Previously with miui 7, Pokémon go is playable inside mall, any building, gps able to detect.
Now, with miui 8 , even gps apps like gps test, gps fix cannot detect gps signal in mall, building.
Kindly advise how to fix this gps issue.
Same problem on MIUI 8 China Developer ROM
I have the exact same issue. Would want to add on that the gps ( if present) has very poor refresh rate. So the pointer jumps instead of following smoothly >.<
I've followed the GPS fix guide by djelloul on the elephone forum, which in short does rebuild the internal GPS chip data with a new geographical reference point. That seemed to have worked for a while. But only temporarily. Again the GPS in the P9000 has become useless!
On a 300 mile journey, 70% of the time Google Maps in a state of "searching for GPS"
Any suggestions to get a more permanent fix?
ROM: 20170112
This has been a kinda ongoing thing with the P9000, my GPS has always kinda been temperamental. I've tried many fixes both from here and the Elephone forum, different ROMs, I havent tried to opening the phone up fix but have tried the software fixes (btw if you haven't tried the Elephone Forum fix by djelloul see this: http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-11201-1-1.html#.WKoUuvmLSUk )
I have used the GPS Status & Toolbox, used the MTK Toolbox to reset compass & applied the available fixes, but although they work initially.. its tends to be a temporary fix only. I have always had the GPS Status & Toolbox installed since I bought my p9000 back in April 2016, as it did seem to improve it slightly. although I still used to get "searching for GPS" just as you get and it was a constant irritation.
As I use GPS daily in my work, I was at the point (as much as I love my P9000 so much) buying a OnePlus3T
I must add that I did change to the 7 Nougat Beta very recently and have no idea why, but now for the first time my GPS works great (and without GPS ToolBox) so I'm kinda waiting for release of the stable nougat and fingers crossed it remains working as it is now on my Beta, failing that I guess I may have to move to the OnePlus
wait until 7.0 maybe they fix GPS
I have redmi note 4x with 8.5.4.0
and after the update the location tracking became very slow.
It takes a minute or so to get lock on my location in every navigation app I have
Is there any fix?
I have RN4 SD. It has been same on all MIUI versions I have tried so far including xiaomi.eu and mi globe roms
is there a way to fix this bug? they released a new ROM officially with broken gps?
Hi there.
I have the following problem on my phone.
Sometimes the GPS can't find the location. It usually happens after say 30-60 minutes of work. No matter the app - here We Go, Google Maps, Sygic - they all behave the same. Loosing the location and can't find it again. Sometimes killing the app fixes the issue for a minute or two and then it happens again. I have tried two ROMs and they make no difference - stable V8.2.1.0 and this 8.5 MIUI from here: https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/7-8-24.41227/
Both of this googled solutions didn't work:
http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-fix-gps-location-locking-issue-on-xiaomi-smartphones/
http://en.miui.com/thread-185215-1-1.html
Any ideas?
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