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is it a hardware issue? software problems?
I don't know how such a problem could persist for such a long amount of time, I really hope the Nexus S doesn't have this and I would likely shell out money for that (though the lack of HD video recording disturbs me)
I have perfect GPS. After JL1, it even locks indoors in 10 seconds or less
anthonys2r said:
I have perfect GPS. After JL1, it even locks indoors in 10 seconds or less
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Ever since JI6, the GPS has been able to "lock" in, but it gives terrible accuracy. It's accuracy that's important.
JK2 had choppy accuracy, JK6 made it slightly better. JL1 has been dead on for me, it even tracked my accuracy up to big bear (snow mountains in california). I went twice, once with JK2 or JK6 the first time, which sometimes listed me as off road during the trip, but when I went back with JL1, it went without a hitch.
I'm not familiar with these terms, but my accuracy has been fine, it's the speed which bugs me (takes as little as 10 seconds to as long as a whole minute before locking)
JK6? JK2? JL1? modem firmware?
Yep, modem firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868774
JL1 has excellent battery with great GPS
Got my phone a week ago gps has been fast and accurate, It came with jk6, but I had jk2 and now have jl1, I run samsung restore when I change anything and out locks within seconds
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anthonys2r said:
I have perfect GPS. After JL1, it even locks indoors in 10 seconds or less
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Same here. running Axura 2.2 JL1, i just came home from using it. dead on.
I suggest disabling the wifi option in nav setting and the sensor thing, that did keep me from locking originally.
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kcp877 said:
I suggest disabling the wifi option in nav setting and the sensor thing, that did keep me from locking originally.
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I agree, it is unnecessary and if this doesn't help consider an exchange.
Outstanding GPS Performance After Warranty Exchange!
I recently had to get a replacement phone from Tmobile due to a problem with the haptic feedback. I received a new (not refurbed) phone in original Samsung packaging with a mfg date of 10/20/10. The phone already had JI6 installed.
Since I've had good GPS performance on my previous Vibrant I was a little concernced about what might happen on an exchange. My concerns were definitely misplaced.
The new Vibrant's GPS locks up virtually instantly, faster than my old Vibrant ever did and with higher signal strength and more birds. I've used the navigation extensively and have yet to drop connection while navigating.
My first experience with the phone's GPS was by accident. We were shopping and I needed to get around a plugged freeway on surface streets I wasn't familiar with. I went into the Navigation app, spoke my destination and was INSTANTLY provided with my location and directions. Subsequent testing has also been 100%.
I've never seen GPS performance this fast and powerful with my previous Vibrant although it worked well enough to get me from point A to point B. The previous phone on occasion would take a minute or two to find my location.
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JK6? JK2? JL1? I'm not familiar with these terms.
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These are typically rom build / version designators. The confusion comes from using these terms to refer to the individual components (kernel, baseband / modem, etc) that have been pulled from any given rom such as the modem. When the a proper context is present, it may not be too hard to tell how the terms are being used. That's not always the case though.
blame samsung
Used out twice today locked and put in an address at a red light, it's fast, if yours isn't working try settings recommended above because it's way faster then my garmin nuvi
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I am using JK6 FROYO on my vibrant, I installed it inmediatly after I got my phone with JI6, now I regreth that I don't tested my gps with it... beacuse now with froyo JK6 it's impossible to get a lock.. and the samsung fix doesn't work either
I realize now that Project Nero has JL1 already installed, so that's not it.
also, I have yet to see an answer to my question, what is the issue that causes the GPS to fail on these samsung vibrants?
If we truly knew, we would tell you. Or you would have searched and found the theory/answer(s).
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anthonys2r said:
Yep, modem firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868774
JL1 has excellent battery with great GPS
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JL1 was horrible for me. Constantly running on edge, and GPS sucked. Back to JK6 and everything is running great, back with strong 3G signal and GPS is acceptable (although accuracy is still off).
Best 2.1 modem JI6
Best 2.2 modem Jk6
Just my opinion
Damonkashu said:
I realize now that Project Nero has JL1 already installed, so that's not it.
also, I have yet to see an answer to my question, what is the issue that causes the GPS to fail on these samsung vibrants?
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Samsung says the hardware is fine and that it is a software issue.
A few people believe it is quality control issues with the build of the vibrant (could be a loose connection and so forth)
so no one knows for sure, although most people do see changes depending on the software used, both for better and worse.
Not everyone seems to get the same results. (for some people, newer software fixes gps completely while for others it does nothing at all or makes things worse)
and then there are people that have had no real trouble from day one (they are rare, but there are some)
that's all anyone knows.
I think this question has been asked quite a few times already (there's even a few threads on this very page), you might check some of those threads for more info.
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I realize now that Project Nero has JL1 already installed, so that's not it.
also, I have yet to see an answer to my question, what is the issue that causes the GPS to fail on these samsung vibrants?
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Probably multiple issues. Agps and status reporting were clearly busted originally, but that's fixed in later firmware. The accuracy issues on the other hand persist, for me anyway. Some people claim that they have no such problems, even with the exact same software, and if that's the case I can only assume sample variation in the hardware is to blame.
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I don't know if this is in the right area so if it's not please move it. I know there is a lot of questions revolving around the GPS for the Vibrant.I was just curious to see how you guys are getting the best performance from your GPS using Bionix 1.3.1. So please post and tell me, my GPS sucks and I've tried all fixes that I know of including the hardware fix. THIS QUESTION IS FOR BIONIX 1.3.1 USERS ONLY THANK YOU!!!
Nobody ??????
Pretty sure it's working here without any tweaks. What is it doing?
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Mine worked great on Bionix...
Mine works great with bionix after i got the samsung gps fix off market
my gps never worked until they sent me an exchange. now it is amazingly good. i even tried walking from one end of the driveway to the other using My Tracks and it had me the whole way. i think one night i even locked on to 9 out of 16 birds. i never even heard of anyone seeing more than 13 birds! sometimes when i first turn it on it has me a few blocks away but within ten seconds i'm locked on. even works pretty well inside. the warranty exchange definitely did the trick, although i believe i got a brand new phone, who knows? definitely a hardware issue IMHO
tony yayo said:
my gps never worked until they sent me an exchange. now it is amazingly good. i even tried walking from one end of the driveway to the other using My Tracks and it had me the whole way. i think one night i even locked on to 9 out of 16 birds. i never even heard of anyone seeing more than 13 birds! sometimes when i first turn it on it has me a few blocks away but within ten seconds i'm locked on. even works pretty well inside. the warranty exchange definitely did the trick, although i believe i got a brand new phone, who knows? definitely a hardware issue IMHO
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Any idea what kind of accuracy you get?
It will find sometimes up to 13 sats, but from that point it will never lock. I've left it on for 30 minutes before trying to get it to work. It never wants to lock though. The accuracy is always terrible to, it always ranges from 3500 to 2700 meters never gets below that.
mugenfiji0327 said:
It will find sometimes up to 13 sats, but from that point it will never lock. I've left it on for 30 minutes before trying to get it to work. It never wants to lock though. The accuracy is always terrible to, it always ranges from 3500 to 2700 meters never gets below that.
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Yeah, that is terrible. Did your GPS ever work? (Before Bionix)
I got it to lock one time. I had to leave it on for 45 minutes though before it would lock and after that it never locked again. I know this is one of the devices mfg before OCT 2010. I already called them and they want me to send it in. If there is a fix that I can use to get it working before I send it in though, that would be great.
Oh and I have tried the gps restore app from the market and that always fails too.
That sux :-/
Delete gps data. Change gps to cold Start. Reboot. get a good lock.change gps to hot start. Reboot.
If that disney help, try hethens gps fix
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use a-gps is fast.
Well .. It's a little bit awkward, because everyone here says gps on bionix 1.3.1 it's working well but mine sucks. Utterly bitterly sucks. It always says "could not get your location" and stuff..
Mine works great with Bionix 1.3.1 & Sgps. I flash it at the same time I flash Bionix. I don't know if it makes a difference to do it that way. I'm also running Overstock. I can usually get a lock in 5 to 20 seconds even indoors. I've had lots of trouble getting it to work in the past but Sgps seems to work for me.
PS: Before launching my GPS app I use GPS test to get a lock then launch my GPS app of choice.
Hmmm... Sgps? Where is that? I'm gonna give it a shot.
Okay I guess I'll just have to send it off lol. I've tried all of the software fixes and I've done the hardware fix and none of that has helped in anway. I think the GPS in there is just bunk lol. Thanks for all your suggestions though guys. I appreciate it. Well a week without my phone, I don't know how I'll live.
en，GPS also drove me crazy at first，but when I reset APN without any software，it‘s working perfectly~
I sent it off couldn't find a fix that worked. Oh well hopefully it comes back working. I just don't know how I'm going to survive a week without my phone
I'm sure everyone knows about the GPS bugs that plague the first generation Galaxy S. I've read the SGS 2 reviews and they said the GPS issues have been fixed, but can I get some opinions on whether anyone experienced any GPS issues? Is the GPS on the SGS 2 as accurate and good as the one on the iPhone 4?
Works fine. Faster lock than my IP4.
Its much faster than the Galaxy S1. I found the GPS to be close to useless on S1. On my S2 its close to perfect
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Works great and picks up signals inside buildings.
I had the sgs1 for about 6 months and now the sgs2 for about 3 weeks. I was soooo disappointed with the first sgs and like you I was unsure if I wanted to give the 2 a try...
Well I read a bunch and it seems that most people are happy so I bought it...
I can say with out a doubt that the GPS is way better on the 2 than the sgs1. I could not use Google navigation at all with the sgs1... it was useless and could never lock on and would have me blocks away from where I was. I've used my sgs2 GPS with Google navigation on more than a dozen trips /drives and it has always been spot on and never had me in the wrong location.
I will say that lock times are very slow when Im driving
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I run every other day for an hour or two, I use runkeeper, also when out hiking I use mmtracker to read my o's maps, I can safely say especially with runkeeper the gpx routes recorded through the SGS2 are far more accurate than the iphone4 even managing to stay accurate whilst running through the forest, actual initial cold starting is about the same if not slightly faster with the sgs2. Oh yes and practically every time I recorded a run with the iphone4 through a certain part of my forest run it would create a spike where I was apparently running at 250mph hmm not sure I am that fast, but the sgs2 always keeps an accurate smooth record, hope that helps
for me, flaky. some days i'll get a lock within a minute and then it's fine. this morn and yest - takes ages to get a lock.
basically, ymmv
Download FasterFix. You can choose from a list of servers. Choose the country closest to you or, if it is in the list, your own country. This way you'll 'half your fixtime' so it connects faster to GPS-Sat.
It's like using the aiding sensors (e.g. WiFi).
I get a fix in >10sec max.
Hope it helps.
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i think gps on SG2 is far from perfect. It's "OK" but i had much better gps on my previous phone (HTC Hero)
What is the average time for a fix, for you guys?
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Mine takes between 10 seconds and a minute. Sometimes it just sits there doing nowt lol.
Xperia X10 used to lock in 10 seconds every time, but the rest of that phone was slow lol
The only time I have ever had a problem getting a fix, I simply opened up google maps and it seemed to get a fix instantly then returned to my other gps application and all was ok.
First thing in the morning outside fix within a few seconds
Indoors sometimes can take a little longer, but never more than about 10 seconds
I use GPS a lot
biffsmash said:
Mine takes between 10 seconds and a minute. Sometimes it just sits there doing nowt lol.
Xperia X10 used to lock in 10 seconds every time, but the rest of that phone was slow lol
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Have you tried FasterFix?
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I use GPS a lot
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I guess you said this to clarify that you've got good statistics, but a very interesting thing is that if you use the GPS often you likely get shorter fix time
The reason is that if you used the GPS recently (within hours) the cached GPS info is more accurate so the GPS doesn't need complete messsages to determine the position (it takes 30 seconds to send one complete position message from a satellite), and if you get interruptions you need to wait even longer, that is why it sometimes takes more than a minute to get a fix.
A-GPS also helps fix time in many cases.
BryanNL said:
Download FasterFix. You can choose from a list of servers. Choose the country closest to you or, if it is in the list, your own country. This way you'll 'half your fixtime' so it connects faster to GPS-Sat.
It's like using the aiding sensors (e.g. WiFi).
I get a fix in >10sec max.
Hope it helps.
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already done. still slow
THUDUK said:
The only time I have ever had a problem getting a fix, I simply opened up google maps and it seemed to get a fix instantly then returned to my other gps application and all was ok.
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Same thing happened to me.
Absolutely brilliant.
90% of the time it gets a lock within 30 secs , there's been sometimes when it needed a restart to get gps working properly but that's down to an app I was using previously which messed things up a bit, but on the whole I very happy with it.
The seamless integration with google maps is great. The external speaker is plenty loud & clear enough to hear the instructions but would like a less robotic sounding voice, re routing is quick & so far its been 100% reliable.
I have a built in gps system on my Land Rover but I almost always use the SGS2 gps over it. I used to have the SGS1 but the gps on that was a piece of crap. Gps on HTCs, etc, are probably just as good/better/worse, I don't know but one thing I'm sure about is the speaker volume would never be as loud & clear as the SGS2.
I get a lock up to 4m accuracy. My Captivate always had about 1500m accuracy and couldn't use it. Using navigation works perfectly on my sgs2
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Excellent
Like others here, i suffered from the original SGS gps nightmare
SGS2 gps has been great for me, able to use google maps/navigation/RAC app all without problem
I didn't realise how much location based services I used untill the problems with SGS gps clearly highlighted this. Now, with my SGS2 all is good.
Is there an app like the LBStesmode for froyo that I can use to change/check the gps settings?
I used to have a G2 and used Google Navigation ALOT. I could use it in my car with no probs. I've noticed that the Amaze looses GPS signal in my car about 50% of the time. Are there any tips or tricks to get better reception?
Thanks,
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I used to have a G2 and used Google Navigation ALOT. I could use it in my car with no probs. I've noticed that the Amaze looses GPS signal in my car about 50% of the time. Are there any tips or tricks to get better reception?
Thanks,
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I have no such problems!!! in fact i've never had it lose reception. for me this phone has had bar far the fastest gps lock and the best gps! running stock rooted rom
Somethings not right. My gps locks in less than a second. Rock solid. Even inside a lot of times.
The t-mobile rep claimed that the glonass was already enabled, and its why im getting 1 second gps locks. Is that accurate? How can i tell? I know the chip supports it.
Mine too . Super fast. Fastest out of any phone yet.
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Same here, the GPS on the Amaze has worked flawlessly for me every time I need it (which is pretty often since I'm always downtown and looking for something). Your Amaze might have a defective GPS component if it's always losing the signal or lock. I could be wrong, but I'm only guessing that that could be the issue since I've gotten superb GPS performance on every ROM I've flashed.
If you have task manager installed make sure you are not killing any system app that relates to gps functionality.
Same as UCLF5. Mine unable to lock indoors and take more than 5 min to lock while driving.
CWM Fix file from UCLF5 thread would work on this but seriously they should have tested it before release to public.
Mine works just fine, lock indoors in less than 10 seconds. Outdoors, same. Running stock 4.0.4 ATT I717. You must just have a bad chipset causing problems.
Also no problems on mine.
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Works great here in Ohio
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Works great on official ICS for me.
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GPS is fine here..
I too have gps issues. It will not lock, best I get is 20m radius. This is not precise so navigation will not start either.
GPS works fine before and after the update.
Had the Samsung captivate, it had a bad gps
Had the Samsung Infused, it had an ok gps
Now on the Samsung Note, the GPS works perfect, locks within a sec or two.
I get locks indoors in 5 seconds or under.
My GPS improved over GB.
From my Galaxy Note
dacho said:
I too have gps issues. It will not lock, best I get is 20m radius. This is not precise so navigation will not start either.
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20m radius is still a lock, unless it simply doesn't sit still for a minute or more
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Radukk said:
Same as UCLF5. Mine unable to lock indoors and take more than 5 min to lock while driving.
CWM Fix file from UCLF5 thread would work on this but seriously they should have tested it before release to public.
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Some people have issues with gps lock and some don't.. I believe certain roms help because they add different tweaks .. or build props to "enhance" or tune. Other devices just have a better response time or better reception I guess everyone's phone is different as we see...
wish777 said:
Some people have issues with gps lock and some don't.. I believe certain roms help because they add different tweaks .. or build props to "enhance" or tune. Other devices just have a better response time or better reception I guess everyone's phone is different as we see...
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Being on Android for over a year, it's become very apparent that even with the same internals and install procedures, every phone is treated differently, and treats the user differently in turn. It's just something that's unforeseen and probably the main reason things are redone a lot by manufacturers or developers to account for every possible account that the software could change through normal use, by either power users, normal simple users, on all of the extremes.
Can't wait to see developers get at the new build and for source to finally drop.
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slight issues for me only from initial use if not used for a day. A quick gps on / off toggle fixes it and it instantly locks.
I had issues with GPS lock on my last two roms. Now I am on stock UCLF6 and GPS locks in seconds.
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I have the same gps issue as well. I will give it a day and see how it goes, but need be I am going to go back to GB wipe everything and try again. LF5 didn't work for me either, but the first leak was fine.
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Reflashed it again, now even worse than before. Navigation is not working at all. I tried to turn on and off gps but it's still not working. I think I'll have it replaced but funny thing is that on gb and previous ics leaks, except on latest leak, it worked flawlessly.
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My GPS...
...was fine on stock UCLA1 and is flaky as hell on stock UCLF6 after doing the Kies update. I used to get a solid lock indoors, now it randomly takes forever if I get a lock at all sometimes and is fine others. I'm trying to sort this (see what might be causing it). Gonna be lots of pissed people if their GPS gets borked by the update.
Edit: GPS Test app always shows 20+ satellites in view but satellites in use can inexplicably vary from 0 to apx. 14, even if left alone. Cold boot fixes it.
Has anyone tried using gps test and clearing / updating AGPS data in the settings? Also something that usually helps me.