Google Navigator 2.8 causing GPS driver failure
I was trying GN 2.8 last week. I have successfully installed it and was trying to compare it with Tracky GPS suite. But when I started GN it was telling me that there is no GPS unit. I checked GPS settings but there was all right. So I’ve decided that it was GN failure, by some reason it can’t determine my GPS unit. So I just uninstalled it.
But the next day I’ve tried to launch as usual my i-Navy (Navitel Navigator). It also couldn’t find GPS unit. Now I knew that something was going wrong with my GPS unit. I launched other application GPS utilities, GPS test, Tracky and QuickGPS but all my attempts were unsuccessful.
I’ve done soft reset, but it didn’t help me too. I searched all the forums to find similar problems, but all advices did not help me. So I decided to backup all data with sprite backup and hard reset my Kaiser. I tried to launch QuickGPS and now it was working perfect. But after recovering all data with Sprite backup all problems returned. At that time I didn’t know that GN is causing this problem. I hard reset my Kaiser and manually reinstalled all application. I was surprised when at last I retried to install Google Navigator and the problem returned again. All programs stopped to work with GPS unit or GPS unit stopped working itself.
you should use seach next time...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360168&highlight=google+gps
nsa666 said:
you should use seach next time...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360168&highlight=google+gps
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Thanks, I have read this post, but it didn’t help me, so I’ve decided to create a new thread
I wrote a letter to GN’s support; see what they can say…
oh, than im sorry.
never mind, thank anyway
TT 6 has worked fine ever since I got the device. Now suddenly it can no longer find the GPS signal.
The settings GPS settings seem OK and a soft reset does not help. Has anyone got any ideas or is a hard reset the only answer?
Many thanks,
Brian
Hey.
When you load tomtom, does it say no gps device found? or no Signal?
The latter just means you need to get it to lock onto some satellites, mine locks on very quickly.
If its the first above, then you should check your GPS settings in Windows Mobile itself, and ensure that its managed automatically.
I had a problem this weekend in london with my tomtom, would only find one satellite, quick soft reset solved that and full reception again.
Cheers
Amazingly after trying all weekend it has suddenly found the settings again!!
Sorry to have been a nuisance
Brian leach
Hi, I have a Diamond that seem to have a GPS not working even after reflashing with original ROM, hard reset and QuickGPS.
Is there any tool capable of giving some more information rather than just "fix not available", "GPS starting up" or similar and/or that can detect where the problem is? (everything working, needs more time, antenna broken, chipset broken, etc.)
I've tried HTC GPS Tool, GPS Tuner, GPS Test, TomTom but they don't give any useful info.
Hi Luca, I got somewhat the same problem.. whenever i start any program using the gps or testing the gps function my whole phone freezes and i have to take out the batt.
I don't know where the antenna is located but I think I broke it when I dropped in on the street 2 weeks ago
Check this thread out. I was having the exactly same problem. Now it is ok.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=59
Disable the QuickGPS, Replace the bin files, Soft reset.
Everything back to normal!
bonmotwang said:
Check this thread out. I was having the exactly same problem. Now it is ok.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=59
Disable the QuickGPS, Replace the bin files, Soft reset.
Everything back to normal!
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> http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=59
hi,
ehm..... sorry but your link is not working
can you verify?
bye
stefano
Xperia X1 freeze. After 6 months I have problem with my xperia and gps. When I try to use internal GPS (whenever software), display freeze and I have to replace batery. I have tryied to flash another ROM, it works few hours and now I have same problem. Any ideas?
Hi,ok let´s see, like you ive had the same problem, just when i was using any gps navigator the phone suddendly stopped and that was sucking me a lot so after that i started to think what could be the problem, and at the end after a lot of time i found where was the problem and what was the solution. To find the solution i decided to hard reset the new rom with which all my gps problems started, and following the instalation steps of all programs and configurations i found the problem and this was related with the quick gps, before using this program to upgrade my gps location my mobile was runing tomtom and others without freezing, but after upgrade the gps location with the quick gps my mobile started to freeze. So this is the problem, just do this try to hard-reset and install eveything but dont, i repeat dont !!use the quick gps or this will freeze your phone again. Following this step your phone will run the gps navigators without the freeze problem
Then men after this try to do this and let me know (PLEAE) if your problem still remain ok? see u and hope you can solve this problem like me.
I too have just started having GPS problems as listed above!
The problem seems to be Quickgps...as soon as u run the quickgps update(which you may have on autodownload) Tomtom crashes and you have to reboot the phone...
I have reinstalled a different rom since and still have the same problem!
i dont know if there is a cache for this program that can be cleared or something other than reflashing the device
As the days go on and the 7 day update starts running out im guessing more people will start having the same problems!mine happened 28/10/09 evening time!
Same problem: freezing XPERIA when using GPS!
Yesterday I connected my X1 to the PC and got the latest Quick GPS update. Today I'll need to use my gps for a trip... Wanted to prepare the navigator and got the same problem like you guys.
Probably something wrong with the last update since I have not installed anything nor updated the firmware.
Is there any way to get any older version of the quick gps? Before after each 7 days period, it was possible still to use the GPS. Even though it was much slower but in the end it always works before updating... Will a hard reset give me an old version of Quick GPS?
This is so annoying at this moment. Hope somebody find a solution fast.
Hi all,
Got the very same problem yesterday.
I tought the GPS HW had gone. I have uninstalled the Route 66 SW, but there are some files that still lay in the phone.
Then re-install everything from scracth, but problem remains. Now i know i a GPS. Could be worse if was a HW problem in the phone.
Possible solution
Hi
I have maybe same problem with other phone (HTC Rose). If any application try to connect to GPS, phone freezes. After Hard Reset it was OK, but only until I use QuickGPS. Then it again freeze whole mobile after use GPS application.
My temporary solution:
1.
Erase QuickGPS data. Simply delete 2 files: Temp\xtra.bin and Windows\xtra.bin
2.
Soft Reset phone.
Try it, and let me know.
working so far...
Thank you motaba.
I did what you proposed and erased the files. It worked actually.
I have been running my gps now for some minutes and it did not freeze. It found the signal and started to navigate without freezing.
So at first glance it seems to work. I will try it further and tell you all about further information.
but how can the gps work so fast and well without these quickgps files? are they totally redundant?
Greetings
Thanks a lot motaba.
Works for me as well.
As yes, it got the location pretty fast without the "A GPS mambojambo"
I was gettin 8-9 statelites.
P.S: Anyone can tell me were to get TomTom 7 for X1 ? Route 66 is pretty anoying some times....
X1 GPS
After deleting the fails xtra.bin my gps start to work for now, but I want to ask do I have to use quickGPS update if I update the gps from there the problem will be start again
Yes delete xtra.bin helps!!!
Does anyone has older version of quick gps. I still want to use quick gps, becasus waiting for gps to fix is annoying. thanks
Hi all,
After deleting the xtra files and confirm that works i went out, and during the driving i used the GPS.
Even went going out of the car and switching GPS programm off, as soon as i got back into the car and switch programm on, the GPS location came so quick that was unbeleivable. Only time to switch it on , put it into the older start the car and when i look into it, was already navigating.
So my advice is FORGET about Quick GPS.
I think ESA as lunched a new GPS satellite for the European system, I wonder if has anything to do with with it. ??? Anyway it's great !!!
No, ESA satellites are not primary GPS satellites. They provide WAAS/EGNOS correction info only. AFAIK Xperia does not support correction, so it does not work with these satellites at all.
The problem could be with QuickGPS data. Many users started to have the problem at the same time. It seems xperia uses QuickGPS if they are available. So any corruption on QuickGPS side makes GPS unusable.
Sometimes just forced QuickGPS reload helps .. but sometimes not, and that's when the trick with xtra.bin comes handy.
Thank you all in this awesome forum. Deleting the xtra.bin files solved the problem for me. Even the time to log the gps position seems not really to be slower in my case
Hi Dr Sid
Thanks for the explanation.
My point was that the xtra.bin removal works, and after i did that the GPS position was found very very quickly without starting Quick GPS.
I wonder why because, before it would take 10 minutes or more, if quick GPS was not used.
Summer time change?
Hi
I was wondering what is wrong with xtra.bin. It is downloaded from web server xtra1.gpsonextra.net or simmilar.
In my country (Slovakia) at 24-25.10. there was time change from summer time CEST (GMT+2) to CET (GMT+1). Maybe it is some dependance between change of time and GPS problem.
Wiki says same time change is all over Europe.
All of you with same problem, please check registry, what servers are set in QuickGPS. My phone is HTC, so registry are there:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS\0\0]
"port"=dword:00000050
"IP"="xtra1.gpsonextra.net"
THANKYOU SO MUCH!!
This has been driving me crazy!! I have only just learned to put ROM's on my phone and this is when the problems started, so I suspected the ROM's was causing the problem.
Deleted the 2 files and now my GPS works perfectly.
Excellent fix, saved me so much time.
THANKS THANKS THANKS !!!!!!
Works for me too (Buenos Aires - Argentina).
motaba said:
Hi
I was wondering what is wrong with xtra.bin. It is downloaded from web server xtra1.gpsonextra.net or simmilar.
In my country (Slovakia) at 24-25.10. there was time change from summer time CEST (GMT+2) to CET (GMT+1). Maybe it is some dependance between change of time and GPS problem.
Wiki says same time change is all over Europe.
All of you with same problem, please check registry, what servers are set in QuickGPS. My phone is HTC, so registry are there:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\QuickGPS\0\0]
"port"=dword:00000050
"IP"="xtra1.gpsonextra.net"
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It's very probable that this is the problem, since I have it since a few days also. But it's strange, last time change I had no problems with it.
hehe, a bit slow to find this thread
yep the quickgps data is corrupt somehow.
took me a lot of reboots to find this out.
A-GPS still works just try running google maps with GPS turned OFF!! you get a rough idea of where your are.
QuickGPS gives a weeks calcutions of predicted GPS satalite locations which can then be used to reduce the cold-boot gps startup time.
If you live near the coast at all, your GPS chip will also pickup the land based stations that broadcast static information which helps in the accuacy of location.
It is quite possible to live without QuickGPS, it just makes the startup time anything upto 2 minutes.
However, with quickgps being used for so many phones, it should not be too long before its all fixed again
It's just pity it can't be disabled by some normal means. If you delete the file, QuickGPS will load it back next week.
Also it could try to compare data from the file with data from the satellite. If different satellites are visible than those which should be visible based on the file, than GPS could realize something is wrong. It does not.
Every time I use GPS wether it be Garmin XT or Google Maps it will restart my phone. With Garmin it will acquire GPS position the say lost satelite reception and the restart the phone. Anyone know the answer to this? I really need GPS Nav on my phone. Flashed back to stock ROM and same thing happens. Running custum STX rom right now. It was working fine a couple of days ago
Check this thread out. I was having the exactly same problem. Now it is ok.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=59
Disable the QuickGPS, Replace the bin files, Soft reset.
Everything back to normal!
gps resetting touch diamond
So far, this fix appears to have worked for my phone. Thanks!