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Hi,
Few month ago, my N1 falled on the street and the touch screen broked. I ordered a new one, dissassembled the phone to replace it, reassembled and everything was working fine.
Then one week ago, i dissasembled it again to clean some (a lot of) dust that went under the screen. Now everything is still working except the GPS.
GPS test doesn't show me any satellite, nothing... it just say "GPS on"
I'm using cyanogen 6.0 rc3.
Does anyone knows where to look inside the phone to check if something is broken ?
popopow said:
Hi,
Few month ago, my N1 falled on the street and the touch screen broked. I ordered a new one, dissassembled the phone to replace it, reassembled and everything was working fine.
Then one week ago, i dissasembled it again to clean some (a lot of) dust that went under the screen. Now everything is still working except the GPS.
GPS test doesn't show me any satellite, nothing... it just say "GPS on"
I'm using cyanogen 6.0 rc3.
Does anyone knows where to look inside the phone to check if something is broken ?
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Have you tried a couple of different ROM / kernel combinations to make sure it's not a software issue?
Well i was using kang o rama 1.0 b2 with an intersecraven kernel, then i switched to the last service pack of kang o rama (so based on cyano 6.0 rc3) with the kernel that comes with it.
I think if there was a problem with gps in the the cyano / kang o rama, it will be widely reported here. And the GPS was the only thing that always worked fine in almost all roms /kernel i have tried.
popopow said:
Well i was using kang o rama 1.0 b2 with an intersecraven kernel, then i switched to the last service pack of kang o rama (so based on cyano 6.0 rc3) with the kernel that comes with it.
I think if there was a problem with gps in the the cyano / kang o rama, it will be widely reported here. And the GPS was the only thing that always worked fine in almost all roms /kernel i have tried.
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Many users report problems with GPS on RC3. Check that thread.
The GPS problem occured days before upgrading to RC3. I installed RC3 only to see if it fixes something but nope.
People on the thread says that with the RC3, it's quite long to get GPS lock, about 5 min. For me, it's impossible to get any GPS lock, even after half an hour, outside during a sunny day.
The problem started to show right after dissambling the phone, not after changing software. So i suppose i did something wrong while reassembling.
if you made a nandroid you can try flashing it back... as gerikss said, many users are having gps issues on CMRC3
heya,
I was having GPS problems as well with my first Nexus One - turned out to be hardware problems, had to send it back.
I installed GPS Status from the Market, and mine wasn't able to see any satellites - is yours able to see any satellites?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=711448
Hmm, it sounds like you've put yours through the wringer though...haha...and taking it apart? Yeah, not sure if warranty will repair that for you. You can give it a shot?
Cheers,
Victor
popopow said:
The GPS problem occured days before upgrading to RC3. I installed RC3 only to see if it fixes something but nope.
People on the thread says that with the RC3, it's quite long to get GPS lock, about 5 min. For me, it's impossible to get any GPS lock, even after half an hour, outside during a sunny day.
The problem started to show right after dissambling the phone, not after changing software. So i suppose i did something wrong while reassembling.
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The problem is not in the phone but the RC3 build which is widely used right now. Change it and I GUARANTEE it will work fine. FYI.. Rodriguez, Cyanogen, and Kang all use the build.
Is my english that bad ? My GPS problem started to occur with RC2 ! then i installed RC3. And they started right after dissambling my phone, not after any kernel / rom / radio / software change.
Like victorhooi said, GPS test program (or any gps diagnostic) is giving me no signal.
No matter i dissambled it or not, my phone is not under warranty, I got it offered at a google conférence.
I guess i'll have to live with only 3G location until a new phone will make me want to leave my N1.
popopow said:
is my english that bad ? My gps problem started to occur with rc2 ! Then i installed rc3. And they started right after dissambling my phone, not after any kernel / rom / radio / software change.
Like victorhooi said, gps test program (or any gps diagnostic) is giving me no signal.
No matter i dissambled it or not, my phone is not under warranty, i got it offered at a google conférence.
I guess i'll have to live with only 3g location until a new phone will make me want to leave my n1.
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most likely if the gps is showing "on" as you stated in post 1 then the gps isn't "broken", but most likely a loose connection. Some problems are solved flashing back to factory rom. If the gps was broken it wouldn't activate.
this post fixed it for me.
forum.xda-developers. com/showthread.php?t=625061
Hi,
flashed modaco r21 with stock froyo kernel, did what's told in the previous post (in fast, it was already like this). Still no GPS. GPS Test shows me no satellite.
I tell you, it's inside the phone. Maybe something is really broken, maybe just not connecte something correctly. But i want to know where to look before opening it again.
I'm having problems with my GPS too. I remember that it used to work well with FRF91. I still have locked bootloader and I rooted yet. Most of the time, it takes me a while to get a GPS lock, 5-10 minutes. Sometimes, it never gets a lock. Any ideas?
Update: I fixed my problem with the link in post#11.
Recently my SXL's GPS stopped working. Up until about a week ago everything was perfectly fine then one morning it just stopped working. I've tried changing through 5 roms (even stock rom), wiping everything i could fine, changing radios, changing the gps.conf file but nothing seems to make it work. Using GPS Status it now tells me that it can't find any satellites outdoors or indoors so im wondering if its a hardware error. Any help would be much appreciated
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hi,same problem with my stock rom,i suppose a hardware problem,some budy know where the gps module is located,i think is near the flash light but not sure
Hello XDA guys. Your webpage is awesome.
I have a problem witn my Z3C (5833) for a month now and I have tried many things with no success. I hope you can help.
My phone was updated to Lollipop not long ago (May - June to 5.0.2) and in one moment (I cannot tell exactly when) the GPS sensor stopped working. The Wifi and Mobile location work, however the GPS is dead. Phone not unlocked or rooted. Original Stock ROM.
I go to the about phone - Diagnostics and test the GPS.. and it stays as "GPS is starting ... the GPS couldnt be started". When I download GPS test apps, they dont detect a single sattelite. I also tried the *#*#7378423#*#** GPS diagnostics, "purged assistance data", and it keeps on "waiting for location update" eternally
Because of this I wrote to Sony and they answered asking me to do a phone repair from Sony PC Companion. I did the phone repair and the problem was not solved.
Because of this I thought .. hey, maybe Lollipop is the problem. So I unlocked the bootloader and downloaded Emma (Sony recommended flash program for stock ROMs).
Emma downgraded my phone to 4.4.4 (23.0.A.2.93). However I still had the problem.
Next, I enter XDA and downloaded Flash tool. I downloaded one of your stock ROMs: 23.0.1.A.5.77 - Unbranded - Australia (1288-4214) {4.4.4}
I installed it and nothing. Same dead GPS.
So now I have no clue what might be the problem. Maybe the antenna got broken inside? How can I know if its a hardware or software issue?
Any help would be appreciated
Additional data:
Right now I have the 4.4.4 (23.0.A.2.93)
Baseband: 8974-AAAAANAZQ-00005-05
Kernel: 3.4.0-g0961cdf Build [email protected] #1 Tue Aug 19 19:48:36 2014
Thanks
If the issue still exist with different firmware i guess its a hardware failure.
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If the issue still exist with different firmware i guess its a hardware failure.
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How do I open the phone?
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Emi85 said:
How do I open the phone?
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I opened the phone. Now i need to know where is the GPS antenna, anybody know?
In sony it says its near the headphones plug. No more details.
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Hi,
I have the same issues. It says since about two months. 23-26 sattelites found, but no signal and no fix. On 4.4.4 was OK, since updating nothing anymore.
I went back to Kitkat but still dead.
Anyone managed to get it back without sending it in??
Same problem...no GPS.anyone with a solution??? New motherboard? Soldering a antenna. Someone's got to have a fix for this problem.
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Same problem and even tried to update to Android 6.0 with Marshmallow and still no GPS. 23-26 sattelites found, but no signal and no fix.
Any updates?
Hello,
I noticed since some time the same problem. I did a quick search on Google, and the problem seems more then usual after one of the official updates by Sony. The problem is discussed on the Sony Xperia Care support forums. All the affected user seems to suffer not from a complete signal outage, but rather from a substantially downgraded performance due to a bad SNR value and poor signal tracking, as can be seen by using the GPS Test app.
Resuming what has been written in the threads, all the following operations seems not to solve the issue:
- factory reset / repair with PC companion
- downgrading to an earlier release
- installing a custom ROM
- returning unit at service
What is annoying is the total disinterest by Sony that seems to ignore the problem, maybe they only want to take time to better understand the problem. If anyone should have news about this please let me know, because the only solution for this issue for now seems to be wating for a solution!
Thank you!
Same problem. Original Kitkat. In May worked excellent. During August I mentioned,it dosn't work. Some photos had changed infos about time and date of creating. On camera disappeared SCENE function in manual mode. When I allowed gps function on camera, gps worked immediately. Unfortunately only once. Camera Blocks gps?
Same problems here...
Hey, same issues here. I think it's just really slow to connect. I've recently sent my phone in for a warranty repair with Vodafone. It came back and was still broken.
Today however... I checked my phone and itw as working again (for about half an hour). Now I'm getting nothing again.
I've tried everything suggested, even down loaded AGPS file etc. But nothing seems to work.
Mega frustrating!!!
the only way for today is replacing motherboard... sony sucks. never again
I just wrote on the sony xperia support forum, somebody talks about a fix they provided for the xperia m series that seems to be affected by the same issue. But for our z series it seems not to be any fix at the moment.
After suceeding the GPS diagnostic test in the settings once, the GPS seems to be fully broken with no tracked satellite at all (before it was at least tracking a few satellites with a very poor SNR, now nothing according to GPS Test app). Repeating the GPS diagnostics now always results in an error. I'll try the warranty return but I'm pretty sure they'll give me a faulty device, as many other here and on the other forum have experienced.
Same problem ... just got the phone days ago.
Any solution ? or do I need to return it ...
I had issues with GPS, could see satellites but no fix on any. after expired warranty I rooted it and used 4 different ROMs, worked on all of them. instant lock on min 6 satellites. I am aware it could be HW issues but this is my experience with this problem.
gnjurac said:
I had issues with GPS, could see satellites but no fix on any. after expired warranty I rooted it and used 4 different ROMs, worked on all of them. instant lock on min 6 satellites. I am aware it could be HW issues but this is my experience with this problem.
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I'm more and more convinced that this is a SW issue. Sony did something wrong when updating the firmware in August 2015. The fact that the satellites are visible comes in my opinion from the AGPS data, which loads the konwn satellite positions from the Internet. Instead, the problem seems to be the locking of a satellite signal, and it seems that something is disturbing the GPS antenna. If it comes out that this is really the issue, it is very disappointing that Sony didn't do absolutely nothing to solve the issue since last summer.
I'm using CM12.1 nigthlies and since about December/January I have the same problem. So a custom ROM does neither help nor prevent the problem. In addition to that, compass is uncalibrated and I don't get it calibrated again. Really sucks, last year I used the Z3C for lots of outdoor navigation, and suddenly something has happend which makes the device unusable...
I did root with kingroot and changed /etc/system/gps.conf as described in code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81140#c695
Now my GPS is locking again.
Did not help for me. Currently I don't even get bad fixes, I get no fixes at all. Never ever, even after hours in the open. This sucks.
Hi,
Disabling google maps helped me. Before 0 sats visible, after disabling it locks within seconds.
apneist said:
Hi,
Disabling google maps helped me. Before 0 sats visible, after disabling it locks within seconds.
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I had the opposite experience, I had no lock, I was trying everything, then I opened maps and I had lock in under ten seconds.
I wonder if it's a glitch in accepting the google 'we're going to follow your movements' contract. Because until I agreed to that, gps didn't work.
Hi guys!
I have Nokia 7 plus and unfortunately I experience some problems with the GPS. This is how it looks like in the GPS Test app:
https://img1.picload.org/image/dloricol/screenshot_20180803-201912.png
I tried the following
- turned off the 4G
- also turned on/off the WiFi
- tried changing the location mode from high accuracy to device only
- cleared the AGPS - again no signal, then updated the AGPS, same thing
- restarted the phone
- turned off the phone, waited for a while, turned it on again
- removed the SIM card, waited for a while, put it in again
Google maps finds my location, also Runtastic but it says that GPS signal is weak and tracking will not work. So something is obviously wrong here. This happened before as well, then the GPS worked perfectly for about a week, now I have the problem again.
Can anybody please help? Thanks!
Hi again,
So the GPS started working again yesterday for a while. It behaved perfectly with no issues and accuracy of 1 meter. Then when I started the app later, it could not get a fix again... Today it is working (for now). I even tested it home in a room and it has 21 satellites in view, 11 in use, with 3 meters accuracy. For comparison my other phone can only see 17 and uses 5.
So when the GPS decides to turn on, it works perfectly. But it also often happens that it cannot fix. Would you guys say that this is a hardware or software error? If it is the software I would be willing to wait for an update. If it is a hardware problem I still have 4 days left to return the phone, so please let me know. Thanks!
Hi I don't experience the same problem as you. But I to have some problems with it. Before I had a j7 2016 that I had no issues with the gps in the same places like with this phone. Indoor is not usable at all even with all the options WiFi data scanning also gps uses all the info from phone not just gps itself. If I go at the window indeed I get signal quite fast and lock on in about 10 15 sec.
Hello guys,
After updating my note 9 to the One UI I encounter some really annoying problems with my GPS.
I can't really use Waze or Gmaps because the location is not working properly. The GPS keeps losing signal all the time, city or highway.
I downloaded GPS test and it seems like the phone can't lock the signal properly, even when it succeeded, the accuracy is really bad, around 32 - 64 meter, and sometimes more.
I tried to look for other cases on the internet but I couldn't find anything.
Is anyone encounter this problem? Can offer a solution that might solve it?
Thanks.
Obviously thinking that not having problems before with Oreo excludes hardware issues, try first of all to make a wipe cache in recovery mode to see if resolves and if not, try wipe data in settings - applications of every single app involved and if all done is worthless, try even to reinstall the single app. If not resolving I think that a factory reset, always from recovery, is needed because don't know others, me included, having this issue .
I'm using a Note FE and I recently updated my device to Pie with One UI and my GPS problem is exactly like yours. I need help too. Can't seem to find any solution.
Shai3888 said:
Hello guys,
After updating my note 9 to the One UI I encounter some really annoying problems with my GPS.
I can't really use Waze or Gmaps because the location is not working properly. The GPS keeps losing signal all the time, city or highway.
I downloaded GPS test and it seems like the phone can't lock the signal properly, even when it succeeded, the accuracy is really bad, around 32 - 64 meter, and sometimes more.
I tried to look for other cases on the internet but I couldn't find anything.
Is anyone encounter this problem? Can offer a solution that might solve it?
Thanks.
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I had that issue with my note 9 sprint version when i flashed tmobile u1 android pie, i ended doing a factory reset and everything worked fine after that. My google maps would lose signal when i put phone into standby it would say lost gps signal or something like that. But if i used the app it would work fine.