My gps is not working at all. I get 0 sattelites in use. Only location from nearby cell towers, which is like a 1 mile radius. I tried google and other threads and flashed every single modem i could find. Including GB one. No luck, any way to fix it?
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Check your location settings. All mine where off. I had to turn them on in settings. And try flashing the gb gps radio not the modem. Just google search ics gps fix. You will have to flash the tar file threw odin under phone NOT pda.My gps locks me in all the way to 10 meters of my location.
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The only thing holding me back from a gingerbread rom is that none of them have gps working yet. I was curious how accurately and quickly google maps could pinpoint your position using only the mobile network option checked in settings?
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It finds me on the mobile network around 2100 meters. That's not to bad especially if your lost or something. I'm sure we'll have it soon, I saw in another forum that the source code for the sgs2 is out so I'm sure that's a good thing.
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Different gps chips...won't help until we get a vibrant gingerbread leak or official release...and yes network location will always work with gingerbread. Fine location will not until gps drivers become available.
I flashed the Seraphim ICS rom with a full wipe and it works beautifully so far except I cannot get a lock on any satellites in GPS Status. It sees 23 sats but does not lock on any of them. I have rebooted and managed AGPS state within GPS Staus. I searched and did not see any others with a similar issue as the Note GPS is pretty solid, as mine was prior to my new rom flash. Any ideas?
PS, I would have put this in the Seraphim post but I am a newbie poster and you need 10 posts, but i am a true a flashaholic.
Have you looked in settings and check to allow location?
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You got it, wasn't checked and instant lock! Thank you
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Np had the same issue
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Using jokers latest CM9. 37p radio also.
It takes around 3 minutes to get a GPS lock using GPS Status, outside on a sunny day. The phone sees around 9 satelites right off the bat, but takes a looong time to lock. When it does lock, I can only connect to 4. Never more than that. CM7, Nuetrino and Morrisoft have the same problem. Nottachtrix connected with in 2 seconds to 7+ satellites, but I hate Blur.
Anyone know of any gps.conf edits that work? Or any other solutions??
Edit: went to radio 36p and its the balls.
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I'm on 36p myself. Seems more stable for my area. (Midwest)
Plus IMO I got better battery life with it over 37p...
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Are you using the gps.conf recommended to your zone?
Throughout the past few months, I have been unable to have a GPS lock or estimate whenever I'm either inside a building or standing still on broad daylight. The only way to get a fix is if I'm driving. I've had this problem on several different ROMs. I've mainly stuck with AOKP, but have tried different modems with the same result. I've also wiped data/cache and SD card several times but to no avail. Others haven't reported this problem so I know it's specific to my phone. For example, if I use Google Now on JellyBean and search for weather, it defaults to Atlanta if I'm not driving around (I live in Puerto Rico)
Now that Jelly Bean is here with Google Now and other apps are constantly taking advantage of your location, I would love to be able to have my GPS fix or give an estimate of my location whenever I'm inside a building or standing still on the street.
Any suggestions?
I'm having the same problem man I turn my GPS on and it won't pin point my location if im driving and turn GPS on it will start to work within maybe a few minutes or so I'm on stock ics rooted with siyah kernel is there any fix maybe for my stock phone its 4.0.3
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I'm having the same problem man I turn my GPS on and it won't pin point my location if im driving and turn GPS on it will start to work within maybe a few minutes or so I'm on stock ics rooted with siyah kernel is there any fix maybe for my stock phone its 4.0.3
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At least I'm not alone. The thing is few people have this issue.
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slim1991 said:
I'm having the same problem man I turn my GPS on and it won't pin point my location if im driving and turn GPS on it will start to work within maybe a few minutes or so I'm on stock ics rooted with siyah kernel is there any fix maybe for my stock phone its 4.0.3
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Some have suggested before to switch modems. Have you had any luck with any particular one ?
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I had trouble with GPS after flashing CM9 RC2. Have you installed GPS Toolbox? It gives you a bit more information to troubleshoot with.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en
I'd see eight satellites but would not get a fix. Eventually I reflashed new nightly *and* modem UCLE5 and trouble disappeared.
Have you tried leaving maps or another app requiring location data on for a few minutes (12 1/2 minutes max)? If you eventually acquire a fix then that would point toward your phone not being able to download GPS Assistance data from cell provider. If the phone cannot get AGPS data from cell provider then it has to recieve GPS almanac from satellites at an ungodly slow rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
This help me alot give it a try. I did method 2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447599
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This help me alot give it a try. I did method 2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447599
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So you copied the gps.conf file to /etc and that was it? No other tweaks? What ROM are you using? I'm testing this On the Jelly Bean CM10 preview build.
PRGUY85 said:
Throughout the past few months, I have been unable to have a GPS lock or estimate whenever I'm either inside a building or standing still on broad daylight. The only way to get a fix is if I'm driving. I've had this problem on several different ROMs. I've mainly stuck with AOKP, but have tried different modems with the same result. I've also wiped data/cache and SD card several times but to no avail. Others haven't reported this problem so I know it's specific to my phone. For example, if I use Google Now on JellyBean and search for weather, it defaults to Atlanta if I'm not driving around (I live in Puerto Rico)
Now that Jelly Bean is here with Google Now and other apps are constantly taking advantage of your location, I would love to be able to have my GPS fix or give an estimate of my location whenever I'm inside a building or standing still on the street.
Any suggestions?
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That's REALLY weird.
Not locking inside - that's completely expected
Not locking outside - That's not a good sign, but it makes no sense when combined with
Locking in a moving car - My experience is that every GPS I have ever used has significantly more trouble locking when moving then when stationary
Edit: When you say "standing still in the street" - is it a city with tall buildings, or ???
No tall buildings.
The GPS.conf file posted two posts above helps but doesn't solve it completely.
And its an honor to have you Entropy answering my plea!
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The other thing is that I'm unlocked I had a HTC amaze from T-Mobile I was using simple mobile and on the amaze the GPS would get my correct location what is it possible to flash the modem from a T-Mobile to the galaxy s2 sgh-i777 if so does any ones have a link to the modem and is it safe to flash it and instructions would be nice too:thumbup:
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slim1991 said:
The other thing is that I'm unlocked I had a HTC amaze from T-Mobile I was using simple mobile and on the amaze the GPS would get my correct location what is it possible to flash the modem from a T-Mobile to the galaxy s2 sgh-i777 if so does any ones have a link to the modem and is it safe to flash it and instructions would be nice too:thumbup:
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Try the link posted some posts above.
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No tall buildings.
The GPS.conf file posted two posts above helps but doesn't solve it completely.
And its an honor to have you Entropy answering my plea!
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Have you tried standing still in an area where you can lock when driving?
Might be area-specific interference... That happened to lots of people near LightSquared's test networks for example.
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Entropy512 said:
Might be area-specific interference... That happened to lots of people near LightSquared's test networks for example.
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Or these?
http://www.jammerall.com/categories/GPS-Jammers/
Hi, with recent roms based on the last official sammy firmwares, i get a very slow GPS positioning, and when is locked onto a few satellites, it drops all of them ocasionally and then i have to wait for a lock again.
Before, this never happened to me, i would get a solid lock that would continue to track my location.
i live in south america, is there some way to improve this situation via software? or could it be that my GPS module is getting broken (my s3 has 1 year and a half of use and a extended zerolemon 7000mha battery), which "part" of the OS handles GPS signal? (kernel, baseband, android...).
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Hi, try install faster gps in Google Play.. But it required root access
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Hi, try install faster gps in Google Play.. But it required root access
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thanks for the suggestion!, will try.
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