So I just recently upgraded from MF3 with root and safestrap to MK2, also root and ss as the title suggests. The process went smoothly, even got myself a shiny new shostock installed painlessly. Today I went to use my navigation and came to the realization that my gps will not lock on, just endless waiting for location. My first thought was to get a baseline on the rom, so I swapped to my stock slot still with stock rom and was having the same issue, endless waiting for loc.
So I have done a lot of searching around, tried a few gps fix apps, to no avail. Has anyone else run into the same issue or possibly have some advice to offer me? Everything else works just fine, lte, wifi etc, just the dang gps! Thanks in advance everyone!
I'm having the same issue.. I unrooted and disabled/uninstalled safestrap with no luck. I even had AT&T reflash mk2 for me, but still no GPS locking on. Anyone help?
Try using this app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Double.FasterFix
AT&T Galaxy S4 SGH-I337 RUNNING HYPERDRIVE 12
Same thing happened to me. Just installed the MDL modem and worked again right away :thumbup:
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Same issue here - see my thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2599961 (with 0 replies).
I will try restoring shostock and flashing the MDL modem.
UPDATE: Booted back to stock and GPS now working, without flashing a new modem! Restored ShoStock nandroiid, and GPS working there also! No idea why.
I finally found the problem, in hyperdrive there is an option to choose your region for faster gps locks. I went in, saw it was set to asia, changed it to north america, then deleted hyperdrive so I could have more space for shostock and my gps is now working flawlessly.
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TBayTom said:
I'm having the same issue.. I unrooted and disabled/uninstalled safestrap with no luck. I even had AT&T reflash mk2 for me, but still no GPS locking on. Anyone help?
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Same with me: I've reflashed with leaked KK, than back to stock MK2, installed several modems: nothing, GPS would not lock and no satellites are found.
mess18 said:
Same with me: I've reflashed with leaked KK, than back to stock MK2, installed several modems: nothing, GPS would not lock and no satellites are found.
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The same happened with me on my MK2 SS with GoldenEye rom. I tried everything and nothing would work. I flashed several modems, booted in stock rom, restored MK2 with odin, factory reset multiple times, tightened the screws on the frame of the phone, and nothing worked..
My only solution was to Odin to MK2, upgrade to KK via the OTA update from AT&T. And from there, reflash stock 4.4 image with Odin. After all that, my GPS is finally working again.
Oh when I went from MK2 to NBA with AT&T OTA, my wifi stopped working, so if that happens just restore with the KK stock image in Odin. I even had scheduled a repair with Samsung, but I guess I wont be sending it in anymore.
To anyone having problems, this is what I had to do to fix it. I need my GPS working, so I didnt really care about upgrading from MK2 to NB1, besides I am sure a root method will be out within weeks. (or you can do the downgrade method)
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The same happened with me on my MK2 SS with GoldenEye rom. I tried everything and nothing would work. I flashed several modems, booted in stock rom, restored MK2 with odin, factory reset multiple times, tightened the screws on the frame of the phone, and nothing worked..
My only solution was to Odin to MK2, upgrade to KK via the OTA update from AT&T. And from there, reflash stock 4.4 image with Odin. After all that, my GPS is finally working again.
Oh when I went from MK2 to NBA with AT&T OTA, my wifi stopped working, so if that happens just restore with the KK stock image in Odin. I even had scheduled a repair with Samsung, but I guess I wont be sending it in anymore.
To anyone having problems, this is what I had to do to fix it. I need my GPS working, so I didnt really care about upgrading from MK2 to NB1, besides I am sure a root method will be out within weeks. (or you can do the downgrade method)
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So, actually I have solved the problem. Please read my long story in the post #2050 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305752&page=205.
It also should solve Wi-Fi problem as well as I had it too in between...
I've rooted/flashed before but never such a complicated phone... and need help im totally lost.
I installed safestrap and tried the eclipse rom and it hung on the wifi options, next I tried shostock same problem, installed insanity on rom slot 1 sucess!
Then I got geedy, installed shostock on the stock slot and it worked, so I tried eclipse on stock slot it installed but safestrap disappeared and eclipse still wont pass wifi settings. So I have eclipse installed, no safestrap hung on wifi settings. (Yes I have my twrp back up)
So I need to get safestrap or stock back but im stuck on the setup up screen any ideas?
Edit.
Found the mk2 brick guide using odin, hoping this is safest route flashing when I get home so if its not I hope someone stops me.
I upgraded my phone from 4.3 MJE to 4.4.2 today with the instructions here http://youtu.be/tickH7zTEXQ and everything seemed to be working fine until i realised i have no play store app. So i went to the internet and downloaded an apk. When trying to sign in i get a message saying there is a problem communicating with the Google servers. I tried a few different apks but all were giving me the same message. Ive been searching for a fix for the past few hours to my own chagrin. The guy at the top of this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2553357&page=802 seems to be having the same issue but i can not understand how to fix it like he did. If somebody could help that would be awesome.
I also realise i am not getting the safestrap splash screen on boot where i can choose to go into recovery. When i try to boot into recovery from the safestrap app itself or my power menu neither work. All the options on my power menu just turn the screen black and leave the sensor lights on which i find weird. Maybe if i can get into recovery and flash the de-odex rom first i can fix my problems? sorry i am not very experienced with this so i do not know much about it.
Fixed it by reverting back to stock MJE. I used odin to flash the Pit file and stock md5 for MJE. followed instructions by rob here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790728& . It will unroot your device.
Hi I need desperate help
two days ago I went from CM11 to S4I9505 Google Play Edition ROM 5.0.1 and everything was running perfectly. Today I used an app known as "ROM Installer" to flash TWRP easily which it did but I couldnt go back to normal menus and it kept on booting back to Recovery. So I wiped everything and installed the same ROM as it is in my External SD. It was successful but it still would boot to recovery and nothing would work. So I thought my option was to unroot the phone. I used the XDA Unroot/Unbrick guide and used an Android 5.0. Lollipop firmware to flash the stock firmware (second time every using Odin, the first was disastrous and I hated it). I flashed the official stock and it is running but cannot activate WiFi what so ever. It just refuses to toggle. So I reflashed the stock firmware again and it still doesn't work. I was thinking of somehow downgrading to KitKat, use CM Installer which is how I initially rooted the phone and revert to a CWM backup that I made before I flashed the S4 GPE ROM and start over. However I tried using that CM Installer and since im on Lollipop it would refuse to work and I really wanna get back to how everything was before :'( I really dont know what to do (No warranty or anything on this S4) All I can do is make calls and texts. Please help!
fixed!
I've fixed it! Its all back on stock with the all that bloatware and useless features only problem now is whether there is a way to deleted this thread
Hey guys,
So I've got a problem. When I had originally rooted my phone in the beginning, I hadn't installed safestrap; I installed everything else: busybox, superuser, etc. So I kept on regularly using my phone and what not, updating and making sure I kept root. I was able to follow muniz_ri's tutorials to stay up to date and keep root. So eventually I was on OE1 stock rooted rom and had stopped there (accidentally accepted an OTA update after OE1 so I quickly froze the update thing [forget what it's called] through TiBU, hence not being on the most current firmware).
I wanted Snapprefs but needed Xposed. And to get Xposed, you need safestrap (from my understanding). I followed this to get safestrap (I think that's what the overall goal of the tutorial was for) and got safestrap working. Then, tried to install xposed using this and this. Successfully got the app, but then it said something along the lines of "you have not installed the framework" or something like that (that would be the zip file that I had to download right? The file that came from following the flow chart?). Used safestrap to install the framework (aforementioned zip file), then rebooted. However, after the Samsung Galaxy S5 menu and the safestrap menu, the screen just stays black. There is nothing. When I have my phone connected to the computer, the computer makes its jingle like it recognizes it (however, nothing comes up on the computer), the phone stays black for 2-3 minutes maybe, then boots into recovery mode (not safestrap recovery but stock recovery, where you use the volume buttons). I did a wipe data/factory reset (or whatever the option is called) in the stock recovery menu hoping it would fix something but it didn't. Just trying to include as much info as possible. Would flashing with this in Odin help? Read somewhere that it would put me back at square one so I could do everything over again, which I am not opposed to. However, I thought you couldn't downgrade from OE1 or anything higher?
I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Searched everywhere but couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks guys!
P.S. Sorry for going parentheses crazy
Found out what to do right after posting. Had to flash the BOE1 factory tar image in ODIN so back to stock, unrooted with all this bloat
Will be checking back periodically in hopes of a root method for latest firmware.