Hi!
My wife has a Samsung A3 2015 that she's in love with and won't change for anything. There is 2 problems with it though that she has to deal with.
Problem 1: Gps is not working properly, this is using google maps (haven't really tried other apps). The GPS can (with minor struggles) tell us our current position, but nowhere as smooth as you wish a GPS to be, like for example driving a car. If we have it like that, it can for example be frozen, after 2 minutes, get that position, freeze again etc.
My idea was that a new ROM could solve this, maybe? We've tried to factory reset the phone, update maps, update the phone, turning on/off the phone, most basic stuff, but the GPS has never been working properly since she got the phone.
Problem 2: Unresponsive/random touch. This is everything from the touch typing a bit as it wants to it just freezing and hanging. This has kept happening after factory reset too.
Is a new (custom) ROM an option to try, if so, which ones are there for a 2015 A3? If a new (custom?) ROM isn't an option, is there anything else worth to try? Maybe some new firmware or such that you manually have to flash? Not currently sure what version she's using.
Any input or help will be greatly appreciated
(just wanted to consult some more experienced people before perhaps bricking her phone...)
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I have been having some weird issues with the Nexus 7 that google gave me so that they could look into the "lag issue".
There was stuff happening before I took the video, it launched the news & weather widget (I think) which prompted the orlando website to come up. Not really sure.
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It is becoming a huge problem, and I am not sure what to do about it. I don't think a factory reset, or pushing a new firmware image down will fix the problem as it doesn't seem like it is consistent. If I reboot the device all works fine, after several hours 4+ it starts happening, reboot again and everything works alright.
Just really weird, and would appreciate some insight.
Hi,
I have a Motorola XT-535 with ICS 4.0.4, and recently I did a factory reset, which ended in having basic android features in my phone (OS was fine, but there was no launcher, keyboard, Play store, etc.)...
I managed to install everything in my phone, and was glad to see that I had not any "spam" apps that were included in the chinese ICS update.
Problem is, I use Waze a lot, and now that I am using it, the GPS connects and disconnects frequently, and having lag while driving with GPS navigation on, something that didn´t happened before.
The thing is, GPS works, but can´t keep the connection steady with satellites or something and keeps disconnecting very frequently.
What do you recommend besides flashing again chinese ICS?
Thank you,
Heya,
So i experienced a lot of problems with the stock ROM on my S4 taking up way too much space and being kinda slow and crappy, so after hearing of CM and the speed increases and benefits it can have, i decided i'd give it a go, and for about a year now its been my daily driver.
However it has some issues, which are recently becoming more of a problem to me.
Now the first one might have seemed like a deal breaker to anyone else but honestly i wasnt too frustrated with it.
This issue is that the 3g connection with the device when im out and about straight up doesnt work. It shows red in the pull down menu and just doesnt work.
Next issue is that the camera has been severely downgraded in image quality.
Now recently i've been requiring the phone more than usual when out and about doing my job as tech support.
My issue is that i want these features to work correctly, but i dont want to run the stock ROM, can anyone advise how i can either fix these issue with CM or can you help me choose a different ROM which doesnt have these particular problems?
Run one of the Google Play Edition ROMs. Fewer problems will be had as these ROMs are versions of Android untouched by Samsung except for the inclusion of the libs needed to properly run the phone.
Another alternative is to go back to stock, but with the addition of some time spent in debloating the ROM, and with the addition of a new launcher to replace the stock version.
Excellent, thanks for the advice, i've now installed JFLTE after a bit of research and it's so far a very pleasant experience, ill report back if i have further problems with the mobile data connection but so far it appears to work.
Hi, I use my GPS frequently on my Note 4 but ever since I updated my phone to 5.1.1 it will not lock on to my location.
It will give directions, but the pointer does not move and it has a big light blue circle around, and when it does move, it goes all over the place.
When I did my update, my phone did a factory reset, so I know that wont fix the issue.
Here's a pic of what I always see even during naviataion: http://i.imgur.com/nBgUCaj.png
I'm almost giving up on this to the point of where I want to get a new phone, that's one feature I can't live without.
Any ideas of how to fix this?
Thanks everyone.
I had terrible fix issues with my GPS. I switched from wanamlite rom to sweet rom, now my GPS works again!
I've been looking around to solve this issue, but haven't have much luck. It looks like it's an issue with a good number of ROMs on this phone, but my issue is that after some time, the touchscreen in some games and apps stops working normally.
Phone is running Lineage 16, rooted w/ magisk
To have it work, I need to hold one finger on the screen and the other finger will register properly.
The issue can temporarily be fixed by rebooting the phone.
I notice the issue occurring when an app/game accesses the camera. At that moment, issue occurs.
I came across this in my searches: https://review.lineageos.org/c/Linea...ative/+/198809
Not sure exactly how to work with that, but I figured I would provide as much info as I can before asking for help. Thanks ahead for the help