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Wi Fi on ATT TILT problem

How do I verify that my WiFi is actually working?
I have two TILTS with the same radios, one shows available WiFi access points and other desn't.
On the one that doesn't I recently replaced the broken screen so may be disconnect something, but the rest of the phone functionality is working fine.
Is there any diagnostic utils or something else I can use to troubleshoot it?
Thanks a lot

Any ideas?
I tried few different radios, reinstalled ATT original 6.1 ROM = the same problem.
GPS works fine SMS, phone, Data connections etc they all work.
Hardware problem? Or there is something in software I can still try to troubleshoot it?
Thanks

um turn it on and if it doesn't find anything it's broke? I don't think the radio Rom has anything to do with the wifi radio. Make sure that power saving is set to a minimum.

That's correct. I have two identical TILTs. When I turn on Wi Wi on them both the first one displays the list of available networks. The other one doesn't.
If I don't turn it on but go to Wi Fi settings there is a Search Networks entry in the list.
If I activate it, I assume it turns on Wi Fi searches and gives me the message:
"No visible networks detected. Widows Mobile will continue to search for networks periodically".
Never finds anything
From reading HTC manual I think TILT shares BT & Wi Fi antenna. BT works Wi Fi doesn't.
Must be something else or I am wrong about that assumption.

Please people, experts help!!!!

do a hard reset, if it doesn't work then it's broken.

ChumleyEX said:
do a hard reset, if it doesn't work then it's broken.
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If you would read my posts you would see that I flashed few different radios and few different ROMs on it including the stock one from ATT.
The same problem. So what would hard reset do?
It seems to me that most of your expert advices are: "Oh well, your devise is broken." What exactly is "broken"?
Quite frankly it's not an advice I am looking for here from the real experts.

Are you the type of person that drinks milk thats gone bad until it's turned good again.
If it doesn't work on a reset/flash on serveral roms, wouldn't you think the device is defective.
What exactly is "broken"?
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The wifi card is broken.
If you have hard reset, flashed several roms and adjusted the power management settings for best performance, what else is there?
Maybe no one is replying because I'm making sense. Maybe not
have fun with the experts.

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have fun with the experts.
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Thanks, that will not include you.

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It seems to me that most of your expert advices are: "Oh well, your devise is broken." What exactly is "broken"?
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See now, you don't know what your talking about, read through my thousands of posts and tell me if most of my expert advice is as you claim.
Use search is what I say most..
I've given out lots of good advise, It's not my fault you took the phone apart and broke something.

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Thanks, that will not include you.
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Unfortunately, when people such as myself, read through a thread like this and see people asking for help, giving snide retorts to other senior members , who are trying to help. It makes you feel like even if you did try to help, it wouldn't be appreciated anyway, so why bother.
But I will offer a second opinion anyway " it's broken "

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Unfortunately, when people such as myself, read through a thread like this and see people asking for help, giving snide retorts to other senior members , who are trying to help. It makes you feel like even if you did try to help, it wouldn't be appreciated anyway, so why bother.
But I will offer a second opinion anyway " it's broken "
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It's OK with me.
Somehow, for some reason, I do not consider the answer "it's broken" as a decent reply to my original cry for help.
But it's ok, I guess indeed why bother ...

If you had come with a differnt problem or different symptoms, then you may have gotten another answer. I can't help that it's a pretty simple thing.
You totally reload the software with different releases that are know to work out of the box, so we know it's not software. We would like to assume you know how to even turn the wireless on because it works on the other phone.
Maybe thats the problem.
Do you know how to turn the wireless on and off?

GPS Position Question

Ok, bear with me.
When I had my HTC Touch Pro, I remember the gps program I used would sync to a number of different satellites and switch between them based on different times of the day, signal strengths, etc...
I know that I have read many people saying that their position on gps is off by about 50 to 100 yards most of the time, and nothing they do can correct this.
I know that with the current set of ROM's out there, I am wondering if some of using different satellites to connect to, which because of the position of those satellites may be causing this.
Does anyone know how to check which satellites any specific ROM uses when checking its position using the gps? If different ROM's (from different countries possibly) are using different settings, are they settings we can alter or change to correct this or make our locations more specific? I am relatively sure that the phone uses the network tower location as well as wifi signals to better set someones location on a map, but is there a way to better define where a specific phone is located?
(Note: I did a search or 12 and didn't find anything like this in this forum for the Hero, if you have something informative or relative to say, please be nice about it. Thanks for your input!)

i would think that the actual signal handling is done in the gps chip itself, the android os gets the position "told" from the chip once it is calculated, it also gets the signal strength told.
you can check the satellites and signal with free "gps check" from market.

The gps is based on geo-synchronous satellites. The accuracy is based on the algorithm used and the number of available satellites. There are offsets to reduce accuracy which are imposed to limit the military uses. There are sync points to known objects (towers) which allow refinement.
The time lag of the gps receiver radio could, if it were designed wrong , affect the accuracy, but not likely since most likely it stores the time difference to the clock, asynchronously. ( a guess)
You can get more accurate software (wasp) . My marine unit gets me to 10 meters. I can usually find stuff 35' away. lol
So to answer your question, I don't think roms unless they changed the kernel affect the accuracy.

I guess there is a chance that the ROM has set the GPS to look for certain satellites by default, thereby causing some confusion, but I'm not sure that is the issue because my GPSr seems to be pretty accurate unless I am navigating with Google Maps at high speeds. I was thinking maybe it was a speed issue of sorts.
That said, here are some grabs of the satellites I'm seeing using DamageControlv2.05 (and the GPS Test app):
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Well, I agree with most of what you are saying, however, I think part of it is retrieving the signal from the gps chip, and I think part of it is the software on the phone is taking that information and combining it with the location information from triangulation with towers and its throwing off the location a little. Outside, with a clear sky, no buildings blocking me, and on the map (using satellite or map layers, I am still about 100 feet away from the map location. I know others have complained about it. I am just wondering if there is something in the ROM or software that might be causing it.

First, read up on aGPS, and how that works. Most people seem to think that it's a cheap, dumbed down, "pseudo-gps"... That's not true at all. aGPS is complete, fully capable GPS with extras that it can use to enhance both speed and accuracy.
A few of the things aGPS does to speed up the inital lock, though, can mean that the position is less than accurate for the first minute or two, until it acquires a full blown lock from the satellites.
When properly implemented, aGPS should be *better* than just regular GPS. There is room in there, however, for a programmer to screw up when coding an algorithm or two and actually throw things off. I'll admit that I would have thought that this would have all been handled on the GPS chip, but now that I think about it more, it's very possible that some of the logic is done by the software on the phone, and that could change between software versions.
Still, that's not the sort of code that rom devs are changing, so any inaccuracies caused by the software should be consistent between the various roms based on the same Android version....

[Q] Galaxy S for GPS tracking

Hello, sup?
I'll start with my intention, my dad is building a library of photos for documenting the cities. He wants to capture where the photos were taken and the problem is that our camera doesn't have a GPS addon available. So we found one solution, we can use Google's "My Tracks" to track his paths and then patch them into the photos using a software. Now we don't got 3G networks in our providers(2 providers got but we don't use them), only EDGE.
I'll be getting my SGS tomorrow(hopefully, the previous one had 3 buttons download mode disabled and I bricked it) and we won't be taking it if it doesn't have the 3 button combo working. So I'll be probably flashing JPC to improve the GPS, now my question is would it be reliable enough on an EDGE network to track his movements for about 4-5 hours? Also, does the speed of data connection make a difference in the reliability of tracking?

Just for the record, the camera supports GPS location written to the image EXIF. Basically it should (in theory) attach the location where the image is taken to the image metadata.

it's not necessary to have 3G or EDGE to use the my tracks GPS software from google
you can still record tracks, and download the tracks to SD card
then when you get home just swap the SD card to your PC and then upload the Data at home
Dragooon123 said:
Hello, sup?
I'll start with my intention, my dad is building a library of photos for documenting the cities. He wants to capture where the photos were taken and the problem is that our camera doesn't have a GPS addon available. So we found one solution, we can use Google's "My Tracks" to track his paths and then patch them into the photos using a software. Now we don't got 3G networks in our providers(2 providers got but we don't use them), only EDGE.
I'll be getting my SGS tomorrow(hopefully, the previous one had 3 buttons download mode disabled and I bricked it) and we won't be taking it if it doesn't have the 3 button combo working. So I'll be probably flashing JPC to improve the GPS, now my question is would it be reliable enough on an EDGE network to track his movements for about 4-5 hours? Also, does the speed of data connection make a difference in the reliability of tracking?
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BronzedDroid said:
Just for the record, the camera supports GPS location written to the image EXIF. Basically it should (in theory) attach the location where the image is taken to the image metadata.
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I know that, but the camera would not be able to capture the quality of our camera or take 360 degree panoramas.

Well then you can either use My Tracks (as AllGamer says, you don't need edge/3g), or you can still take a mobile camera photo for every time you take pictures with the other camera, so that you can just match the photos taken on the same location later on, and take the GPS info from the camera photo.

Thanks for your advice , would My Tracks with GPS on SGS be reliable enough to keep the recording on for 4-6 continuous hours?

4 to 6 hours is no problem, specially if you are not using wifi/3g when exploring the paths

It mostly depends on what shape your GPS is in. As you might have read, the GPS on the SGS can be pretty unstable and inaccurate, but some people seem to not have this problem (AllGamer is definitely one of them). Samsung has announced a fix to this problem which should come in the froyo update at the end of this month.

If you look around this forum you will see that many people are having problems with GPS. Galaxy is a great phone but is not reliable as a GPS device. If GPS is very important to you you are better of getting another Android phone such as Desire
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darkoroje said:
If you look around this forum you will see that many people are having problems with GPS. Galaxy is a great phone but is not reliable as a GPS device. If GPS is very important to you you are better of getting another Android phone such as Desire
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Yeah I've been reading those, the problem is that I already bought it on Saturday and will be getting a replacement on tomorrow, I'm stuck with the galaxy s. I guess I'll make it work

Dragooon123 said:
Thanks for your advice , would My Tracks with GPS on SGS be reliable enough to keep the recording on for 4-6 continuous hours?
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According to most people, GPS accuracy is not very high on the SGS, but personally I haven’t had many problems with it myself. I use it mostly while driving where accuracy is pretty good, but while on foot it tend to jump around a bit but still pretty ok.
GPS has a heavy toll on the battery, and we all know SGS doesn't have a good battery life to begin with (especially if the screen is used a lot), IMO it wont last 4 to 6 hours of continuous use, you might have to take a spare battery.

Dragooon123 said:
Hello, sup?
I'll start with my intention, my dad is building a library of photos for documenting the cities. He wants to capture where the photos were taken and the problem is that our camera doesn't have a GPS addon available. So we found one solution, we can use Google's "My Tracks" to track his paths and then patch them into the photos using a software. Now we don't got 3G networks in our providers(2 providers got but we don't use them), only EDGE.
I'll be getting my SGS tomorrow(hopefully, the previous one had 3 buttons download mode disabled and I bricked it) and we won't be taking it if it doesn't have the 3 button combo working. So I'll be probably flashing JPC to improve the GPS, now my question is would it be reliable enough on an EDGE network to track his movements for about 4-5 hours? Also, does the speed of data connection make a difference in the reliability of tracking?
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Go to Camera > Setting > tab on the 2nd tab > Check the GPS option.
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Dragooon123 said:
I know that, but the camera would not be able to capture the quality of our camera or take 360 degree panoramas.
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Camera > Mode, panoramas

Roy Ngan said:
Go to Camera > Setting > tab on the 2nd tab > Check the GPS option.
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Roy Ngan said:
Camera > Mode, panoramas
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Even though SGS has a decent phone camera, image quality is no where near to even an entry level compact. I don't think anyone would be interested in using it for documentary purposes. OP was asking how to use his phone's GPS to get coordinates and sync them up with photos taken with a separate digital camera.

PhoenixFx said:
Even though SGS has a decent phone camera, image quality is no where near to even an entry level compact. I don't think anyone would be interested in using it for documentary purposes. OP was asking how to use his phone's GPS to get coordinates and sync them up with photos taken with a separate digital camera.
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I'm totally lost. XD

[Q] Anyone got lock on GLONASS with KitKat?

After updating my trusty S4 Active i9295 from 4.2 to 4.4, I found the GPS to be less reliable than before, and sometimes take quite a long while before getting a lock.
Further investigation of this heinous issue revealed to me that no GLONASS satellites are in use:
I present exhibit A:
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The squares represent GLONASS satellites, they are all visible, but greyed out (means not in use).
Do any of my fellow KK users experience this issue? And if so, are there fixes for this truly outrageous behaviour?

MetaBaron said:
After updating my trusty S4 Active i9295 from 4.2 to 4.4, I found the GPS to be less reliable than before, and sometimes take quite a long while before getting a lock.
Further investigation of this heinous issue revealed to me that no GLONASS satellites are in use:
The squares represent GLONASS satellites, they are all visible, but greyed out (means not in use).
Do any of my fellow KK users experience this issue? And if so, are there fixes for this truly outrageous behaviour?
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Now that you mention it... Never noticed that one before. Same problem here - even checked my native nav app and it didn't use them. Search gave me another thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52841297&highlight=glonass#post52841297
People started complaining quite a while back. Seems like only the i9095 was affected by this and it was fixed with their NE5 firmware... Basically the i9295 has the same hardware - maybe its the same issue and they didn't think of fixing both firmwares....
Anyone tried the new I9295XXUCNH2?

Michse222 said:
Now that you mention it... Never noticed that one before. Same problem here - even checked my native nav app and it didn't use them. Search gave me another thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52841297&highlight=glonass#post52841297
People started complaining quite a while back. Seems like only the i9095 was affected by this and it was fixed with their NE5 firmware... Basically the i9295 has the same hardware - maybe its the same issue and they didn't think of fixing both firmwares....
Anyone tried the new I9295XXUCNH2?
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I have NH2 modem flashed. In GPS Test i can see few triangles active (help statest that triangles are GLONASS satellites). GPS Toolbox also shows two kinds of items, green circle and grey box. Apparently it's working?

Now this is really odd. No matter what I tried earlier today - I couldn't "connect" to any glonass satellites. Sygic, GPS Status as well as GPS test were showing the satellites but no signal. After reading your answer I tested again. Instant fix and at least three glonass satellites... Still NE5 firmware - seems like I have to keep an eye on it for a few days... Hopefully it was just glitchy once

Michse222 said:
Now this is really odd. No matter what I tried earlier today - I couldn't "connect" to any glonass satellites. Sygic, GPS Status as well as GPS test were showing the satellites but no signal. After reading your answer I tested again. Instant fix and at least three glonass satellites... Still NE5 firmware - seems like I have to keep an eye on it for a few days... Hopefully it was just glitchy once
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I did not catch.
What is the fix ?
GLONASS still does not work with NH2 firmware.

fix
for your responsibility.
Files from i9505 ROM (Omega v37)
For a bit better fix look for my thread in development forum.
Some, not critical AGPS related framework changes also merged from 9505 to my mega pack.

Solved
After updating my S4 Active to 4.4.2 the Glonass satellites were not locked anymore.
Now my son bought a second hand S4 with 4.4.2 already installed and surprisingly Glonass satellites are locked.
I copied the file system/lib/libloc_api_v02.so (same size) to my phone, and tada, I have Glonass satellites locked!!!!!!
So I'm pretty sure it is a bad file copied by Samsung in the ROMs and not a KitKat bug.
See attached rar-file from another thread which put me on the right track.
The 7z-file is the one that worked for me, didn't try the the rar-file.
Thanks to the poster of the file.
Just unzip the file and copy it to /system/lib and reboot your phone.

Thank you very much!!
Finally getting GLONASS fix again Much faster

Thanks Foresterawd

I got a strange thing. After replacing the libloc in system\lib, my GPS position is 50 metres to far south...
Although the accuracy is 3metres.
Now I changed the gps.conf in system\etc too and now my position is 50 metres to far north...
What could this be?
EDIT: After restarting, the position is correct with the new gps.conf

Mate S: GPS Issues?

GPS issues?
My phone's GPS keeps dropping for some reason. Places I had no problem with on my Nexus 5 suddenly become dead zones with the Mate S. Anyone else have similar issues? My phone was originally from China and I'm in the US if that makes a difference.

I have not had any issues, actually it is probably one of the best functioning GPS's I have had in a phone. It generally works fast and well I have just returned for a week's vacation where I used it everyday for walking around - no problems what so ever., and fast reception even using the phone with no data connection.

commanderfun said:
My phone's GPS keeps dropping for some reason. Places I had no problem with on my Nexus 5 suddenly become dead zones with the Mate S. Anyone else have similar issues? My phone was originally from China and I'm in the US if that makes a difference.
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That does make a diff. Most China devices are hard coded to only connect to china based Sats and due to this they have trouble connecting to any sats that are not based out of china. Just one of the things you give up when buying china devices.

For me also the Mate S has the best GPS I ever had. Locks so fast and inside the building where I never had before GPS.

gps problem
After firmware update I do reset and a-gps stop working. The sattelites find slowly and works very bad

I use my Mate S from early December 2015.
On December 15th I upgraded the firmware to version B145.
I had no problems with the GPS until ... last week. Then (in Endomondo v 12.0.1), GPS signal dropouts began occur frequently.

I too have started to get blank spots with the sat nave complaining of no signal. Checking gps test shows plenty of sats. I have reset the agps and let it learn its own to see if its any better. Thus was spot on, not sure what has changed as the firmware is still the same at C433B114.

Yesterday, I upgraded my Mate S to Marshmallow (Beta - B303). The problem with the GPS still occurs but ... only the first few dozen minutes.
Then - for the next two and a half hour - everything returns to normal and GPS in Endomondo works fine.
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I think, I found a solution to this problem.
When I switched battery mode to Normal (previously I used Smart mode), the GPS works normally all the time.

chato.pl said:
I think, I found a solution to this problem.
When I switched battery mode to Normal (previously I used Smart mode), the GPS works normally all the time.
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Hi!
Please contact to me on mail [email protected]. I have a question about gps. Thank you!.

Has anyone solved this issue? Would rooting my phone help? I'm in Canada and my GPS was working until last week and I didn't even do an update.

Same issue apparently with no reason or update at all....I think it s definitively a gps hardware issue, maybe due to overheating after hot times spent on the car cocpit....any news on thos topic???

Hi Guys, I has the same issue as I was not able to fix anything for 20mn. But then, searching on the net, I found GPS Test app that was fixing thing for Mate 8. So I installed it, I cleared my AGPS with it and then it updated everything and I could fix within 10s. So great. And sometime, even when I'm in a house.

Link please!

Found the apk but still hanging randomly...i ll try a factory reset...any othe hint?

I'm having The same problem. Today I'm going to try:
Power Mode: Normal
Prorect my exercise app: SportsTracker
Prorect GoogleMaps
Enable High Precision Location (GPS, mobile data and Wi-Fi, all activated, of course).
I'm sure the problem is a confluence of factors: Locked Screen, Power Saving Mode (Intelligent?) and unprotected apps, including GoogleMaps
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tutucavoraz said:
I'm having The same problem. Today I'm going to try:
Power Mode: Normal
Prorect my exercise app: SportsTracker
Prorect GoogleMaps
Enable High Precision Location (GPS, mobile data and Wi-Fi, all activated, of course).
I'm sure the problem is a confluence of factors: Locked Screen, Power Saving Mode (Intelligent?) and unprotected apps, including GoogleMaps
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No... It's sucks... GPS drops and does not fix my position correctly... :'(
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Tere is the official android 6 update....hope it improves....we'll see...

I have the same problems, also on Android 6. Any updates from anyone?

der_yeti said:
I have the same problems, also on Android 6. Any updates from anyone?
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Same problems here with GPS. Hope Huawei to fix these issues with an update. It has been a long time since the last update.
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