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[T-Mobile LG G2x] frescoraja:
is this still a problem in the cm7 based roms?? this killed me as i do a lot of driving while listening to both music and GPS navigation queues at the same time. i really miss the roms but can't be bothered if this is still an issue..

so.. is it?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] pnym:
im looking for a completely gutted ROM for galaxy 3. Like Kyrillos v7.1 but with ALL unnecessary apps gone, all wallpapers and ringtones (bar 1 each respectively) to fully maximise speed. Kind of like what windows xp/nlite does to an OS. Do you have 1 available? If not, can it be in the pipeline? I would defo donate big time for that????
[WebOS Software Development] sceptor:
http://www.bluebeam.com/

I know its for windows but curious if there is a Web OS alternative. I would love to be able to have this functionality for work and there isnt a single good windows tablet. Anyone? Will def buy you a beer!
[WebOS Software Development] Yasin00:
agreed

I also am looking for some pdf software for pdf annotation.Thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
Camera keeps force closing? Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

x10i 2.3.3 rooted. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
Anyone?

x10i 2.3.3 rooted. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
what i done earlier was remove everything from the DCIM folder to my computer and renamed them so i can have more space so the 100ANDRO folder was empty and I believe that caused the camera to force close.. So I put a one picture back with a renamed file name and the camera works no force closing and then I removed the picture from the folder and it forced closed again? No media perhaps? Maybe the camera is looking in the camera folder for files and when it does not detect anything it crashes because with only 1 picture on the folder it works properly. Is this normal? :confused:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
The x10 needs that folder to function. If you want the camera, leave the folder there. That is normal behavior for what happened when you moved the folder away from the camera.

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
The folders were there but not the pictures.. I know not to remove the folders.

x10i 2.3.3 rooted. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
So tell me this, when you take a picture with the camera, does the picture get saved and can you find the saved photo?

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
Yes.. but if I take the saved pic say to save it on my pc and leave the folder empty, then it force closes.

x10i 2.3.3 rooted. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
You probably have to flash back stock firmware to fix the issue. There are plenty of threads on that. Or just take a weird pic and leave that in the picture folder to keep the camera stable.

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saimad4u:
Ya that's a better idea to store a pick...I was having the same problm but solved the same way..!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahzaib.khan:
i got unkown error again and again im really fed up with this error :s ..earlier some one tild me to delete all the picx n videoz then it should be fine i do that and camera working fine but now i have some video songs n some wall papers and 4 or 5 picx which taken by my cell camera the msg is back unkown error :@
[Defy General] SpookyAwol:
I dont think its a CM7 issue, but as the default launcher is ADW, Ill ask here first.

The main dock (with action buttons) gets removed from the screen if inadvertently 'swiped'

When it disappears, it leaves a darkened line across the bottom of the screen. Some random prodding and swiping seems to reinstate it some times, but its a bit flakey.

a) If the desktop is locked - why is this item easily removed?

b) whats the correct action to get it back on screen if its lost?

Any ideas? :-)
[Defy General] hackergnome:
Its an annoying feature of adw

Swipe down dock goes off n a new dock where u can put other app shortcut

SWIPE UP to get the main dock back

I dont remember how to disable it

I use LPP
[Defy General] 57op:
To disable it: Settings > ADW Launcher > UI Settings > Uncheck "Hidden Dockbar". Done.
[Defy General] SpookyAwol:
Hmm that works.

A little counter-intuitive perhaps as its already checked to start with (and the dockbar shows) but unchecking it certainly seems to work! Thanks
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Sinfamy:
Fantastic find, I don't have the GPS problem right now, but If I ever happen to encounter it, I'll make sure to use this method to correct it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] sonicjam:
Go Blue! woot! I guess I should find improvements as well :P lol.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Reserved to explore the commands that can be placed in the gps.conf file to control the A-GPS and GPS behavior specifically.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Quoted myself. Question is answered:

Yes, we have a real GPS chip, and yes, it can function on it's own.

The device is not so great when using just it's own GPS chip, and it will eat up battery power exponentially quicker then using A-GPS functionality as well.

If you rely on something like Google Maps, then you MUST be connected to a data network of some sort to download maps as you go. (Google Maps will allow you to cache a certain amount of data for a certain area for a certain time - I love the restrictions /sarcasm)

Finding an app which allows you to use maps offline saved to your sdcard will let you use your GPS completely off-network, and circumvent this limitation.

Moved from my post above to make room for what's coming:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Outdated gps.conf file:

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
[B]XTRA_SERVER_4=http://xtra4.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin[/B]
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
SUPL_TLS_HOST=lbs.geo.t-mobile.com
SUPL_TLS_CERT=/etc/SuplRootCert
PHONE_TYPE=UMTS

Why it's outdated:

I had originally thought, and found from an outside third party website that adding this line would allow usage of the fourth NTP server I saw listed under North-America.

My initial A-GPS improvements came from changing to Google for my SUPL server and modifying the port number that the connection was through. The line we just removed from our current gps.conf file regarding XTRA4 had no bearing on time to GPS lock.

tytung set me straight Here in his fantastic (and very long) Thread about this issue for a different device here at XDA.

Very generously I was shown in the source code where this made no sense, and has caused me to spend some time in Git reading further into just how android handles A-GPS functionality.

I haven't had the chance yet to work my way through that very long thread, but i'm working on it. I'm sure more updates will follow, but that thread is also centered around downloading a supplemental file for the specific handset it's written for - and i'm trying to write this one for a different handset and without using a supplemental file.

That supplemental file makes one heck of a difference i'm sure, i'm going to see if we can get by without one over here.

Now that i've tested this addition to the file, i've added some new stuff to mine that i'll be going out and about for a few days with to see what a difference it makes. Stay tuned for more updates.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
And i'll reserve one more just to keep the information about offline maps and other misc. GPS things close to the top of the thread.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ekoee:
tried this but didn't really notice a difference. maybe it's my coverage here in hawaii though.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Actually, yes it might be because you are in Hawaii, but i'm glad to see you are working on this too - you're going to be a big help if you continue to play with this as information gets added to this thread.

Where you are you'll be using the GPS itself more then network-assisted GPS functionality. The hardware GPS chips in phones aren't that great, but you should have pretty fantastic line-of sight to satellites.

One thing that will help you, given the lack of beefy network infrastructure, is an app called "GPS Status & Toolbox" by Eclipsim...it's the one I use to compare the changes I make in my gps.conf file.

What I do is make some changes, then run around all over my area testing it out. Then i'll install "GPS Status" and run all over the same area, using the app first.

In all cases, the app has significantly decreased my time to lock using Google Maps. This is to be expected though, and here's why:

When you get a current GPS fix from any app, for a short time after that any other apps you use on the phone will have a shorter time to lock because the GPS data is current on the phone. They all borrow from each other, and if you just got a lock with one app, then other apps will use that information to get their lock quicker.

Also, "GPS Status" will force an A-GPS data download, so it makes sure your A-GPS data is current.

If you use "GPS Status & Toolbox" you will also get a display of where the satellites are in relation to you that you are connecting to.

I know this isn't really the point of this thread, i'd rather try to make the A-GPS ability of the phone better without an app, but in your case with a more limited amount of network infrastructure it will probably help you with your GPS abilities of the phone. I'd rather see you have it work for you, then stumble along some-fixed for the amount of time it'll take this thread to mature into a solid solution.

Another app recommendation is "GPS Test" by Chartcross Limited. Both are free apps, both offer paid versions. GPS Status paid version removes the ads, and GPS Test paid version adds more functions.

They both work pretty well, I prefer GPS Status, but that's a personal thing.

I have a friend who moved to Hawaii a few years ago, i'll ask him about GPS / A-GPS in his area and see what he says. He is intersted in this kind of stuff too - but not so much in computers, so I don't know how much input that will be. Still another pair of boots on the ground though.

Thanks for checking in, and keep up with the thread from time to time to see if anything we discover will help you out there. I'll also keep an eye out for any Hawaii-specific information that could help, since there is now a need for it called to my attention.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
General question to anyone who wants to answer:

I can never get a correct altitude reading from my GPS on the phone. It is always off, sometimes more then a thousand feet for hours at a time.

Is anyone else experiencing this, or is it just me?

Look up your altitude online, for where you are, and compare it to your GPS readings on the phone.

No matter what I do I can't get this to be right. My latitude and longitude are pretty spot on, but altitude is always screwed up.

Anyone else?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Bump.

Problem solved.

Undeadk9 & I put our heads together and realized we had all the pieces to solve the puzzle. Proper gps.conf file combined with amplifying the signal strength of the phone was what was needed to fix this issue.

A couple other small cleanups were done to make it all work right, and now we have a solution to this issue. I love teamwork.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dhkr234:
You normally use mswondoze, don't you?

Those "two" files are actually the SAME file.

/etc is a symbolic link to /system/etc

There is no point in backing up "both" since there is only one file you are referring to.

---------- Post added at 03:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:42 PM ----------

Having a look at this part makes the whole problem quite obvious.

1) SUPL_HOST={is that really a PRIVATE IP address???!?!?}

*** very bad. IP addresses starting with "10" are in a PRIVATE ADDRESS BLOCK. These are not servers that are visible on the whole wide internet. Access to them would definitely depend on being attached to that specific private network, which you will not be.

2) SUPL_TLS_HOST=lbs.geo.t-mobile.com

*** holy crap... DNS resolves this to 10.176.29.255 (at the moment). Yet another PRIVATE IP address, in fact, the same as (1).

Now I'm not going to try to guess what's up with tmobile's network, but I guarantee that anyone who is NOT using tmobile as a provider (Wind Mobile -- Canada here...) WILL DEFINITELY NOT have access to these servers. For those who DO use tmobile as a provider, then there are several questions;

a) Does tmobile know how to run an AGPS server?

b) Does tmobile's server ACTUALLY WORK?

c) Is tmobile's server possibly overloaded (and therefore slow)?

d) Is there something sneaky going on regarding those addresses? Maybe a special APN? Maybe you need to pay extra or be on the right data plan?

In any case, the big difference made is the addition of the google AGPS server.

As far as the NTP servers go... there's a whole lot of DNS voodoo going on with ntp.org pools. Don't go too crazy with the millions of NTP servers, and DO NOT HARD CODE IP ADDRESSES!!!!

The reason why you don't hard code IP addresses is because servers are added and removed from the pools continually. If you're hard coded to specific IP addresses, and the ones you have hard coded vanish, you'll start trying servers that are no longer serving NTP. Though it may take slightly longer to query DNS for the NTP servers, this is NOT a massive amount of time to wait. You're looking at a fraction of a second.

Now my suggestion for the ntp server pools would be to just use the master pools..... i.e. "us.pool.ntp.org", "north-america.pool.ntp.org".
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Yep, on windows. If it was linux I was working with this guide would be a little different - but thanks for bringing that up for others.

The hard coded address goes to T-mobiles TLS server, which handles the authentication for SUPL servers - and you are very correct in that if someone is not on t-mobile, then this won't work out for them. If you connect to a SUPL server, somehow you need to handle TLS, or else you won't be able to connect to the SUPL server.

The phone is a t-mobile branded phone, and so I am assuming being on the t-mobile network, but if you aren't then you'll have to find out what your network provider uses as a TLS server and enter that address.

I bolded your part about not going crazy with the pool servers - it's critically important. Many people put a ton of addresses into the gps.conf file, not realizing it actually hurts their time to lock instead of helping it.

If you use specific time servers, instead of pool servers, you must stay on top of making sure that they are still publicly open and accessible, online, and have the same address.

Some time servers do not accept DNS, others require some type of login authentication, and generally speaking it's a lot of work to keep them current in your file.

You can see in the first post my recommendation is to have the gps.conf file look like this:

NTP_SERVER=0.us.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.us.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.us.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.us.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.north-america.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.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
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
SUPL_TLS_HOST=lbs.geo.t-mobile.com
SUPL_TLS_CERT=/etc/SuplRootCert
PHONE_TYPE=UMTS

and stop at the general pool servers, though we have included pool servers for north-america and the us. This increases the pool servers we are using beyond just the generic servers everyone else has by default, and should get us some low traffic servers.

Putting in specific server addresses, like I went on to show under "advanced" edits, can be helpful but only if you know what you are doing and are willing to keep up with checking to make sure the servers are online, active and open - which is what the pool servers do for you.

If you download the fix in this thread, the only NTP servers in the file are what was quoted in code in this posting, so I didn't make it region-specific and only kept it with NTP pool servers.

The fix also includes signal amplification for the phone - one of the reasons why GPS issues happen with the phone is that you lose part of the data stream from the satellite and have to re-download it. The GPS satellites only send a signal every 6 seconds, so if you lose part of it you have to wait another 6 seconds to get it back.

I will make sure to put a note in the OP about only using the fix if on t-mobile, though - thanks for pointing this out!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Bump due to issues with support to the other version of this patch.

All of my flashable zips have always been done with ext4 partition calls and so should be compatible with any recovery or ROM.

Please post any issues with installing and i'll patch them up as quickly as possile.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] siani_8:
Did it flash ok but then didn't have an affect for you or did it just not flash at all? I just flashed with Bulletproof ROM and it flashed ok.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Okay, i'll look into this.

This package was release long before CM7 came out.

My first impression would be that the build.prop edits are the issue, but I haven't looked at it yet.

Give me a chance to tidy up my workspace here and re-flash CM7 to my phone, i'll post an update sometime soon when I get to this.

I just wrote it on my project list at my desk, i'll probably break in another two hours for breakfast, because a place I like to eat at open at 5 a.m. When I get back i'll probably dive into this first.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, been working on my own ROM release and have had blinders on to all else.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about you - releasing Bulletproof 1.0 really took a lot out of me, i'll get to this as soon as I can.

Tomorrow is some much needed rest, and time with my lady and her family.

I am not sure if I will be able to get any dev done on thanksgiving day after daybreak, but my next scheduled work shift is not until the 30th.

I appreciate your patience while I get everything together, it's been a very busy and taxing dev week for me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Paitor:
When is thanksgiving day then? It's the day when Americans eat turkey right :P
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Lol, yea.

Thanksgiving was yesterday, today is the biggest retail shopping day in America. Just snagged almost $600 worth of silver jewelry for just under $90 at an "early bird" sale - grabbing some coffee and then heading to 'best buy' to see about some electronics deals.

I gotta work from 8 to 8 today, then I have the weekend free again, so I'll get some dev time in over the next couple of days.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Paitor:
Biggger than Christmas?

Oki, is there something I can help with just say. I'm not that good at this but would like to learn more and maybe some day make my own roms.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Wow - i'd forgotten that this was left undone in the face of everything else I got myself into.

What I am going to do is break the flashable zip down and redo it to just include the gps.conf file and exclude the build.prop edits provided by Undeadk9.

Including the build.prop was fine when there were virtually no ROMs available and they were all the same, but now if you flash this it will break your ROM like what happened with the CM7 issue mentioned a few posts ago.

The gps.conf file being my contribution to the solution, and this whole thread being a very in-depth and detailed explanation on how to edit that and where you will get yourself into trouble doing so, i'll make two seperate installer packages for T-Mobile and AT&T.

You will be able to download either of these in the thread. Neither will have a build.prop file included.

Now, what I am going to do is post the build.prop in code tags from the current zip in the thread, so that anyone can sit here and look it over and decide how to implement those changes for whatever ROM they are using.

If you are using my ROM ( Bulletproof ) there is no need to flash anything from this thread as these fixes have been worked in from version 1.0 forward.

If you are using a different ROM - you may freely flash the new zip files I am going to put up very soon without issue. I've always made my installers compatibly with past, present and any future recoveries from the very beginning, so actually flashing it will never be an issue.

But if using a different ROM, you may have to sit here and look the build.prop over to see if you need to make the signal tweaks to it that Undeadk9 contributed to this fix back in the beginning of our dev days for this device.

It is beyond reason at this point I feel for me to tailor build.prop edits in a flashable zip file for each and every ROM that comes out, and for each version therein depending on how they develop.

While we were able to say this issue was solved back in September, now in December we are looking at a different playing field and that no longer holds true for a flashable installer. The issue is still solved, but it will be up to each user to implement the build.prop changes to reach this state - and that is if the ROM you are using it for has not done other things to effect the signal strength of the device that could impair or improve the result.

I have to run an errand, but when I get back in an hour I am going to sit down and do what i've described in this post - that should clear up this loose end and be one more asset at the communities disposal for using their device.

I apologize for losing track of the work needed to be done about the issue with this - i'll rectify it shortly.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
ATT Users - help me help you - I need this file:

If anyone is using ATT service on a different phone, one that came from ATT, I need two files from you to make the GPS work for ATT service on the MT4GS.

I need the SuplRootCert file located in /system/etc/ - please attach the file to a post in this thread.

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I also need either the gps.conf file at /system/etc/

-OR-

I need to know the settings on the following line in the gps.conf file:

SUPL_TLS_HOST=????????

The question marks will be the information necessary to use the ATT Secure User Plane Location service to actually enable your AGPS ability on the ATT service.

If anyone out there can provide me with this information and SUPL file, I will make a flashable zip for the GPS configuration fix for ATT users.

Thanks!!!