Hello, I recently passed my A5 to my Father but he is expiriancing some GPS issues like, no signal or Location lagging. For example The GPS Location on google maps is realy slow and is not accurate.
Is there a fix for that or maybe flashing new ROM would solve it? Thanks
I got the same problem with my phone with 4g on and high accuracy it does work better. But fails when the data towers are not close
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Hello
It seems to me that since I installed Android 5.1.1 my GPS signal became weak and lost constantly (see image below). Also, I find it difficult to navigate with TomTom, Sygic or Waze.
Is there a parameters settings to check or a utility to boost the GPS signal?
Thank you
No one can help:crying:
What a pity :fingers-crossed:
Hi Guys,
So I am having a bit of an issue with cyanogenmod and GPS where my phone can only get location from Cell Phone Towers and WiFi and never actually connects to GPS signals when I am trying to uses Google Maps/HERE Maps. I could live with out GPS if my WiFi network gave me the right location but it never does so What do I need to do to fix this headache.
Thanks in advance, Tech.
I have the same problem at this moment, I'm running PureNexus rom and my GPS was working super bad while in USA and right now I'm in Russia and it doesn't work at all here, just like you've described.
Could you please tell me if you find some sort of solution?
Hi,
I have another issue after the OS upgrade to Mashmallow 6.0.1, it loses the GPS signal every now and then for no reason, so I wasn't able to navigate using google map or waze or other location based Apps. I have to turn the Location setting off and on again a few times, sometimes it took a while, before I get back the GPS.
There is no lack of GPS signals in the area as my other devices are functioning properly. I have been using the phone for more than a year without such issues, started with kitkat then Lollipop, but as soon as I upgrade to Mashmallow the 2 major issues surfaced!
Any advice on how to fix this?
Same for me on my A3 2016 (6.0.1) On A310FXXU2BPG6
GPS signal is lost shortly after starting Google maps or Waze
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Hi, i just made this account to post this problem here and I hope I find help. My s5 is not rooted and brand new (3 days?) with the version 6.0.1. My phone does see the satellites but it doesn't locks on them so I don't have GPS at all except with WiFi and the other things but that is kinda useless and not accurate. If I really have to I would root my phone cause it's annoying as hell and I'm a traveller so I need that and I don't always have internet. Hope you can help me
Kind regards
Same problem, similar situation, using SM-G900A, Galaxy S5 with AT&T. Satellites show with GPS Tools app, but Google Maps and Waze don't find GPS location. Tried many things, including factory reset. No joy...
I'm using Samsung Galaxy S4 mini (serranoltexx) running LineageOS 14.1 since 2018. Some time ago I'm experiencing such a strange problem with GPS fix. GPS chip can find satellites quickly with a strong signal (4 and more satellites) but can't get stable GPS fix. It may get GPS fix for a few seconds and then I need to wait again for the next GPS fix. It means that GPS fix is unstable. I can see the same behavior in any app for example gpstest.
Could you please give me advice how to troubleshoot this issue with the poor GPS fix?
In the logcat I can see the following entries after the GPS fix is losing:
Code:
04-17 21:32:48.092 598 1063 E LocSvc_ApiV02: W/virtual int LocApiV02::setGpsLock(unsigned int):3033]: Set engine lock failed. status: eLOC_CLIENT_SUCCESS, ind status:eQMI_LOC_ENGINE_BUSY_V02
04-17 21:34:08.358 598 1063 E LocSvc_ApiV02: W/virtual int LocApiV02::setGpsLock(unsigned int):3033]: Set engine lock failed. status: eLOC_CLIENT_FAILURE_INVALID_PARAMETER, ind status:eQMI_LOC_SUCCESS_V02
I'm tying to understand if this problem is related to the software defect i.e. LineageOS 14.1 or to the hardware - maybe GPS chip is almost dead. Also tried to Google these but no luck. I would not like to change the phone with no reason because it's very compact and handy. Thank you in advance.
Another question do we have here happy users who are still using S4 mini devices and not complaining on GPS performance with the lineage-14.1-20180624-nightly-serranoltexx-signed image?
I have the same problem Samsung Galaxy S4 mini (serranoltexx) with LineageOS 14.1. After repairing GPS it works briefly and then stops using GPS satellites even though it shows that it has found several 15 or more, but it does not get stable data from any.
I solved this problem on the software level. First I discovered that GPS fix is getting pretty fast when the phone in airplane mode. Then I replaced my SIM card. But this was useless in this case because the problem has been fixed finally after upgrading the Real Time GPS tracker application. I think that due to the software bug in this 3rd party application my GPS chip went crazy. Now seems all works good as before. I have tested it already for a few weeks.
That's good to know. So I'm going to look for which of my applications using GPS can do this a problem.
Thanks you
The problem is back from time to time. Sometimes rebooting of the device is needed to get the stable GPS fix.
GPS chip in this device supports GLONASS. But when I'm using GPS Test application I never saw that GLONASS satellites are really connected.
Can anyone confirm that GLONASS is working on these devices?
[ROM][I9190/I9192/I9195/L520/R890][Unofficial][11.0.0] LineageOS 18.1 for S4 Mini
Upgrade has solved all problems with GPS that I had. Even GLONASS is now working what was never worked in 14.1.