GPS signal is lost.. must reboot every few days to work. - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi all,
I have had my hero since Dec 09. been on many custom ROMs by DC. I am on his last release of 2.1.
I rooted and used custom ROMs since the first week.
it seams like my GPS signal is not that stable. It works for a few days... after I reboot. Then for no reason that I can tell, it can not lock on. I have to reboot the phone... and it will work again.
When it fails.. I try everything thing that I can think of to get it to work before I give up.. and reboot.
Has anyone seen this.. and found the cure?
thanks

anything?

You should be rebooting almost daily anyways.
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joehunni said:
You should be rebooting almost daily anyways.
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love my phone.
hate that answer... you know what I mean?

Hey I've experienced the same thing with 2.1 . When I'm using a 2.2 rom I have like the worlds most exact gps. With 2.1 I'm lucky if it is within a few miles for get trying to use any navigation program. It is really frustrating. Because I still feel that froyo has a bit to go before i can use it for my day to day rom. hope some one has a better solution than rebooting, eventually.

wtfdusk said:
Hey I've experienced the same thing with 2.1 . When I'm using a 2.2 rom I have like the worlds most exact gps. With 2.1 I'm lucky if it is within a few miles for get trying to use any navigation program. It is really frustrating. Because I still feel that froyo has a bit to go before i can use it for my day to day rom. hope some one has a better solution than rebooting, eventually.
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I have not tried froyo on my hero yet. I am waiting for a stable 2.2 ROM... to bad DC is on the EVO now

this is weird, when i was on a 2.1 rom my GPS would lock on within seconds to even the exact room i was in, in my house.
now on 2.2 its not working
still no advice from anyone?

i have never had issues flashing roms....
tried all yesterday... in every way that i could...
but no luck... Froyo would not work for me.. stuck on the first black screen with "htc" on it. let it sit there for 15 mins but never move more. tried many ways, but still no luck.

Had to switch back to 2.1 now I get a gps lock in like ten seconds
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Uhh, help with lag, please.

So i'll keep this simple. My captivate is less than two months old and it's become VERY slow. I get lag of at least five seconds every few minutes. Frankly it's starting to piss me off; I know this is a fast phone. I have the J16 froyo ROM. Could it be my ROM? What do you guys recommend as a rom? My iphone 3GS was MUCH faster. (the lag on my captivate ia usually from typing or pressing the touch sensitive buttons at the bottom. Tabs in apps sometimes as well.)
Please help!
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symeee said:
So i'll keep this simple. My captivate is less than two months old and it's become VERY slow. I get lag of at least five seconds every few minutes. Frankly it's starting to piss me off; I know this is a fast phone. I have the J16 froyo ROM. Could it be my ROM? What do you guys recommend as a rom? My iphone 3GS was MUCH faster. (the lag on my captivate ia usually from typing or pressing the touch sensitive buttons at the bottom. Tabs in apps sometimes as well.)
Please help!
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It could be a few different things. Easiest would probably be to just flash a rom like Phoenix 3.0 or Perception 10.1
I don't think its a rom issue. Just try to get rid of Widgets, live wallpaper(if u have one), and non-needed apps and see what happens.
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bluemoon1221 said:
I don't think its a rom issue. Just try to get rid of Widgets, live wallpaper(if u have one), and non-needed apps and see what happens.
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If he is using just a leaked froyo rom. it probably has no lag fix. So installing a rom like i mentioned will give him the lagfix.
only widgets I have seen that make a lot of lag are ones that constantly use sensors, like compass widgets, etc.
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symeee said:
So i'll keep this simple. My captivate is less than two months old and it's become VERY slow. I get lag of at least five seconds every few minutes. Frankly it's starting to piss me off; I know this is a fast phone. I have the J16 froyo ROM. Could it be my ROM? What do you guys recommend as a rom? My iphone 3GS was MUCH faster. (the lag on my captivate ia usually from typing or pressing the touch sensitive buttons at the bottom. Tabs in apps sometimes as well.)
Please help!
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Yes.. your hardware is good.. ROM/KERNEL is not optimal.. Download either
Perception http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897538
Phoenix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892973
Serendipity http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=900568
Darkyy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890429
I've used them all, and these really stand out!!
You can use the kernels that come with them or flash your own kernel and modem.
Thanks all for the replies. The only Widgets I run are the Task killer, and the power saver one to quickly enable wifi when in range, etc. No live wallpaper.
I don't have any hard evidence, but my experience is that having alot of apps slows down the phone. For me, when i have more than 10 or so apps, the phone begins to get bogged down. 15+ it becomes very noticable. 20+ i flash a new rom haha.
It was the rom. Im now running phoenix 3.0 and I now get H! Thanks man!
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mchimney said:
I don't have any hard evidence, but my experience is that having alot of apps slows down the phone. For me, when i have more than 10 or so apps, the phone begins to get bogged down. 15+ it becomes very noticable. 20+ i flash a new rom haha.
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I tend to disagree on this.
I have like 45+ user apps on my phone. And its still pretty snappy. I am attaching a screen shot taken from "Smartbench 2010".

Can't get out of safe mode.

My phone is stuck in safe mode and I tried reflashing, battery pull etc && I cant get it out of safe mode, Really annoying,
Someone HELP ! Please
When you say safe mode what do you mean???? You will get a lot of help from here if you give a little more detail. As in what were you trying to do?? What rom were you trying to flash or kernel?? Are your rooted or were you trying to root??? What recovery were you using or trying to use etc.
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^^ Safe mode is accessed by holding the MENU button while booting up. I've used it once when I modified the mms.apk, keyboard and a couple other things and was getting a ton of FC's - I needed to pull some info off of a couple texts phone before I wiped (since I never do nandroids )
A reboot is all that was needed to get out of it for me though...
[assuming you're rooted]
If you have any recent nandroids OP, wipe and then restore them. If you don't have any nands, flash a completely different rom.
EX) if running AOSP -> flash NFX sense.
If neither of those work run the RUU and re-root
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kyouko said:
^^ Safe mode is accessed by holding the MENU button while booting up. I've used it once when I modified the mms.apk, keyboard and a couple other things and was getting a ton of FC's - I needed to pull some info off of a couple texts phone before I wiped (since I never do nandroids )
A reboot is all that was needed to get out of it for me though...
[assuming you're rooted]
If you have any recent nandroids OP, wipe and then restore them. If you don't have any nands, flash a completely different rom.
EX) if running AOSP -> flash NFX sense.
If neither of those work run the RUU and re-root
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Thanks for the info I did not know that. Have to read up on that. A man hope things are going better. Did you ever get your new laptop??? And I'm hoping you finish that pink theme my wife was just asking about it. Looking forward to it.
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Thats the thing, I've flash a different rom, rebooted several times etc.
This started happening a few days ago when my phone go wet a lil bit.
jaytavarez91 said:
Thats the thing, I've flash a different rom, rebooted several times etc.
This started happening a few days ago when my phone go wet a lil bit.
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You may actually have a hardware issue then. I would try pulling the battery and battery cover and letting the whole thing air out a bit, it may be something as simple as your menu button sticking. Once that's done, put the battery back in and try to boot up, if it boots, great, if not, perhaps run the sprint ruu and start over.
laie1472 said:
Thanks for the info I did not know that. Have to read up on that. A man hope things are going better. Did you ever get your new laptop??? And I'm hoping you finish that pink theme my wife was just asking about it. Looking forward to it.
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Don't mean to thread hijack OP
But it's coming sometime this week between Wed-Fri I'll roll out the first release then.
And things started looking better too, she should be released from the hospital near the end of next week ...so I don't spend quite as much time there now haha - good news for XDAers waiting for that theme
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Edit: When I do post the pink theme it'll be either on Thursday or Saturday - depending on when the lappy comes in
kyouko said:
Don't mean to thread hijack OP
But it's coming sometime this week between Wed-Fri I'll roll out the first release then.
And things started looking better too, she should be released from the hospital near the end of next week ...so I don't spend quite as much time there now haha - good news for XDAers waiting for that theme
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Edit: When I do post the pink theme it'll be either on Thursday or Saturday - depending on when the lappy comes in
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A good to hear. Glad all is well. And I'll be looking forward to the theme. God bless man.
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OK so I ran the RUU, twice and it still starts up in safe mode -__-
Is there a script or a way to disable its using the adb

[Q] FroyobyLaszlo ROM

Hi All. Long time follower on XDA for the G1 (9 months after the G1 debut) but first time posting. I just recently did the 2708+hboot hack for the 14mb to flash and test the lastest ROMs. I've tried everything that is currently available for download on XDA development and found that Laszlo 5.2 to be the smoothest and fastest (just as fast as Super CSDI).
I read through the entire post to see if anyone has experienced the same thing as I did, but no one really did. This ROM is amazing and everything is working great, but one thing. My question is--The Audible selection and screen lock sound do not work. One person ask about the screen lock sound not working, but no one answered. Is anyone else getting this problem besides me and is there a fix. I flash it several times and on 3 different G1s and get the same results. Maybe the download of the ROM I'm flashing is slightly corrupt. Any thoughts??? Thanks everyone for all your help through these years keeping the G1 alive and still amazing.
Rick SJ said:
Hi All. Long time follower on XDA for the G1 (9 months after the G1 debut) but first time posting. I just recently did the 2708+hboot hack for the 14mb to flash and test the lastest ROMs. I've tried everything that is currently available for download on XDA development and found that Laszlo 5.2 to be the smoothest and fastest (just as fast as Super CSDI).
I read through the entire post to see if anyone has experienced the same thing as I did, but no one really did. This ROM is amazing and everything is working great, but one thing. My question is--The Audible selection and screen lock sound do not work. One person ask about the screen lock sound not working, but no one answered. Is anyone else getting this problem besides me and is there a fix. I flash it several times and on 3 different G1s and get the same results. Maybe the download of the ROM I'm flashing is slightly corrupt. Any thoughts??? Thanks everyone for all your help through these years keeping the G1 alive and still amazing.
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im not sure exactly what it is your talking about but i know besides what your saying i have no complaints about this rom... buuuuuuut it is getting old and hasn't had an update since i remember.. so im sure **** will be hitting the fan soon... all we can do is hope a better rom comes out or hope somebody has the balls to try messing with lazlo rom to improve on its minor bugs and issues
wish i could help you more but i have no idea what that is haha
Well do u get the sounds he's asking about. I wonder if the ogg files are present. I'm not on fbl atm so I'm not sure
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johnson8cyl said:
Well do u get the sounds he's asking about. I wonder if the ogg files are present. I'm not on fbl atm so I'm not sure
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im not using that rom at the moment but as far as i know the sounds were working.. is he using a kernel with it? maybe its messing with it..
Don't know what you mean by "Audible selection", but I would guess for the lock/unlock sound you need to install the audio from addons (since it contains the file). Type "addons" in terminal and follow the on-screen prompts.
The Audible selection and screen lock sound
what is this?
edward0119 said:
The Audible selection and screen lock sound
what is this?
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Sounds when u unlock
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Hi Adam, your the Man!
Thank you so much. Your suggestion fixed it. I was playing with Super Aosp 6.0 when you made the suggestion and I was very hesitant to flash again to find out that it might do nothing. But the speed of Laszlo was just to good to not find out, so I did and I'm glad I did.
I'm surprised that hardly anyone knew what I was talking about. So to clarify, if you go into Setting>Sound and then scoll down a bit you will see Audible selection and Screen lock sound options. The Audible selection is when it makes a 'Click' type sound when you select something. That extra audible feedback is very helpful.
I was going to just put up with Laszlo 5.2 even without sound if I had too, but I'm glad I don't.
Now I can finally stay with this for awhile to see if it is stable as well as fast.
Thanks again.
Rick

(Q] overcome 2.1.0 rom

When isit released? Anything expected date?
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Roszaidee said:
When isit released? Anything expected date?
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Currently its due for september.
seriously though, its released when its ready. No sooner.
And if the devs have to take the time to answer questions like this, then it will further delay the release.
If you really want to find out, read what alterbridge/pittbul have posted in the official thread in the dev section, like the rest of us.
Oh my God i can't wait for Overcome 2.1.
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Is there any particular functionality you are having difficulty living without?
mkhattab said:
Is there any particular functionality you are having difficulty living without?
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For me personally, i really need the auto-coffee-vending tweak, aswell as the flamethrower option.
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I think we forgot to mention in the Changelogs that it will also turn your Tab into a microwave oven and a foldable car...
To the OP,
Follow the changelogs and release developments (when they happen) on teamovercome.net or on the main Overcome thread here on XDA
This is a bit of a pointless thread
All I need more from overcome are normal battery stats .... these are very annoying, every time I look at then I think I have android os bug ...
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stoney73 said:
Currently its due for september.
seriously though, its released when its ready. No sooner.
And if the devs have to take the time to answer questions like this, then it will further delay the release.
If you really want to find out, read what alterbridge/pittbul have posted in the official thread in the dev section, like the rest of us.
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hi yaaa how are you buddy ? along time disappearing ? any problems or just the life out side XDA?
k0sh said:
hi yaaa how are you buddy ? along time disappearing ? any problems or just the life out side XDA?
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I seem to be spending most of my xda time on the sgs2 section....I'm happy with my tab, so just pop in now and again to see what is new. Basically to see if cm7 is matured, and also to see what wizardry the overcome team have produced.
But the sgs2 has tons more development(more is not necessarily better though, seeing as people just seem to be releasing 'themed' roms, nothing original apart from villainrom), but its a lot to keep up with
I can't live without the foldable car option.
I heard there will be invisibility built in too.
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I can't live without the foldable car option.
I heard there will be invisibility built in too.
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You have no idea dude...
It's going to come with an optional Kernel that will give the invisible foldable car awesome JamesBondAstonMartin-style weapons
(someone please close this thread before it gets outta hand)
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You have no idea dude...
It's going to come with an optional Kernel that will give the invisible foldable car awesome JamesBondAstonMartin-style weapons
(someone please close this thread before it gets outta hand)
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Cm7 on sgs comes with a pony!
Thats a feature to be jealous about. I wish it will be ported to the tab.
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qsec said:
Cm7 on sgs comes with a pony!
Thats a feature to be jealous about. I wish it will be ported to the tab.
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I hope the new overcome comes with a 'mating' option.....my sgs2 is getting randy and keeps flashing my tab.....
stoney73 said:
I hope the new overcome comes with a 'mating' option.....my sgs2 is getting randy and keeps flashing my tab.....
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i want the new rom come with it Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman .. Mokhattab is that possible to make
Stony glad to see ya around , keep in touch and forget about SGS2 flashing you getting addictive
Overcome 2.01 crashes after upgrade from Overcome 1.6
Hi, I am new to the forum so please bear with me.
I had previously installed Overcome 1.6 on a Telstra Galaxy tab; I ran it for around 2 month with no hiccups. I recently updated to Overcome 2.01 to have video on skype; however ever since the upgrade the Tab is really unstable. It crashes every time I try to look for directions from google maps while on the road.
The crash is so severe that it won’t go past the overcome boot logo after restart. I reinstalled a couple of times with the same result. I also tried following the guide to step 6 and see if it also happened on the “factory fresh gingerbread” form; and this time it crashed as soon as I used the browser over wi-fi. The crash is as severe, the tablet shows a lot of pop up errors after boot and then it boots itself again.
Can I revert back to Overcome 1.6 while the new version (Android 2.3.4) is released; or I can’t go back from gingerbread to froyo?
Thank you for advising.
Cheers,
carludo said:
Hi, I am new to the forum so please bear with me.
I had previously installed Overcome 1.6 on a Telstra Galaxy tab; I ran it for around 2 month with no hiccups. I recently updated to Overcome 2.01 to have video on skype; however ever since the upgrade the Tab is really unstable. It crashes every time I try to look for directions from google maps while on the road.
The crash is so severe that it won’t go past the overcome boot logo after restart. I reinstalled a couple of times with the same result. I also tried following the guide to step 6 and see if it also happened on the “factory fresh gingerbread” form; and this time it crashed as soon as I used the browser over wi-fi. The crash is as severe, the tablet shows a lot of pop up errors after boot and then it boots itself again.
Can I revert back to Overcome 1.6 while the new version (Android 2.3.4) is released; or I can’t go back from gingerbread to froyo?
Thank you for advising.
Cheers,
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U can go back to froyo
Gingerbread is 2.3.3
Anyways thats strange , and u mentioned that you reflash it couple of times and its still crashes , but u can reverse back for sure
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Hey, just wanted to say that overcome 2 has been rock solid for me since installing on its release.
Did you follow all the instructions including a wipe?
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dtswk said:
Hey, just wanted to say that overcome 2 has been rock solid for me since installing on its release.
Did you follow all the instructions including a wipe?
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Hi There,
I indeed followed the instructions to the line the 3 times and the result is always the same.
I did notice that on the last step when loading the rom itself, the screen flickers a few times and during the "loading kernel" line a few blue lines appear; the process still finishes normally.
Should I use the Telstra modem file instead of the one on the JK3 folder?
Cheers,
hi carludo
crash while jusing wifi maybe the wrong modem. you are from australia?
is it a euro or asian tab? so look for the right modem. many times flash
the same maybe wrong.
best wishes to downunder.
Hi There,
Correct, it is a Telstra Galaxy tab, I used the modem file in the JK3 folder as per the instructions; I will give it another try and use hte modem file from that Testra restock thread and see if it makes a difference.
I will let you know later tonight how it goes.
Cheers from sunny Sydney

Screen black; battery pull required

This morning when I woke up I checked the calendar on my Captivate and everything looked fine. I had an IM app (Go) running but stopped it. I went back about 15 minutes later to look at something else on my phone and it would not wake up. Nothing I did would make the screen come on. I eventually just pulled the battery and it started working fine. This is the 3rd or 4th time that's happened and usually at night while charging.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help
Its called sleep death. What ROM, kernel,oc/UV values are you using?
I've never heard of that, but I would definitely say that describes it perfectly.
I'm actually running stock Froyo. All of this pain lately makes me want to load up a custom ROM this weekend (assuming it would help). I just don't want to end up bricked.
Thanks
That's not sleep death, at least what I experienced, I have seen that on my own captivate. Usually mine will lock up and become non-responsive, eventually the phone will restart. I don't know if it is a common issue but one I have had often.
Ya I've had that happen. Either I gotta pull the battery or my phone poops on itself and reboots. Oh well
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I have been having the screen go black and the phone is unresponsive at times so i called att and they are sending me another phone under warranty but i asked them if my replacement is going to have the same issues because most cappy owners have this problem she said it would but i think all the phones have this issue
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I wish they would send refurbs with updated GB but i was told im getting the same
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Does anyone know if a custom ROM would fix the issue or is this hardware related?
I've given custom ROMs much thought. Not sure which one I'd choose, etc. Seems like there is so much to read and a lot of the information builds on itself. My luck I'd try AIO or something and get down to page 80 of all the postings and realize it doesn't work for me after I already flash it.
Thanks
I started having the same problem a couple days ago. I've my captivate for almost one year already. I had stock eclair, froyo, several roms. Now I'm using stock GB 2.3.5 KI2. The only thing that I can think it changed is the fact that I added an external 16gb sd. I'll do a factory reset and remove sd to see if it happens again.
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I have had the least issues on cognition 4.5.3, the gingerbread leaks for whatever reason never worked well for me. I have a S II now with no issues, but still use the captivate like an iPod touch. Working very well on cognition as I type.
xfedex said:
I started having the same problem a couple days ago. I've my captivate for almost one year already. I had stock eclair, froyo, several roms. Now I'm using stock GB 2.3.5 KI2. The only thing that I can think it changed is the fact that I added an external 16gb sd. I'll do a factory reset and remove sd to see if it happens again.
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I found the source of my battery leak/black screen. It was "Smooth Calendar Widget" app.

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