So I recently installed the CM9 kang that's over in the dev forum and I started noticing this weird behavior with the traffic widget where the GPS would remain permanently on while the widget was on the page. Confirmed via the battery stats as well. Thinking it was the ROM, I restored my nandroid backup (totally stock) and noticed the same thing. Has anyone else noticed that their GPS is on 24/7 when they have a traffic widget on their homescreen? I also notice that there is the extra 'trafficappwidgetupdate' service that's continually running and using high cpu cycles, so I'm not sure if something is faulty with the service or the GPS. Any ideas?
I connected my GS3 to a computer running Kies 2.6 yesterday and it prompted me to update to Android 4.3 which I did...seems to work really well for the most part (although I did it late last night so haven't had much time to mess around with it yet), but I've noticed that, at least at times, the GPS icon in the notification area is constantly coming on, disappearing, and then coming back, etc. - anyone else experienced this? My only concern regarding it is that my battery will drain faster because of this...?
Hello. Just wanted to share how I was able to fix my GPS finally on sense 6 based roms. I have been able to get agps locks but navigation and on board GPS have been unusable for almost three months now on stock sense 6 and other roms like viper and nusensesix.
100% figured out my GPS issues after 3 months of turmoil. Had to ruu, then factory reset with stock recovery. I then logged into my Google account and used the stock Rom for a day, enabling high accuracy in location settings and using navigation for the whole day. Nav started working pretty well after about an hour. Later in the day I was able to flash a new Rom and navigation has remained solid ever since. I am now able to use all of the the big three sense kernels without issue.
I can't even tell you how many paths I've gone down (topntp, messing with every setting on the phone, touching every kernel and Rom possible. Wipe this wipe that, GPS status, pulling the SIM card. So relieved to have this solved.)
This may seem like common sense to try but I have been floundering to find a fix. Hope this helps someone.
Honestly, one more thing seems to help. I swear it really helps when I turn off wifi optimization. Using GPS Status, the signal indicator looks much stronger overall while navigation is in use. Cant back this up at all but Im rolling disabled and things are much better overall even after the factory reset. Could be coincidence, but maybe it has an affect on overall power consumption?
Peace.
Edit #2. Fyi. Since the Nov 4 HTC service pack update I get insanely good GPS performance with no tweaking at all. Locks indoors now in 10-15 seconds. Maybe this whole issue was a service pack thing.
Glad you finally got it going. Hopefully this will provide others with a good direction if they are in the same boat.
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So we're still seeing inconsistent signal reporting on LTE within AOSP ROMS.
The bottom line (as of today) is that the devs believe that the bars (in AOSP) display a more accurate representation of signal than the bars on every other stock ROM on every phone from every manufacturer. Let's say, for the sake of avoiding a heated discussion, that I completely agree with the devs and their observation of this phenomenon. Is there anyone out there that can give me instructions to increase the number of bars that are displayed? It seems that AOSP and stock are only off by about 1-2 bars. If someone would be kind enough to instruct me in adding a value to the build.prop or something similar, I'd be happy as a clam. I would really like to see the signal bars in AOSP displayed as they are in a stock ROM. Is there even a way to do this?
Thank you!
So weird Issue.
Using Google Maps on MaximusHD 6 with the latest t-mo firmware (2.11) I get constant "GPS SIGNAL LOST" when obviously driving and using it as my nav since I got it. I'm in southern California with a pretty good LTE signal almost everywhere. The highways are pretty open so trees, mountains, buildings etc are ruled out as a probable cost.
Now today I noticed that I normally keep the phone locked/screen off when driving since it's connected over BT so there's no real need to look at it. During a normal 15-20min drive I would get the signal lost alert a lot. Upwards of 10 or so times on that single drive. While with my M8 it never happened especially when literally not 5min after getting out of the parking lot doing maybe 20mph down the street. I first I thought i messed something up since I took the phone apart to apply thermal paste to keep it from overheating.
However today on a drive back I kept the phone with the screen on. Never did it lose signal while the screen was on, but a minute after I locked the phone (screen off) did it lose GPS signal. I turned it back on and after driving 20min or so the signal wasn't lost.
So overall has anyone experience a similar issue? Full cellular coverage with frequent google maps alerts that the GPS signal was lost. Maybe a background gps process being killed or another coming up and hindering it.
Gonna wait for the Thanksgiving break to mess around with stock/custom roms and see if it's just something that can be fixed with a reflash.
I'm having the same issue, have you figured anything out? Have you tried using a different app besides google maps to see if it's the actual app doing it's power save feature, or the background powersaving process being started by the phone being screen off? Really interested because my phone starts burning up to extreme temps...
On the backup I had with the issue I narrowed It down to possibly a background process cutting it off once the screen turns back. Power saving was off and all that would stick while screen was off was maps, Google service, and social apps.
As for the cause I couldn't figure it out. I went with a stock from without issues. Then went back to custom roms and haven't had the issue again. Also I drastically lowered my app count. Barely use any apps not needed for basic functionality.
As for the temp issue you're having. I noticed gets warm just like any other device when using GPS. I have opened up the phone and applied a new thermal coat following off a thread around here.
I have another issue came up where the phone would seek out a GPS signal while battery saving was selected to even location turned off. Killed my battery in a heart beat. Hasn't happened again.
I would suggest you make a full backup and either flash a stock rom or redownload whatever custom rom your using. Do a trial run for a day or two with minimal apps and see if it improves.
Here's where it gets interesting..
I used to own a galaxy s3 i9300 and custom kernels caused exactly the same issue. Flashing a stock rom solved it and a few other issues, one in particular was gps inaccurate coordinates.
Now I have moved to an m9. This has in the past run great. It is completely stock and untouched by curious fingers.. However, recently my gps has been running at random intervals even though it is completely off in all accessable settings. I can't find the culprit and it sapped 40% in a few minutes. It was literally a short face to face conversation, jumped back in the car and went for my phone for waze.. Dead as a dodo..
Confuzzled completely as to whether this is the actual rom doing it or an app..
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
shivadow said:
Here's where it gets interesting..
I used to own a galaxy s3 i9300 and custom kernels caused exactly the same issue. Flashing a stock rom solved it and a few other issues, one in particular was gps inaccurate coordinates.
Now I have moved to an m9. This has in the past run great. It is completely stock and untouched by curious fingers.. However, recently my gps has been running at random intervals even though it is completely off in all accessable settings. I can't find the culprit and it sapped 40% in a few minutes. It was literally a short face to face conversation, jumped back in the car and went for my phone for waze.. Dead as a dodo..
Confuzzled completely as to whether this is the actual rom doing it or an app..
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
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Android 6 should be released around here soon so maybe that'll improve/fix these issues. I wouldn't be surprised if Google services is causing this since it has in the past drained batteries and causes similar issues. If the kernel is involved then the issue has been seen on both stock and custom.
well it may be a setting from the maximums HD, try using other Rom and tell us if problem is solved, try HD Revolution or ViperOne.
Hi all, I got a Moto G3 and having issues with the gps no signal message, it is on and off, but more the time that have no signal. So have heard that Android 6 could be the guilty one.. Do any of you know if there is a fix yet? ?
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