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My GPS sucks and I remember the vibrant also had problems with GPS.
I am running beast mod 4.2
Does our phone have any GPS fix?
Any tips to help get location?
Thanks
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Im on the same rom and never had a problem getting a lock. Its pretty fast.
Maybe ur connection, location, or phone
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this phone has THE BEST gps of ANY phone on the market right now.. it is the first phone to have dual core gps activated even
my phone takes only seconds to lock on and navigate and find places... best GPS i have ever used on any cell phone
im on stock rom
I had crappy GPS when I used beastmod
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Had this phone for a day....due to T-Mobile issues I sent it back to delete the line they added on...
First thing I did tho is check GPS( coming from the vibrant)... I was inside opened GPS test and had 23 in view and 13 locked almost instantly....
Try going back to stock if that fixes it it's the rom not playing well with your phone if not get a replacement
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clninja said:
this phone has THE BEST gps of ANY phone on the market right now.. it is the first phone to have dual core gps activated even
my phone takes only seconds to lock on and navigate and find places... best GPS i have ever used on any cell phone
im on stock rom
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100 times this. Of any phone I've ever owned, this phone has the best GPS hands down.
My experience when flashing custom roms is that GPS signal and data signal always suffer. Coming from a Sensation, the same exact thing happened. I flashed a custom ROM, and my GPS went to ****. I think that's one of the downsides of flashing custom roms. And it's the only reason why I'm still on stock.
My GPS sucks. It points 90 degrees in the wrong direction, unless I'm moving then it points in the right direction. I have stock Android, should I get a replacement?
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Does anyone know how to acess the gps settings? Is there a hidden menu like the g2x? If so what doo you have to enter into the dialer? I am curios to see what server the gps uses and what the slp settings are. On my g2x I had to manually add googles slp servers and tell it to use that server and to no be ms assisted. My gps went from taking bet 5 and 10 minutes to get a lock and after that I got instant locks. It picked up 47 sattalites or something crazy like that. So if someone can tell me how to get there I can check to see if it uses googlles slp servers.
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the gitel said:
My GPS sucks. It points 90 degrees in the wrong direction, unless I'm moving then it points in the right direction. I have stock Android, should I get a replacement?
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GPS tracks your location, not your direction. I think the Compass is in charge of direction.
clninja said:
this phone has THE BEST gps of ANY phone on the market right now.. it is the first phone to have dual core gps activated even
my phone takes only seconds to lock on and navigate and find places... best GPS i have ever used on any cell phone
im on stock rom
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highly disagree aas saying anything is the best over all is purely opinionated. sure the GPS on the TMo SGS2 is lightyears better than the vibrant and works well,but my g1 still has more accurate locks...down to 1-3 meter accuracy. side-by-side test in same lpcation and conditions.
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highly disagree aas saying anything is the best over all is purely opinionated. sure the GPS on the TMo SGS2 is lightyears better than the vibrant and works well,but my g1 still has more accurate locks...down to 1-3 meter accuracy. side-by-side test in same lpcation and conditions.
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My GPS in my SGS2 locks down to 6 feet most of the time ...
This is one of the best GPS chips on the market from a tech point of view , it is the ONLY gps chip in commercial cell phones, currently, that can not only access the US-GPS system but also the Russian GLONAS system , I have 19 Sats in view and am currently locking 11 and I am inside my house with an accuracy of 9ft, INSIDE...
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My GPS in my SGS2 locks down to 6 feet most of the time ...
This is one of the best GPS chips on the market from a tech point of view , it is the ONLY gps chip in commercial cell phones, currently, that can not only access the US-GPS system but also the Russian GLONAS system , I have 19 Sats in view and am currently locking 11 and I am inside my house with an accuracy of 9ft, INSIDE...
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yes one of the best chipset technology wise,but not THE best. How ggood something is depends on well its used.
1 meter = 3.3ft and my g1 accuracy is 1-3meter in my house. I only used my g1 for fun or whenever I am doing(or going somewhere) where I don't want to bring nice things. like camping, beach, etc.
My T989's GPS is also problematical.
On both the stock ROM and on Juggernaut, it often refuses to see satellites. In addition to the map sitting there dumbly, the GPS Status app will show no satellites, and this will go on for dozens of minutes. Rebooting seems to help.
Those of you with no problems, what ROM are you on?
no problems on Stock or Jugs
brian_v3ntura said:
yes one of the best chipset technology wise,but not THE best. How ggood something is depends on well its used.
1 meter = 3.3ft and my g1 accuracy is 1-3meter in my house. I only used my g1 for fun or whenever I am doing(or going somewhere) where I don't want to bring nice things. like camping, beach, etc.
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I agree with you , but since my lock is 9 feet, which is under the 3m mark, and depending on where I am at in the house it gets better and outside is usually around 1-2 meters, it seems that it is at least as good as the g1. It could be better, but if you want better GPS buy a standalone GPS, if it locks under 10m and you still can't figure out where you are, you need more than GPS .
Different areas have different satellites you can connect to. It is also random what satellites you connect to. Assuming you can actually connect to all the satellites and the glonass ones the galaxy s2 would be better. But it all depends what area your in etc.
Over at a vodafone forum, users seem to trace down possible GPS problems in the i9100 to bad information in /etc/../gps.conf. As UK customers, they are upset that their gps.conf seems to reference servers in North America.
http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Sams...es-taking-ages-to-get-a-lock/m-p/926413#M6151
So using root explorer and sshdroid, I find that on my T989 using Juggernaut-v4.1 there is a file, /etc/gps.conf that contains:
/system/etc # find . -name gps.conf
./gps.conf
/system/etc # more gps.conf
#Test
NTP_SERVER=xtra1.gpsonextra.net
#Asia
# NTP_SERVER=asia.pool.ntp.org
#Europe
# NTP_SERVER=europe.pool.ntp.org
#North America
# NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
# DEBUG LEVELS: 0 - none, 1 - Error, 2 - Warning, 3 - Info
# 4 - Debug, 5 - Verbose
DEBUG_LEVEL = 5
# Intermediate position report, 1=enable, 0=disable
INTERMEDIATE_POS=0
# GPS Capabilities bit mask
# SCHEDULING = 1
# MSB = 2
# MSA = 4
# default = MSA | MSB | SCHEDULING
CAPABILITIES=0x7
/system/etc #
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In the meantime, this thread
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/guide-gps-quickest-fix-solution.2022/
gives a list of "correct" gps.conf files for the I9100.
The North American one can be found here: http://www.multiupload.com/IE16Y7MU5P and contains this:
NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
# DEBUG LEVELS: 0 - none, 1 - Error, 2 - Warning, 3 - Info
# 4 - Debug, 5 - Verbose
DEBUG_LEVEL = 5
# Intermediate position report, 1=enable, 0=disable
INTERMEDIATE_POS=1
# Accuracy threshold for intermediate positions
# less accurate positions are ignored, 0 for passing all positions
ACCURACY_THRES=0
################################
##### AGPS server settings #####
################################
# FOR SUPL SUPPORT, set the following
# SUPL_HOST=supl.host.com or IP
# SUPL_PORT=1234
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
# FOR C2K PDE SUPPORT, set the following
# C2K_HOST=c2k.pde.com or IP
# C2K_PORT=1234
#################################
##### EXTRA SETTINGS #####
#################################
# Wiper (wifi positioning), 1=enable, 0=disable
ENABLE_WIPER=1
#################################
##### AGPS Carrier settings #####
#################################
CURRENT_CARRIER=common
DEFAULT_AGPS_ENABLE=TRUE
DEFAULT_SSL_ENABLE=FALSE
# TRUE for "User Plane", FALSE for "Control Plane"
DEFAULT_USER_PLANE=TRUE
#########################################
##### GPS QUICKEST FIX V1.3 By RJLM #####
#########################################
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So the two files seem very different. I would go so far as to say that the T989 Juggernaut file looks wrong, in that the NTP_SERVER certainly seems to have a bad value.
Is this the right, or only gps.conf file on the T989?
Is the DarkyROM I9100 North American file correct?
I edited my gps.conf but mine looks different then the above, I have north-america and us, one for region and one for country and my gps works great with juggs 4.1
clninja said:
this phone has THE BEST gps of ANY phone on the market right now.. it is the first phone to have dual core gps activated even
my phone takes only seconds to lock on and navigate and find places... best GPS i have ever used on any cell phone
im on stock rom
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in addition to the US's GPS satellite array, we now also have access to GLONASS (Russian array).
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I had high hopes earlier when I bought the phone, since some post here said it supposedly has glonass support
But for me, its not a good performer. Some places its fine, but in other places it just can't lock. Sometimes it can't even see the satellites. For example in the train here, my previous phone's GPS (HTC HD2 and Amaze) had no problem in locking, but I couldn't get a lock with this phone..I tried for 4-5 minutes. I have already gotten GPS Status for downloading AGPS data, but still it couldn't get a lock ?
Is it problem with gps.conf ? Right now it looks like:
Code:
/system/etc # find . -name gps.conf
./gps.conf
/system/etc # more gps.conf
#Test
NTP_SERVER=xtra1.gpsonextra.net
#Asia
# NTP_SERVER=asia.pool.ntp.org
#Europe
# NTP_SERVER=europe.pool.ntp.org
#North America
# NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
# DEBUG LEVELS: 0 - none, 1 - Error, 2 - Warning, 3 - Info
# 4 - Debug, 5 - Verbose
DEBUG_LEVEL = 5
# Intermediate position report, 1=enable, 0=disable
INTERMEDIATE_POS=0
# GPS Capabilities bit mask
# SCHEDULING = 1
# MSB = 2
# MSA = 4
# default = MSA | MSB | SCHEDULING
CAPABILITIES=0x7
/system/etc #
If you look the NTP_SERVER is set as xtra1.gpsonextra.net (If you put a # before a line it means its commented) but I remember on my HD2 it was supposed to be set as country/place where you are. Like for US it should be NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org and so on...
I did the change, however I didn't see any gains right now...I will test out more..
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I noticed that my lock times have decreased if I manually inject aGPS data using app leo AGPS injector. Also this also reduces the instances of no lock when it can see the satellites. You can get it from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16384028&postcount=1907
Basically it was developed for HTC HD2, however it would work with any phone having qualcomm GPS chipset. What it does is, it injects AGPS data and NTP time in qualcomm GPSone engine (in contrast to gps status or any other app which only inject XTRA data and not the time ).
Also I made changes in the stock gps.conf and removed the # before line NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
and put a # in beginning NTP_SERVER=xtra1.gpsonextra.net (this statement doesn't make any sense xtra1.gpsonextra.net is not a NTP server, its for getting agps data). I suggest if you are having problem remove the # before according to you region.
I have tried it couple of times and the results have been encouraging. It would be great if other people having GPS problem can test it out too and share their findings. Remember to inject the data before using the GPS app. Once the data is injected it should be good for 1 day (maybe even more, but 1 day is safe to say)
Works fine for me so far.
My GPS works even without a data sign, it just takes a minute longer to lock on at 9ft accuracy. I don't know why you start having problems I know that if I want to get GPS lock without a data connection I will need my wifi to be turned in for sure to get a solid lock so I can't define why you aren't getting one, did you try flashing the agps 3.1 psych with no ssl, that really helped me get faster locks.
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it's as good/better than i expected. coming from the vibrant, this thing's gps is amazing. lol.
My works great also.
I also recently started a thread regarding this or similar problems. I am curious about the people with no problems; What color is your phone and roughly when did you purchase it?
Works perfectly for me. Get a lock in about 2 seconds I haven't made any changes to any gps related file.
droid75 said:
Works perfectly for me. Get a lock in about 2 seconds I haven't made any changes to any gps related file.
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What color is your phone and when did you get it?
Also what roms are you guys using?
I'm very happy with my GPS signal, it locks on in less than 10 seconds or so.
i have the titanium and got it mid feb.
Sometimes you have to toggle GPS on and off in mid flight up top in the status bar to re initialize it if it has frozen or anything.
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funeralthirst said:
it's as good/better than i expected. coming from the vibrant, this thing's gps is amazing. lol.
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Word. The vibrant GPS sucked big floppy donkey "insert cartman profanity word here"
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I noticed that my lock times have decreased if I use I manually inject aGPS data using app leo AGPS injector. Also this also reduces the instances of no lock when it can see the satellites. You can get it from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16384028&postcount=1907
Basically it was developed for HTC HD2, however it would work with any phone having qualcomm GPS chipset. What it does is, it injects AGPS data and NTP time in qualcomm GPSone engine (in contrast to gps status or any other app which only inject XTRA data and not the time ).
I have tried it couple of times and the results have been encouraging, however it could be a placebo also since I didn't give it much time between the fixes. It would be great if other people having GPS problem can test it out too and share their findings. Remember to inject the data before using the GPS app. Once the data is injected it should be good for 1 day (maybe even more, but 1 day is safe to say)
Mafioso said:
I noticed that my lock times have decreased if I use I manually inject aGPS data using app leo AGPS injector. Also this also reduces the instances of no lock when it can see the satellites. You can get it from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16384028&postcount=1907
Basically it was developed for HTC HD2, however it would work with any phone having qualcomm GPS chipset. What it does is, it injects AGPS data and NTP time in qualcomm GPSone engine (in contrast to gps status or any other app which only inject XTRA data and not the time ).
I have tried it couple of times and the results have been encouraging, however it could be a placebo also since I didn't give it much time between the fixes. It would be great if other people having GPS problem can test it out too and share their findings. Remember to inject the data before using the GPS app. Once the data is injected it should be good for 1 day (maybe even more, but 1 day is safe to say)
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It only lasts for a day?
Answer to OP, coming from the vibrant where there were known issues with the GPS antenna, I have had no problems with this phones ability to get me where I wanna go. Sure sometimes it shows me as driving along side the freeway instead of on it, so I feel for all those peoples house my GPS thinks I drove over. Lol
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DeeXii said:
What color is your phone and when did you get it?
Also what roms are you guys using?
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Black and I got it in December of last year.
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It only lasts for a day?
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Basically XTRA data is current satellite positions on the date which you download it. In a ideal world its good for 7 days since phone can approximately calculate the position of satellites for the next 7 days with it but with increasing error. But if you are getting large lock times there's no harm in doing it daily or alt days as it really a small download (i think 40kb). You can set make a script for automating it also...
Although on Amaze I never had to do it, the GPS was as good without it...maybe they automated it already on it...
This phone has the best GPS of any phone I've had so far.
ArcticWolf91 said:
This phone has the best GPS of any phone I've had so far.
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really?
When I had the mt4g and the amaze, those seem to be a bit quicker in locking than my gs2. It wasn't that much of a difference probably a minute difference, but once locked, You're good.
I also noticed that my gs2's gps is not as good indoors.. but I don't really care much about that because I only use my GPS when i'm outdoors lol
Overall, the GPS for the gs2 is actually really good.
Teo032 said:
really?
When I had the mt4g and the amaze, those seem to be a bit quicker in locking than my gs2. It wasn't that much of a difference probably a minute difference, but once locked, You're good.
I also noticed that my gs2's gps is not as good indoors.. but I don't really care much about that because I only use my GPS when i'm outdoors lol
Overall, the GPS for the gs2 is actually really good.
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Yeah. The MT4G also had pretty good GPS, never had any problems there. The Sensation GPS was pretty terrible. This phone locks on quickly and accurately. However, GPS was definitely better on stock than on these custom ROMs.
Hey guys,
I tried searching on google but to no solution.
The problem is when I switch off all forms of data except cellular coverage, my location changes to a City where I'm not at. I went to that place maybe thrice since I got the phone.
My location in Maps, Weather or even location saved along when I take pictures will be that other/wrong location.
Its easily fixable by just starting one of the data services, but why should I even face it in the first place.
Its happened on all ROMs and wipes don't fix it. Done a full wipe twice from cwm.
My GPS works normally when I'm using maps, it takes about 30 seconds to get a lock on my location.
Any workaround or solution or fix? (except for not keeping data switched on all the time)
Thank You.
Cheers.
death__machine said:
Hey guys,
I tried searching on google but to no solution.
The problem is when I switch off all forms of data except cellular coverage, my location changes to a City where I'm not at. I went to that place maybe thrice since I got the phone.
My location in Maps, Weather or even location saved along when I take pictures will be that other/wrong location.
Its easily fixable by just starting one of the data services, but why should I even face it in the first place.
Its happened on all ROMs and wipes don't fix it. Done a full wipe twice from cwm.
My GPS works normally when I'm using maps, it takes about 30 seconds to get a lock on my location.
Any workaround or solution or fix? (except for not keeping data switched on all the time)
Thank You.
Cheers.
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Location without GPS is online service. I hope that answers your question about "fixing" it.
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There's three things at play in plotting location: 1) GPS, 2), aGPS, and 3) Geo-location
GPS is the onboard chip functioning alone to pick up satellite signals and lock on them. You can test how well your GPS chip alone works by putting the phone in airplane mode and rebooting it.
All aGPS does is use a wireless signal (Wi-FI or cellular) to help the chip get its first lock faster. Once lock is established the chip is on its own.
From Wiki...
"Assisted GPS is a system which can, under certain conditions, improve the startup performance, or time-to-first-fix (TTFF) of a GPS satellite-based positioning system. It is used extensively with GPS-capable cellular phones as its development was accelerated by the U.S. FCC's 911 mandate making the location of a cell phone available to emergency call dispatchers."
Geo-location uses wireless signals alone to approximate position. Devices w/o a GPS rely on this for location based services.
From Wiki...
"Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal. Geolocation may refer to the practice of assessing the location, or to the actual assessed location."
Once the chip locks, it memorizes the position of the satellites. So if you had your wireless on to get first lock and then turned it off the chip is still using the satellite locations aGPS helped it find. If you want to test the performance of your chip itself reboot it in airplane mode. Download GPS Test from Play. It'll give you a much better picture of what's happening with your phone. I just tried it on mine and indoors it locked and got down to 15’ accuracy in less than a minute. Conditions affect performance but, at least outdoors, yours should do as well or better than mine. If it doesn’t, it’s a h/w problem.
tkolev said:
Location without GPS is online service. I hope that answers your question about "fixing" it.
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BarryH_GEG said:
There's three things at play in plotting location: 1) GPS, 2), aGPS, and 3) Geo-location
GPS is the onboard chip functioning alone to pick up satellite signals and lock on them. You can test how well your GPS chip alone works by putting the phone in airplane mode and rebooting it.
All aGPS does is use a wireless signal (Wi-FI or cellular) to help the chip get its first lock faster. Once lock is established the chip is on its own.
From Wiki...
"Assisted GPS is a system which can, under certain conditions, improve the startup performance, or time-to-first-fix (TTFF) of a GPS satellite-based positioning system. It is used extensively with GPS-capable cellular phones as its development was accelerated by the U.S. FCC's 911 mandate making the location of a cell phone available to emergency call dispatchers."
Geo-location uses wireless signals alone to approximate position. Devices w/o a GPS rely on this for location based services.
From Wiki...
"Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal. Geolocation may refer to the practice of assessing the location, or to the actual assessed location."
Once the chip locks, it memorizes the position of the satellites. So if you had your wireless on to get first lock and then turned it off the chip is still using the satellite locations aGPS helped it find. If you want to test the performance of your chip itself reboot it in airplane mode. Download GPS Test from Play. It'll give you a much better picture of what's happening with your phone. I just tried it on mine and indoors it locked and got down to 15’ accuracy in less than a minute. Conditions affect performance but, at least outdoors, yours should do as well or better than mine. If it doesn’t, it’s a h/w problem.
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Thanks, that was a very informative post.
Well I switched on GPS and put my phone in airplane mode and restarted. The Maps App keeps saying "Your current location is temporarily unavailable" and I can't figure how to use the GPS Test yet.
Okay, I did get a lock-on from the Maps and the GPS Test app. I went closer to my window lol . Now I'll see if my location comes up wrong.
Edit:Location came up accurate in weather.
Edit2:Location is accurate in a photo I clicked with everything off.
By accurate I hope you understand what I mean, when all the data goes off the phone should still think its in the place/location where it was when the data was on. Ii.e Surat in my case. But what used to happened before today(gps in airplane) was without data the phone will think its in Pune, which is a 12 hours drive from here.
I'm not the only one who's faced this, some say its a bug in sense :/
Anyways here's a thread I saw earlier
http://www.htconesource.com/forum/htc-one-x-discussion/1042-incorrect-location.html
The answers the guy gets are retarded.
To be sure, are you saying that when only on mobile data and relying upon that, you cannot get an accurate location down to 1 KM?
If so, this sounds like a software issue or a carrier issue.
If your GPS has poor reception then I would advise getting warranty repair. It might have the same issue as the Wifi antennas do.
Yeah just so you know pure GPS is line of sight, you have to have a clear view of the sky to work (no clouds either).
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Hunt3r.j2 said:
To be sure, are you saying that when only on mobile data and relying upon that, you cannot get an accurate location down to 1 KM?
If so, this sounds like a software issue or a carrier issue.
If your GPS has poor reception then I would advise getting warranty repair. It might have the same issue as the Wifi antennas do.
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jonshipman said:
Yeah just so you know pure GPS is line of sight, you have to have a clear view of the sky to work (no clouds either).
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No no.
My location when all services are on shows up fine. But say I have a weather widget and all my data services are off, instead of showing the location detected last when data services was on the widget and other settings will show another city.
I'll explain it with an example.
Lets have a hypothetical country with all the letters as its cities.
I stay in 'S' at present. I have visited 'P' and 'M' a couple of times but I'm back to 'S' now. On the occasion that my data services switch off, intentionally or because of weak coverage. Instead of showing 'S' as my location in the weather widget, app and geotag the phone will show 'P' which I had visited days ago.
Can anyone tell me what "fused location" is? Almost everytime I boot my Gnex I get "Unfortunately Fused Location has stopped working", while this does not generally affect how my device runs in any way it is quite annoying and seems to only have started happening since I updated to a 4.2.x based rom.
Any input on what the hell this is and what it does if anything would be great.
dankblaze said:
Can anyone tell me what "fused location" is? Almost everytime I boot my Gnex I get "Unfortunately Fused Location has stopped working", while this does not generally affect how my device runs in any way it is quite annoying and seems to only have started happening since I updated to a 4.2.x based rom.
Any input on what the hell this is and what it does if anything would be great.
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Read this.
http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-card
Sorry to bump this, but I am getting high battery usage from Fused Location, saying it's using my GPS, but GPS is turned off. Are you sure it's to do with the file system?
nellisere said:
Sorry to bump this, but I am getting high battery usage from Fused Location, saying it's using my GPS, but GPS is turned off. Are you sure it's to do with the file system?
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Edit: As pointed out below, my reply here is actually not relating to the topic at hand. I'll leave it, in case someone finds this thread trying to look for fuse filesystem information, though. Sorry about the off-topic reply.
Wikipedia:
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a loadable kernel module for Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces.
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In Android 4.2, specifically, it's used to take the physical filesystem /data/media and create the virtual filesystem /mnt/shell/emulated. /mnt/shell/emulated/0 is then symlinked to /storage/emulated/legacy, which is symlinked to /sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, and /storage/sdcard0.
Cilraaz said:
In Android 4.2, specifically, it's used to take the physical filesystem /data/media and create the virtual filesystem /mnt/shell/emulated. /mnt/shell/emulated/0 is then symlinked to /storage/emulated/legacy, which is symlinked to /sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, and /storage/sdcard0.
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Guys, you all get it wrong. According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy. It has no connection to the fuse file system.
oasisfeng said:
Guys, you all get it wrong. According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy. It has no connection to the fuse file system.
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Actually I was referring to the fused location.apk, not fusedlocationprovider, so what's said above makes more sense being as on the old versions of paranoidandroid it would stop working yet I had no issue with GPS/locations.
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oasisfeng said:
Guys, you all get it wrong. According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy. It has no connection to the fuse file system.
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dankblaze said:
Actually I was referring to the fused location.apk, not fusedlocationprovider, so what's said above makes more sense being as on the old versions of paranoidandroid it would stop working yet I had no issue with GPS/locations.
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My mistake. Ignore my reply, then. Unfortunately, I haven't had any reason to look into either FusedLocationProvider or the apk, so I can't actually be of any use. Sorry about that.
google maps doesn't yet utilize the newly announced Fused Location Provider
Am I correct in the assumption that the current google maps doesn't yet utilize the newly announced Fused Location Provider? I mean I've always kept location services off because of the substantial hit in battery life. Having received the new Google Play Services API, I tried to turn Location Reporting back on, but its hunger for battery hasn't decreased. I had to turn it off after half a day to make it to the end of the day. My guess is that the current version of maps still uses the old API services. Actually, this is my HOPE.
Fused Location= Google's new GPS system
nellisere said:
Sorry to bump this, but I am getting high battery usage from Fused Location, saying it's using my GPS, but GPS is turned off. Are you sure it's to do with the file system?
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Supposedly ultra-low battery usage and really fast/responsive-- provides the GPS requirements of applications on Android with very little battery usage. It might be using up battery because of some bad coding where it is repeatedly trying to gain access to the GPS but cannot in a loop. Try to turn on GPS and see what other programs you have that are using GPS/Fused Location.
Fused Location Battery Drain
Hi all! I am on a Gnex CM10.1.0 stable. I have started using Carat to try and track down what is using up my battery so quickly. Carat was pointing to the Fused Location as a big drain, so I have force stopped it to see if it will help. I use my GPS a good bit, so will be an interesting test.
Can it be removed if I don't use location ?
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Ltdrev said:
Can it be removed if I don't use location ?
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You can disable it trough "disable service" app from the play store
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Fused Location Provider
The goal of Fused Location Provider (‘Fused’) is to lessen the workload of developers who want to interact with location information. Instead of having an app talk to different location data sources, and provide them with — given that I grokked the slides — a single programmable interface to talk to; Google thus does the hard work in sourcing location, simply feeding it to developers’ applications.
Google does appear to want to drive location usage directly; one simple way to do that is to improve the quality of the signal, and make that signal simple to access. Fused is the embodiment of that ethos, bringing together cellular, WiFi, GPS, and sensor data.
Demos showing off the power of different single systems — WiFI and GPS – compared to the Fused collection showed that Google’s new method is superior to a current single system. That said, while a material improvement, it remains imperfect.
Priority
Developers will have access to three levels of location-information priority. Keep in mind that the more accurate your location data, the more power you are using.
High Accuracy: 5 second check interval, consumes 7.25% per hour, accurate to within around 20 meters, uses GPS when outside, and WiFi when inside.
Balanced Power: 20 second check interval, 0.6% battery usage per hour, and accurate to within 40 meters. This method is what it appears that Google envisions as a way to bring location into a host of new applications, without sacrificing end-user device satisfaction.
No Power: No poll interval, no power consumption, accurate to within around one mile.
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I disabled it. Its a sub-service from Google Play Service
I also disabled AnalyticsService, DispatchingService, GoogleLocationService,GoogleLocationManagerService,NetworkLocationService,NlplocationReceiverService
I'm enabling it if i need them
Ok I doubt anyone else is as stupid as I am, but if you are, DO NOT DISABLE/FREEZE FUSED LOCATION. Bootlooped my phone.
I blame this guy :
oasisfeng said:
Guys, you all get it wrong. According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy. It has no connection to the fuse file system.
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Of course it's mostly my own fault for interpreting his comment incorrectly but I was frustrated over the weak GPS signal of my new phone.
FusedLocationProvider is different than "Fused Location 4.2.2-3"
Fused Location 4.2.2-3 = Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) = Do not disable
FusedLocationProvider = GPS related = Disable at your own risk
tutorialbs said:
Ok I doubt anyone else is as stupid as I am, but if you are, DO NOT DISABLE/FREEZE FUSED LOCATION. Bootlooped my phone.
I blame this guy :
Of course it's mostly my own fault for interpreting his comment incorrectly but I was frustrated over the weak GPS signal of my new phone.
FusedLocationProvider is different than "Fused Location 4.2.2-3"
Fused Location 4.2.2-3 = Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) = Do not disable
FusedLocationProvider = GPS related = Disable at your own risk
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ouch! lol!
sorry I don't mean to laugh AT you...Just the situation, can see how that mistake can easily be made
tutorialbs said:
Ok I doubt anyone else is as stupid as I am, but if you are, DO NOT DISABLE/FREEZE FUSED LOCATION. Bootlooped my phone.
I blame this guy :
Of course it's mostly my own fault for interpreting his comment incorrectly but I was frustrated over the weak GPS signal of my new phone.
FusedLocationProvider is different than "Fused Location 4.2.2-3"
Fused Location 4.2.2-3 = Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) = Do not disable
FusedLocationProvider = GPS related = Disable at your own risk
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please tell me that you read this and can tell me how you solved it. i think i may have made the same mistake
oasisfeng said:
Guys, you all get it wrong. According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy. It has no connection to the fuse file system.
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u r right in a way.
But,there's a huge difference b2in location and location provider.
Location is related to a virtual file system(noob guess) and location provider is related to gps.
80% times, deleting fusedlocation.apk will give u a bootloop in AOSP roms.
gsmitchell said:
Hi all! I am on a Gnex CM10.1.0 stable. I have started using Carat to try and track down what is using up my battery so quickly. Carat was pointing to the Fused Location as a big drain, so I have force stopped it to see if it will help. I use my GPS a good bit, so will be an interesting test.
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Hi 3 years later....
what was the result of your test?
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please tell me that you read this and can tell me how you solved it. i think i may have made the same mistake
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Yes my thoughts exactly. This might be an old thread but it turned out to be relevant to me. This part especially.
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So, i disabled Fused Location and when i re-enable it, my gps does not work !! I can't restore my orginal GPS settings and can't use it anymore.My location does not appear in Google maps or other location needed apps.
(I disabled it to use GPS Spoofing for Pokemon GO)
Hey guys, I've got a Verizon GNex, 4.2.2 radios, aphrophis's current AOKP build. When you guys open maps, does show you in some entirely random location for a few seconds, then lock? I'll open maps and it'll show me in a location 50 miles away, then lock. It's a problem because apps like Google now report my location to be far from where I actually am.
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Yup, mine dies that too when I'm at work, where no gps signal penetrates the building. Even though I'm on Wi-Fi, maps seems to think I'm somewhere far off. I think it might be pointing me to the nearest 4g tower, but I'm not entirely sure.
Now, queue the gpsconf mod fanatics...Lol
There should be a light blue circle on the map (not the darker blue one that represents the position the system has).
This one shows the error margin of the location. You can actually be anywhere in that light blue circle (for gps and wlan this should normally be a very small one) and the darker blue dot is just a good guess by google (based on a number of different factors I think).
Using a mobile connection only to locate you is not very precise and can vary depending on the number of phone towers you have around you.
And it also takes some time to acquire a GPS lock. Since a GPS lock will only be done when necessary it will start when you open maps and have GPS turned on. Until there is a lock it will show your location based on whatever is available and activated by you in the settings.