Hello.
I just want to share some conclusions and workarounds/solutions for GPS and Ingress app problems I've encountered almost a year and made some tests through this time.
I am using p760. Last year, when I had stock JB 4.1.2 I found out about Ingress, and I fell in love with concept of this game.
However, my phone, to be more precise GPS refused to work properly with Ingress app. It wasn't able to hold a GPS location, it drifted a lot, and overall it was searching for signal way more time than being fixed. Since this game heavily depends on precise location, it was a huge frustration to play it. At the same time apps like Endomondo, maps, etc worked flawlessly. I googled various solutions as far non-rooted phone allows, and some apps, nothing worked.
At the same time I tried Ingress I was researching about Cyanogenmod and other projects alike. I thought it might come in help.
After moving to CM 10.1.3 (4.2.2) the same story repeated. A rooted phone gave new options to try new things, but nothing helped again, no modifiying gps.conf file thousand times, nothing.
CM 10.2.1 (4.3) (I was on this for few months, didn't care about GPS that much since it was winter) and some builds found here based on CM 11 (4.4) were complete disaster, GPS refused to work at all, again I went through tons of GPS apps, gps.conf and other gps related system files modifying, nothing helped. Only app, which was able to get fix to multiple satellites was "GPS Helper". Leaving app open for 10 minutes under clear sky, it slowly got fixes up to 8 sattelites. After that other apps worked with GPS for few minutes, but the effect quickly faded away and all satellites were lost eventually.
Then after clearing cache/dalvik cache I returned to my 4.2.2 backup and what a suprise! After booting Ingress as a first app, it quickly found my location and held it quite good with no noticable problems for like 20 minutes. No searching for signal, no drifting.
When I closed Ingress and turned off GPS toggle and later booting up Endomondo, it wasn't able to get signal, it kept searching.
Closed Ingress, turned off and on GPS, booted Ingress, got fix, jumped to Endomondo and it also got excellent signal and worked fine.
Through testing on freshly installed 4.2.2 roms of Cyanogenmod and MIUI here is my assumption:
Ingress is a weird app which handles some kind of GPS related cache differently than any other app and requires some kind of privileged access. For Ingress to work fine with GPS it should be booted first after fresh install/cache+dalvik cache cleared. It will get GPS location, however a downside for this - you should boot later Ingress first to get fix if you need GPS for other apps. Currently I can confirm this only for Endomondo.
In other words, here is what you do step by step:
1) Back up your files, wipe data, cache and dalvik cache (or you can just wipe cache+dalvik cache on your currently installed rom and skip steps 2 and 2.1)
2) Install any Android Rom/backup up to 4.2.2. Avoid 4.3 and 4.4 Roms, if they didn't work for you, they will not work this time.
2.1) In case of backup, wipe cache + dalvik cache again
3) Boot phone. Be sure no any other app has used GPS after wipe.
4) Launch Ingress. Get GPS fix.
5) Now your Ingress should be much smoother. (As I said only downside - you should boot Ingress first to get GPS for other apps.)
6) To confirm that Ingress has influenced "GPS cache" by it's own terms, close Ingress, turn GPS off, reboot phone, turn GPS on, launch Endomondo. If app cannot find location and keeps searching, you are ok. Boot Ingress and use GPS for Endomondo after that.
7) In case if Ingress have the same issues as previously and Endomondo can find location by itself, do cache+dalvik cache wipe again and try from 3rd step again.
Hope this is helpful for somebody.
Kasprom said:
2) Install any Android Rom/backup up to 4.2.2. Avoid 4.3 and 4.4 Roms, if they didn't work for you, they will not work this time..
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Oh bummer, Im loving my p768g with the Resurrection remix ROM, 4.4.2 found here.
Nonetheless, thank you for sharing this workaround, Im sure many people who rely on GPS will find this most useful.
People like you make this great community what it it.
I think the developers will find solution for gps. But thanks anyway for great job. Sorry for bad English.!
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I was wondering if anybody out there is having this problem. So for the past week if i were to use Maps apk it would locate me while driving and then all of the sudden after it locks the gps icon goes away and just shows were it locked on to me last. It would always be correct as in location but wouldn't follow me after lock. I would have to turn on then off gps and then restart maps to get it working. It constantly does this within the past week. Iv'e even cleared cache, tried older maps apk versions and did a clean wipe and format and reloaded the latest nightly and this still continues. Ive tried GPS status app to reset and download a-gps and i get 3-5sec locks but following me while drive craps out and looses me. so I was wondering if anybody is experiencing this?
Edit: Im rolling back to one of my nandroids, N184 (2.3.5) and seeing if it repeats. 2.3.7 dont like me after clean wipey
edit: I restored the nandroid and was getting the same results. i've even tried maps apk as old as 5.7. We're currently on 5.10.1. So now i've found a simple way if getting to work is to turn on and off the GPS and restart current 5.10.1 maps. sorry this probably should of been posted in the apps or nightlys section. Spare my life
Hello,
I am using SGH-i777 outside USA (in Kosovo). I purchased it unlocked so everything works as expected, except GPS. The phone came with Gingerbread (not rooted). I tried GPS through google maps but i was getting "You location is temporarily unavaliable" and the scan was taking ~10 minutes without any results. Applications such as AccuWeather were also not able to find my location.
After this dissapointment, i decided to root the phone and install a custom ROM. I followed the guide posted at this link and followed the steps there 100% without making any changes/mistakes. I installed the Siyah 2.6 Kernel and the ROM that i choose to install was Aberration. I also followed the guides for this and did everything as advised. I turned the phone on but the GPS was still behaving the same. After this, i purchased GPS Doctor and clicked "Quick Fix". After this i downloaded GPS Test to see if the signal was alive, and after ~2 minutes of scanning, GPS Test found around 7 satellites and the signal appeared green within this app. I followed this by opening Google Maps and i got the correct location after ~2 minutes scan. This made me happy and i believed the GPS issue got fixed. But after trying after few hours, i saw that maps was again facing the same issues and apps that require location access were not being able to do so.
And the last step that i did was install a gps fix as posted on this thread. I know this thread states that they do not officially support sgh-i777, but i was out of options so i had to try something else. I followed all the instructions and downloaded and installed the Google Specific v 1.3 from that website. But this did not fix the problem either.
To conclude; the GPS is simply not working as expected. Finding the location takes to long and i was able to get the location in Google Maps only 10% of the time (my old iPhone 3gs finds the location in 3seconds!). I have tried this indoors and outdoors but the problem remains the same. During all the times, Wi-Fi, GPS and Data were turned on
Currently i have un-rooted the phone (followed the guides here) and am currently running the official ICS which i installed through Odin. Tried GPS again and it still does not work.
Sorry for the long thread but i wanted to explain all the details.
Hope someone can help me.
Looks to me like one of 2 problems:
1) You're not getting a good time from NTP server, try downloading FasterFix and selecting your area (need root). Not very likely, since with good GPS you'll still have a fix within 1-2 min.
2) HW problem, possibly antenna contacts.
So any go around for hardware problem?
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HW problems are solved in HW. You can't "go around" and make the bulbs light in your house when the power has been cut off, can you? So how exactly can you "go around" a bad contact with antenna, that practically equals a missing antenna?
Just fix it.
In settings under location services did you check "use internal GPS" ?
Not even sure if aberration has that option. Jelly Bean ROMs do.
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All the ROMs do. It's a stock Android option, equals to toggling the "GPS" toggle on in pull-down toggles.
And of course if he didn't have it toggled, he wouldn't see any satellites at all.
Plus, the original post is 2 months old. I believe the OP has already solved the problem or moved on.
I'm running the debloated, deodexed ICS that Santod put together. Everything has been great so far. GPS worked without issue the first time I tried it (used Navigation). Now, however, my standalone GPS isn't even turning on. No icon in the status bar when it should be on (opening up maps, navigation, GPS status, etc). Yes, the proper location services are turned on (I have all 3 checked). I tried flashing the agps patch to no avail.
This seems like a weird issue. It's not that I'm not getting a lock, the GPS isn't even trying. Anyone have any ideas or similar issues?
edit: And yes, I have the newest ICS radios.
Bad wipe maybe ? wipe with 4 ext then go to tools and wipe ext3 data system and cache then flash the rom again ive used all of santods roms and i havent had an issue.
I went from a working GPS, to rooting with root66 then CASUAL to unlock the bootloader. In jedi rom, which says it has a GPS fix, the gps does not work. Going back to my restore file that is stock, the gps does not lock on. Also I have tried calling the ##GPSCLRX# and wiping everything and trying to write a new file. The other major change I have tried is getting google wallet to work (changin the build.prop but that has been restored since I have edited).
Any fix for my gps? Any config files out there or something I can do to check the settings? I'll post in here if I find the solution but nothing seems to be working. I have tested another phone in the same spot and the gps signal seems to be fine. Have also tried to while moving. I can get an accurate "lock" within 20m on google map but navigation is always "searching for gps"
Is verizon doing something to block me from gps? Any ideas how i can fix this?
** have tried turning off my wifi, the wifi does disrupt it but is not the cause**
- possibly trying a new rom have tried jedi and clean, downloading PACMAN
Yup, no replies... but anyway
What I did to fix the GPS signal on my SCH-I605 VZW note 2
Wiped the system, cache, dalvik and factory reset in twrp 2.3.2.3
Installed Jedi, and seems to work on meanbean.
Did not enable anything, did not setup anything, and did not use the phone after booting.
Went to google play store and got the gps tool, idk the one that pops up when you type in gps
Found a good signal, the green bars were all up and waited a few, read somewhere ~15 minutes. After that installed maps and was ok!
Build.prop was set to default, root66 and casual used to root unlock. Hope this helps
You might not have gotten any replies because this has been repeatedly discussed as the fix.
Hello XDA Developers,
I come to you all with a problem. I am having trouble with my GPS; it won't lock. I have tried these things:
Using GPS Status and other GPS fixers
Doing a factory reset using Mr. Cook's ROM Wipe Script
Clearing data and cache of my GPS apps (Waze and Google Maps)
Idk what else to do. Every time I use the GPS apps to pinpoint my location, after a navigation session, it goes back to getting stuck on "waiting for GPS".
Any help is appreciated.
What firmware are you running? Have you had the same problem with other firmware?
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What firmware are you running? Have you had the same problem with other firmware?
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I am currently on an unofficial nightly of CM11 ported by RenderBroken. When I was experiencing those problems, I was on Omni ROM for Android 4.4. I was on ShoStock3 before the Omni ROM, and it was the same problem.
I don't run anything AOSP based so I can't speak about how those might affect GPS, but since you have the problem across various roms, and even on SHOstock3, I wonder if the phone has a problem with the GPS hardware? Have you ever had good GPS at any point with that phone? If so what were you running at the time.
I've had some GPS issues in the past but am not having any issues currently. I've been on SHOstock3 for a long time. My issues were on an earlier version of SHOstock, I don't remember which one exactly. When my GPS would fail to lock, just as you described, a reboot would fix the issue and result in a fast lock, but then the next time I would try to use GPS, I would have to reboot again. It was very annoying. Someone said that to format cache, wipe dalvik cache and fix permissions would fix the problem, so I tried that, and yes I would then get a lock in 5 - 10 seconds and it would stay good for a few weeks until I would have to do it again. I never experimented to see which of those three things helped, or if you had to do all three. That was back around June or July of this year.
As I recall, the next base change on SHOstock completely eliminated the issue.
creepyncrawly said:
I don't run anything AOSP based so I can't speak about how those might affect GPS, but since you have the problem across various roms, and even on SHOstock3, I wonder if the phone has a problem with the GPS hardware? Have you ever had good GPS at any point with that phone? If so what were you running at the time.
I've had some GPS issues in the past but am not having any issues currently. I've been on SHOstock3 for a long time. My issues were on an earlier version of SHOstock, I don't remember which one exactly. When my GPS would fail to lock, just as you described, a reboot would fix the issue and result in a fast lock, but then the next time I would try to use GPS, I would have to reboot again. It was very annoying. Someone said that to format cache, wipe dalvik cache and fix permissions would fix the problem, so I tried that, and yes I would then get a lock in 5 - 10 seconds and it would stay good for a few weeks until I would have to do it again. I never experimented to see which of those three things helped, or if you had to do all three. That was back around June or July of this year.
As I recall, the next base change on SHOstock completely eliminated the issue.
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I have had a lock before. When I used GPS Status, it would get a lock for a short while, but when I ran the navigation, it would get stuck at waiting for location again.