[Q] GPS is not working at all - any help ? - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey Guys !
First of all i m in love with my sgs, i m currently using darkys 7.7 awesome rom - but there is just one thing that drives me crazy, yes, u guessed right, it is the gps
just some facts what i did but it is still not working, it did not work fine with 2.1 but i could get a lock which took 3 - 4 mins -> then i upgraded to darkys 4.xx same problem and since then it got worse and worse and now i just find 2, maximal 3 satellits but i cant get a lock even if i w8 for 15 mins .. and yes i did a complete clean install of darkys rom etc. + wipe chaches etc.
- tried the gps fix in sgs tools
- tried the app fasterfix
- tried the app gps booster
- tried the app gps status + deleted all the a gps data
- let my phone for 20 mins on a field with clear view to the sky and gps
I searched days and nights what could be wrong .. and this issue makes me crazy
The last thing i can think of is that i try to correct the gps hardware like KWKSLVR posted here but its kinda risky .. so maybe anyone else can help me ?
thanks in advance for your answers

Hi,
I'm having the same issue,
tried different solutions without any luck
I wouldn't go as far as touching the hardware...
have you tried this rom?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831038 (it's the only one on which the gps works decently for me)

Well the hardware trick does not seem so difficult but well, i wont do it anyway ..
No i did not try this rom yet, but i ll give it a try and post the results

try setting to cold start..and clear gps data, and leave outside for 20 minutes. there is a known bug that if set on hot start and the position is too far off from last it sometimes doesnt ever get a fix.

If you upgrade to a specific ROM and get a new problem does that not tell you where the problem is .
jje

DaKaKtuS said:
Hey Guys !
First of all i m in love with my sgs, i m currently using darkys 7.7 awesome rom - but there is just one thing that drives me crazy, yes, u guessed right, it is the gps
just some facts what i did but it is still not working, it did not work fine with 2.1 but i could get a lock which took 3 - 4 mins -> then i upgraded to darkys 4.xx same problem and since then it got worse and worse and now i just find 2, maximal 3 satellits but i cant get a lock even if i w8 for 15 mins .. and yes i did a complete clean install of darkys rom etc. + wipe chaches etc.
- tried the gps fix in sgs tools
- tried the app fasterfix
- tried the app gps booster
- tried the app gps status + deleted all the a gps data
- let my phone for 20 mins on a field with clear view to the sky and gps
I searched days and nights what could be wrong .. and this issue makes me crazy
The last thing i can think of is that i try to correct the gps hardware like KWKSLVR posted here but its kinda risky .. so maybe anyone else can help me ?
thanks in advance for your answers
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The same for me. A couple days ago i found this video:
The owner said that he return it and received a new one because it had a hardware problem.
Next days, when I have time, I will go to a service centre to see what is wrong with my phone.

yesterday, i flashed xxjpx_modem and performance of my gps improved s

that video is bull.. you cannot compare like that.. i can take any galaxy s set it to hot start then fly accross the county and it will behave that way..

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Anyone using imapmyrun ?

Hi folks,
as I said in an earlier post about the gps I wanted to test at the same time my old iphone 3GS and my new samsung galaxy S
I thought it would be best to use the same software and the only one I can think of was imapmyrun.
So this weekend my wife was driving on the highway ( so no building and the sky was cloudless) and I thought it was the perfect time
I siwthed on impamyrun on both.
On the iphone the fix took maybe 10 sec and the blue dot was moving witht he car and on the road ( so at leat 10m precision)
On the samsgun it took maybe 20-30sec to get the fix but then I started to record and ... nothing. The phone totally froze.
I tried to stop but I couldnt
I checked the memory and it was the only app with around 100 mo of memry free
After 10mn of hitting the stop button a reboot, 2-3 kill with autokiller, systempanel ... the record was still on. I the app creashed 10 times ...
So I didn't manage to run my test and I was crazy on my seat trying to make it work.
So ... anyone using it ? does it work fine ? Do you use an external sd card ?
For fun I used mytracs this morning during my run ( sunny like hell and on the coastal walk so no building closer than 100m) and look at what I got
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=53.609468,97.294922&t=h&z=4
A little bit scarry but as I have nothing to compare with it's a little bit useless
I am using JM2 with no extra fix
nicoloco said:
Hi folks,
as I said in an earlier post about the gps I wanted to test at the same time my old iphone 3GS and my new samsung galaxy S
I thought it would be best to use the same software and the only one I can think of was imapmyrun.
So this weekend my wife was driving on the highway ( so no building and the sky was cloudless) and I thought it was the perfect time
I siwthed on impamyrun on both.
On the iphone the fix took maybe 10 sec and the blue dot was moving witht he car and on the road ( so at leat 10m precision)
On the samsgun it took maybe 20-30sec to get the fix but then I started to record and ... nothing. The phone totally froze.
I tried to stop but I couldnt
I checked the memory and it was the only app with around 100 mo of memry free
After 10mn of hitting the stop button a reboot, 2-3 kill with autokiller, systempanel ... the record was still on. I the app creashed 10 times ...
So I didn't manage to run my test and I was crazy on my seat trying to make it work.
So ... anyone using it ? does it work fine ? Do you use an external sd card ?
For fun I used mytracs this morning during my run ( sunny like hell and on the coastal walk so no building closer than 100m) and look at what I got
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=53.609468,97.294922&t=h&z=4
A little bit scarry but as I have nothing to compare with it's a little bit useless
I am using JM2 with no extra fix
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So why start a new thread about this, you already been in other GPS error threads. Try to be a little bit focused otherwise you may be considered as just complaining for some strange reason. Change your signature to the right firmware it now says JFF.
ok that's true
Actually the main purpose of my thread is imapmyrun
This is the software I use for my run and ride and I was using it on my iphone
So the only question I have is : is there anyone using it and do you have any trouble.
My feeling is that it has been ifrst done for the iphone and then maybe poorly ported to android ( mytracks is not bugged like this one ....)
EDIT : signature updated ...
Would it be possible to move this thread to the apps part instead of general ??
Hi,
I can't Save my workouts with Xperia X8 Android 2.1, it always report an error. Gps works fine for me

Known Issue? Froyo clocktime issue with MobileNavigator (2.5.1,2.6.1) / Widgets

Hey guys,
i have a strange issue with Mobile Navigator and froyo:
Mobile Navigator gets the clock wrong. Its always one hour backward. I noticed that cause it calculated the arrival time for many routes exactly one hour different than for example google maps. Also i drove and the time in the noticationbar was past than the arrival time when there were like 60miles to go.
For exmaple Sygic Mobile Maps 10 works fine and calculates a right arrival time (so it must get the clocktime right) ... i experienced something similar with BeautifulWidgets and ToogleWidgets - they dont get the time at all and just freeze the clock. FancyWidgets then worked for me.
One may think of sommer/wintertime as a cause for the "one hour delay of MobilNav" ... but why is then the Clocktime in the Notificationbar right and why does it work with SygicMaps ... there is no setting for clock in MobilNav ... addionatly its strange that some widgets dont get the clocktime at all from froyo.
Is there some issue with apps dont get the clock time right from froyo?
I flashed nearly every froyo rom from Stock RC1, RC2 to the other mods. I wiped in fastboot erase system -w. Cleared cache, Dalvik .... I use the mtd paritions. Cleared battery, rotate settings. You see my radio and SPL in the sig.
Thanks for telling me it you got similar experiences
Is this a known issue? I never read of that in the rom thead, pls help if i skipped reading something.
greets

[Q] Some remaining probs with doc 7.6.2

I am trying to get a solution for these 3 problems I am facing with Doc´s 7.6.2.
Maybe it is not a big deal to make it a perfect ROM but these 3 topics are annoying:
I wrote the same message already in Doc´s threat but no answer at all. in 5 min 10 new messages so nobody really takes care for a new question
Hi Guys,
Some problems I do have with the 7.6.2 and for sure I am not alone with these errors.
1 From time to time high energy consumption but sometimes not - this is crazy. One thing I realized when alarm is switched on for all weekdays then it sucks almost 20% in 5h - just in standby mode. Whats wrong here?
2 GPS signal is bad. When you using this tracking tools eg. cardio trainer it looses half time the GPS signal. Was definitely not with older ROMs.
Is that the modem version?
Is this part of the kernel?
3 Bluetooth works but whenever activating and deactivating getting a stupid message about an opp bla bla.
What is wrong?
Who can help?
Thanks
boris03
quite alot galaxy s users have reported issues with the gps reception i used to think its just a driver issue but upon reading into it would seem its related to the antenna. The wifi also suffers from this problem for me it does anyway. you can try out gps booster lite from market it does help outdoors to get a faster fix as for battery issues well im not so sure you would prob better asking in that thread if your still not heard try sending a pm that should work. good luck
boris03 said:
I am trying to get a solution for these 3 problems I am facing with Doc´s 7.6.2.
Maybe it is not a big deal to make it a perfect ROM but these 3 topics are annoying:
I wrote the same message already in Doc´s threat but no answer at all. in 5 min 10 new messages so nobody really takes care for a new question
Hi Guys,
Some problems I do have with the 7.6.2 and for sure I am not alone with these errors.
1 From time to time high energy consumption but sometimes not - this is crazy. One thing I realized when alarm is switched on for all weekdays then it sucks almost 20% in 5h - just in standby mode. Whats wrong here?
2 GPS signal is bad. When you using this tracking tools eg. cardio trainer it looses half time the GPS signal. Was definitely not with older ROMs.
Is that the modem version?
Is this part of the kernel?
3 Bluetooth works but whenever activating and deactivating getting a stupid message about an opp bla bla.
What is wrong?
Who can help?
Thanks
boris03
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1.) Turn off your lagfix, run stock RFS see if you still get the issue.
Do a fresh install dont add ANY apps other than stock, observe for 1-2 days of battery usage.
2.) GPS is a hit or miss, hardware is broken.
3.) Never had issues with BT, I use it on a day to day basis to pass around files at the office.
Are you using one of those OC kernels? Or any of the suggested kernels for the matter? I was using Super Optimized Kernel for a while and the battery drain was outstanding even on the non-OC versions. Switched to SpeedMod 300hz. Haven't monitored the battery though but it seems better with normal usage. Also, what lagfix are you using? For a time I was using the Ext-4 Overkill lagfix from the ULF and I noticed considerably less battery life.
As Earlz suggested, try disabling lagfixes and tweaks and monitor..then if it is better than before perhaps using a different lagfix would be a solution. Try switching up kernels (remembering to disable lagfixes prior). Try running different launchers too. I'm no expert on how these things work and affect battery life, but this is all based from personal experience.
My GPS never worked from the start no matter what firmware/ROM I'm on so it seems to really be a hardware issue as EarlZ mentioned. If the problem came about after flashing 7.6.2 then try reflashing to stock firmware with repartition and installing 7.6.2 again after clearing cache and factory reset. Somehow that (having a super clean install) usually fixes random problems I get with any ROM. I'm not certain if it will have any affect on GPS performance but it's worth a try.
Bluetooth is still working fine for me. Perhaps the aforementioned clean install advice I gave could remedy this.
Hi there, i rescently installed DJP5 v8.0.1 . And have some problems with it. When i'm making call i hear the other side perfect, but they dont hear me well. Is it some issue with the ROM or ? Have someone else experienced similar problems?
darkfire_bg said:
Hi there, i rescently installed DJP5 v8.0.1 . And have some problems with it. When i'm making call i hear the other side perfect, but they dont hear me well. Is it some issue with the ROM or ? Have someone else experienced similar problems?
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There is investigation on that one...
For now, it seems to be a modem issue from the stock modem of ADJP5
Flash another modem seems to fix this issue
darkfire_bg said:
Hi there, i rescently installed DJP5 v8.0.1 . And have some problems with it. When i'm making call i hear the other side perfect, but they dont hear me well. Is it some issue with the ROM or ? Have someone else experienced similar problems?
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Sigh....Thats covered in the main thread for this rom, try a different modem.
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NeoFroyo!! Well testing

hey guys!
Well i was trawling the android forums and found this!
http://www.neopeek.com/viewtopic.php?t=7524
All thanks yo neopeek for the rom.
I decided to test it out on my kovsky. This coupled with I believe duckkly's kernels worked like a charm!! ill post the kernels up here too as I experimented with quite a few to see what worked best!
Battery life: 8 hours on full blast so i rekon around 11 on normal usage
Wifi: never ever ever dropped on me so far! thou it does seem to be weak in some places around my house where i usually should be getting more signals and strong at places where i get little signal :S.confusing
phone: well calls come in and stuff but sometimes ull see a black screen and cant see who's calling! :S
Bluetooth: paired with my mw600s just fine dont know about file transfer
market:works just fine a bit slow though..could be my internet speeds out here in pakistan.
Apart from that using whatsapp like a charm. facebook apps. gaaps everything works!! not a single sod to date been using it for around about 5 days or so.
Sorry for the spelling errors! big thanks goes out to neopeek and duckkly or whoever compiled those kernels !
PS: oh and the keys will freeze up as you hit around 20% battery. I simply reboot. Also terminal doesnt seem to be working. keeps crashing on me but i dont really ever use it in daily use so it seems to be pretty stable apart from these flaws. Also you'll need to reinstall quickpic from market
Also im on radio 1.16 i believe. 1.14 seemed to drop calls randomly.
please read all of neopeek's instructions before flashing ! happy flashing
can't confirm 20% battery being the point where keys stop working. for me 4 hours of uptime seems the be magic point...
i stopped restarting modules via script (how to has been explained many times in here) and simply restart. most of the time it happens when an app is running - now what good is it if you have a shortcut somewhere, but can't get there because back- and home-key isn't working?!
but yeah, neofroyo is a big step forwards. first time using android on x1 is fun!
for terminal to work you have to reinstall it just like quickpic.
i just hope we'll see some kernel-update soon. without it the whole thing is pointless.
lol truee..thanks for the terminal update. oh if u press the camera button it will take you back to your home screen. than i guess u could load the keyboard modules..annoying i never bother with it. try my combination of kernel it gives me decent battery lifee but yea its the kernel with all the problems. tried the new kernels but they dont seem to work properly
hm, which kernel-version is that?
might try if i know which it is. just had to step down from ygge-monster to ygge-turbo. monster made my touchscreen getting unprecise in left half.
thx for the update with cam-button - never bothered to press that, since camera doesn't work anyway.
yeah, new kernels suck for our device, especially since they're missing the specific battery-driver for x1. the only guy still working on x1-kernel has been silent for months, but i can see he's still at it (porting 2.6.35.7).
Just tried pressing cam-button.
Falls back to lockscreen, after unlock shows homescreen. But system is frozen and after some time reboots directly to android. But lots of stuff doesn't work, especially phone-stuff. So i have to reboot winmo anyway.
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i think its the ducckly's keyboard not loaded as modules turbo verison. I believe it should be that because i remember the msm drivers werent really working properly on it
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[Q] Galaxy NOTE SOD problems.

My brother's galaxy note have been facing serious sod problems since he bought the phone at Nov 2012. After he faced it the 1st time , he sent to SC and got it back. After 1-2months the problem came again and he asked for my help. I persume it was because the malaysian firmware of the ICS was somewhat unstable from what i read from forums here and there. So i changed the firmware to JB duno from which country when it came out in MAC. After a week or so. The problem reappeared . So I just decided to root and chnge the kernel and also the ROM. Changed the ROM to a stock rom and a kernel. Still the problem persist. I'm out of options. Went to the ****ty SC and the idiots just factory reset the phone and give u back. BUNCH OF RETAR*S . (sorry for my languange)
Hope someone here may help me out with my problem. Thanks a million :laugh:
Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
abhinav quietly brilliant said:
Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
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I just installed an aosp rom (PA) and I hope it fixes the problem. Well I've seen the amount of apps installed in the note and its jst a quarter the amount I have in the Galaxy S2 and my S2 works like a charm. The note has been giving me headache ever since I got it from my brother. Hope this does solve it , if not I guess its something else maybe hardware
Phone sod twice on paranoid android. FML! Guess im visiting SC tmrw again.
Same problem with me..
My Note 1 has SOD since 1st time bought it..
be patience to install JB --> still SOD
change kernel to SpeedMod 5.3 --> SOD again
change kernel to PhilZ --> sometimes SOD
I have read many information that related with SOD in galnote 1, my opinion it is related with hardware too.. sometimes
or it is related with kernel... it can not wake from deep sleep..
anyone have another better suggestion to cure this ?
if u're using pure stock rom still facing the same problems then definitely is hardware issues!
if ur device still under warranties suggest bring to SC ask them do a thorough check on it n let them know what's going on actually...
Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
psywarx said:
Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
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Yeah and they will give your phone back only doing a factory reset lol
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I too get this SOD once a week on my GT-N7000
Phone status when this happens:
stock JB(earlier ICS), non-rooted, data connection, wifi, GPS, bluetooth all disabled. Battery mostly above 80%.
Gmail, Google+, Facebook and all other social n/w apps disabled (yes, i am an oldtimer )
During SOD, if a third party calls my number, he hears it ringing, but my handset is dead as dodo (quite dangerous as the calling person may think i am not answering it)
i used to get this when it was on ICS and still getting it after i upgraded to JB.
Most of the time, SOD occurs during wee hours in morning ( i used battery monitor app that logs battery stats every 10 minutes to check the time when this happens).
Sometimes it occurs when the phone is in my jeans back pocket. phone needs a 10 second press on pwr switch to restart it.
Turning off the "power saver" mode seem to reduce the probability of SOD.
i have taken this phone to SC and they re-flashed the JB.
i told the SC chap that i have already done this and couple of factory resets, but he said that they do "much more" than just re-flashing through kies like calibrating camera, bluetooth )
does anyone in the know, know if this is indeed true ?
Thanks
-mprab
updates...
After 2 days of re-flashing at a samsung authorised service center, i got SoD 2 times in a period of 12 hours.
once last night and second time when i was traveling to office.
Last night i installed some bare-minimum apps back after waiting 2 days for any SoD to happen in "stock" condition.
Well.... i did not pay 30K to use the GNote as just a phone, so installed some basic apps (Battery monitor, Bangalore BMTC, RealCalc, GPS Test, ES File explorer and a first time app StatusLogger)
phone went dead at 1:00 am in morning and as usual there was no wakeup alarm.
phone was warm to touch when it was lying dead. The battery which was 96% at 00:30 AM had gone down to 54% at 7:00 AM.
Status logger did not show any loss of GSM signal which might have resulted in phone transmitting at higher power/hunting for signal etc.
The "radio" seemed working, because when i made a call to the dead phone from my landline, i could hear the phone ring instead of expected "phone is switched off" message i was expecting.
So this has to do with application processor going in some infinite loop.
Uninstalling all apps is NOT an option.
anyone know if we can establish any debug connection to phone and know what the hell CPU is up to in this situation ?
any processor logger that will periodically log all the processes running on phone ?
SOD resolved... not a single one since 6 months.
Hey guys, just wanted to share this info with you, I had SOD's like anything and did all freakingly possible things right from flashing roms to kernels, speed up CPU, banging my head in front of the dumb witted morons at samsung service... to get rid of that pain. What helped me was an app called "WAKELOCK" by darken which is merely 72kb in size but works wonders, not a single SOD after that. What u need to do is.... it has a list of presets that makes sure your cpu stays up. You need to select the preset called "partial wake lock" which is at no. 4, and viola...
It ensures that the CPU is running. No SOD ever after. Also, you need to make it autorun on boot from the options. Yea, it does eat up batter a bit more but its definitely manageable. I still need to charge my note only at night.
Just to be sure, I uninstalled it and guess what, SOD returned. So, do try it, I hope it helps...

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