So I bought my S3 in February but I haven't had to use the GPS portion of the phone since I have a TomTom GPS. Yesterday I forgot my GPS and was trying to use my S3's to find out a friend's apt. I fired up Navigation and entered the address but then the GPS was stuck at "Searching for GPS". I waited few minutes to see if it can get a GPS lock. 10 minutes later still couldn't get a lock. Then I got home and tried to see if I could get a lock. No Luck. I waited about 20-30 minues trying to get a lock on the driveway from where I had a clear view of the sky. Anyone knows how to fix this issue?
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Hi,
I am a complete newbie to smart phones and a proud owner of a TP2. I am having trouble using the GPS.
Doesn't the TP2 come with GPS chipset? Do I need to do any configuration before I can use it.
My phone came installed with Google maps and McGuider softwares. When I use McGuider, it says "waiting for a valid signal" and remains in that stage for a while. When I choose "Use GPS" in Googlemaps, it says "Seeking GPS Satellite (0)).
What should I do? Please help me.
It said that for mine when using google maps as well but yesterday I took it in the car and drove around for a bit and it latched on to 11 satellites about 5minutes into the drive. Also go to 'All Programs' and update QuickGPS
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this may help with the GPS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542699
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I saw in other threads of this forum that GPS might take sometime to connect to the satellite the first time you use it.
So I opened my McGuider program and left it overnight for it to find a valid signal. In the morning I was terribly disappointed to see tat it was still searching for a signal.
I did try the quick GPS option.
I have not installed the hotfix that was mentioned by drgi_sk. Shall try that.
Meanwhile any other suggestions? The program I am using says it is using Com4 with 4800 BD. Is this by default?
koopharaoh said:
I saw in other threads of this forum that GPS might take sometime to connect to the satellite the first time you use it.
So I opened my McGuider program and left it overnight for it to find a valid signal. In the morning I was terribly disappointed to see tat it was still searching for a signal.
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Did you leave it in your car? GPS doesn't work well indoors - best if there is a visible line of sight to the satellites.
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Ok guys..I am really sorry about my ignorance.
Today, I went outside and stood under the sun for a good 5 minutes and it finally connected. Even though I put the phone near my window sill yesterday night, it didnt work.. I guess it is the "visible line of sight to the satellites" that Mesquire mentioned that was the issue.
Once again sorry for wasting your time and thanks for the support..
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I really dont think its your ignorance here that is the problem.
The GPS seems really Buggy.
Sometimes it will connect, othertimes I get the searching for satellites problem.
When using Tomtom in the car out on country roads and I stopped waiting for a signal, after 10mins I gave up, no signal, LOST
Every once and a while it does work and I get 5-10 satellites, so it can work...
I am used to using a BT GPS so I know about how the signal works, so thats not the problem.
I'll give that link a go hopefully it helps I dont want to carry around a BT GPS and my phone, thats half the reason I upgraded...
No problem with mine, obviously indoors it struggles but outside can easily get 9-10. mine has just picked up 4/5 satellites indoors on my desk about 8 ft from a window
Hey guys, is there any particular reason why I wouldn't be getting a GPS Lock on any ROMs when using things such as Google Maps or GPS Photo in the Camera.
I've tried all sorts of ROMs and they are all the same. Google Maps keeps doing the Searching for Setellite thing with 0 results.
I've tried various Radios too but still no go. I wonder if it has anything to do with SIM Unlock I did with Olipro's utility.
Any help is appreciated, otherwise I may have to return the device.
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I flashed NRG's Leo Manila 2.5 ROM that has footprints, and I can't get a fix. I've tried googlemaps, gps photo, trapster, and footprints. I left my phone for almost 20 minutes and still no fix.
I'm gonna try the fix I found in one of the threads in the Rhodium general thread. we'll see what happens.
Did you have any luck with the fix?
I have tried the T-Back ATT aGPS Fix but still no go!
Anybody have any ideas?
Have you tried turning on aGPS in the settings/system? also can try updating to the latest radio which worked wonders for me to get My location working.
Make sure you use quick GPS also which helps lock faster.
Remember sometimes it can take awhile to get your first lock.
Well, so far, I've tried turning on aGPS in Settings/System. I've also tried downloading the latest info with QuickGPS and trying it that way. Still no luck!
I got an email from Olipro saying that it could take up to 40 mins to get a lock. How in the world is this at all acceptable???? 40 mins is toooooooooo long.
But I will let it sit there for a while today and see what happens.
are you trying it out in the open? testing gps indoors is a no-no.
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are you trying it out in the open? testing gps indoors is a no-no.
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Well that's about the only thing thats left to try. So I'll give that a shot and see what happens.
What?! Don't tell me you have been trying it inside a building! That's worse than trying to catch a tan through a window
Also, if you live in the city, buildings will also block the line-of-sight to satellites so it will take longer to synchronize.
On my phone, the GPS is much, much improved over the Fuze, using stock AT&T ROM. It takes about 12 seconds to get a lock with Garmin Mobile XT--and that's indoors.
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What?! Don't tell me you have been trying it inside a building! That's worse than trying to catch a tan through a window
Also, if you live in the city, buildings will also block the line-of-sight to satellites so it will take longer to synchronize.
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haha Well I thought it'd take a little longer than if I was outside but...not 20-40 mins longer!! Hopefully that'll be the issue is not being outside....and not that the device is defective.
Since GPS requires line-of-sight to multiple statellites, it depends on the building you are in. I get no signal at all when I'm in my house or travelling through tunnels.
Then there is a difference between cold and warm start. Cold start is when you first load the GPS app and sync to satellites, warm start is a reconnect after you lose your signals for short periods (say through tunnels). My fastest cold start sync was less than 30 seconds on a program called MapKing, all out in the open of course.
I am traveling overseas and trying to use my offline maps bit I cannot seem to get a fix with the Gps while in airplane mode. The icon is on, it says it is searching for satellites but it won't work no matter how long I wait. Any ideas what the problem is?
It might be stuck in a loop trying to find satellites since it expects the ones over your previous location. Usually the GPS uses your wireless tower signal to get a quick idea of where you are and which satellites to use (unless you turn that off). If it can't do that and you are way far away from your last fix, it may take a very long time to locate you. How long did you wait? Maybe the GPS isn't programmed to use satellites over your current location. It's a US handset, after all.
I've been walking around Stockholm for a day and it hasn't even come close to getting a fix. Is there any way to tell it where I am so it can look for the right satellites? The g in gps stands for global, so I assumed it would j"just work."
I had this issue crop up over the weekend and it has gotten worse. GPS takes 30 seconds to 4 minutes to lock.
Called Sprint, the reset the phone to factory, re-provisioned it and it still didn't work right.
Took it to a Sprint Corporate store / repair center and after an hour and a half them came pout and told me they fixed my 3g issue? I showed them the GPS issue and they are ordering me a new phone as they are all out of them.
BTW....installing and turning on GPS test first doesn't help. Clearing the agps data doesn't help either. At times once the GPS does start working it just simply gives up the ghost and goes dead for varying amounts of time as well.
When this happens, I also get an ERROR 128 message on the screen saying signal was lost. Unable to sign on to the network. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me if it corresponds to GPS, 3G, etc?
Can someone recommend a good gps app that doesn't rely on Google Navigation? Google maps wouldn't lock any satellites on 4.1.2 and it works even less in kit kat. My wife had a very important doctors appointment today and we almost missed it because it was the 1st time using the navigation on kit kat and to my dismay, it's still garbage!
And I refuse to play the blame game between AT&T and LG as to who is to blame and needs to fix it.
First, let it do an initial fix. Install GPS Status & Toolbox from Play (or don't, use Maps application you already have), go out, enable High precision location (if using Maps, tap on My location button) and wait for a fix. It takes around 5 minutes, if device's GPS wasn't initialised. If devices GPS was initialised but can't get a fix, I suggest installing GPS Status and check the number of available satelites.
osmand uses OpenStreetMap, so you may try with that.
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First, let it do an initial fix. Install GPS Status & Toolbox from Play (or don't, use Maps application you already have), go out, enable High precision location (if using Maps, tap on My location button) and wait for a fix. It takes around 5 minutes, if device's GPS wasn't initialised. If devices GPS was initialised but can't get a fix, I suggest installing GPS Status and check the number of available satelites.
osmand uses OpenStreetMap, so you may try with that.
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Thanks zamajalo. I think that may have worked but I didn't test it by going for a drive. But I do have to go into town tomorrow so I'll test it on the road then. But so you know, it's connecting to 10 out of 22 satellites. I applied the fix from gps status but also used another app called gps fix so who knows which one did the trick....lol.
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Thanks zamajalo. I think that may have worked but I didn't test it by going for a drive. But I do have to go into town tomorrow so I'll test it on the road then. But so you know, it's connecting to 10 out of 22 satellites. I applied the fix from gps status but also used another app called gps fix so who knows which one did the trick....lol.
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I usually have a lock on 8 to 10 satellites on open, so that's pretty much OK. If you get a location fix, there should be no more problems.
Yeah it did the location fix but it said something about it only lasting a couple days?
What exactly? I've never seen that message on my phone or others.
When it downloads the extra content for the gps fix. it gives some disclaimer about how it may only last a couple days before having to download the content again. But it doesn't matter. It didn't work. It kept dropping the gps signal every two minutes and the screen would hardly refresh and show the direction properly. It just sits on the starting screen(your starting point), tells me how far down the road to go, then drops signal, doesn't give you directions anymore, and when it finally does pick up the gps signal it takes forever for it to "recalculate" your position. Oh and losing the signal again. Did I mention losing the signal?....lol
This happened with 4.1.2 also so it leads me to believe it's not a software issue but rather a hardware issue. I:E LG sucks for gps!