I can't post in the dev forums yet so I'll post this here. My GPS seems to be working....aka it can locate me fine on maps however when I start a navigation it won't follow me or even show correct maps half the time. Anyone experience this? Tested using cyanogen mod nightly. Trying the rc1 today.
More then likely its the usual GPS issue for aosp. Do a full wipe using advanced wipe option and choosing all but internal storage. Flash a stock sense ROM and pull up maps or GPS. Let it get a lock on you. The full wipe again and flash cm back. Is GPS isn't moving that's the usual deal. Maps will get a lock but if you pull up just the map and then drive somewhere it won't change position till you close maps and open again.
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More then likely its the usual GPS issue for aosp. Do a full wipe using advanced wipe option and choosing all but internal storage. Flash a stock sense ROM and pull up maps or GPS. Let it get a lock on you. The full wipe again and flash cm back. Is GPS isn't moving that's the usual deal. Maps will get a lock but if you pull up just the map and then drive somewhere it won't change position till you close maps and open again.
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Thanks. Ill try that. However do I need to do this every time I re-flash after? Or just the initial move to Cyanogen?
Usually just the first time if it happens. Sometimes it can happen again if you're switching between the 2 a lot. But normally its a one time thing
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Usually just the first time if it happens. Sometimes it can happen again if you're switching between the 2 a lot. But normally its a one time thing
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Thanks, any sense rom will work?
Any sense should work. I usually use my stock backup.
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Yea I just got a replacement HTC One and forgot about this. Flashed straight into CM and couldn't get a GPS lock. Had to download and flash Bonestock and lock my GPS. Make sure you get something like GPS Status & Toolbox app to see that you have a successful GPS lock while in Sense. Then go back to AOSP.
Make sure maps has access to your location if you have Cyanogenmod privacy guard enabled. I would get location on maps, but my location wasn't updating in nav. I noticed privacy guard was the culprit, toggled it off, and everything worked fine.
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Ok so my gps used to work fine and then I tried a bunch of different themes and now it won't turn on. I push the button in the pull down bar and it looks like it is on but the gps symbol never shows up. Anyone have a clue what to do.
I dont know much about it but this may help. If your using a custom rom you may have to reflash it. Im using StarskyRom and gps has constantly worked good for me.
I know that the 2 Epics in my household worked fine as far as GPS goes on Froyo, but after the OTA to GB, they each would only lock onto 4 sats out of 10 and it take a very long time to do it. This problem is a known GB bug. But if you root like I did, you can quickly flash the GPS fix and wow! It will lock on to 8, 9 or 10 in just a few seconds. Other people were complaining that they had noticed that the Navigation apps would also lock up after about 30 minutes. I suspect this was due to only locking on 4 and losing one or 2 of those.
Go ahead and root and get the GPS fix kernel. Also, there's one other kernel flash you must do to get your root to stick (otherwise you'll lose it on your next reboot) and that kernel also fixes the missing keyboard key strokes when you text too fast.
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I too am having new GPS issues. I flashed Legendary 4.01 and it is working great other than my GPS constantly polling. It is probably some app but I cannot figure out what app is doing it. I have uninstalled my weather app. I have fewer apps installed now, then when I was on Bonsai ROM and this is a new issue. No new app from my Bonsai install. Any suggestions or tips for determining the cause would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I am on froyo eco5. I am using srf 1.2 genocide 2.0 and emotionless beast theme. Everything was working great then I wanted to try some different themes. So I tried 4-5 of them wiping cache and dalvik three times each everytime I flashed each theme. After all the different themes I ended up with a whole bunch of different parts of each theme. So I wanted to go back to emotionless beast so I wiped everything and flashed rom, kernal, and theme all over again and my gps stopped working. Is there any fix for it?
Ok so found out that my gps does work if I launch a program that uses gps then go into the settings and turn it on. So the only thing that does not work is the gps button in the pull down bar. Any idea why this would happen?
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Ok so found out that my gps does work if I launch a program that uses gps then go into the settings and turn it on. So the only thing that does not work is the gps button in the pull down bar. Any idea why this would happen?
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It does sound like a theme issue. I'm not sure exactly why that's happening. I would try re-installing the theme to remedy that.
Ok so I reflashed my theme and still nothing. The gps button just seems like it is not connected to turn on the gps on. I don't know what to do. Anyone else.
Led4lyf said:
Ok so I reflashed my theme and still nothing. The gps button just seems like it is not connected to turn on the gps on. I don't know what to do. Anyone else.
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Reflash the ROM without the theme and try it.
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I rarely touch the gps function of my phone so the gps is always disabled, but it comes a time after some days of uptime (cannot give an exact number cause this is the second time I experience this), now I have 227 hours, that I enable the GPS but in fact it isn't enabled. How I know this? Well, all the gps using apps like navigation software (igo) and GPS Test aren't fixing location even after 1-2 hours and the gps icon in the notification bar isn't appearing. "GPS Test" says that gps is ON but it won't connect to any sat. If I restart the phone GPS works like it should so no problem there, but I am really curios as why this happenes and how could it be fixed without reboot.
ROM: BlackICE 1.27. (running CM since ...... forever so if I experienced this before it was also with CM rom)
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Ivan.
Try to push and hold the antenna cover on the behind and see if the signals gets better, if not download the AGPS patch from here on xda. If the problem was the antenna cover then you will have to buy another one and replace it (YouTube) or unroot, S-ON and get it back to stock and then send it back to get it repaired.
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I do not have signal or hardware problems. It's software thing. After some uptime when I enable the GPS switch the gps apps see that gps is on, but gps funktions do not work. ALso the GPS icon in the notification bar is not appearing. Only device reboot fixes it, and then ofcourse gps works like a charm ! But I do not want to reboot, that is why I'm asking for a posibile solution.
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I rarely touch the gps function of my phone so the gps is always disabled, but it comes a time after some days of uptime (cannot give an exact number cause this is the second time I experience this), now I have 227 hours, that I enable the GPS but in fact it isn't enabled. How I know this? Well, all the gps using apps like navigation software (igo) and GPS Test aren't fixing location even after 1-2 hours and the gps icon in the notification bar isn't appearing. "GPS Test" says that gps is ON but it won't connect to any sat. If I restart the phone GPS works like it should so no problem there, but I am really curios as why this happenes and how could it be fixed without reboot.
ROM: BlackICE 1.27. (running CM since ...... forever so if I experienced this before it was also with CM rom)
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Ivan.
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I had similar problem on cm 7.
Found it if i turn on the gps by a widget it wouldnt fix location or show up in the notification bar. Try switching it on by using the settings -> locations.
Gps fix was horrible on cm7 anyway and camera was grainy, switched back to sense rom (rev hd 7).
Tried that with the settings -> Locations didn't help. For this little issue I won't change to Sense. I do NOT have any problems with gps fix, it does it in 10 seconds max as long as it turns on. The camera indeed isn't the best but I don't give a rats ass about pics because I have a professional camera. And because of the performance and batterylife of CM I will never change back to Sense.
Thanks for the advice thou.
When you say not turning on and not showing in the status bar, I'm wondering if the location settings are correct.
Since a reboot helps but after running the phone a while you can't fix sats.
1. Have you tried clearing igo data and cache? That seems like it should work since rebooting does.
2. Are your GPS locations set correctly? --would think so, but then it wonks out later.
When I initially had problems I got GPS status and downloaded agps assistance but still had problems, rebooting didn't help and push some other file.
Let me know about 1 and 2 see if that helps or what to get GPS on for you all the time (when you want it)
--willm
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Before I go into IGO I always make the first gps check with gps test plus. And the gps icon is not appearing on status bar, and ofc no sats are found by GPS test. Now gps works because i had to reboot because of another installation. So now everything works great. (gps related)
I also did all the things with agps assitance.... but I am very shure that these things have nothing do to with it, because gps works very good when it is runing.
I am pretty sure it's ROM related.
Yeah sounds that way, just gotta check those simple (we do them) but overlooked tasks.
Good to know everything is working now. Sometimes I just wait for that next update if I don't use a feature that is not working right.
--will'm
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Same thing has happened to me, too. I'm a CM nightly user.
So far the only solution I have found to work is rebooting the phone.
I've found out it seems to happen mostly when I turn the GPS on using the Power Control widget and most of the times it's working fine if I turn the GPS on using the Notification Power Widget.
I have the same issue with the Data connection: when trying to turn it on using the Power Control widget it's a hit and miss situation. I reported this in the CM7 thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22459809&postcount=7352
but no one could offer an explanation or a solution except full wipe.
I always do a full wipe and this still happens.
It's been a few days since I've been using the LorD ClockaN's latest kernel and the issue seems to have gone away.
Here's the kernel thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085725
and I'm using the kernel from here:
http://blackice.omca.co.uk/download/icecoldsandwich/UE-ginger-kernels/
The kernel file is lordmodUEv8.9-CFS-b2-gpu.zip
Try it, see if it makes a difference for you, too.
Hy,
I am always using the latest LC kerrnel, and tried to activate GPS from everywhere.
I mostly use the notification Widget and still same behavior. Never had problems with the data switch and I do use that one alot. At the moment GPS works because I rebooted few days a go.
Thanks for the reply.
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ivanlaszik said:
Hy,
I am always using the latest LC kerrnel, and tried to activate GPS from everywhere.
I mostly use the notification Widget and still same behavior. Never had problems with the data switch and I do use that one alot. At the moment GPS works because I rebooted few days a go.
Thanks for the reply.
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hey have you solved the problem ? i also encounter this on my phone (other brand). it works a few times then no incon shows up so i have to reboot to make it work again.
the same. when in works it works fast an nice.. but i hate to reboot when i`m on the point to leave with the car......
answer please
I always had very fast gps lock about 10" with almost every rom out there. Last i was using slim ics and had excellent gps. Yesterday flashed rascream and gps coudn't lock but no one else has a problem tried several times with wipe but nothing. I restored my nandoid of slim ics and again no lock. with gps test i see that there are 1 or 2 sats in view sometimes but they vanish after 2-3" . Tried clearing agps data and maps data with wifi or 3g on/off nothing. Is this a H/W issue?
Navigation (read NAVIGATION as in the app) has a hard time locking onto me. Maps and other app have no issue however. Odd.
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GPS=Most finicky and problematic part of this phone
BOOM.
As I mentioned above I never had problem with GPS using maps or copilot but now it just can't lock no matter what I have tried. I never use navigation because I don't live in us.
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Whenever the phone start to have issues to get a lock I do the following:
1 - Make sure you have a good data connection, Open GPS Test (I use the Chartcross version, not sure if there are other apps with a similar name)
2 - Once GPS Test is in the main screen, I click menu button
3 - In the menu, I choose Settings
4 - In the top part of the settings menu, I click Clear AGPS and wait about 10 seconds... Then I click Update AGPS and wait about 10 seconds as well
5- I hit back to go to the main screen of GPS Test, and wait until GPS signal gets a lock
Not sure why, but, once in a while I have to do that (I just use 4.0.4, stock, no changes whatsoever, ehrm, except for root). Usually phone gets GPS signal in less than 10 seconds, I've had the phone starting to take 1 minute or so twice to get the GPS signal lock, and in both cases, the above mentioned steps solved it.
P.s.: since you changed ROMs, you should also check your GPS settings (Configurations, Personal / Localization Services) Make sure that at least the two first items are ticked.
My GPS is terrible and takes forever to lock.
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I suspect a h/w problem I will wait 2 more days to see if anything will change and after that I will contact Samsung. I have tried everything listed above and many more things before opening this thread but nothing seems to work.
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Could be the modem?
It could be the modem. Probably needs to be updated or since were nearing the 4G LTE switch, Sprint could have their hands dirty with this issue until fully resolved. I had this issue with my HTC EVO 3d, GPS was a mess. But since I've changed the recovery and upgraded rom, its been working like a champ.
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Whenever the phone start to have issues to get a lock I do the following:
1 - Make sure you have a good data connection, Open GPS Test (I use the Chartcross version, not sure if there are other apps with a similar name)
2 - Once GPS Test is in the main screen, I click menu button
3 - In the menu, I choose Settings
4 - In the top part of the settings menu, I click Clear AGPS and wait about 10 seconds... Then I click Update AGPS and wait about 10 seconds as well
5- I hit back to go to the main screen of GPS Test, and wait until GPS signal gets a lock
Not sure why, but, once in a while I have to do that (I just use 4.0.4, stock, no changes whatsoever, ehrm, except for root). Usually phone gets GPS signal in less than 10 seconds, I've had the phone starting to take 1 minute or so twice to get the GPS signal lock, and in both cases, the above mentioned steps solved it.
P.s.: since you changed ROMs, you should also check your GPS settings (Configurations, Personal / Localization Services) Make sure that at least the two first items are ticked.
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Meets34 said:
My GPS is terrible and takes forever to lock.
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A cold lock will take around 1:30min to 2minutes.
a hot lock takes 4seconds to 30 seconds.
I think that recovery has nothing to do with this and the network also. I'm using copilot that is a stand alone GPS. I should also have mentioned that I m a GSM user.
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Seems that GPS problem is solved without changing anything after 2 days not working. Its so weird! Last night and today I get a lock in under 10" .
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Seems that GPS problem is solved without changing anything after 2 days not working. Its so weird! Last night and today I get a lock in under 10" .
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681299
Similar post there (by me, sorry for advertising, but is this the same problem you're having?)
TechActivist said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681299
Similar post there (by me, sorry for advertising, but is this the same problem you're having?)
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Roughly yes but I had very good GPS earlier than that. The problem solved out of it's own. I can't understand how or why! Its like there were no sats above me.
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I have noticed this for the last two weeks. My GPS has been acting goofy, and if I try to navigate it will just always say "searching for GPS". I made sure that my actual gps is turned on, I did so from the drop down notification, but I noticed that when opening my maps and stuff, I don't get the gps icon in my notification bar. Any one else experiencing this? I'm wondering if my phone is jacked, or if there's s quick fix. Phone if totally stock, no Rom, it's not flashed or anything. I did update to 4.1
Thanks in advance for any help.
Reset your phone from settings> backup and restore. If that doesn't work then Odin back to stock and repeat.
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Reset your phone from settings> backup and restore. If that doesn't work then Odin back to stock and repeat.
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I think this might be a little excessive.
Hard reset fixed this issue on my S3. Just pull the battery without shutting the phone down then turn the phone back on. I haven't had the issue come back since doing the first and only hard reset on my phone.
joeman55 said:
I have noticed this for the last two weeks. My GPS has been acting goofy, and if I try to navigate it will just always say "searching for GPS". I made sure that my actual gps is turned on, I did so from the drop down notification, but I noticed that when opening my maps and stuff, I don't get the gps icon in my notification bar. Any one else experiencing this? I'm wondering if my phone is jacked, or if there's s quick fix. Phone if totally stock, no Rom, it's not flashed or anything. I did update to 4.1
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Untick and tick back GPS and WiFi localisation in localisation settings.
Search faster GPS in the play store. My phone locks instantly now.
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joeman55 said:
I have noticed this for the last two weeks. My GPS has been acting goofy, and if I try to navigate it will just always say "searching for GPS". I made sure that my actual gps is turned on, I did so from the drop down notification, but I noticed that when opening my maps and stuff, I don't get the gps icon in my notification bar. Any one else experiencing this? I'm wondering if my phone is jacked, or if there's s quick fix. Phone if totally stock, no Rom, it's not flashed or anything. I did update to 4.1
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I have been having this same GPS issue since I upgraded to jelly bean....
I have Odin back to stock , changed my kernels, changed base bands, installed various custom ROMs and tried GPS fix apps from the playstore ...The issue still persists......The only time it worked for 2 days straight without issues was when I installed the Paranoid android AOSP ROM.....
It had various bugs I wasn't willing to live with so I am back to wicked v2.1 and still trying to find a permanent solution regarding ng the s3's GPS issue..
The GPS temporarily works when the phone is restarted but after about 10 mins the GPS icon doesn't come on again until the phone is restarted...
I am currently using my Tmobile s3 to send this message and my GPS is not functional at the moment...I always have to restart the phone when I want to use navigation..
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I think this might be a little excessive.
Hard reset fixed this issue on my S3. Just pull the battery without shutting the phone down then turn the phone back on. I haven't had the issue come back since doing the first and only hard reset on my phone.
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I did a battery pull yesterday, GPS has been working along with navigation. I'm just waiting to see how long it will work now. It sounds like it's a known issue than? Let's how there's a fix!
Okay, long story short I drive at work, use GPS a lot, almost every day.
Every once in a while my GPS will just stop holding a lock. When I try to use navigation it will not have a lock, then the GPS symbol will blink for a couple seconds, lock on, then a couple seconds later it loses a lock again.
When this happens even a clean wipe and clean rom install doesn't fix it... I just kinda have to wait it out.
I'm about to return my S4 to T-Mobile and get a new one because this has happened like 8 times now and it really interferes with my work.
I use my gps quite a bit and have never had an issue... Stock or custom roms
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Okay, long story short I drive at work, use GPS a lot, almost every day.
Every once in a while my GPS will just stop holding a lock. When I try to use navigation it will not have a lock, then the GPS symbol will blink for a couple seconds, lock on, then a couple seconds later it loses a lock again.
When this happens even a clean wipe and clean rom install doesn't fix it... I just kinda have to wait it out.
I'm about to return my S4 to T-Mobile and get a new one because this has happened like 8 times now and it really interferes with my work.
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Never had an issue with GPS? Which custom ROM are you using?
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I have same problem. My temporary solution is to download GPS Status & Toolbox. Open it and click Menu> Tools>Manage A-GPS state> reset. then try opening Google Maps or Navigation
(make sure GPS is on. Not off)
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I have same problem. My temporary solution is to download GPS Status & Toolbox. Open it and click Menu> Tools>Manage A-GPS state> reset. then try opening Google Maps or Navigation
(make sure GPS is on. Not off)
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I tried with a differnet program called GPS Status and one called GPS Fixer to no avail, I'll try this one though next time it happens.
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Never had an issue with GPS? Which custom ROM are you using?
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sdmark said:
I use my gps quite a bit and have never had an issue... Stock or custom roms
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Any rom. It's happened on Stock, CM, AOKP, PAC, PA, etc, both M919 ROM's and i9505 ROM's... I don't know.
Well if that tool doesn't work, then you may be looking at a hardware issue.