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Is anyone experiencing a loss of network connection after installing a bunch of apps and then rebooting?
Its as if one or two of the apps are modifying the network settings (to something non CDMA based I suspect, since most apps were written prior to CDMA exposure), then after reboot network connection fails, all the sprint desktop default widgets force close (no network connection), and any attempt to get into network settings (or to toggle on/off mobile network via the power menu) results in a force close as well.
The only solution to date is a complete data wipe and reset, forcing you to re-install and simply never let the battery run down or reset the phone for ANY reason.
This is my 2nd phone doing this now, its got me really worried.
Anyone have any ideas?
Wow, am I the only one? And through 2 phones, damn.
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Wow, am I the only one? And through 2 phones, damn.
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sounds like an account provisioning problem to me, nothing from the marketplace changes apn (or whatever cdma calls acct. settings) i'd talk to somebody "in the know" at a sprint corp. store, or with customer service.
I am having the same issue...I already did a wipe 3 times on my phone because anything I try to do force closes...I've talked to sprint and everything is correct on my account...provisioning wise and no one has a clue what
I am talking about
I too am having the same problem. Have you guys had this issue after a fresh hard reboot or only after installing apps?
Happens (randomly) whether I install apps or not, and it seems to be a random amount of time.
Sprint Tech support had me do a dial pad code something like ##768# menu or close to that (call sprint tell your issue they will give you the code), course you cant even do that without a recovery wip4e since the dialer crashes every time you hit it. My only theory is PDANET, anyone else loose connection fairly soon after PDANET install? Since its typically installed via side load (not the typical apk installer in the OS), or maybe Sprint detects it and shuts us down, they are not kindly toward tethering in my opinion.
i've never installed pdanet, so i'm certain it's not the issue.
Ive been having the same problem since the day I got the phone. I originally thought it was related to pandora, but now I dont see any correlation between what programs I have and when the problem happens.
It isnt any one program. I have found if I go over 70 installed apps it will do it till you remove a program or two to get back to 70 or less. You dont have to hard reset. I have not come across a solution to this yet and I am not rooted either.
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It isnt any one program. I have found if I go over 70 installed apps it will do it till you remove a program or two to get back to 70 or less. You dont have to hard reset. I have not come across a solution to this yet and I am not rooted either.
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Do all of you with this issue have that many apps installed? It sounds like so many things are starting at boot-up that it's overloading the memory. Android (just like other smartphone OS's) has a feature that auto kills tasks when it gets low on memory. If you have 70 apps there is a good chance that a large number of them are starting at boot-up whether you realize it or not. So it sounds like the result is Android just starts killing tasks at random to free memory and it's not doing it in a very graceful way.
That theory only works if all of you have a huge amount of apps though.
I thought the same but its not other programs starting. i have tried with just games, which dont auto start and same problem. are any rooted users having this issue? i have to delete a program to try a new one. 70 sounds like alot but it ain't.
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I thought the same but its not other programs starting. i have tried with just games, which dont auto start and same problem. are any rooted users having this issue? i have to delete a program to try a new one. 70 sounds like alot but it ain't.
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70 games is likely to be over 100 megs. With all the Sprint and HTC stuff on there already if you add in 70 games and they are over 100mb then you are probably maxing out your space. Can you check your free space and free memory and report back?
30mb left it is a limit. i have 70 apps and if i install 1 more i wont have service and everything forces closed until i uninstall any app to get me to 70 again.
It's an app limit. It seems to only be on the Sprint Hero, and I can confirm it on three phones, the exact number of apps seems to be phone specific, but it happens somewhere between 70 and 80 apps, usually in the low 70's. The size of the apps doesn't matter, things like browser skins count for this as well. After you exceed the number, the phone becomes broken after reboot, until you remove apps, and reboot again.
Using google brought me to a thread on another android forum with posts from people who have run into this also.
My current solution has been to use ASTRO to backup apps 60 + to the SD card. Then in case the phone reboots (a rare enough occurrence), I uninstall a set of apps, reboot and reinstall them from the SD card. It is a very annoying workaround, and I would really hope that HTC ends up fixing this somehow.
Does anyone know if this problem goes away with one of the custom roms?
I am having this same issue, but I am not downloading apps. It just goes off and on every minute or so. I don't have to be doing anything. In settings it says standing by for connection, it may finally connect then in about a minute it goes off again
Something strange is happenening with my phone...
Market downloads take multiple tries before they actually start, "IP webcam" wont stream direct to the webcam driver to use as a dedicated webcam in windows anymore(tried to ping the server it creates, and i get timeouts,) and my battery life has been cut by almost 50%.
All of this came after flashing from cm6 nightly 77 i think it was, over to fresh 2.4(to update the prl from 60670 to 60671,) and back to cm6 rc1 stable.
Spare parts battery history is showing that "0" is a full bar, and "android system" is at 2/3's bar when i check "network usage."
Also, for some reason, when i go to top battery consumers in the settings, it will show display anywhere from 60-95% while not even having the phone awake all that much...
I am willing to undo EVERYTHING on my phone and get it back to original factory condition, if that would work... PLEASE HELP ME
Did you wipe all between switching CM6 and fresh? Just making sure you didn't miss that.
yup. fresh was on my nandroid backup, and i always wipe before doing any flash.
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Something strange is happenening with my phone...
Market downloads take multiple tries before they actually start, "IP webcam" wont stream direct to the webcam driver to use as a dedicated webcam in windows anymore(tried to ping the server it creates, and i get timeouts,) and my battery life has been cut by almost 50%.
All of this came after flashing from cm6 nightly 77 i think it was, over to fresh 2.4(to update the prl from 60670 to 60671,) and back to cm6 rc1 stable.
Spare parts battery history is showing that "0" is a full bar, and "android system" is at 2/3's bar when i check "network usage."
Also, for some reason, when i go to top battery consumers in the settings, it will show display anywhere from 60-95% while not even having the phone awake all that much...
I am willing to undo EVERYTHING on my phone and get it back to original factory condition, if that would work... PLEASE HELP ME
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I've always had a 0 in spare parts as well though it doesnt use a full bar. I dont seem to have too bad of battery life...
I would wipe everything and start over from scratch with the 6.0 stable.
0 means root. Meaning any app that has root access will do that. My guess - set cpu. It does it me about 50 percent of the time on a fresh install
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there is something else going on here. is there any way for me to reset all the radios and data? i just want to restore everything that is possible to restore/reset.
i want to be able to use IP webcam again, as well as have the market work properly. Right now the market gives me network errors and had too much deley when trying to access the internet connection.
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I've always had a 0 in spare parts as well though it doesnt use a full bar. I dont seem to have too bad of battery life...
I would wipe everything and start over from scratch with the 6.0 stable.
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I have wiped and flashed to a few different roms now, including back to the .7 ruu and rerooting. I just cant get my connection to be the same as it was anymore.
That explains the 0 then. With no data, something is going crazy trying to access. Flash a stock rom like nfinitex's or something and tell me your pri, prl, and radio versions.
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I have Baseband: 2.42.01.04.27 | PRI: 2.62_003 | PRL: 60671 running cm6 rc1
My data works, but is really delayed from the time i make a request to the time i see the 3g kick on. So i also did try nfx's stock .7 rom and still the same thing; this happens across all roms i flash.
Forgot to mention, is it normal for super user to tell me it grants permission each time i open up set cpu and autokiller?
yeah, unless you turn it off in options, it will every time.
And you ran the ruu already?
And what us your time without signal? And you are on sprint right?
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i get no time without signal. ran the ruu once already, rerooted, and went back to nfx .7, then back to cm6. yes i am on sprint.
did you restore with titanium backup?
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no, i never restored with titanium. only used nandroid to restore to fresh and the just flashed the rest.
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Forgot to mention, is it normal for super user to tell me it grants permission each time i open up set cpu and autokiller?
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Yes, but you can turn that notification off in the su app settings
You did wipe data before flashing cm over fresh right?
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yes, i always wipe before switching any rom.
Just a thought. I have been having a similiar problem with the market. Takes forever to start a download if i dont have to reboot to get it to start. All other data seems fine
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Ok... So I just noticed that "0" doesn't show up in battery history anymore, now it's "android system" that is a full bar under network usage, using up 900,000. Also, now the dialer is a half bar in network usage as well. Under partial wake usage, "android system" is using nine hours out of seventeen awake, while my screen on isn't anywhere near that. I just know that has to be wrong...
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I'm sure it's an app... Wipe data/factory reset and run that for a day our two without installing anything else. Sews how it does then
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sorry if some of these questions have already been asked and answered. unfortunantely, my computer crashed due to a manufacturing flaw so I can only access google and this forum via my epic (which can be a pain sometimes). also, since heros threads are always deleted, I cannot ask these questions there. please, any feedback and help would greatly appreciated.
okay so I reflashed backed snack 1.6 w/ ultimate after testing some of the newest froyo builds. id rather wat until I get the official ota upgrade.
after reflashing 1.6 for some reason, android market doesn't appear to be installed. where can I download the application? I even tried reflashing 1.6 over itself but that didn't work.
also, I'm using the new gingerbread youtube but I signed in and now I get a constant fc when I try to open it. how can I fix this? if I can't, where can I download an earlier version of youtube?
another question. this time about battery. using 1.6 w/ ultimate, I get fairly decent battery. only problem is, my battery stats say that my display and standby are what is killing my battery the most. nothing ever runs in the background, every so often I unlock my phone to either check the time or texts or facebook real quick, brightness is on its lowest setting, silent mode, juicedefender running correctly (battery life: x1.56), no data running in the background, drm killed, battery calibrated and battery stats wiped, and everything else possible to to save battery.
and something I'm noticing now that the phone is charging, the battery is quite hot and I'm not even using the phone. it only overheats when its charging and I've also noticed that its only hot when I use certain roms/kernels. any insight on this issue? any way to monitor and regulate temperature?
once again, any help would be appreciated!
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Ill take a stab at these. Reason for you market not showing, can't say? Did you wipe 3 times before flashing bs 1.6?
Also never sign in on gingerbread youtube on 2.1 build. I don't think anyone has got that working yet. Simply clear the cache for youtube and you should be set.
Lastly, I don't know what to say about your bettery.. what do you have setcpu running at? Do you have profiles to lower your phones speed when in standby? Couldn't hurt to give it a shot.
Sorry about your computer, all my info is based on personal experience don't really have a "dev" type answer for ya. But hope some of this helps.
Goodluck!
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Ill take a stab at these. Reason for you market not showing, can't say? Did you wipe 3 times before flashing bs 1.6?
Also never sign in on gingerbread youtube on 2.1 build. I don't think anyone has got that working yet. Simply clear the cache for youtube and you should be set.
Lastly, I don't know what to say about your bettery.. what do you have setcpu running at? Do you have profiles to lower your phones speed when in standby? Couldn't hurt to give it a shot.
Sorry about your computer, all my info is based on personal experience don't really have a "dev" type answer for ya. But hope some of this helps.
Goodluck!
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thank you for your reply.
yes I did wipe both data, cache, and davlik 3 times. I guess I will do that now and report back.
how would I go about clearing the cache for one specific app? I know I can do that when I open up my settings and go to app development but youtube doesn't show up in that list.
setpcu is oc at 1300 and uc at 200 conservative. profiles are as follows:
charging/full - 1000 and 200 conservative
battery < 15% - 800 and 400 conservative
screen off - 600 and 400 conservative
yeah, brand new computer too. all of a sudden it couldn't recognize the hard drive. and yes, most of my info is based on personal experience and creeping on forums.
edit: wiped everything 3 times and reflashed. market till not appear.
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For youtube I just open it up without a data connection and step through the process of signing out only enabling data when needed.
If you're missing market then you need to flash back stock with odin then start fresh. Baked doesn't remove market at all. If anything it's the fastest responding market I've used.
Heat from the battery is usually caused by programs requesting cycles or data. Just restart the phone before bed after your initial battery calibration.
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For youtube I just open it up without a data connection and step through the process of signing out only enabling data when needed.
If you're missing market then you need to flash back stock with odin then start fresh. Baked doesn't remove market at all. If anything it's the fastest responding market I've used.
Heat from the battery is usually caused by programs requesting cycles or data. Just restart the phone before bed after your initial battery calibration.
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as I stated, I have no computer at the moment. so using odin to go back to stock is out of the question as of now. hopefully there's got to be another way without using odin. if not then I suppose I'm stuck in this predicament until I get my computer back from geek squad. and yes, I've never had a problem with heroes work before. but for some reason, this is happening.
and as I've stated before, no programs or data run in the background on my phone. after initial calibration I rebooted it. and after every boot, I toggle airplane mode on and then off. ill continue to moniter battery temps and see if the problem persists.
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as I stated, I have no computer at the moment. so using odin to go back to stock is out of the question as of now. hopefully there's got to be another way without using odin. if not then I suppose I'm stuck in this predicament until I get my computer back from geek squad. and yes, I've never had a problem with heroes work before. but for some reason, this is happening.
and as I've stated before, no programs or data run in the background on my phone. after initial calibration I rebooted it. and after every boot, I toggle airplane mode on and then off. ill continue to moniter battery temps and see if the problem persists.
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Sorry bout that, I did read over that you hadn't had a computer. I overlooked it though. It just sounds like you might have somehow of gotten a corrupt install somehow.
Maybe you can try reinstalling 1.6 over top of itself. I don't really see anything wrong with that, but as stated before though. Make sure you wipe cache and dalvichk 3 times each before you do so.
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Sorry bout that, I did read over that you hadn't had a computer. I overlooked it though. It just sounds like you might have somehow of gotten a corrupt install somehow.
Maybe you can try reinstalling 1.6 over top of itself. I don't really see anything wrong with that, but as stated before though. Make sure you wipe cache and dalvichk 3 times each before you do so.
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that's okay.
hm that might be what's wrong. ill download it again later. right now, I'm watching two dumbasses snort a line of fire ants on 1000 ways to die. xD (too lazy right now)
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so a month after upgrading to windows 8 50% of the time when I try to open an app from the start screen it will open, not load, crash and kick me back to the regular desktop and the taskbar will be a solid color and then all of the items will come back. I think all of explorer is crashing and its getting on my nerves.
Also, my computer has started to lock up forcing a forced shutdown, but what's extra weird about this is when I boot back up it boots up faster than normal and everything is still loaded on my computer.
So I've decided the only thing I can do now is to clean refresh so I guess my question is which option of refreshing should I choose? I know the full one creates a windows.old file to recover the stuff I need but I was wondering if it'd be safe to use the keep my files option or if I shouldn't even risk it? Or if anyone knows of a fix (probably not going to happen)?
It sounds like your so-called "forced shutdowns" are actually putting the computer in sleep mode.
Make sure your system is fully up to date. There have been some performance, stability, and reliability updates for Win8 already. You don't need Metro to run Windows Update.
It's fine to try Refresh first, and if that doesn't fix things, go for a Reset. Generally, Refresh would work fine.
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so a month after upgrading to windows 8 50% of the time when I try to open an app from the start screen it will open, not load, crash and kick me back to the regular desktop and the taskbar will be a solid color and then all of the items will come back. I think all of explorer is crashing and its getting on my nerves.
Also, my computer has started to lock up forcing a forced shutdown, but what's extra weird about this is when I boot back up it boots up faster than normal and everything is still loaded on my computer.
So I've decided the only thing I can do now is to clean refresh so I guess my question is which option of refreshing should I choose? I know the full one creates a windows.old file to recover the stuff I need but I was wondering if it'd be safe to use the keep my files option or if I shouldn't even risk it? Or if anyone knows of a fix (probably not going to happen)?
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I had something like this, and a refresh didn't do it. I had to reset the laptop. I haven't put much on the laptop, so I deleted all files.
I attempted refresh, but after afterwards I couldn't access the internet from within the metro apps. It seemed to start with the most recent auto update, but after the reset I did the updates and everything is fine. What happened was that I was unable to run any metro apps at all. I could get to the desktop, but the metro side would be unavailable until I saw the taskbar flash a solid color. Then I could briefly go to the metro side, for about 10 seconds.
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I'm getting this on one of my computers, interestingly it also has hdcp issues, im writing this up as a potential graphics issue, there are reports to back this up but nothing confirmed, if it is todo with graphics its not related to a single driver version, its almost completely random, this might suggest there is some conflict with driver, gpu, and whatever windows has built in for copy protection
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thanks for the replies guys. it's definitely a weird problem as its only gotten progressively worse (stopped these last two days, no problems...don't know what happened haha) but I've got all my updated drivers from the sony website minus the BIOS cuz that slowed the hell out of my computer running windows 7 so I'm just avoiding sony drivers as much as possible
so turns out problem not gone. jinxed it, updated some things that weren't updated but something wont update correctly and idk why but I've got a final tomorrow so I'll figure it out another time
I posted a while ago about the GPS failing to find even a single satellite. I got no responses, just a redirect to this forum. Since then I have searched and searched but no one has a solution to this common problem. I watched a video about cleaning the antenna contacts and performed this cleaning - no help. I have tried numerous apps that are supposed to help - no help. I took the tablet out of its case - no help. I even set the tablet out in the backyard for 45 minutes with a GPS app running as was suggested by someone - no help. I can't find anything at all about updating or re-installing GPS drivers or firmware so i don't know if that is even an option, but if there is a way to do this I would sure like help trying that. I have Titanium backups from before the GPS outage but I don't know which ones control the GPS.
It is as though this is a taboo subject and no one wants to even talk about it, but I did see that LOTS of people are having the same problem. Doesn't anyone have a solid solution short of just buying a new tablet? The GPS worked on a flight from TX to TN last March but never worked again after that. Could something on that flight have jammed or disabled my GPS?
If anyone has a solid solution based on actual resolution of this same problem, a lot of people would appreciate knowing about it.
Thank you.
Oooh i luv a good conspiracy! xD
Although i don't think taboo has any thing to do with it, now, if we were talking about dwarf elephants,sodomy and juggling then that would be troubling! But i think the empire is too busy tripping over the trump disaster to jam your gps. xD
okay, start by cycling through your back ups and find the one that worked, though i don't know much about titanium backup. It would have been smarter to use an actual recovery to make you backups.
The reason most common for not finding an answer or even a lead to one is insufficient data.
I have a tab4 and gps doesn't work, is literally nothing to go on.
What OS and/or firmware were/are you running? Did you install a custom kernel? Did you modify your OS with questionable applications or modifications that came at a cost or broke something?
What tab 4 is your tab 4? there are about 11-16 of them. Specifying the 8.0 is still not good enough.
It is interesting that you got some function on a flight. That's definitely worth a ? . I don't think a "jamming device" would fry your gps though.
I would say that you should first restore your tab back to cherry, meaning the original state you purchased/recieved it in and walk your mod process forward. Take notes and get logs.
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Moonbutt74, thanks for responding.
My Tab 4 8.0 is model SM-T330NU
It's rooted & has several of the nice apps that can be used on rooted devices. Nothing was added between the time the GPS worked and when I noticed it not working. I am ALMOST certain of that. If there were a way to check logs for changes maybe I could get a clue - hadn't thought of that 'till now. Do you know how to do that? I suppose restoration to original state may end up being necessary, but I would sure like to avoid that. Everything else works just as I like it except for the fact that Google is still spying on me. There's no stable custom ROM yet as far as I can tell.
Yes, GPS worked fine on several commercial flights. It's fun seeing things on the ground and seeing what they are on the map + knowing speed and ETA.
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okay that's the main question, in -flight i guess your "line of sight" to gps satellites is unhindered, if it's anything like satellite tv service, then what's you situation on ground? Meaning canopy, and cloud cover. Back up your full current rom through recovery to external sd card. And then revert your tab to it's factory state. If you haven't modified the contents of your system directory after rooting then after doing factory reset while in recovery should put you back to your initial state.
Logging,
if you don't know how to set up adb there are plenty of threads dedicated to the subject, get that set up.
once your tab is cherry, get it connected to your pc abd run adb shell
once in adb shell run logcat -c to clear your log
start a gps related function or app
run logcat without any arguments for a "live" logcat
You have a huge log to go through , but go through every line.
You'll get the idea of how to read the log as you go.
We know that as of the LP 5.1.1 update to the sm-t330nu that samsung tried to disable ir blaster, so who knows?
I didn't know the wifi variants had gps.
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okay that's the main question, in -flight i guess your "line of sight" to gps satellites is unhindered, if it's anything like satellite tv service, then what's you situation on ground? Meaning canopy, and cloud cover. Back up your full current rom through recovery to external sd card. And then revert your tab to it's factory state. If you haven't modified the contents of your system directory after rooting then after doing factory reset while in recovery should put you back to your initial state.
Logging,
if you don't know how to set up adb there are plenty of threads dedicated to the subject, get that set up.
once your tab is cherry, get it connected to your pc abd run adb shell
once in adb shell run logcat -c to clear your log
start a gps related function or app
run logcat without any arguments for a "live" logcat
You have a huge log to go through , but go through every line.
You'll get the idea of how to read the log as you go.
We know that as of the LP 5.1.1 update to the sm-t330nu that samsung tried to disable ir blaster, so who knows?
I didn't know the wifi variants had gps.
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I have posted this in a new thread, but I'll tell you the short version: My Allow Mock Locations was disabled in Settings/General/Developer options/Allow mock locations...). When I enabled this my GPS started working. Such a simple thing but a total odyssey to find out about it. OB