For the longest time I haven't been able to use coarse location and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 6.1 on a Rogers HTC Dream, though it's currently on Telus's network.
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Not to give away too much specific information, but I've got a new TMO MDA and the building I am in actually has TMO repeaters. Other TMO phones get perfect reception, and I can even put this new sim into my old unlocked HTC Typhoon and get perfect reception, yet my new TMO MDA won't get any signal.
I'm attempting to scour the registry to find some bit of info or a bit to flip or something of that sort to diagnose the issue. Our TMO rep apparently has RF engineers working on the issue, but if I can fix it sooner than they can I'd be happy.
So, basically, only these new MDAs (other new MDA owners are experiencing the same issue, as well as SDA owners) fail to authenticate to the repeaters in this building. I doubt the repeaters have a list of phones that allow authentication, since the Typhoon was never released by TMO and that can authenticate fine. So I'm thinking there is some bit on the MDAs that is sticking to one band frequency or another, or something to that effect.
Any idea where I could look for info, whether it be a web source or maybe a registry key I could tweak or something of the sort? I got the engineer mode to work (after another registry tweak to turn it on), and it isn't showing any information since the phone isn't connecting to any tower/repeater.
when you go to select networks to use, does the phone give you a list of possible cell networks?
Sorry if i sound obvious....but:
1. Have you compared the Roms on the phones? Maybe the new phone has a different rom which is causing the problem.
2. Have you tried the phone anywhere else outside your building...
3. The engineering mode will still work even without a SIM installed, so if your getting blank information then I think you have an old Rom
Hope this helps
Answers to questions in the thread:
1. If I go to select my networks manually, and it searches for networks, all it finds is the Cingular network, which I can not connect to. It won't find the TMO network at all. But I know it exists because other TMO phones work fine with full reception, and even my old Typhoon works with my new TMO sim in it.
2. The roms on all the MDAs shipped from TMO USA 1.8.10.2 and GSM rom 01.09.10.
3. Phone works entirely fine outside of the building. The building is shielded, but there are repeaters in the building for current TMO users. I know they work since other TMO phones other than the new MDA and SDAs work fine.
4. As for engineering mode... interestingly enough, now that I do have reception (I'm at home right now), I also get blanks. I thought that because I didn't get any reception, I wasn't getting anything from the engineering mode. But interestingly enough, I still don't even though I have reception.
Methinks I do need just the GSM rom. Someone mentioned it in another thread in the Wizard Upgrade forum. Where might I get just that ROM, maybe I'll give it a shot and see if it fixes before doing a full ROM upgrade (which I'd like to do for performance reasons, but I haven't gotten a definitive answer whether I can revert back to bone stone TMO roms with extended roms and everything yet).
I woould suggest getting hold of one of the phones that works, back up the registry, and restore it to the phone that doesn't work. That would tell you if its a registry setting, or a phone/rom problem
britman said:
I woould suggest getting hold of one of the phones that works, back up the registry, and restore it to the phone that doesn't work. That would tell you if its a registry setting, or a phone/rom problem
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Well, there are no phones that work.
The phones that do work are your run of the mill non-smartphone phones, not a WM5 phone.
Actually, that's not true since my Typhoon is running Windows Mobile 5, but it is entirely different than the MDA.
Only all the stock MDAs shipped from TMO are failing to authenticate to these repeaters. Makes me think that updated the radio rom would help, or something on the repeaters is blocking just these two phones (the Wizard and the Tornado).
Try updating the wizard with one of these roms:
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Wizard/Roms/Tmobile/
Well, I updated the radio rom to 01.12.10...
And still wont connect to these repeaters. The phone seemed snappier to connect when I stepped outside of the building, though. So there is a plus. However, there has to be some reason the repeaters in this building are not allowing my phone to auth.
Does anyone else have trouble with their Telus HTC Hero getting the complete wrong location (or being completely unable to determine a location)? This is with GPS off using Google Location Services.
In Oshawa, it can't find my location, in Woodbridge is thinks I'm in Espoo, Finland, and in North York it thought I was in Georgetown, Guyana. Driving on the 407 it thought I was in Malaysia. Sometimes the phone gets the location correct in these areas, too, but most of the time the location is either unavailable or wrong. If GPS is on it all works perfectly.
Calling Telus results in them telling me they've never heard of this problem before (also that I'm their first call about the HTC Hero, lol). Calling HTC resulted in them telling me that this was expected as the Telus network was new and Google was still working on their location services database with the new networks here.
Therefore, I'm asking to see if anyone else has a similar issue (especially in the same general area) and if not, what could possibly me wrong on my end.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Yup, same problem here on the west coast. According to the phone I am a well traveled man, from Vancouver to some where in Croatia, to Finland, and last night Dublin. Maybe my phone want to go out and see the world?
Yeah same here. I was in some weird places apparently and actually right now I'm in Tanjong Karang. Last night my timezone changed as well, not sure why. It should have been syncing to the network, unchecking/checking the sync to network fixed it though.
OT: Do you guys ever have your browser give an apache error? Yet all other apps continue to work? I have this fairly often and I have to turn off the radio competely and turn it back on to fix it. Really annoying.
Yeah I get the apache error too. It seems to be the homepage of the browser.
Mine works fine usually on the Rogers network - but they've had the iPhone for a while which uses network locational services as well so I guess they've got most of the glitches out. The worst I've had is when it just says "current city" but the temperature reporting looks fine.
Mine (on Rogers) works fine in Alberta - never had a wrong location.
The Rogers network is already very well established so I can't say as though I'm surprised.
my location seems to put me in washington dc but i live in michigan so the closest location to me for what i'm trying to do would be lansing, mi.
I'm using speedtest.net app and other apps too but my main concern is it keeps thinking i'm in washington dc. Anyone know how to resolve this? I've had this issue on every android build i've tried.
I also just checked my fiance's phone it's a stock mytouch3g 3.5mm jack and it does the same thing
i have the same problem too, even back then on winmo. my location shows place about 10-20 km from mine.
unless you are on GPS, it will never be 100% accurate, because it locates you depending on your "cell location", i.e what broadcasting tower your connecting to. which may be wrong due to google, or your carrier not updating records etc.
just live with it i'm afraid!
oh and the speedtest app bases it's location on IP Address, not cell tower location, thus it will never put you in the correct location, because mobile ip address's do not have a set location, so they simply associate with a random city, usually larger ones.
but i've turned on gps and use google maps...
has the gps got a lock?
my location still probably defaults to GSM location, because otherwise it would turn on gps everytime you update your location!
also google is not very good with this feature.
because today i was sitting in a room, and the location jumped from two loactions constantly! one was correct, while the other was quite far
Jonny4911 said:
has the gps got a lock?
my location still probably defaults to GSM location, because otherwise it would turn on gps everytime you update your location!
also google is not very good with this feature.
because today i was sitting in a room, and the location jumped from two loactions constantly! one was correct, while the other was quite far
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how to know if the gps got a lock?
the gps symbol at the top won't be flashing, it will be steady
I'm runnning darkstone HD2Froyo v1 on my phone (along with the UK o2 ROM 1.72, radio 2.15 and HSPL 2.08) but the location doesnt work at all.
Any suggestions as to how I can resolve this? If another 'droid build is needed, a link to the relevant page on XDA would be much appreciated.
markymunkeypants said:
I'm runnning darkstone HD2Froyo v1 on my phone (along with the UK o2 ROM 1.72, radio 2.15 and HSPL 2.08) but the location doesnt work at all.
Any suggestions as to how I can resolve this? If another 'droid build is needed, a link to the relevant page on XDA would be much appreciated.
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Darkstone has updated his build to 1.5, just for your information. This consumes a lot less battery.
Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870518&page=151 and scroll back a few pages from there. There a atleast 3 solutions listed. Hope this helps.
sherlockpwnz said:
my location seems to put me in washington dc but i live in michigan so the closest location to me for what i'm trying to do would be lansing, mi.
I'm using speedtest.net app and other apps too but my main concern is it keeps thinking i'm in washington dc. Anyone know how to resolve this? I've had this issue on every android build i've tried.
I also just checked my fiance's phone it's a stock mytouch3g 3.5mm jack and it does the same thing
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The T-Mobile I.P. address is in Washington, so when you ping, it thinks you are there. If you check on help on "speed.net" there is a section/link for such a question and it points to the service they use for locating I.P addressed and how it updates.
Hi guys,
So I finally upgraded from the manufacture rom to the kit-kat nightly rom a couple of days ago and it's fantastic. The phone is so much faster and it's quite pleasing overall.
I do have this one weird problem. It's not able to locate me thru the wireless networks (and it used to be able to do it perfectly in the original rom). It IS able to locate me using the GPS, but not even remotely over wireless.
Anyone else had this problem / any idea how to solve it?
Thanks
Hi Guys,
So I am having a bit of an issue with cyanogenmod and GPS where my phone can only get location from Cell Phone Towers and WiFi and never actually connects to GPS signals when I am trying to uses Google Maps/HERE Maps. I could live with out GPS if my WiFi network gave me the right location but it never does so What do I need to do to fix this headache.
Thanks in advance, Tech.
I have the same problem at this moment, I'm running PureNexus rom and my GPS was working super bad while in USA and right now I'm in Russia and it doesn't work at all here, just like you've described.
Could you please tell me if you find some sort of solution?