Since RC1, I've not been able to acquire a GPS lock. I just flashed RC3 and still have the same problem. No GPS icon is in the status bar and GPS Status cannot pick up any satellites. I've flashed Nightly #21 over my RC2 to get the GPS working, but I would like to keep RC3 as the nightly kept rebooting..
Has there been any fixes? Did a lot of searching but did not come up with an answer. Please help!
LGS1231 said:
Since RC1, I've not been able to acquire a GPS lock. I just flashed RC3 and still have the same problem. No GPS icon is in the status bar and GPS Status cannot pick up any satellites. I've flashed Nightly #21 over my RC2 to get the GPS working, but I would like to keep RC3 as the nightly kept rebooting..
Has there been any fixes? Did a lot of searching but did not come up with an answer. Please help!
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What apps do have installed on your phone that are gps related and what app do you use first to check your gps after you boot for the first time?
LGS1231 said:
Since RC1, I've not been able to acquire a GPS lock. I just flashed RC3 and still have the same problem. No GPS icon is in the status bar and GPS Status cannot pick up any satellites. I've flashed Nightly #21 over my RC2 to get the GPS working, but I would like to keep RC3 as the nightly kept rebooting..
Has there been any fixes? Did a lot of searching but did not come up with an answer. Please help!
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I have posted this before, this usually works for me:
I have found that if I leave my GPS ON before I flash a new nightly or ROM, that it works fine. I have only ran into the GPS issue a few times but that was because I had it off before I flashed a new build. Never messed switching RADIOs or anything.
Here is what I have done to fix issues:
-If I flashed a new CM7 Gingerbread ROM without GPS ON prior to the flash, I usually go back to CM6 and turn GPS ON and then reflash the CM7 ROM and it works.
-Yesterday had a strange issue though, I went to Flash a new CM7 nightly and sure enough I forgot to leave GPS ON. So I went back to CM6 and tried to turn GPS on and it didn't work. So I then Flashed one of the MIUI ROMs and that still didn't work. So then I tried Flashing the newest Nightly from CM again and it worked very wierd.
That has been my experience with this GPS issue. Some how I have managed to fix it myself without too much trouble. Hopefully this helps people with these issues.
EdKeys said:
what app do you use first to check your gps after you boot for the first time?
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He said "GPS Status", so he likely means GPS Status & Toolbox.
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Yes, I use gps status as the above user said. I just tried reflashing rc3 and it didn't work. So would I have to go through the entire process mentioned above?
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LGS1231 said:
Yes, I use gps status as the above user said. I just tried reflashing rc3 and it didn't work. So would I have to go through the entire process mentioned above?
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I have noticed that just about every person having gps problems uses gps status. Uninstall gps status, reboot your phone into recovery and wipe the cache and then wipe the dalvik cache. Then after your phone reboots, go to applications (all) and clear the data for Maps. Then open Maps first.
Uninstalled and did exactly what you said. It is still not working
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LGS1231 said:
Uninstalled and did exactly what you said. It is still not working
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You could try flashing RC3 again now, but you're probably going to need a full wipe/format. If you decide to do that, be sure to format system and format boot in mounts and storage of Recovery. Wiping data/factory reset doesn't touch the system files.
What does format boot and system actually affect? SD card will not be affected, correct?
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What does format boot and system actually affect? SD card will not be affected, correct?
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Format system and format boot insures a complete clean install.
From the CyanogenMod Website:
Instructions:
First time flashing CyanogenMod 7 to the HTC Vision, or coming from another ROM?
Root the device and install ClockworkMod Recovery. Instructions are available here.
Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM.
Format the system, data & cache partitions of your device.
Perform a factory reset.
Flash CyanogenMod.
Optional: Install the Google Apps addon package.
correct...there is a separate option to format the sd card.
I did not get to do all the steps because I wanted to revert the radio back to .26 after flashing and using the .27 radio for some time. This did it for me. The GPS icon showed up in the status bar and everything worked. People should really try this method!
Thank you, regardless, for your help Edkeys! +1
So you reflashed to .26 and things worked? i have .26 and it dosnt work for me =/
aznsnake666 said:
So you reflashed to .26 and things worked? i have .26 and it dosnt work for me =/
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Try reflashing your ROM and immediately reflash your .26 radio (The OTA TMO radio) and this should fix your GPS problems. It took me 3 days to fix my GPS after trying every other possible fix and this did it. Try it and let me know.
The only thing I did was flash back to my original stock nand and then back to cm7rc3 and get 100% gps lock. Only way I've been able to get it to work. Hoping it sticks when cm7 official comes out
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What I did was reflash RC3 first with the GPS on. Then I reflashed the .26 radio cause I was using .27. Try all the methods above, and I hope it works out for you cause I know it sucks not having a working GPS on your SMARTphone.
I had the same problem of gps not working with CM7 (RC2 and 3).
The notification bar symbol wouldn't even come on, never mind get a lock.
I fixed it by flashing the 26.08.04.16 radio (was on the older 26.03.02.26 radio before).
This is driving me crazy. I have tried EVERYTHING I could find in everyones posts and I still can't get my gps back.
I even flashed back to the stock ROM and it won't even turn on there either.
Any other tricks? Or am I doing something wrong.
my radio right now is 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would love to have my GPS back.
EDITED TO ADD: I just flashed Virtuous v1.0.1 and I still don't have GPS. lol
Try these instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11392075&postcount=62
I did this for RC1 and had perfect GPS, I just noticed with RC3 and RC4 my GPS issues came back so I'm about to try this again. This post from the original RC1 thread really saved me.
rohit275 said:
Try these instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11392075&postcount=62
I did this for RC1 and had perfect GPS, I just noticed with RC3 and RC4 my GPS issues came back so I'm about to try this again. This post from the original RC1 thread really saved me.
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Confirmed with Rc4
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I am currently running EvoKings GB RC3 and loving it. But since I can't leave well enough alone, I want to update to the RC4.
I just have a couple of questions concerning this ROM.... I see where he mentions its based on CM7... is it based on CM7 7.0.0.0 or CM 7 7.0.2.1?
Also will I need to do the GPS fix again and update PRL, as I assume I have to wipe dalvik/cache to update from RC3 to RC4 (as it seems its more than just an update)?
Speaking of the GPS fix, when I did it, I was on RC3 of the EvoKings GB rom, and this is the steps I followed:
Booted into recovery
Made a Nandroid backup
Wiped All Data
Flashed into a backup sense rom I have (Mikfroyo 4.6)
Performed GPS fix and updated PRL
Booted back into recovery
Performed Nandroid restore (no data wipe)
Back into RC3
Was that correct... that I dont do a data wipe and just do a nandroid restore? I have been reading so many conflicting reports on this. My assumtion was to always wipe data before doing a restore.
Thanks everyone.
First of all, if you're updating a current rom, them all you should have to do is wipe cache & dalvik and then flash the updated rom. As for not wiping data, no, it isn't necessary, however, I'm one of the people who do especially if I'm changing roms. I don't want any remnants of the previous rom.
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First of all, if you're updating a current rom, them all you should have to do is wipe cache & dalvik and then flash the updated rom. As for not wiping data, no, it isn't necessary, however, I'm one of the people who do especially if I'm changing roms. I don't want any remnants of the previous rom.
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Ok cool, thanks. When doing the GPS fix, is the info stored somewhere else, which is why it doesnt get removed when doing a wipe of stuff?
Trying to figure that out... since yeah I am worried about having some type of conflict when switching from a sense to an AOSP rom. I havent had any issues so far with RC3 doing that, minus some issues with the screen not coming on with a button press while playing music.. but not sure if thats just something with the ROM itself or the GPS fix.
I am not sure where the gps fix is stored, but there should be no conflicts. I have switched between AOSP and Sense tons many times since I did the fix and have never had any problems.
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whiterider13 said:
I am not sure where the gps fix is stored, but there should be no conflicts. I have switched between AOSP and Sense tons many times since I did the fix and have never had any problems.
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+1.....I've never had to apply a GPS fix and I, too, have switched between AOSP and Sense numerous times. As a matter of fact, my current rom is Salvage-Mod and the GPS works as it should and I still didn't have to apply a fix.
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I had to do the gps fix when I first switched to cm7 rc2. Since then I have never had to redo it nor have I had any issues.
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whiterider13 said:
I had to do the gps fix when I first switched to cm7 rc2. Since then I have never had to redo it nor have I had any issues.
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Thank you both, thats what I wanted to hear. I havent wanted to switch roms because I got the GPS working and I didnt want to switch roms and have it broke again. Thank you!
No prob man, just glad I could help.
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What build of CM 7 is this rom built off of?
Hello forum,
I recently switched from CM7 because I was having some issue with random resets and FCing with Maps that slow down and shut off my phone. I flashed to the New Fresh ROM to try it out. That worked fine, but I missed the pull down notification bar. I tried Salvage-Zen but got stuck in a boot-loop and then I tried Salvage. I got past the boot screen but when the Android pops up even though I click I can't go any further. Does anybody know of a possible solution?
Few suggestions: Are you wiping properly, do you have the latest recovery (amon ra or clockwork), are you flashing gapps, did you update to all the latest radios/wimax/prl?
Why don't you try to flash decks aosp rom!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078558
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jjchdc said:
Hello forum,
I recently switched from CM7 because I was having some issue with random resets and FCing with Maps that slow down and shut off my phone. I flashed to the New Fresh ROM to try it out. That worked fine, but I missed the pull down notification bar. I tried Salvage-Zen but got stuck in a boot-loop and then I tried Salvage. I got past the boot screen but when the Android pops up even though I click I can't go any further. Does anybody know of a possible solution?
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do you do a clean wipe before flashing roms or are you just installing one on top of the other. I would suggest looking for Caulkins format all zip and run it prior to flashing a rom
Same problem on friends phone just use amon RA wipe everything twice and flash and be patient with the white evo 4 g screen it may take a while there.
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I'm wiping completely using both Clockwork and Amon but its still a no go and I flash falls when using aosp. I'll try that Rom and report the results.
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playya said:
do you do a clean wipe before flashing roms or are you just installing one on top of the other. I would suggest looking for Caulkins format all zip and run it prior to flashing a rom
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The format all was just what I needed. Thank you very much!
Hi all,
I'm not able to let the GPS work with CM 7.1 Stable.
Here's my story:
I had CM 7.1 fully working, about 3 weeks ago.
I had battery issues then and I tried to upgrade to CM 7.2 RC1, but I did not test the GPS.
As battery charging issues still raised, I had to bring my mobile to HTC restoring to the stock ROM.
Once battery was fixed, I restored the backup with CM 7.2 RC1 and discovered that GPS was not working.
I read some posts here to downgrade CWM to 2.5.x and flash an older radio. I tried that and installed GPS Test with no luck. I re-flashed latest radio with no luck. I found a post telling to re-flash gapps, but not working.
As last step I formatted system, cache, data and installed CM 7.1 stable version, re-flashed latest radio, but GPS is still not working.
Do you have any idea of how I can fix it?
Thanks.
Try fastboot method for flashing radio. For some reason cwm method never worked for me.
Edit: Alternatively you can flash older radio. Just remember to check the radio version changes in your settings or not.
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saadislam said:
Try fastboot method for flashing radio. For some reason cwm method never worked for me.
Edit: Alternatively you can flash older radio. Just remember to check the radio version changes in your settings or not.
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Thanks. I'll try that. What do you mean to check radio changes?
Try in settings/about phone and look for baseband version I think, it will most likely end in 20.10 and that's the most recent radio version.
The version before it ends with 19.25 (I think, it's been a while since I needed to flash the radio)
By "radio changes" he means check the version before flashing and after to be sure it flashed correctly.
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Ah, ok. I always check after flashing and everytime I flash I get correct version in settings
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Is there any log file I can check why GPS is not working?
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It's not working because of the radio, it's an old bug. Something seems to stick in the radio partition when flashing cm7.
Another method that works is to flash any sense rom that has gps working, download Google maps, go outside and let Google maps get a good fix on your position then without touching any settings power off and flash cm7 again or restore a nandroid.
The log is called a logcat, either type adb logcat into a command prompt or Google qtadb for another method I know nothing about.
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Scratch0805 said:
It's not working because of the radio, it's an old bug. Something seems to stick in the radio partition when flashing cm7.
Another method that works is to flash any sense rom that has gps working, download Google maps, go outside and let Google maps get a good fix on your position then without touching any settings power off and flash cm7 again or restore a nandroid.
The log is called a logcat, either type adb logcat into a command prompt or Google qtadb for another method I know nothing about.
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So, is any sense ROM valid? Should I wipe/format anything before or after flashing ROM or restoring my backup?
Thanks.
Ideally you should wipe system and data before flashing any rom.
There are a few sense roms available here like kwbr, rempuzzle (requires sd-ext) and older ones like jokerdroid. Alternatively you can flash a safe zip of stock rom. You can find all this info and related in the wildfire index in the development section.
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Any sense rom with known working GPS, rempuzzle will work fine.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash sense rom.
Download/open Google maps then let it get a good fix on your position.
Pop out the battery and reboot to recovery.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash cm7 again.
All should be fine then. I've used all 3 of the methods for fixing the gps and have found flashing the radio by cwm method the most unreliable, fast boot and using the sense way seems to work everytime.
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Scratch0805 said:
Any sense rom with known working GPS, rempuzzle will work fine.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash sense rom.
Download/open Google maps then let it get a good fix on your position.
Pop out the battery and reboot to recovery.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash cm7 again.
All should be fine then. I've used all 3 of the methods for fixing the gps and have found flashing the radio by cwm method the most unreliable, fast boot and using the sense way seems to work everytime.
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Hi all,
I confirm that everything is fully working, by flashing kwbr ROM, running GPS and restoring my CM7 backup.
that seems a little bit weird, but thanks for your support, really.
It's because the radio partition is separate to the rest, it can't be wiped like the others and a particular setting seems to stick which is incompatible with cm7. I think. Anyway glad you got it working mate! Enjoy.
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scratch0805 said:
Any sense rom with known working GPS, rempuzzle will work fine.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash sense rom.
Download/open Google maps then let it get a good fix on your position.
Pop out the battery and reboot to recovery.
Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.
Flash cm7 again.
All should be fine then. I've used all 3 of the methods for fixing the gps and have found flashing the radio by cwm method the most unreliable, fast boot and using the sense way seems to work everytime.
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dcamanni said:
Hi all,
I confirm that everything is fully working, by flashing kwbr ROM, running GPS and restoring my CM7 backup.
that seems a little bit weird, but thanks for your support, really.
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That method didn't work for me.
I flashed Rempuzzle, then launched Google Maps, but nothing happened. So I decided to downgrade radio using the method described in the Wildfire index. Launched Maps and... TaDa! GPS was working. Then installed aGPS patch by crypted and now is running like hell.
Hope this helps.
Had the same problem. Reflashed radio and it works like a charm. Thanks guys.
Am running CM9 nightly (9.16) and everything works great except I can't get GPS to lock on..just sits there with "searchign for GPS"...
What I've done so far:
- "GPS Fix" flashed from CWM....no help
- "nexusmodempatchcm9.1" flashed from CWM...no help
- "ns4g-radio-KL2" flashed from CWM...no help
- tried the temporarty boot method here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2r7anSiI5I but that was for the Epic Touch and it didn't work or maybe I didn't do something right....it would just hang and couldn't get into CWM after reboot
- finally Odin'd back to stock, ran the GPS fix from the App store and got GPS to lock
- flashed my saved CM9 image from the day before, downloaded the GPS fix from the App store and still got no GPS lock
Is my image from the day before the problem? I thought the GPS fix done from stock would've carried over to the GPS in CM9...at least that's what I thought was the point of that...
Would just flashing CM9 again work? (but then I'd have to restore my apps from Titanium Backup..also from a day before saved)
*confused*
Thanks
Yes. Your image has bad GPS data. From stock with GPS on and locked flash CM9 and do not restore anything and test GPS.
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thanks for the reply....a couple of more questions pls:
- when i flash back to stock, will i lose root and/or cwm? am assuming no
- if i titanium backup my apps again now, can i restore without a problem since i am backing up from within cm9 and not any cm7 rom
antmon said:
thanks for the reply....a couple of more questions pls:
- when i flash back to stock, will i lose root and/or cwm? am assuming no
- if i titanium backup my apps again now, can i restore without a problem since i am backing up from within cm9 and not any cm7 rom
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Yes when you Odin to stock you will not have root but you are only testing your GPS. Then leave it on with a lock, Odin cwm 5.0.2.7 with reboot unchecked, when it completes pop battery out and in, 3 finger to CWM and flash CM9 and gapps. Start phone and test GPS. If it works then yes you can restore Titanium Backup stuff but no system data.
GPS works on CM10 without GPS Fix.
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yep, i'm about to go straight to cm10
kennyglass123 said:
Yes when you Odin to stock you will not have root but you are only testing your GPS. Then leave it on with a lock, Odin cwm 5.0.2.7 with reboot unchecked, when it completes pop battery out and in, 3 finger to CWM and flash CM9 and gapps. Start phone and test GPS. If it works then yes you can restore Titanium Backup stuff but no system data.
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i want to give CM9 one more shot before going to CM10....
antmon said:
yep, i'm about to go straight to cm10
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This. Went from various Gingerbread updates straight to CM10 mainly for GPS stability actually. Had trouble keeping lock on GPS all the time and used phone heavily for multihour navigation; for like 2 years.... Since CM10 have had 0 issues. It was almost a religious experience.
Hi,
I have updated my international HTC One X to CM10 ver(10-20121221 NIGHTLY). However, i find that the GPS doesn't pickup any satellites at all.
I went back to my stock ROM and found that the GPS was working fine. On reading some threads about similar problems, i tried downloading AGPS data but that too did not work.
I also flashed a AGPS Fix for HTC One X ver3.1 but that too didn't work.
Is somebody else having a similar experience ? Were you able to fix it ? Any help would be great... I hate to go back to a Sense ROM.
If you have one of the higher hboot versions, gps is npt functional at all.
If you however are not, try full wipe an reflash.
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TToivanen said:
If you have one of the higher hboot versions, gps is npt functional at all.
If you however are not, try full wipe an reflash.
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Thanks for that, I am on hboot 1.12 is that one of the higher ones ?
No, probably an issue with that certain release maybe?
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tomascus said:
No, probably an issue with that certain release maybe?
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I don't think so... I flashed a different nightly, a pre nightly a different ROM called CustoNexus. It has the same result.
Interestingly, while i am on the stock ROM, I have found enabling\disabling the mobile data connection makes a difference. If its disabled, the GPS will not find any satellite. I have tried a test alternatively, enabling, checking GPS, rebooting, disabling and checking 3 times. All the test show this to the case.
Any ideas why ?
Any ideas?
I'm also having this issue. I have used older nightlies from early December and an Gapps and neither work. I've tried a clean install, total wipe of phone and SD and still nothing. I really want to stick with CM10 but the GPS function is a real necessity for me so for now it's back to stock.
Hope there are some more updates on this soon.
Thanks
same issue here. GPS wont even turn on even though it's set to enabled.
Full wipe should do it if your hboot isn't 1.3x.
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Im having the same problem my GPS doesnt work im on HBoot 1.12 Just installed Jellybam but GPS doesnt seem to work maybe I need a different boot.img or something
any help?
Full wipe doesnt work after installing rom does it?
No need for different boot.img on that hboot.
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What could it be than?
I used AGPS Patcher (Google build)
Is that good cause it still aint working
I got it to work with Jellybam by flashing the boot.img inside the zip installing the rom and then go stand outside for a minute while it says "Searching for gps"
everything is working fine now
Elqauto said:
I got it to work with Jellybam by flashing the boot.img inside the zip installing the rom and then go stand outside for a minute while it says "Searching for gps"
everything is working fine now
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Thanks for the pointer... Jellybam ... here i come !!