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Hello all,
I am using Froyo XXJPO on my Galasy I9000. My problem is, that I cant get a GPS fix. But I can see 9 satellites if I use a GPS test tool.
Any idea what I can try? Thank you.
Well this is a first, someone having a gps problem.....you tried any of the million suggestions already posted?
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Bynar010 said:
Well this is a first, someone having a gps problem.....you tried any of the million suggestions already posted?
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While it's true that GPS problem has been discussed at lengths, people normally complain about poor accuracy and intermittent fix.
OP here is talking about another problem which I now experience myself since upgrading to Froyo. Quite often, SGS sees plenty satellites with SNR above 30, but just doesn't use them. At the same time and place my friend's Nexus sees less satellites but gets a fast and sure fix with them. This seems to be a driver problem in Froyo, not a hardware issue.
Edit: Forgot to mention that SGS usually gets the fix eventually, it just takes up to 15 minutes sometimes.
No fix issues have been done to death as well. Normally sorted by dicking around with your supl settings in the hidden menu.
Gps is just ****e on this thing, hope one of the solutions works for you.
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Get GPS Status (from the market)
Reset and redownload A-Gps from the menu (menu, tools, Manage A-GPS State)
Retry and tell us how it goes
t1mman said:
Get GPS Status (from the market)
Reset and redownload A-Gps from the menu (menu, tools, Manage A-GPS State)
Retry and tell us how it goes
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It was the first thing I tried as soon as this issue appeared.
Doesn't make much difference if any.
By the way, on Eclair GPS worked just great for me (with JM7, that is. Before JM7 it barely worked at all).
I got the exact same issue, I can see like 8-10 sattelites with plenty of +30db and can't get a fix. My TomTom gps from 3 years old only sees 4-5 but gets instant fix.
Before I was on JP2 and this didn't happen > it fixed fast and sees the same amount of sats.
However, I must say that accuracy is great, when I do get a fix, accuracy goes up to 16 feet within the minute ands stays that way.
can you look into the LBS settings and tell me what is the accuracy used?
t1mman said:
Get GPS Status (from the market)
Reset and redownload A-Gps from the menu (menu, tools, Manage A-GPS State)
Retry and tell us how it goes
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In my first tool I have written something about "GPS test tool". This GPS test tool is GPS Status. If I download A GPS data again make no chenges. Just a lot of satellites wihtout fix.
t1mman said:
can you look into the LBS settings and tell me what is the accuracy used?
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Do you mean me? What do you mean with LBS settings?
ox_eye said:
In my first tool I have written something about "GPS test tool". This GPS test tool is GPS Status. If I download A GPS data again make no chenges. Just a lot of satellites wihtout fix.
Do you mean me? What do you mean with LBS settings?
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Well, to both
LBS Menu: *#*#1472365#*#*
Standalone + "Hot Start" + Accuracy More than 15 + "Automatic" in SUPL settings.
Actually, it's now *#3214789650# (since Froyo or late Eclair ROMs)
I'm using accuracy 30 now. Was testing it with 50 some time ago with no noticeable difference.
Weird, and it was working before right?
Have you hard reseted the device prior and after the rom upgrade and cleared the caches?
t1mman said:
Weird, and it was working before right?
Have you hard reseted the device prior and after the rom upgrade and cleared the caches?
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Yes, of course.
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when i try to access this LBS menu in froyo i hit the final * key then it all disappears and no menu pops up.....
What am i doing wrong?
Same problem here.
GPS was great and dead-on accurate on 2.1 (O2 UK official firmware) and now it rubbish (O2 official froyo).
This is not a hardware issue.
same problem here, just that there are no values in gps test (time is always 00:00 as well as all others and the compass is jumping back and forth.. the day before yesterday before i've had used faster fix it worked great =( ) anyone knows how to fix without reflashing?
Weird, I got the exact same firmware as a collegue and he gets a fix way faster than me, he even sees sats inside our officebuilding (I see none).
However, using the 3214789650 code and doing the Get Position test, he gets a weird orange text where I just get regular information.
jehan1 said:
he gets a weird orange text where I just get regular information.
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This might be because of your colleague having sensors enabled for GPS
pramathesh said:
This might be because of your colleague having sensors enabled for GPS
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Nice!
Tried enabling this, and now I also see sats inside
Hello phone geniuses,
I bought an AT&T branded Samsung Focus from AT&T a few months back. It shipped with Windows Phone 7, and all was well with the world. I enjoyed the GPS, wifi, driving directions, bing maps, etc..
I am currently in Beijing, and will be here for another few months. I spoke with someone at AT&T, and they gave me the unlock code for the phone. I successfully entered it after purchasing and installing a SIM card for China Mobile over here.
Everything works.. except.. the GPS. None of the location services seem to be working. Does anyone know if there is anything I can do to fix that? I'm guessing that it's trying to connect with GPS satellites over the wrong hemisphere?
Thanks for your time! You guys rock my phone world.
Try "Gps App" in Marketplace. If it shows sattelites, you're fine. If not, might be a phone issue.
The phone doesn't care where the you are for sattelites, but, if you're in between tall buildings (sky scrapers etc) chances are your GPS reception is weak. Test it as I suggested and get back. Also, try to find an open(er sky) area to test this.
EnderPsp said:
Try "Gps App" in Marketplace. If it shows sattelites, you're fine. If not, might be a phone issue.
The phone doesn't care where the you are for sattelites, but, if you're in between tall buildings (sky scrapers etc) chances are your GPS reception is weak. Test it as I suggested and get back. Also, try to find an open(er sky) area to test this.
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Thanks for the reply.
I installed the app. When I run it, though.. it looks like it's frozen. It shows the picture of the compass, and I see some latitude and longtidude markings, and some kind of meter that looks full.. but it doesn't move or change.
I had the same problem when I brought my at&t branded tilt2 to shanghai. suddenly google maps didn't work, etc.. it was only fixed when I flashed the energy rom to the phone. what was in the rom that would have made the difference? radio? Is something like that possible with wp7?
Here is a video review of the app, so you get an idea on what to expect.
As you can see, on the top right of the screen, the bars change colors: red for no accuracy or low, yellow for medium and green for high accuracy. Under the bar, in meters, is the planar error from your location.
Another good indicator that it's working is the Altitude shows up (lower left corner).
As I said, try to find an open sky area, to test it. If Altitude doesn't show up (see at 0:08 in the video review) and the bars don't change color, you've got another some other issue.
As for the roms, there are no custom roms for Focus, just the original ones, but I suggest not to do that flashing yet yet.
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
dizx said:
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
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dude same thing i was thinking!!!!
dizx said:
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
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Yes
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Hey guys, thanks for all the help, but guess what? The new update rolled down the pike from Microsoft.. and it bricked my phone, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway!
GotSoul said:
Hey guys, thanks for all the help, but guess what? The new update rolled down the pike from Microsoft.. and it bricked my phone, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway!
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Don't panic. Try to reconnect the phone with Zune started, it might continue from where it left off. If not, read here.
Philippines here with an unlocked samsung focus, I can't seem to get bing maps to ever get a signal. my iphone locks on just fine here, but not the focus so far. Either the gps is weak or doesnt work here
Going to try it outside sometime
Hi everyone,
Sorry to bother with that, but i have an issue with my Galaxy Note 3 LTE, Cyanogen 11 M8.
Fresh install, everything wiped.
It seems that the GPS is fully down... GPS Status is unable to see or lock anything, Navigation freeze etc....
Maps is able to find my position, but only with network enabled.... if i disabled it... it is lost
In GPS Status, app stay "looking for GPS localization", and when a start an app that need the gps, the Gps Status appears a few second, with an "X".
I neved had this kind of issue, and i didn't find any clues over Internet (but i've seen people with the same issue)
I'm almost sure it was working in M7... i didn't use the gps since i upgrade the phone.
So, has anyone an idea about my problem ?
Many thanks
I had the same issue with the same configuration...
For me, it had to do with the 3G phone tower which appears not to be updated to certain parameters...
This happened when I was in a tiny village of the South West of the UK...
I then try the GPS in other cities, 50 miles away, and everything went back to normal...
I live in London, and travel abroad monthly; and no issues there also...
I would suggest to try your GPS in an other area...
Arnaud
arnauduk said:
I had the same issue with the same configuration...
For me, it had to do with the 3G phone tower which appears not to be updated to certain parameters...
This happened when I was in a tiny village of the South West of the UK...
I then try the GPS in other cities, 50 miles away, and everything went back to normal...
I live in London, and travel abroad monthly; and no issues there also...
I would suggest to try your GPS in an other area...
Arnaud
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Thanks,
I also live in a small city in France, i hope your solution will also work for me !
I will try tomorrow, in a "bigger city"
Unfortunately... i took my car and drive to be closer of a big city... no success.
It seams that the GPS is down... 'cause i launch some apps that give the signal received by the phone... and it appears that received absolutly nothing. (0, nada, the void)
I've tried to revert to M7 : no GPS at all.
Tried some gps.conf found on the forum : nothing.
It start to scare me, i hope the GPS is not "broken" (could i have killed the GPS antenna ?)
Anyway, i'm still looking for any clues or a way to check the GPS log.
Thanks
Lennyroquai said:
Unfortunately... i took my car and drive to be closer of a big city... no success.
It seams that the GPS is down... 'cause i launch some apps that give the signal received by the phone... and it appears that received absolutly nothing. (0, nada, the void)
I've tried to revert to M7 : no GPS at all.
Tried some gps.conf found on the forum : nothing.
It start to scare me, i hope the GPS is not "broken" (could i have killed the GPS antenna ?)
Anyway, i'm still looking for any clues or a way to check the GPS log.
Thanks
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GPS connect has NOTHING to do with the SIZE of the city the only factor SHOULD be view of clear SKY.
I was going to say that GPS only works when you're outdoors. Trying to get a signal wont work when in your home etc
For info :
My GPS problem seems to be related to Android 4.4.4.
There's many people complaining that the GPS became innacurate or simply unavailable with this version.
And, it seems that the Cyanogen team has issues making the GPS work for Cyanogen 11 M9 (it's on the wiki).
Currently, there's no fix available. (for some people, rewrinting all APN worked, even if it's not related to GPS, etc etc etc... there's many solution available, but not working for everyone.)
Same issue here, prognosis for it should be posted here, Thx.
Hi Everyone,
If there's people following this thread, i'm still looking for a solution...
Here's all the thing i've tried, without success :
- Reinstall / change Modem
- Back to stock rom (GPS still not working)
- Format /system and reinstall
- Re-Partition
- NV Rebuild
Each time, it's the same thing : i start GPS Status, and i get the icon with the cross, and nothing happen.
Lennyroquai said:
Hi Everyone,
If there's people following this thread, i'm still looking for a solution...
Here's all the thing i've tried, without success :
- Reinstall / change Modem
- Back to stock rom (GPS still not working)
- Format /system and reinstall
- Re-Partition
- NV Rebuild
Each time, it's the same thing : i start GPS Status, and i get the icon with the cross, and nothing happen.
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Hmm.. how did you update? Odin? There are some versions that dont play well with the note
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Hmm.. how did you update? Odin? There are some versions that dont play well with the note
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Sometimes with Odin, sometimes with Clockwork... don't remember exactly
Each time, i was never able to get a GPS signal.
If you ODIN'd back to stock and GPS is still down on stock ROM, then you probably have a hardware issue. There is a GPS fix thread on the forum with pics of the hardware breakdown.
Hi everyone,
I can't explain what happened... but my GPS is back. hallelujah !
I saw this morning that the Cyanogen 11 M10 for the hlte (Galaxy Note 3) was available.
I update the Cyanogen i had installed (M9)... and test GPS right after that... nothing.
And then, i tested it tonight, the satellite dish appeared with the cross... but i was able to "touch" it with my finger : And then the icon dissapeared, and the new icon with the sattelite dish and the wave appeared and i saw GPS Signal !
I got a lock after a few sec.
Sorry guys, i don't have any answer about what happened, and how tthe GPS got back to work.
But anyway, thanks for the help !
Lennyroquai said:
Hi everyone,
I can't explain what happened... but my GPS is back. hallelujah !
I saw this morning that the Cyanogen 11 M10 for the hlte (Galaxy Note 3) was available.
I update the Cyanogen i had installed (M9)... and test GPS right after that... nothing.
And then, i tested it tonight, the satellite dish appeared with the cross... but i was able to "touch" it with my finger : And then the icon dissapeared, and the new icon with the sattelite dish and the wave appeared and i saw GPS Signal !
I got a lock after a few sec.
Sorry guys, i don't have any answer about what happened, and how tthe GPS got back to work.
But anyway, thanks for the help !
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Dang!!! I Wanted to sound smart. Lol. Jk, glad its working.
Hi there,
I´ve had several roms in the past on my Note 3 (SM-N9005) and eventually went back to the Dutch stock rom (Kitkat), with me not being able to wait for the Dutch release of Lollipop i've flashed it without any troubles but I missed the Blocking mode from Kitkat so I reverted back to Kitkit but now I seem to be unable to get a GPS fix.
I've installed GPS Status app and some other apps that write the GPS config on the rooted Kitkat rom but no luck, i've also switched a few times from Lollipop to Kitkat to see if it would make a difference but it didn't.
Now when I open the GPS Status app or any other app that needs GPS the Icon of Android self stopped blinking and says it has a GPS fix but this is false or with will blink and eventually give me a fix.
Any of you any ideas or is the GPS done for?
Thank you for your help!
I also have the same problem the battery has been great for lollipoo but the gps is not working bumping this topic
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I also have the same problem the battery has been great for lollipoo but the gps is not working bumping this topic
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I can confirm this issue with GPS. It won't lock GPS at all.
Do you people go out of the house to test gps ? You won't get a lock in your bedroom.
I'm asking, because i know that many don't do so.
Hi there,
Yes I test in the outside, even with a clear sky the GPS won't get a fix.
I am not sure but looks like the bootup of the GPS doesn't seem to work fine. Sometimes like 1 in 50 the GPS will boot up and give me a accurate fix.
Dejan Sathanas said:
Do you people go out of the house to test gps ? You won't get a lock in your bedroom.
I'm asking, because i know that many don't do so.
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StormHusky said:
Hi there,
Yes I test in the outside, even with a clear sky the GPS won't get a fix.
I am not sure but looks like the bootup of the GPS doesn't seem to work fine. Sometimes like 1 in 50 the GPS will boot up and give me a accurate fix.
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Take a look here. I fixed GPS issue on my N900T with this steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3059590
Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
Try this:
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Did you try this conf:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=01461881488365657480
The only thing i added was a line:
ACCURACY_THRES=050
Means:
50m
Works great for me. You can additionaly get New agps data by the app "gps status"
Since two weeks gps is perfect - before that it was a horror
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katze1123 said:
Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
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G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
MattheewHun said:
That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
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Did you modified your gps.conf??
Regards
I didnt. I set my GPS to "high accuracy", and running IceX with Xceed kernel. May the rom/kernel has some advantages in the GPS? If its not possible, forgive me. Good luck to You!
Romagnolo1973 said:
G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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I have 2 LG d802.. one work quite good and another have problems with long time to fix and loosing signal often.
Did not find any fix for it... bot are on same rom / release.. .. tweeking gps.conf and phone time helps a bit but is sitil quite annoying...
when you compare gps signal strength on both devices.. (when both have god fix signal strength is "on par"..)
I loosing my mind an my kid is "killing me".. .. ordered new back cover and battery.. I hope it will help.. (paper underlying contacts of antenna in cover did not bring any difference...)
Bu second G2 has fix in 17-23 sec .. and only looses it in places where also my Garmin Oregon would have difficulties...
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That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
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Well, High accuracy means you are using more LTE antenna and wifi hotspot to get your fix and position and GPS only to refine it, me too using Waze with high accuracy I can navigate without issue, we are talking about GPS only navigation and in this case our G2 is a pain. No way to go in a foreign country (where 4g cost a fortune) and use a offline navigator program. That is the real problem.
oTeMpLo said:
I have 2 LG d802.. one work quite good and another have problems with long time to fix and loosing signal often.
Did not find any fix for it... bot are on same rom / release.. .. tweeking gps.conf and phone time helps a bit but is sitil quite annoying...
when you compare gps signal strength on both devices.. (when both have god fix signal strength is "on par"..)
I loosing my mind an my kid is "killing me".. .. ordered new back cover and battery.. I hope it will help.. (paper underlying contacts of antenna in cover did not bring any difference...)
Bu second G2 has fix in 17-23 sec .. and only looses it in places where also my Garmin Oregon would have difficulties...
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I hope that will fix your issue but probably is not, there are several way to solve (youtube video can help) and the most quoted is a copper wire across the back or a copper foil in the antenna, that will increase GPS antenna signal a lot but I don't know if it safe. 3 on 4 G2 soffert the issue, your other G2 seems been luky one.
Best way to solve
katze1123 said:
Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
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Look at this: https://youtu.be/jLuOz0W2A50