I searched through some threads and I couldn’t find a definitive answer on this that was recent.
I am currently running ICS Euphoria on my phone, but I recently started having issues with my phone missing calls intermittently. What happens is I will get a voicemail from a call that never came to my phone (no ring, no missed call). Since it has been awhile since ICS was released, I figured this would be a good time to upgrade to JB.
I’m looking for a slim, fast, and functional version. Don’t care about customization, just need a good daily driver. Specifically I’m looking for a ROM with decent GPS (as good as it can be on the vibrant anyway).
What do you guys recommend?
Slim bean, I know the final jb41 build had solid gps, not sure about jb42 beta builds. CM10 stable also hassolid gps.
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Slim Bean seems to come highly recommended, but when I looked at it originally the big complaint was no GPS, maybe that has changed?
I have stayed away from CM roms since they seem to be more on the bloated side of things, but offer lots of customization. Really what I'm interested in is a fairly vanilla experience that runs fast and doesn't eat battery like crazy.
There are some flashable files that will help gps, yagf2, experia gps files and gps wrapper. IMO, slim is your best bet.
What you don't know could fill a book.
You can look at the thread I started here with the same Q and my experience: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040685
Bottom line (for me so far) is that NONE will have a working GPS,
and if you do get a gps it will eat your battery with all the Kernel Wakelocks caused by the gps.
Again, this is MY experience, I know others have better exp, would appereciate if you could update what you found...
BTW, on Bionix (Froyo) my GPS worked OK, so I don't think it is my device, but who knows...
Interesting points guys. I have had a few different roms on this phone, and the best gps so far has been ICS euphoria.
I think I'll give slimbean a try. I still need to do the little hardware mod for the GPS as well. Hopefully this will net me somewhat reliable GPS.
I have a copy of PA 2.54-360 with ICS GPS files that jrongi1 sent me. If you would like it you can PM me.
The GPS worked great for me!
And I still got love for the streets..
Gps is tricky with our phones. Each is different it seems. I have an orriginal T959 so I did the harware fix. The hardware fix combined with my use of angrygps.apk. I use "supl.sonyericsson.com" port 7275 in both gps.conf and angrygps.
I dont have DS issues with 4.1 or 4.2 roms. never had.
I installed cm10 and kept the gps.conf that came with it, it looks working OK, not the best signal but that might be phone fault.
Its IMPORTANT to use port 7275 in the supl server and not 7276 as some other posts suggests, the 7276 port was the reason for the kernel wake locks and GPS drain...
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RemICS-JB v1.0(Team Remics) has good GPS. Doesn't lock as fast at first. Then after few seconds it kick ass. Great rom may I say.
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I'm very tempted to try out an ICS ROM and wonder which I should try. Some swear by Onecosmic's ROM saying it's smoother and more stable than Passion. It's 911 and e911 seem to both work but GPS seems to be broken. Passion seems to be getting the most traffic. e911 is broken though 911 works. GPS is way better than Onecosmic, if I understand correctly, but kernel dependent.
Which are you using and why? Or should I wait for more issues to be fixed, e.g. mute/unmute?
I ran Onecosmic's for a while. 2.11 was pretty good. They then produced a 3.1, but didn't bother to change the build.props values from i9000, guaranteeing problems and showing a lack of seriousness in supporting the Vibrant, so I tried the CM9 kang. Build 14 was good, but 15 was terrible (looked like build.props was incorrect), decided to stay with CM7 until an ics rom has CM permissions management. No experience with Passion.
I agree a lot with what cashmundy said. Neither onecosmic nor the cm9 teamhacksung have vibrants and are builing for the I9000 so we are just getting I9000 ports with no true support from the rom dvelopers. Not that either is a bad rom but the Vibrant community is the ugly step kid in the development. Neobuddy and Nelson are building ICS Passion on their Vibrants and supporting it well. Passion is based on cm9 as far as I can tell with Neobuddy working it for the Vibrant. Nelson is constantly trying to improve the kernel and latest is based on rev 3.1.10. Passion has it's bugs and each new version fixes some and regresses on others but it's a Vibrant rom worked on by Vibrant devs and is the most complete IMHO.
I honestly havent tried OC's rom. Been really happy with Neo's Passion. It seems everyone has a different quirk. Some people's GPS works, some don't, some have the mute/unmute bug, some don't. My GPS works AND don't have the mute/unmute bug. One of the lucky few it seems.
ICS Passion v12
I like it a lot after CM dropped further development. It seems to move around faster and is clean. The mute/umute doesn't seem to be an issue for me. Haven't tried GPS except to play with Angry GPS. Seems like I was picking up satlellites, best I could tell. I read something about a unlocked Samsung phone from China not working on 911, but did on 112 (international emergency). I'm beginning to wonder that if Samsung won't share the codes...DOES 911 work on the stock ROMS??? I'm thinking I can live without 911, since my option of returning to the Eclair ROM makes me ill... .
Seems like 911 is broken passion v11 onwards
ICS passion it should be, as cashmundy said, its dedicated to Vibrant. I have working GPS but the Mute/Unmute issues bugs me. I am still on v11 btw.
Both roms are good, I think that passion has more tweaks. Both are stable less mute and unmute bug which is keeping me on trigger 822. But other than that everything else works great. Just irritating that a phone does not do the simplest feature of answering a call correctly.
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how can I put the firmware in order to avoid a bug with the microphone?
In general, there is such of the ICS?
There is a new Onecosmic version out, 4.1. I'm pulling it down to see if the build.props still say i9000 instead of t959.
One important philosophical difference is that Onecosmic is explicitly AOSP and only AOSP, whereas Passion is using some or all of CM9. That's reason enough to choose Passion for me. I'm just waiting for permissions management to get ported.
PS: download of Onecosmic version 4.1 finished, took a look inside with Ghost Commander (must-have tool) and the build.props is correct for T959.
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has the gps signal been fixed with the latest ota update?
what is the latest touchwiz on this device?
is it smooth and how is the battery life?
I am on AOKP and get instant and accurate locks instantly indoors or out with or without a good signal.
I know this doesn't answer your question but I haven't had a problem with GPS since froyo.
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shop around... 120 seems steep for a used i500
I just recently picked one up, i was a vibrant user untill work switched over to verizion.... i had just got the darn thing working perfectly too :-(
Mine has no luck with the GPS, it is nearly identical to how my vibrant worked, although the reception is just a little stronger... it is way weaker than a normal phone. It takes nearly 15 min for my phone to get a lock, however once it does, it has the lock... although it does loose quite a few satilights every so often and then grab lock right away again... Seeing how this is exactly how it worked by default on my vibrant, and it didnt get any better till i went to MIUI, who worked out thier own driver which got perfect locks with out dropping the sat lock.
Now for my question....
Im not the account holder on this phone,(its my work phone) and when i had a phone that used a sim card, i had no fear of loosing my regestration info, but im not sure what will happen when i flash this phone to a custom rom. Do you have to reregester it with verizion? or will it just reclaim my number? what kind of issues could i have... i need to make sure i wont have any issues since i dont have the password for activation...
and second, what is the most bug free rom avaliable? I'd like to try out MIUI again or even a stock rom as long as it has better support for GPS.
I've never had to re-activate after flashing anything FWIW. We have MIUI ICS that is quite functional, although I don't believe quite as much works on MIUI compared to the other ICS roms yet. I've had good luck with AOKP, gummy, and THS (rootzwiki) ICS builds. Much better than GB.
For me, the update to Gingerbread (2.3.5) has really improved the GPS performance. It's still not perfect, but it seems to lock up much faster than it used to.
Anyone know what ROMs have working GPS? I prefer 4.1 ROMs.
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Anyone know what ROMs have working GPS? I prefer 4.1 ROMs.
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I'm still using Slim ICS with 4.0.4. The GPS is ok, it works but still not great. I don't think my phone will ever be great though. I want to try out SlimBean but it seems they are having GPS issues among other things.
Honestly, I've found that GPS can be a real hit or miss depending on your specific phone.
All hardware is not created equally, unfortunately. I'd suggest testing a few different roms and find which works best
for you specifically...because I've had luck with GPS on roms where users have reported bad GPS, and no GPS on roms where
awesome GPS was reported.
Good luck!
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Anyone know what ROMs have working GPS? I prefer 4.1 ROMs.
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I would use either PA or CM10, but you need to flash the 3 gps fix files located somewhere in the PA thread. I would not use Slimbean 3.0 if you really need GPS since even if you do flash the files, no satellites come in view at all. I got a lock below 10 sec outside driving on monday at 7:30 pm. Accuracy was about ~25 feet, so it was really good. I was on CM10. Anyway, both have really good GPS as long as you have the 3 GPS files. They are called: GPS - Experia Files, YAGF2, and cwm-cm9-gps-wrap. Flash it in the order I wrote it in. They arent hard to find. Just type the names into Google. Or look in the PA thread. Good luck bro, and as Xenoism said, it also varies with device. If your device was made before Nov 2010, you probably wont get a lock no matter what unless you did the hardware fix. Even with the hardware fix, you'll still need these 3 files.
EDIT: Because I'm nice, I found the post where Jrafael posted the GPS files. It is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33575684&postcount=504
I have great gps with SlimBean and the 3gps fixes, its even better than my Galaxy Nexus. However, I owned a couple Vibrant and they all seem to have difference performance. Try the hardware gps fix if you're brave.
Note that for SlimBean if you patch mismatched patches it can make GPS stop working completely, only patch gapps from their own site.
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I have great gps with SlimBean and the 3gps fixes, its even better than my Galaxy Nexus. However, I owned a couple Vibrant and they all seem to have difference performance. Try the hardware gps fix if you're brave.
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Which version of Slimbean are you on? 2.9 works fine, but 3.0 is stone dead. (From my experience and a bunch of other members) I flashed the files and rebooted, tried getting a lock and not even one satellite appeared. Usually on other roms i get locks in less than 10 secs and after deep sleep, less than 20. I dont think he'll need the hardware fix if his phone is built after Nov 2010. But if its built before, then he'll definitely need it if he needs GPS that bad. That or get a new phone with GPS or buy a GPS :good:
I've tried to discern the gps issues people have experienced with this phone, but I can't tell if the latest roms have addressed the problems. I'm new to the fascinate and have stock EH03 right now and my gps won't lock much at all. Should i hope for improvement if I flash a 4.2.2 rom, or should I just give up on gps now?
If gps is a lost cause then I won't even bother with the rooting and romming stuff. Thanks.
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@Epicardium the gps on 4.2.x ROMs works great... As long as you are outside where the satellites can seer you. (Inside your house is usually hopeless)
Occasionally you may have to install an a-gps to give it a jumpstart.
I just bought a Fascinate, too. Horrible GPS performance as well.
See my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2372765
Try the phone with the battery cover removed and see if your GPS performance improves.
I want a device that "just works". But I also want a relatively current version of Android (4.1+).
I don't like spending more time trying to get my device to work than actually using the device.
I've been getting rid of my older devices, and I'm probably getting rid of my Galaxy S 4G next. There has never been an official CyanogenMod release for it, and the current software doesn't work with the GPS.
I noticed the Galaxy S Vibrant had official CM and AOKP releases. Great! I can install a stable release and be done with it... But then I started reading about the GPS issues. From what I've read:
GPS doesn't work right. There are patches you can try, but then they break 911.
Is that the current situation? I have to pick between GPS or 911 if I want to use a Jelly Bean ROM on the Vibrant?
From what Iv heard the 911 issue is compleatly fixed. And GPS on this phone is complete and total s*it
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OK, I've been playing with the Vibrant/SGH-T959 on CM 10.1.2 for a few days.
GPS will usually see 10-13 satellites and get a lock within a few seconds. Accuracy has been as good as 20 feet. (I've only been testing this indoors.)
...If it works.
Twice now it seemed like GPS just "died". I had to reboot to get it working again. I see on the CM bug tracker (http://code.google.com/p/vibrant-cm/issues/list) that GPS can randomly crash.
^Try the gps hardware fix, my gps was absolutely awful before but now it works great. There is a tutorial in the Bible thread showing how to do it. You basically bend the copper conductor up slightly to help it make contact. Samsung really messed up the design or rushed it , simply bending the copper up fixes the issue.
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iTz KeeFy said:
^Try the gps hardware fix, my gps was absolutely awful before but now it works great. There is a tutorial in the Bible thread showing how to do it. You basically bend the copper conductor up slightly to help it make contact. Samsung really messed up the design or rushed it , simply bending the copper up fixes the issue.
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My T959 has a "10.10" date on it, which should be new enough to have whatever improvement Samsung implemented (mentioned in the hardware fix thread).
I'm not too concerned with the the reception. When it works, it can get a lock from a fresh reboot in under 2 minutes. The signal ain't so bad. I don't expect to use this for navigation.
The problem is when GPS "dies". I don't know if it happens after deep sleep, or what. I'd rather it work all the time, even with a bad signal, than sometimes work well, and sometimes not work at all.
Edit, here's a description of what it does:
http://code.google.com/p/vibrant-cm/issues/detail?id=5
That's from August 2012. It still does this, even with the latest CM10 August 2013 builds.
Yea I personally use a Froyo ROM and jilette's gps fix, which has everything working. I also have issues with gps on Jelly bean ROMs. It's give and take really, that's why I prefer Froyo, it has everything I need.
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