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[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
dont try these side by side comparisons unless you clear nmea data on both devices before hand. it can be difficult for the gps chip to download the data from the satalites directly. another device may have downloded data that is still current at any time. side by side in only side by side if both devices have a cold start and are working in the same mode.

if you have trouble with initial locks go to the phone dialer and type *#*#3214789650#*#* it should take you to lbs test mode. it can also be launched with launcher pro activities. in lbs test mode delete gps data then go to supl/cp settings. write down the supl server and port. try a different supl server like supl.google.com with secure socket set to off and the port set to 7275. or you can set it to auto config. if none of that helps try setting the gps to msbased in application settings. msbased will use cell towers to download nmea data and give the gps chip a head start.

some phones (like my captivate) dont like ms based mode for tracking but my infuse works great with msbased and supl server set to auto config. if none of that helps trade in the phone, you have a defective unit.

there were situations where a factory reset helped on the captivate but mine suffered from a specific bug where the glgps daemon would crash with certain settings, wiping gps data did not solve the problem but a factory reset did. i dont think the infuse suffers from this bug but it couldnt hurt to try a factory reset.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] pixelkore:
Another GPS post. Fine, 7-8 gps locks no problem between 3 states. I guess if you can't beat them join them.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
Second infuse, first had GPS issues
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MikeyMike01:
Even if it only works sometimes, it blows the doors off the Captivate.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] keitht:
I hope these are isolated incidents. I can't believe that Samsung would release another device with GPS issues.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bella92108:
After reading the OP's thread title, I was really hoping for something more exciting, haha
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MikeyMike01:
I think that it's likely there's some user issues. As in, "it doesn't lock on in the 3rd basement of my concrete and lead bunker, therefore it sucks".
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bella92108:
Agree. And most people don't understand that the first seek time can take longer. So until the device learns your area it'll take longer to lock the first time in a certain area. I travel all over the world, and everywhere I go that I haven't been before a phone takes a bit longer to lock.

I think people forget about the days of the original GPS units that would take 5-7 minutes to lock on first use in a locale. Now if it takes 30 seconds they scream bloody murder.

EDIT: Why is it whenever there are polls like this people who click a negative, like something doesn't work or doesn't always work they almost never elaborate in comments? If I found this thread and had GPS issues, I'd vote, then elaborate on the problem to see if someone can help. My guess is you're spot on with user error.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jz3:
My GPS was mediocre from day one. Today, did a factory reset, used tibu to restore all apps except maps, fresh install of maps from market. Had a lock in seconds. Will see what happens in the next week or two.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
im not gonna say there arent bad units. and the settings could certainly be better, but i see these threads in every forum about every phone, and my friends complain about there phones. all i can say is that it get blown out of proportion.

i had a captivate and despite limited accuracy and agps that would hinder tracking it never steered me wrong after a few slight tweaks. every time i tried to follow someone elses mods it got worse. da_g's fix fixed the glgps deamon crashing while i was driving, though it only crashed if i used agps settings in the first place, so just changing the supl server and using the most recent modem.bin and setting secgps.conf to standalone to match lbs test mode was all it took to get a great tracking gps even on google maps.and it locked pretty good under cover.

the infuse is way more accurate getting <10meter locks quickly and showing the accuracy to the .01th of a meter rather than using multiples of 5 meters like the sgs. i can typically get 6 meter locks on the infuse sometimes less, with consistant altitude and 11 sats visable. if it gives you trouble i would blame google maps, it is clearly not a hardware issue. changing the lbs settings or secgps.conf may make it better but it is better to have a gps program that doesnt use data so before you complain replace maps with an application that has it's maps stored internally.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] b3asty:
10 days in... Not one GPS issue. I just returned home from a 4 day business trip to Washington DC. During that trip, I used the Infuse often and enjoyed comparing it to the Garmin that came with the vehicle. The Infuse won hands down. The one huge triumph was the Google Navigation's ability to properly recognize traffic delays and re-route. I used it and it actually worked like a charm! The Garmin traffic portion didn't work at all. It basically didn't see the traffic that the Google Nav picked right up.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cmjkxa:
Could you post a link of changing the settings to lock in north America only please.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] coopas:
Working fine here, just hoping I'm not jinxing myself by saying so :p
[Samsung Infuse 4G] lost2030:
I was using Google navigation yesterday on the Infuse while in Kissimmee and it moved a long with the car 95% of the time, it was great! Took me exactly where I needed to go without an issue. The Captivate couldn't do this at all!!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] phxblue:
My GPS still doesn't work, indoors, outdoors, in my car etc. Guess ill need a replacement. Thanks for the input people. Thats what these forums are for. To either uncover or put to rest potential issues, amongst many other uses.. Sorry if i "offended" any internet elitists.. Again i appreciate the useful input though.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bugilt:
Drove from Austin,tx to Rockport,tx with no GPS issues. Had it plugged into the AC adapter the whole time.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rjan22:
On my iPhone 4 iget GPS issue when most cloudy weather or rainy days, or some radio towers might affect the signal or even using radio transmitter on car. I heard one of my friend saying why I'm having GPS issue and you guys don't? My other friend jokes "gps signal defend on the face"

LOL
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bella92108:
I am guilty of being a bit#h and having people be a douch@#bag (oops) to me, so I sympathize with you. Forums are a place for debate, conversation, and help. Many people think that if they disagree, it means the person is wrong. Unfortunately that's much of the reason our country is in such a sad state politically and economically right now.

Sorry to hear you're having issues. Since it seems like it's an isolated issue, there's a good chance you just got a bad unit. They were made in Korea, then sent on a boat, then sent on a truck, then another truck, and another, so I think it's amazing more consumer electronics don't have issues, but it does happen. Luckily you have warranty replacement, so no worries. Grab a new one and you'll be good to go.

And don't let naysayers let you down. I'm sure sometime you'll post something and I'll reply with some stupid asinine comment, but hey, laugh it off and throw some shi# back at me :-) ... don't let the people trying to tell u not to post for something get u down.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cmjkxa:
so this is my third infuse. i got tired of exchanging my phone for gps issues so i did a factory reset. surprisingly my gps started working fine. after reloading my apps and account about an hour later, gps failed. gps test app said it couldnt find ANY satellites. i tried rebooting, restarting and nothing worked, so i factory reset and again gps started working finding satellites in seconds. so here i am reloading my apps one by one to see if any particular one might be the culprit? we need to figure this out guys.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bella92108:
Did u install an app called "disable my GPS so I look crazy" ??? HEHE. That is peculiar. Let us know if you determine which app is breaking your GPS
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cmjkxa:
UPDATE:

I've downloaded FB, Twitcast, Download all files, GPS Status, GPS is still working. Still loading other apps and checking.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] alberto8:
GPS Issues

Darn, I am on my second Infuse for GPS issues... Even outside with no clouds, it has trouble. In the car its useless.

The guy at AT&T store was clueless and annoyed that I exchanged the first phone. I don't know what to do. They are clueless at the store. :(
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cmjkxa:
did you try the GPS immediately after getting the phone without installing anything.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] alberto8:
Yes, at the store. it took a bit and it seemed to work. Afterwards, it stopped working. I thought it was because we had severe cloud cover.

This morning the sky was clear and it would not lock for my morning run. I use cardio trainer. I have not downloaded apps except for cardio trainer, sports tracker and sirius xm.

I might have to return it and get a different device. Except for this, the phone is perfect.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1107860

try to follow this thread if you have issues. im not sure all the changes are nessesary but it is similar to what i did. if that doesnt work you might have a bad unit. if the phone doesnt lock indoors that might be normal! not all consumer gps units can work under cover, infact my captivate gets locks indoors where my infuse doesnt, but it cant perform like the infuse overall. future modem.bin updates might make it even better as they did on the captivate.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clown_luv:
working here
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tyshemi:
Mine works way better after changing some things around but lock inside of the warehouse where I work but iphone 4 used too? Huh
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hoofadoo:
iPhones have ridiculously good GPS for some reason...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
the iphone 4 may be good but the 3g wasn't that good. it had poor reception under the slightest cover. tom tom even made that rediculous dock with a built in gps chip so it could adequately navigate in a car. i know many people had a decent experience with it but i know im not the only person that thought the iphone gps sucked, the aria gps sucked too, and actually my captivate works better under cover than my infuse(that's not to say that the captivate is better, just that it works better in one particular situation) the nexus s has the best gps reception that i have seen but people complain about that phone too. i haven't tested an atrix or a sgs2 yet but those are supposed to both be amazing.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] infuse4g:
Using the gps test my phone finds satellites almost instantly but it doesnt use them. Its so weird. I have no idea why it wont lock, it will get 8 in view and still wont get with the program.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] DarkDvr:
I had many phones, including the infamous captivate.

My Infuse has the best GPS I've seen. So it'smost likely individual units that have issues.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
i had this issue recently. i couldnt really nail it down but did get it working. i also did some experimenting with lbs test mode and realized some things, all the non functional gps on the captivate was probably user error.

if you dabble in lbs test mode what it does is write to the secgps.conf file in /data/gps/ but it seems to only write if you launch it fro the dialer. dont use sgs tools if that even works on this phone. i suspect that was a major cause of problems for the captivate/vibrant/i9000 users because i always had to alter my secgps.conf file manually on the captivate. there were certainly other issues with the stock config but my phone worked pretty damn well with minimal modifications

the settings in lbs and secgps.conf should always match but sometimes there is an error and they dont. i need to check it again but it seems that changes dont write to the file untill you exit lbs sometimes, so if you change settings you might want to clear data first, make alterations, exit lbs, then re-enter lbs and run the gps test.

the dialer code is *#*#3214789650#*#* and gps needs to be enabled for the dialer code to work. opening the app from other methods might not be launching all the services required, just a hunch but like i said i used to have to edit secgps.conf manually because lbs wasnt writing to it on the captivate.

also using MS Based mode with the nokia supl server using control plane mode got me a 50meter lock from a cold start after clearing data in just 4 seconds! never saw performance like that before!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] infuse4g:
Thank you, ill give that a try. Yes the capivate sgs tools does work on this phone to a extent as far as i have tested, havent tried everything in there. I used it to install htc gallery since i had the gallery sensor bug. I also installed the galaxy tab email which is AWSOME on the 4.5 inch display.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] infuse4g:
Tried Dani897's method and now im getting 25 meter locks in three seconds from a cold start from inside my house
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Simba501:
My GF's works fantastically well. Better than my Inspire. I also rooted and installed fasterfix, which may have even improved it a little more.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cipher20:
I have a question. Are we talking about using the GPS in the navigation application or google maps or some other way?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ajs145:
Stock GPS is OK at best but much better than my old Vibrant. This only worked after opening up the phone and bending the contacts. The Infuse seems far more reliable than the SGS hardware.

After upgrading to Infused 1.3.2, I am seeing very quick locks followed up by 4m accuracy. I never saw anything better than 6m on my old Vibrant. Looks like, as usual, GTG and the other ROM developers know how to just get GPS workign right where Samsung is compeltely clueless.
[General Questions and Answers] Mike 01Hawk:
psx4droid version 3.0.6.

SCPH1001 installed.

Trying to load a game it acts like it wants to, but it kicks me back out.

Any pointers?

TIA
[General Questions and Answers] Lynrax:
get fpse instead of psx4droid.

its much better, runs smoother and i never had a problem with it
[General Questions and Answers] Mike 01Hawk:
Fpse works like a charm on my Samsung Galaxy Tab

BIG THANKS!!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginseng8888:
Hi,

So, I've flashed many ROMs on my vibrant and other smart phones but today was the first time I had a problem. I flashed cyanogen and I think it bricked my vibrant. It won't turn on, won't go into any mode, even the buttons won't light up, I've tried all the button holding tricks btw. When plugged in, and the battery is in, the only thing I can get is the little loading star as if it's about to show the battery charging but it never does. Other than that, I'm pretty sure it is bricked. I want to know what I should do now? I don't know anything about fixing bricked phones, I read a lot of topics but I'm still confused. Would something like a jig off of ebay fix it? Thanks for any help. Also, know of any repair shops that could fix something like this? Please let me know. I live in tampa bay fl if that matters.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Longcat14:
Sounds like a soft brick to me (but I'm often wrong lol).

Try this.

1. Take out everything from your phone (SIM card, SD card, Battery).

2. Open ODIN

3. Plug your Vibrant into your computer through USB.

4. Hold Vol up and Vol down and put your battery in while holding them.

That should put your phone into download mode, and then you can flash back to stock.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginseng8888:
I love you longcat
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Longcat14:
Yay. <3

So I'm guessing that your phone works now?

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtoman7777777:
Yeah CM7 is nothing to mess around with if you dont know what youre getting yourself into. It is the most powerful ROM out there but as of right now it is nowhere close to stable for the Vibrant.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
its very stable!! i havent had any probs and it was easy to flash as long as u follow instructions, plus with it being on the rom manager premium its as easy as 123. click flash clockwork 3x, then check off all 3 boxes and press download. any of the nightlies from 8 and under, very stable except for no gps!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walwalla:
hi,

I bought rooted Nexus S (i9020t) and turn it to work on CM7.0 (KB3). Now I am tired of waiting for CM7.1 to benefit from 2.3.4 goodies. How do I switch to SupeAosp 8.2-AW + KD1 in the most secure way?

Please note that I never rooted my device or did anything sophisticated besides downloading roms and installing them through RomManager.

Thanks!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoobyrex:
You do it the same way you flashed cm7. Using rom manager/clockwork recovery.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] vievk:
Hello,

If somebody can give me link to install Android on Acer DX650.

Thanks in advance
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
i am using void.delta+caveman's v1.1 kernel...however with this setup i have a crazy problem..

To reboot into recovery i usually "su" in the terminal and execute "reboot recovery"..It always worked on other roms like LOL..However in this rom, it seldom boots into recovery .most of the time when i execute "reboot recovery" it just reboots and also corrupts some files, once it broke my wifi (cudnt log into my router anymore) ,once instead of booting into recovery it just rebooted and corrupted all my messages..just wiped all messages i had and messaging app kept crashing !!!Any ideas guys i really love this setup and dont want to switch to other roms ..HELP!!!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
I do not exactly see how is this related to busybox? (Anyway, you can install different versions of busybox to test, but I frankly doubt busybox is the issue here at all.)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
Fixed it !!! installed latest busybox using busybox installer from market
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
Good to hear. The latest being? Have 1.19.0 here ATM.
[EVO 4G General] KB112:
From what I get out this flyer, the EVO will be droppped to $149.99 come next month. Has a list of phones to be released on June 5th, new Moto Candybar Android is dropping, but doesn't list the EVO 3D. Says 4th week, which I assume means the 4th week of June it will drop?

Also a new talk/text unlimited plan etc etc. Rebates are also being extended and given instantly through June 23. Another tidbit I read stated that online activation fees will no longer be waived.

Read all ya want, found this link at SprintUsers.

May 25th Sprint Dealers Playbook

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...N2E4Ni00N2Q1LTg1ZmYtOWU5N2E4MDk2MjI1&hl=en_US
[EVO 4G General] cordell12:
So looks like the 19th or 26th, sounds right being a release date hasnt been announced. If you recall the Nexus S they did pre orders dang near 2 months before it dropped.
[EVO 4G General] KB112:
Yeah those drop dates sounds more likely to me. I am waiting till Oct for my upgrade though. Hopefully ya'll will have it pimped out by then, so I can flash away!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmeadows013:
I'm looking for a good, strong case that won't break apart when dropped (Like the snap ones) I prefer black, but really will go with anything. Trying not to go over 30$ though. Any suggestions? I want a case that is either 1 piece, or one of the cases where the bottom half slides into the top half.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] werdna87:
personally i REALLY like the speck one http://www.speckproducts.com/smart-phone-cases/candyshell-htc-incredible-case.html. i think i got it for 30 on the verizon store but even then i think its worth the extra 5 dollars
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boyer61:
I love my otterbox case!
[LG Optimus 3D] erezak:
I'm trying to port Clockwork recovery for the device, according to Koush's Post. However, the phone appears to be a non-MTD device, so the instructions for finding the boot.img do not apply.

Any idea on how to locate the boot.img on the device?

Thank you.
[LG Optimus 3D] nic85:
hope someone can help you.
[LG Optimus 3D] hefonthefjords:
you need to use the linux command "dd" instead of the dump_image tool.

it's only mildly more complicated.

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm

there is a guide at the bottom of this page...

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...es-boot-recovery-and-system-partition-images/

"alternative method"

try that.

note; i don't know for certain that this will work as i haven't tried it since i don't have an O3D yet.

should this thread not be in development too?
[LG Optimus 3D] erezak:
Of course dd will have to be used. :)

The problem, though, is that you need to specify an "if" for the command - and what I'm trying to find is the location off the boot image in a non-MTD device.
[LG Optimus 3D] hefonthefjords:
adb cat /proc/partitions

dunno what will come up but that lists partitions for you.

edit: please post what came up actually. i'm curious.
[LG Optimus 3D] erezak:
major minor #blocks name
7 0 13545 loop0
7 1 13545 loop1
7 2 13545 loop2
7 3 5229 loop3
7 4 9387 loop4
7 5 18743 loop5
7 6 4190 loop6
7 7 31217 loop7
179 0 7757824 mmcblk0
179 1 128 mmcblk0p1
179 2 128 mmcblk0p2
179 3 128 mmcblk0p3
179 4 512 mmcblk0p4
179 5 10240 mmcblk0p5
179 6 10240 mmcblk0p6
179 7 614400 mmcblk0p7
179 8 1048576 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 65536 mmcblk0p10
179 11 2048 mmcblk0p11
179 12 512 mmcblk0p12
179 13 20480 mmcblk0p13
179 14 3072 mmcblk0p14
179 15 5979008 mmcblk0p15
179 16 7761920 mmcblk1
179 17 7760896 mmcblk1p1
254 0 13545 dm-0
254 1 13545 dm-1
254 2 13545 dm-2
254 3 5229 dm-3
254 4 9387 dm-4
254 5 18742 dm-5
254 6 4189 dm-6
254 7 31216 dm-7
7 8 14585 loop8
254 8 14584 dm-8
7 9 9387 loop9
254 9 9387 dm-9
7 10 3150 loop10
254 10 3150 dm-10
7 11 4190 loop11
254 11 4189 dm-11
7 12 19782 loop12
254 12 19782 dm-12
7 13 28098 loop13
254 13 28098 dm-13
7 14 16664 loop14
254 14 16663 dm-14
7 15 4190 loop15
254 15 4189 dm-15
7 16 19782 loop16
254 16 19782 dm-16
7 17 10427 loop17
254 17 10426 dm-17
7 18 8348 loop18
254 18 8347 dm-18
7 19 7308 loop19
254 19 7308 dm-19
7 20 11466 loop20
254 20 11466 dm-20
7 21 15624 loop21
254 21 15624 dm-21
7 22 10427 loop22
254 22 10426 dm-22
7 23 9387 loop23
254 23 9387 dm-23
7 24 15624 loop24
254 24 15624 dm-24
7 25 4190 loop25
254 25 4189 dm-25
7 26 5229 loop26
254 26 5229 dm-26
[LG Optimus 3D] hefonthefjords:
dump all the "mmcblkxxx" partitions (where xxx is the numerical digits and p off the end). one of them is your boot image. dunno which one as lg could really have picked whichever one they want to be boot. i assume ti will be fairly obvious which is which once you examine the content.

i think you're "if=" arg has to be this format; "if=/dev/block/mmcblkxxx"

you'll jsut have to dump them to sd as like "mmcblk0.img", "mmcblk0p1.img" etc and then figure out which is which by examining them.

from what i have seen on google "mmcblk0p1" is normally the boot image but i don't know if this is totally standardised or not.
[LG Optimus 3D] erezak:
Well, we're back to the beginning :) This is basically my original question - where is the boot.img

Thank you for trying, though.
[LG Optimus 3D] hefonthefjords:
sorry.

is it that hard to tell when you extract all the partitions?
[LG Optimus 3D] erezak:
Yes, as I'm not even sure what should be in the boot.img
[LG Optimus 3D] Rusty!:
Have a look here for info on splitting boot images and what's generally in them: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images
[LG Optimus 3D] zizouth:
Hi,

Any news about extracting boot.img?

Br,
[LG Optimus 3D] theGanymedes:
Normally, in HTC desire, boot image is something about 3 MB; so you might want to dump the partitions which are close to that (not much smaller ones, tho, I presume)