its not quite working for me. I have GPS and wifi both on. It worked once since I facotry resetted the phone. Then I rebooted the phone and its showing no data icon. I tried the tap to refresh and no luck.
also the time that worked it took quite a long time to get the info.
more info: my located is currently in china right now. maybe the data fetch will be faster when im back in the states. i duno
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The GPS on my un-rooted Vibrant has been working quite well since the JI6 update. That update changed several of the dialer-accessed settings, and I haven't messed with any of them since the phone was finally working. I also didn't do the GPS Restore app because I figured why try to fix something that's not broken.
However, today, for the first time in two months, I couldn't get any locks. The GPS found a dozen satellites and showed normal signal strengths (25-40%) for the majority of them, but it kept losing and finding them, and got no locks. When I tried using Google Maps, it thought I was around Las Vegas (I'm in the Pacific NW), and the accuracy circle was probably 500 miles.
I rebooted the phone, but that didn't help. Then I decided to go into the GPS settings and found that there were two changes that I hadn't made: the Server FQDN type had switched from Auto Config to Custom, and the Server had switched from "h-slp.mnc260.mcc310.pub.3gpp" (which first appeared with JI6) to "www.spirent-lcs.com." I changed back to Auto Config, but didn't change the server, and re-booted. Then I went to the GPS Test app again and got a lock on 7 of 11 satellites in about 20 seconds with 20' accuracy.
Finally, I went back into the GPS settings: it was still set to Auto Config, but the Server had mysteriously switched back to "h-slp.mnc260.mcc310.pub.3gpp."
I had assumed that once I made a change to the GPS settings they stayed thay way unless I went back in to modify them, or I installed an update or the Samsung GPS Restore app. So, was this just some weird hiccup where my phone reverted to some old settings on its own, or what? I'm also curious to know what info is stored in the GPS Data Cache (which I've never cleared since I've had the phone)...in particular, could this be the source of the switched Server settings?
This is very odd however you'd get better help in Vibrant section tbh.
Seems like this was a problem for many people regardless of the configuration of their phone. Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862454
Hey folks. Just need some opinions or hopefully some knowledge that will lead to a solution.
I do NOT want my phone to sync time on the network. I have always set my phone 6 minutes ahead of the clock where I work. (For a myriad of reasons.)
I have disabled network time and such. I did this with my phone when I first got it and it worked just fine.
Recently wiped the phone, cache, etc to get 2.2 on there. Was the deodex version that adrynalyne put out at the following link. (Although I think that the post has been edited since then...)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948679
I used Odin to flash EB01, got the RED Clockwork update, cleared cache (several times), updated the ROM image from the SD card, etc. Everything works pretty well now I suppose. Seems faster in many ways but more importantly, performs more consistently.
No other mods like Voodoo, etc...
But I CAN NOT get the clock to stay at the time that I set it to. It seems to drop 11 minutes back and that causes problems for me. (Was late to work one morning because of it.)
I can't pinpoint WHY it's doing this. I can't figure exactly what time of day it's happening. But I check it every night and it is 100% guaranteed that the time changes back. It's not even in sync with the network time. I have turned on the network time and it jumps forward a few minutes. I then turn it off again and set the time 6 minutes forward where I need it.
Getting a little aggro about this. I have a few basic alarm programs installed, etc. But none of these screwed with the time on 2.1. Not much of my software load has changed. I have recently started using "SystemPanel" for managing my phone. (Which does an excellent job from what I can tell...)
Any idea why my time keeps changing back, folks? I really haven't been successful in finding any answers.
Hello
The weather is not updating properly on my phone.
Ive tried all three services (bug, accu, underground). They all report from the time I booted my phone (16:03) and it wont refresh no matter how many times i hit refresh.
All settings are correct (i think??) Google is allowed to use location from me by wifi, and stuff like that. GPS is not turned on as i have this option.
I am on working wifi, everything else works.
clean install of rom yesterday.
no extra settings except some battery tweaks in extweaks.
any ideas?
thanks.
I am running up-to-date stock fw on my Droid Inc 4G LTE. I was out of the USA for a week and didn't bother getting a SIM for the country I was in so I just worked off WiFi the whole time with mobile network disabled. At some point, I was playing around with settings and found the high power setting that improves reception at the expense of battery life. I enabled it and worked with it for a few days without issue, it actually worked pretty nicely. I did notice a couple of reboots happen but it didn't seem associated with that setting (yet).
On my way back I was at the airport, and I started off with the setting disabled but couldn't get good signal, so I enabled it. I then looked at the list of detected networks and was about to select one to connect to, when suddenly my phone rebooted. Great, I thought, now I have to wait for this to boot. Except, once it hit the "droid eye" screen where it's loading the OS, it rebooted again. Then it basically kept doing that ad infinitum.
I booted into rescue mode (Vol Down + Pwr) and the only options I really had were to try booting again (still looping) or to reflash stock firmware, which was an awful thing to have to do at an airport with no recent backup, but I did it. It worked fine after that, but I lost all my text messages, app settings, a bunch of downloaded podcasts and audiobooks, had to spend an hour or so reinstalling every app and another hour setting everything up again. Not cool.
But yeah, pretty sure this was related to the high power wifi setting (perhaps in conjunction with having mobile network disabled). I can't really substantiate that with much evidence and don't have the time to try to reproduce it, but I'm just throwing this out there as a report.
I'm in the UK and have a UK Galaxy S6 Edge running G925FXXU3COI9, stock/unrooted.
It's got a location problem. Firstly, I have the 'My Places' widget set up, but made the mistake a few months ago of changing my 'Home' location whilst I was on holiday. Now I can't get it to let go of that alternative location. I've tried setting it as the current location (my actual home) many many times, but it always goes back to the Orlando address. I've tried resetting the 'My Places' app, removing Data/Cache, but nothing has worked so far. The workaround is to set it to use 'Wifi' as the determining factor, but even then, after a short while it reinstates the 'Map' method and adds the Orlando address.
Also, I've recently moved Work locations. I set my new Work address in my Google Account 'Places', a few days ago and it shows correctly there, but my phone still thinks I work in the old location. If I go into the 'Maps' app, the blue pointer thinks I'm in the old location, if I rotate the phone, the arrow rotates, but nothing I do makes it see where I actually am. Again, I've removed Data/Cache and its still the same.
I just voice prompted Google Now with 'Where am I'. It gave me my old work address where I haven't been for over a week. I also removed all the Google Now card preferences and that made no difference.
Any ideas?
So, I went into Google Maps at the weekend, my phone could see that I was at home. I've made the journey to work this morning and my phone currently thinks I am at my old place of work, which is about 6 miles from here.
How can it be so?!