Hi everyone, sorry for my english.
Recently I flash my S3 with the Resurrection Remix LP v5.5.9 (with android 5.1.1), for playing pokemon go (hehe)... but the gps shows a bad position, and when I move the position pointer (pokemon, google maps, google earth) doesn't move.
I will appreciated if anyone can tell me how fix it. Thanks in advance.
PS: I´m very noob on this.
Are you sure that you've got a fix? I have the very same behaviour on different phone because I have ****ty GPS module and it rarely catches a good fix. The 'bad position' is probably what you get from triangulating BTS'es and Wifi networks. It doesn't move because these two methods usually have low accuracy. Maybe it is enough to wait until you catch a fix. When you're trying to catch the GPS signal the first time with a particular device, it may take much longer than afterwards, even more than an hour. You may try to go to some open area with open sky on a sunny day, and wait patiently until your location gets fixed. After it catches fix, next attempts should be much faster. This is a usual way to do it with all GPS devices. See if it works for you.
If you don't understand the last sentence: your phone can figure out its position based on GPS (the most accurate option), but also based on its location in relation to telecommunication emitters (so called BTSes) and by checking which Wifi networks are available in the area (Google scans wifi networks globally and saves their positions, so the phone can check location by asking Google servers where the wifi networks it sees are located).
My phone is unable to search for gps and I don't know why..
Can some one help?
PS Iam using SD variant (4gb ram) with global beta rom(7.5.11)
Same here, do you fix it?
Global stable nougat rom i.e., MIUI 8.5.4 also has the same issue. GPS is not working properly. It also shows different locations than we actually are. It takes time to show correct location. My device takes around 3-4 minutes. It might probably get fixed in the next update.
idem: GPS no found with redmi 7A
I'm using 7.1.1 my gps is not accurate. With gps test error of about 30 meters. Is this just my problem?
Not seeing any issue on my phone in Birmingham UK while moving along on a bus
with 7.1.1 iam losing the signal within seconds with google maps with another gps programs it works fine
No problems with mine either - UK
Well i had no problems with NOA rom on android 6.0. Downloading now the new update to test.
I just noticed this with my note 3 magma note 8 rom and checked with another old phone (galaxy s2) which I have installed cm then installed stock touchwiz back. The GPS cannot lock on to the phone even with GPS apps, clear agps and downloading satellite data. It can see the satellites, but not lock on. For normal use like giving general location, it is fine. But when you navigate with waze or Google maps, it only shows an approximate location. Or do old phones are removed from GPS tracking system to make way for newer devices?
Anyone else noticed this before?
Ask the developer of the rom or check his thread if anyone else is facing the same issue.
Hi everyone!
I was using my Poco F1 for a year now. After doing root, install MIUI eu until version 10.3.4, where everything was OK. When updating to 10.3.5, notice after a while that the GPS was not working properly. Sometimes it took too long to take the signal from the satellites, other times I immediately took the signal from the place where I am. The funny thing is that when I move, the GPS signal is almost immediately lost, so it is impossible to use Google Maps in that mode.
- I already tried Waze and the same thing happens
- Try installing 3rd. apps for correct GPS, with almost no result
- the phone has the same old case and has not received any blows
- Updated to MIUI eu 10.3.5 - 10.3.6 - 10.3.7 and the same thing continues
- installed the latest version of Lineage OS and give the same error
- Flash to Stock ROM and the same thing continues ...
what do you think? Will it be hardware failure? I'm about to open and check the antennas but I think it's very strange, since I don't remember hitting it or wetting it...
That looks like hw failure to me. I'd have it checked by service center or local repair shop.
In my case, ever since I updated to MIUI 10.3.5 the gps won't recognize my location correctly, takes longer time to locate. Shows 30-40 meters away from my exact location. Same thing on pixel experience rom. I tried calibrating compass with no success.
Not just Google maps, other apps like Uber and Food delivery apps has same problem.
I would test the reception first. To do this download a program like GPS test from the playstore. Think it is from chartcross or something.
Go outside in an open space and check the SNR values. Normally the values are like between 35 and 40 or some even a bit higher. Also check how many sats it sees and can get a lock on.
Report that first if you can.
if miui's persist file has been updated altered from miui10.3.5 onwards
then redownloading FASTBOOT ROM of miui10.3.4 and unziping then unziping and flashing persist.img in /persist partition will put you back on older persist.img file!
worth trying! but becareful!
persist.img can be flashed using recovery only!
seems to be a very frecuent Hardware failure, it happensa to me exactly the same, sadly I use the gps very much so I had to buy another phone (Mi9 t) lots of folks seem to have the same problem, maybe Pocoafter all made too many sacrifices in order to pack the sd 845 with such a low price, now I´m using the mi9t and the screen is from another world next to poco, also the audio is at least 10x times better, and on my country didn´t have 4g support on poco....now, I´m just waiting for android q to be relized on poco so can use it with desktop mode, but the experience in general with poco was pretty bad
Solved!
Well, it seems that I discovered the error. I was testing the app "GPS test" and note that sometimes it took satellites and sometimes not. I cleared the cache from TWRP and it improved only for a while .... I was missing just doing a downgrade of Miui, before checking the antennas.
What was the real cause? Not long ago I changed from a telephone company to a "virtual" company (outsource the infrastructure) because it was cheaper. The problem arises I think because Constantly performs Roaming. That's all. I placed a SIM with another company (not virtual) and the GPS worked automatically as before ...
My Gosh....you are right....I removed the Sim as it is now on my new phone, and been testing the gps for about an hour and it hasn't lost signal....I didn't change my phone company, so can't understand why it happended, maybe they changed something internally....but yeah....with out sim it's working just fine, I guess changing something on the config may do the trick too
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My Gosh....you are right....I removed the Sim as it is now on my new phone, and been testing the gps for about an hour and it hasn't lost signal....I didn't change my phone company, so can't understand why it happended, maybe they changed something internally....but yeah....with out sim it's working just fine, I guess changing something on the config may do the trick too
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That is precisely the odd thing ... I already tried lots of different configurations, cache cleaning, GPS reset, GPS fix, third-party applications, changing the A-GPS ports and NOTHING really worked for me ...
Until I changed the telephone company.
I don't know how this works to infer so much in GPS operation, but there it is.
nazagato said:
That is precisely the odd thing ... I already tried lots of different configurations, cache cleaning, GPS reset, GPS fix, third-party applications, changing the A-GPS ports and NOTHING really worked for me ...
Until I changed the telephone company.
I don't know how this works to infer so much in GPS operation, but there it is.
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Is your Google Location Accuracy enabled and your Location Mode set to High Accuracy?
ggezboye said:
Is your Google Location Accuracy enabled and your Location Mode set to High Accuracy?
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Yes. Even I set up Google tracking permissions to on.
Install GPS optimizer on Magisk