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GPS messed up

Someone help if possible! My GPS on my Tilt was working perfectly with Google Maps and LiveSearch... but today i turned it on and it's locking onto a position about 500+ miles away. I have VisualGPS installed and it now is only locking onto a max of 3 satellites (but sees many more satellites) when it used to lock onto about 6+! It also thinks i'm at 57,000 feet and somewhere over the gulf of mexico when i'm currently in south carolina on a trip! I tried soft resetting about 5x and ran QuickGPS a few times as well... nothing has fixed it. Any suggestions?

did you install anything new or do anything major like settings or drop the phone?

Nope...it was working fine one day, and not working the next... phone wasn't dropped and no new software was installed and no settings were changed. Not sure if the chip is malfunctioning or not...but it does lock onto a location... the wrong location.... but it is consistently putting me in somewhere in alabama at the moment

Hi UTZorro
I can't really help you with your problem but I did notice on mine the other day that the satalites would drop in and out quickly and never lock onto more that 3. It was a very clear day with clear view of the sky. The co-ords were out by quite a long way because of it. The DOP was never very good. I restarted and it seemed to solve the problem but it wasn't a good sign. I know I hadn't dropped mine and the quickGPS data was current.
I also noticed that the voice in tomtom was all over the place.. I had to reinstall tomtom to fix the problem and put the voice on the main memory. At the time I thought it might be my 4GB SDcard but now I'm not so sure.
Dylan

Hi
Have you tried leaving it on for several minutes? GPS on these sorts of devices make several assumptions as they try to lock on quickly so you don't have to wait, sometimes that initial lock is wrong due to these assumptions. Either turn it on and leave for it around 10-15 minutes in clear view of the sky or try running QuickGPS, that may help.
I've had this happen now and again, just leaving it for several minutes to get a "proper" fix and all is well.
Regards
Phil

I saw the same problem, i was driving and according to my gps i was going 485 km/hr and i was "flying": above the sea. kept the copiliot log as thought it was funny
I rebooted my kaiser and it went back to normal

This randomly happens to me also on a Stock HTC rom. Not too often though so not a major problem.
Reboot fixes it ...

I had the same problem last week. I Soft reset the device and removed the battery before it booted back up. After about a minute I put it back in and it was OK again.

happens to me as well, soft reset solves the problem... also if you have your GPS app on your SD card removal fixes this as well, very peculiar problem

PhilipL said:
Have you tried leaving it on for several minutes? GPS on these sorts of devices make several assumptions as they try to lock on quickly so you don't have to wait, sometimes that initial lock is wrong due to these assumptions. Either turn it on and leave for it around 10-15 minutes in clear view of the sky or try running QuickGPS, that may help.
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I second this: I had strange behavior after a lockup and it took several tries with 10minute or so open-sky accesses to clear up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1650269&postcount=31
Go sit on a park bench for 15 minutes or so with the GPS on and open in an app which shows the satellites in view - like TomTom/Mapopolis/whatever and see if you don't eventually get back up to the 7+ birds you normally get.
Good luck!
Richard

recently this error has been happening more frequently to me with TomTom, restarting doesnt seem to fix it all the time anymore... does anyone know what causes this? It constantly showes me somewhere in Ontario, Canada about 500 miles from where I actually am.
Is there a way to disable and re-enable the GPS chip via software similar to what a hard-reset does but without the 30 seconds+ downtime associated with the hard-reset?

This is being caused by Quick GPS. If you have not connected to the internet via Activesync for a while then when you first start your internal GPS or lose sat coverage it diverts to the last stored Quick GPS data for the most prominant 3 sats (they show up as full signal when you look a gps data in you mapping SW) that should be in your area.
Either sync at least every 5 days (on a PC with T'internet connection) or disable quick GPS and be patient for a lock.
Hope this helps.

Hi
I had the same problem, but it seems I found a solution.
I'm not 100% shure, but for what I remember I had this problem very often. like every time I was starting navigation it was wrong, so I had to soft reset - Everthing was fine - till next time when it was wrong again - and soft reset and again, again and agian.
It was so annoying - then on a Polish forum a guy wrote somethign about downloading quickGPS data (what he read here) and quickGPS was the solution, but for me it was to disalbe every sync function - because I set to sync evertime it was possible I believie that was it.
Now I'm using kaiser for about a week and testing it 2-3 times a day. and it never failed. I'm not 100% shure it was it - but it looks fine now.

So after a few days after I originally posted with this problem, it noticed it had spontaneously fixed itself after my flight back to town and I pinpointed what fixed it. (keep in mind i have stock Tilt Rom, QuickGPS was updated at the time (about 25x to be exact) and I had even hard resetted and it didn't fix it)... but here's what did fix it interestingly enough:
So, for some reason, if you have flight mode enabled on the phone, then you turn on the GPS (which I admit I did while bored midflight wondering how high up we were) it MAY get messed up like what happened to me. The only way to fix it is by putting the phone back in flight mode turning the GPS back on and then turning it off again and re-exiting flight mode. I have no idea why flight mode and the gps would be related in this siutation (it makes no sense to me)... I didn't believe it myself until I repeated this experiment twice!!! So, i'm posting this for reference to anyone who may have the same problem in the future if their phone was in flight mode and their GPS got activated and then subsequently messed up! Any thoughts?

Can no longer use SMS, help!

Hi guys,
New here as I just got a Diamond this week. All good until last night/today where all of a sudden I can no longer use the SMS function.
I think it all started last night. Strange thing happened when I got home from work and I plugged it into my PC to sync. At first it said it was unable to connect, so I tried disconnecting and reconnecting a couple times, still no connection. So I tried turning the phone off and back on, then reconnecting and this time it connected ok and synched up.
However, when I checked my phone after synching, it had somehow lost all of my favourite contacts list (although all my contacts were still there, thankfully) and even more worryingly, had deleted all of my SMS messages. Luckily I've only had the phone a few days so didn't lose any important messages.
At first I thought it had somehow hard reset itself because it has already done this once before, but all the other settings were still in place. Just my SMS messages and favourite contacts lise were lost.
That in itself wasn't too big a deal, but today it seems to have got worse. I recieved an SMS this morning, but I'm unable to open it (can read it in the preview), nor can I open the 'all messages' option. Even worse I can't write new messages. When I press on any of the options on the SMS front screen, nothing happens.
Also, several of the apps I've installed no longer run, they display the error "The file 'AdvancedConfig' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file". That example is for Advanced Config. I also have Diamond Tweak and Diamond TF3D Config installed and they have the same problem now, too.
Up unil last night, everything was fine, I had turned on some of the tweaks within the above config tools (the battery life and performance tweaks mainly), but last night it all seems to have fallen apart.
I've tried soft resetting, uninstalling and reinstalling the Tweak apps above, all to no avail, so before I do a hard reset, I thought I'd see if any of you guys had any suggestions (as you seem to be a knowledgable lot ).
Thanks in advance.

Xperia Boot problems?

Hi guys, I have had my Xperia a few days now, it's a Vodafone that I hae flashed the Generic UK software to (without HardSPL) it seems to work ok but I am having a few problems. First of all, whether or not the phone will boot is hit and miss, it will get to the today screen and lock up as soon as the clock on the today screen loads. Hitting the reset switch under the cover will reboot it and it will generally boot fine, usually on every second boot.
Another problem I have is that Shell32.exe crashes a lot as does explorer.exe Shell32.exe seems to crash when installing and uninstalling applications, it does not always happen but it's happened a few times so far and is becoming irritating.
I am going to reinstall the firmware image and leave it a day or two without installing any apps to see if the problem is resolved. If anyone has any posible ideas I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Edit: I have renamed thread to remove the reference to boot problem with memory card inserted because after having removed the memory card the problem still persists so I gues it's unrelated.

Shell32.exe error
I also am having issue with shell32.exe crashing, the problem is repeatable everytime I go into the today screen options, as soon as I exit, regardles of which panel I went in from, shell32,exe crashes and I have to reboot the phone. Sometimes the only way to do so is to remove the battery. Any changes that I have made in the today screen do show up after the reboot. This is really annoying me now as shell32.exe is an important system process. Any thoughts, or shall I just hard reset.

R2AA
I'd make sure you're updated to the GENERIC UK R2AA ROM, if you're already on it, get a new copy of it from here, reformat your mem card and flash the phone again.
I seem to be OK now and not getting the shell32.exe crash anymore. Still having various other problems with it stopping responding (barely anything installed, and nothing really running) but not much more I can do, just learning to deal with it because i can't do with the stress of worrying about it. It's Windows, so expect it to suck.

i was on my R1A, had this problem, Hard reset it and the problem still exist...
Upgraded to the official R2AA10 and guess what? the problem is still there....
What is it that actually causing this problem? im planning on selling my X1 because this problem is so irritating....

Strange
mr_sheen said:
i was on my R1A, had this problem, Hard reset it and the problem still exist...
Upgraded to the official R2AA10 and guess what? the problem is still there....
What is it that actually causing this problem? im planning on selling my X1 because this problem is so irritating....
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Strangely, I stoppped having this problem a long time ago. I ran on R2A and R3A for a long time without any trouble now, I think it was due to a common program we were having installed because I use different programs than I used to and I havn't seen it happen since I last posted about having the problem.
Stick with a fresh install and see how it goes, install your apps slowly until it doesn't happen anymore.
I can't remember the exact programs I used to use but I have a feeling it was related to homescreen plugins or some such.
Let me know what programs you use maybe we can find a common denominator.

alias_neo said:
Strangely, I stoppped having this problem a long time ago. I ran on R2A and R3A for a long time without any trouble now, I think it was due to a common program we were having installed because I use different programs than I used to and I havn't seen it happen since I last posted about having the problem.
Stick with a fresh install and see how it goes, install your apps slowly until it doesn't happen anymore.
I can't remember the exact programs I used to use but I have a feeling it was related to homescreen plugins or some such.
Let me know what programs you use maybe we can find a common denominator.
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Okay, so after hard reset, i always install my program again one by one...
Strangely, the error always happen the FIRST time i install any program that uses today plugin...at first i thought it was SPB Wireless, then after another hard reset i installed Beejive, and the same error occurs...
Now mine is a little bit stable, mainly because i dont touch the today setting anymore....i (forcefully, despite the error ) installed Pocket digital clock, SPB Pocket Plus, and SPB wireless....
Its been fine for the last 2 days...without touching any of the today settings...
What is it that actually causing the problem? so strange....

mr_sheen said:
Okay, so after hard reset, i always install my program again one by one...
Strangely, the error always happen the FIRST time i install any program that uses today plugin...at first i thought it was SPB Wireless, then after another hard reset i installed Beejive, and the same error occurs...
Now mine is a little bit stable, mainly because i dont touch the today setting anymore....i (forcefully, despite the error ) installed Pocket digital clock, SPB Pocket Plus, and SPB wireless....
Its been fine for the last 2 days...without touching any of the today settings...
What is it that actually causing the problem? so strange....
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Well, I never used SPB wireless when i had that problem, but i did use Beejive, Vito Sound Explorer (has a today plugin) HomeScreen++ and Wisbar Advance Desktop (saw a few crashes with this). Saw the problems a lot back then.
When I only ran Homescreen++ I never saw the problem.
I am running 6.5 now so i can't test it for you I'm afraid to find the exact problem, but I'd certainly keep hold of your Xperia because it's definately just caused by a 3rd party app/plugin.

alias_neo said:
Well, I never used SPB wireless when i had that problem, but i did use Beejive, Vito Sound Explorer (has a today plugin) HomeScreen++ and Wisbar Advance Desktop (saw a few crashes with this). Saw the problems a lot back then.
When I only ran Homescreen++ I never saw the problem.
I am running 6.5 now so i can't test it for you I'm afraid to find the exact problem, but I'd certainly keep hold of your Xperia because it's definately just caused by a 3rd party app/plugin.
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the weird thing is, i ran all my program above for about 4 months on my R1A and no problem occurred....everything was good.
Then i tried to install SPB phone suite, but the installation stopped at 3/4 because the software wasnt signed or something like that (strange, i got it from SPB site), and it just left me some today plugin but withoun any name...it was blank....my today plugin order was in a mess too...i soft reset, it was okay....but i soft reset it again later that day and thats when the problem happened...
I found it strange that it still happens after hard reset and even after Rom change...especially to ANY program that uses today plugin....weird...

Try using R2A_10 or later, I never had any problems from then on, I'm running gtrabs R3A/6.5 atm, although it hasa bunch oof problemsof its own.

alias_neo said:
Try using R2A_10 or later, I never had any problems from then on, I'm running gtrabs R3A/6.5 atm, although it hasa bunch oof problemsof its own.
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im using the official R2A10 at the moment....the problem still exist the first time i put all my software back....
But it seems stable now for the last 2 days...if the problem occurs again, i'll post it up here,,,

Re: PARANOIDANDROID 3.00 | Only Rom on Android capable of Hybrid mode 02/11
Edit: XDA freak out

decalex said:
ya, that's not gonna happen, BUT, xposed framework mod works on TW based ROMs, and u could always go that route if u want per app DPI. I'm a big fan of PA's implementation though. Xposed works great but a little more tedious.
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How did this got here?

Lmao, I have noo idea.

can't get GPS fix

Hi,
I'm unable to get GPS fix.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

its the same problem for me...
help is really needed!!!

What software are you using? I had the same problem yesterday after having used it flawlessly for a month now. Had to hard reset and it started working again.

im using GARMIN MOBILE XT. v 4.10.40wp,
this software is be used on TD1, it worked perfectly well

here guys i dont have the diamond 2 but when the fuze or touch pro released it too had gps problem and this is the fix i use maybe it will work for you guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2894542&postcount=1

I had this as well, waited several mins and had no results. Try the below and then things should be all well.
Run the quick gps app on the phone, that will update the phone with the sat positions. Then stand outside or by a window for a min or two and you should get them.

This is interesting for GPS problems http://blog.mohdimran.com/2008/11/htc-touch-pro-gps-problem-tweaking.html
I had problems with apparently non responsive GPS, doing all the mods in the link above has transformed it.
Also, before anything else, if it doesn't appear to work at all, make sure your software is set to look for the GPS device on COM4.

I had tried absolutely everything prior to doing a hard reset. In the end I just wrote it off as one of those quirky little things that makes this phone unique lol.

I had this problem randomly. So I checked the status of the GPS driver using Dotfred's Task Manager (Device Manager tab) (freeware at http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm) and I found that sometimes after a soft reset it was not loaded (why I do not know) but could be loaded manually.
Therefore I wrote a little utility, DeviceStart, to load and start it.
If you have this problem copy DeviceStart.exe in \Windows directory, create a shortcut like this (or use the one inside the .zip file)
55#"\Windows\DeviceStart.exe" Drivers\BuiltIn\gpsdriver 60
and put it in \Windows\StartUp directory.
DeviceStart.exe requires .NET Compact Framework 2.

The same happened yesterday to me.. No way to get it working even after 5 soft resets, the GPS just couldn't kick in. I was genuinely scared that the GPS module broke down. Even after the hard reset it behaved strangely in the beginning, only after quick gps it finally started working. The worst thing is, if this happens again and I'm abroad where I'll really need GPS - a tought of all the hassle with data roaming etc doesn't make me exactly happy.

I'm still trying to figure out what could have caused my gps stopping working. The only thing I can think of was Clean RAM, 3rd level. Is there any chance it was caused by that? If so, would the utility (Startdevice) from 2 posts above start it again?

cassper1 said:
I'm still trying to figure out what could have caused my gps stopping working. The only thing I can think of was Clean RAM, 3rd level. Is there any chance it was caused by that?
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Who knows! But in that case a soft reset should restore it working.
cassper1 said:
If so, would the utility (Startdevice) from 2 posts above start it again?
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Check using Dotfred's Task Manager. It can show if gpsdriver is loaded or not and using it you can try loading it manually. If it succeed Startdevice can do it automatically.

No Reminder Popups

I hope someone can help me with this before I go stark, raving mad.
I tried to search for this problem but it's hard to know just what to search for. I don't think this is Raphael specific but was unable to find a general software forum.
When an alarm or reminder goes off on my Fuze, I don't (usually) get the normal popup dialog. To get it, I need to tap on two tiny icons, which is a major pain. I've been fighting this for months. I've tried a hard reset followed by installing my software a programs one at a time with an alarm test after each install. I've tried restoring several old backups. I've still been unsuccessful in tracking it down.
After a hard reset, it works like it's supposed to, but as I continue to install software and use the device, it eventually stops working.
Can anyone give me a hint as to where I might be able to begin looking?
Thank you in advance!

Not a single reply. :-( Am I really the only person who has experienced this?
I've been fighting with this problem for literally months. I just recently went through several hard resets and restores, trying to find some specific application or condition that causes the problem. It started happening again a couple of days ago, and I'm absolutely sure that this time I had not installed any new applications. The only change from the time that reminders were working properly to the time that they stopped working was that I had downloaded some applications data (email, etc.).
If anybody has any ideas at all, I will be forever indebted.
Thanks,
Keith

I have the same problem, I think. I will go into my settings and tell it to give me pop ups for new SMS, MMS, notifications/reminders, and then they stop happening and I go back into settings and have to recheck the boxes. I'm not sure what's causing them to quit though. I just flashed a cooked ROM to my phone, but I don't like it so I'm trying to find something new. The problem was on the factory ROM that came with my phone.

I have the same issue, im using the ROMeOS 6.5 ROM and i dont get notification too...
gonna try and fiddle around the advanced config app