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How do I get the gps to work on the htc ozone (on vzw)? I have location set to on in the phone settings, but google maps will only get me within 1500m (using tower info or sthing), and Garmin XT Mobile wont work at all.
Any help is appreciated
did u update ur quick gps?
ive been able to get a steady lock within 50m three in the last 2 min. ( fastest ever ive seen on a htc device before BTW )
I just redownloaded it to see if anything would change. Nothing.
are u sure u have an active data connection?
and did u go thru ur googlemaps options to be sure that it can auto update/lock?
nevermind... I just read the whole thread..
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nevermind... I just read the whole thread..
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ive tried just about everything i kno to do ..
i even tried to duplicate the issue and i was unable too.
o.p.
my bad that i couldnt help..maybe someone else can guide u here?
My own idiocy.. I got it working...
I was configuring it while it was hooked to my computer (for troubleshooting purposes)... in my basement. It was just out of range of a satellite. as soon as i went upstairs and outside it was working fine.
Thanks
Edit: Nevermind!
justlevine said:
How do I get the gps to work on the htc ozone (on vzw)? I have location set to on in the phone settings, but google maps will only get me within 1500m (using tower info or sthing), and Garmin XT Mobile wont work at all.
Any help is appreciated
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In Google Maps, make sure that in Menu>Options>(2)GPS Settings you have the "Managed by Windows" radio button selected. Then in regular maps hit Menu>0 (or just "0" on a clear map.) It might take a few seconds to spool up some satellite connections.
Without the "Managed by Windows" selection mine has no clue where I am. Also try to use "Quick GPS" within the start menu to help with satellite location information.
I can't remember if I had to change that setting when I first installed or not. I just remember that it's there. On my Ozone GPS seems to work excellently in all programs. Bing and GCZII(geocaching) are the others that access my GPS.
Hope that helps!
Dear forum users,
I'm a happy user WM6.5 with TF3D 2.1. The weather at my location is updated nicely, however there's 1 issue I don't understand:
When I look at my home screen it still says 'My Location' instead of the city name where I live in (Ho Chi Minh city)...this is different from many screenshot I've seen on this forum where weather forecast city names are displayed nicely on home screen.
does anyone have an idea how I could fix this?
Thanks in advance for any ideas/support.
Best regards,
Nghia
Hi there,
I'm having exactly the same problem. The weather tab just stays at 'My location', as does the home tab. I've manually added the city I live in to display the weather, but I'd like to know how to get the phone to automatically detect it. Any help?
I had this problem too and tried lots of fixes I read about here and none of them worked. Then I tried going into my phone settings and changing my phone from "auto" in the Network field to "manual" and then selecting T-Mobile. I'm thinking it was finding AT&T and not being able to determine my location.
Settings>Personal>Phone>Network>Network Selection
After doing this and restarting the phone (airplane mode on/off) it detected "My Location" on the weather tab and then on the clock. I'm in SW Florida and am new to T-mo so i don't know if this will have any undesirable effects.
Not sure if this will affect my roaming, but I don't really roam much so I should be ok. See if it works for you guys.
Hi cocytan,
Could you tell me how to add city manually? My city is not listed in weather list of my phone. I have att, touch2 came from tmo unlock. When I try to update, it said something about not able to connect to dns and web2go.
Thanks.
Same problem here with Blackstone ROM
RUU_Dutty's_HD_WM6.5_5.2.23016.5.0.3_Leo_R5.zip
Update Radio to
HD_Blackstone_Radio_1.14.25.24
Can't get My Location to work...
Did you guys try my tip of manually selecting your mobile carrier in settings>phone>network and set it to manual and then select your carrier? I tried everything before this, and it's worked on every ROM I tried it on.
You can always set it back to automatic if it doesn't work or impacts your roaming.
I'm just curious if others see this fix working, then maybe we can collectively figure out why it's happening to us (is it location, carriers, ROM versions, etc.)
-Joel
Hi a042349,
manually selecting the carrier didn't work for me.
But I read somewhere else that it could work when you enable Wifi.
Doesn't need to be connected, just enabling should do the trick.
And it worked for me!
I tried the wifi trick and it didn't work for me. All my testing was done at my house with only my wifi in range (I live in the country) and it didn't matter if I was using it or not - no MyLocation data until I manually selected T-Mobile.
I'm on T-Mobile in Cape Coral FL - are you on Tmo too? Did you try driving around to pick up different cell towers? As I said all my testing has been at hoime, so not a lot of "variety" in what it could pick up over the air.
-Joel
Hi Joel,
I am on T-Mobile, but it's over here in Germany...
I didn't try different cell towers.
Looks like you have to try both, when encoutering the problem.
Is anyone here who tried both and it still didn't work?
If u change system lang on registry, it´ll work.
Mui lang=0XXX
Cheers.
i tried all of your suggestions but nothing helped it worked one time but since then ...
Gotta say i've only ever had it working once, and even then it was very inaccurate (brought up somewhere about 20 miles away).
I've tried every radio, manual network selection, turning 3g off, i also had to add my own town into the database and nothing works.
Using google maps with wifi, 3g, grps it finds my location to with in 500 metres, with gps it's spot on, so i know that aspect of it works.
However using the weather my location, it rotates between 3 different locations (One is about 1 mile away and the other 2 are about 5 miles away). It'll bring up the name, but always gives me the "There was a connection error while attempting to download weather data. Retry?" message.
so i'm at a loss as to how to get this working.
My location is working for me, i'm using the tmob radio(not the one in my sig but it worked with that one too) its showing a village about a mile from me, and the same on my wifes Hero-Stock ROM. all ive done is load latest Google maps and wait for it to find my location then exit, go to weather tab and select download weather automatically then back, a screen appears to accept google data download, accept then it works,
it seems my location is only as accurate as google maps as it uses the tower positions around you to triangulate you approximate position, when i'm in a town or city it shows that place. i dunno what else to suggest changing my radio helped. i'm not using 3g, maybe that helps?
ark666 said:
If u change system lang on registry, it´ll work.
Mui lang=0XXX
Cheers.
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Interesting
Which setting for syslang would I have to use?
I am in Germany, but my Windows Mobile is English.
osrix25 said:
My location is working for me, i'm using the tmob radio(not the one in my sig but it worked with that one too) its showing a village about a mile from me, and the same on my wifes Hero-Stock ROM. all ive done is load latest Google maps and wait for it to find my location then exit, go to weather tab and select download weather automatically then back, a screen appears to accept google data download, accept then it works,
it seems my location is only as accurate as google maps as it uses the tower positions around you to triangulate you approximate position, when i'm in a town or city it shows that place. i dunno what else to suggest changing my radio helped. i'm not using 3g, maybe that helps?
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I've tried doing everything the same as above and no dice.
Like i said google maps my location feature is pretty accurate for me.
Using google maps with wifi, 3g, grps it finds my location to with in 500 metres, with gps it's spot on.
Sorry i can't help any further..its weird, i'm running At0ms 3.7 but i'm sure it also worked for me on previous builds,
i think on earlier builds i had to also switch data connection on in comms so it stays on - Actually i think this might be be key as i think My Location has trouble calling the data connection which is where your error message is coming from. i hope it works for you.
As you're on Vodafone you could try this reg setting for Agps i don't think it will make any difference but it may do..if nothing else there good settings!
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Sorry i can't help any further..its weird, i'm running At0ms 3.7 but i'm sure it also worked for me on previous builds,
i think on earlier builds i had to also switch data connection on in comms so it stays on - Actually i think this might be be key as i think My Location has trouble calling the data connection which is where your error message is coming from. i hope it works for you.
As you're on Vodafone you could try this reg setting for Agps i don't think it will make any difference but it may do..if nothing else there good settings!
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yeah it worked on fusion 3.5 but hasn't worked for me on any other rom.
TVM for the reg settings, i'll give them a whirl.
I've tried everything listed here and am unsuccessful on TF2D 2.5.
Does anyone have the original 2330fc3c_manila file they can upload from 2.5?
Thanks.
Bruce Inman said:
I've tried everything listed here and am unsuccessful on TF2D 2.5.
Does anyone have the original 2330fc3c_manila file they can upload from 2.5?
Thanks.
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I a running shadowline's 23064 build with 2.5.19133431. I was unable to get the location stuff working as well. I turned on all the location settings through SenseUI, but no go. I enabled Assisted GPS through Advanced Config (not sure if that is relevant). Still no go. I allowed my phone to connect up to my home WiFi, and instantly, it recognized my location as Seattle.
Not sure if it will work for others, but it worked for me.
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I a running shadowline's 23064 build with 2.5.19133431. I was unable to get the location stuff working as well. I turned on all the location settings through SenseUI, but no go. I enabled Assisted GPS through Advanced Config (not sure if that is relevant). Still no go. I allowed my phone to connect up to my home WiFi, and instantly, it recognized my location as Seattle.
Not sure if it will work for others, but it worked for me.
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That worked for me at my home in Germany.
Now I am in Italy on holidays.
Same infrastructure here. Working WiFi, too.
But it doesn't do the trick here.
My phone still thinks my location is Germany and any updates just fail.
Think, I am giving up with this build.
Hey,
I bought my x10 from a MENA country where they disable the gps on the phones.
Is there any way I can enable it without flashing my phone?
What do you mean? If you go to Menu-Settings-Location & Security you don't have the option Use GPS Satellites? Should be there.
I do have the option in the menu! and I can enable it but that does nothing, I was told that the chip has been disabled through the software, for example in Google maps, with the GPS activated it says your location is currently unavailable!
and that to enable it once the government allows it, there will be a code I can enter to get it to work! which means the chips is in there but needs to be enabled!
I rooted my x10, so I'm thinking there must be some kind of setting that needs to be changed to activate the gps chip!!
You'll either need to root it and then figure out what to change to make it work, or.. Switch to a different firmware.. If you need to at any point you can always switch back to your standard firmware.
Search for easy way to change to a different firmware on here.
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Have you tried to enable your location? Try that. I know navigation isn't enabled in some countries because they haven't been mapped yet but your GPS should be able to determine your location.
I tried the location thing, It just doesn't work it stays busy but with no results.
I don't want to flash to a different firmware
I thought maybe someone on here would guide me to where the main options for gps reside using superuser rights
I'm hoping it can be enabled like that!!!
So I have flashed two different firmwares on now!!
Still no gps!
how can i get it to work?
Can anyone tell me the GPS settings for the Rogers Branded Focus?
I've been mucking with my settings, both from the main diagnostic menu and from the GPS test app, and I seem to have messed up a setting somewhere and cannot get "Location" to show on Bing Maps. It keep saying, 'searching' without returning a location.
I'm Interested in the following settings from the Diagnosis app:
(default settings is displayed as sub-heading when entering the option)
MOLR CP/UP
3G MOLR request type
TLS option
and in the GPS test app:
(*#1472365# from diagnosis main screen)
In the ... menu, go to settings:
QoSAccuracyMeter
(read setting)
QoSTimeoutSec
(read setting)
Any help would be handy.
Thanks.
Any updates on this issue??
I have a Rogers Samsung Focus running on FIDO network. I can check it out if you still need ?
Even I am facing the same problem...Maps is unable to locate me..though it was working a few days back..any help will be really appreciated..
dead_on_the_floor said:
Can anyone tell me the GPS settings for the Rogers Branded Focus?
I've been mucking with my settings, both from the main diagnostic menu and from the GPS test app, and I seem to have messed up a setting somewhere and cannot get "Location" to show on Bing Maps. It keep saying, 'searching' without returning a location.
I'm Interested in the following settings from the Diagnosis app:
(default settings is displayed as sub-heading when entering the option)
MOLR CP/UP
3G MOLR request type
TLS option
and in the GPS test app:
(*#1472365# from diagnosis main screen)
In the ... menu, go to settings:
QoSAccuracyMeter
(read setting)
QoSTimeoutSec
(read setting)
Any help would be handy.
Thanks.
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Hey I have Rogers Samsung Focus on FIDO. Here are the readings I got:
QoSAccuracyMeter
(read setting)mine is 0
QoSTimeoutSec
(read setting)mine is 255
PaullikesWINMO said:
Hey I have Rogers Samsung Focus on FIDO. Here are the readings I got:
QoSAccuracyMeter
(read setting)mine is 0
QoSTimeoutSec
(read setting)mine is 255
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Thanks! I too get these values but still GPS is not working..In status it says: Location service is off..when I start the tracking, it says "data unavailable, high accuracy". I have tried to toggle to low accuracy but still it does not get changed. GPSinfo app shows GPS as off..
Please help. GPS was working a few days back..but it has stopped working now..has the chip gone bad?
Is wifi turned on? Toggle wifi on/off then try diagnosis again. I got the same message then toggling the wifi got it working.
Curious?
I've always wondered why the gps lock was so quick. My theory is that the GPS must heavaly rely on AGPS not a real gps using satalites. The reason I say this is that when tweaking those settings I sometime cannot establish a lock for a while. It also seems to be less smooth almost jittery. Also don't tell the faa but I turned the phone on in airplane mode in an airplaine and could not get a gps fix at all so it really leads me to believe these phones must suffer the same issue the old ones do with not getting gps locks as quickly as we hope. This also makes the GPS speedometer useless as I cannot see how fast my plane is going. LOL.
[HOW TO] Enable stand-alone/antonymous GPS on Epic 4G
I find the Epic GPS to work very well generally, especially in custom ROMs like CM7. That said it all falls apart whn trying to use the GPS in airplane mode or when overseas (or other areas with no CDMA cellular coverage). From what I can determine the Epic 4G was not configured properly to use the GPS chip in these circumstances.
To fix this issue you need to change the GPS settings on the actual gpsOne chip. This will allow the phone to get a GPS signal when in airplane mode and/or not within a CDMA service area. The procedure is time consuming and annoying but in may experience, worth it.
DISCLAMER – the below how-to could completely brick your phone. I have NO IDEA what I’m doing.
You will need to download some software to begin:
1. Qualcomm Product Support Tools (QPST) v.2.7.355 (or newer) – I don’t think I can post that link so Google it.
2. Epic 4G Windows USB drivers - http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SPH-D700ZKASPR
3. MSL code – there are a number of ways of obtaining this so I will not duplicate here.
Step 1:
Obtain your MSL. If you can’t get this, you can’t complete this fix
Step 2:
Install the Epic 4G Windows USB drivers. Assuming you are rooted and or otherwise used ODIN you may already have these installed. Installing again will hurt nothing.
Step 3:
NOTE: So far as I can figure your phone needs to be in stock form to continue from this point on. I tried the rest of this while running CM7 – Nightly 13 and it would not work (particular issues seem to be dial codes and USB modem connectivity). Once finished with the fix you can then flash back to whatever ROM you would like. So…ODEN back to stock.
Open in the dialer and enter ##8778#. This will bring up the “PhoneUtil” menu. Set both UART and USB to MODEM and hit the home button.
Step 4:
Install Qualcomm Product Support Tools (QPST)
Step 5:
Insure that USB debugging is off. Connect the Epic 4G to your computer. The computer should make the usual USB connection noises and may begin installing drivers. Let that that finish.
Step 6:
Open QPST Configuration (installed when you installed QPST) and go the Ports tab, add a new port and select your port number. If nothing shows up uncheck the “show serial….blah blah” box and it will show your port number, select it and add it. You will now see your COM port with your phone connected. Close that.
Step 7:
Open client QPST Service Programming, select your active phone (might take a moment to come up), click "Read from phone" (enter MSL) and then scroll over to gpsOne and select all the options on the left hand side:
Assistance-Spherical
Assistance-Cartesian
AFLT
GPS Almanac
GPS Ephemeris
GPS Almanac Correction
Autonomous
GPS/AFLT Hybrid
……then click “Write to Phone.” When that’s done click “connection” and “close” and then close the program.
This may cause your phone to reboot…if not, reboot it.
Step 8:
Open in the dialer and enter ##8778#. This will bring up the “PhoneUtil” menu. Set UART to Modem (USB to PDA) and hit the home button….reboot again.
Step 9:
You should no be able to use the GPS while in airplane mode or (especially) after booting up in an area without CDMA coverage.
TIPS: If you should clear you AGPS settings for some reason (or they expire?) and you want to use the GPS anonymously without a CDMA or WiFi connection, you will need to reboot the phone first (and possibly disable “use wireless networks” in Location Settings until some new AGPS data is obtained). One way to obtain some AGPS data in absence of a CDMA network is to use an app like GPS Test to load some AGPS data back into the phone via WiFi. Also it may be possible to improve this by refining the gpsOne settings…but you would need to figure out what the hell they all mean.
This solution works for me.
Good luck
Thanks to these sources for this fix:
http://bbsoftware.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/9/3/1793039/gps_limitations_pdf.pdf
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891077
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1304225
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192128
Wow thank you so much I always hated that I wasn't able to use my epic's gps on a good long hike.
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This sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
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Imo this should be in dev section cuz this is a mod.
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I find that YMMV but it always seems to work after a reboot.....before I did this fix that was not the case.
Set both UART and USB to PDA
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Is this right? I can only ever remember seeing UART set to MODEM out of the box.
TDuck691 said:
Is this right? I can only ever remember seeing UART set to MODEM out of the box.
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I'm not even sure at this point after mucking with it for so long. I can say that after a fresh return to stock this morning that's where things were at when I entered ##8778#.
RyleyinSTL said:
I'm not even sure at this point after mucking with it for so long. I can say that after a fresh return to stock this morning that's where things were at when I entered ##8778#.
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Just looked on my virgin Epic and UART is set to MODEM.
After a bunch of testing it seems that while this solution works it only seems to work properly for me after a reboot. Which while not as covenant is a big improvement over it not working at all.
Put the phone in airplane made
Reboot
Open GPS app/turn on GPS (phone is still in airplane mode)
Success - Autonomous GPS!
However if the phone is already on and I just put it in airplane mode (with GPS turned on) I can't get a lock or see any satellites. However the above method fixes it.
Of course as always GPS will work in airplane mode if turned on after a lock has been made. However my interest in autonomous GPS mode is for when traveling outside of CDMA service areas, like Europe.
So there you have it....a partial fix anyway. If anyone has any idea as to why this only works after a reboot I'd love to here it. As an aside I have tested this with CleanGB and CM7 ROMs and get the same result.
Thanks a lot. I had no idea our phone's GPS was this crappy, nor that you could also program the GPS chip using QPST. I don't go into no service areas that much, but I occasionally go camping in the Sierras. The last time I went, I had my Touch Pro 2, which had GPS that worked fine (albeit a bit slow to lock) without any service. It would be annoying to go there next spring or summer only to find out I had no GPS.
Thanks, this would have saved my a$$ last time I was in Europe
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Thanks for the how to.
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
toadlife said:
Thanks a lot. I had no idea our phone's GPS was this crappy, nor that you could also program the GPS chip using QPST. I don't go into no service areas that much, but I occasionally go camping in the Sierras. The last time I went, I had my Touch Pro 2, which had GPS that worked fine (albeit a bit slow to lock) without any service. It would be annoying to go there next spring or summer only to find out I had no GPS.
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Toad- Can we hope for CleanGB MTD 2.0 with autonomous GPS? Sure would be nice on the backpacking trip around Lone Pine/Bridgeport.
has any one done more testing? ANy Hardware Engs care to chime in?
Thanks for this... went hiking through some trails at my dads in southern florida at a place they call "bad luck"... well if not for this we would prolly still be out there finding our waay back... absolutely no cell Service and if my phone didn't lock we would've really had some bad luck! Now I know why they named it that!
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So other than caching google maps to your sd card, what other mapping or gps apps can you use without a data connection?
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BillyBob3 said:
So other than caching google maps to your sd card, what other mapping or gps apps can you use without a data connection?
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Locus Maps in the App Store is beyond amazing for that sort of thing. Started here in XDA. Name it, it does it.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...4PzmAg&usg=AFQjCNF4SMCsTRVhGW05DjskdbLhbkyHrQ
Copilot is a pay app. That's kinda like a Garmin it has a few Gigs of map data on the sdcard.
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
tony_spear said:
Toad- Can we hope for CleanGB MTD 2.0 with autonomous GPS? Sure would be nice on the backpacking trip around Lone Pine/Bridgeport.
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I don't think this is something that can be (easily) cooked into a ROM. Sans some crazy low level programming, you pretty much have to use QPST to make these changes to the phone.
toadlife said:
I don't think this is something that can be (easily) cooked into a ROM. Sans some crazy low level programming, you pretty much have to use QPST to make these changes to the phone.
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Do you know what has to be in a ROM for ##8778# “PhoneUtil” to work?
I know that this keycode works on ACS5.5