Hello,
I just went from stock 2.1 rooted to Cog 2.4 for one day then to Cog 2.4.1 directly (w/o masterclear or ODIN one click to stock.
My ATT Captivate never had a working GPS from day 1 from anywhere, even on a cloudless open sky.
Today, just for schnitz and giggles, I turned on "Navigation" app when I was inside and it said "Looking for GPS Signal"
Whatever. Then I walked to my car, and then suddenly for the FIRST TIME EVER it had a GPS lock!
I was so happy. Got in my car, put the phone beside my gear shift, and started driving. After about 10 sec it said "Looking for GPS" or something. It lost the signal. Crap. Then I held the phone directly under the windshield. It got a GPS lock immediately. I kept on driving and never once did it ever leave the road. It was very accurate, and it didn't lag either.
So I put it down near my gear shift again. It lost the signal once again.
I've noticed that as soon as the phone is not anywhere near directly the windshield, it loses the signal.
My question is this. Those that have a proper working GPS Captivate unit, do you exhibit a similar behaviour? I.E. as soon as it doesn't have open sky it loses signal?
I actually got an accurate lock in an Orchard Supply Hardware store once.
Here's a track from a few days ago with 2.4 (Same performance with 2.4.1)
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...0.027874&t=h&z=16&iwloc=000494cb503110ca2c19e
I actually had it laying in a little stowaway compartment in my car (http://www.canadiandriver.com/testdrives/images/03_matrix_xrs_int2.jpg leftmost side of the interior below the side mirror controls). Apparently it never lost the lock and navigated me home without rerouting.
kppanic said:
Hello,
I just went from stock 2.1 rooted to Cog 2.4 for one day then to Cog 2.4.1 directly (w/o masterclear or ODIN one click to stock.
My ATT Captivate never had a working GPS from day 1 from anywhere, even on a cloudless open sky.
Today, just for schnitz and giggles, I turned on "Navigation" app when I was inside and it said "Looking for GPS Signal"
Whatever. Then I walked to my car, and then suddenly for the FIRST TIME EVER it had a GPS lock!
I was so happy. Got in my car, put the phone beside my gear shift, and started driving. After about 10 sec it said "Looking for GPS" or something. It lost the signal. Crap. Then I held the phone directly under the windshield. It got a GPS lock immediately. I kept on driving and never once did it ever leave the road. It was very accurate, and it didn't lag either.
So I put it down near my gear shift again. It lost the signal once again.
I've noticed that as soon as the phone is not anywhere near directly the windshield, it loses the signal.
My question is this. Those that have a proper working GPS Captivate unit, do you exhibit a similar behaviour? I.E. as soon as it doesn't have open sky it loses signal?
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My GPS is schizophrenic. Often it takes forever to lock, even when under the windshield. Lately I've taken with playing with the LBSTEST stuff (again!) and purging the GPS data. I didn't get a good response for quite some time and all of a sudden it appears to lock within seconds(?!?).
After it locks I can place it in my console's beverage holder and it will maintain lock, although its quality is less than when on the dash.
I am judging the lock quality with GPS Test from the market. If I am using Google Nav I declare it locked when the antenna icon stops flashing.
As a side note it seems that Google Nav and the GPS have an odd relation in that when I come to a stop the icon on the Nav screen keeps going and then haltingly stops and backs up.
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I've been using my at&t tilt with tomtom flawlessly since I purchased it earlier this year. A few weeks back while visiting the cemetary (paying respect to some past relatives), I tried using tomtom to help plot down where some of the graves were located.
After waiting a few minutes for the gps to acquire a signal, it eventually got 1 bar, but showed my location about 220+ km(~150 miles) off! It would also show my travelling speed to be incredibly fast (like the speed of a plane), but would eventually slow down to drving speed and it would show me driving along a road... I never watched it long enough to see where exactly it was going (or where it was going to end!?)
Keep in mind this is in a cemetary, no where near any obstructing trees or buildings, nothing but blue sky. I tried turning the radio off (airplane mode) and back on a few times, reloading tomtom etc, but everytime it would show the same thing, starting back somewhere flying really fast...
So geez, I thought that was kinda eerie.. so later that day (and away from the cemetary) I tried it again and it seemed to work OK. But lately I've noticed this intermittent behaviour again, and the only resolution I've found was to simply do a soft-reset and everything would appear to work ok. Has anyone else had this similar issue?
Is it simply:
a) a gimped up qualcomm chipset, or
b) a bug in the OS/driver/stack, or
c) or is my phone posessed???!
Hi all,
just wanted to know whether you experienced any GPS improvements after the update?
Mine seems to be functioning a a lot better, however, it turns off by itself after like 10-15min of use. The little satellite dish disappears and I lose GPS tracking even though the GPS is turned on in the notification bar. I have to turn it off then on and it starts working again but it's annoying as hell.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I used it today for about 1,5 hour, while driving.
It took a few minutes to start up. It was pretty precise in nav mode.
I lost the GPS signal one time, where I also lost the data connection. (At the time i was also playing with the phone.
Over all a good experience.
Tried yesterday, found satellites instantly, can keep gps lock, but still have some accuracy issue.
i used it on the way to work today with track booster and it seemed much better
however i tried again on the way home to test and lost data connection
once you loosed connection you dont seem to be able to get it back you have to restart the phone which is annoying
i will not say its fixed untill i have used it more and got consistant result
Just as bad as ever here, not locking many sats and still keeps losing them.
I can def use the phone for turn by turn navigation now, which is a massive plus.
But after working flawlessly for a couple min, it loses the GPS connection and doesn't even attempt to reconnect.
I then switch GPS off, then back on and it's working again.
This has got to be a software glitch.
still very bad. sometimes it simply cannot get a lock at all. this happens away from buildings and under clear sky. sometimes it gets a lock instantly but loses it quite quickly.
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I have the feeling that my gps is now with froyo better. Now i have more sattelits but works good enough with eclair.
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Better, but still unacceptable.
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66 secs first sat fix.
Locked on 7 sats.
For me, waaaay much better with Froyo.
used mine on the way home from work and was a little better but still jumped around when stationary
Ok, I started a new thread for this, because it seems to be a unique problem.
(Sorry if there is a thread already, I couldn't find it)
I recently updated the SGS to the official 2.2.1 via KIES.
The GPS used to be a piece of excrement before, with the upgrade it got really good: sees 6-11 satellites, finds fix in 5-20 seconds.
BUT
from time to time it just plainly dies. The symptoms are the following: no satellites, no fix, in GPS Test it shows only one satellite after 30-40 seconds, but its location on the "radar" screen is glued to the North sign.
I think it clearly shows that it's not a simple case of not getting signal, but something at the system-level.
The weird thing is, that it only gets better with 2 or 3 restarts. Only one usually doesn't help
At first I thought that the RAM sweep I generally use in the Samsung Task Manager did something to the GPS driver, but I stopped using that, and the problem resurfaced after a couple of days.
I'm at a loss. Any ideas?
Hello I'm having a problem with my GPS signal. I followed this guide to fix it but still have the problem: http://androidforums.com/threads/gps...-guide.761247/
I have NO PROBLEM getting my accurate location within 1-5 seconds when sharing location on whatsapp/telegram or other apps. Even opening Google Maps or Waze, they also detect my location very very fast. I'm taking less than 5 seconds and it's very accurate.
The problem comes when I try to NAVIGATE with Waze or Google Maps. This is when I'm outdoors in my car of course. My phone doesn't get a GPS signal. It takes a very very long time, sometimes 10 minutes to get a lock on. The funny thing is that when I followed this guide and I put the airplane mode on, the apps got a lockon on the GPS, but as soon as the airplane mode was off they lost GPS signal and had a problem locking on.
I have the GPS TOOL app installed and outside I get a lockon of about 10-15 satellites of 22 but it doesn't happen instantly. It takes from 10 to 60 seconds to get a lockon. But that is not even the problem. I could live with that, but the real issue is that the signal comes and goes. So sometimes the apps have a lockon for 1 minute and then they lose it for 3 minutes and again and again.
When I'm indoors it takes about 30 minutes to get a lockon on but I get from 1 to up to 6 satellites even though my apartment is the one on the top. There are no other apartments above it so I should have a bit more of a chance to get a signal. But it barely connects and sometimes never. The issue is the same. It may connect sometimes but it loses signal. 1 minute it remains connected and them loses it for 5 minutes and so on.
I attached some screenshots of how waze never has a GPS connection (unless I turn airplane mode on. I'll test this later on the road trying to get some place and I'll update if this really makes the GPS lockon but it's not ideal to have to use airplane mode to get a lock on GPS but not have internet for anyethign else). I have also attached the specifications of my phone. I hope you can help me out. It's a samsung galaxy s5 mini. And mainly I want to know if this could be because of the KITKAT firmware because I have read that many phones have GPS problems now, or if this could actually be a problem with my phone. I hope not becuase it's a new phone. I have one month with it and I'm in Mexico.
I have the exact same problem with my Samsung galaxy S5 Mini - Found this thread while looking for suggestions. So you're not alone!
My workaround is kind of annoying. I run Waze and the GPS Tool from the Play store at the same time. When Waze loses GPS, I switch back to the GPS Tool and wait for it to re-establish 3D Fix. Then switch back to Waze and it's stable for a few minutes. Then back and forth...
I have similar issues with Sygic, samsung support was not very helpful. But it seems that it is a hardware issue with S5 mini
Check out also this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5-mini/help/gps-issue-t2871145
So I've had my G4 for a couple months now, and I've noticed the GPS is literally almost worthless. My location is set to on and high accuracy. My usual routine is to look up the route before I leave my driveway like any normal person. The GPS locks on after a while, and when I start driving is the problem. It either won't update to my moving position (I live in Pittsburgh and T-Mobile's coverage is pretty good) and will frequently freeze. Or it will randomly start locking onto random locations around my area but not on my car. This is incredibly frustrating obviously because I absolutely need my GPS to work. Does this sound like a hardware problem and how do I prove it to T-Mobile to get a replacement device?
With a clear sky, my GPS is amazing. But with heavy cloud cover I cannot get a decent lock.
Seems the AGPS (tower based location) is worse on this than any device before. Even with Wi-Fi on.
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Came here to post the same thing.
For some reason, over the last few weeks, my gps started going bonkers for no reason. It will work just fine for 20 min and then all of a sudden it will keep thinking that I am 70 feet west of where I really am. So if I'm driving south on the highway, it thinks I'm driving parallel to the highway but 70 feet to the right of the highway. So whenever there is another road nearby, Google Maps thinks I'm on that road and tries to reroute me to get back on the highway. If there is no other road nearby, Maps will correct my location to the highway. It is really frustrating because it becomes useless with intersecting roads and constant erroneous rerouting. The arrow keep jumping back and forth and the app is giving me false rerouting instructions non-stop. Not to mention the map keeps rotating around because it gets confused about which direction I'm headed. Super confusing.
Once I reboot the phone, everything goes back to normal and the gps is once again super accurate (until it happens again).
This issue happens every other day or so.
I did update to 10N as well as rooting and putting TWRP on it a months ago (around the same time these issues started). Not sure if the bug was introduced with 10N or if it's related to the root and TWRP (doubt it).
I started really hating this phone as I keep getting lost while driving.
majp89 said:
So I've had my G4 for a couple months now, and I've noticed the GPS is literally almost worthless. My location is set to on and high accuracy. My usual routine is to look up the route before I leave my driveway like any normal person. The GPS locks on after a while, and when I start driving is the problem. It either won't update to my moving position (I live in Pittsburgh and T-Mobile's coverage is pretty good) and will frequently freeze. Or it will randomly start locking onto random locations around my area but not on my car. This is incredibly frustrating obviously because I absolutely need my GPS to work. Does this sound like a hardware problem and how do I prove it to T-Mobile to get a replacement device?
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Is this the same type of GPS issue on Samsung flagships? Those require opening up the phone and lifting up the GPS leaf pins.
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aptalca said:
Came here to post the same thing.
For some reason, over the last few weeks, my gps started going bonkers for no reason. It will work just fine for 20 min and then all of a sudden it will keep thinking that I am 70 feet west of where I really am. So if I'm driving south on the highway, it thinks I'm driving parallel to the highway but 70 feet to the right of the highway. So whenever there is another road nearby, Google Maps thinks I'm on that road and tries to reroute me to get back on the highway. If there is no other road nearby, Maps will correct my location to the highway. It is really frustrating because it becomes useless with intersecting roads and constant erroneous rerouting. The arrow keep jumping back and forth and the app is giving me false rerouting instructions non-stop. Not to mention the map keeps rotating around because it gets confused about which direction I'm headed. Super confusing.
Once I reboot the phone, everything goes back to normal and the gps is once again super accurate (until it happens again).
This issue happens every other day or so.
I did update to 10N as well as rooting and putting TWRP on it a months ago (around the same time these issues started). Not sure if the bug was introduced with 10N or if it's related to the root and TWRP (doubt it).
I started really hating this phone as I keep getting lost while driving.
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Have you tried using Device Only mode? I noticed that once I did that accuracy went to 100% while driving.
I think it's a software issue that shows up when the phone is not using the GPS and instead relying on WiFi and Cell for location.
Joe USer said:
Have you tried using Device Only mode? I noticed that once I did that accuracy went to 100% while driving.
I think it's a software issue that shows up when the phone is not using the GPS and instead relying on WiFi and Cell for location.
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You know, you might be onto something about the assisted gps part (cell and wifi)
Shortly after I posted the message, I started using this app called GPS Status & Toolbox. It has a feature of clearing and updating the assistance data (A-GPS) which it can automatically do once a day. Since I started using it, I haven't had the issue.
It's possible that there is a software glitch regarding cell and wifi assist
Los Angeles got hit by El Nino pretty hard with thick clouds for about a week but didn't have any issues with my navigation. I use TomTom go, Google map, waze, and MS Here depends on my mood but all were accurate. I haven't done anything to my phone except turning off WiFi assistance for GPS, you think that has anything to do with it? I think it was called WiFi scanning under advanced WiFi setting.
I find the LG G4 gps to be one of the best among the phones I have used. I have had Note3, Note4 before... those had horrendous gps performance issue.