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I have to say this
when i had build 3.0.xxx my gps worked very well, stable signal during many hours of navigation (i use sygic)
then, with build 4.0.xxx, is a very disaster
the phone loose the signal few times in 15 minutes, so so bad
and withouth reason
the signal is very strong, 6-7 satellites with nice reception, but in a while no more signal, then it fix again after 5 seconds
this is no possible, an hardware issue will be always present i think
so what can be? have you experience this with firmware 4.0.xxx ?
GPS lock performance is very dependant on you clearing cache and user data... then updating. There is nothing wrong with the new 2.3.4 or 2.3.3 firmware regarding GPS - it is very good indeed.
Have used GPS in the city and also in the country and have no issues with it on 2.3.4 on my neo, maybe do a reflash or something, clean install and see if the issues are still there with the gps? good luck man.
Hello everybody from Xda,
I'm looking for a new phone for my mother and I am really interested to know what the GPS is like. If the gps is any good I will join the Xiaomi army.
Why am I so interested in this?
Well my mother her navigation system just died and, I would like to install the tom tom app on her phone, I've got it currently on my oneplus one without internet and it's great. My mom will also have no data plan with her phone so google maps or anything isnt an option for her
So my question to you guys is, does anybody of you have had any ecperience with the gps.
Thanks in advance XDA,
Deameong
I am curious about the same thing. I use GPS without any Internet or even phone signal (normally on airplane mode to save battery). And I would like to know how reliable it is.
Attached a Screenshot, few Seconds (about 30) after switching GPS on. GPS receptions is really good, from my point of view.
cataplines said:
I am curious about the same thing. I use GPS without any Internet or even phone signal (normally on airplane mode to save battery). And I would like to know how reliable it is.
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Just recieved it now,
Using google map and waze, locking on me very fast,
Looks good and stable with great reception of the GPS...
Can you say how much time in seconds need to lock satellites?
Thank You
Thanks alot for the advice guys,
Going to order it tonight!
I've just come back from holiday and I used GPS extensively with the offline Co-pilot app. It worked almost flawlessly both in the car and when cycling. I can't begin to tell you how much better it is than older MTK eqiluipped phones. Lock times varied from four seconds to nearly a minute. One thing I noticed is that it was much faster to lock in Co-pilot when I was connected to the internet. Accuracy was great, though I never went into a big city with lots of high rise buildings.
GPS, Wifi and network signal 2-3 times better than on my Note 4.
GPS is sick, in my room after 2-3 sec.
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Hello,
Runkeeper with someone tried, I hesitate to buy the premium just because of that?
(avec Runkeeper quelqu'un a essayé, j'hésite à acheter le Prime juste à cause de ça?)
I really want to know about the gps as well. I use the gps so much. Now I have the lg g3, I would like to know if this one is around the same as g3.
Thanks
D.
Ill give uadvice gps locking depends onyour connection and area,i use gps in city with locking time vary from 10 -80 sec or more the signal was good but for gps signal its not good so it some time locks slower, this is qqualcomm 400 chipset ,newer version of mediatek might performs better and i have ever try gps with airplane mode one using gps test on aa mountain area and it lock 30 sec or less,the signal came out by it self with no connection so everything depend on your area and your xhipset ,newer chipset performs excellent on gps
I'd like to know more about how the GPS in this phone is faring for you because for me it's an endless horror story. Neither Google Maps nor Endomondo give even acceptable locations and tracking.
And the compass is so bad I wanna puke.
The phone is great in almost every other aspect, but GPS is fairly important for me and I'm starting to regret purchasing this phone. May it be fixed with better ROMs or is it a hardware fault?
Or3 said:
I'd like to know more about how the GPS in this phone is faring for you because for me it's an endless horror story. Neither Google Maps nor Endomondo give even acceptable locations and tracking.
And the compass is so bad I wanna puke.
The phone is great in almost every other aspect, but GPS is fairly important for me and I'm starting to regret purchasing this phone. May it be fixed with better ROMs or is it a hardware fault?
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I used it yesterday for half an hour in inner city traffic. The phone found the GPS signal in a few seconds with data connection, without it takes a minute or two. Navigation itself was worrisome. Went under a bridge and signal was lost for about 2 minutes. Then Google maps always thought I was going inside buildings or streets next to my actual route. Really weird.
Inside my room 2 - 3 seconds lock, the best gps on any of my past smartphones.
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Inside my room 2 - 3 seconds lock, the best gps on any of my past smartphones.
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And what is that information good for since the moment you open Google Maps, Runtastic or something along those lines it doesn't have any accuracy and keeps jumping the whole time?
I'm sick of people sharing screenshots of GPS Test or GPS Status like they're proof of anything when what's really important is real life apps behavior.
This device GPS should be good..
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And what is that information good for since the moment you open Google Maps, Runtastic or something along those lines it doesn't have any accuracy and keeps jumping the whole time?
I'm sick of people sharing screenshots of GPS Test or GPS Status like they're proof of anything when what's really important is real life apps behavior.
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I don't know what you're on about, but GPS Test uses the same API and sensor as any other app. I'm getting the same 5-7 second fix indoors from GPS Test and HERE Maps. Both don't jump around and show my correct position.
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And what is that information good for since the moment you open Google Maps, Runtastic or something along those lines it doesn't have any accuracy and keeps jumping the whole time?
I'm sick of people sharing screenshots of GPS Test or GPS Status like they're proof of anything when what's really important is real life apps behavior.
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Well we use diagnostic tools to know accurately if something is wrong or not, nothing wrong with that. With GPS Status we can know how many sat signal we got, how strong, what is the margin of error, etc.
And i don't have any problem in real life apps and GPS status confirmed that fact.
If you want positive info or help don't start with a negative.
Wheaton's Law - DBAD
China ROM GPS problem
But with china stable rom, the map apps is using Baidu, and if your GPS location is not available, the device will report your network location (wifi/3G), which is in simplified chinese to your requesting apps, that sucks, however, I can't deny the hardware GPS here in RN2 is the best I ever used.
I tried GPS in the city. High accuracy, pretty fast lock and it worked just fine, no problems. Accuracy is usually 3-5m, 17 satellites in use on average. I'm not exactly sure what kind of problems you're facing. However, I can tell you this. A friend has Meizu M1 Note, the GPS was at first very good. But somehow at some point after updating, the accuracy's became horrible, 80m+ and it kept losing connection, IF it managed to establish one. It's most likely not faulty HW, but a misconfigured gps config.
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I got my international note 4 last week, it had latest Miui on global stable ROM.
I use runkeeper for running but the accuracy is way off.
I have downloaded apps to test GPS and it gets satellite locks quickly. But constant use with runkeeper leads to very inaccurate readings.
My vernee Thor didn't have this issue.
Could Miui be aggressively stopping the GPS? Any ideas?
After a bit more research i think i know why, it could be the battery saver restricting the GPS when the screen is off, so I've turned it off so that there are no restrictions for runkeeper.
Hopefully that will do the trick, will test on my next run ?
Wow, didn't see this thread before a recent post of my own! - yes I know I should have searched etc.
I just got back from a bike ride using a Runtastic app and the results were all over the place... did your solution work out for you?
Thanks.
there's a bug on miui 8 based on nougat that GPS doesn't lock anymore if not completely outside and I can't find a fix!
I am having the same problem after updating to MIUI Global 8.5 (no custom ROM).
Before that it worked perfectly.
GPS problem on MIUI Global 9.0.3.0 (NCFMIEI)
ulsa said:
I am having the same problem after updating to MIUI Global 8.5 (no custom ROM).
Before that it worked perfectly.
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MIUI updated to 9.0.3.0, also noticing just this week Nov 2017 problems with GPS location lock.
Pretty sure I didnt experience this problem before this week.
the same on miui pro with china stable 17.11.9 and 17.11.2
so anyways this gps issue has or to be resolved. As a uber driver i am suffering. Shall i get a new phone etc
Hi all,
I am using Stratos for 2 months and very satisfied with its function, everything is fine.
Until last month (July18), I noticed that the distance is abnormal. I ran in the park which I know the distance, it is about 5 km per round but at that time, the GPS reached 5 km before I finished a round, estimately 300-400 metres per 5 kms error, that is too much !!!
I have done factory reset and try runnning again, unfortunately an error still occured.
Please kindly give me some advices, thank you in advance !
Kim
Had the same problems with my stratos and the firmware. Also the altitude measurement is not working properly. I switched to stratosfied 2.0.27. for me this was and is the only firmware with accepable tracking results.
If you read out the gpx file, and check the track on google maps, can you see the error on the map itself? Like the marking is not on the road, corners are cut or anything like that?
As it is with gps it works best in an open field. When running in a park below many trees or in between tall houses there might be some inaccurate readings....
Statos had the most accurate GPS of all smartwatches i have had so far. Only had inaccurate readings once when I was in a forest but they were still good enough for getting the idea of distance and soeed...
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It happened the same to me. After last released the mileage on running started to be wrong.
When running I change the sport to trail and find it that the mileage is correct.
9benji9 said:
Had the same problems with my stratos and the firmware. Also the altitude measurement is not working properly. I switched to stratosfied 2.0.27. for me this was and is the only firmware with accepable tracking results.
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I have been having so many issues with different versions of stratosfied and even the latest official firmware's, but I agree that stratosfied 2.0.27 seems to have fixed them. Its a pity some of the translations are not fixed but it is still worth it. Thanks for sharing this.
I have the same issue. Sometimes the error is visible only on google maps. the problems is, that either at the beginning or and of the track the gps jumps a some 100 metres away and immediately back...
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I have been having so many issues with different versions of stratosfied and even the latest official firmware's, but I agree that stratosfied 2.0.27 seems to have fixed them. Its a pity some of the translations are not fixed but it is still worth it. Thanks for sharing this.
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For me there have been several versions working since 2.0.27 (not all; can write them later when at home). Currently I'm on 2.0.37 and I'm quite happy with it. At this version the altitude is fine and also the heart rate seems to be pretty good. Sync with app is a bit slow but I don't care much about that. Never switched back to official.
I find GPS reception quite bad compared to other phones be honest. Whenever I use navigation, the Google Maps and other apps shows am in other road beside the actual road I am in. Happens on any version of MIUI rom, am not sure about custom roms. Will try tomorrow.
When I compare this behavior to my previous phone OnePlus 3, the ratio of wrong location is like 10x higher with F1
Anybody with same issues?
Same issues here with Mi 8 (dipper), the issue persist with either latest Global Stable (Pie) and latest EU's Weekly.
Nexus5-32GB said:
I find GPS reception quite bad compared to other phones be honest. Whenever I use navigation, the Google Maps and other apps shows am in other road beside the actual road I am in. Happens on any version of MIUI rom, am not sure about custom roms. Will try tomorrow.
When I compare this behavior to my previous phone OnePlus 3, the ratio of wrong location is like 10x higher with F1
Anybody with same issues?
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No issue on my Poco f1, I have no such problem. You may try to install gps status & toolbox and see how was it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en_SG
Besides, you may read below article:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-maps-compass-calibration/
It quoted that:
"If it’s really wide, that generally means your magnometer sensor needs calibrating, and since the magnometer inside the phone is prone to interference from chargers, metal objects, and even other magnometers, it’s worth doing a calibration every now and again to keep it up to speed.
But enough bellyaching — how is it done already? The process is simple, and it’s exactly the same for both iOS and Android users — repeatedly wave your device around in a figure-of-eight motion until your direction narrows down.
Once you’ve completed a couple of these motions, your “flashlight” should have narrowed down, and should accurately respond to your movements better."
thomas140 said:
No issue on my Poco f1, I have no such problem. You may try to install gps status & toolbox and see how was it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en_SG
Besides, you may read below article:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-maps-compass-calibration/
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Thank you for ideas, however my compass was already calibrated well. The GPS status app works like should and no abnormalities found. But still, when driving a car, still having issues.
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Thank you for ideas, however my compass was already calibrated well. The GPS status app works like should and no abnormalities found. But still, when driving a car, still having issues.
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Wait. Gps app worked like it should?
You mean it can get your location? Or it still saying searching for GPS location?
thomas140 said:
Wait. Gps app worked like it should?
You mean it can get your location? Or it still saying searching for GPS location?
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This is my issue as said in OP: Whenever I use navigation, the Google Maps and other apps shows am in other road beside the actual road I am in.
My location isnt accurate while driving. No issues with GPS signal at all, but when driving, navigation apps recalculate best route very often as it things I use different road than I actually do.
I get vey good fix and stable, accurate signal with Google maps too (Poco F1 EU region).