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GPS Problems

Yesterday i tried loading GarminXT and it froze. Did a soft reboot and tried again and again it froze. I then tried tomtom, which loaded ok, but could not find any satellite. I was on open sight waiting for 30 minutes. I also tried MioMap and automatically scanned port..."no GPS found it" says. I have then put it manually and the red LED went on...but still, not satellites are found. Red light blinks normally, i just don't get any data.
GPS worked just fine before that happened. I also noticed device to be very slow if i ran any gps program. Any idea what when't wrong? I just did a hard reset few days ago and i only have fistful of applications running.
edit: I aso tried GPSTest and it keeps scanning. When it comes to com4, red light blinks, but that's all. It's looping this scanning procedure. If i set com4 manually it just says Looking for GPS unit
tnx

did you use quickgps first before launching any gps application?

Hi!
I had exactly the same problem a week ago (with iGO, TomTom and GPS Tuner). I've got advice to remove battery for hours (I did it for 8 hours) but did not help.
Finally I found a program on xda-developers or GPS Passion which is developed for maintaning Qualcomm GPS (GPSTool). I do not remember the thread but you can find something like this: GPSTool0813.
When you downloaded that exe copy it to \windows. Execute it. Select sirf. Then select yes (if device is Qualcomm) then select COM4 and Cold Start. Push Start button.
I hope this helps.

i did your procedure, but it didn't help. Even gpstool could not get any satelllite. it did show some data, quickly scrolling, but thats all.
maybe i did something wrong. how long does it have to run?
tnx

i just found out that i, too, am having problems getting a fix on my gps. i opened gogle map and gps tool this morning on my new att tilt but i cant get a lock. i have 4-5 satellites available but can't get a fix...

Any more ideas? I tried BT gps and it worked fine. Got fix in few sec.
tnx

Same thing happened to me and a hard reset fixed it.

ok, tnx. Wil try hard reset today and report.

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.

every rom i install works great until...

about 12 hours of using one it crashes and reboots
when it does this i also lose all my data as if i just reflashed it
every rom i tried has done this, my hardspl is pretty old (1.23) but idk if that is the cause of it.
if anyone can help or point me in the direction i need to go it'd be appreciated

same here, only mine may last for a couple of days before it starts rebooting randomly. Sometimes all data is lost (contacs, shortcuts etc.) and its like as if I just installed a new rom, ans some times it retains it

cyguardian said:
same here, only mine may last for a couple of days before it starts rebooting randomly. Sometimes all data is lost (contacs, shortcuts etc.) and its like as if I just installed a new rom, ans some times it retains it
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strangely enough the last one i installed hasn't done it yet so i'm hoping it doesn't
[ROM|WWE|21893] Windows Mobile 6.5 Clean Basic ROM [12|4|2010] [SENSE 2.1|SENSE 2.5]
i used the sense 2.5 on this page and i haven't had a problem... yet lol
(i'd post the link but i'm new lol)

I have similar problem
my diamond works only some minutes or an hour, then the work with system is a bit slow and system freezes, then i tried soft reset, but diamond doesn`t boot and there is only boot image with rom version (sometimes boot normally, but only to a state which is after hard reset), then i have to make hard reset, and diamond boot normally. it makes with every rom, with sim or without sim card, with applications or without...after that hard reset works normaly, but after some minutes or an hour is work with system again a bit slowly and there is a same problem again and the story with hard reset is here again...actual rom is nataly 2.7. thx for help.

yeah lucky ive been using the one i posted for the past few days, no problems other than like minor graphic errors that go away, but nothing like system crash or hard resets so i hope this one works for me cuz i like it

my problem is solved
with mtty and now diamond works perfectly - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290

Definitely - use MTTY to clean up the memory before you flash the ROM.
MTTY is tricky to use if you use Windows 7 but on XP is is very easy. Searching XDA will show you all you need to know.

I am having the same problem, I have done MTTY twice but still the same.

[Q] GPS "died"

Hi,
when I wanted to use Navigon the other day it did not get any GPS signal.
When I leave it on the map display it updates like every 10 minutes with somehwere that I passed while driving.
Restarts do not help and also other GPS based tools (like MapFactor Navigator) do the same.
Did this happen to anyone else / how do I recover from that (do not really like to try a factory reset since a) I do not know if it would help and b) I don't like to reinstall and setup all apps again.....)?
Thanks,
KalleH

kalleh said:
Hi,
when I wanted to use Navigon the other day it did not get any GPS signal.
When I leave it on the map display it updates like every 10 minutes with somehwere that I passed while driving.
Restarts do not help and also other GPS based tools (like MapFactor Navigator) do the same.
Did this happen to anyone else / how do I recover from that (do not really like to try a factory reset since a) I do not know if it would help and b) I don't like to reinstall and setup all apps again.....)?
Thanks,
KalleH
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Similar but not quite the same. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029729
I start suspecting a firmware/SW issue?

Thanks, saw that...but actualy a "short" shutdown (wait 5 minutes) a few times did not help.
Yesterday evening I switched off the phone and only switched it on this morning and ....hey.....GPS working again....
Strange
Regards,
KalleH

kalleh said:
Thanks, saw that...but actualy a "short" shutdown (wait 5 minutes) a few times did not help.
Yesterday evening I switched off the phone and only switched it on this morning and ....hey.....GPS working again....
Strange
Regards,
KalleH
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It got worse for me (see same link above: gps stopped working a few days later)...in the end I hard reset it .... it seem that did it. No more issues since then at least. I do not know yet what caused the gps settings to be corrupted, which makes me a bit nervous since I might have to do a full hard reset again in the future (restoring all my settings + SW takes 2-3 hours for me; cannot root device because I need company access).

Even if GPS is now working since the app update I now have to stop my Navigon app and clear the cache everytime to be able to start it again....