I've got a telus touch with no carrier (service provider) and wanted to use it just for sat nav i.e no phone calls etc. Have installed the 6.1 gps enabled rom and tomtom7 with all the fixes mentioned in this forum but cannot get a gps lock. So, is service activation mandatory?
No, I've tested on mine prior to activating it (with Bell, so bell rom and all) and it was working fine.
Same goes for 6800 (Titan)
Must be another setting.
If you don't need any carier, you might as well try the bell rom
EDIT: All with garmin though...
I did try the bell rom with no success.Am i missing some settings?
The bell Rom would still have the Telus ESN etc.....
have you let the customizations run with the stock rom? Running the customizations will lock the GPS.
Yes i did. Tried the Sprint and Bell Roms, currently on NFSFAN's Custom WM6.5 V12 ROM and let customization run on all.I did try the Bell Rom without customization but still no success with GPS.
Weird, I could get a fix even from within my place.
Have you tried anything like GPS Status to see if you get a fix with it?
EDIT: Just tried it with my titan (wich doesn't have service anymore) and I was able to see some satelite from indoors in Garmin, so I can confirm that the GPS does work w/o service plan.
I got an extra Vouge from Sprint and I got the GPS working but it take longer to get lock and I got less satellites then my other Sprint activated Vouge.
your sprint activated vogue was probably using the aGPS which uses cell tower to help find your position. The unactivated vogue would only use satalites to find your position thus taking longer.
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http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en
Cell tower based location - poor man's GPS
Has anyone managed to get the new "My Location" feature working on their Excalibur? I have an S621 running Rogers' WM6 on Rogers network, and it doesn't work. At the bottom of the Help/About screen, it says "myl: N/A"
Anyone had success with any other OS builds and/or networks? It's supposed to support "most Windows Mobile devices". Is it the device that's not compatible, or is the network not sending cell tower info?
Works On T-Mobile's Network Perfect
MountainDrew said:
http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en
Cell tower based location - poor man's GPS
Has anyone managed to get the new "My Location" feature working on their Excalibur? I have an S621 running Rogers' WM6 on Rogers network, and it doesn't work. At the bottom of the Help/About screen, it says "myl: N/A"
Anyone had success with any other OS builds and/or networks? It's supposed to support "most Windows Mobile devices". Is it the device that's not compatible, or is the network not sending cell tower info?
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Works Like a charm, on T-Mobile's network, it gives me my location to a "T", and got the blinking light too, poor man's GPS........!(lol)
work with dopod c720w roger wm6 rom
work very well on my dopod C720w. i use roger wm6 rom with singtel in singapore.
it works well if you've previously used it with a gps at your location. As soon as you move you'll find the accuracy goes way off.
doesn't seem to work in Ottawa Ont on the rogers network. I made a couple of calls to make sure there was a recent connect to a tower...no luck.
Worse than not working
Not only did the My location feature not work for me on my Dash running the T-mobile WM6 ROM but it crashed my Dash. I had to hard reset, and it took a few tries to get the phone to hard reset successfully.
Works fine for me on T-Mobile in the states -- thought I read initially that the current release for just for the U.S.A. ...?
Works very well in Kitchener on Rogers/Fido network. My actual location was within the blue circle.
Good way to find out where the towers are too.
I've never used GPS on my excalibur, and it works perfectly fine for me.
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Works fine for me on T-Mobile in the states -- thought I read initially that the current release for just for the U.S.A. ...?
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I test in Singtel mobile in Singapore and AIS in Bangkok Thailand. Both works OK.
It worked perfect for me...maybe a little too perfect. It said that it could find me within 1700 meters of my actual location, and it did.
Did not work
I have a US tmo unlocked and setup for US att network. I get "error: connecterror [183]". Nothing on google seems to tell me what this is. I can go send/receive calls, go online and receive mms (following att setup per this sites board), but it always gives this error at load. Take sim out, same error, as if the software sees no connection settings when sim inserted. Ideas?
WTF I keep getting location currently unavailable. Whether it be in NYC, Connecticut or Rochester, NY. (T-Mobile Dash)
um the problem might be that you do not have a data plan or what not... or maybe you are not near a cell tower I am guessing... trying moving around or maybe try it next time you go to the mall or shopping (somewhere further from your house).
Me too
I just tried it on my Dash running AT&T's EDGE (US). I got a location that was supposed to be accurate to 2.1 Kilometers. It was closer to a kilometer. Not quite GPS accurate, but hopefully it should be nice next time I'm trying to help a friend navigate around Philly or some other big city I don't know my way around.
SurrealNetworks App Unlock
Hey guys all you need for google map "My location" to work on your T-Mobile dash you must app unlock your device with an application called SurrealNetworks App Unlock
This is the link where you can download the application.
http://www.mobile.surrealnetworks.com/AppUnlockReg.htm
Once you install this program my location should work perfectly, because this is what I did and it been working great on my Dash...
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WTF I keep getting location currently unavailable. Whether it be in NYC, Connecticut or Rochester, NY. (T-Mobile Dash)
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I had the same issue when I was on WiFi and was connected to my wireless router. Then when I turned it off and went for a drive it worked.
I honestly think this is useless unless your in a brand new city. I disabled this feature because it wasn't helpful in telling me were I was exactly. I'd rather take the 15 seconds and type the intersection in rather than the 25 seconds of looking around to see where I am according to the map.
Usually its more than 1700 meters for me. At one time it was in the wrong town.
Using a Rogers S621 w/Rogers WM6 ROM and My Location won't work.
amazing, it works !
Roger User Here - Works Perfectly Including MyLocation but it's inaccurate. it's very close to where i am but still not right - i guess you don't get everything you want lol
Has anyone pulled this off? I need to use the GSM radio on my CDMA/GSM Verizon Touch Pro 2. Booting either the CDMA ROM or the GSM ROM, neither can see the GSM radio with the SIM card inserted. Frustrating I appreciate all the work you all have done so far!
And for what it's worth, the port is amazing. I can boot up, use wifi and otherwise enjoy a great phone experience (sans radio of course).
Did you remove force_cdma from your startup.txt? I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure you can get the GSM radio working.
So playing around with it more, I can get the radio to work part of the time but it's very inconsistent and I can't reproduce why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I did remove the force_cdma bit as well.
Also, on this model, any attempts to use the GPS immediately crashes out of Android (i.e., Google Maps or even Google.com mobile where it tries to geolocate).
Has anyone else had more luck? I was pleasantly surprised that for an hour last night the radio was on and in roaming mode. I didn't get data working but that could have been due the particular SIM. Still, potentially promising.
I can confirm 100% certain now that this will NOT work if you use a Verizon handset and roam using the included Verizon SIM card. The GSM version boots fine, but Verizon requires seeing the CDMA ESN to authenticate over the GSM network. Since this rom does not acknowledge the presence of the CDMA side of things, the ROM will not get data. Also the GPS definitely does not work in this configuration and crashes out.
You *CAN* use a non-Verizon SIM successfully, but you won't get the goodness of Verizon's unlimited global data using their SIM, which is a killer deal for those that roam outside the US.
hello All,
I got a AT&T HTC touch pro 2 (tilt 2) from my friend who had got it unlocked from AT&T as he got upgraded to a new phone. I am using a t-mobile prepaid on the touch pro 2. I have got couple of issues with it.
1. The UI responds very slowly.
2. The data connection icon displays E. When I called up the t-mobile customer care they response varies a lot. One says i need to unlock the device from AT&T and others says i will be able to use only Edge as its not a device provided by t-mobile.
3. The GPS doesnt seem to work. When ever i used Bing. It says that its not able to connect.
I have a request is there any customisable rom that would help in over coming these issues.
Regards,
Mahesh
Same here, but other way round
I have a T-Mobile TouchPro 2 I've been using an AT&T SIM in, and I can tell you exactly what's up- The ROM is probably trying to refresh stuff in the background and it's not working because it's expecting an AT&T SIM. Try another ROM. As far as 3G, not gonna happen. T-Mobile's 3G runs on different bands than the AT&T 3G. The T-Mobile SIM wouldn't even start up the phone if it wasn't unlocked. And I think the GPS settings might be wrong, try fiddling around with the COM ports in Settings, but make sure you make a note of what they were before. I'd recommend a custom ROM, not to solve the problems you speak of necessarily, but it runs a lot faster, and won't have all the AT&T bloatware that's kinda useless to you. Oh, and if you don't have Connection Manager setting everything up for you in your ROM, make sure you set your APN.
Hey guys,
I was using my dinc2 in Europe all year and it was great. No troubles there.
I did some research since i've come back to US, and learned that people have been able to use tmobile with their phones. I've only read about some troubles with data plans ... but i'm not trying to use data at all.
I simply want to buy the 1000 prepaid minutes for 100$ from tmobile and pop it in. My plans is to use Wifi with google voice (groove IP) pretty much everywhere, and use the minutes from tmobile only when i'm on the move.
I tried getting a friends tmobile SIM to work just to make sure that there would be no problems, and i failed. It simply doesn't recognize the service.
My phone is S-OFF, hdboot .97, clockworkmodded, and runs Skyraider Zeus.
Is it a matter of running the correct ROM?
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I was using my dinc2 in Europe all year and it was great. No troubles there. I did some research since i've come back to US, and learned that people have been able to use tmobile with their phones. I've only read about some troubles with data plans ... but i'm not trying to use data at all.
I simply want to buy the 1000 prepaid minutes for 100$ from tmobile and pop it in. My plans is to use Wifi with google voice (groove IP) pretty much everywhere, and use the minutes from tmobile only when i'm on the move. I tried getting a friends tmobile SIM to work just to make sure that there would be no problems, and i failed. It simply doesn't recognize the service.
My phone is S-OFF, hdboot .97, clockworkmodded, and runs Skyraider Zeus. Is it a matter of running the correct ROM?
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We have 2 DI2 and running both AT&T Prepaid and T-Mo Prepaid on it - no trouble with voice with Skyraider Zeus v1.3 or Nitsuj17's Stock Sense rom - APN settings for AT&T was auto-updated as I recall and being provisioned with a data bundle in the plan, it works. For T-Mobile, there are no default APN settings under GSM mode pre-loaded, but as you know, it's not required for voice & SMS to work on the DI2, you will get a "redirect" screen if you launch the browser to sign up for a data plan for it to work (and, that's indication of a working Sim card)
With the sim inserted & switched over to GSM, does it identify the "T-Mobile" network on the lockscreen or homes screen at all? after a reboot ? If you're running SR Zeus in Europe - then, there's no reason for it to not work here in the U.S.- recheck your settings for Mobile Network ...
I'm a total noob. Will flashing an AT&T phone with a tmobile rom allow wifi calling?
I recently got a hand me down phone from someone who had AT&T phone. It's an i747, but I unlocked and use it on the Tmobile network now. In Kansas City, about a week after I activated service, they disable some of the frequencies that my phone uses, apparently. I get data and texting relatively fine, but I can't make or receive calls most of the time. The settings don't allow me to activate WiFi calling, I assume because AT&T decided to disable the option, because they don't support it. If I flash my phone with a Tmobile rom, will it allow me to activate that setting, and make/receive calls over the 4g/LTE connection?
Thanks.
Oh, and I get at least 3 bars most of the time. Even with 5 bars I can't make a normal call.
I recommend not cross flashing the bootloader or modem as this could cause a hard brick.
As for at-mobile rom, you may be able to flash it but it may not work with flashing a different kernel.
Another issue is the bootloader on your phone. The latest bootloader and modem for the att is 4.4.2 and the most recent rom for the T-Mobile is 4.3.