Hello!
I have tried multiple ROMs. Stock and custom roms, nougat and oreo.
When I GPS (high accuracy), witht the data enabled (or disabled, doesn't matter too much), a few minutes after I start the navigation, my phone reboots.
So, basically I cannot use my GPS. If I only search routes, or if I want to see distances, it's ok, but as soon as a I start navigation, sooner or a little bit later I will get a bootlop
I tried Sygic, Waze, Google Maps
Do you have any idea, what can it be?
I have unlocked my bootloader and rooted, changed the ROM, so I do not know If the warranty is still available. And, even if it is available, I'ma afraid, that they will do only a flash with the Stock ROM...
And also, the signal is not very good.... Maybe this info helps or relates to this...
Thank you
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Hi everybody,
I have search a lot about my problem, but I don't find the exact same problem. I tried everything said on this forum and can't get trought my problem.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S4 and upgraded three days ago to a brand new Note 3. Everything is going fine exccept for GPS.
Here's my phone informations:
MODEL: SM-N900W8
CARRIER: Rogers (Canada)
Android version 4.3
BaseBand version N900w8VLUBMJ4
Version JSS15J.N900W8VLUBMJ4
The problem is: When I get into Google maps, i'll get a location (It is an approximation using Cell towers I think) When getting into Navigation, The FIRST location is ok (with an error margin but still, it's ok) but it never update position (The application seems to freeze but it doesn't). After searching a lot I installed applications like GPS Test and GPS Status to find out that I never get a GPS lock. After two or three minutes I get 1 or 2 satellites but never get more so it cannot lock. I often lost the 2 satellites I was getting after a few more minutes.
I got a lock once, I was inside my house, had 7 satellites but lost it after a few minutes again.
I did a Factory Reset, I did clear cache and dalvik cache several time, uninstalled Google Maps, tried the GPSFix.zip files as discussed here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2612757). Tried to clear AGPS and redownload, recalibrated compass, ... i think I tried everything I found but nothing help.
Please note that tests have been made on the road, with a clear view to the sky (No buildings, nothing in the way from the phone to the satellites. I also have experiences in rooting, flasshing ROM, playing with system files, so it should not be a lack of knowlege
My phone is rooted but i don't want to flash any ROM because I still have Knox flag to 0x0 and want to keep it (For a warranty purpose!)
If anyone can help on this, it would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jonathan
*English's my second language
joe540 said:
Hi everybody,
I have search a lot about my problem, but I don't find the exact same problem. I tried everything said on this forum and can't get trought my problem.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S4 and upgraded three days ago to a brand new Note 3. Everything is going fine exccept for GPS.
Here's my phone informations:
MODEL: SM-N900W8
CARRIER: Rogers (Canada)
Android version 4.3
BaseBand version N900w8VLUBMJ4
Version JSS15J.N900W8VLUBMJ4
The problem is: When I get into Google maps, i'll get a location (It is an approximation using Cell towers I think) When getting into Navigation, The FIRST location is ok (with an error margin but still, it's ok) but it never update position (The application seems to freeze but it doesn't). After searching a lot I installed applications like GPS Test and GPS Status to find out that I never get a GPS lock. After two or three minutes I get 1 or 2 satellites but never get more so it cannot lock. I often lost the 2 satellites I was getting after a few more minutes.
I got a lock once, I was inside my house, had 7 satellites but lost it after a few minutes again.
I did a Factory Reset, I did clear cache and dalvik cache several time, uninstalled Google Maps, tried the GPSFix.zip files as discussed here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2612757). Tried to clear AGPS and redownload, recalibrated compass, ... i think I tried everything I found but nothing help.
Please note that tests have been made on the road, with a clear view to the sky (No buildings, nothing in the way from the phone to the satellites. I also have experiences in rooting, flasshing ROM, playing with system files, so it should not be a lack of knowlege
My phone is rooted but i don't want to flash any ROM because I still have Knox flag to 0x0 and want to keep it (For a warranty purpose!)
If anyone can help on this, it would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jonathan
*English's my second language
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Use that warranty... You should be able to use the GPS and the fact it doesn't get satellite lock is a problem...
ultramag69 said:
Use that warranty... You should be able to use the GPS and the fact it doesn't get satellite lock is a problem...
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I did drop the phone ONE time and the glass break. I think there will be no way to get warranty until I repair it.
I've been having this issue since upgrading to KitKat on Note3 (Snapdragon) International Version.
I found an app today and fixed it.
App is TopNTP and you can find it in Playstore.
You need to have Root, of course.
Before it would take forever to lock the signal, and most of the time it wouldn't at all.
Now it takes from 5-10 seconds.
I'm on Stock ROM.
Try fastergps.........https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fastergps&hl=en_GB
GMaps needs a data connection so could end up costing you a fortune.
Try navfree maybe?
once it has downloaded your specified map,use wifi,it only uses GPS after that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.ALL&hl=en_GB
joe540 said:
Hi everybody,
I have search a lot about my problem, but I don't find the exact same problem. I tried everything said on this forum and can't get trought my problem.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S4 and upgraded three days ago to a brand new Note 3. Everything is going fine exccept for GPS.
Here's my phone informations:
MODEL: SM-N900W8
CARRIER: Rogers (Canada)
Android version 4.3
BaseBand version N900w8VLUBMJ4
Version JSS15J.N900W8VLUBMJ4
The problem is: When I get into Google maps, i'll get a location (It is an approximation using Cell towers I think) When getting into Navigation, The FIRST location is ok (with an error margin but still, it's ok) but it never update position (The application seems to freeze but it doesn't). After searching a lot I installed applications like GPS Test and GPS Status to find out that I never get a GPS lock. After two or three minutes I get 1 or 2 satellites but never get more so it cannot lock. I often lost the 2 satellites I was getting after a few more minutes.
I got a lock once, I was inside my house, had 7 satellites but lost it after a few minutes again.
I did a Factory Reset, I did clear cache and dalvik cache several time, uninstalled Google Maps, tried the GPSFix.zip files as discussed here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2612757). Tried to clear AGPS and redownload, recalibrated compass, ... i think I tried everything I found but nothing help.
Please note that tests have been made on the road, with a clear view to the sky (No buildings, nothing in the way from the phone to the satellites. I also have experiences in rooting, flasshing ROM, playing with system files, so it should not be a lack of knowlege
My phone is rooted but i don't want to flash any ROM because I still have Knox flag to 0x0 and want to keep it (For a warranty purpose!)
If anyone can help on this, it would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jonathan
*English's my second language
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http://www.rom-central.com/showthread.php?t=64
try solution 1 from that post
Thanks for your answers, I solved the problem when repairing my screen. I think the antenna cable wasn't well inserted and by disassembling and reassimbling the phone, everything is perfect now.
I have X-Note rom, without breaking knox flag. Everything is good since that!
Thx
So I installed a few different stock Kitkat roms on my note 3 (Australian version). At some stage I realised that the gps wasnt working by not getting a singal. I've gone and done many fresh installs with odin of different stock roms and still can't get it to work.
I've used gps status and after fixing a-gps data it will sometimes show many satellites on the horizon but with a very weak signals. If it does finally get a signal after a reboot it won't work again.
I've manually replaced the gps config file and it doesn't help. Also when I use an AOSP rom the gps works perfectly, locks fast and accuracy good.
Any ideas/suggestions on how to get the gps working again will be appreciated!
Not sure to be honest but I have two Notes here with different antennas (our whatever it is that sits on top of the GPS chip), running different Roms but they both seem to get into a state where they suddenly lose the signal, from 10 Satellites or so down to none, then reset GPS and eventually get it going again......could take quite some time or require reboots.
I find that X-Note (non stock kernel!) is much better but did not completely eliminate the issue.
I've rooted one of the phones so I can't return that for warranty and knowing Samsung Australia they would do nothing to help me anyway.
I'm pretty sure that ALL Notes have the issue but it seems to be random and only triggered after some time off operation.....so if you're not running GPS all the time you may not notice.
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Lousy gps
matust said:
So I installed a few different stock Kitkat roms on my note 3 (Australian version). At some stage I realised that the gps wasnt working by not getting a singal. I've gone and done many fresh installs with odin of different stock roms and still can't get it to work.
I've used gps status and after fixing a-gps data it will sometimes show many satellites on the horizon but with a very weak signals. If it does finally get a signal after a reboot it won't work again.
I've manually replaced the gps config file and it doesn't help. Also when I use an AOSP rom the gps works perfectly, locks fast and accuracy good.
Any ideas/suggestions on how to get the gps working again will be appreciated!
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Someone has posted a gps fix zip. Which is supposed to work. I was afraid I might break something so didn't try it. I installed bob cat rom hoping that would fix it. but it didn't. Mine is international lte. So it isn't supposed to have the gps problem. Knox has tripped over so I am out of warranty. As the aosp rom works go back to that. Or just go from rom to rom till you have what you want which has gps working. I think x rom has working gps but not sure yet. Will know once installed. And i will find that gpsfix zip and install that.
mikekcl said:
Someone has posted a gps fix zip. Which is supposed to work. I was afraid I might break something so didn't try it. I installed bob cat rom hoping that would fix it. but it didn't. Mine is international lte. So it isn't supposed to have the gps problem. Knox has tripped over so I am out of warranty. As the aosp rom works go back to that. Or just go from rom to rom till you have what you want which has gps working. I think x rom has working gps but not sure yet. Will know once installed. And i will find that gpsfix zip and install that.
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That GPS fix zip is for 4.3 ONLY and will create a boot loop on 4.4.2.
ewok666 said:
That GPS fix zip is for 4.3 ONLY and will create a boot loop on 4.4.2.
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Thanks, wouldn't happen to have a list of n9005 4.4.2 roms with gps fix installed would you? I think thousands of people would happily void their warranty to get it. That is the only reason I installed another rom and voided mine.
But it didn't fix the gps neither do the gps status etcetera.
mikekcl said:
Thanks, wouldn't happen to have a list of n9005 4.4.2 roms with gps fix installed would you? I think thousands of people would happily void their warranty to get it. That is the only reason I installed another rom and voided mine.
But it didn't fix the gps neither do the gps status etcetera.
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Sorry but I don't. I think ALL 4.4.2 have that bug, at least all the ones I looked at. I don't know whether this is an Australian thing but it's very strange.
When it gets 'confused' the map that usually shows the satellites in view (or that should be in view) has ALL of them in one spot at the top end of the circle. A clear AGPS data usually fixes this but it sure looks like a software bug. I assume Samsung will eventually fix this. It ONLY happens certain times of the day. yesterday it did not happen before 14:30 but when it did, it did so on both Note 3 I have access to.
my note 3 lte gps woes
ewok666 said:
Sorry but I don't. I think ALL 4.4.2 have that bug, at least all the ones I looked at. I don't know whether this is an Australian thing but it's very strange.
When it gets 'confused' the map that usually shows the satellites in view (or that should be in view) has ALL of them in one spot at the top end of the circle. A clear AGPS data usually fixes this but it sure looks like a software bug. I assume Samsung will eventually fix this. It ONLY happens certain times of the day. yesterday it did not happen before 14:30 but when it did, it did so on both Note 3 I have access to.
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For me in australia with lte version it is a case of never getting enough satelites to get a fix and losing soon after. While my i9305 and my wife's n7100 both work fine all the time. So I cannot see it as just an at and t or verizon usa problem. My phone is with optus who updated the firmware as soon as I turned it on. But as I wrote no go so tried sweet, x, omega, bobcat stuck with bobcat 8 more success with gps on 8 than 9. Hopefully 10 will be more like 8. Perhaps 4.4.3 has a fix..
cheers
Curious, there seems to be a multitude of Australians with this issue..
You're going to have trouble aquiring a GPS lock these few days everywhere though. There has been a CME on 04/06/2014 (international dating) that hit Earth at 07/06/2014 and sparked a G2 geomagnetic storm. It plays havoc on all radiosignals, including GPS. It'll be bothersome for another week or two, most likely.
Gps experience with stock rom
Here is my experience in Without rooted complete stock ROM GPS Locking Time.:good:
Bought SM-N 9005 in December(U.A.E)- Jelly Bean- GPS Lock within 4 to 5 Seconds without any Help of Internet.
January Flashed Kitkat Poland (XEO) GPS Lock within 60 seconds without Internet, with Internet 30 to 40 Seconds,:crying:
April Flashed UK (BTU) GPS Lock timing same as Poland.:crying:
May Flashed U.A.E version again GPS LOCK WITHIN 4 to 5 Seconds without any Help of Internet.:good:
I am from U.A.E my question is GPS has anything to do with region? I mean GPS software is inside CSC or ROM or Kernel????
Try entering root folder and open up etc>gps.conf using text editor and change LPP_PROFILE to 3 instead of 0.
sama with me. i alteady try many rom include stock ne4 firmware. cannot lock the gps signal. felling sad.
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EDIT- Issue has been solved with the official stock OTA sprint/G900P release (currently on OT6 deoxed)! Happy to have working GPS again!
Hello!
Ever since upgrading to 5.0 (Cyanogenmod 5.0 clean flash, and then upgrade to teamub latest build 1/11) my location has not been functional. I have the sprint version galaxy S5. With the latest teamub builds, my gps has finally been 'working' when I press the location button in maps, but it thinks that im located 50 miles away from where I am. The position has changed several times to very different area's. At first it would not find the location at all, regardless of data/LTE enabled and GPS set to on with high accuracy mode enabled on MAPS settings.
I would like to clarify that this issue persisted before the dirty flash to teamub, so I do not think its a question of a clean flash. Also, I have tried clearing the data for the maps app in settings and restarting it, which did not resolve the issue.
This is a frustrating one, as I absolutely love these rom's and LP, but the GPS is one of those deal breakers for me, it must be functional.
Any advice on troubleshooting is very welcome and thank you.
Iriez said:
Hello!
Ever since upgrading to 5.0 (Cyanogenmod 5.0 clean flash, and then upgrade to teamub latest build 1/11) my location has not been functional. I have the sprint version galaxy S5. With the latest teamub builds, my gps has finally been 'working' when I press the location button in maps, but it thinks that im located 50 miles away from where I am. The position has changed several times to very different area's. At first it would not find the location at all, regardless of data/LTE enabled and GPS set to on with high accuracy mode enabled on MAPS settings.
I would like to clarify that this issue persisted before the dirty flash to teamub, so I do not think its a question of a clean flash. Also, I have tried clearing the data for the maps app in settings and restarting it, which did not resolve the issue.
This is a frustrating one, as I absolutely love these rom's and LP, but the GPS is one of those deal breakers for me, it must be functional.
Any advice on troubleshooting is very welcome and thank you.
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I experience this exact same issue with the latest CM12 build.
If switching the setting to Device-only location (GPS) it doesn't work at all. Waze says No GPS.
On Google Maps High Accuracy location mode seem to use only Wifi and Mobile Network calculations to determine locations. GPS is broken.
Someone told me to try TopNTP to fix it, but it didn't solve the problem.
I also tried searching and found someone on OS 4.4 saying to enter the service menu with *#0011# but that doesn't work either.
Edit for clarity: I have clean flashed new CM12 builds as they become available and have had this problem with every ROM since I switched from factory TW (6 or so diff ROM's)
*build is cm-12-20150120-UNOFFICIAL-klteusc
aktiv8d said:
I experience this exact same issue with the latest CM12 build.
If switching the setting to Device-only location (GPS) it doesn't work at all. Waze says No GPS.
On Google Maps High Accuracy location mode seem to use only Wifi and Mobile Network calculations to determine locations. GPS is broken.
Someone told me to try TopNTP to fix it, but it didn't solve the problem.
I also tried searching and found someone on OS 4.4 saying to enter the service menu with *#0011# but that doesn't work either.
Edit for clarity: I have clean flashed new CM12 builds as they become available and have had this problem with every ROM since I switched from factory TW (6 or so diff ROM's)
*build is cm-12-20150120-UNOFFICIAL-klteusc
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I concur that GPS is indeed broken in CM12 as well. Even though I get the GPS icon in the corner, it appears that no applications communicate with the GPS hardware to determine location. I also have found that only high accuracy mode using WIFI + Data works.
However, since you are the only person to respond with this issue, I must assume it is working for many others.
Thanks for the info and hopefully there is a solution in the near future.
For reference, what is your hardware model # ?
Iriez said:
I concur that GPS is indeed broken in CM12 as well. Even though I get the GPS icon in the corner, it appears that no applications communicate with the GPS hardware to determine location. I also have found that only high accuracy mode using WIFI + Data works.
However, since you are the only person to respond with this issue, I must assume it is working for many others.
Thanks for the info and hopefully there is a solution in the near future.
For reference, what is your hardware model # ?
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Yes, hopefully we get someone with the same problem that found a fix or a dev that can look into the problem. Anyone else, please speak up.
Model: SM-G900R4
Baseband: G900R4VXU1ANG3
Just bumping this thread because no resolution has been found.
Can anyone confirm GPS device only mode works on their S5? This is a frustrating problem because sometimes I really need GPS only accuracy. If I go on a hike and there's no service/data around sometimes GPS is the only difference between me wandering in the dark at night and actually finding my camp site.
Thanks
Update:
OTA stock released for my G900P!!! Fixed my gps issue
Iriez said:
Update:
OTA stock released for my G900P!!! Fixed my gps issue
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Thanks for the update. Are you saying that you Odin'd back to stock Touchwiz and then did an OTA update?
aktiv8d said:
Thanks for the update. Are you saying that you Odin'd back to stock Touchwiz and then did an OTA update?
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I grabbed the full stock .tar released 2 days ago (from OTA) and odin'd the phone (after wipe) to full stock. That solved the problem (running stock official) and then flashed to deoxeded to make things snappy.
Hi,
I have a totally strange behavior with my GPS. I'm using CM 13 right now and tried it with the official CM 12.1 and the stock ROM, all with the same behavior. Which I figured out so far is that the GPS need around 5 Minutes to get a lock. The only solution I found so far is using GPS Locker from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silentlexx.gpslock). With this app I'm able to get a lock within 10 seconds or faster. But I like my phone as clean as possible and so I want to fix the GPS without the need of an app. Hopefully someone of you could give me an advice how to fix that.
That are the solutions I tried already:
- Flash the stock ROM, wait until I get a GPS lock and flash a custom ROM
- Download several GPS Fix Apps to reset the agps data
- Modified the gps.conf file
- Open the device to check if the antenna cable is connected probably
Flash the stock ROM, wait until I get a GPS lock and flash a custom ROM
Does nothing as you have over written the system .
GPS is a kernel effect .
agps Patch from xda/derekgordon may be worth trying .
Thanks for your response. I got some time to give it a try but it didn't helped. It seems that Google maps doesn't work without an app that locks the GPS. Gps testing apps are working great only maps seems not able to find the right position by itself. Any other ideas someone?
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fyi when I was on KitKat my gps locked quick and worked great. Since going to lollipop, I cannot use my gps as it constantly drops. So frustrating so I have tried other apps to see if I could clear the data/reset but none have worked. I was going to flash back to KitKat today but I am going to try GPS Locker as you have provided and see.. if not going back to 4.3...
ok so long update. What a PITA... I got back on KitKat 4.4.4 and gps seemed like it was a go.. but then died on my 65 mile drive to work. bout half way.
i was getting 15 satellites found and 3-6 in use...
so I got tired of the annoying.. hey upgrade now so went back to Lollipop. I then googled last night and found this..
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote3/comments/2xcvpi/fyi_easy_fix_for_note_3_gps_problem/
WOAH!!!! just opened me phone up and viola. Unplugged. I just walked outside and BAM!!!! 21 satellites in view and locked on 18!!!! WOAH and in 3 seconds...
Alright, got a used n900v off eBay. Rooted, bricked, flashed back to factory, Rooted, bootloader unlocked, two installed, dirty unicorns installed, Xposed framework installed, backed up. Went to play Pokemon GO and the GPS acted strangely, switched to "device" mode lost GPS completely. GPS test app shows 0 satellites while outside, GPS status and toolbox shows a check to GPS under sensor test. I've tried various fixes including MANY GPS.conf fixes and tightening the screws behind the battery cover. I see a lot of fixes for the att note 3 and a lot of people saying the same issue is shared by the Verizon version, but no fixes for Verizon models. Any help would be greatly appreciated, including just further methods of troubleshooting.
Did you test it before switching from a stock ROM? (In other words - because the handset is used - whether the hardware is good as a starting point?)
I'm not convinced that there are any custom ROMs that exhibit rock-solid GPS behavior as rooted-stock or stock-derived (e.g. Jasmine).
I suspect that a lot of the breathless "I got GPS to work!" reports are from folks that went from no lock ever to occasionally locking sometimes... not rock solid service. (You'll note that in exactly zero of those reports do folks indicate what they used as test criteria to declare "working")
I'd be back on CM13 in a hot minute if GPS was like 3 nines reliable (99.9% availability) as it is on rooted stock.
On my phone my experience is that GPS will lock in both cases (stock/non-stock) in about the same amount of time from a cold-start+airplane mode configuration (outdoors, can take 6 or 7 minutes due to no use of aGPS) - the difference seems to be that when aGPS is in use, the non-stock ROMs will suddenly lose lock spontaneously and remain in that no-lock state for tens of minutes at a time.
It's almost as if aGPS service *interferes* with prior lock acquisition on the custom ROMs. I fooled with gps.conf too, but to no avail. I tried a variety of things including reverting to the gpsone servers instead of google, altering the lock threshold, etc but drew a blank.
There are kernel tracing methods but they require a debug kernel to be built. I started down that route but things got busy IRL and I haven't had time to pursue it.
It seems like the process of identifying a candidate fault mechanism might have to use comparisons of trace logs from both a working configuration and non working configuration... imo it's not going to be a trivial effort to resolve.
I did not test it when I first got it, however after a backup and wipe, I flashed this modded stock ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ral/rom-stock-n900vvrueof1-t3371779?nocache=1
and after updating all the apps GPS/Pokemon GO work perfectly. I'm going to read up on the GPS system in android and see if I can pin this down.
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I'm going to read up on the GPS system in android and see if I can pin this down.
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Thank you. \oo/
FYI,
@mightysween reported that Temasek CM13 formerly was quite stable when it came to GPS functionality, but it fell apart sometime in April. Specifically he mentions a Temasek CM13 ROM (v6.1-20160407) built for hltespr that he made small mods (e.g. build.prop) to to get services running on VZW carrier phones.
I tried it on two ~40mi road trips today and indeed it seems quite solid. So I guess it can't be said that (Temasek) CM13 GPS was always broken - something happened sometime in April which broke GPS on that ROM.