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Gps not working Whatsoever!!!

so i flashed the full DJ05 package through odin and it worked perfect... after it was done, i tried gps.. and it said initializing without stopping for at least 15 minutes and still no lock, so i flashed D101 through odin and it worked perfect and still no gps lock... what happened???

Had a similar issue after upgrading Maps to 5.0, un-installing maps and re-installing it fixed it for me, also make sure the location services are turned on.
-Mike

From what I heard the dj05 update isnt really a fix for the gps,,,,, just a slight improvement.
The galaxy s phone are garbage in my opinion. Poorly made. Motorola makes the best Android phones hands down. And they support them!

BigBonkers said:
From what I heard the dj05 update isnt really a fix for the gps,,,,, just a slight improvement.
The galaxy s phone are garbage in my opinion. Poorly made. Motorola makes the best Android phones hands down. And they support them!
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From my experience the galaxy s phones have great hardware, they just have crappy software. The dj05 update helped my gps by a lot, I can get a lock in about 2 seconds. I have seen and used the droid x and the droid 2 and would still rather have the fascinate, huge improvement over my old eris even when it was running 2.2.

BigBonkers said:
From what I heard the dj05 update isnt really a fix for the gps,,,,, just a slight improvement.
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Then you heard wrong, unless by "slight improvement" you mean that GPS goes from non-functional/useless on DI01 to working fine in DJ05/DL09. The only time that GPS has issues for me is if I turn it on while moving, it takes maybe 20 sec. to get my location then, otherwise, it's better than my old phone by far.
Until you've actually tried it, how about not trolling here?

imnuts i had the fascinate returned it cause i hated it. my friend still has it with the update he says its a slight improvement in the gps area.
Either way the fascinate sux<<< btw thats trolling.

Ok new update on my gps.
I go to maps app... Directions... Type it in press enter... Shows me written directions... Click on the little blue arrow... Shows me driving and the blue arrow is moving in the right direction and what not bit it doesn't stop saying getting driving directions with the rotating blue thing on the left... So I wait and wait and wait............. And nothing!!! I even tried putting an address close to home and nothing!!!!......... Any idea what's going on?
This is also now my only issue with the phone. I tried rebooting and uninstalling and installing it back on.... But nada
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Frenzifun said:
so i flashed the full DJ05 package through odin and it worked perfect... after it was done, i tried gps.. and it said initializing without stopping for at least 15 minutes and still no lock, so i flashed D101 through odin and it worked perfect and still no gps lock... what happened???
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Did you flash the DJ05 MODEM in additition to the rom? Just have to ask.

Well, to the know it all Bigboinkers above, DI01 was not downloading ephemeris data like it was supposed to, which is instrumental to GPS locks on phones.
DJ05 does, and so does DL09. They lock quite quickly.
So stop making BS up, kthx.

BigBonkers said:
From what I heard the dj05 update isnt really a fix for the gps,,,,, just a slight improvement.
The galaxy s phone are garbage in my opinion. Poorly made. Motorola makes the best Android phones hands down. And they support them!
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i will argue that your statement is incorrect, my GPS is perfect after i Flashed DJ05.
and it would not lock at all prior to flashing...
and as for motorola... the last good phone they made was the startac.

I flashed the package through odin... Its one file blahblah.tar
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If you still have not found a solution, it very well may be a hardware problem. I would try everything again, and if that doesn't work, I would get a replacement.
And to the troll, go away. If you don't have a Fascinate, you don't belong here.
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i flashed both Dl01 and DJ05 again... and still nothing... i cant get my phone to root now either ... =\ but yeah even stock on DJ05 gps is showing no navi...fml

Did you get the over the air update for froyo?

This morning I was going to give up and weigh the options between flashing with odin for ec05, or doing a custom rom, then while at work over the aitlr came the update!
What do ya'll think about the update, any glitches to report?
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nicklefloss said:
This morning I was going to give up and weigh the options between flashing with odin for ec05, or doing a custom rom, then while at work over the aitlr came the update!
What do ya'll think about the update, any glitches to report?
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were you on eb13or di18?
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On rooted DI18, still haven't received anything. Not that I need to wait thanks to this wonderful place...

DroidApprentice said:
On rooted DI18, still haven't received anything. Not that I need to wait thanks to this wonderful place...
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Haha it because your rooted. Do you have the sprint apps removed, but your right you don't need to wait
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OTA happened for me this morning but failed because I was rooted. My brother is stock and his went through fine.

OTA happened for me today too and worked perfectly

Can you get the update when you are on EB13?
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Although I'm rooted I have everything else factory, no missing apps. I wonder what prevents the OTA from happening. Maybe it still will...?

I checked "update android" about 3 am in indiana and started downloading the update. i checked my phone about 8 am and it asked if i wanted to update first thing.
the update when fine, but things run slow. looks like all of my data is there but the rotation lags sometimes and some of my ringtones, notification sounds have changed. thats not a big deal though. the screen rotation lag was about 3 to 4 seconds at one point.
i have yet to restart my phone, maybe i'll give that a try. also my battery is dying fast. it usually lasts about 12 hours, today its going about 8 or 9.
i updated from never rooted, stock di18 over the air to ec05.

I haven't got the OTA (on a custom rom anyway) but would never install anything OTA. Samsung has enough problems with buggy releases to go flashing something like this right over top of what I already have, IMO you're inviting issues if you update like this.
With that said, I just flashed the EC05 modem over my ACS 1.0.2 install and it went flawless. GPS lock is better and 3G seems to be doing better and I didn't have to deal with any of the Sprint ID crap.

Hey everybody I jus got my froyo update today and I dont know what to make of it yet...it looks abit cooler...came wit sprint id crap, I dont see the point in even having that...also I there has been this weird fantasy sounding bg music on my epic and I cannot for the life of me find out where its coming from, uh so if anyone know how get that off I will be greatful...but all in all im diggin this update jus cus my xscope browser now had flash! YaY Me!

Got my update yesterday while at work. Feels a little sluggish versus eclair. The best thing about the update is that it messed with my default ringtone and notification settings. While sitting in my department's staff meeting, I received a call from my wife. No big deal except the ringtone sounds a little bit like a dying barking sea lion. That was pretty fun.
Other than that, so far, so good. Really like apps2sd! I just need to figure out how to delete a SprintID after I download it if I don't like it. (I am sure it I easy, but I haven't bothered trying yet.)
sent from my go-go Gadget phone

I thought I might amuse someone by reporting that I, DroidApprentice, may be the very last person to get the OTA update today after believing through most of last week that something I did to my phone made it not downloadable.
The irony is that I think tonight was to finally be the night where I tried using update.zip manually anyhow. Well, it was cool to see happen I guess. LOL. Now it keeps bugging me. Oh well, it's fated maybe to frustrate me until I manage to get it done and then hopefully it'll be an actual improvement.

Official ED01 has all the bugs of leaked froyo ROMS

Yay. I can confirm the following bugs after using OTA ED01 for a couple hours:
1) 50% time w/o signal bug still there. Still need airplane toggle after boot.
2) Browser scrolling choppy as ever.
3) Pop email client still snaps to top of list after reading each email.
4) battery issues / wakelock needs more testing
Now then, we know Samsung and VZW were not working on fixing any bugs in the last several months that they have been sitting on this code. All bugs from froyo leaks 2.5 months ago are still in there.
Seems to me there was 0 priority put on this update, since it was delivered extremely late and still chock full of bugs. My assessment is Samsung is way understaffed AND integrating bing caused some negative interactions between the companies involved. I won't buy another Samsung... and probably should move off of VZW.

Scrappy1 said:
Yay. I can confirm the following bugs after using OTA ED01 for a couple hours:
1) 50% time w/o signal bug still there. Still need airplane toggle after boot.
2) Browser scrolling choppy as ever.
3) Pop email client still snaps to top of list after reading each email.
4) battery issues / wakelock needs more testing
Now then, we know Samsung and VZW were not working on fixing any bugs in the last several months that they have been sitting on this code. All bugs from froyo leaks 2.5 months ago are still in there.
Seems to me there was 0 priority put on this update, since it was delivered extremely late and still chock full of bugs. My assessment is Samsung is way understaffed AND integrating bing caused some negative interactions between the companies involved. I won't buy another Samsung... and probably should move off of VZW.
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What's a better option in your opinion besides Samsung? Are you more pissed at Samsung or Verizon?
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My frustration is primarily with vzw on this... But I've known, or accepted, that one chooses a wireless service provider by asking "who sucks less?".
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Weird, I don't use the email client, but I have not experienced any of those issues. My battery does not drain while sleeping (with bt, gps and data all on) everything is smooth as can be. And I have never had to toggle airplane mode. All these bugs I had in dl30 and eb01, but none at all in this release. Also I have had no screen response issues anymore either. Not saying your wrong just posting my experience as well.
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Legato525 said:
Weird, I don't use the email client, but I have not experienced any of those issues. My battery does not drain while sleeping (with bt, gps and data all on) everything is smooth as can be. And I have never had to toggle airplane mode. All these bugs I had in dl30 and eb01, but none at all in this release. Also I have had no screen response issues anymore either. Not saying your wrong just posting my experience as well.
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Yeah, I have been playing around with it a little, and have found the save thing. No bugs so far.
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The only thing that wonders me is new radio. Is is the the same as EC01? It's too soon to ask probably but maybe somebody had missed calls issue with it yet?

SotYPL said:
The only thing that wonders me is new radio. Is is the the same as EC01? It's too soon to ask probably but maybe somebody had missed calls issue with it yet?
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We'll have to see how it goes fellow chicagoland resident. I odin'd and ota'd to get the new radio and frameworks and files were compared lastnight and there is some differences in the frameworks between EC01 and ED01 so I'm gonna run themeless until I have time to port my theme over to the new frameworks. Initial impression I have is my data speeds are a little higher and more constant. But I'll give it a go traveling about the city today.
Oh, @OP the tws bug is not limited to our device. It's a froyo thing that many devices suffer from. Google it.
good day.

Everything looks good here... Besides battery life. I just did the ota at 9:30 this morning after about an hour **** has drained 30%. Oh well. I was using heavily, im gonna flash the debloated one and wipe bstats and what not to see if I get some improvement.
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ajd88 said:
Everything looks good here... Besides battery life. I just did the ota at 9:30 this morning after about an hour **** has drained 30%. Oh well. I was using heavily, im gonna flash the debloated one and wipe bstats and what not to see if I get some improvement.
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If you had display on for an hour 30% drain is normal I think.

I just read the release notes for ed01 posted by kaus... It lists some added bloat, but in many cases contradicts the op of this thread (subject to verification I guess ;-).
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Scrappy1 said:
Yay. I can confirm the following bugs after using OTA ED01 for a couple hours:
1) 50% time w/o signal bug still there. Still need airplane toggle after boot.
2) Browser scrolling choppy as ever.
3) Pop email client still snaps to top of list after reading each email.
4) battery issues / wakelock needs more testing
Now then, we know Samsung and VZW were not working on fixing any bugs in the last several months that they have been sitting on this code. All bugs from froyo leaks 2.5 months ago are still in there.
Seems to me there was 0 priority put on this update, since it was delivered extremely late and still chock full of bugs. My assessment is Samsung is way understaffed AND integrating bing caused some negative interactions between the companies involved. I won't buy another Samsung... and probably should move off of VZW.
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My wife and I have this phone. I am running EB01 Superclean and I just odin'd her phone to stock last night and upgraded to OTA ED01. So far, no time without signal bug, browser does not seem choppy, no wakelocks so far. Maybe you should odin to stock and start fresh if you have not done so already. I think that this can fix a lot of issues. No doubt that after brief testing my Superclean w/ -100 imnuts kernel is kicking the snot out of a stock ED01 froyo so far. But I always give it a week for the battery to calibrate and settle so I will report back.

i also have superclean 2.9.2 (nv). i'm not sure if i want to go back to stock and do the official ota because I finally LIKE my phone for the first time since... November? I really liked it for the first month (Oct) when I thought the OTA was due any day... but since then, not so much. but after installing superclean a week or so ago, suddenly i don't care about the ota. unless i hear from one of you more experienced gurus that it's the way to go, that is. I love that I don't have all that bloat on my phone. If i do the ota, I presume the bloat will come with it, and I've heard of people then cleaning up the phone... how is that different from what I already have? should I stay put or is there a distinct advantage to doing the ota and then cleaning it up? any advice and logic behind it would be appreciated. thanks.

Wife and I both have fasc I odin'd her back to stock took ota she so far has not been able to make calls out off and on all day she could answer tho...?? However.. What pisses me off the most is vzw dropping price and trying to sell this to everyone for mothers day like my mom needs this f/%ked up unsupported phone swindled to her."why yes madam this has the very latest software it has always been our best phone and now your kids can make you the coolest mom ever" scam scam scam or should I say spin spin spin the greatest company on the planet can you hear me now.. Ahh no cause my froyo won't make a call
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ilprobu2 said:
Wife and I both have fasc I odin'd her back to stock took ota she so far has not been able to make calls out off and on all day she could answer tho...?? However.. What pisses me off the most is vzw dropping price and trying to sell this to everyone for mothers day like my mom needs this f/%ked up unsupported phone swindled to her."why yes madam this has the very latest software it has always been our best phone and now your kids can make you the coolest mom ever" scam scam scam or should I say spin spin spin the greatest company on the planet can you hear me now.. Ahh no cause my froyo won't make a call
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Well maybe you can do the mature thing and call Verizon instead of *****ing about a problem that ONLY you are having. Or maybe you can try factory resetting it.
Don't *****, that only gets you flamed.

Avelnan said:
Well maybe you can do the mature thing and call Verizon instead of *****ing about a problem that ONLY you are having. Or maybe you can try factory resetting it.
Don't *****, that only gets you flamed.
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when you pay my bills you can tell me when I can shut up or just read and carrying on with your day.
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Avelnan said:
Well maybe you can do the mature thing and call Verizon instead of *****ing about a problem that ONLY you are having. Or maybe you can try factory resetting it.
Don't *****, that only gets you flamed.
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If you read what he said, he did do a factory reset, he said he odin'ed back to stock..........

jazzyjames said:
If you read what he said, he did do a factory reset, he said he odin'ed back to stock..........
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I did read, but after that he updated did an OTA. If he already Odined I don't see the pain in doing a reset. Doesn't hurt.

What's up with not being able to download tapatalk either?? I upgraded ota and its still in my purchased list but won't let me install..and when I search it the market doesn't find it.
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Has anyone else noticed that you can't delete gmail emails after the update? I delete them and they come right back. This is even with having full 3g service and excellent reception.
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Don't worry superclean in my opinion is still better. It has all the great sbrissen mods and its only got a couple very tiny bugs (even though I can't think of one)
Plus all the themes you could ever want AND ec01 themes are fine on super clean... I think I'll just chill with what I got.
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i also have superclean 2.9.2 (nv). i'm not sure if i want to go back to stock and do the official ota because I finally LIKE my phone for the first time since... November? I really liked it for the first month (Oct) when I thought the OTA was due any day... but since then, not so much. but after installing superclean a week or so ago, suddenly i don't care about the ota. unless i hear from one of you more experienced gurus that it's the way to go, that is. I love that I don't have all that bloat on my phone. If i do the ota, I presume the bloat will come with it, and I've heard of people then cleaning up the phone... how is that different from what I already have? should I stay put or is there a distinct advantage to doing the ota and then cleaning it up? any advice and logic behind it would be appreciated. thanks.
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Slow boot?

My sister has a non-rooted evo that when she updated to gingerbread, it boots up reallly slow. It freezes at the 4G part of the boot for awhile. Any suggestions? She did a hard reset because there was other bugs on the phone. But before and after its like that. Help?
Evo 4G
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After the update mine has gone into random reboots a few times and YES, it's painfully slow at the 4g part. others were reporting FASTER bootup times after the update, but mine went the route of your sisters...slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I'm not running the ota... just played around with a rooted version of it the other day when I updated my radios and all. But there is a way to choose a fast boot. Can't really remember where it was located, somewhere in settings of course. Wish I could remember where for you.
I remember it cause when I went to boot into the bootloader to nandroid back to my asop setup it just booted up really fast right back to my home screen.
Lookin through all of the settings, its there.
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SouthPhilly said:
. But there is a way to choose a fast boot. Can't really remember where it was located, somewhere in settings of course. Wish I could remember where for you.
Lookin through all of the settings, its there.
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It is in Settings under Applications but having it checked hasn't helped mine. I even unchecked it and it still takes a good 2 minutes for mine to fully boot.
It does it either way, restarting or battery pull. Makes no difference. I am really considering removing Gingerbread and wait until all bugs are removed. The one thing I am really sorry about updating is that it stopped the Wimaz Notifier from working and that was my favorite app. I just don't know how to remove this update, so I may have to justg deal with it.
Anyone know how to remove an update and go back to what you had before?

My gf's evo is unrooted, well, i told her i rooted it (brought it upstairs for a couple of hours and just loaded launcher pro to save myself from her blaming me when something didnt work haha) well, i want to do her OTA but i remember on the hero it wiped everything out, does this happen with this OTA as well? Thanks guys, I can't remember....
.........at 8 am today someone poisons the coffee....do not drink the coffee. More instructions will follow.
Cordially,
Future Dwight

After flashing stock gingerbread Rom I also experience a slow boot and believe its caused by the dalvik cache being rebuilt with every reboot.
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Weirdest issue ever

If someone can find a solution to this, seriously, you're a master.
I was running CM build from the 6 January (stock kernel). And suddenly, during the afternoon, my data started to be slow.
Here I have a contract for 7.2mbps. I'm usually arround 6.5-7.2mpbs. Never really goes down 5mbps. So I ran a speed test. I was at 0.1mbps. I thought "this should be a little problem, nothing to worry about". I was wrong, so wrong. After that I flashed the CM build from today.
Hours later, after many speedtest, I was still at 0.1mbps and I started to think that this is really weird. So I phoned to my network and they told me there's no network problem at all where I live (should be true, no friends asked me about this).
So, obviously, I flashed another ROM, AOKP. Still ultra slow data. I flashed Paranoid Android, still super slow data.
I took off my SIM carte and I put it on my old HTC Sensation. Guess what, data was working perfectly. At this point I started to get crazy lol.
Maybe some corrupted data ? Let's flash the factory.img
I flashed via fastboot the factory.img, ran a speed test.... STILL SUPER SLOW DATA.
I should add that we don't have any data-cap here (and the Sensation proved it).
I thought, maybe the 3G is hardware broken ? No. I'm still seeing H+ and 3G on my status bar. More weird stuff ? alright ! Ping is excellent (about 40ms) and upload speed... is like it always been, arround 1mbps (that's the number in my contract too).
So now, i'm completely lost (and tired, it's 2am).
If someone, whatever the idea is, could help me, it would be awesome.

Fix permissions? And make sure your APN looks good
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Check your APN.

This happened to me for about a week soon after I got my N4. The problem went away on its own. I chalked it up to the network.
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El Daddy said:
This happened to me for about a week soon after I got my N4. The problem went away on its own. I chalked it up to the network.
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Well, I hope I have the same problem as you and I'll see tomorrow how it goes but I really can't understand lol

APN are ok btw. But thanks all for trying to help me !

Have you tried a different speed testing app? You might have noticed that the app isn't really that good.

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Have you tried a different speed testing app? You might have noticed that the app isn't really that good.
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Good idea too, but already tried 3 and they all gave me the same result.
Do you guys think it's hardware ?

Try re-registering onto your mobile network. Or try registering manually instead.
I had a weird issue where my phone would switch to cdma on its own. try *#*#4636#*#* and playing around with settings there.
Try flashing back stock and factory reset.
Make sure your sim card tray is fully inserted.
Pray to the HSDPA Gods to give you your speed back.
Remove your tin foil case from your phone.
You're holding it wrong. Hold it in a different way.
Have you tried installing iOS on it?
wooooooooo!!!
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If you've flashed other roms, then it's obviously not a software issue, maybe there's work on your local mast. Is the speed difference only in the speedtest app, or do you notice it in normal usage?

So later yesterday I called the customer service. They confirmed that they have no network issue at all.
It started at 16:00 pm and yesterday night, at 3:00 am (when I was about to sleep, finally ) still ultra slow data speed.
I woke up this morning at 7:00 am, tried again a test, still slow data speed.
So I went to my office, I was in at 8:00 am and I ran a test again and... BOOM ! 6.8mbps ! And it works now without any problem.
Morality : Don't miss work. lol
But to be honnest, I really don't understand what happened. I have no clue what this can be. Anyway, it works now and I hope it won't happen again.
Btw, big thanks to everyone who answered, we have some great people here