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[Q] Most stable ROM with no FC's (

Hi guys,
I'm new to the Samsung Epic 4g and looking for the most stable ROM that's available. Here's why:
This phone does not belong to me. I dated this girl for a few months and before I broke up with her, I told her she should let me root her phone. She did (we put on the ACS Frozen ROM) and she loved it, until a few weeks later it started giving her "Google Services Frameworks" Force closing errors.
Problem was, we had broken up. Because she doesn't know anyone else that knows how to root phones and put on ROMs, she has very awkwardly called me up every few weeks and asked me to fix her phone—because her phone is my responsibility now!
What I'm looking for is the ROM that won't have any FC's and that I won't have to touch for at least another six months. Her stock ROM was no good either (which is why she wanted me to root the phone), fwiw.
I have a Mac and tried the Heimdall method but that didn't seem to work. Basically, I want to be done messing with her phone so I don't have to hang see her again! It was a bad breakup.
Any advice greatly appreciated! I need to flash by tonight.

Re flash and turn journaling on. Should keep her away for a while
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Honestly if you broke up and don't want to deal with it just go to stock. Otherwise you are on the hook forever. When gb goes ota guess who she calls. Just put it back to stock.

.OmEgA said:
Re flash and turn journaling on. Should keep her away for a while
Posted from my pedo van.
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This^^^^^^^^ and go to settings>applications>manage applications>all and scroll to Google Services Framework, click it and hit clear data. Show this to her and tell her any app that FCs can be fixed this way and walk away. Unless you want to also teach her how to do a nand backup and restore to really be able to walk away.

put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...

chris41g said:
put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...
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Lol...good stuff. I forgot that link was back up.
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chris41g said:
put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...
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+1
10 char
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Thanks guys. I actually ended up bricking the phone with Heimdall-the USB port on my IMac couldn't recognize the phone and all hell broke loose after that-so she and I are splitting the cost of a Nexus S.
At least I have her off my back now. Thanks again for the advice.

sariamanascar said:
Thanks guys. I actually ended up bricking the phone with Heimdall-the USB port on my IMac couldn't recognize the phone and all hell broke loose after that-so she and I are splitting the cost of a Nexus S.
At least I have her off my back now. Thanks again for the advice.
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ouchies 10 char

I am 50/50 between Urban Regeneration with Bionix Black theme and SRF 1.2 with Honeycomb Fusion Explosion. I have a nandroid of each to switch back and forth. Both have been very stable,great battery, and fast. Any errors I have had were my own fault from adding/deleting things.
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GPS Issue - Waiting for latest OTA before taking in to Sprint

So I have issues with my GPS.
Not that this is surprising, but I am trying to plan my next step.
I am running Calk's EL29 ROM, and have pretty much gone though every fix I can find in the ET4G section, all to no avail.
So, I was planning to wipe everything back to stock, see if worked, and when it didnt, take it in for repair/replacement
I have a jig to reset the ODIN count
I also have all I need to reset it back to EL29, but I wanted to know if anyone had a "best guess" as how much longer I would have to wait for the next OTA.
My GF loves her current setup, and has "agreed" to let me wipe and redo everything once the ICS OTA comes out, so I was was gonna try to time the wipe and submit for service around that time frame, but couldnt get a real idea of how much longer the wait will be. I really dont want to have to redo everything twice if I can avoid it. (once for the replacement, and again for the ICS OTA upgrade)
Any guesses? Weeks? Months?
If it is looking to be a matter of weeks, I might as well wait, if it is gonna be a matter of months, I will just go ahead and reset back to EL29 and take it in.
So, any advice from the the group???

Honestly, I don't think anyone here knows for sure and if they did it would of been posted already. Now you can get speculation but an exact date I don't think is happening. You can try and call Sprint or check every blog out there in hopes of finding some info.
If your phone is acting up just take it right in and try and replace it. I have heard of plenty of members bringing their phone into Sprint and exchanging it. Make a couple of customer service calls complaining and go for it

DCRocks said:
So I have issues with my GPS.
Not that this is surprising, but I am trying to plan my next step.
I am running Calk's EL29 ROM, and have pretty much gone though every fix I can find in the ET4G section, all to no avail.
So, I was planning to wipe everything back to stock, see if worked, and when it didnt, take it in for repair/replacement
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Have you tried a full reset and reprogramming of the phone yet? This procedure is independent of the rom and flashing a new rom will not affect it. I just posted it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26131653&postcount=4244
It probably wouldn't hurt to one-click odin back on stock EL29 Gingerbread so you can't blame the rom or modem you're on at the moment too!

tdunham said:
Have you tried a full reset and reprogramming of the phone yet?
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I didnt try a full reset yet, but I did do a GPSCLR, thanks!
Perhaps I am just gonna have to bite the bullet, reset back to stock EL29, and go from there, again, though I just am leaning more and more towards hardware over software being the issue.

DCRocks said:
I didnt try a full reset yet, but I did do a GPSCLR, thanks!
Perhaps I am just gonna have to bite the bullet, reset back to stock EL29, and go from there, again, though I just am leaning more and more towards hardware over software being the issue.
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It is possible but its such a hassle to swap out a phone too.
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I have problems on gingerbread, I tried ics for a week and got a 10 meter lock....I think gingerbread is the problem
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DCRocks said:
I didnt try a full reset yet, but I did do a GPSCLR, thanks!
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Hey, do you happen to have the ##GPSCLR# procedure? I did a brief search and can't seem to find it. I forgot all about it and want to add it to my notes. Thanks.

My first epic touch 4g had a problem with gps it barely locked went into a corporate sprint store they swapped my phone out now I can get gps locks inside building and usually accurate with in 10 meters out side. So I don't think it's ginger bread.. Ps I'm stock and not rooted
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tdunham said:
Hey, do you happen to have the ##GPSCLR# procedure? I did a brief search and can't seem to find it. I forgot all about it and want to add it to my notes. Thanks.
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I believe it is:
open phone
dial: ##GPSCLRX#
enter you MSL
Though I couldn't find the thread I got it from...

DCRocks said:
I believe it is:
open phone
dial: ##GPSCLRX#
enter you MSL
Though I couldn't find the thread I got it from...
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That'll work! I wasn't sure if there was anything else to do. Adding it to my todo list. LOL

I was having GPS issues too, until a found a video on youtube called "How to get working GPS on any ICS Rom." by qbking77. U have to be on a GB-based Rom to start it, so I don't think it'll be a problem for u. It's a lil time-consuming, but it works & I'm on Blu Kuban ICS Rom! Good luck

[Q] [Team VeNuM] JellyBomb JellyBean support...

Hi all,
started this thread for people like me that don't post much, that can't ask questions in the Dev section. Got to get my post counts up, lol! I've been a member on here from when the Samsung Moment came out, so I'm no newb to flashing rom's, etc. ' Just saying'. Been trying to flash TBOMB 5.0 from last night and can't get my phone to boot up for the life of me. It starts, hangs, then it crashes before it's completed. Yes, I did everything I needed to do. LIH firmware, Wipe caches, factory reset, re-downloaded the file (2x) even flashed to complete stock and started over(2x). Still no go. Many are having good luck with this rom, what am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance, for any info that could get me on the right track....
Anyone else needing help with this rom, you're more than welcome to use this thread for questions. :good:

That's weird. Did you reset your counter to 0 (zero) before flashing? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but you can try. I flashed over the leaked version of JB, only wiped caché and data caché. Didn't do any Factory Wipe/Reset because it was not in the instructions. You only need to Reset if you had any problems/issues with the rom. Everything works fine so far. Try those steps and see what happens. But do a nandroid before flashing.

Not to be rude, but are you waiting long enough? I remember reading in that thread after 5 was released that the boot animation was just straight black screen. That after a few minutes of nothing, it boots. Also, 5.1 was released this afternoon. Try that out.
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I have been having trouble with trying to switch my lock screen wall paper. Did a dirty flash
of 5.1 over JB 5.0. But this is only on the lock screen. My home screen will change with no problems. Also for some reason I can't open the gallery app. This isn't to big of a deal as I use Quickpic but idk if they are related problems. When I try to use QP to set the wall paper it just asks me to crop the pic and that's it. I am sure I am overlooking something and would appreciate any help. Thanks

Robbie Doo said:
That's weird. Did you reset your counter to 0 (zero) before flashing? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but you can try. I flashed over the leaked version of JB, only wiped caché and data caché. Didn't do any Factory Wipe/Reset because it was not in the instructions. You only need to Reset if you had any problems/issues with the rom. Everything works fine so far. Try those steps and see what happens. But do a nandroid before flashing.
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Thanks for your response. Yes, I did a counter reset when I went back to stock LI3.
DLed the 5.1 version of the rom after I posted this, flashed my phone, and now I'm good to go.
My phone didn't like something in the 5.0 version of this rom, might have been the kernel, don't think I had 2 bad downloads of this rom(5.0)......
Now I have hands on, the niceness I've been reading about. Thanks to all of you hard working Dev's, that keep our phones going by bringing us all these goodies. :good:

mulhiny said:
Not to be rude, but are you waiting long enough? I remember reading in that thread after 5 was released that the boot animation was just straight black screen. That after a few minutes of nothing, it boots. Also, 5.1 was released this afternoon. Try that out.
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Been thinking the same thing while I was trying at first, but it sure wasn't my wait time. Fell asleep waiting on it around 4:30am , woke up 4 hrs later, no go, lol! Had to leave the house for a while, so I flashed back to stock LI3, so I could have my phone working... 5.1 worked, like I posted before seeing your response. Thanks for responding.

Battery Icon - Signal Icon - Date
I just flashed 5.1 over 4.3 today. Install went great, phone is dramatically faster did great on benchmark.
The issue I am having is that the signal icon, battery icon, ringer icon, time Do not show up right away on reboot. then all of a sudden it will just show up.
This actually happened on 4.3 also. If anyone has any ideas that would be great, and not to wipe and re-flash. I understand that ultimately that may be required but I am not looking at doing that right now.
Thanks.

thirty5 said:
I just flashed 5.1 over 4.3 today. Install went great, phone is dramatically faster did great on benchmark.
The issue I am having is that the signal icon, battery icon, ringer icon, time Do not show up right away on reboot. then all of a sudden it will just show up.
This actually happened on 4.3 also. If anyone has any ideas that would be great, and not to wipe and re-flash. I understand that ultimately that may be required but I am not looking at doing that right now.
Thanks.
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You tried fixing permissions from CWM? Might help....

7Dragon said:
You tried fixing permissions from CWM? Might help....
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I am not running CWM i am using TWRP. I will check that to see if I can find something. But I really have no idea what I am looking for. I am kinda new to all this stuff.

It's in TWRP also, just an fyi. Should find it easily, once in there.....

I believe fixing permissions is under "Advanced".
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I'm looking for help adding long press to volume key to advance to next track. I noticed other rooms have this but none rock like JellyBomb.
Rocking JellyBomb Thanks to Teem VeNuM on My Sprint S3 xda Premium

Yes, this rom is awesome. The only thing I'm having trouble with is wi-fi tethering. I guess with this version of JB it is not possible to run tethering. Anyone else out there?

I called sprint and added wifi hotspots for $10.00 .After they allowed it I went to system update. Updated prn and profile and it works. I hope this helped
Rocking JellyBomb Thanks to Teem VeNuM on My Sprint S3 xda Premium

Is anyone having issues with setting up the s voice wakeup commands? It's like the microphone is deaf. S voice works with everything else. Just not that. I'm gonna flash 5.1 as soon as it downloads. But just in case it still doesn't works, I'm asking this question.

General Jellybomb install
This might help a couple of you. I install JellyBomb 5.1 yesterday (first rom flash, yay!!) and loving it.
I used Clockwork Recovery. I installed the LIH modem (?) first as they said. Factory reset, wipe, cache and wipe richvishervi (?). Install of the rom itself couldn't have taken more than 20 mins, but I did get a boot animation (I believe it's the boot animation form the international version G3).
The only issue I had was that my google calender wouldn't sync. To get round this I deselected calender from the google account and added a account using Microsoft Exchange with my google details. That was a work around that has worked for me.
I think I also have a problem with wifi tethering but I haven't looked into it properly.
One question I will ask is; I'd like to have the lock screen that has the circular unlock feature but I'm not sure how to get it. Any help would be appreciated.
If anyone is on the fence about installing this rom, I'm VERY happy with it. It's very customizable, it fast and it has been very easy on the battery so far. Well done Josh Beach.

MjrCARNAG3 said:
This might help a couple of you. I install JellyBomb 5.1 yesterday (first rom flash, yay!!) and loving it.
I used Clockwork Recovery. I installed the LIH modem (?) first as they said. Factory reset, wipe, cache and wipe richvishervi (?). Install of the rom itself couldn't have taken more than 20 mins, but I did get a boot animation (I believe it's the boot animation form the international version G3).
The only issue I had was that my google calender wouldn't sync. To get round this I deselected calender from the google account and added a account using Microsoft Exchange with my google details. That was a work around that has worked for me.
I think I also have a problem with wifi tethering but I haven't looked into it properly.
One question I will ask is; I'd like to have the lock screen that has the circular unlock feature but I'm not sure how to get it. Any help would be appreciated.
If anyone is on the fence about installing this rom, I'm VERY happy with it. It's very customizable, it fast and it has been very easy on the battery so far. Well done Josh Beach.
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Do you mean the lockscreen with the rings?

Exchange Account
I have an exchange account setup on this rom. Not all of my appointments are syncing over. Some are and some are not. I have my work schedule in outlook as an "all day event" but none of them are showing up. But other "all day" events are syncing over.
My gCalendar is sycing without a problem.
Anyone have any ideas???

Back4More402 said:
I called sprint and added wifi hotspots for $10.00 .After they allowed it I went to system update. Updated prn and profile and it works. I hope this helped
Rocking JellyBomb Thanks to Teem VeNuM on My Sprint S3 xda Premium
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Why? You could download Easy Tether from Play Store and use it for free. Free version doesn't let you browse the secure sites but the paid version does. It works great.

Mobiono said:
Do you mean the lockscreen with the rings?
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Yes. It has an unlock icon with the shortcuts to apps above, below, to the left and right.
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Data issues

I keep getting data issues no matter what rom i flash. Ill have data one minute and out of the blue it goes out. Anyone else getting this?
White Hot! GS3.

Ive had bad wifi and updating the modem/radio fixed it. Someone once suggested data dropping can be caused by bad sim card.
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LuRock said:
I keep getting data issues no matter what rom i flash. Ill have data one minute and out of the blue it goes out. Anyone else getting this?
White Hot! GS3.
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Lu
U on JB or IC?
Had to leave JB because of this. Tried all the new rom's same thing. Leaving out of country so don't have time to check modems.
Let us know what u find.
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oldbbman said:
Lu
U on JB or IC?
Had to leave JB because of this. Tried all the new rom's same thing. Leaving out of country so don't have time to check modems.
Let us know what u find.
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Yea I was on Jedi Invasion Rom for 3 days with no issues but now all of a sudden Im getting this issue after trying other JB roms and even when coming back to Jedi Rom. data seems to be ok now but now i cant turn wifi On on any of the JB roms. Scratching my head on this one..
Oh well guess Ill head back to Triune for now. Have a good trip Old.
White Hot! GS3.

OK Old I'm back I tried to figure out why my data was tripping and why my WiFi was going on vacation on me but couldn't figure nothing out. I kept flashing a couple of different JB ROMs and even flashed a cm 10 JB ROM and still had the same issue. Also flashed 3 different modems but no luck. Now I dont know if it was the app i installed from the market called clean master to clean out all the junk from my phone or if its this last ROM(cm10 liquid smooth) i flashed that brought everything back to normal? You tell me!
I wonder what the thanks button is for?

I just had to recently revert back to ICS because of the my data being dropped through the whole day at work. I believe there is something wrong with the JB code. That is what I gather from the script readers at AT&T. Since I've been back on ICS I've even been able to squeeze out three extra hours of battery LOL!
AJ

is your imei intact? dial *#06# and make sure it's not 0

meanhacker said:
is your imei intact? dial *#06# and make sure it's not 0
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Yes it is. At&t said my phone is the problem but when I reverted back to ice via Odin magically no data or dropped call issues.

oh alright sir. that's good to hear. did you have a backup image on your computer or you downloaded it from my thread?

meanhacker said:
oh alright sir. that's good to hear. did you have a backup image on your computer or you downloaded it from my thread?
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I had a backup image on my computer. I.read this....its interesting and.may be a fix..
From a different forum by user Poseign:
I had this issue (the grey bars and no 4g/3g) about a week ago myself. Rebooting wouldnt fix it, resoring a nandroid wouldnt fix it, and I was starting to get worried that my radio hardware might have gotten borked.The fix was to clear my cache and dalvick cache. After I did that, my radio signal came back with no problems whatsoever. Coincidence? Maybe. But I'd like to think it wasnt

asjdwf said:
I had a backup image on my computer. I.read this....its interesting and.may be a fix..
From a different forum by user Poseign:
I had this issue (the grey bars and no 4g/3g) about a week ago myself. Rebooting wouldnt fix it, resoring a nandroid wouldnt fix it, and I was starting to get worried that my radio hardware might have gotten borked.The fix was to clear my cache and dalvick cache. After I did that, my radio signal came back with no problems whatsoever. Coincidence? Maybe. But I'd like to think it wasnt
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Wish I could say this worked for me, but I've tried that and it did not fix it, the only solution I found was going back to IC from JB.
YMMV
Catching a flght back stateside, hope to be able to delve into this further later. Wish I knew what the issue was, but reading posts here on XDA there seems to be lots of issues by folks with new JB.

Ok wifi is good but every now and then I loose data completely for like 30 seconds and then pops up again. And I'm in a LTE area
I wonder what the thanks button is for?

[Q] Weak GPS?

My note 3 works great, except the GPS.
Outside= no problem
Inside any building= takes 15 minutes, if it locks on at all!
My old phone has absolutely no problems in the same spot (HTC Dinc2).
Is this normal for the note 3, or should I consider a replacement?
I've tried all the "Fix-it" type apps from the playstore, with no change.
Edited: Forgot to mention that I'm still on jelly bean. Holding off on kitkat for a while.
Did anyone notice an improvement on KK, if their note had gps problems before?
Should I try a custom rom? I'm stock rooted atm.

siskiou said:
My note 3 works great, except the GPS.
Outside= no problem
Inside any building= takes 15 minutes, if it locks on at all!
My old phone has absolutely no problems in the same spot (HTC Dinc2).
Is this normal for the note 3, or should I consider a replacement?
I've tried all the "Fix-it" type apps from the playstore, with no change.
Should I try a custom rom? I'm stock rooted atm.
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Do a full wipe and try a custom rom. When I tried to run rooted stock my gps was putting me in a different state. Switched over to Infamous and all is right in the world again.

Download and install topNTP from the play store give it root access click install at the bottom select create files and reboot.
I use this app after every rom I flash and it gives me a gps lock in literally a couple of seconds even indoors.
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I got to ask what you need GPS for inside?
TWEAKED N3

siskiou said:
My note 3 works great, except the GPS.
Outside= no problem
Inside any building= takes 15 minutes, if it locks on at all!
My old phone has absolutely no problems in the same spot (HTC Dinc2).
Is this normal for the note 3, or should I consider a replacement?
I've tried all the "Fix-it" type apps from the playstore, with no change.
Edited: Forgot to mention that I'm still on jelly bean. Holding off on kitkat for a while.
Did anyone notice an improvement on KK, if their note had gps problems before?
Should I try a custom rom? I'm stock rooted atm.
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Same problem here, running KK, all stock (not rooted). Lucky if I get a fix at all at times. Oddly, i've found that if I boot into recovery, do a factory reset and clear the cache, GPS works just fine till I reboot the phone. After the reboot, it reverts to the same ole GPS problems. Seems like some type of software issue to me, odd that it would exist in JB and KK though...
Justin

On kk GPS locks in less then 5 seconds on cold start
TWEAKED N3

BACARDILIMON said:
I got to ask what you need GPS for inside?
TWEAKED N3
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I like to set up routes, when still at home.
And apps like Lookout or Cerberus do much better with a good GPS signal.

kingofkings11 said:
Download and install topNTP
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Tried that already and didn't do a thing for me, unfortunately.

Turbo4V said:
Same problem here
Justin
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From what I've read, there are different versions of the GPS module. Some work better than others.
Though that was mainly reported for the AT&T version.
BACARDILIMON said:
On kk GPS locks in less then 5 seconds on cold start
TWEAKED N3
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Did you have problems with GPS before updating to KK?
I'm still on the fence.

siskiou said:
From what I've read, there are different versions of the GPS module. Some work better than others.
Though that was mainly reported for the AT&T version.
Did you have problems with GPS before updating to KK?
I'm still on the fence.
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No never did
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siskiou said:
Tried that already and didn't do a thing for me, unfortunately.
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Try it after a fresh install
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Looking at the at&t gps problem sounds exactly like the problems that I'm having. I wonder if they have a fix that might work for the tmo version?
Justin

kingofkings11 said:
Try it after a fresh install
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You mean a factory reset?
Turbo4V said:
Looking at the at&t gps problem sounds exactly like the problems that I'm having. I wonder if they have a fix that might work for the tmo version?
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Didn't they get a software update? Though IIRC, a lot of people returned their phones for a replacement with a newer radio.

I have the same problems with GPS on my unlocked n900t.
It worked in the beginning and then almost stopped. I couldn't get any satellites on the street using GoogleMaps.
I wiped all the data and installed cyanogen 11 4.4.4 ROM, after that GPS was working good during the 1st day however I was loosing the signal in San Francisco downtown among the skyscrapers. But yesterday it didn't work again at all.
I tried TopNTP but it seems it didn't help at all.
BTW NFC doesn't work on Cyanogen11 either, so I can't use GoogleWallet now.
What can I do to fix that?
Started thinking about turning to Iphone more and more