I've tried several kit kat roms and GPS cannot be found on any, I've reflashed wiped cache and still no luck. Any ideas
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I've tried running cm7.0.3 and virtuous 1.0.2 and I can't get a GPS lock while using runkeeper. Is this because of my location?? or the rom?
I've also tried the clear cache zip file for CM7 and it still didn't work.
Thanks
Did your GPS work when you were stock?
There are quite a few reports of GPS issues with CM, I know I experienced (and still do to some degree) a lot of them.
There are several things that people have tried to fix this issue..
You can wipe your "EFS" data, I tried this and it made things different but I'm not sure if it made them better.
You can flash a new radio, I'm currently running 12.50.60.24_26.08.04.16 and it's working reasonably well for me but there is a newer one available that I plan on switching to the next time I upgrade CM
See http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/21454-gps-on-g2-not-working-stable-7/ for more information
Thanks, tried wiping efs but that didn't work. Will try the radio now
Hey guys,
Don't shoot me, I've already done the research and still can't seem to find an answer. Regardless of ROM I can't get GPS to find any satellite's, fresh root, SR4.2, Synergy RC2, CM7 nightly, MIUI, Virtuous. I unrooted to see if it was a possible hardware issue, which it isn't as an unrooted phone gives me fast locks onto whatever sat is near. GPS Status shows nothing in the sky even after a A-GPS reset and download, although I know there's always at least 3 that are visible. I've tried clearing cache for any gps based app, tried running fresh rom installs instead of backups all with no luck. Any ideas guys?
Currently I'm running:
ROM - SR 4.2
Baseband - 2.15.00.07.28
Kernel - Stock Kernel from SR4.2 (2.6.32.17-g9a2fc16 htc-kernel[email protected] #1
PRL - 52341
HW Version - 0002
CWM - 3.0.0.7
HBoot - 0.92.0000
Radio - 2.15.00.07.28
Looks like I'm stuck going back to stock unrooted until I can get this fixed.
I'm having the exact same problem. Tried multiple roms and doing A-GPS resets. I'm not sure what else to try, anyone have any other ideas? May have to unroot for now so I can use GPS while traveling.
nate23 said:
I'm having the exact same problem. Tried multiple roms and doing A-GPS resets. I'm not sure what else to try, anyone have any other ideas? May have to unroot for now so I can use GPS while traveling.
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If you are in NY or other new 4g area it may be related to a problem others are having with AGPS upate VZW pushed. No ROM seems to work.
yep, it was an issue with New York. We drove to Boston on Sunday, I tried clearing my A-GPS in western Massachusetts and suddenly got a lock on GPS! Google maps then worked perfectly all the way to Boston.
Well there is no way I'm giving up root or custom roms, Google or Verizon need a better solution than that.
I actually fixed mine and never left NY, I dropped to stock then went back to SR 4.3 and haven't had a problem since, and I've flashed 3.0 roms and SR 4.3 multiple times with no problem. So if you're still having a problem unroot then reroot. It should fix it.
Howdy,
So I'm another user having problems with GPS on my HTC Wildfire. I tried pretty much everyhing. Flashed all different radio versions via Recovery, fastboot and Android Flasher. Also I installed the agps patch. None of these solved my problem.
Before doing all this I had no GPS status bar icon at all. Now at least I have an icon showing me that he is constantly searching for GPS.
I also used GPS Test to clear and update AGPS but no luck.
Finally I tried several custom ROMS, from CM, to Splashmod and rempuzzle and all of them have this problem. So it's ROM independent.
What else can I try?
Fasterfix and gps essentials are the 2 apps that helped me fix my gps once.. and i had even used the agps patch by crypted for more accuracy
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Howdy,
So I'm another user having problems with GPS on my HTC Wildfire. I tried pretty much everyhing. Flashed all different radio versions via Recovery, fastboot and Android Flasher. Also I installed the agps patch. None of these solved my problem.
Before doing all this I had no GPS status bar icon at all. Now at least I have an icon showing me that he is constantly searching for GPS.
I also used GPS Test to clear and update AGPS but no luck.
Finally I tried several custom ROMS, from CM, to Splashmod and rempuzzle and all of them have this problem. So it's ROM independent.
What else can I try?
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If you did all the above really clean - I mean with formatting/wiping/factory resets etc. it could also be a hardware problem in the end. But from my experience there are just a lot of pitfalls why solutions won't work.
The fact that you didn't get the icon show up before but now it does looks to me that it's not a hardware problem. My suggestion would be to reflash either the radio and the ROM again - but as clean as possible.
- look into "The Complete Wildfire Index" thread (in "General") pick the radio in the middle and flash that first
- do a clean wipe of at least the system partition, cache and dalvik-cache (I also do "format system" and sometimes a "wipe all/factory reset" to be sure and it couldn't hurt to wipe data also - your decision)
- flash the ROM you want to use
- flash gapps
- reboot and look what it does (this most likely won't do at that point)
- flash the newest of the 3 radios afterwards and see if this helps
--- Edit --- to flash two different radios is a dirty trick to remove leftovers or problems because wiping or formatting doesn't touch the radio --- EDIT ---
For testing GPS I suggest GPS Status from the market (best tool in my opinion). You could delete ags data as well with it.
The agps patch (I'm using it too) is just for optimization (to get faster responses) - it won't help if your GPS doesn't work at all.
Hello guys,
I finally resolved the issue and realised that GPS was working all the time well. However, I always tried to search for a signal inside a building in front of my computer and was not aware of the fact that the signal might be too weak to be received from within inside...:silly:
Anyway, the flashing method apparently did the trick!
Cheers
Hello,
I am running cm10 b2 on my e4gt and i am having the most difficult time getting a gps fix. I did a nandroid backup then flashed back to el29 and then back to cm10 b2. And after I booted back i got a gps fix. However several hours later I get no fix despite multiple resets, battery pulls, and clearing and redownloading the a-gps data. Does anyone else have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this problem?
I've spent all day trying ROMs from here. Even a few plain note 3 then flashed a T-Mobile kernel on top.
Jedi v1.1 and wicked are the only ROMs that can get a GPS lock. They're both 4.4.2 but I've tried PAC 4.4.2 and others and they didn't work. I LOVE the new 4.4.4 PAC but I need working GPS for work.
Only fixes I've heard are GPS status app and GPA.conf #3 thing, neither worked. I've tried factory wipes, dirty flash, format sd card, same results.
Wtf is going on? anyone have any insights?
GPS has a lot of issues. The only thing that fixed it for me was the topntp app. I tried everything else as well a while back. You can find it here on xda, or get from the market. The first lock takes a while, but works. Give it a shot.
Sent from the dirty flashed note 3!