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[Hero CDMA Android Development] genuser:
Many thanks for a great ROM Jaybob! This is the best running Gingerbread I have had so far! Just cannot get the GPS resolved. No fault of yours. My son's phone seems solid, so he's staying on this one and I flashed mine back to ASOP's Froyo ROM. I did try the new gps.config file that was linked several posts back. Didn't work for me, however, his thread states that the results with CM7 based ROMs have been hit or miss. Everyone else seems to be seeing some great results with it. I may give it a go back on Froyo.

I hear the 3vo calling me, but I'm trying to avoid it for now. Quite honestly, I really like the Hero and hate the thought of getting a bigger phone.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ehiggins:
Have you tried the Sprint Navigation that you can download through the market under the sprint section? My phone constantly loses GPS signal, but I just thought of giving this a whirl tonight.

The lost GPS is weird on my phone, it'll lose the signal and if I cycle the GPS it finds itself again immediately or if I use GPS status it looks on right away for some reason it just falls off.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] genuser:
I haven't tried it on this ROM, but I tried it back when I was on asopCmod and it was no help.

I do agree, the symptoms have changed. That may be due to a GNav update where they are handling faults better. She lost signal on me yesterday 3-4 times. Everytime I exited GNav back to GMaps the signal was fine and tracked without loss of signal. Back into GNav and within 5 minutes the signal was gone.

I'll be using it heavily on Froyo this week. Hopefully it will be solid.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ehiggins:
I took my own advice and tried the sprint telenav. It worked for the forty-five minutes to the airport then on the way back after about ten minutes I received gps coverage not available, cycled the gps and it worked the rest of the way.

This was at 617? and 691 mhz and OMGB 1.2, but its still not rock solid stable like it was on AOSP's froyo.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hakujin:
IO'd like to take a stab at that gps.config. Would you re post the link? I've searched the entire thread and I don't see this link you are referring to.

as far as gps fix, yeah, same boat. I know it's not an actually gps fix problem, and that is incidental, otherwise one would not be able to immediately go back to app and get instant fix.

gps status doesn't help and this app proved very useful w/ my wife's permanently broken gps on moment (won't even troubleshoot Samsung Moment further because I'm resolute it's a HW issue at this point)

Also, do keep us updated on Froyo. My recollection is it was SOLID, mine a reboot here or there, but that was probably more to do with my Overclock than anything else. I still remember the day I excitedly exchanged it for an early March 2011 build of Gingerbread. That is when the GPS problems started (much talked about in various ROM threads) and they haven't let up since. It's gotten to a point where I anticipate fix loss, so I periodically restart navi just saw it doesn't happen at a pivotal point, haha!

But yeah, I don't wanna upgrade either and size is one factor. this phone fits perfectly in a slot on my Jeep that a larger screen would not. Reason #3 next to price (both up front and monthly) of new phone, and commitment.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] waqasr:
Yah sure, Below is the link to latest PRL 60680.

You will also find couple of other PRL's that you can

try if 60680 doesn't do for you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1142401

I use Fresh rom for updating my prl's and I can confirm that the dialer

lets you use ##775#

Here is the link http://geekfor.me/new-release/fresh-hero-240/

Download from the mirror link on that page the link above it doesn't work anymore.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] windtrader:
ongoing GPS trials

@all GPS related posters,

I experience many of the commonly reported symptoms except I have tried to get Navigon running as it is quite large and this program get the lost GPS signal a lot now.

For that matter, most recently all the GPS apps I use: GPSstatus, Gmaps, GNavigator, Navigon, all are losing signal a lot more than before.

When I came to jbogb I did not get the FC but that has seemed to come back.

From what I read over time is we are all experiencing a worsening of gps issues. I do not think it is in any related to Google apps like maps since other non google apps experience the same issues like losing GPS signal.

The reason the gps posts are picking up here at jaybog is most of us were on AOSPMod and got frustrated with increasing GPS issues and figured maybe it was ROM related.

Honestly, I get more unclear where the source of the problem is the more time goes on and the only option stated here earlier is to regress back to a much earlier ROM where I think we can all agree GPS was not crashing like now.

It is all really so frustrating as the GPS issue is the ONLY thing that makes the Hero less than stellar. Sure hope a solution is uncovered but it is getting harder to hold on to the hope and as time goes on there will be more folks leaving the nest.

I am sure getting restless and getting tempted to jump to a newer device but it doesn't make any $ sense. I should just buy a cheap car gps unit and be done with it. oh well..............
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jaybob413:
Update Posted - 24-JULY-2011

Updated posted to OP. Synced with AOSP/CM sources on July24 at 8AM EDT.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] genuser:
The gps.config fix is on the below thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953630

It does appear to be working well on the Froyo rom.

I see an update on the op. Time to look through the change log.

I do have logcat of my gps issues if there is any devs that can benefit from them. PM me for them.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ch1naski:
yes!

Thank you, jb.

nandroids are for

sissies
[Hero CDMA Android Development] windtrader:
I took a look at the referenced thread and it seems quite focused on resolving long GPS lock times. I did not see any reference to the GPS "locking up" issue expressed here. At over 1000 posts, obviously far too many to read them all, it did get me wondering if the gps.config file settings have changed over time.

I'd like to pull an old 2.2 rom and see if any settings were changed on the 2.3 roms.

Well - no changes in this file so issue is elsewhere. It has given me an idea to look for other GPS config or driver changes. Maybe we can put some older GPS drivers back in if they have changed.

AOSPCMOD 20110302

NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

C2K_HOST=default

C2K_PORT=0

AOSPCMOD 20110523

NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

C2K_HOST=default

C2K_PORT=0

well - a quick check of files that have GPS in the file names shows they have not changed from even a .99 ROM last year to current 2.3 5/23

gps.conf

android.hardware.location.gps.xml.

There are gps.hero.so and gps.goldfish.so

in the 5/23 ROM that were not in the old one. I have no idea how to determine what effect it has.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Drunkpilot:
I remember aosp/cm 3/2 because I started having problems after that build. I think that is when we went from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 ( and dark horse changed flip animations... sorry, I liked those).

I have remember reading that people started having gps issues sometime in February... around mid February. I'm thinking that maybe the roms and apps are just getting too advanced in their workings for our legacy heroes. I hope I'm proven wrong, I really like this little hero.

Sent from my HERO CDMA
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ch1naski:
I like my hero, too. I remember paying 79 bucks for mine with my new sprint account, about 40 days before the evo came out. Now, they're giving away evo's. Not $79, free. it's so tempting.....

But this phone is a little tank, takes every kind of physical (and sometimes digital) abuse I throw at it. First froyo, then gb, now I'm even running ginger sense on it. If someone came out with a mod that made the screen bigger and gave it a flash for the camera, I'd keep this ****er for another 2 years.

nandroids are for

sissies
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
Might be a little early to say anything, but I made some adjustments, and I finally had GNav run a whole 10 minutes in the first time in months. Jb's July 8th build, default kernel (.35), cpu ondemand, 672/691, compache 18%, no asset purging... And GNav 5.5.

Obviously, that is by no means conclusive, but I don't know when I'll be taking a longer trip, so I posted at the first sign of any good news.

Only 10 minutes, and I was so happy...

EDIT: Oh, and I copied the gps.conf file for my region from the linked post. The zip file doesn't work, so it was manually placed. It might also be helping.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
Thanks! Flashed and testing.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] windtrader:
We all pretty much agree the GPS issues raised their ugly head early part of this year and one can always go back to a stable earlier release. My own gut tells me that the new GB system was designed with higher and/or different minimum hardware requirements that our now dated Heros. Even though the overall size of the ROM may be less during while it is loaded and running GPS it just pushes over some internal queue, memory limit, or some other max and gets unstable causing various failure symptoms, not all the exact same thing.

It is similar to why the Hero does not run flash, it just can't, but this situation was more obvious since the Hero hardware was obviously inadequate.

At this point in the lifespan of the Hero, it seems enough of the brains have their hands full with new ROMS and new devices that it is a long shot that the GPS issue will ever get sufficient expert diagnosis and debugging to fix it properly.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AwfulFaded:
Amen brother! :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Freeroot:
shweet

Well good sir- this is the fastest rom I have had on my phone. It works smooth and I have yet to have any problems. I would be perfectly happy with staying on the current build. If you are curious about this, flash it. You won't be disappointed.

EDIT: crap, now I have to change my signature..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Robbie_G:
Firerat's system size

Not sure if people usually post this (since I'm new to Firerat's), but /system size on TeamHeroC-2.3.4-24JUL.zip is 105.9M.

I also noticed that apps that are on my SD card all have their own mount (is that the right word?) when doing df -h. Didn't know that.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
EDIT: Oh, and I copied the gps.conf file for my region from the linked post. The zip file doesn't work, so it was manually placed. It might also be helping.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)[/QUOTE]

:confused: I extracted the gps.conf from the linked post, but every time I try to paste in the Hero, I get an error about the zip failing?

Is there something different when copying only a file? Any help is appreciated. I need the gps to play well on my Hero!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Robbie_G:
ROM modifications

What do most people do right after they flash this (or any other) ROM? I usually:

Rename /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg to camera_click.ogg.bak (since I don't like the shutter noise)

Rename /system/media/audio/ui/VideoRecord.ogg to VideoRecord.ogg.bak (since I don't like the beep noise)

Change ro.opengles.version to 131072 in /system/build.prop (so I can access more apps in the market)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
I just copy the gps.conf file itself to the /system/etc directory, so there is no zip file involved. Were you trying to flash the zip file?

And to copy the file, I use ES File Explorer, which makes the /system directory writable. Otherwise, the file won't copy.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] drlzanej:
Here Here man little bastsrds take a beatin with no retreatin. Ithink ill be keeping mine as well for a while...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bray424:
- Delete protips, email, livewallpapers, filemanager, downloadproviderui, music, development and quicksearchbox from /system/app

- Replace all the default audio and font files.

- Install LauncherPro and HTC_IME or Swiftkey, then delete launcher and latinime from /system/app
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radrian92:
Thank you!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
I extracted the file in the pc, and tried to paste onto the sd card when I got the error message. I will try using ES File Explorer after work.

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
You got an error pasting onto the SD card? That sounds like an entirely different issue. What's the error?

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
Great news! After making some changes, Google Nav finally lasted 35+ minutes! I feel like that was a much better test. I think I've found my happy place :)

So, here's my Hero:

* jaybob's TeamHero July 24

* Stuck with the default .35 kernel (stock camera doesn't work, but Camera360 does)

* Firerat's Mod, 1.5.6, 110 18

* Southwest gps.conf file, moved to /system/etc

* CWMod 3.0.2.4

* CPU OnDemand, 672/691

* Compache at 18%

* No purging those precious assets

* VM heap at the normal 32m

* No JIT

* And most importantly... Google Maps 5.5

Incidentally, I also use ADW Ex and SwiftKey X, but I'm sure that doesn't make much of a difference.

I suppose it'll annoy me a bit to keep seeing the market tell me I need to update Maps, but I can handle it a lot more than a dysfunctional Google Nav.

hakujin, thanks again for the comment about searching Google for older versions. I would have never made it to this point.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
Jaybob, did you start including Terminal Emulator in your rim? Should I uninstall the other one I downloaded now?

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ohbuckeyeman:
Is there a reason everyone continues to battle with Google Maps? I've been using the update to the Sprint Navigation, Tele Nav and it has worked flawlessly without me having to do anything additional. Might be with checking out. It is really nice. I know many of us are flash happy and what is cool us that it remembers past locations you looked up on the server side. My $.02.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
I copied the gps.conf file from the extracted download. When I try to past into the sd card I get this error: The Compressed [zipped] Folder is invalid or corrupted.

Is there something differant when pasting into a file on the Hero? I have put hundreds of zips and apk's on the card and flashed. I thought this was going to be an easy gps fix [hi hi ]:confused:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
This sounds like a a problem with your sd card, not your phone. Do you use some sort of compression on the card to get more space? How are you trying to put the file on the card? Over usb? Or by taking the card out and putting it in a slot on your computer? I move things over by using dropbox.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
I do not have any compression that I am aware of. I connect the Hero to my Windows 7 computer via USB. I turn on USB storage and the copy and paste zip files that I want to flash.

I even copy and pasted the gps.conf onto the SD card and then tried to move using the Windows 7 computer and received the same error.

Since my Hero works fine and I can flash at will, I suspect it is something that I don't know about Windows 7.

I have not had time to download that ES File Explorer, but I will try it at lunch time today and report back.:confused:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mrtimo:
Just installed this rom for the first time after a clean wipe. Typically all of my apps will redownload when the phone is resyncing after gapps setup, but no dice on this rom. Am I using the wrong gapps? (used CM7 0613 gapps).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
I had a thought while trying this unsuccessfully. I am trying to put the gps.conf in the file on my sd card called: Android/cm_heroc_full-80/system/etc.

The file cm_heroc_full-80 is a zipped compressed file.

Is there a chance [ :D ] that this is not the system/etc I am looking for?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
Yes, Obi Wan, I think you found the issue :-)

The /system/etc is actually on your phone. I copy the file to the sd card using dropbox (but usb is fine), then copy the file from the sd card to /system/etc using ES File Explorer. In that app, you can see where you are at by looking at the top. You should only see /system/etc, and nothing else. The path for the sd card is /mnt/sdcard.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] radioman42001:
Issue found and solved. gps was all joy today. 30 minute commute and the young lady talked me all the way through it!! First time that I made more than 2 minutes!!

Thank you for walking me to the right place! :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
You're very welcome!

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Drunkpilot:
On this Rom, the terminal emulator is in the dev tools app. at the bottom.

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Android Development] windtrader:
Well I am pleased as punch to see progress on the GPS issue. I am most curious which if any specific setting is causing the issue on my Hero. Changing one by one to see what makes the difference. Staring with NO ASSET PURGING. :-)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] 24601:
FYI

Came across this thread reported on XDA front page. I installed the tweaks with JB's 7/24 rom and my Hero certainly is snappier. Unfortunately, it had no effect on GPS issues.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Hippie459MN:
Thinking of trying this one out and wondering what gapps I should use with this.

I have heard good things about this and would like to check it out. Also, Is the stock camera working with this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
If you flash the rom, and the stock camera stops working, there is a link in the OP that begins with "kern", which is a different kernel. The rom uses ".35" by default, and the link is for ".29".

For the camera to work for me, I need ".29", but then GNav stops working, so naturally I went back to the default in the rom, ".35". I use Camera360, which works well as a replacement.

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
I'm pretty excited to see how that goes ;-)

(Posted while sitting on the train or on the... well, you know.)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] GeezyAF:
I actually use that script.

What setting number do you use?

I use 6.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hakujin:
Ahh, gps.conf modification is becoming clearer now. I tried all that before and am convinced this is not the issue, but rather some memory leak, and strangely... CPU stepping.

Having a lot of positive success now w/ Navi. 576min w/ 20,000 sample seems the sweet spot for me. I haven't had a lock up in a minute, though I keep expecting it. 3 or 4 trips now and golden. Also surprisingly is that setting such a high minimum doesn't really impact my batt time on this ROM too much. Maybe it's part placebo as I don't use clock batt mod w/ this ROM (is there even one, or use the same one from HerocMod?) so I'm not as focused on the battery life.

Now, I Have camera problems (perhaps since Day 1 of this room, but didn't check). However, I think I'm missing some pertinent data as this has been addressed right? Basically freezes when taking a pic, though home screen is accessible (but can't go back or click gallery in top corner). Phone won't audible click nor take picture. Tried clearing camera data, DAVLIK, and Cache; also tried a 3rd party Camera App and still no go.

Lastly, USB mass storage seems to time out and require remounts pretty consistently.

????:eek:

Other than that, glad no gps signal losses or app freezes. However, I'm going to start using Navigon on longer road trips now to mitigate no data signal in many state and national parks. Also going to rock the iPad2 for longer road trips as 9" GPS works extremely well. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] windtrader:
I'd definitely want to hear how Navigon works for you. I have not stepped up min CPU but I think that would quit the stuttering I experienced. Interesting as on AOSP using OnDemand and rather low min cpu, Navigon did not stutter but does on jaybob using same cpu settings.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ch1naski:
Fix the camera issues by flashing the .29 kernel. It's in the op.

nandroids are for

sissies
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Drunkpilot:
The camera bug is due to the .35 kernel as well as the usb issue. I'd you go to the .35 thread, there is a kernel that is supposed to help with the usb issue, but you give up using a head set. I like to pop on the .29 kernel to fix the camera.

Flashing IS a gateway drug!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JeffW8:
You can either go with the older kernel as suggested, or use Camera360. It's a great app and a great replacement to the stock camera. As I mentioned before, to get Google Nav to work perfectly (version 5.5), I needed to have the .35 kernel.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] genuser:
I am now pretty confident the gps issues are more related to the CPU governors than anything. I rolled back to ASOPs Froyo rom and have been on vacation naving a lot. As long as I keep my min CPU above 576 I don't have issues. But I can get the Froyo rom to freeze up GNav if I go lower. It takes MUCH longer! I am running Setcpu. I think I will try without for a couple days.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hakujin:
I'm optimistic, as long as I can get the map to download on Android. Errors out. Thinking of copying the maps out of '.ipa', so long as I can find a maps folder on Android file system. You'd think they would allow a side loading option.

But going back to Navigon, I would think it less resource intensive based on maps being local as opposed to DLed in real time. Will come in very handy in state and national parks were even 2G is sketchy.

Muhahahahaha! Surely you jest. :/:p

Pretty sure I experienced the USB bug on .29, but skeptical of going back to .29 because of GPS problems I endured. I'm 90% sure i tried identical settings and Navi was laggy.

Thanks JeffWB. I've used Camera 360 in the past and believe I even have a TB of it on SD. I just uninstalled it before because I had too many redundant Camera Apps. Camera FX has the same problem, but I'll def. give 360 a go now that you mentioned it. USB is less of a proble anyway, as under normal non flash crack circumstances (i.e. when I'm not flash wh0r1ng), I set auto Wifi on AC, which triggers SMB server, so no need mount SD.

Clock settings right? And underlying that I believe a big memory allocation bug as has been mentioned in detail in the other threads (which escape me at the moment). But with Froyo, I used 276ish as a min for some time w/ no problems. Used Colins_PH batt tweak though, not Set CPU. Worst that ever happened was an occasional reboot, but I think that was related to heat and aggressive overclock.

Anyway, thanks to all that have helped and contributed! It's nice having a group of people to tackle a problem such as this. And we are all on the same page as far as the importance of AGPS. :)