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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.
(= BeanStalk LGG2 =)
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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.

[Q] Tried to fix 4.4 SD card problem, got a bunch of errors

Okay so from this thread, I found this post which was linked to this thread and decided to use the "fix" suggested.
Now, I get a bunch of "this app has stopped responding", which YouTube, Bluetooth Share and some others. I don't get any data connection either.
When I open Root Browser, same thing happens.
I was going to try using ADB to try and install Root Explorer but I just get "unauthorized"
Anyone know how I can fix this? :\

Yes i was same problem with polish Kitkat ROM (YouTube, Bluetooth Share,Wifi. I'll try factory reset and then new clean install this ROM. Problem is solved for me ( my Note 3 is now rooted with recovery. Sorry for my bad english

peppies said:
Yes i was same problem with polish Kitkat ROM (YouTube, Bluetooth Share,Wifi. I'll try factory reset and then new clean install this ROM. Problem is solved for me ( my Note 3 is now rooted with recovery. Sorry for my bad english
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Yeah I was going to do a clean install if there was no other fix. Your English is fine!
However, does anyone know of a way to fix it without a clean install?

ManUtdRul3 said:
Okay so from this thread, I found this post which was linked to this thread and decided to use the "fix" suggested.
Now, I get a bunch of "this app has stopped responding", which YouTube, Bluetooth Share and some others. I don't get any data connection either.
When I open Root Browser, same thing happens.
I was going to try using ADB to try and install Root Explorer but I just get "unauthorized"
Anyone know how I can fix this? :\
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Sounds like the fix is/was incompatible
peppies said:
Yes i was same problem with polish Kitkat ROM (YouTube, Bluetooth Share,Wifi. I'll try factory reset and then new clean install this ROM. Problem is solved for me ( my Note 3 is now rooted with recovery. Sorry for my bad english
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ManUtdRul3 said:
Yeah I was going to do a clean install if there was no other fix. Your English is fine!
However, does anyone know of a way to fix it without a clean install?
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Clean install should fix it, I had that stupid rotation issue, so I reinstalled and re-rooted and it sorted itself out... I think KK is still possibly beta hence the issues. But it's turning into a proper ballache now...

I had exactly the same problem after trying that fix. I tired sooo many different things.... But in the end I had to do the wipe.... First time I done a wipe since I had my phone.... I lost a shed load of stuff and I hadn't backed up my stuff for a week either and my full rom backup dissent work because of the new bootloader. I wish I hadn't tried the fix as I didn't really need to
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

radicalisto said:
Clean install should fix it, I had that stupid rotation issue, so I reinstalled and re-rooted and it sorted itself out... I think KK is still possibly beta hence the issues. But it's turning into a proper ballache now...
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You're everywhere with your help. Thanks!
alom5 said:
I had exactly the same problem after trying that fix. I tired sooo many different things.... But in the end I had to do the wipe.... First time I done a wipe since I had my phone.... I lost a shed load of stuff and I hadn't backed up my stuff for a week either and my full rom backup dissent work because of the new bootloader. I wish I hadn't tried the fix as I didn't really need to
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You're lucky, I've done at least 10 wipes since I've bought this phone!

ManUtdRul3 said:
You're everywhere with your help. Thanks!
You're lucky, I've done at least 10 wipes since I've bought this phone!
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Haha yeah, scanning around me. We seem to have a phone that causes no ends of headaches :crying:
Ouch 10 wipes :|

radicalisto said:
Haha yeah, scanning around me. We seem to have a phone that causes no ends of headaches :crying:
Ouch 10 wipes :|
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Still a shame you're a gooner :/ #GGMU
Yeah about 6 or 7 of them were from trying to re-root yesterday

No satellite fix on any kitkat rom. Why?

I tried "every" custom kitkat rom and I never got a satellite fix. It works fine on stock and stock based jelly bean roms. I know that some others have the same issue. I'm on an 802. If you had the same issue and actually solved it please let me know. If you still have the issue, let's find out what we've got in common to find a solution.

android404 said:
I tried "every" custom kitkat rom and I never got a satellite fix. It works fine on stock and stock based jelly bean roms. I know that some others have the same issue. I'm on an 802. If you had the same issue and actually solved it please let me know. If you still have the issue, let's find out what we've got in common to find a solution.
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Have you tried resetting the gps A-Data? There is a couple of apps in playstore witch can do this!
Do you have Tele"hor" or Netcom?

Dirtyzecret said:
Have you tried resetting the gps A-Data? There is a couple of apps in playstore witch can do this!
Do you have Tele"hor" or Netcom?
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Yes, I have. And my carrier shouldn't play a role when it comes to getting a satellite fix. Takk uansett.

First time it can take several minutes, just be patient and on an open location
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk

darkobas said:
First time it can take several minutes, just be patient and on an open location
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk
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I see dozens of satellites immediately but they never lock. Not after waiting for hours unfortunately.

You need to do a nandroid, wipe and install a stock based rom, get a gps lock, and then wipe and restore your backup. That's what I ended up doing (also installed the gps fix zip under stock because I still wasn't getting a lock), and it seems to still be working a few days later.
Sent from my LG-VS980 using Tapatalk

I had to do the same steps. Worked for me as well.

I waited half a year with starting this thread, hours later, @vertigo uploads a build of omni rom which has the issue fixed. Hooray!

SM-N9005 GPS wierd issue!!!! Works but doesnt work!!!!

Hi guys id love input on this one if anyone's got anything as it baffles and frustrates me...
I have a SM-N9005,
im signed upto galaxynote3root.com
my note 3 ran to perfection once rooted and updated to 4.4.2 va the polish rom that came out since im in UK and couldn't wait for the update hehe - still ran to perfection -
I then flashed a ROM from galaxynote3root.com (I now HATE that zedomax guy since he has not input or suggestions on the matter despite a courteously written email etc) it was "infamous ROM" (which is supposed to be for SM-N9005 but when installed all T-Mobile bloatware is on it and then model displayed in the about settings page says "SM-N900T") flashed it and installed trickster MOD, (didn't check or even think that the GPS didn't work at that point) I then set the voltage to offset -25 as instructed by zedomax for better battery life etc... anyway, my note 3 couldn't really handle the change in voltages so I went back to stock (or what I thought was stock since I didn't check the default voltages before changing and I don't know what they are) after deciding... I actually hated the ROM and flash all the way back to stock
GPS NO LONGER works - ill explain exact symptoms etc
GPS icon flashes - notification displays "searching for GPS" and........... that's it.. forever.... never locks...... and whilst using the GPS and using google maps in this state it constantly says "GPS signal lost" - and that is literally it. I have flashed at least 5 different stock ROMS from different countries/carriers etc - nothing always exactly the same
NOW... here's the weird part!!!????
Once I flash the Infamous ROM back onto the phone - THE GPS works....... no idea how - but I feel that it doesn't QUIET work as well as it did before (takes a little longer to lock but still around 10 seconds) and the locator on google maps seems to drift a LITTLE where as before it would be perfection no drifting no nothing.
Does this rom use something else or some change in the conf files to supposedly make the GPS "better" but actually makes it worse!!?? lol
Being a techy myself and constantly plying with tech from waaaayyyy back this really frustrated me as clearly it cant be a hardware issue since it works on one ROM but not on stock (unless as I said the infamous ROM utilises a different method to lock GPS... which is NOT better and I don't like btw)
I sent the phone into O2 for repairs and since the knox and counters were tripped they sent back unrepaired stating they cant fix as the engineers found there had been "unauthorised rework" done on it
it has to be software right!!!???? but if that was true.... the stock ROM SHOULD work.... but they ALLL don't.. makes NO sense.
If anyone has any suggestions or input at all I would greatly appreciate.. potentially more!!

I would like to figure this one out too I'm on the Verizon note 3 SM-N900V stock 4.4.2 and the GPS sucks! It was perfect on 4.3 so I know it is definitely a software issue. This is the best phone I've ever had and the worst GPS. Hope we can find a fix because I rely on Google Maps a lot.
Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

I had issues with my gps not locking after a rom update, I fixed it by downloading gps test from play store and clearing "agps data" in settings.
Give it a go it worked for me. Good luck
Sent from my SM-T320 using Tapatalk

Did you a factory reset?
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No. Just a reboot after I had used the app. As I said my gps would never lock even outside but after using g the app it's quick to lock. I got the tip from a forum but may not help you.
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cjacobs611 said:
I would like to figure this one out too I'm on the Verizon note 3 SM-N900V stock 4.4.2 and the GPS sucks! It was perfect on 4.3 so I know it is definitely a software issue. This is the best phone I've ever had and the worst GPS. Hope we can find a fix because I rely on Google Maps a lot.
Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk
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but for me.. not just GPS sucks... gps does not work categorically anytime ever lol... ONLNY on that infamous ROM I told you about..
hopefully otherwise ill have to do an insurance job on it! lol I definitely agree.... best phone ive ever had... did have the best GPS.. but I feel I may have done something to GPS chip whilst undervolting... but I say that then I remember... but no.. the GPS still works on that particular rom so it cant be that the GPS chip is fried... unless... like I said, that infamous ROM makes the GPS work in a different way.. I just don't know enough about it.... what I do know is that it DOES NOT make sense! lol

gingerdude said:
I had issues with my gps not locking after a rom update, I fixed it by downloading gps test from play store and clearing "agps data" in settings.
Give it a go it worked for me. Good luck
Sent from my SM-T320 using Tapatalk
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perhaps I didn't explain myself... its not because of the ROM update.... the GPS and everything was working to perfection on 4.3 and 4.4.2... it only stopped once id flashed the infamous ROM and then back tot he stock 4.4.2 roms.... now the only way to get GPS working is by flashing and using the infamous ROM
many thanks for your input though dude much appreciated

Egorych said:
Did you a factory reset?
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my friend.. all I can say is... lol... factory reset... lol.... umm yes... I did one....2....3..4,5,6,7,8,9 etc of those followed by 5,6,7,8 different stock roms etc (as stated in my original post)
so yeah... did that.. doesn't work
thanks for your suggestion though kind sir!!

What happened here is the same thing that happens when everyone installs the s5 port and when they revert to their stock rom they f*** up their GPS, since they initially installed a wrong firmware for their phone. Easiest way to solve this is to install that infamous ROM again and turn on your GPS. Then in recovery dirty flash stock note 3 rom (dirty flash... i mean don't do any wipes what so ever) and reboot. You might be able to boot it or basically go into bootloop. Then afterwhich do a factory reset in recovery again. Once booted up you should have your GPS back. There is another method here about flashing n9005 wifi/nfc and stuff files. I just can't find it. But do a search it will come out.

try this
go to recovery
full wipe ..(partition system , data, cache ) ..system partition needs to be wiped
if you are using philz then do a new rom wipe which also wipes system partition
reboot to download mode and odin flash stock samsung note 3 rom ( do it twice to make it 200% sure ..lol)
download gps status and reset ur agps data and download new data from the app

And apparently service centers have to prove that your rooting/flashing 'broke' the phone.
Maybe a grey area but apparently European legislation says so?
So threaten O2 with this?
Try GPS Status and in tools check/update agps.

tyre777 said:
What happened here is the same thing that happens when everyone installs the s5 port and when they revert to their stock rom they f*** up their GPS, since they initially installed a wrong firmware for their phone. Easiest way to solve this is to install that infamous ROM again and turn on your GPS. Then in recovery dirty flash stock note 3 rom (dirty flash... i mean don't do any wipes what so ever) and reboot. You might be able to boot it or basically go into bootloop. Then afterwhich do a factory reset in recovery again. Once booted up you should have your GPS back. There is another method here about flashing n9005 wifi/nfc and stuff files. I just can't find it. But do a search it will come out.
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sounds good.. but one thing... to flash stock roms I use odin... that's not a recovery flash.... what do you mean exactly? are you able to obtain and flash stock ROMS via recovery in zip form instead of .tar via odin now?

xinfinityoO said:
try this
go to recovery
full wipe ..(partition system , data, cache ) ..system partition needs to be wiped
if you are using philz then do a new rom wipe which also wipes system partition
reboot to download mode and odin flash stock samsung note 3 rom ( do it twice to make it 200% sure ..lol)
download gps status and reset ur agps data and download new data from the app
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ive already tried this... in about 50 different variations as well.... all full wipes :'(

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751849. Read 3 last pages, i wrote there how i did fix my gps on same kind of situation.
Lähetetty minun SM-N9005 laitteesta Tapatalkilla

massive thanks to all of you guys i really do appreciate your responses i have managed to fix this problem completely thank the lord i love my note 3 what i did was basically install Philz recovery and use all of the wipe functions on there including one I hadnt seen before on other recoveries which was "format boot" so big thankyou to xfinity for the philz tip I also turned on my gps and left it on before rebooting to commence rebuild which could have possibly had a positive effect so that tip was from tyre777 so again huge thanks to you as well kind sir!!! happy days case closed.. thanks all!

fletchy88 said:
massive thanks to all of you guys i really do appreciate your responses i have managed to fix this problem completely thank the lord i love my note 3 what i did was basically install Philz recovery and use all of the wipe functions on there including one I hadnt seen before on other recoveries which was "format boot" so big thankyou to xfinity for the philz tip I also turned on my gps and left it on before rebooting to commence rebuild which could have possibly had a positive effect so that tip was from tyre777 so again huge thanks to you as well kind sir!!! happy days case closed.. thanks all!
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cn u please post step by step instructions..
one of my mates having similar problems and he cant fix it..
thanks

xinfinityoO said:
cn u please post step by step instructions..
one of my mates having similar problems and he cant fix it..
thanks
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I most certainly will xfinityoO ill get to it tonight, once again many thanks for you guys reponses, i was expecting to get nothing so big help!
p.s if there is a way i can give something back id be glad... is there any rating system on xda like on other forums whereby i can mark your profiles with something that indicated your level of knowledge... are you following me?
EDIT: Just seen the Thanks button system lol Thanks goes out to XfinityoO and tyre777

Just hit the thanks button..dats all mate..we are here to help each otherr
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

fletchy88 said:
Hi guys id love input on this one if anyone's got anything as it baffles and frustrates me...
I have a SM-N9005,
im signed upto galaxynote3root.com
my note 3 ran to perfection once rooted and updated to 4.4.2 va the polish rom that came out since im in UK and couldn't wait for the update hehe - still ran to perfection -
I then flashed a ROM from galaxynote3root.com (I now HATE that zedomax guy since he has not input or suggestions on the matter despite a courteously written email etc) it was "infamous ROM" (which is supposed to be for SM-N9005 but when installed all T-Mobile bloatware is on it and then model displayed in the about settings page says "SM-N900T") flashed it and installed trickster MOD, (didn't check or even think that the GPS didn't work at that point) I then set the voltage to offset -25 as instructed by zedomax for better battery life etc... anyway, my note 3 couldn't really handle the change in voltages so I went back to stock (or what I thought was stock since I didn't check the default voltages before changing and I don't know what they are) after deciding... I actually hated the ROM and flash all the way back to stock
GPS NO LONGER works - ill explain exact symptoms etc
GPS icon flashes - notification displays "searching for GPS" and........... that's it.. forever.... never locks...... and whilst using the GPS and using google maps in this state it constantly says "GPS signal lost" - and that is literally it. I have flashed at least 5 different stock ROMS from different countries/carriers etc - nothing always exactly the same
NOW... here's the weird part!!!????
Once I flash the Infamous ROM back onto the phone - THE GPS works....... no idea how - but I feel that it doesn't QUIET work as well as it did before (takes a little longer to lock but still around 10 seconds) and the locator on google maps seems to drift a LITTLE where as before it would be perfection no drifting no nothing.
Does this rom use something else or some change in the conf files to supposedly make the GPS "better" but actually makes it worse!!?? lol
Being a techy myself and constantly plying with tech from waaaayyyy back this really frustrated me as clearly it cant be a hardware issue since it works on one ROM but not on stock (unless as I said the infamous ROM utilises a different method to lock GPS... which is NOT better and I don't like btw)
I sent the phone into O2 for repairs and since the knox and counters were tripped they sent back unrepaired stating they cant fix as the engineers found there had been "unauthorised rework" done on it
it has to be software right!!!???? but if that was true.... the stock ROM SHOULD work.... but they ALLL don't.. makes NO sense.
If anyone has any suggestions or input at all I would greatly appreciate.. potentially more!!
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Enter root folder and open up etc>gps.conf using text editor and change LPP_PROFILE to 3 instead of 0.

fletchy88 said:
I most certainly will xfinityoO ill get to it tonight, once again many thanks for you guys reponses, i was expecting to get nothing so big help!
p.s if there is a way i can give something back id be glad... is there any rating system on xda like on other forums whereby i can mark your profiles with something that indicated your level of knowledge... are you following me?
EDIT: Just seen the Thanks button system lol Thanks goes out to XfinityoO and tyre777
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Where's the step by step?

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