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.
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I have a question for those of you out there with a Koodo s2x t989d. I rooted my phone soon after I got it to fix a non-working gps. I did this so that I could use ClockSync app to auto update time so gps could be accurate. It worked. I have since been trying dozens of custom roms, cyanogenmod, Aokp roms, ptmr's roms and all in both ICS and JB. Not one rom no matter how I installed it (trying different orders of wiping, installing radios, roms, and clearing cach/ factory reset.) can I get the Gps to work. Everything else always works great. It does work on stock rom after I fixed it, and I recently found it works great on Ptmrs koodo V5. Now im sure this is because it is a stock based rom, also based on my carrier. It is a great rom, but I really would like to try some of the others, specifically Cyanogenmod 9 or 10. I have also tryed APGS fix version 2 and 3 on most of the custom roms I have tried.
I guess my question is, is there any koodo t989d owners out there that have a proven method for my gps to work on a custom rom? Everything else works great, just not GPS on custom roms!!
Also, to the more knowledgeable with installing roms, is there any reason that Gps works great on only koodo stock based roms? I am fairly bright and could probably attempt most suggestions if there was any to try to fix this.
Thanks in advance!!
Much appreciated!!!
Mike
Pasting from another thread I replied to:
txrocker281 said:
How is the GPS on this rom? I am using it so far and love how smooth it is SO FAR, but I do a lot of driving and dont want maps to not locate me
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It's become my habit to flash this GPS fix (found here)every time I flash a ROM, similar to flashing the gapps or titanium backup after the first reboot.
Might be a placebo affect now, but I can honestly lock on to ~15 satellites in under half a minute whereas before it was impossible to lock onto 3. Try it.
Oh, and if you don't have the recovery or don't want to flash it, you can just open up and extract the zip file, and copy the gps.conf to root/system/etc/ over the old one.
worked!
Cant thank you enough! so simple but it worked! I was unable to flash so I just moved file to the system/etc/ and rebooted. It may be noted that I turned off my gps before I rebooted which is something I haven't done before. I only had to complete this process once, and now it seems gps has worked on 3 different Jb roms.
Thanks again!
Hi everybody,
For a while I had been running Wicked rom (version 7 and then 8) without any issues at all. Data was great, wifi was working, calls and texts were made perfectly. Not a single issue as far as I could see. GPS was working just the way I was expecting it to (I use my GPS for navigation on a weekly basis).
I've explored other roms as well and I've never encountered anything serious or out of the ordinary.
Now this problem has appeared recently. Ever since I flashed a 4.3 rom (Infamous V9), my GPS has stopped working. It keeps trying to lock but never does. I've left it on for a long time too, it never locked; It just keeps searching.
I've even tried apps I've seen suggested such as GPS status & toolbox. Nothing I've done with those apps have worked. When I went back to the wicked rom (version 8), gps still did not work. Prior to the Infamous v9 rom, I had flashed the Cyanogenmod 10.2 rom and the gps was fine.
Now, regardless of what I do, the GPS no longer works on any of the 4.2 or 4.3 roms I've flashed.
When I flashed VirginRom (android 4.4), I had no signal on my phone at all, but that was due to my modem. I followed the instructions to odin flash the new modem and everything worked! On that 4.4 rom, everything worked perfect. More importantly, the GPS was working again and I was able to use it for navigation when I went out. I tried to test out other 4.4 roms. I flashed the dandroid google edition and cyanogenmod 11 on this forum. Both of these roms worked perfectly. The GPS was working and it locked within a few seconds.
When I tried to go back to any of the 4.2 or 4.3 roms, the GPS still did not work, even though everything else was fine.
I'm not the techie type of person, compared to so many people on this wonderful forum. I just do my best to follow instructions and learn from what is done ><. Does anyone here know what the issue I'm experiencing is?
Just for some added info:
I guess it's obvious my model is SGH-M919
Baseband changed though. It used to be MDL. Now it's M919UVUEMK2.
Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you.
Have you tried the app faster fix app? Also, do you have Google maps and earth installed?
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Ok so ever since I updated to any of the 4.4.2 rom (i.e. Cm11, Cyanfox, SlimKat and Carbon Rom) my accelerometer won't work correctly.
At first I thought it was a GPS issue but after looking into it more the GPS locks fine. It's only the direct in google maps or any other GPS like app that is messed up. For instance, when I'm using google maps and I'm facing north it will show me facing east, then when I change directions it can't figure out which direction I'm facing and spins around in circles and maps will crash. Same thing happens when I use GPS Status, the app will say I'm facing the wrong direction and when I move direction it starts to spin out of control.
I defiantly don't think its a hardware issue since everything was working fine with the touchwiz rom and 4.3 roms. If anyone has any clue on how to fix this I would greatly appreciate it. This is pretty much the only thing that is wrong for me with any kitkat roms.
I have a tmobile galaxy s3 and current running SlimKat build 3. :crying:
Try FasterFix app
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Try FasterFix app
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I gave it a shot but no luck. I have also used GPS status and FasterGPS but like I said before I don't think its a GPS issue because it does lock on to my location fine. It's just my compass doesn't work correctly.
I believe CM has a Advanced Option to Re-Calibrate Accelarometer. Settings > Advanced is where the option is I think. I use Slim Bean so I don't have CM details.
Oh yeah I forgot about that but it still didn't work. I appreciate all the ideas though.
You may want to go back to Stock and then try. Just to rule out any hardware issues. It will also wipe any corrupt firmware.
Perseus71 said:
You may want to go back to Stock and then try. Just to rule out any hardware issues. It will also wipe any corrupt firmware.
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Do you mean odin to stock or just flash a stock rom? If it's odin I'll definitely try it when I get home. The thing I find weird is that when I flashed the S3Rx rom, everything was working fine.
I'd do Odin before trying anything else.
So I odin back to stock and like before everything was working properly. Then when I flashed back to carbon rom, is back to pointing in the wrong direction and spinning out of control.
I'm surprised that I'm one of the only if not the only one with this problem. Is there an app that I can manually calibrate which direction I'm pointing?
I'm out of ideas...
Can you flash a different kernel on top of Carbon ?
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Can you flash a different kernel on top of Carbon ?
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I flashed KT kernel, BMS, Harkness and DKP. For a little while it seemed like BMS had fixed it but then went back to the same ol' sad story. :crying:
Try Another Rom please. Not just Carbon. This time try a 4.3 rather than Kitkat.
I have tried other roms and I stated that this didn't happen till I started using Kitkat roms. When I was on carbon 4.3.1 there weren't any problems as well as on S3Rx 4.3 rom. Not sure why this only happens on Kitkat roms and what seems like only to me. I'll continue to look for solutions cause I really like the look and feel of Kitkat.
So after searching and searching I finally found a fix! I was about to give up hope but decided to try one last kernel, Quantum kernel. At first it seemed like it wasn't working but I had to calibrate my accelerometer with GPS Status. After that everything was gravy! I hope this helps others that have the same problem I did!
Well I started off with the jedix roms and wifi and blue tooth were working fine. updated to jedix19 or 20 and wifi and bluetooth were spotty, sometimes they would turn on sometimes after turning on it would turn off or just lose BT connection.Went to skynote rom and same thing. went to mean bean same. also same when going to ezkat. I just updated my bootloader to the mk6 without knox stuff and tried flashing the wifi fixes with odin but still no wifi or BT. Is there someway of getting wif and BT back? Thanks for the help in advance.
Edit: oh yeah using an att i317
I have the same problem, I already did a thread, I hope that someone could help us
Did you ever find out?
Maybe a lil more info will help.. Yeah I read everything you tried to flash.. And nothing working.
You can try flashing AGNi kernel for working Wi-Fi. You can find it HERE»»»
http://goo.gl/9Bq6yW
Anything with 4.0.0 is for kitkat.
Anything 3.9.7 is for 4.3 fyi.
Since you tried the rest it's time you tested the best lol. It's still beta but very stable btw. Go here»» http://goo.gl/hnP1sV
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No such thing as" best" rom
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And if I'm not mistaken....both DN3 and eZKAT require the same fix for wifi....
Agni kernel flash is the preferred method...g
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this is an old thread...but fwiw the only solution for me was to flash the complete stock att ma4 4.1.2 rom ...and then work back up to whichever rom of choice.
this was after trying multiple bootloaders, kernels, modems, recoveries, roms...4.3, 4.4, etc.etc...
i did find another flashing combo that seemed to fix things but after a period of time wifi/bluetooth would randomly disappear again(!) and i'd have to repeat the whole process over again. strange.
con_ritmo said:
this is an old thread...but fwiw the only solution for me was to flash the complete stock att ma4 4.1.2 rom ...and then work back up to whichever rom of choice.
this was after trying multiple bootloaders, kernels, modems, recoveries, roms...4.3, 4.4, etc.etc...
i did find another flashing combo that seemed to fix things but after a period of time wifi/bluetooth would randomly disappear again(!) and i'd have to repeat the whole process over again. strange.
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I had tried going back to 4.1.2 rom & went all the way up and it still didn't fix the wifi/bluetooth problem.
What boot loader are you on?
This has randomly happened three times to me so far on different roms. I searched Google and XDA forums and maybe i am searching for the wrong terms so i will ask here.
I had Hyperdrive installed on my phone for 3 weeks with no problem, i was texting last night no problem. In the morning i woke up and could not send/recieve messages or calls but i could surf the web, check facebook, and everything. This was on and off of wifi. Reboot several times, Full wipe and restored to a previous nandroid, same problem. Another full wipe and reinstalled hyperdrive from scratch, same problem. Finally spoke with Tmobile, no help. Grabbed Carbon rom and then everything worked fine! Why?! Does anyone know why that happens? Same thing happend with the 4.4 Google edition rom. Worked for days then no network. Went back to carbon and it worked fine.
TLDR:Hyperdrive worked great for a week then lost all mobile except internet. Full wipe several times and problem persisted. Changed to Carbon Rom and it worked fine
Used Google Edition 4.4 for days and then it also lost all mobile except internet. Full wipe several times and problem persisted. Changed to Carbon Rom and it worked fine.
What is your modem?
Baseband version shows
M919UVUAMDL
Update it
You can grab the new nh7 modem from Shinyside in development, I ran with my MDL rom no problem.
Pp.
I updated to the NB4 and it seems to be working again. Ill see in a few days if the problem comes back. Its weird that it works great and then out of nowhere it acts up. Thank you for your help!
I will try the nh7 modem from Shinyside if i have the problems again. Or i will just stick with Carbon Rom, it works great but i wanted to try something different.
Nh7 modem has improved my signal all around, I noticed it on my previous rom and going to nh7 stock rom has been a good move for now.
Pp.
So it happened again with the updated modem. After 2 weeks of using Hyperdrive i lost service again. Reboot, wiped and used a backup. Still no service. Wiped and re-installed from scratch, still no service. Updated to the newer version of Hyperdrive, still no service. Wiped and reloaded Carbon and i have service again. I do not get it.
You might have to update your bootloader
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You might have to update your bootloader
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Ditto, for Serio, that has been a common issue between KK roms and latest KK firmware.
Go for the nh7 bootloader , don't stress knox.
Pp.