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[Asus Transformer TF700] rosse912003:
Me too....

:confused:I have had exactly the same problem, but also with GMail. Both Maps and Gmail both crash and stop working. No message or error message. Happens so frequently, it makes the apps unusable. I have found small relief if I try to purge the memory of the tablet prior to using the app, but that is a terrible state of affairs if this great tablet has so much trouble working the most fundamental of apps....

Very frustrating ... I came from having the Acer A500, and never had an ounce of trouble...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
I cold boot quite a bit...that's just me tho.

I pretty much see no bugs with anything.

Believe me I look for stuff that ain't working on my tab.

I learned to check everything after dealing with Windows for so many years.

...logcats are our friends!
[Asus Transformer TF700] sparksd:
I cold boot quite a lot too but I'm seeing constant Gmail crashes. I've also cleared its cache and data and limited background processes to 4, all to no avail. I had seen map issues too but the cold boots seem to have cleared that up. But not so with Gmail.

Dave
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
Hmm...

Weird about the G-mail crashes.

G-mail works very well for me.

What about the regular mail client app?
[Asus Transformer TF700] rosse912003:
Maybe fixed??

I am hoping that I am not speaking too soon, but the problem of crashing apps on my Infinity seems to have stopped. This is a weirdsituation as the only apps that seemed to have problems are the ones from Google. Google Maps, GMail etc. What I did was cleared the cache in Google Maps and also downloaded an app FMR Memory Cleaner. Now I am not sure which item did the trick, but I haven't had a crash for about 3 days now and that is a big improvement. I hope others might find similar success.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sparksd:
No crashes but I'm seeing issues withmy POP email account - the "12/31/1969" timestamp problem wherein some email show that timestamp and the email is empty. I can see the email on my PC but it is screwed up on the Android side.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sparksd:
Unfortunately, I'm getting Gmail crashes even shortly after doing a cold boot. I tried uninstalling updates this AM but that didn't help. I'll have to try your Step (2) as I got a crash after running FMR Memory Cleaner. I think I already tried that as I did see the Launcher issue you mentioned. Really frustrating as between Gmail and Email, I have different problems. I've been trying K-9 but I don't really care for the interface. Maybe I'll just have to continue using my Xoom for mail :) (Or my Galaxy S3, truly the most solid Android device I have owned).
[Asus Transformer TF700] xcal321:
Like zenaxe explained, the reason for a crash depends on a lot of stuff. This is why so many do not have the same symptoms you seem to be having. It might even be caused by some other app, rather than the Gmail app itself, but on it suffers from the side effects of that "rouge" app.

Step 1 is to eliminate all unnecessary apps from running in the background. You'd be amazed at what gets started when your reboot in completed. The easiest way is to list all tasks using System Tuner's task mananger (enable the System view aswell, no need to enable Kernel). From that list you can probably kill a bunch of apps, but usually the just restart so it's better to uninstall (so they won't start up again), or make sure you disable the Activities/Receivers that make the app (re) start on "its own". Disabling Activities/Receivers could render your app inoperable, so be careful what you disable.

Step 2, uninstalling updates is usually not the solution. Keep it up to date, as that one will have the most "knowledge" stored in it's code. Meaning, if Google found an issue with another app and the Gmail app, they might have worked around it in a newer version.

This is all from my own experience. When I first got the tablet, I went crazy in the play store and downloaded every single app I thought might be of use. After only just 1 week it had weird symptoms and apps would crash a lot. I decided to start over (factory date reset) and take a different approach. I still try out a lot of apps, but I started to use blue stacks to do all the "messy" install/tryout/uninstall, until I decide on the one or two apps to use.

Keep it clean and mean. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] illCrizzee:
i'm having a problem with my contacts.. i can't seem to change the pictures for any of them. when i try to select a new photo, after cropping the photo, a single photo becomes the contact picture. it happens to all my contacts.. anyone else experiencing this?

on kyanrom with jellybomb and fre3-gs3..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InverseSandwich:
Everything GPS!​

About GPS, AGPS, GLONASS and more!​

Please feel free to ask about anything!​

I consider myself as a GPS nerd because I use it every day geocaching. I noticed some people do not know about this technology, what GPS and AGPS both do, and how they are related. I will probably be updating this regularly.

First of all, a short lesson on GPS.

GPS stands for Global Positioning System. The system is made up of lots of satellites that broadcast the EXACT time. Currently there are two types of satellite that the public can use. The first is the American "GPS". This is the original system to get co-ords of your current position and has 32 active satellites. The second is the British/Russian "GLONASS" or Global Navigation Satellite System (Originally designed in Putin's reign and opened to the general public in 2007), and has 31 satellites, with only 24 active currently. With "GLONASS" coverage is much better than GPS, and can obtain a good signal indoors and also in areas that GPS cannot normally reach. The Galaxy Ace's chipset doesn't support GLONASS, but interestingly the SII's chipset does, although no one has managed to get it to work, presumably because Android was only designed to be used with GPS.

Both systems work in roughly the same way. The satellites broadcast the current time as well as their location in space. GPS cannot be compared to WiFi, but is more like Radio or Terrestrial TV ( Ie. Devices don't connect to it, but they search for a signal and not actually communicate to the transmitter)

Your device needs at least 4 satellites before it can work out where you are. These give your device some data to work with - Latitude, Longitude and Elevation. The 4th (and subsequent) satellites are used to cross-reference your position, making for higher accuracy.

For AGPS to work, GPS must also be enabled.

The way AGPS works is that when an app calls for your location, it will grab the time from the virtual international atomic clocks. This works as an extra cross-reference point. Using this time data, it can find the satellites quicker. So essentialy AGPS is useless without GPS.

Google also have their own location data using WiFi access points to locate you. This info is collected via Street View cars, and despite the press saying they stole peoples' information, this is wrong and all they grabbed were the MAC addresses of each AP.

If your phone requires 10/11 satellites before it gets a signal, it means you have an accuracy threshold set, so the provider will only return co-ords if you have a good accuracy level.

I hope this gave you some insight into GPS and AGPS, and how it all works.

I have lots more info, but I'll leave it at this for the moment.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LewisGauss:
Great! I know more about GPS & AGPS now.

Volkswagen is cool and I hope to own one.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InverseSandwich:
Great to know it helped you.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shaaan:
A nice and informative thread..

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panpjp:
You are certainly a real GPS nerd :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chismay:
this is a very nice rundown of the info i have to try to grind into a paragraph every now and then to try and help users understand the agps, now i have a post i can just reference them to that has all the info in the first whack, and more detail too.

cheers buddy:highfive:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibumi77:
Finally! I wanted to ask this since a long time.

My Ace always was slow locking the GPS. When I installed a custom Rom in it, and did some changes on the gps file, it improve somewhat, but was still slow.

I installed GPS test to check what was going on, and what I discover was that, even if it has the gps signal from 10/11 satellites, it still didn't get the current position. Examples attached.

I wonder why it need so much time to get the position and why it seems to need around 10/11 satellites, when I read that with 4 is enough.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mardon:
Setup the right ntp servers for your region in gps.conf should give you a faster gps lock.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibumi77:
I already did that, and the time to find satellites improved. But even after detecting many satellites, it took too long to give me a position (sometimes like 10 min).

And when for some reason could not detect more than 5/6, then chances are it will not give the position at all-
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InverseSandwich:
You're phone has a set accuracy level. My handheld GPS only needs 4, but you phone has been set up, so that it will only give your location if the accuracy is below (For Example) 200 meters. You can change this in the GPS.conf file.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibumi77:
Thanks Nathan, that might actually be the explanation. Looking at the conf file, there is a "accuracy_thres=0" line, that might be what are you talking about, but not sure what should be the value instead of 0 then.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronakmachhi:
very informative post man...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cryss:
Is this normal ?

There are no yellow and orange satelites like in post 7, second picture.

In Maps says that "Your temporary location it's unavailable for now".

I'm on cm7 :)

My gps.conf :

NTP_SERVER=ro.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=0.ro.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.ro.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.ro.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.ro.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=0.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=1.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=2.europe.pool.ntp.org
NTP_SERVER=3.europe.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

# DEBUG LEVELS: 0 - none, 1 - Error, 2 - Warning, 3 - Info
# 4 - Debug, 5 - Verbose
DEBUG_LEVEL =0

# Intermediate position report, 1=enable, 0=disable
INTERMEDIATE_POS=0

# Accuracy threshold for intermediate positions
# less accurate positions are ignored, 0 for passing all positions
ACCURACY_THRES=0

# Report supl ref location as position, 1=enable, 0=disable
REPORT_POSITION_USE_SUPL_REFLOC=1

# Wiper (wifi positioning), 1=enable, 0=disable
ENABLE_WIPER=1

################################
##### AGPS server settings #####
################################

# FOR SUPL SUPPORT, set the following
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
SUPL_NO_SECURE_PORT=3425
SUPL_SECURE_PORT=7275
SUPL_TLS_HOST=FQDN
SUPL_TLS_CERT=/etc/SuplRootCert

# FOR C2K PDE SUPPORT, set the following
C2K_HOST=c2k.pde.com
C2K_PORT=1234

CURRENT_CARRIER=common
DEFAULT_AGPS_ENABLE=TRUE
DEFAULT_SSL_ENABLE=FALSE

# TRUE for "User Plane", FALSE for "Control Plane"
DEFAULT_USER_PLANE=TRUE
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pseudonym:
I think that gps fix is for cm9
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibumi77:
So yesterday I went to a place. It took me around half hour walking. Along the way I was checking the gps, I had up to 9 gps satellites detected and no less than than 6 at any moment, but still I didn't give me my current position. Very annoying, really.

What takes to the gps to start "using" a satellite?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cryss:
My problem appear after i use S2E.

I move dalvin cache Only!!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InverseSandwich:
This is the problem. A lot of consumer GPS devices are dumbed down. This is good for the average person, but if there's a problem, its a pain in the ass because you can't see what's going on.

My guess is that the phone only gets a location once its got a optimal signal. My GPS receiver doesn't care what signal you have got, as long as you have 4 sats.

I might find out if there is some CLI for the GPS.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shibumi77:
Any news?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InverseSandwich:
Not yet, as I have been busy lately. Sorry.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beegeero:
Thanks for the explanations of gps.conf.

---------- Post added at 11:19 ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 ----------

Thanks for the explanations. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bluffmaster:
Dear All,

I have one MAUI Based (MT6513) Android Phone but it does not have Gapps Package due to which i can not add gmail account and can not activate google market.

Kindly let me know how to install gapps package, i have already rooted it. Thanks

Regards

Bluffmaster
[About XDA developers] a.cid:
I'll start off by stating something obvious: Xda is primarily a developers forum, and the main focus is on devs and their valued work...

With that being said, Xda will always continue to attract new users, looking for a quick fix...(thanks to its already existing userbase)...

This doesn't look like stopping anytime soon, unless Xda becomes invite-only...

On to my suggestion:

One of the widespread problem around with new users is that they don't follow the rules...

They post the wrong questions in the wrong places, don't search, hardly provide proper information even if someone wanted to help...and if someone points out the rules, they get flamed, sometimes even abused...and all the users involved may end up with a ban/infraction...

As the regulars may know, the list just goes on...

SO, rather than DISCOURAGING new users from breaking forum rules, why don't we ENCOURAGE them to follow the same...?

So my suggestion, why don't we identify and HIGHLIGHT new users who actually follow the rules, atleast with regards to providing adequate information (like logcats and stuff)?

Maybe create a new section in the Xda Portal, where such users and their threads get featured (once or twice a week), for the simple fact that they exhibit ideal newbie behaviour...

Kind of like, leading people with examples from within their midsts...{something like *recognizing* new members (and members and maybe senior members as well)}

Why the Portal? Because whatever comes on the portal, grabs more eyeballs...

And if the expected way to present problems gets featured often on the Portal, new and old users alike may take note...

They may try and be on their best henceforth, simply because they may want to get featured...

So I leave this idea open for discussion...if people like this idea, I'll try and bring this to the attention of the admins (if they havn't already seen it) and work out the details, and see if it gets implemented...

P.s. *constructive* criticizm and opinion is appreciated on ^this...

Edit: Do not use this thread for getting your 10posts! I will complain to mods, and get your posts deleted with your post count being reset...

Unless you actually have something worthwhile to contribute...

And please stay on topic, this thread isn't to argue on the 10 post limit! That rule/limit shall stay there, irrespective of whether you like it or not...
[About XDA developers] cascabel:
I like it. Turn something negative into something positive and all that.

But still i feel it's...err...lacking in some ways. Although i can't put my finger in it.
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
I keep finding myself coming back to this thread but my thoughts about it are constantly changing.

At first, I simply thought that it was a great idea. I thought that because, as you say, if new members could see other new members being "rewarded" then it could entice them to act the same, in the hopes they would also be featured.

Then thinking not such a great idea because members could simply stick to those particular guidelines (whatever they would be) just to get featured and have their 15 minutes of fame, so to speak.

I've been flitting between those two thoughts more than any others in my mind. Whereas now, I'm pretty much stuck between both because even though I do think it's a great idea, the possible downside could be that members abuse the systematics of it.

All I can truly say at the moment is that even though it's a good idea, it needs to have more of a plan as to what would qualify them being featured and to how it would work.

Now obviously I know that this is only the early stages of an idea, but with a combined effort of people helping to plan this out, it could potentially work out brilliantly.

By the way, if I think of any ideas myself, I'll chuck them in here and see what you think of them.
[About XDA developers] Avilove.Cullen:
There should be some hard bound rule. One major setback in my opinion is that the "10 post rule", which encouragez them to spam thread everywhere.

This should be somehow modified.

Press Thanks on getting Helped by me :)
[About XDA developers] mikef:
Users who don't make attempts at constructive posts aimed at helping others are creating spam. The rule does not.

I agree that the rule should be modified. I wish that the limit would be higher, like 50 posts. This way the '10-posters' will realize that they cannot possibly spam their way to be able to just hit the limit to post "Thanks for a great ROM", so they won't try, or if they do they will simply find their posts deleted so that they can try, try again.

This is not meant to be mean or cruel, but I would hope that XDA could keep more to its roots as a development site by changing it this way.

Only people who actively participate over a period of time and have proven themselves to be community members will be able to post constructively in a development thread. I believe this should also be applied retroactively, no grandfathering people in this time. If people have been 'members' for all this time instead of 'community members', then that means they haven't been participating or helping by sharing their knowledge with others, so why should they get to cut to the front of the line?

There are a lot of people who monitor the General and Q&A forums waiting for questions, trying to earn thanks and get new thread ideas and to climb the XDA ladder. If 'members' would use those forums as they were intended instead of trying to make the development threads into support threads, I believe they would find a much more welcoming community awaiting them.

I definitely agree with the concept a.cid is trying to do, but cascobel and Kid Carter feel as I do.
[About XDA developers] Avilove.Cullen:
Yeah you have come up with a good concept of 50 posts.

+1 for that :)

Press Thanks on getting Helped by me :)
[About XDA developers] a.cid:
There won't be any guidelines as such, but instead, we can have a group of members on the lookout for such posts...only they shall posess the vague guidelines...no need for it to become public in that sense...just like how it is for the articles appearing in the portal...

The news writers have guidelines, but these aren't public...but if you'll notice closely, they follow a quite vague trend...

And regarding raising the post limit to 50, I feel that it would drive out potential devs...sure they would find it easy to hang around and participate before they can post in dev section, but most devs have ego's...some may find it insulting that they have to "prove their worth"...

I believe that if we can hammer out all the weaknesses, than this idea can surely blossom into something useful...
[About XDA developers] mikef:
Hopefully one of the news writers might chime in here at some point and offer some advice or tips since I do like the idea.

That is a good point, perhaps 30 would be a good number since that is when they go from Junior Member to Member. It is still high enough that they can't really spam to get there without being noticed. I guess if the new member is a really good dev, they could always contact one of the mods and work something out as it mentions in the Postcount limit in developmental fora thread.
[About XDA developers] kilometers4:
I was leaning towards more posts actually. I was thinking about 100 posts, i think that's when they become a senior member. That way they would truly appreciate being able to post in the dev thread and they would probably know better than to post "HEy thanks for the ROm!!1." Usually roms have a discussion thread in the general forum (at least for my device) and they should be encouraged to post there.

I dont know if that's too harsh, but I'm just tired of seeing people with 11 posts posting useless posts in the dev sections.
[About XDA developers] beerope:
EXACTLY This forum is damn stupid, I have a qns to ask the devs of my rom but now? I have to get 10 post filled???!!! WTF seriously, this forum is just encouraging spam. Honestly, if you dont have a qns to ask the devs, why would you wanna create an account? Im still a ''newbie member'' and this post will prolly be scanned by a mod. Mods, I hope you change this stupid rule.
[About XDA developers] a.cid:
Dev area is not for newbie questions...

Your post is what justifies the members wishes of increasing the post count limit...while I'm here lobbying to not increase it...

And the first 10 posts aren't necessarily supposed to be spam...you can contribute at a lot of places and get 10 constructive posts as easily...

Anyways, that not the point of this thread...guys, please be on-topic...
[About XDA developers] patyan38:
Hello,

I understand you must stop the spam on the forum, but you don't think to the "non english" users !

For me for example, it's really difficult to understand all the long text on certain answers.

I know I must have 10 posts for my counter. OK

For now, i have some answers very helpfull to say for my smartphone (and a official rom to share (chineese N9000)).

But, before making my helpfull posts, I must make 10 reply to any "free forum" and it's seem to me so unnecessary...

So, you are the master and I am the slave... And I would like to share my knowledge... I must have 10 posts before...

thank you

patyan38