Hi All,
I have an AT&T branded but unlocked Samsung Focus. Suddenly, the GPS has stopped working on the phone. The maps application or any other application is not able to find my location. I have checked in the settings that location is turned on. I am currently outside the US. Can this be an issue? Though, GPS was working a couple of days back (while I was outside the US).
Please help
Thanks.
Maybe it takes longer to connect.
Did you change the location on the phone settings?
i have the same problem!
i'm a Chinese User, and i get it (Focus), but the GPS didn't work ever.
the Location setting is on, but it says GPS OFF in GPSinfo, and i turn to the DC mode, GPS State shows Location is off, then i press the Left button blew, no longer, it shows DATA UNAVAILABLE.
what's problem?
Sorry for the poor English !!
unbe said:
i'm a Chinese User, and i get it (Focus), but the GPS didn't work ever.
the Location setting is on, but it says GPS OFF in GPSinfo, and i turn to the DC mode, GPS State shows Location is off, then i press the Left button blew, no longer, it shows DATA UNAVAILABLE.
what's problem?
Sorry for the poor English !!
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Exactly! I too have got these observations...GPSinfo shows GPS as off and in Diagnostics, I get Data Unavailable..
Please help! Has the GPS chip gone bad??
Bump!! Please help...
I assume you have brought it back to the store you purchased this at and asked them to have a look at it? This sounds like its a sure it for a warranty swap no? I wouldnt put up with that and have brought it in after the first day of it not working.
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hi everyone.
I am still unable to get the GPS working on my titan. I have followed every instruction on the forums from here to ppcgeeks and it is still not functioning.
I have the installed the sprint 3.35 and also have vetvito's installed too. Ive used holux GPS viewer and tried to use Iguidence and tom tom with no sucess. I changed the COM port to all of them and tried it then and nothing. Also my phone is the PPC6800 on the alltel network any input would help out greatly.
Thank you
Two thoughts. Did you enable the location setting in the phone options as with this turned off the GPS won't activate, and second, do you get any satelites displayed with the Holux viewer?....
I have the location setting to on and when I start the viewer it will show about 10 satellites but never pick up on them. They flash on the viewer for a minute then disappear and come back again.
Hm... If you're seeing the satellites the GPS is working. Have you gone outside with full view of the sky? Seems our 6800's can be quite finicky. I can't get a lock while sitting on my livingroom couch (on the ground floor), but outside or in my car its fine as it is on the second floor of my house. Other than trying other physical locations, I'm out of ideas... Good luck!
edit: also try switching back and forth between the data listing and the sat. view as sometimes it seems to glitch and not update the sats but the data keeps streaming in and it will eventually lock...
thanks i'll try the switch technique and i am outside trying to do it and I left my phone out for at least one time for an half hour and nothing....hmm...I'll give ya an update and see if that helps at all.
jdurand976 said:
I have the location setting to on and when I start the viewer it will show about 10 satellites but never pick up on them. They flash on the viewer for a minute then disappear and come back again.
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I got the same result when I first installed the GPS firmware. I had to do a full hard reset to get it working.
I have same problem . Rom 3.35 Radio 3.35.
GPS finds 3 satel. and loses them, after that again 3 minutes still, finds and again loses... GPS it is not fixed.
Hard reset and Change registry not help.
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So my G1 can't find my location via GPS no matter where I am. I am standing in the middle of a soccer field and it is "your location temporarily unavailable." So I installed GPS status from the market and it is showing that 0 satellites.
I am using JF 1.51, radio 2-22-19-26I, and the DEV SPL(the one with androids on skateboards). Anyone have this problem or know a way to fix it? This has been going on for a few days so it's not a satellite problem. It is phone related. If more info is needed from me I will do my best to get it to you.
Thing I have tried(updated last 16 JUN 2009 12:18 PM -6:00GMT)
-Toggle GPS on and off
-Reboot
-Combination of the above two multiple times
-device wipe(alt-w) and re-flash the JF1.51 ROM
-Toggles and reboots again
-wait for more ideas from you guys
Now I tried installing the dudes cupcake(awesome by the way) but GPS still doesn't work. It picked up one satellite for a couple seconds then it disappeared to 0 again.
Try toggling GPS off then back on. Maybe reboot the device too.
jashsu said:
Try toggling GPS off then back on. Maybe reboot the device too.
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Tried that. No dice. I will edit my original post to include things I have tried.
Did you try waiting a few minutes with GPS status ?
At some point my GPS was very very slow to get a lock.
Zappletoo said:
Did you try waiting a few minutes with GPS status ?
At some point my GPS was very very slow to get a lock.
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I let it run all night(6 hours). Still reading 0 satelites.
Update. Got one satellite to show up for a couple seconds then it disappeared. This is after I wiped and installed the dude's latest rom. Still getting 0 satellites in GPS Status and no location on my maps. I have tried the old and updated google maps.
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Update. Got one satellite to show up for a couple seconds then it disappeared. This is after I wiped and installed the dude's latest rom. Still getting 0 satellites in GPS Status and no location on my maps. I have tried the old and updated google maps.
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Do you have another GPS equipped device that shows satellite lock? If so, your radio might be dead.
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Do you have another GPS equipped device that shows satellite lock? If so, your radio might be dead.
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I was afraid of that and I think it is. I just rooted my friends phone and everything works fine. Also I have a Blue Force Tracker(US Army advanced GPS monitoring computer, in laymans terms) and that is working fine. I'm gonna un-root and hope i can get an exchange with t-mobile. I've only had the phone for a month or two.
Just got off the phone with android support from t-mobile. It's funny when you relize you know as much them and then some at times. This place is great.
But back to the main point. I told them the GPS is out, and I have re-flashed the OS(i left out the root and other than t-mobile os's part). Final answer from the rep, we will send you a new phone, sorry yours broke. So that's it for that. JF and TheDudes ROM's had nothing to do with it. Just a bad model I got. Now to un-root...
I just reflashed my phone with stock JF1.51 to clear out some cruft from past experimentation. Upon loading up my complement of apps from the Market (including the 3.1.0 Maps app) I opened Maps and noticed it would not lock onto GPS with a clear view of the sky.
I was able to fix it by opening settings and turning off the Use Wireless Networks option then opening maps again. After it got the first GPS lock, I turned the Use Wireless Networks option back on. All is fine.
Might wanna try that out? It's worth giving a shot.
I don't know what happened but i have reflashed my phone over 5 times today. I was trying to put apps2sd back on JF1.51(skipped a step and bricked it, twice lol) and now it is working again. Strange.
My samsung focus get heated up very quickly(in the upper part section near speaker, cam) this happens whenever I use the phone, any browsing, using apps etc. Does anyone else have this problem ?
Also the location services is not working, it not able to find me location from last few days, it used to work fine earlier. Any help ?
Problem with location services...
How do I verify that the GPS is working fine.
the location settings is turned ON. but still no application is able to find my location..not even the Bing search.
I tried running this code from the diagnostics menu : *#1472365#
and it says "No data is available for location services."
Apps used to find my latitude and longitude some time back..
I have no problem connecting to the internet...
Is this a hardware problem, pls help.
The only time my Focus really heats up in the area you have identified is under charging (Power adapter/USB/Car). I can feel the warmth in the top of the phone through the charge process.
Far less noticeable now that I have the BodyGlove snap-on case.
Cheers.
I have a I5800L (from vivo brazil), and when im using the stock eclair rom (VIJG7) my GPS gets a lock in less than 20 seconds. But when i update to ANY froyo rom (Kyrillos, InDroid, XXJPM, XXJPN, XXJPQ ... ) my GPS takes more than 15 minutes to get a lock. I've tried every GPS fix i found here, but it still doesn't work. Do anyone have any ideas?
When I had purchased my phone, I never used to get a lock.
Try this...
1. Look through the forum and you will find ways to configure the ntp server.(gps.conf) file.
2. Get this app called "GPS Status" and "GPS Optimization by octy".
3. Start your GPS using the GPS Optimization and then open GPS Status.
4. Go to tools--> Manage GPS-->Reset
5. Download assistance data.
Initially it will take some time to lock, but as u do this more and more, you wouldn't ever require GPS Status.
Just turn on gps with octy and you will get a lock soon.
Have patience.
When i got my galaxy 3 in Pakistan but set was purchased in UK i got the same problem..sometimes i got fix in 5minutes and sometimes when i am in a car i literally try for hour but i cant get lock...
Then i got through one thread sorry i don't know the exact name having lot of coding to fix gps..in this thread i see simple thing..
simple use this code *#*#1472365#*#*
it will open the gps setup2 do nothing and come back to your app it will caught 9 10 satellites in few seconds..
hope this will fix your problem..i am using this trick perfectly on my stock rom use offline maps in maverick..
Same problem here froyo messed up GPS.
Phone finds satellites fairly quickly (GPS status) but to get a fix on them takes forever if a fix at all comes.
Did not have this problem before froyo.
Well I did have some GPS problems but now it has become impossible.
Tried all apps I think, GPS boost, GPS aids.
I think I have the weird of all. GPS doesn't work at all. Network does. When I open Maps aftera long gap with wireless network on, it finds my location within 5 seconds, but wait ................. it jumps into completely different location instantly. originally I am from kolkata, it shows the same at first second and just jumps into JAPAN :O:O .. yesterday got the same thing but in different location, but it was within India atleast .. .. it was @ Roorkee, india. Lost all hopes.......... :|
Hi guys,
I have a problem with the GPS that I don't think is unique to the GS4 only ... cause I had it on my S2LTE in the past, and my wife's Note 2 also has the same problem.
Basically, I can turn on GPS no problem, but after turning it on, it will not turn off even though the GPS icon is turned off from the notification bar, and the GPS sign also disappears from the main bar. Checking on the battery stat shows GPS remains all along.
This can only be fixed by a reset, but the next time I turn GPS on, once again I need to reset the phone to turn it off.
Anyone knows how to fix this? I already have location services turned off. This doesn't seem to be located to google services at all, instead it seems to be a Samsung thing that doesn't turn GPS off.
This only seems to happen after upgrade to 4.3 as well.
Thanks in advance!