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GPS Woes

Having issues with GPS working. IT is not even seeing any sats. I have my old GNEX and that is working great, no issues. I used GPS Status to reset/download the GPS data and no luck. I tried the latest CM build and an old CM build...no luck. I tried a different 4.3.1 ROM all together, no luck. I would try a 4.2.2 but GOO has been down all damn day
Anyway, any one else having issues with GPS? Hope GOO is back up soon because if this is a phone defect, then I need to flash back to stock. Wish I would of tested GPS out of the box, but I didnt even think to do so.
thanks

techbeck said:
Having issues with GPS working. IT is not even seeing any sats. I have my old GNEX and that is working great, no issues. I used GPS Status to reset/download the GPS data and no luck. I tried the latest CM build and an old CM build...no luck. I tried a different 4.3.1 ROM all together, no luck. I would try a 4.2.2 but GOO has been down all damn day
Anyway, any one else having issues with GPS? Hope GOO is back up soon because if this is a phone defect, then I need to flash back to stock. Wish I would of tested GPS out of the box, but I didnt even think to do so.
thanks
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Happend to me also, some rom u flashed used different gps regions.
EASY SOLUTION: Download android tweaker app from play store and set your country and region with it.
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moonjak said:
Happend to me also, some rom u flashed used different gps regions.
EASY SOLUTION: Download android tweaker app from play store and set your country and region with it.
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Tried this....still doesnt work. Any more ideas?

techbeck said:
Tried this....still doesnt work. Any more ideas?
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If you are on stock do gps calibration inside hidden menu.
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moonjak said:
If you are on stock do gps calibration inside hidden menu.
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I am on the latest CM nightly build. Cannot go back to stock. All the links do DL stock roms are down because of GOO

THis is what I did to get GPS working....
1) Flashed CleanROM 4.2.2 and established a lock
2) Factory rest in recovery and applied CM 10.2 M1
GPS now works fine. Before I was restoring a CM backup but I had to flash the original CM ROM in order to get GPS working.

I am on stock rom, and have same issue. I began to think that this is a hardware problem. What type your g2? Mine is d802b.
There is another method to download stock rom, have you tried it?

htcm7 said:
I am on stock rom, and have same issue. I began to think that this is a hardware problem. What type your g2? Mine is d802b.
There is another method to download stock rom, have you tried it?
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Stock and 4.2.2 ROMS are fine. It is a known issue going from stock to CM. Some G2 phones do have hardware problems tho.

Having stability problems with ALL touchworks roms

Hi everyone, I am having an issue whenever I install a touchwork rom that it will inevitably randomly reboot, or crash then reboot at least once a day. I am not going to mention any specific roms here because it has happened consistently with several of the most popular touchwork roms on this forum. I also considered the possibilty of a rogue app causing these problems, however yesterdayI installed one of my favorite roms and did not install a single third party application, to rule out that possibility. Today it just rebooted again this morning out of nowhere.
Caveat is that when I tried a 4 day trial on a AOSP rom, i had no such issues, even though i TB'ed my apps and restored everything.
Now I know an easy solution is to just stay on a non TW rom, but I happen to like several TW features and can't seem to figure out whats going on here.
Any ideas?

I'm assuming you have an i337m. I'd Odin the stock firmware and see if you have the reboot issues on it. If you don't it's most likely the rom that is causing the issue our the way you're flashing them
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jd1639 said:
I'm assuming you have an i337m. I'd Odin the stock firmware and see if you have the reboot issues on it. If you don't it's most likely the rom that is causing the issue our the way you're flashing them
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US version

theraker007 said:
US version
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So you're on mdl firmware? Are you doing full wipes, system, data, cache and dalvik, when you're installing the roms?
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jd1639 said:
So you're on mdl firmware? Are you doing full wipes, system, data, cache and dalvik, when you're installing the roms?
Sent from my Nexus 5
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every single time. Again, this is only happening with TW roms. I've also tried stock and KT kernel with same roms.

gps problem

my gps doesnt fix whatever i do. Not even finds any sattelite. I didnt have this problem on s5 porting roms.
Any fix?
I am now using sweet rom.
Gpa works only on s5 porting roms
Thnx
Patrick

patomo09 said:
my gps doesnt fix whatever i do. Not even finds any sattelite. I didnt have this problem on s5 porting roms.
Any fix?
I am now using sweet rom.
Gpa works only on s5 porting roms
Thnx
Patrick
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Follow this step could solve your issue:
1. Boot to recovery mode and factory reset
2. Go to "Mount and Storage", did "Format system/data/cache" 1 or 2 time
3. Reflash your custom or stock rom and check it.

hhai2pth said:
Follow this step could solve your issue:
1. Boot to recovery mode and factory reset
2. Go to "Mount and Storage", did "Format system/data/cache" 1 or 2 time
3. Reflash your custom or stock rom and check it.
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Thnx for reply. Already tried.
The strange thing is that gps only works with s5 porting roms.
Dont know why. Tried many gps fix apps but with no success.
Thnx
Patrick

patomo09 said:
my gps doesnt fix whatever i do. Not even finds any sattelite. I didnt have this problem on s5 porting roms.
Any fix?
I am now using sweet rom.
Gpa works only on s5 porting roms
Thnx
Patrick
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You may have tried this but did you try changing the gps.config file? Some ROMs set the LPP_Profile to 0. Have you changed it to your specific device?

Have you tried GPS Status from playstore? That was the only bandaid i have to use to have a usefull gps.but im stock rooted only.

Same problem as OP
Just wrecked my Note 3 yesterday while trying to fix (modem to NG1, bl, etc.)
GPS Status -/- satellites all the time, nothing helps
I also tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help/n9005-gps-fix-flashing-stock-s5-port-rom-t2827427 but menu not working as described

Help with GPS not working

My phone is the Sprint GS4 currently running Danvdh&Ktoonsez CM11 based rom and Im very happy with it except I'm having trouble getting GPS working. fwiw my boootloader is NAE and baseband is MDC
From the reading I've done on this topic, (to no avail unfortunately) it appears to be a common problem with cm11. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Update. I redownloaded the ROM and did a full wipe and then reinstalled and now GPS is working, Hooray. However the compass is still not working. I'll keep looking but will gladly try any ideas you might have.

Wonk258 said:
Update. I redownloaded the ROM and did a full wipe and then reinstalled and now GPS is working, Hooray. However the compass is still not working. I'll keep looking but will gladly try any ideas you might have.
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You need to calibrate your compass. Very easy to do. Check the video to see how:

I tried this now and it seams to have helped but my compass reacts very slow not quickly like the phone in the video. However slow is better than not working at all so thanks.
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GPS not Fixing

Hi guys! I have a SM-G900F and my GPS won't work. I was running Sixperience V7 (GPS was working) ,then wiped and installed cm12.1,but gps wouldn't work so I cleaned my phone by Reinstalling stock BOI3 ITV with Odin. I have tried all the options (GPS Only,Low Power,GPS+Network positions) But it just won't lock,doesn't even search for satellites. Is there something I can do to get it back working? Thanks!

Happened exactly the same to me.... I came back from cm12 to do the GPS fix thing in touchwiz but now it won't even search satellites or get a lock what the hell!! And I'm pretty sure it's not a GPS problem since it was working just before I had cm12.1... Any help appreciated

Wolf80 said:
Hi guys! I have a SM-G900F and my GPS won't work. I was running Sixperience V7 (GPS was working) ,then wiped and installed cm12.1,but gps wouldn't work so I cleaned my phone by Reinstalling stock BOI3 ITV with Odin. I have tried all the options (GPS Only,Low Power,GPS+Network positions) But it just won't lock,doesn't even search for satellites. Is there something I can do to get it back working? Thanks!
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Did you ever fix it???? Only way i can get gps working is by flashing sixperience 7.0 , Stock touchwiz doesn't seem to find sattelites... so strange

xAD3r1ty said:
Did you ever fix it???? Only way i can get gps working is by flashing sixperience 7.0 , Stock touchwiz doesn't seem to find sattelites... so strange
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I tried and now it works,But only on sixperience 7.0 like you! I don't know why it does not work on other ROMS,we must wait for someone who can explain. I have tried stock by using Odin,cm12.1,xstrolite ecc. but without results. Only Six7 works

i had the same problem. try to flash sixperience again, get gps lock and don't turn it off. flash stock again..this worked for me....

Wolf80 said:
I tried and now it works,But only on sixperience 7.0 like you! I don't know why it does not work on other ROMS,we must wait for someone who can explain. I have tried stock by using Odin,cm12.1,xstrolite ecc. but without results. Only Six7 works
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Found the fix! go back to sixperience 7.0, get the lock, then download stock from Alexander or something , go to TWRP, ONLY Clean SYSTEM AND DATA, Only those two, flash stock rom and it works! Now we get gps on stock, try it mate!

Is it possible to fix GPS by just flashing Six7, then wipe, then flash CM12.1?

babygau said:
Is it possible to fix GPS by just flashing Six7, then wipe, then flash CM12.1?
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I am giving it a shot now,by only wiping SYSTEM and DATA as written by @xAD3r1ty. Will report in a few.

babygau said:
Is it possible to fix GPS by just flashing Six7, then wipe, then flash CM12.1?
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Try what i told Wolf to do mate! it works, worked for me im sure it will work for you both
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I am giving it a shot now,by only wiping SYSTEM and DATA as written by @xAD3r1ty. Will report in a few.
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Lemme know mate, i know it sucks , i'd suggest you both to not go back to sixperience, i think something wrong with the rom will break gps for other roms..

xAD3r1ty said:
Try what i told Wolf to do mate! it works, worked for me im sure it will work for you both
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I tried to flash back Six7 ROM. This time it is even worse, got a warning msg "This device has got no GPS hardware" while opening Google Map.

babygau said:
I tried to flash back Six7 ROM. This time it is even worse, got a warning msg "This device has got no GPS hardware" while opening Google Map.
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Must be doing something wrong , Maybe you forgot to flash gps fix or something? try again mate, once you figure it out you already know what to do, TWRP, system and data only, stock Touchwiz and there you go

I'm downloading stock ROM atm. Will give it everything I have to survive my GPS. ???

xAD3r1ty said:
Try what i told Wolf to do mate! it works, worked for me im sure it will work for you both
Lemme know mate, i know it sucks , i'd suggest you both to not go back to sixperience, i think something wrong with the rom will break gps for other roms..
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Ok,got CM12.1 up and running and GPS works!

babygau said:
I'm downloading stock ROM atm. Will give it everything I have to survive my GPS.
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Good luck man! Wolf made it work so it must work for you too!
Wolf80 said:
Ok,got CM12.1 up and running and GPS works!
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Nice man ! happy for you

I think I have had a bad day. I used Odin to flash the stock ROM, the process was successful. But after booting, I had non stop FC messages at welcome screen. Tried other firmware, the issue still persist. I dont know what went wrong then. Now I'm only able to use CM12.1 without fc but obviously GPS doesn't work.
xAD3r1ty said:
Good luck man! Wolf made it work so it must work for you too!
Nice man ! happy for you
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Has anybody still got the v7 file I can't find it anymore All the links have been removed

Captainblade : you can find links to v7 on German site android-hilfe.de just google it.

I had exactly the same issue and thought I fried my GPS as no rom would work. I was researching about the CSC in my phone as restoring to stock would bring another carrier's apps. I used the Phone Info Samsung app on Touchwiz and ever since all roms have worked for GPS. I am thinking either my CSC got corrupted or even my EFS partition

Same problem here Any news on how to fix GPS after Sixexperience V7.
Thanks

@ErnestoD
Download all in one fix and flash via recovery
Do a wipe cache and dalvik cache after flashing
Cheers
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