I am having GPS issue on 8.0 stock OS from a month. When i press GPS tile it's not working. I went to Google maps and tried pressing location button several times it didn't worked. I also tried running inbuilt diagnostic test. It didn't worked. In Safe mode also didn't worked. Then i just pressed location button several times in Weather Clock Widget after few seconds it started showing my location. But the next day i encountered the same problem somehow i got it back working. It happened about 4 to 5 times. Recently i again faced the problem what i have done was i just went to Google Maps without pressing location tile button, Google maps asked to turn on location button i pressed yes. It worked. I faced this issue about 5 to 6 times.
So does anyone know what's happening?
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Hi All,
I have a problem with my Hero, and i am hoping some one could help, here goes:
I had my hero for about 6 month working perfectly including GPS with Waze.
Yestderday i decided to try out some new roms, i backed up my stock (with root) firmware 1.5 with nandroid. i installed Villainrom V12 everything worked exept Waze, it kept giving me messeges that there is no satelite reception (which is not possible cause i always used to get reception there). So i went back and restored my backup and now it's the same, no satelite reception . . .
Did i some how fry my GPS component ? or is it fixable.
Thanks in Advance
Can't really help you with a fix but last sunday I didn't get a sat fix at home, drive 50 miles to London, still no fix, tried turning the phone on and off, gps on and off still wouldn't get a fix all the way there. Stayed in London for three hours, turned gps on when I left and got a instant fix! Been working fine ever since!
I've had very similar problems with my GPS. It worked great on stock, but when I installed a custom ROM, I started having intermittent issues. I'm using VillainROM 12 and the most recent radio, and sometimes I get a fix right away, and other times I don't get a fix at all. When I can't get a fix, rebooting the phone almost always gets it working again. I had the same problem with an older radio and VillainROM 10. I do remember seeing a tentative workaround somewhere in these forums, but am having trouble finding it again...
I spoke to soon, I tried it with gps status last night, wouldn't get a lock, drove 6 miles, still no lock, left in on for an hour, still no lock. Did a hard reset last night, got an near instant lock with gps status. I've tried it about 4 times today, got a lock everytime. I'll test it all week and see what happens.
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
Ive had this problem with villainrom 12, the fix used to be to switch on the gps before a reboot, and then after rebooting ( with the GPS switched on) it would work and find satellites.
I havnt had this problem since switching to Radio 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.14
Radio I used which had this problem with villainrom was 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26
btdag said:
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
solarporing said:
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
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Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
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No, a hard reset is usually a reset which removes all power from a device and then starts again - i.e. resetting the hardware itself by removing power
A soft reset is a software reset - i.e. rebooting the software of the phone
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Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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What you're talking about is probably a "factory reset" which should reset the device to factory defaults (i.e. just been sent from HTC's manufacturing factory). But i have never seen it referenced to as a fix for GPS issues - or any issues involving custom rom's for that matter.
I stand corrected about hard and soft
Just wanted to let the people know that the problem was solved after doing the same thing as nijnvy, the second i updated i am getting gps lock in seconds.
Thanks to every one
Does anyone know how this thing works for streaming music apps? Last week when I got it, I was using Slacker or Pandora (I can't remember which) and it was linked up to the music widget. When I was playing music, it also replaced the weather lockscreen with one with the music widget.
Anyway, fast forward to today and I can't get the damn thing to do a thing. I have tried playing Pandora and Slacker and the music widget doesn't pull in either app anymore. The lockscreen also stays with the weather. Does anyone know what I did or what happened to cause the music widget to break?
I haven't ran into the issue you've described...I've been using tunein radio and see the music controls on the lock screen. I've been using the "productivity" lock screen style, I don't know if that makes any difference.
Music App/Widget Issue?
Did you happen to install any new apps from the time it worked till it didn't? Have you tried Holding the Power Button down for a full 10 seconds (this is the same as a battery pull since it can't be user removed)? This step fixed my FM Radio app that came with the phone.
I had tried multiple power offs and back ons, and deleted the cache files for the FM Radio app but it still showed the FM Radio powering off, and eventually it would fail (no error) but just go back to showing on, and when I'd try powering off it would do same thing again. I finally resorted to Holding power button down for 10 seconds while it was on, and it gives a message shutting down in 3 sec, 2, 1... and boots back up. This time the FM radio app worked properly!
Tialiden said:
Did you happen to install any new apps from the time it worked till it didn't? Have you tried Holding the Power Button down for a full 10 seconds (this is the same as a battery pull since it can't be user removed)? This step fixed my FM Radio app that came with the phone.
I had tried multiple power offs and back ons, and deleted the cache files for the FM Radio app but it still showed the FM Radio powering off, and eventually it would fail (no error) but just go back to showing on, and when I'd try powering off it would do same thing again. I finally resorted to Holding power button down for 10 seconds while it was on, and it gives a message shutting down in 3 sec, 2, 1... and boots back up. This time the FM radio app worked properly!
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I'll have to try that. Thanks for the suggestion!
I noticed this same exact thing. I remember seeing the lock screen control for slacker right after I installed it, but haven't seen it since then. I'm using the weather lock screen and I can see the Play Music control when that app is streaming, but not slacker anymore.
I tried holding power for 10 seconds, and it did totally shut down, but still no slacker widget after powering up.
For a while there, I thought I was crazy. I'm glad someone else noticed this. I'll do some more digging and post here if I find anything.
Hi, I have a 2 week old handset which has now twice displayed a pretty strange/annoying bug.
I have been using no Stamina settings other than location based WiFi and queue background data for the most part to gauge battery life under my normal work schedule but I noticed last week that my saved WiFi at home wasn't on, so instinctively I tried to click the WiFi symbol but to no avail.
I then tried to restart the phone, but when pressing the power off option, it simply booted me back on to the screen I was on before hand. This continually happened until I got pee'd off and repaired it.
Again today I ran into the exact same problem. No WiFi and I could not power off. After several attempts at powering off I managed to get it to boot into safe mode where I started uninstalling apps to rule out any rogue apps. I still couldn't reboot forcing me to repair and wipe the phone.
I keep telling myself that this is merely a software bug and I can't seem to find other posts where people are suffering similar problems.
So I futilely ask, has anyone ever had anything similar happen to theirs?.
Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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I am pretty sure it is the quick boot option now. Stupid bug.
Phew...don't have to return it now.
I think sony have disabled the quick boot functionality for some reason, I ticked it thinking it might be almost like a reboot instead of power off & then power on, later I noticed the power off menu wasn't doing anything when tapping it, was almost about to do a reset but then remembered I ticked the quick boot option.
Hope they enable it in future updates.
Hi!
I recieved my Note 2 today. After unboxing, I turned it on, did the starting settings (google account, wifi, etc). After that the phone went to sleep, and that's where the problems started. From that time the touchscreen and touch buttons didn't work correctly. It's like someone is pressing the buttons continuously and because of that the touchscreen can't work, or at least not in every area of the sreen.
Did a factory reset, didn't work... It's all the same, even during the initial setup.
Videos of the issue:
Forum won't let me post is, but I can send it in a private mail I guess...
Anyone had an issue like this before? Is it a software related bug (there is some beta version miui installed), or is the device defected?
Any help would be appreciated!
Edit:
The phone was turned off for the night. I turned it on this morning and I could open up the lockscreen with swiping up from the touch buttons. After that the phone worked for like 3 minutes, and then stopped working again.
It was previously just in a bootloop and didn't want to turn on the screen at all. Managed to somehow boot it up today and factory reset (AGAIN) and connected to my less used Google account just to be safe (less data to sync).
Previous problem I had is still there however. When I click the menu button even lightly (not holding down), it opens up Assistant. Voice commands haven't crashed the watch yet but if I click on Assistant settings or anything else, screen will turn black and it won't reboot. Only way to reboot it to place it on the charger and hold down the power button.
I also have a logcat from Bluetooth debugging. Log ends when watch shuts down after clicking anything on Assistant. Started logging right after startup and all I did was install some updates which took a while.
Nothing extraordinary at the bottom of the log stands out to me but I'm probably not as good as some of you at reading logs. There seems to be several errors occurring.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/...3adc70142c5126ad2237d3ba19c9908a88177/log.log
Also video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAWlFwCF2Y
I did all the updates on Play Store (WearOS, Google etc) but problem still persists.
Any help is really appreciated.