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Gps died after upgrading ROM (Need Help)

hello guys...
After upgrade rom karmba, didnt remember the version,my gps cannot read the satelite even 1 satelite.
i've tried downgrade to wm5 with original rom,but still same result
after that upgrade to wm6 original and still the same
what is going on??
That is hardware issue or only radio problem....???
please help....!!!!!
cheers

How long did you wait before giving up?
rock4mayo said:
hello guys...
After upgrade rom karmba, didnt remember the version,my gps cannot read the satelite even 1 satelite.
i've tried downgrade to wm5 with original rom,but still same result
after that upgrade to wm6 original and still the same
what is going on??
That is hardware issue or only radio problem....???
please help....!!!!!
cheers
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In my experience, it may take 3-10 minutes before the GPS acquires the first satelite, after having flashed to a new ROM.
Cheers!
hoja67

thanks for your reply
i wait until 30 minutes an still did not reach any satelite
please any solutions.....?

rock4mayo said:
thanks for your reply
i wait until 30 minutes an still did not reach any satelite
please any solutions.....?
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Try to flash a seperate new radio.
Radio: 1.50.08.11
http://rapidshare.com/files/51301338/1.50.08.11_Radio.exe

thanks for the link...
but still cannot reach...
i had this problem a week ago...and i'm very frustratred..
didn't find any solution until now...
cheers

Use visual GPS software
Hi dude,
Take a look here,
www.visualgps.net/VisualGPS
download the soft and test your GPS on your mobile, let it configure automatically.
Then lunch your GPS software, like tomtom or else, if needed, try to downgrade your radio to 1.46.30.11.
If needed try all radio till u get the gps fix with visualGps.
Make me know if works dude.

thanks i will try it and give some result tommorow

I think you just need to try it at a different location. Sometimes the response of the phone is dependent on the location.
For example, I work on one of the top floors of one of the tallest buildings in the part of town where I work, and have a clear view to the sky in all directions (absolutely no obstructions). Yet, I can leave my phone in the window for over an hour and never get a satellite fix. I can even open the window and stick the phone out the window and still get no fix. However, as soon as I leave work, and get to a different location (even with buildings towering over me) I get a fix. On the flip side, at home, I sit down away from the window, the window has thick curtains, and there is another house right outside my window creating an obstruction and yet I have no problem getting a fix.
My suggestion...go to another location when possible, soft reset the phone, and restart the application that uses gps. If you are driving, even better (it's more likely that you will reach an area where the position of your phone with regard to the satellite is good and you will get a fix).
This has worked for me irrespective of the radio rom (and I have flashed 1.38, 1.41, 1.46, and 1.50 radio versions to my phone and have always gotten a satellite fix).

Thanks for your help guys...
but still no luck...i'd tried all day long but still no satelite seeing on my trinity.
so anyone can give me link for radio??i only have 1.41...,146....and 1.50....

try install GPs test cab
rock4mayo said:
Thanks for your help guys...
but still no luck...i'd tried all day long but still no satelite seeing on my trinity.
so anyone can give me link for radio??i only have 1.41...,146....and 1.50....
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setting on com 9
try on outside home

if still not working try install this rom....
squallion said:
setting on com 9
try on outside home
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[font size="+3"]This Rom From Ausdim The Master Rom MAker For Trinity[/font]
link rom..
http://rapidshare.com/files/89777751/WM_6.1_v.2.exe
remember before flashing the rom ... you must have hardspl ..
go to the trinityguide website ... to find tutorial how to flashing hardspl
and flashing type hardspl 1.30 oliprof
after flashing the rom you must flash radio version type 1.46.....
finally install gps test cab on your trinity n go to outside your home where you you can see cloud try to setting gps test to com 9 n waiting
I hope this will help you

squallion said:
setting on com 9
try on outside home
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i did but still no satelite appears...
any other solution....??
thanks

ok i will test that rom thanks man...

squallion said:
link rom..
http://rapidshare.com/files/89777751/WM_6.1_v.2.exe
remember before flashing the rom ... you must have hardspl ..
go to the trinityguide website ... to find tutorial how to flashing hardspl
and flashing type hardspl 1.30 oliprof
after flashing the rom you must flash radio version type 1.46.....
finally install gps test cab on your trinity n go to outside your home where you you can see cloud try to setting gps test to com 9 n waiting
I hope this will help you
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I got one satelite for 30 sec only and disappear again....
i'm using gps test but very strange,after running that app and i close it,and open again that app,the gps test did not find gps device.still looking for gps device,must hard reset device for gps test to find gps device.
so what should i do.....??
is anybody have radio 1.46.00.11??
thanks

Try this!
rock4mayo said:
I got one satelite for 30 sec only and disappear again....
i'm using gps test but very strange,after running that app and i close it,and open again that app,the gps test did not find gps device.still looking for gps device,must hard reset device for gps test to find gps device.
so what should i do.....??
is anybody have radio 1.46.00.11??
thanks
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Link to radio ROMS
http://rapidshare.com/files/52393843/Trinity_Radio-1.46.00.11-1.46.30.11.rar
1.46.00.11 has proven to be the stablest radio ROM in my device.
Hope it works for you!
Cheers!
hoja67

hoja67 said:
Link to radio ROMS
http://rapidshare.com/files/52393843/Trinity_Radio-1.46.00.11-1.46.30.11.rar
1.46.00.11 has proven to be the stablest radio ROM in my device.
Hope it works for you!
Cheers!
hoja67
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Thanks will try it tonight...
cheers

set manually to com 9.....
rock4mayo said:
I got one satelite for 30 sec only and disappear again....
i'm using gps test but very strange,after running that app and i close it,and open again that app,the gps test did not find gps device.still looking for gps device,must hard reset device for gps test to find gps device.
so what should i do.....??
is anybody have radio 1.46.00.11??
thanks
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i think your problem is your radio version try the radio version that i mention yesterday

yeah, it should be radio related, or your GPS chip is having a random hardware error unrelated to your ROM flashing. its pretty unlikely that the problem was the ROM (although i guess anything is possible..)
Recently, my GPS will work, and then i'll turn it off.. when i want to turn it back on it sometimes can't locate the GPS on any com port... most times i need to soft reset to get it working again.. not sure what that's about.
if you saw one satellite for 30 seconds, then there's hope for you make sure you're outside with clear view of the sky.. and definitely try a different radio ROM.. beyond that, i'm not sure if there's anything you can do

racerx_ said:
yeah, it should be radio related, or your GPS chip is having a random hardware error unrelated to your ROM flashing. its pretty unlikely that the problem was the ROM (although i guess anything is possible..)
Recently, my GPS will work, and then i'll turn it off.. when i want to turn it back on it sometimes can't locate the GPS on any com port... most times i need to soft reset to get it working again.. not sure what that's about.
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Yes i have this problem on my device and need soft reset.
racerx_ said:
if you saw one satellite for 30 seconds, then there's hope for you make sure you're outside with clear view of the sky.. and definitely try a different radio ROM.. beyond that, i'm not sure if there's anything you can do
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Now i'm trying radio 1.46.00.11 i hope this radio can save me
and btw...thanx mr.racerx for your reply...
ps : is it true that karmba rom make this happened to my device??or
something goes wrong during the flash to another rom,or maybe
some bad luck?
i've done flashing with cooked rom every time and never had
this problem.......and now i'm stuck with gps problem.
cheers

update radio to 1.50 (http://trinityguides.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=66) over sspl (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1132634&postcount=1)

Cannot get GPS to work. please help

I have a Verizon Vogue and cannot get the GPS to work. it had the standard ROM on it out of the store then i upgraded it with the official WM6.1 ROM but i let the customizations run. a few weeks later i found a ROM from NFSFAN that i liked so i re-flashed my Vogue with the newer Alltel rom (to get the newer radio) but i didnt let the customizations run that time. i then used the unlocker 2.31 from coke (again not letting customizations run.) i then flashed NFSFAN's ROM. i cannot get the GPS to work. when i run GPSViewer it scans my ports and says it finds a GPS on com 4 at 4800 baud. it seems to successfully open the GPS but it never gets a satellite, i stood outside for 10-15min. i tried it with Google Maps and its never connects. i told Google maps to use windows settings for the GPS, also i tried to tell Google Maps to use Com 4 at 4800 baud and eventually it says no GPS found. i even followed a guide telling me how to use QPST to modify the GPS settings including the ip to the GPS server. any help would be greatly apreciated. i would really like to use Google Navigator from PDAfun.

lamoss2004 said:
I have a Verizon Vogue and cannot get the GPS to work. it had the standard ROM on it out of the store then i upgraded it with the official WM6.1 ROM but i let the customizations run. a few weeks later i found a ROM from NFSFAN that i liked so i re-flashed my Vogue with the newer Alltel rom (to get the newer radio) but i didnt let the customizations run that time. i then used the unlocker 2.31 from coke (again not letting customizations run.) i then flashed NFSFAN's ROM. i cannot get the GPS to work. when i run GPSViewer it scans my ports and says it finds a GPS on com 4 at 4800 baud. it seems to successfully open the GPS but it never gets a satellite, i stood outside for 10-15min. i tried it with Google Maps and its never connects. i told Google maps to use windows settings for the GPS, also i tried to tell Google Maps to use Com 4 at 4800 baud and eventually it says no GPS found. i even followed a guide telling me how to use QPST to modify the GPS settings including the ip to the GPS server. any help would be greatly apreciated. i would really like to use Google Navigator from PDAfun.
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Did you happen to read and try this thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=496494
its all about the fix for verizon users and GPS issues
Detroit Doug

still nothing
thanks for the reply but i went through that entire thread and tried all of the different ip's that they suggested and none of them worked. it is annoying me that i cant figure this out. the guide to get this to work is a very simple guide. i just cant seem to get it to work and its not making any sense at all.

lamoss2004 said:
thanks for the reply but i went through that entire thread and tried all of the different ip's that they suggested and none of them worked. it is annoying me that i cant figure this out. the guide to get this to work is a very simple guide. i just cant seem to get it to work and its not making any sense at all.
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yeah, you and alot of other people, some are reporting that VZW has locked down the aGPS/GPS access and found all the hacks and other custom settings and blocked it so it would seem that they are enforcing the $10/moth GPS plan as some are stating that they signed up and got the GPS back
Others of course are saying that switching the port in the registry from 8888 to 8889 works for a while then you have to change it back to get it to work again as well...
Im not on VZW so I couldnt be positive about any of it, just from what Im reading from users on VZW reporting stuff
Detroit Doug

Try this thread from ppchaven.
http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?title=Pocket_PC_WIki:FIX_VERIZON_GPS

jadesse said:
Try this thread from ppchaven.
http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?title=Pocket_PC_WIki:FIX_VERIZON_GPS
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hey thanks man, i will give that a try. but first i just want to make sure that downgrading the radio will even work and/or wont brick my phone. this is assuming those verizon ROMs do include the radio. also, do i just start step 1 from where i am now with the newer radio and custom ROM currently flashed?

lamoss2004 said:
hey thanks man, i will give that a try. but first i just want to make sure that downgrading the radio will even work and/or wont brick my phone. this is assuming those verizon ROMs do include the radio. also, do i just start step 1 from where i am now with the newer radio and custom ROM currently flashed?
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The whole problem is that you let the customizations run in the first place. You need to flash a pre non-GPS ROM & radio. I would not have upgraded to the Alltel Radio as I don't believe that there is really any benefit. This is unless you know people in your geographic region have had success upgrading their radio.
Yes Start with Step #1
When you get to step #4 like it says don't let the customizations run. At this point your GPS should be functioning. You'll need to download the Holux GPS Viewer or the HTC one. Make sure that your phone location setting is turned on & not set for 911. setting--->phone--->services tab---> location setting ---> get settings button with one of these Gps viewers you should be able to get a lock it may take awhile. As long as you start to see red satellite dots you are probably good to go. This means that he GPS is functioning.
You can probably skip the last step if all else goes well.
Good Luck!

wiki works but
when I went through it at the first step. the phone kept on rebooting right after alignment. freaked out a lil bit. But it did stabilize. just keep the sd card out of the phone.

lkz said:
when I went through it at the first step. the phone kept on rebooting right after alignment. freaked out a lil bit. But it did stabilize. just keep the sd card out of the phone.
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you need to relock your phone when flashing back to a stock rom btw i have tryied all of this with no luck on getting gps back

lkz said:
when I went through it at the first step. the phone kept on rebooting right after alignment. freaked out a lil bit. But it did stabilize. just keep the sd card out of the phone.
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keeping the sd card out of the phone is KEY - after alllll the things i tried, i went back to http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?title=Pocket_PC_WIki:FIX_VERIZON_GPS and ran through it without the SD card in . . . flashed NFSFAN's windows 6.5 v5 ROM, fired up GPS Viewer and for the first time in AGES saw the red satellite dots . . . a few soft resets later and I'm getting 6-7 sats locked on from inside my work!

gps
summerblink said:
keeping the sd card out of the phone is KEY - after alllll the things i tried, i went back to http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?title=Pocket_PC_WIki:FIX_VERIZON_GPS and ran through it without the SD card in . . . flashed NFSFAN's windows 6.5 v5 ROM, fired up GPS Viewer and for the first time in AGES saw the red satellite dots . . . a few soft resets later and I'm getting 6-7 sats locked on from inside my work!
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those red little dots looks really good once gps is working. I know I was amazed and happy.
s10onn2o:
"you need to relock your phone when flashing back to a stock rom btw i have tryied all of this with no luck on getting gps back "
How would I go about re-locking? I am still new at this. Did you follow the wiki word for word? it worked for me aside from the sd card that I found out the hard way.

s10onn2o said:
you need to relock your phone when flashing back to a stock rom btw i have tryied all of this with no luck on getting gps back
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Once you have your phone unlocked with 2.31 you want to leave it unlocked because otherwise there is a good chance your GPS will not work.

ok i finnaly got my phones gps to work this is what i did reset the pri with the stock rom with the 1.30 radio then updated the radio from bell. No gps hacks were need i get a lock with 7 sat. in about 10 sec. o yea im using my own custom rom.

Tried it all, guess we are going to have to settle
I too have a VZW xv6900 that used to have an awesome GPS, that is now not so awesome. I have tried all the suggestions - from using the telus agps server, switching the ports, using the qpst fix for both vzw and telus, valhalla, removing the memory card, standing on one foot and yelling at it and what it seems to boil down to is no aGPS for vzw users.
Sure you can make the gps work standalone with no aGPS by changing the SUPL gps mode regkey to 2 instead of 4, but it's slower to get fix, doesn't work in buildings very well, and overall crappy compared to what we used to have - which I think is what most people have done (either intentionally or unintentionally) when they say they got it to work.
If anyone has figured out a way to get aGPS working on VZW I would love to hear it... I really miss those instant locks

I did not have to run QPST at all. I made the mistake of running the updated VZW rom which locks gps. Followed steps from the WIKI and flashed NFSFANs newest ROM turned my phone location setting on and I'm picking up satellites quickly.

I got my gps viewer working with port 4, but my current location w/ google map doesn't work. What is going on?

huhu321 said:
I got my gps viewer working with port 4, but my current location w/ google map doesn't work. What is going on?
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Are you getting the red satellite dots with numbers in them when you click the status tab in gps viewer?

Reddog80p said:
Are you getting the red satellite dots with numbers in them when you click the status tab in gps viewer?
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Yup! i have more than 6 red dots when I clicked in the viewer page, but I cannot find my location within google map.

QUICKGPS software

hey guys,
i just want to know that is the quickGPS software required for using GPS ?
i flashed a rom which didnt have that software in it and the software googleMaps was unable to find any satellites. is there any relation ? if not then what is the purpose of quickGPS

no its not required. quickgps speeds up the time to get a fix by downloading data of the postion of the satellites. It should work without quickgps, but especially the first fix could take a few minutes. i recommend to install it.

I have installed a few roms in my diamond and GPS is not working. last time it found GPS connection but was not updating my location. i dont know what is the reason!!.
is the GPS in this device ruined ?

aali-01 said:
I have installed a few roms in my diamond and GPS is not working. last time it found GPS connection but was not updating my location. i dont know what is the reason!!.
is the GPS in this device ruined ?
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It is true that QuickGPS is not required to run your GPS..but then again there are some ROMS which will not find your GPS connection till you have installed download files for QuickGPS...
I recommend donwnload a standalone cab file for QuickGPS and try again.

[HELP] Wildfire GPS

Im currently on cy7 and ive tried many times of fixing my gps lock speed with the agps fix. Ive edited the gps.conf file with my countries servers but everytime i enter gps status, i cant lock in any satellites.

Does the gps icon appear in your statusbar when its trying to lock on ? If the answer is no then you might be needing to flash radio image to repair. Lots of entries about this issue in threads.
UTID

no i didnt appear, but after 6 hours of lots of effort i managed to flash the .19.25 radio. I actually locked into about 9 sats with my configurations and my country's pool servers. ITS OK I DONE IT !!

rayven18 said:
no i didnt appear, but after 6 hours of lots of effort i managed to flash the .19.25 radio. I actually locked into about 9 sats with my configurations and my country's pool servers. ITS OK I DONE IT !!
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Now if you want you can flash the new radio back. Just leave gps turned on,reboot to cwm and flash the newer radio back and should be working still.
UTID

Use fasterfix app form market! I think it's for free! It might do the needful or use an advance app called gps essential for fixing your problem!

It was just the bug of CY7. I changed to splash mod everything is working perfectly. I will give a shot of changing my radio back to the latest one! Thanks

[Q] GPS

Hi boys, i'm in problems again... i think u can help, or maybe try, if u want, u know.
Well, i don't remeber when, but suddenly gps stop works for me, or if it works, very very very inexact, for example, precision about 1000m... or maps says "ur location is unaivable", i'd try sense 3.5 roms, sense 3.0 roms, cm7 roms, o2 roms, now i'm with miui and still have the problem.
My phone drops accidentaly a few times, and before that, i'd try aGPS fix... but i don't know what's the problem... well, anyone have idea?
thanks!!!
PS: now with MIUI, maps says "ur loc is unaivable" and every app that uses location loop at "getting loc"... doesn't work.
Lazer Fazer said:
Have you had a look at the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560829
I had a problem where my GPS refused to start (the blinking 'waiting for GPS lock' icon didn't come on) and flashing the patch in recovery worked perfectly. I now have perfect GPS, and have managed to find up to 12 satellites concurrently.
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thanks Lazer, i think this gonna help someone

I have a similar problem, my GPS can't find any satelite. I'm using ICS 0.7 and tried with and without aGPS Fix. GPS Status doesn't do anything, it also doesn't find any satelite at all.

Genmutant said:
I have a similar problem, my GPS can't find any satelite. I'm using ICS 0.7 and tried with and without aGPS Fix. GPS Status doesn't do anything, it also doesn't find any satelite at all.
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ohhh, and what do u think about this? anyone know about a fix or cause of this prob? i dont feel alone at all right nao... see ya

I had the same problem, GPS turns on but it can't find any satellites. I got it fixed under warranty. I think they changed the gps antenna cable, if I remember right. I was changing roms back and forth trying to figure out the cause, but it was a hardware problem.

You can try changing your radio version.

Kelden said:
You can try changing your radio version.
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i forget it.
RADIO: LAST, finished in .23
HBOOT: Cm7r2 / data++, depends of the rom
RECOVERY: 4ext Touch
which one do u recommend?
anzianzi said:
I had the same problem, GPS turns on but it can't find any satellites. I got it fixed under warranty. I think they changed the gps antenna cable, if I remember right. I was changing roms back and forth trying to figure out the cause, but it was a hardware problem.
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and do u unroot/unrecovery ur phone? ****, it seems like a real trouble
i think i'm gonna explode my phone and take new one from my comp, stock the phone again seems really really heavy

I just flashed the alpharev hboot downgrader, and then the stock 2.2 PB99IMG.zip found here from some sticky. All from recovery and that's it. I read that you should use the stock 2.3 image, so that you wouldn't lose your warranty, but my phone was unbranded, so I guess it didn't matter.

So I opened the phone today and dis- and reconnected the GPS antenna cable (the cable on the left). Didn't do anything though.

I'm using 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23

Kelden said:
I'm using 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23
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same here, my phone was branded but i don't find the original RUU, i have 2 options...
try flash WWE and send it to RMA, and pray for god OR
hard brick my phone and say "i don't know what pass, pls help" hahaha, any method to hardbrick the phone and make it unrecoverable? thx for all
(trying to stock it, i've bootlooped and lost my recovery/root, i'm a ****ing idiot )

Install official HTC 2.3 update, it doesn't void your warranty.

Have you had a look at the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560829
I had a problem where my GPS refused to start (the blinking 'waiting for GPS lock' icon didn't come on) and flashing the patch in recovery worked perfectly. I now have perfect GPS, and have managed to find up to 12 satellites concurrently.

Lazer Fazer said:
Have you had a look at the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560829
I had a problem where my GPS refused to start (the blinking 'waiting for GPS lock' icon didn't come on) and flashing the patch in recovery worked perfectly. I now have perfect GPS, and have managed to find up to 12 satellites concurrently.
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i just lock my phone trying to bring back to offi wwe 2.3, so i've f+cked it bring 24V on battery pins, and i'll try take a new one from warranty, it's secured and under warranty, and problem solved, i guess and i pray