPECIFICALLY made for this device, and not ported over)
See if you notice any difference doing that.
What were you running before?
That's excactly what I am doing now. After having posted this thread, I am reading more about the .50 and realized that is was from the Vogue. I am in the process of flashing to .40 now. I will let you know.
I downgraded my Radio to 3.42.02 and it still doesn't work. Any other Radio suggetions?
Hi Everyone...
I got my son a US Cellular PPC6800 (Titan)... It has on it now :
Rom Version 2.17.573.0
Rom Date 7/1/08
Radio 1.69.00
Hardware Version 0003
PRI 1.31_027
After some reading here, it seems I need a diffrent radio to get the GPS to work... my issue is I spent all day yesterday setting up the phone for my son, just how he would like it... I would hate to have to re-do it all just ot enable the GPS... Could I just update the radio and keep the rest just how it is? or wouldnt; that work... I don;t even need the phone itself to work as a phone as I will be using it as a skype phone... I just need the WiFi, GPS, and bluetooth... Thank you in advance for you advice
No your rom or os is not compatible with a gps radio. You would have to install a custom rom and then a compatible gps radio to enable it. You will lose all settings and programs when do this change.
You'll have to flash a new radio and then a new rom, the one you currently have will have to be overwritten.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24511
That guide should help you out. I have some more info here that you may find useful as well.
http://sites.google.com/site/victorbush/htc-6800-1
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your advice everyone... I got a new radio (3.35.04) and rom (RMcarrierlessTitanV1.1Light).. I was most like the standard 6.1 stockI was used to and had known good software for.. After doing LOTS of reading here, there, and everywhere today I was able to get the GPS to work as well with TomTom... Learning qPST was nice though.. I was easily able to change the banner to say "Skype" instead of US Cellular,Sprint, or any other carrier.. I thought that would be a nice touch as this will only be used as a Skype phone anyways...
The only other issue I am having, is when justhte phone is turned off it is reporting it isin airplane mode in certian programs (TomTom for example) and I have to turn on the phones radio to get it to work... Any suggestions? I am not putting it in aitplane mode.. and still have WiFi on at that point.. (although turning hte phone off sometimes effects that too it seems).. I am trying to get it to work well with the phone off to save battery as WiFi will be on most of the time it is in use... Thanks in advance..
Hello Guys,
I have a htc touch (vogue) from bell. I upgraded it with the bell rom on htc site one year ago. The GPS has worked ever since. However, it stopped working last friday. In google map, it is always "seeking for satellit (0)". I tried htc gps tool, I can see some (3~6) sat in view. I can even get some gps position data (eg. $GPGGA,120214.50,4531.116641,N,07339.266674,W,0,00,1.0,0.0,M,,,,*23) but not able to fix it. I also tried hard reset and re-installing the same rom/radio. It will not come back. Can somebody help me out?
Thanks a lot
chenaway said:
Hello Guys,
I have a htc touch (vogue) from bell. I upgraded it with the bell rom on htc site one year ago. The GPS has worked ever since. However, it stopped working last friday. In google map, it is always "seeking for satellit (0)". I tried htc gps tool, I can see some (3~6) sat in view. I can even get some gps position data (eg. $GPGGA,120214.50,4531.116641,N,07339.266674,W,0,00,1.0,0.0,M,,,,*23) but not able to fix it. I also tried hard reset and re-installing the same rom/radio. It will not come back. Can somebody help me out?
Thanks a lot
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Did you check the windows Settings to see if you're still in com4 with 4800 bauds?
Yes. It is always com4 and 4800.
Have you confirmed that location is still on?
You may want to try backing up your data and re-flashing the original Bell ROM to see if it changes/resets anything. A number of variables are possible with what you described.
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Have you confirmed that location is still on?
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I played a little bit with the registry setting. It looks like the gps location I posted above is not my location but a place about one mile from my place, most likely a location of the cell phone tower nearby. I mean that information may comes from agps. I lost the location when I changed the registry gpsmode to 1.
Shidell said:
You may want to try backing up your data and re-flashing the original Bell ROM to see if it changes/resets anything. A number of variables are possible with what you described.
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Thank you for your suggestion. I will try to find the cd with the old bell rom which I really have no idea where it is. As a backup, is there a bell old rom I can use online? I just do not want to play around with the unlock thing.
chenaway said:
Thank you for your suggestion. I will try to find the cd with the old bell rom which I really have no idea where it is. As a backup, is there a bell old rom I can use online? I just do not want to play around with the unlock thing.
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Go to HTC's site, look up the HTC Touch and go to Support, you should find Software Updates and Bell should be listed as one. They're hosting the latest ROM, I'd suggest flashing that.
I am also with Bell and having the exact same problem since the weekend. I have been running NFSFAN's latest rom for the last few months. I figured it might be a temporary glitch on Bell's part, but please let us know if reverting back to the Bell firmware restores your GPS.
southcan said:
I am also with Bell and having the exact same problem since the weekend. I have been running NFSFAN's latest rom for the last few months. I figured it might be a temporary glitch on Bell's part, but please let us know if reverting back to the Bell firmware restores your GPS.
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Ditto. Same for me since weekend. Also on Bell with NFSFAN's latest rom.
southcan said:
I am also with Bell and having the exact same problem since the weekend. I have been running NFSFAN's latest rom for the last few months. I figured it might be a temporary glitch on Bell's part, but please let us know if reverting back to the Bell firmware restores your GPS.
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I can confirm restoring to online bell firmware does not help.
having same problem too, must be on there side. I guess their agps servers are down
margosmark said:
having same problem too, must be on there side. I guess their agps servers are down
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LOL...so i'm not the only one too!
I thought I screwed up my phone after flashing to android (nand) and the GPS wouldn't work, so i flashed back to nfsfan's rom. It didn't work, so I just flashed to stock...and it didn't help, hence I though I screwed up my phone gps, and came to post about this.
Little did I know....it may not actually be me...
Let us know when it starts to work...
A-GPS server from Bell appears to be down.
If you open up GPSViewer on NFSFAN's ROM after awhile it will get some satellites but not get a full lock.
I will see what sort of fix can be made for this ....
Same thing as of last couple days
Mine eventually started working after opening gps viewer from system tools and cold starting.... what a pain! also iGuidance did not pick up the GPS as before
Tarney said:
Mine eventually started working after opening gps viewer from system tools and cold starting.... what a pain! also iGuidance did not pick up the GPS as before
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how do you think us verizon guys feel we dont even have agps
Same here. My GPS was working on my Touch (NFSFAN) and Blackberry in St. John's, NL (Aliant), but I travelled to Ottawa on Monday and the GPS is not working on either device now.
In Quebec, takes longer to get a connection but still gets one...
just for reference, gps lock using vin's 23506 on a Bell touch works fine - less than 10 seconds.
I do wish nfsans would release a new rom for the vogue tho
looks like the agps servers are up again, getting good locks now
Ok. Im about at my wits end. Ill give you all the info on my phone and hopefully you guys can help me. Im trying to use my Verizon Vogue without service as a golf GPS and for programs like TomTom. Im running a fresh flash of NFS Fans 6.5 Rom, no carrier cabs installed. Could this be my problem? I have radio version 3.42.30. I open GPS viewer and it will not get a GPS lock no matter how long it sits. I got GPS test and it just sits saying starting GPS with a little yellow dot. I unlocked using Cokes 2.31 unlocker. Any ideas? Thanks.
Do you have a locked pri still?
Did GPS work when you had service?
You might check here, but the thread probably assumes you have service.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533639&highlight=verizon+gps
Have you unlocked the GPS yet?
There is a Sprint ROM that must be loaded first to unlock the GPS. Once you've done this you can then load any of the custom ROMs here and will have a working GPS. If you then subsequently load any Verizon ROMs they will re-lock the GPS chip.
mrkite38 said:
You might check here, but the thread probably assumes you have service.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533639&highlight=verizon+gps
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Use this link, it's the only one that worked for my vzw warranty replacement phone. It does not matter if you have service or not, I had GPS working before I activated my phone.
golfnz34me said:
There is a Sprint ROM that must be loaded first to unlock the GPS. Once you've done this you can then load any of the custom ROMs here and will have a working GPS. If you then subsequently load any Verizon ROMs they will re-lock the GPS chip.
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The sprint rom you need is in the post that was linked to. You can load a vzw rom and still have gps, I did, just don't let cutomizations run. The only reason I ran it was to get rid of the sprint splash screen.
Hi, as the title says, my GPS doesn´t work with cm7.
I already reflashed the ROMs and tried different ones (Neutrino 2.5p2 and Morrisoft 0.7).
I also reflashed the radio.
I have gapps and gps-status installed and I´ve already tried to re-calibrate it, download A-GPS data etc.
It sometimes finds 1 satellite, but thats gone after some seconds.
GPS did work on stock 2.3.4 Bell firmware.
did anyone have this problem, too and solved it?
I feel your pain. I have Neutrino 2.2 installed and the GPS takes a few minutes to lock and it is not as accurate as when I had the stock 2.3.4 AT&T rom. I have tried all the fixes already but nothing seems to help...
yeah, that´s the same problem i have.
I think i´m gonna try some other roms.
Same here.
I'm using a sportstracking app called Endomondo, which has an "Auto Pause" feature that automatically halts the time when I'm not moving.
This worked without issues on my old phone, HTC Desire (CM7), for over a year now.
But with my Atrix I have major problems using the sportstracker. During a bike ride, it always halts the time because the app thinks that I'm not moving.
It seems that GPS lost its signal very often.
Don't know what I can do here, also tried different roms, tweaks, radios....strange.
Is there any logfile I can analyze?
you should maybe try differents radios to see.
Have you try to wait some time 30sec/1min?
so which radio can i flash? I´m currently on
N_01.77.33P
Already tried. 30p and 37p att radio and europe 100.00R. Didn't see a big difference in GPS function regarding my sportstracking.
metlca said:
so which radio can i flash? I´m currently on
N_01.77.33P
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Don't know att radios, but you can try N_01.77.37P and/or N_01.77.30P for example
see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Motorola_Atrix_4G#Radios
metlca: you should create a thread for your issue...
I did , this is the thread created by me
I just flashed another rom, (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1545001)
but i still have the gps problems ;(
metlca said:
I did , this is the thread created by me
I just flashed another rom, (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1545001)
but i still have the gps problems ;(
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Sorry I wanted to say "drakohla"...
Try to flash an other radio. Flashing a ROM doesn't change radio
drakohla said:
Same here.
I'm using a sportstracking app called Endomondo, which has an "Auto Pause" feature that automatically halts the time when I'm not moving.
This worked without issues on my old phone, HTC Desire (CM7), for over a year now.
But with my Atrix I have major problems using the sportstracker. During a bike ride, it always halts the time because the app thinks that I'm not moving.
It seems that GPS lost its signal very often.
Don't know what I can do here, also tried different roms, tweaks, radios....strange.
Is there any logfile I can analyze?
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I had to comment on this one. I had similar troubles using endomondo sports tracker app. This began after I downgraded my radio from 37p to 36p. I am back on 37p which is the stock radio on current AT&T USA. I will create a new thread for comparison between these two radios.
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Guys, visit here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1554799
## AT&T USA 37p Radio -VS- 36p Radio ## if you run AT&T USA 37p or 36p radios.
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vsg005 said:
Don't know att radios, but you can try N_01.77.37P and/or N_01.77.30P for example
see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Motorola_Atrix_4G#Radios
metlca: you should create a thread for your issue...
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30p radio is ancient and downlad speeds are ridiculously slow. 30p radio will save you lots of battery if you dont really use mobile internet for heavy data.
*GPS is just triangulation, so technically any radio should be able to get good reception as long as you don't flash a radio and use navigation across country immediately after.
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Try RC1 my gps locked in withen 5 sec
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I've tried "faster fix" in the market and it seems to make the gps lock a bit faster, still no where near what it used to be though.
The fix is fast enough at my site, maybe ~ 20seconds ...
But accuracy is very....how can i say...unstable.
Is there any logfile i can check?
mine will never lock on during first attempt. however, if i try to use nav, then exit, then nav again it locks on in like 3 seconds.
neutrino 2.5
so can i flash any radio, no matter what my current is and what my provider is?
(currently fido in canada)
search in dev forum returned this fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540642.
in my experience, use the latest radio for your country/carrier otherwise your 3g/4g down/up speed will suffer.
I have use the fix above and edited it for australia and I get a quick gps fix every time all the time on any rom and radio combination.
Hope this help
I don´t need 3g or 4g, what´s the best gps-radio?
Edit: I can´t flash the gps fix, "installation aborted"