So which radio version do I flash with RC4 to get the GPS to work? It seems like I flashed all the radios but my gps doesn't work.
I'm using CyanogenMod 7 RC4 as well and I've found that GPS has been fine with the stock radio (see my sig -- that's the stock radio from Bell).
Have you tried using the GPS Status app to reset and redownload the A-GPS data?
I have a tmobile phone, so I don't know what my stock radio is. And no I haven't. Is that a free Market app?
EDIT: How do I even know if my GPS works or not? The way I am testing is by using IGo My way GPS application, which doesn't detect where I am, so I assume that my GPS doesn't work.
convolution said:
I have a tmobile phone, so I don't know what my stock radio is. And no I haven't. Is that a free Market app?
EDIT: How do I even know if my GPS works or not? The way I am testing is by using IGo My way GPS application, which doesn't detect where I am, so I assume that my GPS doesn't work.
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Yes, you can find GPS Status on the Market.
It seems that GPS status works, Google Maps work, but IGoMyWay doesn't detect my position. Why is that?
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That's right, the app GPS Status & Toolbox will tell you whether the GPS is working or not. Just install for Market and open the app. If you are in clear view of the sky and a working GPS, you should see the app starting to pick up the satellites within a couple minutes or less. You will see points starting to pop up on the circular compass display, indicating the positions of the satellites. Below that, green bars will start to pop up, indicating signal strength with each satellite (maybe not the exactly correct terminology here, but you'll see what I mean). Once the GPS has locked onto enough satellites, you will see the lat/long coordinates pop up. This also means that other apps, like Google Maps, or any other map/nav programs you prefer, can start using your GPS position.
If the GPS is "broken" you will so absolutely no activity on either the circular display, or the bar graph.
GPS Status & Toolbox will also download A-GPS data, which can help get faster locks onto the satellites. The A-GPS data is regularly updated information on the positions of the different satellites, making it a bit faster for the GPS to find them.
Help me redpoint! I downloaded CoPilot and it also could not detect any GPS signals, even though I turned on GPS! Only the GPS status detected satellites.
WHHYYYY??!?! I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
lulz but yeah, I don't want to spend unnecessary money on an actual GPS device if I don't have to.
EDIT: GPS status does not work anymore. It worked before. I had RC4 for both when it worked and when it stopped working. What the hell?
Have you tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12635790&postcount=20
I had the GPS issue on RC1, and this fixed it. RC2 for me worked fine as-is. I haven't tried RC3 or 4 yet. I've pretty much decided CM7 is cool if you want the latest and greatest bells and whistles, but its got more than its fair share of bugs. Right now, its Virtuous for me.
It doesn't work.
I also tried flashing the radios. They don't work either...
This is strange. I guess the last resort is to ditch CM7 and go back to CM 6.1.1? Or Virtuous?
Sounds like you got the GPS running for a bit, but now its not? What worked?
Try the OTA stock .26 TMobile radio and format the sytem, data, and cache partitions before flashing new ROMs. I haven't had GPS problems since I started doing that.
@ ra990: Do you mind directing me to the download source?
@ redpoint: The first time I turn on the GPS it would work, but after that any subsequent time I use it, it doesn't work.
EDIT: Google Maps works when I am connected to wifi at home and GPS is on. I then close Google Maps and start up GPS status and it won't detect satellites. I then proceed to open up CoPilot and the program won't detect any GPS signals. I then open google maps again and it still works. I then turn my wireless off and watched my position on Google Maps suddenly change and becomes inaccurate (IE, moves my location to a place that I was not physically at from a place where I was physically at, but was not that far off.)
EDIT EDIT: I tried 3 different roms, 1 stock gingerbread, 1 gingerbread sense, 1 virtuous. All failed on me.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: I tried ra990's version. In fact, I tried all the versions and I followed this as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021463
Nothing works.
GPS status is not accurate in measuring if it works for me. Becuase back when i did not have a lock the gps status was working but my navigation was not picking up anything nor the gps symbol showing. After reflashing the .26 radio my gps works.
Just to check, how long should I wait for it to pick up a signal before I say it "doesn't" work? Cause I've been waiting for like 5-10 minutes for it to pick up a signal each time I test.
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Just to check, how long should I wait for it to pick up a signal before I say it "doesn't" work? Cause I've been waiting for like 5-10 minutes for it to pick up a signal each time I test.
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If the GPS is "not working" due to the CM7 bug, you will not get a lock, or even any activity on GPS Status, no matter how long you wait. If you are getting a lock at all, or any communication with the satellites, this seems like a different issue than the CM7 bug I've seen.
If you haven't used the GPS in a while (couple days) or your location has changed significantly (like getting off a plane) its not unusual in my experience to take a few minutes, maybe 5, to get a lock. That is because the locations of the satellites in the sky would have changed enough, that it takes some time for the GPS to find and lock onto them. But if you have used the GPS recently (maybe within a couple hours, but certainly if you turn it off and go back in a few minutes) it should lock pretty quickly, within a couple minutes, maybe faster.
And does collecting them signals get that much affected by being indoors as opposed to outdoors? Will the time vary significantly?
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And does collecting them signals get that much affected by being indoors as opposed to outdoors? Will the time vary significantly?
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Absolutely!!!! Have you been trying to do this indoors? Go outside and try it. And with as much a clear view of the sky as possible, so an area with a minimum of trees, buildings, etc.
Although the Vision is better at getting a GPS lock in my house compared to my past 2 phones (Touch Pro 2, Kaiser), it usually only works by a window for me. And in some buildings, I never get a lock. Results will vary depending on the type of building, being by a window, etc. In the car tends to work pretty well too, but I will usually put the phone on the dashboard to get a lock, where it has a better view of the sky thru the windshield.
Although it might work indoors, its much better to exclude the building interference from the equation while you are troubleshooting.
Oooooh. That might be the problem. I will try and go outdoors and report my findings.
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Good news, everyone! It worked!
What I did was flash a radio (to be honest I forgot which one, it's either the .26 or .28b one) and I also matched it with that automatic radio matcher zip you flash. And it can pick up signals now if I am outdoors or sticking my phone out of the window in my house!
Thx everyone for all ur help!
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Here's the Video, for those who want to see first hand the Vibrant initial GPS locking issue:
I decided to compare my two new Samsung Vibrant's to my Motorola Cliq...
I tried with and without the fix, and tried with and without wireless, and with and without use wireless networks... all resulted in the same results... The Vibrant GPS has a problem.
Test Case
1. Power off
2. Power on
3. Start GPS Test
Results:
Motorola Cliq: ~ 1 second
Vibrant 1: ~ 70 seconds
Vibrant 2: ~120 seconds
I repeated the the test several times, and the vibrants had random results from 1 to 10 minutes to find the initial lock.
After the initial lock, subquentiant locks took less than a second, however anytime the vibrant is shutdown, or hours pass, the vibrant goes back to taking minutes to lock.
awesome video.. i noticed a couple of things that were very interesting in this video:
one, i noticed after owning *cough*several*cough* cliqs that the cliq keeps the GPS polling in the background periodically. the cliq also runs in MS Based mode. i found this out after being on the road with my band with this phone. when my network signal is lost so is my GPS lock. that probably contributes to the faster lock displayed in GPS test. the software seems to keep the GPS locked in the background all the time.
two, i also noticed that the vibrant in the middle that showed a single sat lock in GPS test also displayed the same time discrepancy that i discovered and posted about in my reply in the "GPS fix" thread. the vibrant also seems to keep the GPS "off" when not in use by any programs.. and it seems to have a relatively cold startup. this probably contributes to the phone sipping battery as compared to the cliq. the vibrant also comes stock with the GPS in "stand alone" mode. this makes the GPS separate from the mobile network. in theory you should still be able to achieve GPS data and lock independent of your network connection status. this is helpful when navigating in an out of network area.
i do agree that the GPS on the vibrant needs to be fixed.. but i am very convinced that the problem is in the way that the software reads the raw data from the GPS and Compass and also how the hardware is utilized.. and not related to any hardware failure. i also agree that one thing i liked about the cliq was that the compass and gps were always bang-on accurate. even if the rest of the phone was a total fail.
This depresses me to no end. I love my Vibrant, and these issues are what's keeping me at bay with a return. So long as they just came out and admitted there was a problem, that they intended to fix, I would be happy.
What do you guys think? Is it worth it to keep the phone and hope that the OTA / 2.2 update fixes the issues? Or are we about to be left in the dust by lack of support?
im of the firm belief that the issues are software based and therefore very fixable.. i also was shown the email that mentioned the 2.2 update for the Vibrant that will be released in the "next couple of weeks." so.. im keeping mine. my GPS works well enough for now that its usable until an update is issued.
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awesome video.. i noticed a couple of things that were very interesting in this video:
one, i noticed after owning *cough*several*cough* cliqs that the cliq keeps the GPS polling in the background periodically. the cliq also runs in MS Based mode. i found this out after being on the road with my band with this phone. when my network signal is lost so is my GPS lock. that probably contributes to the faster lock displayed in GPS test. the software seems to keep the GPS locked in the background all the time.
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I'm not sure why they would change the code that already worked very well with the cliq... Turn the cliq on and BANG it locks with and without use wireless network setting
I hear that the galaxy s used newer gps hardware, so while I'm hopeful it's a software issue, I'm not so sure. Every app now days is using location services, so this is a MAJOR issue if they can't get GPS to lock on in seconds
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I'm not sure why they would change the code that already worked very well with the cliq... Turn the cliq on and BANG it locks with and without use wireless network setting
I hear that the galaxy s used newer gps hardware, so while I'm hopeful it's a software issue, I'm not so sure. Every app now days is using location services, so this is a MAJOR issue if they can't get GPS to lock on in seconds
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what code are you referring to?
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Is this news? I had a CLIQ and there have been several updates to it's GPS capabilities. Even the latest update (6 months after it's release) is supposed to improve lock time. I was happy with the CLIQ's GPS performance but it wasn't always good. The Vibrant has no problem getting a quick lock or seeing a bunch of sats with acceptable SNR levels. It just doesn't connect to nearly as many as it should and eventually it will take longer to get a lock (I'm back to a few seconds but who knows how long that will last) which seems completely like a firmware issue.
With some new tweaks I did to the GPS, I get a quicccccccccck lock from a FRESH reboot and this is only after 10 seconds or so. This is subject to get worse or stay the same but obviously, the GPS isn't flawed but the firmware is. It also seems like if it was to lock onto more sats, that it would be really good.
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What tweaks did you do to get 10 seconds after reboot?
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What tweaks did you do to get 10 seconds after reboot?
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It's all temporary stuff so I wouldn't bother.
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With some new tweaks I did to the GPS, I get a quicccccccccck lock from a FRESH reboot and this is only after 10 seconds or so. This is subject to get worse or stay the same but obviously, the GPS isn't flawed but the firmware is. It also seems like if it was to lock onto more sats, that it would be really good.
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Ooh, that's interesting. You seem to have six locks, and two of those are reported "00" and are red? How are you getting locks there?
What tweaks did you make to keep zero's on your phone?
Try this. mines locks very fast using these settings
these are my application settings in LbsTestMode (use SGS tools to get into it)
session type >tracking
test mode >s/w test
operation mode >standalone
start mode >hot start
gps plus >on
dynamic acuracy >on
acuracy >1
gps logging >on <----this is very important
why did you dig up an 8 month old thread??
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why did you dig up an 8 month old thread??
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Because he thought he could help someone.
Why did you post in an 8 month old thread if him resurrecting it offended you so much? Just let it die again.
and who said i was offended? its simple question out of curiosity. how bout you get off your high horse buddy.
How is the GPS on the G2/Desire Z?
Is it fast? Can it lock quickly on the signal? Is it accurate?
I'm currently using a SGS I9000, and let just say it is quite crap.
GPS is pretty ****ty for me. Not as bad as (I assume) the GalaxyS line, but still pretty ****ty. 30m is unacceptable when my Droid (1) can get me walking around my house.
edit: Lock on takes for-frickin-ever indoors (if at all), and is decent outdoors. Yes, I've run gps status and cleared/redownloaded gps data, before anyone asks, lol.
Again, spoiled motodroid former user. I'd go back but vzw rapes with charges, and I like the G2 aside from the horrid (imo) gps. Ymmv.
zerosx's report is the first negative report i've seen re the GPS - mine's on the money (usually within 10') and 40-45 seconds from cold start to a lock on 4-9 satellites. not unusual to see a lock on 11 sats out of 11 in view
below is a screen capture of GPS Sat map i took, while in the house. It actually had me located withing 10 feet of where i was, until i plugged the phone into the usb port to take the screen capture and it jumped back 10 feet more at the instant i plugged it in.
did a "my tracks" log on a short trip across town - none of the path that looked like a drunk had drawn the lines like on my Vibrant, no cutting across corners at turns, no driving 75 feet off to the side of the road, etc
check the forums - you won't see any threads on the GPS - there just haven't been any issues
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Meh, maybe I got a bad one? I really don't know, I seriously can't get the damn thing working.
i wasn't attacking the credibility of your report, just stating it was the first one i've seen
you might consider taking it back for exchange cause mine is eerily spot on - i say "eerily" cause after the vibrant, being located on the right block of my subdivision while outside, was a lucky day. Inside the house, it wouldn't even lock on one satellite
I have had issues with it picking up GPS in my house as well. Right now I have been looking at the GPS Test app and it still displays 0 satellites. When I go to Google maps my location is close but about 10 m off or so. When I am outside I have not had a problem with it. Yesterday I was able to pick up 4 to 6 satellites within about 40 sec. I'll try out the Tracks app later today and see if it is accurate.
This! GPS Status shows no satellites indoors. It's quite frustrating.
Larry - haha no prob. I didn't give it a second thought, and you're pretty much describing my former iphone4 to the letter. It was... creepy.
The GPS works fine if I just want to lock down where I am but the moment I start trying to use it in my car for turn by turn it goes south quick. It loses all signal and is stuck on "Searching for GPS..." for about 2 minutes then comes back and gives me about 30 seconds of information before freezing up again.
It's an improvement coming from the Vibrant but still not as solid as my Nexus One.
Mine is flawless, locks up withing seconds and it's super percise. The native nav app also works rather well.
GPS is one of the strongest points of my phone.
Mine is pretty accurate.
gps is all good here
Mine Locks way way faster then my old ass G1
GPS is fantastic. Locks about twice as fast as my nexus one does. 5ft-10m accuracy generally.
The GPS has been the best I have had. It locks a lot faster than my N1.
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Well, today I haven't been able to use GPS at all. No lock. I cleared everything through GPS status and still no joy. Earlier in the week I had trouble, but that was due to a setting I had turned on in Beautiful widgets. I turned it off, and everything was fine. Its still turned off so now I'm left scratching my head. Granted, we're experiencing ****ty weather today due to a Nor'easter, but it isn't that bad, as I'm having no issues with my satellite tv signal. Typically I've been able to acquire lots of satellites (8 or more typically) anywhere in my home, so I'm a little worried, especially since I just past my remorse period and am now into t-mobiles "go **** in a hat" part of phone ownership. Any suggestions? I've done two battery pulls today and GPS is still dodgy. Stuff like this makes me miss tin cans and string.
since you've already noticed one app affecting your GPS, have you thought about backing all your apps up to your SD card (OnTheFLy backup app) and then un-installing them, doing a factory reset and seeing if GPS functionality comes back?
Yeah, I thought about that. Gps started working again a short while ago. I'll probably give the backup/wipe deal a shot tomorrow. Out of all of the apps I've installed that have options concerning control of gps the beautiful widgets home weather widget is the only one that appears to knacker gps functionality. We shall see.
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if its the beautiful widgets with animations, iirc some folks have complained about that update version
i'm still running the first version, with no problems
It works very well with in 5 feet. I believe the G2 is A-GPS it uses cell towers
and other means too track your location.
I used it in LA all last week when visiting. It was awesome and there was only one time where it navigated incorrectly.
I bought a Evo recently, overall I'm very happy with it except the battery.
I have some trip recently so I began to use the gps and google maps,i found the latitude and longitude reported by the gps chip has a fixed accuracy error of about 300 meters to the correct value.
I have a Huawei C8500, whose gps can be called perfectly correct, it can show my position correctly within 5 meters, always,it helped me to go out of some mountainous area without road correctly.
I compare the data reported by the application gps status,i see the data on the two phones always have a little difference.
My evo is hardware version 0004, the latest 3.70.651.1 stock sprint rom.
I've known that it use rtr6500 chip from qualcomm,i will try to find the datasheet to check, but as I have seen online that somebody have good accuracy on evo, so I guess it's not chip problem.
Any good suggestion?
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I use google earth today, it always show the current position within 5 meters, and the time delay is maybe within 100 ms,i checked it on a road on a mountain area with a turn every 20 meters in average today, google earth can even show each turn correctly in a unnoticeable delay, and it has full 3D support,it can even show the road just shown as what I see when I'm in the car driving, and even some look around function to check the environment in 3D, it's way better than google maps.
The shortcomings is that earth has no much info about the name of the place than google maps.
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My GPS says it's correct up to 5-10 meters. So far it's always pinpointed me exactly.
As far as battery life, mines pretty decent. I'm running Myns with Kings #9 kernel
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I checked the difference of the gps data of the 2 phones carefully today, in fact both the latitude and longitude difference are within 0.00005° most of the time, and the largest difference are just 0.00015°, with a calculator and a little knowledge of the earth geometry, the difference are just within 5 meters most of the time, and 15 meters at most, so the gps data of my evo is correct, the problem is google maps show the current position some hundreds meters afar always.
what may be the problem of google maps on my evo?i used nexus one for 10 months, google maps works correctly on it too.
I have no much incentive to use some hacked rom by now, as I have no interest to the system programming on android now to customize my own rom, and I don't like to waste a lot time to try the rom of others endlessly, no much fun after doing this kind of things with other phones in the past, what I want is just a phone that just do whatever I want to do.
I bought a 9600mAh/3.7V external battery,i can charge my evo fully 3 times by it now ( maybe it can charge more times after more usage) without charging the external battery, it's acceptable for now.
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Try running and downloading the GPS ephemeris data with the GPS Status app in the market.. see if that helps
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...the gps data of my evo is correct, the problem is google maps show the current position some hundreds meters afar always.
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Google Maps obeys the phone's location settings for determining what method to use (GPS vs. cell and/or wifi signals). Check your global location settings and make sure GPS is enabled, and consider turning off "Use wireless networks", at least temporarily. I do not believe Google Earth obeys these settings, using GPS all of the time, but I could be mistaken.
I believe with both settings checked, Google Maps will initially use cell tower and/or wifi signals to estimate your location until it can resolve your true GPS location. It may even continue to factor in the cell/wifi signal information, which is why I suggest turning that option off while comparing locations between Maps and Earth.
Good luck.
It does not help about the accuracy, but google maps will pinpoint my position to another place about some hundreds meters away now.
This is really weird so I try to find if I have installed something that interfere with google maps, maybe found it.
I have installed street view on google maps in the past, but this application does not work without any indication that it exists, and it can't be either uninstalled or opened, it looks like a zombie in the system now.
I guess it's still working when google maps run, it only do some wired thing to make maps malfunction now.
Do you know a way to uninstall this zombie totally? If there's no way in stock sprint rom,i need to learn to root and flash my evo then, I really don't feel much fun in this now.
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Hi,
As we all know the Galaxy SL GPS is piece of crap, I have contacted Samsung support many times but their technical team does not know the difference between GPS and GPRS. They have no answer to how to fix the problem (at least Indian support team) or there is no fix. Anyways I am now highly frustrated with the GPS on the phone and with their customer support.
I have not rooted my phone, the firmware on the phone is DDKB2 (not updating it yet or rooting the phone because it will affect the warranty) latest available from Kies.
My question is to all Galaxy SL users what is the max number of satellites has your phone ever locked. (irrespective of the firmware version) For me the max was 4. It took 5 mins to reach this figure under open sky on this phone while Xperia arc and HTC wildfire were able to lock 20 satellites from the same location in seconds.
Is the GPS on phone really a piece of sh1t ? Just confirm this and I am prepared to sue Samsung in consumer court over this.
Adding to this, while traveling in a vehicle the other two phones (mentioned above) were showing realtime progress of the vehicle on the road, whereas Galaxy SL was highly inaccurate and even the wrong position shown was not updated constantly.
Edit : Please use 'Gps Test' or similar apps to check.
This is my best result so far.
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Dude go through the forum.ddkb sucks in respect to gps.all europran firmwares hav super fast gps.bt yes all indian firmware sucks when it comes to gps.
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rdr_m said:
Dude go through the forum.ddkb sucks in respect to gps.all europran firmwares hav super fast gps.bt yes all indian firmware sucks when it comes to gps.
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That's why I am curious to know that after all the proposed fixes how much improvement is there, if I install 2.3.4 the unofficial way how much will be the improvement. i have read in some threads that there is no software fix and users are hardware modding.
XXKB3 solved the problem for me. My GPS locked in seconds now.
dude take them to court ,gps on this phone really suks ,atleat after this they will send quality products to indian market
The problem is only in the software. Hardware is very good. I have XXKB3:
1. With the cold start on open air (no clouds, but under the tries and near buildings) I take signals of 3 satellites after 2-3 seconds
2. after 5 seconds It locks
3. After ~10 seconds I see about 8 satellites. (6 with good signal)
Before I had Nokia 5800. It takes several minutes to lock. And if I was driving car it takes more and more time (it would be better to stop, wait for a lock and drive then).
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XXKB3 solved the problem for me. My GPS locked in seconds now.
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How many satellites?
For a moving source you need more satellites as the connection with every satellite is not constant, how does the device behave when in a moving vehicle?
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How many satellites?
For a moving source you need more satellites as the connection with every satellite is not constant, how does the device behave when in a moving vehicle?
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I was driving in the storm (very big storm, in my city it took out tries with its roots from the ground and it was very cloudy) for more then 300km. Sometimes I was driving with 140km/h. No lost locking at all. But before I used GPS Aids to take latest LTO data, and I had internet connection for all my way (to take map and so on).
It's really good device for me and it suits me well. With my native XEKB1 I was not tested GPS because I reflash my phone after 2 days of playing with it.
XXKB3 solves the GPS problems many ppl have mentioned.
I do not know how many satellites it uses/doesn't, I just know it works (and thats all that matters).
Bro, taking them to court will be a waste of your time as you know the indian courts and justice system.
My advise is, try rooting it and flash different rom which meets your gps needs.
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Filing a case in consumer court is very easy, I will go to samsung service centre this weekend for last time, if they still cant help then I will go ahead with original plan.
Try this: use FasterFix (requires root) to set the ntp server nearest to you, then use GPS Aids (requires root aswell) to download and inject the XTRA data. Once you 've done that your GPS "should" be able to see enough satellites to get a good lock.
To those who are getting v.quick fixes with the newer European firmwares and other miscellaneous fix. How does it fare when doing voice navigation?
For me , I get v.quick locks (after some hacks..6-10 satellites in view and all), but still not reliable during voice navigation, loses signal in the car. So, I believe that is a h/w issue, but then, I guess many phones will be having this issue to a certain extent.. (not able to follow you properly when travelling in a car with windows closed? .. iPhone 4 which I have played around with ,definitely does the tracking v.well)..
dude.. just check out dis thread b4 u go 2 court...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069416
10 fix within 10 seconds. Stock and custom roms. Maybe hardware issue?
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Correction
I'll just make a correction to my prev post... Instead of following that link in the post try these things and ya i have personally tried this settings & it worked
i havn't done any rooting or upgrading or anythin, its just the basic DDKB2. I had to reset my phone to factory settings due to a different problem. SO when i tried using the gps after reset there comes the same prob again
First thing i tried was that link, but it doesnt seem to work very well then i followed these steps...
1. Download the app "GPS AIDS V2" from android market (free version is more than enough)
2. Turn off your internet & gps & go to codes/tools in GPS AIDS
3. Select GPS Test >Application settings & make the following changes
Change Operation mode to "MS Assisted"
Change Accuracy to 100
4. Now turn on gps & internet, Go back to GPS AIDS Select GPS Status
Now it will start locking satellites
Using this method i was able to get a lock with 10 satellites in about 15-20 seconds & was getting an accuracy of 5-10 meters
And one more thing.. i am not a big fan of samsung.. Right now i am facing some other issues with this stupid device... Anyways just trying to help..
I was having the same problem as you guys, but all I did was change the ntp server to india (using gps aids) and setting mode under GPS settings to "ms-based" instead of 'standalone'...
Actually the GPS on this phone is really quite weak, I get good quick locks and signal strength but indoors it struggles under a tiled roof whereas my xperia x10 used to do it great indoors too! Oh and the applying pressure to a certain point trick actually does work! Try it out...
Is for real that Galaxy Note 3 GPS don't geo-locates you without Internet connection?
I've sent it 3 times to repair (samsung official partner) and they tell me that it has to be connected to internet to work the GPS location?
I think i'd tried with Internet and it still doesn't work! don't locate my with GPS (even having Internet) Thanks. Regards.
Yes, it depends quite unbelievably high on Assisted GPS. Just reboot your phone, and then try to get a lock, you will see it will take a long time, very long time to get a lock. So you just need to go outside under open sky and have a lock, then it will work as long as you don't reboot the phone, even without the help/data of A-GPS. But if you reboot the device again, you need to do that previous step once again.
Don't know why this happens, it's really weird, but well I don't reboot the device much, so it's okay. Still this is the first phone which is behaving like that.
PS: I have tried all the mods previously, GPS fix mod, that NV Rebuild one, and maybe another one too, none of them actually worked for me. Just thought about saying this.
By the way, when you are asking a question, you should ask it in Q&A section, cause that's where you shall ask a question, not here.
Thanks a lot! Sorry about posting here... but I need to know if Samsung Galaxy Note III has a phisical GPS hardware, and, even late, if it has to work without internet ... people who has tried to repair it, told me that it doesn't have one ¿?
Thanks again!
devilsdouble said:
Yes, it depends quite unbelievably high on Assisted GPS. Just reboot your phone, and then try to get a lock, you will see it will take a long time, very long time to get a lock. So you just need to go outside under open sky and have a lock, then it will work as long as you don't reboot the phone, even without the help/data of A-GPS. But if you reboot the device again, you need to do that previous step once again.
Don't know why this happens, it's really weird, but well I don't reboot the device much, so it's okay. Still this is the first phone which is behaving like that.
PS: I have tried all the mods previously, GPS fix mod, that NV Rebuild one, and maybe another one too, none of them actually worked for me. Just thought about saying this.
By the way, when you are asking a question, you should ask it in Q&A section, cause that's where you shall ask a question, not here.
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dabezt said:
Is for real that Galaxy Note 3 GPS don't geo-locates you without Internet connection?
I've sent it 3 times to repair (samsung official partner) and they tell me that it has to be connected to internet to work the GPS location?
I think i'd tried with Internet and it still doesn't work! don't locate my with GPS (even having Internet) Thanks. Regards.
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1) The GPS-lock is MUCH, MUCH faster with Assisted-GPS, which on my Note 3 seems to require a CELLULAR DATA CONNECTION (WiFi is not the same).
2) Without A-GPS you need to be outdoor (ideally NOT between tall buildings or metal structures) and you might need to wait as much as 10 minutes for the very first GPS lock.
Use the free "GPS Test" program from the play store to see how the details are - there is even a command to reset AGPS data in case that might improve things).
Oh, and QUESTIONS GO IN THE Q/A FORUM!!!
devilsdouble said:
Yes, it depends quite unbelievably high on Assisted GPS. Just reboot your phone, and then try to get a lock, you will see it will take a long time, very long time to get a lock. So you just need to go outside under open sky and have a lock, then it will work as long as you don't reboot the phone, even without the help/data of A-GPS. But if you reboot the device again, you need to do that previous step once again.
Don't know why this happens, it's really weird, but well I don't reboot the device much, so it's okay. Still this is the first phone which is behaving like that.
PS: I have tried all the mods previously, GPS fix mod, that NV Rebuild one, and maybe another one too, none of them actually worked for me. Just thought about saying this.
By the way, when you are asking a question, you should ask it in Q&A section, cause that's where you shall ask a question, not here.
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@devilsdouble @xclub_101 What is lock and how to get it.
Sent from Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005
In the picture I'm attaching you can see what is happening to me:
http://s2.subirimagenes.com/fotos/9178330gps1.jpg
As you can see, after 20 minutes at a place open to sky, with data connection active (H+) and with gps activated, and after cleaning AGPS and reloading AGPS, the GPS Test app shows some satelites (with low numbers) with no signal, and a few ones (with higher numbers) with a little bit of signal (not more than 14) in orange (not enough).
GPS notification icon and message ("waiting gps") is always blinking.
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is it a GPS Antenna issue?
Or is it a GPS software configuration (something like another region config. etc.)?
Thanks!
dabezt said:
Thanks a lot! Sorry about posting here... but I need to know if Samsung Galaxy Note III has a phisical GPS hardware, and, even late, if it has to work without internet ... people who has tried to repair it, told me that it doesn't have one ¿?
Thanks again!
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Obviously Note 3 has GPS hardware, with A-GPS. And even it has GLONASS (Russian GPS).
To answer to your question, Internet will help to speed up the fixing progress (by downloading a small amount of A-GPS data), but Internet is optional and not mandatory.
If you use an online maps (e.g Google Maps), of course you need Internet connection to display map data.
If you use an offline map (e.g Sygic) you dont need the Internet connection.
dabezt said:
In the picture I'm attaching you can see what is happening to me:
http://s2.subirimagenes.com/fotos/9178330gps1.jpg
As you can see, after 20 minutes at a place open to sky, with data connection active (H+) and with gps activated, and after cleaning AGPS and reloading AGPS, the GPS Test app shows some satelites (with low numbers) with no signal, and a few ones (with higher numbers) with a little bit of signal (not more than 14) in orange (not enough).
GPS notification icon and message ("waiting gps") is always blinking.
is it a GPS Antenna issue?
Or is it a GPS software configuration (something like another region config. etc.)?
Thanks!
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Dude if under open sky your phone is taking up to 20 minutes then there is seriously something wrong with it. Regardless of data being on of off, under open sky a phone of Note 3's calibre should never take more than 2-3 minutes. That's simply awful dude.
But still just do a fresh install of the ROM (unless you are already on a cleanly installed ROM) and make sure the gps.conf file has servers supported for your location (continent I mean). If not then download Faster Fix from Play and change region accordingly and give it a try.
If all above fails and phone still takes any more than 5-6 minutes to get a lock under open sky, then service centre should be your only option.
dabezt said:
In the picture I'm attaching you can see what is happening to me:
...
As you can see, after 20 minutes at a place open to sky, with data connection active (H+) and with gps activated, and after cleaning AGPS and reloading AGPS, the GPS Test app shows some satelites (with low numbers) with no signal, and a few ones (with higher numbers) with a little bit of signal (not more than 14) in orange (not enough).
GPS notification icon and message ("waiting gps") is always blinking.
is it a GPS Antenna issue?
Or is it a GPS software configuration (something like another region config. etc.)?
Thanks!
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I would say GPS antenna (or more likely the connector going from the antenna to the motherboard) - even indoor I easily get 3-4 satellites which are above 20 (yellow) in SNR.
devilsdouble said:
Dude if under open sky your phone is taking up to 20 minutes then there is seriously something wrong with it. Regardless of data being on of off, under open sky a phone of Note 3's calibre should never take more than 2-3 minutes. That's simply awful dude.
But still just do a fresh install of the ROM (unless you are already on a cleanly installed ROM) and make sure the gps.conf file has servers supported for your location (continent I mean). If not then download Faster Fix from Play and change region accordingly and give it a try.
If all above fails and phone still takes any more than 5-6 minutes to get a lock under open sky, then service centre should be your only option.
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I've to be root in order to run Faster Fix... and I think I've to 'break' the warrantie to be root and I will get 0x01 knox so I will not be able to sent it to Samsung oficial service center... Thanks!
dabezt said:
I've to be root in order to run Faster Fix... and I think I've to 'break' the warrantie to be root and I will get 0x01 knox so I will not be able to sent it to Samsung oficial service center... Thanks!
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Damn this KNOX and Samsung's horrible warranty policy. At least here in my place the nearest service centre is run by some fools and KNOX on or off, they don't even know how to check, or whether should they :laugh: And I hope as long as I stay with Samsung these intelligent people don't get fired However for every phone they do ask before taking the phone whether the user has rooted it or not, but you just need to say one thing, what? What is root? What are you talking about?