On EF02, my phone suffered the bug where GPS would just freeze after a few minutes and the phone would still show the GPS as being locked and the only solution was to restart the phone.
I am experiencing the exact same bug on EG22
The GPS stops after that *buzz*....*buzz*buzz*buzz* thing that happens when an app force closes. However, with the GPS, nothing pops up on this particular FC.
same exact issue with me. also the same issue with only 3 or 4 locks on satellites when 10+ are available.
I was really hoping they fixed this... back to the EE03 modem for me.
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I'll avoid if samsung still can't manage to fix the gps... It's getting kind of sad.
viper786 said:
On EF02, my phone suffered the bug where GPS would just freeze after a few minutes and the phone would still show the GPS as being locked and the only solution was to restart the phone.
I am experiencing the exact same bug on EG22
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What method are you using to produce this behavior? I would like to see if I can get the same thing. I used GPS often on EF02 and never experienced any problems. I used Telenav mostly and sometimes Google navigation.
I just used google navigation for 27 minutes and it worked perfectly on EG22.
I used google nav.
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I used google nav too. It worked good. I got gps signal at home just like I did when I had srf1.2
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I got the above with Google Nav on EF02, ended up having to flash EC05 modem to avoid it. I haven't had a chance to try it yet on my end after moving to EG22.
gps issues gone
This is the best locks ive gotten since di18... 30 minutes no problems.. i did make the mistake of flashing eg14 then eg22...
Same here. Just 10 minutes into a Google Nav session today and it locked up, with Google Nav searching for GPS, the icon showing a lock, and turning off GPS (the trick from the FroYo days) not actually turning it off. No solution beyond a restart of the phone.
And to the people claiming they're not having the problem: you're not understanding the problem. It doesn't have anything to do with lock time, and it's random. On EF02 I had it occur within five minutes, or work for over an hour before it locked up. It's random and unreliable. But run it long enough and it WILL lock up. Unclear whether it's a time thing, or handing off between X number of satellites/towers, but whatever the case it will definitely happen. So just saying "I ran it once for X amount of time and it didn't happen" doesn't mean yours is working. Do it for an hour every day for a week and you'll be guaranteed to see it.
This is definitely WORSE than the terrible GPS we always had. At least before we could toggle it off and back on and it would relock within moments. We can no longer toggle it off, so the GPS is completely dead until we restart the phone. Not exactly a good option while driving. Unfortunate that this wasn't one of their highest priorities to test and fix given how bad a rap they've gotten for GPS on the Galaxy S line.
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Same here. Just 10 minutes into a Google Nav session today and it locked up, with Google Nav searching for GPS, the icon showing a lock, and turning off GPS (the trick from the FroYo days) not actually turning it off. No solution beyond a restart of the phone.
And to the people claiming they're not having the problem: you're not understanding the problem. It doesn't have anything to do with lock time, and it's random. On EF02 I had it occur within five minutes, or work for over an hour before it locked up. It's random and unreliable. But run it long enough and it WILL lock up. Unclear whether it's a time thing, or handing off between X number of satellites/towers, but whatever the case it will definitely happen. So just saying "I ran it once for X amount of time and it didn't happen" doesn't mean yours is working. Do it for an hour every day for a week and you'll be guaranteed to see it.
This is definitely WORSE than the terrible GPS we always had. At least before we could toggle it off and back on and it would relock within moments. We can no longer toggle it off, so the GPS is completely dead until we restart the phone. Not exactly a good option while driving. Unfortunate that this wasn't one of their highest priorities to test and fix given how bad a rap they've gotten for GPS on the Galaxy S line.
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I do understand the problem. All I can tell you is that I have been using EF02 since it came out and with EF10 modem and I have never had this problem. I have used GPS often in that time. I will play around with EG22 for a few days using GPS to and from work to see if I can get it to do this.
I know of the gps problem on the ef02 I tried to use it everyday but even being on modem ef02 and ef10 it would aways freeze and would need to reboot but now with rom eg22, modem eg22 I been out driving around for 40 mins now in the Cincinnati area using gps and everything is running good no problem so I'm happy with this build
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I do understand the problem. All I can tell you is that I have been using EF02 since it came out and with EF10 modem and I have never had this problem. I have used GPS often in that time. I will play around with EG22 for a few days using GPS to and from work to see if I can get it to do this.
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Out of curiosity, were you one of the lucky few who seemingly had no trouble with the GPS on FroYo or Eclair, as well? That may represent a pattern of different hardware for you. For me I've never had good GPS, although it's seemed to get worse with each update. Eclair mostly worked, FroYo added the constant restarting of the GPS, and with Gingerbread it's just plain broken. If yours has always worked it suggests a difference.
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Out of curiosity, were you one of the lucky few who seemingly had no trouble with the GPS on FroYo or Eclair, as well? That may represent a pattern of different hardware for you. For me I've never had good GPS, although it's seemed to get worse with each update. Eclair mostly worked, FroYo added the constant restarting of the GPS, and with Gingerbread it's just plain broken. If yours has always worked it suggests a difference.
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I have never had any prior GPS issues on this phone since I got it in Feb as a replacement. Don't know about eclair, but I never had issues on EC05.
Too bad I can't say the same for EF02 and EG22...
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I too would like to add myself to the list of the GPS lock issue. Locks on very fast and well for the first 5-10 min then it would lose GPS signal. Sometimes if I exit and restart navi it would lock on again. Why! Good thing my gf has a iPhone so I'll have a back up.
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I too would like to add myself to the list of the GPS lock issue. Locks on very fast and well for the first 5-10 min then it would lose GPS signal. Sometimes if I exit and restart navi it would lock on again. Why! Good thing my gf has a iPhone so I'll have a back up.
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I drive a lot I will give this bad boy a try!!!
I had a broken gps on ef02 but with eg22 no problems ill also do more testing
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I too would like to add myself to the list of the GPS lock issue. Locks on very fast and well for the first 5-10 min then it would lose GPS signal. Sometimes if I exit and restart navi it would lock on again. Why! Good thing my gf has a iPhone so I'll have a back up.
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I can't believe you'd stoop that low...Having an iPhone dependent as a backup?!
EDIT: I hear a lot of people saying the Epic has GPS problems (especially the htc fanboys). I have been on every single build and the only modem that GPS didn't work for me on was EF10. Haven't tried EG22 but I think YMMV.
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I've tried every fix, every change and every hand position and the gps was still unacceptably slow and useless. After several phone calls to TMO I finally convinced them to send me a new phone.
I unpacked the new phone put my battery and sim card in booted it up clicked on google maps the gps flicked on and off about twice and then locked gps within 35 meters. Then I double checked the settings and use wireless carriers was unchecked.
Also my signal shows more bars. It still goes from 2 bars to 4 bars if i hold it by the top upside down but it was showing none (still worked) then 4?
This begs the question to me, is this a hardware issue? software? if it is soft why if they can fix on the later batches cant they fix for everyone?
New phone about:
model sgh-t959
firmware 2.1-update1
baseband T959UVJFD
kernel 2.6.29
the tech also told me to periodically do *#*#checkin#*#* on the dialer to be in the first people to get OTA updates when available. Anyone ever heard of this?
Thanks, i've been on this forum since my TMO pocket pc phone but this is my first post.
sax911
*#*#checkin#*#* or *#*#2432546#*#* is technically pinging google, sending your phones info... in the event you are on an outdated OS version you will be upgraded soon. It's not a waiting list, no one but Cyanogen goes first. then he gives google the go ahead to ship it out
For what it's worth, my phone was packaged on 8/19/10, and takes a long time to find GPS signal. I did both fixes, but ended up reverting back to Standalone mode to get semi-consistent results. Once it's locked in, it's very accurate.
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New phone about:
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does anyone have anything different from this? i picked up my vibrant a couple days ago, and my info is the same as this.
my gps works fine outdoors, sometimes has trouble determining location indoors. signal indoors usually shows 0-2 bars of 3g with consistent speeds, with full bars outside.
i can't complain
^^ The one I ordered from Amazon on 8/31 and got delivered yesterday has the same firmware, version etc. Today morning tested GPS on way to office and no problems. Locked satellite in 2 secs and did good job re-routing couple times when I ignored the GPS lady. I dont know if the problem starts when you use GPS more frequently. Hope not!
mind checking the GPS settings and telling us what they are? maybe some screenshots with drocap?
That's great for you but a single anecdotal data point is not an official fix validation.
I just tried *#*#2432546#*#* on my vibrant and got no results whatsoever. I have rooted with the one click root but have not installed any roms. I did do a backup rom with Rom manager and I believe it ended up with clockworkrecovery mode. I have done nothing else. Has something occured that will make it impossible for me to get the OTA? I have gotten checkin successful in the past but now nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
OP, this is by no means a flame but locking on with 35 meters accuracy is EXACTLY the issue with the GPS. That's 100 feet, man. Not accurate in my book. With aGPS turned off, my mt3g gets within 2-5 meters in about 20 seconds. Do a GPS stats test and see how many sats you lock on. I'll bet 1 to 3 at best. If more, post pics.
Mine works after using that fix that's been going around. Only thing is that out takes a while for the gps to lock but otherwise its fine. I think lol.
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I got a new one, my GPS locked in 10 seconds up to five meters
i get 11 satellite indoor and map is locking very fast and i am not using wifi network
Indeed, I am getting 10 sats indoors with wifi network turned off. Does a cold lock in seconds.
edit: GPS is not fixed. Can't get a lock after trying again this morning. Had to restart phone.
im excited to get this update!! thanks for the post!
in Baltimore, MD area here, no update for me yet!
Just apply the update yourself. No point waiting for OTA.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785028
GPS is indeed very accurate now!
Locked within about 10 seconds, got IN MY HOUSE, within about 10 feet from where I'm sitting.
This wasn't listed as one of the fixes for the OTA. Are you SURE it's actually working better now and it's not just a placebo effect?
ANY reset for an update is going to flush the GPS-xtra assistance data cache and force new downland of Alamanc and Ephemris. There is NO way you would know if this update did anything yet. I doubt ANY GPS changes are in this update since device team is still testing various fixes.
I am really curious too.. I looked on the sprints facebook page and some people said they still having probems with the gps even after the update.
I am still waiting to get the update.. patiently grrrr .. lol
I can confirm this too.. I watched the signal lock within no more than like 30-45 sec. As we all know before it was either nothing or a trickle. I have also noticed the performance enhancements they stated. The signal as you drive and the switch of of views as you drive are faster and more detailed before the directions are needed..
The map caches well on 3G and well on 4G. It makes me wonder, Samsung is using everything as guinea pigs to test so next year they bomb us with the Galaxy S2 which they so happily confirmed along with the Tegra 2 Galaxy Tab 2.
Sucks tho, bastards stripped 4G and Voice in the US.. :-( Oh well still have Motorola N HTC for their toys...
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Placebo effect or not, testing it the same way today as I did yesterday (and multiple days before) and having it work immediately without using wireless networks is awesome.
I'll take it.
One thing to note: When I rebooted my phone after the update, I immediately turned on Airplane mode (habit to kill that time without service bug) and a message popped up "Turn off Flight Mode to update firmware" so I immediately turned it back off. Maybe the update causes Sprint to have firmware updates pushed to the phone that affects this?
Or maybe not. Dunno; I ain't a phone guy.
Apparently you guys didnt read Aero1's post. The GPS apparently always works once after a reset, which the update forced. We shouldn't be able to confirm that the GPS is working for a little while yet.
Nope, fail. Update pushed last night, GPS sucks in the morning. Utter, complete fail. Tried to access GPS with WiFi on, now it's sitting there like an idiot until the screen times out. Had to force ephemeris clear to get it to work again. Also, "accuracy" hard-coded value still exists. And now, screen brightness is, for whatever reason, dimmer under auto than before.
Although I never had a GPS problem it does seem a bit faster now. I was really worried about GPS issues after reading all of the reviews and articles. I use GPS a lot and was very disappointed by what I was reading. I got my Epic at 8am on the day of launch and fired up GPS to test and it worked great. Has worked every day since with no issues at all. I don't understand how or why it works for some (because I have seen other people say the same thing about GPS) and not for others.
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Apparently you guys didnt read Aero1's post. The GPS apparently always works once after a reset, which the update forced. We shouldn't be able to confirm that the GPS is working for a little while yet.
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I read it. I have no idea who he is. Doesn't mean he's wrong or right, just means my initial anecdotal evidence is positive. Tomorrow may be different, but I don't take things at the word of people I don't know. If it's bad tomorrow, I'll come back and say so. My experience isn't proof of anything outside of my experience.
Oh, did you know the common dog is actually part of the family felinus and not caninus as previously thought?
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Tomorrow may be different, but I don't take things at the word of people I don't know. If it's bad tomorrow, I'll come back and say so.
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No disrespect or flamebait intended whatsoever, but isn't that somewhat the point of the forums?
I fear that premature threads like this are counterproductive. If Samsung checks these boards at all they'll think, "Well if even the tech savvy are fooled into thinking it's fixed, we definitely don't actually have to do anything." They are just *looking* for a reason to not actually fix this problem. There really needs to be constant and unrelenting/vocal frustration to force them into addressing this. The minute it appears on gizmodo/engadget is the moment when Samsung *might* begin to care.
I'm particularly fearful that only the gsm versions are getting the official fix because of the Sprint statement that the problem was fixed prior to release. And Epic owners will just be left high and dry.
Yeah, I tested this morning and my GPS is definitely broken, so the problem is indeed not fixed.
Applied update. After letting the GPS search around for a minute it locked outdoors. Turned it off, back on then it locked in seconds. Turned it off, walked inside house turned GPS back on, locked in a few seconds. Walked around my entire house, upstairs and down stairs and it stayed locked to an average of 5 sats. Rebooted my phone, and still near instant lock indoors. This was done with wifi on and then off and with `Use Wireless Networks' disabled for all tests.
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Applied update. After letting the GPS search around for a minute it locked outdoors. Turned it off, back on then it locked in seconds. Turned it off, walked inside house turned GPS back on, locked in a few seconds. Walked around my entire house, upstairs and down stairs and it stayed locked to an average of 5 sats. Rebooted my phone, and still near instant lock indoors. This was done with wifi on and then off and with `Use Wireless Networks' disabled for all tests.
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Wait a few hours and try again. It'll probably be broken.
The GPS on my Vibrant was working fine until yesterday. Starting last night, the phone has shown difficulties for searching GPS, or positioning me thousands of miles away.
What should I do now, folks?
I'm on the latest JK6.
GPS is going haywire...
Im having the same issue with my gps. I havent made any changes that I can remembe so I'm not sure what is causing it. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx
+1 on this. Gps was working flawlessly for a while now but since yesterday, not even the gps restore from samsung in the market can get it back in line...
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wrong thread but, same thing happened to me, shows that im in mexico most times when im in minnesota.
wow, so I'm not alone on this...
what's happening? aliens coming?
651stp said:
wrong thread but, same thing happened to me, shows that im in mexico most times when im in minnesota.
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Same thing here, only it tells me I'm either in Santa Monica or NYC (technically in the ocean) when I'm actually in Minnesota.
I hadn't tested GPS since switching to JK6, though.... JK6 related or something else?
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Same thing here, only it tells me I'm either in Santa Monica or NYC (technically in the ocean) when I'm actually in Minnesota.
I hadn't tested GPS since switching to JK6, though.... JK6 related or something else?
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In fact, I flashed back to JK2 tonight. The GPS seems to be still lousy (strangely, the baseband remained at JK6 without changing back)
Same here. It was working fine until late last night. The locations I got range from Bay Area to NYC but I was in LA.
check if you have " mock location" ticked or not.
its in the same place as the debugging option.
cheers.
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Same here. It was working fine until late last night. The locations I got range from Bay Area to NYC but I was in LA.
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I'm in Phoenix. But I've got Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, and LA.
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check if you have " mock location" ticked or not.
its in the same place as the debugging option.
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My mock location is unchecked
I am also having the gps go crazy as of the past 2 days and I have had great gps before(for this phone). I was on V5 jk2 and after flashing jk6 modem the gps started acting up, I'm assuming this new modem could be the issue
Update * today everything is working and I did not change a thing, I have no idea what the issue was
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I just had that problem tonight. I'm wondering if something weird happened system-wide that messed up a lot of phones. Before I saw this thread, I posted in the "Vibrant General" forum on this matter. After re-booting to try to get it to behave -- with no luck -- I went into my dialer-accessed GPS settings and found that two of them had been mysteriously changed. I got the GPS back with some changes. Here's what I know:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862594
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I just had that problem tonight. I'm wondering if something weird happened system-wide that messed up a lot of phones. Before I saw this thread, I posted in the "Vibrant General" forum on this matter. After re-booting to try to get it to behave -- with no luck -- I went into my dialer-accessed GPS settings and found that two of them had been mysteriously changed. I got the GPS back with some changes. Here's what I know:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862594
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Same thing happened to me tonight, my gps had been working great. Till tonight when i tried using it, it kept saying i was in New York, than Cali, etc. When in fact i live in Oregon. So when i got home i asked my Gf who has the vibrant as well if her gps was acting up, she tested it and it was not acting up, so i started messing with some setting and got it to work perfectly.
I messed with the settings in "My Location Sources"
There are 2 settings in there for gps related stuff.
"Use Wireless Networks"
"Use GPS satellites"
What i noticed was if i uncheck gps satellites i could use the google app, "places" (that comes with there Google map app) that it would find lets say gas stations near my location. So i tried to navigate there, and it asked me to hit the check button for the GPS satellites, i went into settings and checked it than went to navigate to it, within 5secs it planned a route with no troubles at all.
Now it works great, so for me to able to get my gps to work, i just have to go into the settings and check both boxes (i uncheck to save battery life, when im done).
Hopefully this makes sense, sometimes i tend to go on and on lol.
Any questions feel free to ask.
I am new to this site, so be kind!! =)
mine doesn't work either...
Zach-
It sounds like there was nothing much wrong with the phone. If I'm understanding your post you had your GPS on, but it seemed like you couldn't connect, right? So you turned it off momentarily and, when you accessed an app that needed it, it told you to turn it on. When you had "Use GPS Satellites" unchecked and "Use Wireless Networks" checked, it means that the GPS is not on or being used at all, and your phone was taking location readings off cell towers (which is not nearly as accurate as location by GPS). The test of your GPS is to have the "Use Wireless Networks" setting unchecked and the "Use GPS satellites" checked. If you turn the GPS on from the task bar at the top, you'll see that the box "Use GPS Satellites" is switched on, and is switched back off when you turn off the GPS from the task bar...so there is no reason to bother to go into the Location and Security Settings to toggle your GPS on/off. If I am not understanding your post, please clarify.
If you actually want to see how well your GPS works and how many satellites it locks on, download the free app "GPS Test."
Two other things: 1) many of us find that the GPS actually works better with the "Use Wireless Networks" box left unchecked, and 2) turn your GPS off when you aren't in need of it because it can be a significant drain on the battery.
ame thing happened to me.Last night I could not get my Gps to lock in jk6. I had been in V5 and had the same thing happen the night before. I tried gpsrestore and rebooting and pulling the battery etc. I flashed back to v5 and still the same result. Either no lock or it showed that I was in Long Island and actually I am in central fl. I tried changing some settings (auto config and ms based) to no avail. I than flashed back to V5 and at first it was the same and then after rebooting twice and pulling the battery it just mysteriously began to function again. I wont use the word work as it has never really worked well. It actually saw 11 and locked on 7 which is a new record for me. Like I said earlier in the post it had happened to me the same way the night before and thats when I flashed to jk6.After flashing it seemed to be operating as usual until las night. Strange that it would happen in both v5 and jk6 and at night both times, and that flashing to the other rom and pulling the battery would right the issue Does anyone have any idea what the issue is here?.
Edit: Just went out and used Cardio Trainer and it worked quite well as the gps seemed to function as well as it ever has.
Same problem everyone else is describing. My GPS has been working very well, then yesterday locks were taking a very long time and sometimes the location accuracy was 1000's of meters off. Tried again just now and it's back to quick locks with good accuracy.
Based on posts here and the TMO forum it seems to have been widespread.
Same problem everyone else is having however I have another problem as well.
Around the exact same time I had an issue with the GPS my ability to connect to a few different wireless networks was affected as well! I can't get on my home network at all, just gets hung up on 'obtaining IP address'. My old G1 running 2.2 can hop on the network without incident.
What the hell is Samsung up to?
Im having the exact same problems, i was on axura 2.05 when i first found my gps wasnt working i thought it was just temporary, got home tried again didnt work, flashed axura final, still didnt work, went back to stock jfd still didnt work, ji6 still didnt work, i thought my phones gps was bad or broke somehow i was in the 14 day window went to the tmobile store for an exchange (those guys are really clueless he told me that it was apps problem (google maps) and that my phone didnt have an actual gps -.- seriously where do they hire these guys) after shutting him up by simply showing the drop down GPS button he gave me a new phone. Fresh out the box stock ji6 and still no luck with gps, flashed axura 2.1 (jk6)now and obviously still not working so from what i went through its not the baseband difference since i went through jfd,ji6,jk2,fresh ji6,and jk6 and amazingly still no luck. Grr im mad
Edit : When using wifi my location locks instantly but with the GPS i cant get a lock and it would say im in Puerto Rico or Houston accurate to like 12200 meters lol and im in NY :T closest i got the NY i was somewhere in the water
Folks I am now seeing symptoms of stickiness in the GPS cache on both our ec05 Epics. The symptom is GPS on, application requiring GPS on, and the device not obtaining any GPS after several minutes optimum conditions, followed by a battery pull and a GPS acquisition within a few seconds.
This was a known issue on older firmware, one I never saw with eb13, which I had for a month, but which has returned on both our epics wiht EC05.
Lets track this to see if anyone else has this. Please do not cloud thread with discussions of accuracy or results one sees within a couple of days of any reset.
I've been of EC05 about a week now and its gps works fine for me so far.
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I've been of EC05 about a week now and its gps works fine for me so far.
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Did you experience the known bug we had for six months before EB13?
aero1, noticing the same thing. Very disappointed. EB13 seemed to work perfectly. Now it's back to old antics. However, it's more variable than before - I've switched off my Airave, and it seems to be a bit better.
I am seeing something like this.
My weather app for instance; has the next town over from me. If I open Google Maps; the cursor is in the next town; but then after a few seconds locks correctly.
If I close Google Maps and reopen it, its back in the tow next to me.
I tried to clear the AGPS stats using GPS Status (from the market).
It just seems to not be updating or remembering where I am; don't know why that is.
I'm sitting on a 48hr uptime and still pulling GPS indoors with accuracy within 1m.
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If I close Google Maps and reopen it, its back in the tow next to me.
I tried to clear the AGPS stats using GPS Status (from the market).
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GPS status' clear cache and download new assistance has never worked on epic. I spoke with developer some months ago and assistance data cache of samsungs is different than GPS status uses.
Town next to you could be because you are using "use wireless network" (which you should have off for this testing).
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I'm sitting on a 48hr uptime and still pulling GPS indoors with accuracy within 1m.
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Accuracy has never been the problem with epic (although reported accuracy is a fixed bug.
And this cache bug was present on all pre eeb13 epics, it is just a question of user habits that makes a difference on if you see it. Did you see it before eb13?
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aero1, noticing the same thing. Very disappointed. EB13 seemed to work perfectly. Now it's back to old antics.
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pre release eb13 with original kernal had some GPS problems but latter version including the official eb13 finally fixed the issue present since September. I was so happy. I am still testing but am 90% sure it is back as well.
The cold start workaround that worked great for us was disabled in EB13 and is still disabled in EC05. Has anyone got a working ## sequence to get to the GPS debug/settings menu?
@aero1, today seems to be much better - haven't had any lock problems, either WiFi or 3G. Perhaps there were some issues with the assistance server yesterday? I couldn't get a lock for the life of me yesterday, but as of today (with no reboots), I've gotten a lock every single time, over all data interfaces. Have you noticed any improvements?
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Perhaps there were some issues with the assistance server yesterday? I couldn't get a lock for the life of me yesterday, but as of today (with no reboots), I've gotten a lock every single time, over all data interfaces. Have you noticed any improvements?
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I rebooted in the past 24 hours for other reasons so I wont expect to see a problem for anther day. And any problem with data connection, not jut assistance server, would mimic the old issue.
I've seen similar problems to the old DK28. Didn't have them with EB13, they do seem to be back to a certain extent with EC05.
GPS status' clear cache and download new assistance has never worked on epic. I spoke with developer some months ago and assistance data cache of samsungs is different than GPS status uses.
Town next to you could be because you are using "use wireless network" (which you should have off for this testing).
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Thanks!! I will shut off using the network and test for a few days.
(don't know why that didn't come to mind .. age i guess... hehehe)
EDIT: I turned off the use network in GPS and my GPS is much better. Thanks again for pointing that out aero1.
I really do wonder if there was a problem with the backend on the assistance servers - after 41 hrs of uptime, I'm still getting locks every 4-5 seconds - with 8 hours inbetween attempts, on EC05. The first day we had EC05, I had a miserable time getting locks, with a reboot required constantly, but I must say, it's been behaving much better.
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I really do wonder if there was a problem with the backend on the assistance servers - after 41 hrs of uptime, I'm still getting locks every 4-5 seconds - with 8 hours inbetween attempts, on EC05. The first day we had EC05, I had a miserable time getting locks, with a reboot required constantly, but I must say, it's been behaving much better.
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Not an issue with the assistance servers. I could tell because in all cases I had no lock after a few minutes, I get near instant a-gps locks with a reset meaning cache is cleared and cache is successfully populated from assistance server
I looked into this a bit. While I was unable to locate the root cause of the problem (I suspect it's in the ril or radio), I've implemented a workaround that simply downloads time & assistance data every time the "Use GPS satellites" or notification widget toggle is enabled.
Would folks who have problems with the GPS in EC05, especially if they temporarilly resolve after a reboot, mind testing the workaround? It's not a perfect solution, but it may make the problem much less annoying than it presently is.
I know this sounds crazy.. and until I tried it over and over.. I did not believe it either..
I did the hardware fix , where you bend up the gps antenna a bit, so it touches the cover when closed. but I litteraly had almost no change in signal.. like I could not even get the GPS restore to work..
I was pi$$Ed..
so I took another look at the phone / antenna etc.. got be thinking about signal and its orientation.. the GPS ant. is on the back of the phone, where it gets covered by your hand faces the ground or whatever is under it.. so I turned it- landscape..screen facing me.. clock wise... so the e from tmobile is top side..
guess what.. it works
I am locking on to 9-12 sats..every time..
let me know what you find happens..
How fast are the locks. Te issue is not how many sats since it only needs a few to get an accurate signal. The problem is that the phone takes 1900% longer than any other phone I've ever used to lock, which makes the GPS functionality virtually useless for geotagging pictures and posts to Facebook, twitter, google+ as well as checking into places.
Until it gets a decent lock the bubble around your location is miles in diameter.
Phone literally take upwards of 10 minutes to get a lock at times.
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with in 10 seconds I was locked in w/less than 40 ft accuracy
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How fast are the locks. Te issue is not how many sats since it only needs a few to get an accurate signal. The problem is that the phone takes 1900% longer than any other phone I've ever used to lock, which makes the GPS functionality virtually useless for geotagging pictures and posts to Facebook, twitter, google+ as well as checking into places.
Until it gets a decent lock the bubble around your location is miles in diameter.
Phone literally take upwards of 10 minutes to get a lock at times.
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a little exaggerated perhaps? my phone is the original batch and i've never had it take ten minutes for a lock. i mean i'm in Manhattan so the wifi assist probably helps it alot in terms of lock. the gps on the vibrant was never good enough for navigation but good enough for everything else imo.
I don't know about you but all my gps successes didn't last. first time i did all my gps fixes, it worked great. as time went on, went back to sh|t.
10 minutes it about right for me at the moment... ill try the orientation thing lol
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Yea one of the members here found this out a lonnnng time ago ever since then I always face my phone with the back facing the sky to get that first lock. Most of the times it works
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I don't know about you but all my gps successes didn't last. first time i did all my gps fixes, it worked great. as time went on, went back to sh|t.
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Agreed, same experience I've been having. There are some good days and there some days that it's flat out stubborn like a bull. It won't even lock even on a clear night sky.