Looking for a stable, snappy Gingerbread ROM with working GPS and compass.
I tried Zeus 6.39, which seemed great, except that I can't seem to get GPS and the compass to work reliably. I do get a GPS fix quite fast, but after that my location skips around quite a bit, and the compass is also not that reliable. In fact the compass mode in Google Maps 6 is completely absent (which can be solved by installing 5.12).
I don't care much for fancy launchers or themes, just a snappy, stable GB ROM with working GPS & compass would be enough.
j0ris said:
Looking for a stable, snappy Gingerbread ROM with working GPS and compass.
I tried Zeus 6.39, which seemed great, except that I can't seem to get GPS and the compass to work reliably. I do get a GPS fix quite fast, but after that my location skips around quite a bit, and the compass is also not that reliable. In fact the compass mode in Google Maps 6 is completely absent (which can be solved by installing 5.12).
I don't care much for fancy launchers or themes, just a snappy, stable GB ROM with working GPS & compass would be enough.
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Just use the standard, stable Cyanogen Mod 7.2 I'm currently using it and my compass and GPS work fine. Hope that helped and good luck
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Hello:
I would like to confirm if my OB has a hardware problem. My OB doesn't fix GPS, withj GPS Test, all satellites signals are between 15 and 30m with clear weather and total sky visibility. Are normal those levels?
I think that this problem comes from a OB drop. Could the antenna be damaged? Would this problem be solved changing case with antennas?
Thanks in advance.
Try this ROM:
http://www.androidforum.4fan.cz/ind...ck/156-rom-ravenous-30-jellybean-images-234gb
I had also problems with GPS, I even bought extrenal bluetooth GPS module. With this ROM, GPS work fine for me.
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Hello there,
I have a huge problem with my GPS, I searched the forum alot because of this, but wasn't able to find my exact problem.
first of all here is my problem:
I can't get a GPS-Fix. I used some apps like GPS-Status and I can see like 3 - 8 satalites in range, but still cant get any fix.
here is what i tried:
-flashing ROMs like hell (MIUI, ICS, Darky's, Stock)
-used many apps like "fasterfix" "gps aids" ect. did not worked out for me
-factory resets
-dif. gps server
-waited half an hour, clear sky, driving in my car 70km with gps on
you guys have any solution for my problem?
is it hardware? and if it is hardware, why am i able to "view" satalites?
Thanks, Karl
Download "GPS test" and stay on steady one place, enable wifi or 3g go to settings of GPS test and hit update AGPS, go back and wait till you get accuracy (meters) activated and gets as low as it can be (30m-5m is ok). Now only you can go in car for 70km....
You can download "gps.conf" of your country reason to get fast gps locking search here in XDA
evrest said:
Download "GPS test" and stay on steady one place, enable wifi or 3g go to settings of GPS test and hit update AGPS, go back and wait till you get accuracy (meters) activated and gets as low as it can be (30m-5m is ok). Now only you can go in car for 70km....
You can download "gps.conf" of your country reason to get fast gps locking search here in XDA
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This is no help, as i said, i testet it with several apps, GPS Aids is nearly the same program. i see a lot of satalites, but my signal stregh i too weak, so i don't get any fix.
without a fix, i can wait years to get a accuracy meters.
What Rom/Kernel are you currently running??
Under MIUI Mintberry Edition, I had a similar problem... my magnetometer was also affected.
I Solved it by:
1) flashing platypus kernel
2) editing the NTP-Server used to "europe.pool.ntp.org"
3) install google skymap
After that GPS and Compass behaved normally.
Average time to get fix (with agps) about 10 seconds
atm i'am using teamhacksung's ICS build 14 with derteufel's kernel.
ROMs I had:
MIUI (many versions) stock - Kernel: glitch(v13), platypus(r17 - NEO)
ICS - stock - kernel: glitch pre 14
Darky's ROM
I used GPS Aids and fasterfix. in these apps I changed the NTP-server already
to check GPS i'am using "GPS test" from the market
even if i have 10 satalites in view, i dont get a damn fix
KarlDieKrabbe said:
atm i'am using teamhacksung's ICS build 14 with derteufel's kernel.
ROMs I had:
MIUI (many versions) stock - Kernel: glitch(v13), platypus(r17 - NEO)
ICS - stock - kernel: glitch pre 14
Darky's ROM
I used GPS Aids and fasterfix. in these apps I changed the NTP-server already
to check GPS i'am using "GPS test" from the market
even if i have 10 satalites in view, i dont get a damn fix
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How much strength of signal you get on GPS test ?
If it is low you wont get GPS lock !
Next, take out back cover and press gently to the rod like thing next to volume controller and see if the strength of signal improves (if it does your GPS antenna is loose)
By the way where in the world your location is?
I have an average of 8-12 of signal stregh.
i think only a hardware-fix can help to fix it. so screwdriver out and pray
I Deffinitly Tried everything, I tried the hardware fix, Change The Pool To Israel, France, Europe, everywhere, I tried the gps doctors , nothing works..
I just can't find any satelites, in the gps aid app when i press the GPS doctor it's telling me that the gps status is off.. is there anything that I didn't try and could work?
Please, I'm Desprit..
I Tried and the problem is at every rom
I'm Right now using ICS RC3.1 By onecosmic..
Talmst said:
I Deffinitly Tried everything, I tried the hardware fix, Change The Pool To Israel, France, Europe, everywhere, I tried the gps doctors , nothing works..
I just can't find any satelites, in the gps aid app when i press the GPS doctor it's telling me that the gps status is off.. is there anything that I didn't try and could work?
Please, I'm Desprit..
I Tried and the problem is at every rom
I'm Right now using ICS RC3.1 By onecosmic..
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try gps status , to see if is an app error from navigator and other gps programs or RC3.1 probleme , and if are ICS probleme try first to flash devil led kernel
and a wipe cache
I though onecosmic's RC 3.X was only for the i9000 and not i9001.
Well I Tried and looked at the gps status, I didn't really get what am i sepoused to do there, I reset and cleared all gps data and downloaded it after wards..
the app didn't show any errors ..
Try to get GPS Aids from market. Had the same problem and that fixed my gps
Tried the gps aids too... Ain't working.. anything else?...
When I tried the gps doctor at gps aids, it showed me that the gps mode status is not working (the cube near it is red) and after trying the setup and the fix everything possibility it still ain't working... any idea?
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Tried the gps aids too... Ain't working.. anything else?...
When I tried the gps doctor at gps aids, it showed me that the gps mode status is not working (the cube near it is red) and after trying the setup and the fix everything possibility it still ain't working... any idea?
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Try to download the GPS test and install it, then go to settings and select clear agps, then update agps.
Oh and dont try the gps inside your house! Try it in the middle of the street! Gps signal is always reeeally weak or undetectable inside a house.
Unhappy to say, still didn't work!
Can you post the exact ROM and kernel version you are using?
Also try the following. Disable wifi, reboot phone, try GPS test.
I had GPS problems a while ago and the workaround was to boot the phone with wifi disabled. Something todo with init scripts messing up GPS/BT.
When in Google maps do you get the GPS icon in the status bar when trying to GPS fix?
try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STlb...xt=C3c039cbUDOEgsToPDskJOGd0pTyqyB6SPWL6OcwDB
Better to just send it back to samsung for them to fix if it's under warranty. If not, just sell it and get another one. I really like my SGS but i've given up hope for gps. I've just accepted it doesn't work and be happy the phone's great in everything else (like sound). Was kind of gutted having paid so much for a phone with a non-working gps but to be honest i have little need for a gps so when i need one i just use a dedicated one.
Now I'm using RC4.2 ICS By Onecosmic, Gps Still aint working well, I do get the gps icon... but still, my location ain't really accurate and I cant navigate or anything..
I tried the video that have been posted, None improvment...
Is there any thing else?..
The GPS issue with the i9000 is a mystery to me. I've tried software and hardware fixes to no avail with GB based ROMs. However, when I switched to Slim's ICS ROM my device started to register satelites again with the GPS test app from the market. Despite this when I open the maps app it takes forever to get a fix, so long infact that I give up long before it ever does
Same issue AOKP Milestone 4 ICS. Nothing on GPS Status.
I use market app GPS aid.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium
Compass in Maps not working and Compass Apps showing wrong directions a little
Tried Stock Gingerbread ROM and Zeus ROM
Same problem..
Any solution ?
sekhar13515 said:
Compass in Maps not working and Compass Apps showing wrong directions a little
Tried Stock Gingerbread ROM and Zeus ROM
Same problem..
Any solution ?
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¿Have you tried using it whit GPS activated?
yes, but not working
This app has compas calibration, it may help
Apparently there is a problem with the compass in version 6 of Google Maps on Gingerbread.
To solve this issue I installed Google Maps 5.12 from an apk.
Did it work without any issues ?
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Did it work without any issues ?
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I'm using Zeus 6.39 (v20n).
Installing Google Maps 5.12 resolves the "missing compass" issue.
The accuracy of the compass, and of the GPS in general, I'm not so sure. I haven't tested properly yet, but my initial impression is that GPS + compass worked better in the stock Froyo I was using before. It's a pity, because for the rest this Zeus rom seems great. I'm considering reverting to Froyo.
After some more testing: I can't get GPS and the compass to work properly in Zeus 6.39 and 7. I get a fix quite fast, but the current location is skipping from here to there to the point where it's completely useless for navigation, and the compass is sometimes working, but more often way off. Calibration doesn't really help. I tried various fixes for GPS as well, but to no avail.
It seems it's a general problem with Gingerbread and the (hardware of my) OB. In Froyo GPS + compass work fine on my OB.
Now trying Nova 8 (Froyo ROM). GPS works fine there.
Same on my OB. I found CM7 based ROMs are better in GPS, but best solution for me was to buy cheap bluetooth GPS module. On Froyo I also had no problems.
Hello, i am using 20121014 nigthly cm10 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778526
It seems for me that gps works kinda bad since my last installed cm 9 or cm 10, i dont remember..
Any advices how to fix it ? It fixes realy slowly and not accuracy..
Try hardware fix(search forum for this) and try fasterfix from market,should work..
It seems that I'm not the only one. I'm quite sure that something's definitely off in CM10 (others reported the same for SGS3, I don't know whether it's relevant or not...). Okay it's great that there's a hardware fix which should make the GPS perform better but still, it's not the primary problem. With CM9 I had a GPS fix in max. 20 seconds, now I can't get a stable one in 20 minutes. (Yeah, I've also tried FasterFix by the way.)
My gps works just fine on CM10, however, for some reason I sometimes have to have internet access when activating my gps for it to lock on satellites, I suppose it's because it updates gps info from the ntp server or something...
The difference is a weak connection to one satellite, and near-instant connection to 10-15 of them.
(tested with LBSTestMode)
I've also changed the server in gps.conf to NTP_SERVER=no.pool.ntp.org as that's my country specific server (norway).
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fastergps
Theres a really good app to configure your gps to right country. Hope it helps.
Thanks, already tried to use it for the country I'm in at the moment. (Yes, my GPS just broke down abroad, as my luck have it... )
I have big problems with gps-reception, while it worked already excellent. I don't care if it is 4.x or 5.x I liked Bliss 5.1.1 very much, but I get an accuracy of 10-20m only, when I use the gps-device only in the settings. To Test I use AndroiTS GPS Pro. I see a lot of satellites including Russian Glonass, but nevertheless the accuracy is really bad. I had a similar problem with an very old SGS+, but with a Slimkat ROM (and I found not any other ROM) I get an accuracy of 4m at the same place, at the moment with clouds after a rain.
Important for the test is, that no AGPS is used!
Maybe the reception can be improved with another kernel.
At the moment there is no working download for a Slimkat-ROM for the P880, so I could not test.
accuracy:
blisspop-v3.5-p880-unofficial-20150616-1930: 10-20m
euphoria-os-1.1-p880-unofficial-20150605: crashed after a while, only a few satellites were found, but there was a fix
aosplp-20150714-p880: No fix, found 2 satelites in 20 min.
beanstalk-4.4.4010-20140904-p880cm.: 12m
beanstalk-4.4.4010-20140904-p880cm with optimus_prime_cm11-v3.0: crash after a while, no fix, a few satellites seen
beanstalk-4.4.4010-20140904-p880cm with optimus_prime_2.7: No fix
cm-11-20140916-snapshot-m10-p880: No fix, 1 satellite seen
cm-11-20140916-snapshot-m10-p880 with optimus_prime_cm11-v3.0: No fix
IMHO this is not a hardware problem, but a software problem. Why are there so much differences in reception?
Try Omnirom, I had good results with that rom.
terirem said:
Try Omnirom, I had good results with that rom.
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Could you please check the accuracy without AGPS. Go to settings and set GPS only, switch off Wifi and data and set airplane mode. Thanks! To check the accuracy you can use AndroiTS GPS Test Free. Wait about 15 min if the accuracy is constant.
I'm on Resurrection atm, I'll report back with results.
Thanks, what I found out, by searching the web, that GPS depends very on the baseband. Could you post your baseband please. I have 20A and that is probably my problem with all the ROMs.
Haha, I know your feeling regarding SGS, that phone line had a very bad GPS till SGS2. I had an SGR (same chip as SGS2) and it was really bad. Now on the S5 I've never even checked with a test app, it works perfectly even without AGPS.
It really depends on baseband a lot. I guess nobody will find a solution to the radio / baseband mystery of this phone. It's better on some roms though, but I don't know exactly as I don't use it much. Also, don't forget that if you insert headphone, it gets worse for a lot of people (for me never happened).
With slim-ariesve-4.4.2.build.5.2-unofficial-20140525-1845.zip and the SGS+ I get 4m accuracy, with a LG P880 I get 12m as best case as long as there is clear sky. I remember very good GPS reception with the Stock ROM, so I am trying to flash Stock again, where I end in errors. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61916022&postcount=356 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61935948&postcount=358