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5.1.1 killed my GPS

Happy stock user here using only official Sony upgrades (non rooted) on my Z3C. 5.1.1 arrived 3 days ago, I did a factory reset after the upgrade and woah, suddenly I have no more clean GPS locks anymore. It was working perfectly and now it locks in about 5% of all attempts and even then loses fix in a minute or so.
Tried to search around, clean agps data, refresh agps data, double check location services and what not, nothing helped so far. I just arrived to Greece with my family for vacation and had to find our apartment with a paper map - a pretty amusing experience anyway, not counting my wife's harsh comments..
Should anyone have an idea to counter this problem, it's most welcome. Should anyone have a similar experience with the 5.1.1 upgrade, this would be comforting at least..
Thanks and enjoy an otherwise brilliant smooth upgrade!

I seem to experience this as well. I regularly check the weather (several times per day) and I can hardly find my position, so I'll have to resort to manually type in my location (which doesn't provide me with the precise location prognose that I'm looking for).

same here, 1weather really struggles to locate my phone

Just by chance, are you also EU users? I thought maybe the 5.1.1 update defaults to some US settings and this might cause the problem.
What I tried already and did not help (to save you some time):
- removed Google backup and do another factory reset to avoid restoring some backed up settings which might be the cause
- various gps apps from play store which claim to fix/reset gps, with or without rebooting between attempts
- resetting gps settings from the service menu accessible via codes from the dialler
I'll also try to achieve root and install custom rooms from xda once I'm back from my holiday (assuming that I'll find the airport with a paper map )

kjozsa said:
Just by chance, are you also EU users?
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Yes, I'm Swedish.

Have you tried GPS Status from the store and downloading the A-GPS data??

Yes, of course, many times with many different apps. Made no difference at all..

No problem with gps in Ingress or different maps while driving around in Denmark.
From the planet Nexus 7

kjozsa said:
Just by chance, are you also EU users? I thought maybe the 5.1.1 update defaults to some US settings and this might cause the problem.
What I tried already and did not help (to save you some time):
- removed Google backup and do another factory reset to avoid restoring some backed up settings which might be the cause
- various gps apps from play store which claim to fix/reset gps, with or without rebooting between attempts
- resetting gps settings from the service menu accessible via codes from the dialler
I'll also try to achieve root and install custom rooms from xda once I'm back from my holiday (assuming that I'll find the airport with a paper map )
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I'm back from my holiday. Downgraded to 4.4.4, rooted my phone installed TWRP and poured the custom rom 23.4.A.0.546 SLiM 2.6 on it. Still no GPS lock in Waze or any other location app..

kjozsa said:
I'm back from my holiday. Downgraded to 4.4.4, rooted my phone installed TWRP and poured the custom rom 23.4.A.0.546 SLiM 2.6 on it. Still no GPS lock in Waze or any other location app..
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Your GPS hardware might be broken...

Theshawty said:
Your GPS hardware might be broken...
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Do you think yours is broken as well? Would there be a way to get certain about it?

kjozsa said:
Do you think yours is broken as well? Would there be a way to get certain about it?
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Mine isn't broken, I can still get locks. It just takes it sweet time most of the time.
Yes, go into the settings, then location and enable "device only" (only gps). Then try to get a lock somewhere. If that doesn't work, then your GPS is broken.

Theshawty said:
Your GPS hardware might be broken...
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Theshawty said:
Mine isn't broken, I can still get locks. It just takes it sweet time most of the time.
Yes, go into the settings, then location and enable "device only" (only gps). Then try to get a lock somewhere. If that doesn't work, then your GPS is broken.
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See the attachment.. it seems I can get a lock too! It happened after 10-12 minutes of searching after clearing A-GPS data and after 5-10 seconds (!) it loses it and often also falls back to having exactly 0 satellites in both "in view" and "in use" (as if turning GPS off completely and restarting seeking from scratch).
I assume it's rather a software than a hardware problem then, or..?

I have a similar problem with andosm app. If I let the app open on the background with my screen off, when I turn the screen on I have a precise location with 5 to 10 GPS fix but 5 seconds later the GPS fix drop to 0 and have to wait 30 second to get my location back.

After upgrading to 5.1.1 my GPS stopped working. I was unable to obtain a lock in Google Maps (as well as the Service Menu).
I downgraded to 5.0.2 but the situation did not improve.
I ended up sending my phone in for repairs (under warranty). So far the seller has confirmed that the "GPS is not functioning as expected" and has sent it to the repair centre.
Hopefully I'll get it back with a working GPS eventually!

kjozsa said:
I'm back from my holiday. Downgraded to 4.4.4, rooted my phone installed TWRP and poured the custom rom 23.4.A.0.546 SLiM 2.6 on it. Still no GPS lock in Waze or any other location app..
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Have you tried with kk before updating to lp again? If it doesn't work there either it might be hardware related.

charliebigpot said:
Have you tried with kk before updating to lp again? If it doesn't work there either it might be hardware related.
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No, I did not - I was in a rush unfortunately.

I have had the exact same issue since upgrading to 5.1.1. I was convinced my GPS hardware was broken as I had tried all of the possible fixes I could think of (a-gps clearing / factory reset etc etc), I have sent mine for repair under my insurance policy, but they have already sent it back once without being able to fix. I too am getting GPS fix eventually, but it is very weak and I lose lock after 5-10 seconds, especially when in motion (in a car).
I am hoping this time that they just replace the phone. Will reply here if that resolves the issue.
Would be interesting to see if anyone was able to resolve this through rooting/custom ROM...
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Also it looks like there are others that are having the same issues (possibly since before 5.1.1 as well):
I cant post the url, but there is a forum on the sony website if you google for it.
it seems strange that this doesn't seem to affect everyone...

I'm not sure how it is for others but I most often get a fix now in a few minutes (without changing anything on the software or hardware side!) and it's so-so stable, losing it only 1-2 times per minute So it's very far from perfect but much better than a month ago..
I would _love_ to know what the hell is going on here. If nothing changed on my phone's side, I'm about to believe that it's a central issue..

Same issue here: Xperia Compact Z1
Upgraded last week and had no GPS since. GPS test receives no lock
Am running stock rom - Upgraded from 5.0.4 (i think) to 5.1.1
This is definitely 5.1.1 as had no issues before this. Bit worried that downgrading isn't helping anyone.. going to do some more digging and see if there is any fix for my out of warranty handset

Why I don't get the android 7 update?

So recently my friend whom also has a huawei p9, showed me that he got an update on his phone. It was the android 7 with emui 5. I checked my phone settings to look for updates available, and unfortunately, my huawei says there are no available updates. Why is it the case? How can update my phone?
Thanks you all;
If you need more information iwill provide that...

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So recently my friend whom also has a huawei p9, showed me that he got an update on his phone. It was the android 7 with emui 5. I checked my phone settings to look for updates available, and unfortunately, my huawei says there are no available updates. Why is it the case? How can update my phone?
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If you need more information iwill provide that...
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I dont know why huawei is always like that when it comes to updates. btw instead of checking or waiting for it come to your device you can look for tutorials here on how to manually flash the update. :good:

Huawei is not alone in this situation. So dont start bashing it so soon.
Right now, only 6.6% of ALL android devices is running on 7.0(data from official Android dev Dashboard).
And for update for P9, its mostly regional problem, so as @cheeze.keyk mentioned its best to update it manually.
But I seriously cant get my head around that idea of people crying for update... Because to be honest beside different number in phone settings, and few really small changes in look, there is no difference at all... its not like update will make your phone super-mega-ultra better than before or release some hidden features or make it super faster. Its just a bigger number in phone info...
And I can bet my own P9 that someone could put on your phone android 4.4 that just look like EMUI5 and you would not notice that...
When I still where using Sony devices, I rarely update them... and guess what? No problems at all, device was fast as always, there is no compatibility problems(honestly I have android TV that still work on 4.0 and I can watch YT or stream media without a problem...)
So overall if update dont change anything significant or fix some major problems, worrying about lack of update is not something that you should be sad about.

In some cases, making a hard reset, the OTA appears.

In my case it was the provider. After I changed the sim, nougat was there.

robking14 said:
So recently my friend whom also has a huawei p9, showed me that he got an update on his phone. It was the android 7 with emui 5. I checked my phone settings to look for updates available, and unfortunately, my huawei says there are no available updates. Why is it the case? How can update my phone?
Thanks you all;
If you need more information iwill provide that...
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I have the same problem and it's not down to Huawei. My phone is a branded phone (Movistar , Spain) and it is up to them to release the update. After 5 months I am still waiting, God only knows why. For this reason I will never again buy a phone from a service provider, especially Movistar, as you pay for a top of the range phone and are reliant on them to release the update as and when they feel like it. I have just tried updating it myself but have only succeeded in de-branding it so need to try again. Could be that you have the same problem. Good luck.

Oreo for AT&T out now!

It's about time

What's the build number? did you receive any update, share the screenshot

Got it

Download link????
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Got it
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Is this for Moto Z2 or Moto Z2 Force?

Moto z2 force

You should be able to get the ota soon. They are probably rolling it out

It looks like AT&T has formally announced the upgrade. https://thematridox.com/2018/02/23/moto-z2-force-on-att-getting-android-8-0-oreo-upgrade/

I just got the update and phone is now using Android 8.0.

works well
Update was smooth, no wi-fi issues, and fast boot time! Very pleased thus far. AT&T...about time!! Now, when will we get 8.1? Just saying...

Any way to receive the update overseas? Thanks!

Ever since the update, my bluetooth has been incredibly unstable/buggy, anyone else experiencing this or know what I should do?

MaddSpazz said:
Ever since the update, my bluetooth has been incredibly unstable/buggy, anyone else experiencing this or know what I should do?
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Same here with BT issue. My car is now taking long time to connect to my phone. Sometimes, it does not connect at all. Before update to 8.0, connection with car was fast and worked all the times.
I submitted a question to AT&t forum about this issue, no response. I came across posts in Google forum, releases 8.1 will fix BT issue. So, just live with it .... until 8.1 update.

Must be AT&T only. Been running pure stock Sprint for reference on my kernel builds for the week and haven't run into that issue.

What is the download link?
Someone uploading the download link of android 8 par z2 force at & t to install manually

lcc014 said:
Same here with BT issue. My car is now taking long time to connect to my phone. Sometimes, it does not connect at all. Before update to 8.0, connection with car was fast and worked all the times.
I submitted a question to AT&t forum about this issue, no response. I came across posts in Google forum, releases 8.1 will fix BT issue. So, just live with it .... until 8.1 update.
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Did you factory reset after update? I just got my force last week and sat through all the updates until I got to Oreo and promptly did a factory reset. No bluetooth problems to speak. Actually it works MUCH better than my Moto X Pure that it replaced.
FYI my car has two BT connections, one for phone and one for media. It connects to both quicker than the MXP connected to even one so I'm happy with the BT performance.

anyway to get this for those of us not on AT&T? download and toss on the phone ?
Thanks

please someone to upload the ROM stock 8.0 to update manually from

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7bolt said:
Did you factory reset after update? I just got my force last week and sat through all the updates until I got to Oreo and promptly did a factory reset. No bluetooth problems to speak. Actually it works MUCH better than my Moto X Pure that it replaced.
FYI my car has two BT connections, one for phone and one for media. It connects to both quicker than the MXP connected to even one so I'm happy with the BT performance.
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Just tried your suggestion this morning. I will report back later.
Thanks.

EOL for the XZ2?

XZ3 got 52.1.A.3.92 (August/September) while we're stuck on 52.1.A.3.49 (July). I think this is it unless they're just being lazy or skipping updates. Coincidentally the XZ3 came out October 2018 whereas the XZ2 came out in April 2018. The XZ1 stopped updates exactly 2 years after it came out, but one can still hope.
At least their newer devices (Mark II) have combined packages for regions unlike everything before it which is nice. No idea why they had to have 42 different versions with varying degree of update schedules for so long. One thing that still bugs me is why they have to have 2 versions per device instead of only having the option for just dual-sim which is way more cost effective since you can decide on either 2 sims or 1 sim + microsd. Their Mobile division has been suffering for so long so why they still do this is quite a mystery not to mention lock one or the other on a per-region basis. It must be a cultural thing or something.

Some regions of the XZ2/c/p devices got the 52.1.A.3.74 ~2020-08-24
But yes, I think that was the last one and only custom roms will give us future security updates.
(But only the SODP project gives us also security updates for the vendor partition.)
And yeah, nice to see that finally they reduce the amount of regions.

New firmware (52.1.A.3.137 ~ 2021-03-12) available for XZ3 and XZ2 family.

Axelrick said:
New firmware (52.1.A.3.137 ~ 2021-03-12) available for XZ3 and XZ2 family.
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I can't find it anywhere...

Fustang said:
I can't find it anywhere...
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I believe for the time 52.1.A.3.137 is only available via OTA upgrade. I got OTA upgrade notifications on both XZ2 and XZ3.
One strange thing I got through is that I have a second XZ3 but the device hasn't got, at least yet, an OTA upgrade notification. I know that firmware time releases depend on carrier, software version etc but I have flashed my both XZ3 with the exact same 52.1.A.3.92 firmware in the past.
Both devices are 8416 model unlocked to any network and use the same carrier.
The only difference I found between two is that the one got the OTA upgrade notification for the 52.1.A.3.137 has "ETS Software Version :1313-0833_3A" and the other which didn't get any OTA has "ETS Software Version :1313-0833_5.
Anyway I am sure 52.1.A.3.137 will be released in the next few days on Xperifirm.

Xz3 will get full-screen mode? Is this just a security fix?

52.1.A.3.137 is now available on Xperifirm.

Anyone got any idea what this update is about? For some reason I can't find the security level on my XZ3 to check if it's a security level patch.

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Anyone got any idea what this update is about? For some reason I can't find the security level on my XZ3 to check if it's a security level patch.
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Didn't find any differences from 52.1.A.3.92. It 's a security patch. Info says November 2020.

Axelrick said:
Didn't find any differences from 52.1.A.3.92. It 's a security patch. Info says November 2020.
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Yeah in the meantime I found mine sec. patch, can confirm it's the same.

Hi guys,
I have a problem with my Sony Xperia XZ3 52.1.A.3.92 about sending WhatsApp audios. The problem is about an interruption of the voice after three seconds of recording, followed by silence. In a previous version of Android 10, I also had a really low volume, which has been fixed in my current release.
When I was notifyed by my phone about the new 52.1.A.3.137 version, I wondered if the WhatsApp bug had been fixed. Does anyone have informations about it?
I apologize for grammar mistakes, I am italian.

I just got 52.1.A.3.137 on my XZ2 Premium today and it nerfed half of my apps. Literally half of my apps either will not run or run for a few seconds and then exit. Of course, this was not the case before this update. Beware.

Try update apps.

jaytee23 said:
I just got 52.1.A.3.137 on my XZ2 Premium today and it nerfed half of my apps. Literally half of my apps either will not run or run for a few seconds and then exit. Of course, this was not the case before this update. Beware.
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Thank you for reporting your experience... Sony has released an incredible number of software versions full of bugs for its smartphones. My current release has some bugs, but I am getting kinda used to them.

jaytee23 said:
I just got 52.1.A.3.137 on my XZ2 Premium today and it nerfed half of my apps. Literally half of my apps either will not run or run for a few seconds and then exit. Of course, this was not the case before this update. Beware.
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I had the same experience with some apps on xz3. I think it is not about the firmware patch. It has to do with the android system Web view. Update it to the latest version 89.0.4389. 105(2021/03/23) and you should be fine. Hope that helps.
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After messing with the phone for hours, I was able to remove the updates for the Google Play Services and Google Play. After they reinstalled themselves, everything was back to 100% normal again. Apparently, something about the firmware update was crashing my Google Play Services. It was really strange that some apps worked, no problem. But some apps would run once and then never again. Instead, they would either crash immediately or after a few seconds.
The problem I ran into at first was that Google Play Services wouldn't uninstall updates because it was in use or crashed. Once I was able to uninstall the updates, that triggered the system to install the latest versions and all was good again. Just glad I didn't do anything hasty like reset the phone before exhausting all else.

It is an essential fix for this bug with most XZ models including the XZ3 where you couldn't use Google Assistant hands free.
Made driving very dangerous for me hence the constant nagging, Sony acknowledged and finally brought the fix out.
Still waiting for the update here in the UK
https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/xz-...RVM0fDM3NjU5MzF8U1VCU0NSSVBUSU9OU3xoSw#M57965
Anyone saying the update nerfed their apps is probably overlooking the recent Google Webview breaking fiasco, just update your apps in Google Play Store or at least Google Webview, totally unrelated to the new Sony Xperia update imo.

OTA Update came through for me today as a 128.5 MB file size but will not install. Progress bar counts up the % complete increments but at the 100% complete stage it says "Could not verify" and then you just have the button again to tap on "Update" and start all over again. Restarting the phone a few times did not help either.

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OTA Update came through for me today as a 128.5 MB file size but will not install. Progress bar counts up the % complete increments but at the 100% complete stage it says "Could not verify" and then you just have the button again to tap on "Update" and start all over again. Restarting the phone a few times did not help either.
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Probably your android attest key is missing.
Check your device status if it says "android attest key not provisioned".
That usually happens if you flash the device with newflasher and you didn't exclude persist.sin file.
This is really not a big issue as you can always download the firmware you want with xperifirm and flash your device with newflasher.

General New update 36.9.7

Today auto installed 36.9.7
Vivo quicly patched bugs of 36.9.6 which was having a major Call notification issues.
Let me know your opinions.

no update available till now.
India. FunTouch OS 12

In INDIA, Bengaluru, it was updated around 11.30 in the monring.

no updates yet

I got the update today.
It seems to have reinstalled Jovi Voice which I had removed before using ADB.
Other than that it seems to be working as normal.

I have imported India version with FunTouch OS 12. Got the latest update too.
The phone seems to be working very well.
The only issue I have since I got the phone is when adding card to google pay contactless payament cannot be activated. I do not have loacation resrictions using gpay and with my other phones gpay contacltless payment can be activated successfully. My vivo is not rooted and runs factory rom.
Do yoy people from India have the same issue with gpay contactless payment?
thanks

gpx said:
I have imported India version with FunTouch OS 12. Got the latest update too.
The phone seems to be working very well.
The only issue I have since I got the phone is when adding card to google pay contactless payament cannot be activated. I do not have loacation resrictions using gpay and with my other phones gpay contacltless payment can be activated successfully. My vivo is not rooted and runs factory rom.
Do yoy people from India have the same issue with gpay contactless payment?
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In India I have not tired this option, to work this properly you need to enable NFC in phone. In india lot of hackers are waiting to snipoff your wallet and i do not have RFID blocking wallet.

Received Origin OS update PD2145B_A_5.13.12

fabrixx said:
Received Origin OS update PD2145B_A_5.13.12
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Super. But in India it is FUNTOUH OS.

Got the update, the T* coating bug is fixed YAAAY!
everything is normal.

grex_vibra said:
Got the update, the T* coating bug is fixed YAAAY!
everything is normal.
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Nice to here. Vivo is taking actions hard and fast, But still we should not get these bugs in Flagship modules.

Bringing out the scam companies like Samsung, Vivo are doing. Am using Vivo X70 pro plus. Recently I updated my software OTA push to 36.9.7 (from 36.8.) but took a camera sample before update. Immediately after update took another sample i matter of 15 min gap. There was hell lot of downgrade. Plus other bugs impacting day to day usage. Wanted your help to voice this out. Below are the identified issues beimg faced.
1. Camera quality is greatly downgraded
2. Background apps getting auto closed like Nova Launcher, SD Maid, Accu battery, etc. Thus accessibility service also not working linked to these apps as tgey are automatically getting off. This was not there before the update.
3. Amazon app is getting auto closed at payment selection page every time thus amazon app now not useful.
Attaching unaltered image sample before & after update.
3.3 mb is the one before update
3.5 mb one is post update (see tubelight & flower design on the matress, etc)
Can someone guide me on how to voice tjis to Vivo. This is malpractice as I suspect deliberate downgrade of camera & other bugs.

I dont see a downgrade or a difference at all here.

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I dont see a downgrade or a difference at all here.
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Look at the light, in post update image its bit spread, less t star
Also if you compare flower images on the left, you will clearly see that new images has distorted details clearly evident