yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Sensation] acesabe:
Cheap internal mechanical components

OK so I've fashioned a temporary fix to hold the sd card in using is small sliver of plastic packaging taped to the card slot and sim slot. It will have to do as I don't see any realistic way to disassemble the card reader without destroying it. See attached images for detail.

While I was doing this, I very gently checked the silver contact on the side of the phone that grounds the case, the contact that is attributed to people having touch screen issues, amongst others, this contact just fell off! It seems the build quality of these phones may not be up to much I'm afraid. Mine is an early model, so perhaps newer ones have better components, but just a heads up that after a year of usage, it is starting to fall apart :( I am not especially rough with the phone and haven't attempted to take it apart of mess around too much with the internals....
[HTC Sensation] Dijkstra88:
I've got that sd card lock problem also. My sd card also won't stick on the SD card locker of my Sensation. What I've done is bringing it back for repair to a special in repair shop from Vodafone . That was about 4 months back. The repair was free of charge for me. Hopefully it can repairs yours as well.

Send from my HTC Sensation Z710e with Tapatalk
[HTC Sensation] acesabe:
Got mine sim free, so repair under warranty not an option for me...
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobby_C:
Anyone have a good ROM with decent battery life? I have CM9 (9.0.0-RC0) and the battery dies in 3-4 days w/o any use.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adlefaivre:
Your mileage may vary, but in my experience that isn't bad on the 3.0 kernel.

Sent from my ADR6400L
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Hulk:
Don't post questions in General Section.

Moving to Q&A
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ixthusdan:
The native os of the kindle is designed for limited use and battery life. It was intended for reading books and obtaining Amazon content via the internet. Full Android ROMs are designed for use. More use, less battery life. I get the best performance from twa_priv's JB ROM, equivalent to my original rooted kindle using Go launcher. That means I charge it every night after daily use. I am not sure about down time, as I use my kindle daily.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Here are some things you can do if you're having problems with the S3.

With no GPS icon showing up

(OPTIONAL AND RECOMMENDED: USE Triangle Away to reset counter)

1. Flash back to stock UNROOTED ICS ROM

(Stuck at samsung logo after? flash a cwm recovery, factory reset and clear cache n reboot)

2. Enter into dialer *2767*3855# (Will do a HARD reset, no internal storage will be lost except the usual data)

3. Boot up again and run maps to see if you have a GPS icon

(IF YOU DON NOT HAVE A GPS ICON YOUR HARDWARE IS MALFUNCTIONING)

With GPS icon showing but no lock

4. Turn all GPS related thing OFF

5. go into google services framework in applications, settings, and clear data

6. go into maps, delete updates if any and clear data aswell

7. reboot the phone

8. Update google maps (very important)

9.reboot for safe measure

10. turn on everything in location and services in settings

11. boot up maps

12. profit

If GPS is still flashing but no lock

1. If steps1-11 does not work for you it is highly recommended to flash Galaxy S III Test 3 (created by crypted)

2. Factory reset trough settings and repeat steps 1-3 if not gps icon or steps 4-11 if gps icon flashes

3. profit

For flashing new ROMs after the above series:

1. see if gps is showing up or not, if not then repeat steps 1-12 above and it is recommended not to flash the same rom that makes gps disappear

2. if gps icon is showing up but very inaccurate then repeat steps 4-11

This patch will work only when your device is properly working. It appears a lot of people are forgetting that fact. Bad ROMs, bad cache, and bad flashing aren't going to be fixed by a GPS configuration alteration.

Thanks to egyptshun for the above information. There's only so much I can do without a S3.

Another user provided the following quick steps to resolve their problem. So if you are having issues AFTER trying the above out, take note of the following:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] faehsemc:
This mod has worked great for me on synergy cm10 and beans. I personally used the Google specific 3.1 cwm flashable zip!

And holy hell.. I hate when others do this but I am actually first! Lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] houseboatwayne:
Download links not working.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
There appears to be a connectivity issue affecting a few people over the past hour. It should be resolved relatively soon.

Apparently, there's an issue with one an uplink.

Please check back after while. Sorry about this...way out of my control.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shojus:
Interesting.... may have to tinker around a lil.... Thanks for bringing this to our attention!! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Yeap.

Also, I assume there are files in /etc/gps/ for this device. If this is the case, I can customize the patch further as I did to resolve all those nasty problems on the ASUS Transformer & Transformer Prime lineups.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ty07allstar:
Yes there are files for gps in system/etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
If you can private message me those files, I would appreciate it.

I'm looking for any gps files in /etc/ and all files in /etc/gps/ should this exist.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cshort0982:
Behold how good and how pleasant it is!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BlueCross:
I copied the files to /system/etc and replaced what was in there. My GPS lock is much faster and does not drop. I'm on CM10 9/10 nightly with imoseyon's kernel.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xXJay_RXx:
Holy cow it works!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Glad to hear it. Guess we might do full support sooner than expected.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WhammyDroid:
For CM10, which version do you apply? The SSL version or non-ssl version?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
It doesn't matter quite honestly. The difference is discussed in the Notes Section. There's a slight performance benefit of one over the other.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jayotero:
It says I'm I'm NC and I forgot to back up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
And, you didn't read the Notes Section. :confused:

Have a gander for incorrect location issues...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jayotero:
I did the wiping and rebooting and selected only gps
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Could you supply more details? This really doesn't tell anyone what your setup is like, what you're experiencing, etc.

I don't have time to pick through the OP at this moment to point out what it asks you to post in initial conversations. It includes ROM's, GPS apps, etc. though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jayotero:
Sorry I was driving I'm using Verizon gs3 Rom I'm using is synergy nightlies r71 I'm using stock navigation it work previously just took any where from 10min to 1 hour or never kernel I'm using is Synergy and ziggys, now the gps app saying searching for gps signal while the phone says gps set also says my location is in N.C. While maps shows I'm in NJ, (correct location) I also followed step 26
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hank3fan:
Did you follow these instructions?

Worked for me. Same rom
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Yup tried the exact same thing, still not working, just odd that it will lock in 2s without actually locking...anyway I drop the original gps.conf file back and at least GPS is working now...there has to be something that's throwing it off...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
And you confirmed that other ROMs have the same result for you? Not different versions of this one, but others...

As you see just above, others have success with your same setup.

What gps apps do you use? What's installed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
No I have not confirmed and the GPS app I am using is GPS status, it will lock in 2s but not actually locking to anything...it's weird only started to do that after JB Cleanrom
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
That could be indicative of a driver issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RoboJoe:
Using this gps.conf, your phone will think it's in NC *until you get your first REAL satellite lock*. I say "real" because it will look like it locks right away, even though it hasn't locked on any satellites. After a real lock, and every subsequent "fake" lock, it will show your actual location.

I, personally, don't care for this behavior, so I turn it off. To turn it off, open up /etc/gps.conf and change:

INTERMEDIATE_POS=1

To

INTERMEDIATE_POS=0

Reboot.

Done and done.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
I flashed test 3 and all.was well for 2 days until today it says I'm way off. In the screenshot I'm actually at the star. I already followed instructions to fix it with same results. I may just restore clean if I can't fix it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
I assumed this was ruled out by themselves but valid point as it probably was not. I'll make a new build to reflect it. If it isn't posted this time tomorrow, someone remind me.

This variable is a bit more intricate than your description, but it was problematic in old devices that couldn't do aGPS. It would be pathetic for this device to have stepped back 30 paces...

Try any of my Alternate builds as it does what the above user mentioned. I'll make alternate builds specifically for the S3 tomorrow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] keatond:
gps lock working for me

Hey everyone! So I have been having the same problem a few of you have been having as well. For the longest time I was on cleanrom and was using the gps patch with great success. My problem started once I switched to the Cyanogenmod 10 nightlies. I cannot remember how many times I went along thinking maybe if I patch it again...this time it will work, but to no avail it still would not get a lock. So what did I do? I will tell you my exact method that finally got it working.

also I am using patch test 2.

Step by step guide:

Turn off GPS and Other location services

Turn phone off

Take battery out

Hold power button (possibly drain rest of power out of it?)

Wait 1 minute (WITH BATTERY OUT)

Put Battery Back in

Hold Volume Up + Power + Home (It will boot into CWM)

Clear Cache

Mount System

Install test zip file

Reboot phone

Turn on GPS (ONLY GPS)

Go Outside and mess around with google maps for around 5 minutes

GPS should finally lock on!

So this is what worked for me. I am one day behind on the nightlies for cm 10 so hope it works for all of you!

-Keatond
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Okay, so I updated the main post to include:

As the * information discusses, this might be the resolution you're after if you keep popping up in random locales. I did not foresee this being a problem and will be very dismayed should it be the answer because it means that we have a reversal in progression of GPS processing at least for this phone.

Test it out and let me know.

Lastly, I feel that we're at a point to have two versions of this patch which are currently denoted as Test 2 and Test 3. This seems to be related solely to ROM base variations. Once the dust settles and we know more with the new ALT posts, I will move toward official status of multiple versions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Will give test 3 a try and see...it's frustrating to have a great phone like SIII to have such lousy GPS software in stock form. Is there any factor that can also affect the GPS as well besides the GPS config file? You mentioned it might be a driver issue, what other drivers can cause an issue with the GPS? Maybe something else on my phone is messed up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
This update is based upon the above observation of another user. The idea of Intermediate POS is really a key part of the entire aGPS schema for phones. If this device cannot support it, wow that's just sad. Intermediate POS by and large has worked great for the other numerous devices I support except for some devices made Q4 2009, backward. This will be the first device since then to have a wide scale issue with this variable...at least from what I've seen.

There are many other reasons. For example, a friend is here from Dubai and owns the S3. I played with his accessories to see that the external battery and the protective case that he purchased bundled BOTH cause GPS to not work because of interference with the antennae reception. So, externals can be an issue.

A lot of ROM's that are ported or tossed together with Android that isn't officially released will use drivers from similar devices. Sometimes it works, a lot of times it does not work for GPS. This means your phone's OS doesn't know how to handle the GPS hardware itself. This is why I frown upon people complaining about this patch and CM nightlies, etc.

The Notes Sections goes through a lot of commonly observed problems from my two years doing this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FAUguy:
INTERMEDIATE_POS=0

So the Alt 2 and 3 would have use this setting?

I edited the GPS last night and so far haven't seen NC show up, but will try the Test 2 Alt for a day or two, then the Test 3 Alt and see how they do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
At this juncture, that is the only change which makes these just like my other alternate builds that the thread says to use if you have problems and has said to use since September 2011....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Ok here's my update after chainging immediate POS to 0 in the config file. Doesn't do the 2s fix in GPS status app anymore, which is good. Went outside, sat around for 20+ mins until it finally starting to have fix on 3-4 Sat out of 18-20. Ok so seems to be working and after a while more, pick up speed improve and at one point got close to 11-12 fix which looks good BUT it actually won't lock in on the FIX at all even having 10-12 sat "fix" the GPS dot is still blinking and Navi still searching for GPS signal. Also, usually when GPS status lock, it will provide all the information such as accuracy ft/speed..etc but none of that shows up...Not sure what's going on still using CleanROM 4.5 which is pretty much stock JB ROM from Verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
This ROM has had a lot of reports of positive and of negative. This makes me think it's more than just the ROM, but possibly hardware, external covers, OR added apps interfering.

Please describe your entire setup and consider testing another ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
I'll give a different ROM a try and see..typical S3 setup Verizon SIII with CleanROM 4.5, rooted and unlocked bootloader..what other setup info do you need? I don't have a case on my phone only a glass protector
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
What apps do you have running in the background? What do you have that uses GPS at all?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Here's the list of apps running, pretty typical of my device, nothing using GPS in the background as far as I know

Ebay

Craigslist Notification

Amazon Appstore

Swype

Music volume EQ

PowerAmp

Alarm clock plus

Astrid tasks

Pulse

Volume ace
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Man this one's a perplexing issue. Your GPS was good, bad, or what prior to using this flash and/or prior to using this current ROM?

Please try other ROM's to begin to rule out this one. I realize this might seem silly, but we're seeing half success rates with this particular ROM so it seems iffy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Yeah it's really strange, when I was using CleanRom 3.0 and 3.5 I was doing ok with your patch file, although for whatever reason GPS has never worked right for me ever since I've been on CleanRom once I upgraded to 4.0 and now 4.5 GPS just will not work even with the patch file. I thought it might be hardware related then again when I was completely stock I remember GPS locked instantly so it must be something software related. Will give another ROM a try and see
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Yeah well from what you said there, my patch helped with GPS on another ROM and your GPS worked fine prior to root flashing fun time.

Soooooo, we would have to go with the ROM scenario being the route of choice to repair.

The ROM could have corrupted your GPS cache or something. This usually clears up within a few days at the latest. Some user gave up on their device's GPS and reported back that 10 days later it was instantaneous once whatever was required to flush occurred.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmb3497:
just flashed the new CM 10 build and GPS was completely borked, wouldn't even get a partial lock. flashed the test 3 patch and got an instant lock within 20 meters. couldn't be happier, great work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
Ok definitely ROM related or certain file was messed up from before...so last night I flashed it to a stock JB leak rom with root/unlock bootloader and now GPS is working like a champ even without this file, lock in less than a min and my hour drive to work never once dropped a signal and that's even without this patch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Glad to see that someone proved my continued point of ROM-related problems. :D

That's great that you've seen the light as far as ROM-related issues or otherwise unrelated to this patch at least. Now, I'm curious why you're settling for the less than a minute lock time and not pushing for within a few seconds like my patch typically provides. Does my patch not work at all, in any of the offered forms, with your new setup?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scblacksunshine:
It works and actually right now the stock speed is so good I might just hold off on using your patch for a little while. This morning, once I pulled out of the garage, I literally got a lock in less than a min, I say more like 10-15s and this is from a cold start and I have about 11-13 fix which is pretty darn good IMHO. I am still in the experimentation phase and might try out other ROM since I really don't like the stock JB ROM but having GPS working is crucial as well. You have definitely done great work with this patch. One thing I have noticed though even though your patch worked before, the accuracy rate wasn't that great and I would still get drop signal once in a while and this lead me to believe it's not your patch but perhaps something to do with drivers or system setting conflicting each other. I used to restore system setting as well in Mybackup Pro after every ROM update and I think that might have something to do with it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] monkeyhihi:
Having issues with GPS on my phone...

Verizon GS3 running the latest stable CM10 ROM (from http://get.cm), and I've used both the Test 3, and Test 3 ALT patches. (Installed using TWRP recovery)

I've used GPS Test and GPS Status to test the GPS. After letting GPS Test run for 10 minutes, I only got 1 satellite lock (but "27 visible",) but after letting it run for 30+ mins I finally got 8 satellite locks (but all were relatively weak,). GPS used to work fine on stock, and I would get quick/accurate GPS locks. I also tried adding the extra agps parameter in the build.prop, (with both the Test 3 and Test 3 ALT patches,) but it still does not work.

Any idea what I could try to get this to work?

edit: I'm also going to try installing using the latest CWM, and see if that does anything...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Read the Notes Section. In fact, do a quick search for "CM" and then read the post like four or five above yours about CM. Seriously, READ.

No one will read anymore and it really, really, really is getting old.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] monkeyhihi:
Who are you to say I didn't read? I read the notes several times so if there's a post or something I missed it was an accident.

Regardless, I read the notes several times trying to fix the problem on my own, and I tried the mentioned fix of changing the agps value in the build.prop. The post 4-5 above mine said that he just flashed the test 3 patch which is what I'm running, so a suggestion as to what I could try to troubleshoot would be nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jucytec:
First off, Thanks OP for this kickass patch.

Using on Synergy ROM 112 with GSIII Test Patch 3. (Original. Non-Alternate)

GPS lock to 5~10 meters in less then 10 seconds. WIFI Turned OFF!

My Garmin shows accurate to 10 feet, comparing the Garmin to my phone, Garmin has superior signal strengths.

Without this patch, my phone's location was jumping like crazy! The proximity location (big blue circle) on Google Maps was expanding and shrinking every 15 seconds or so. Turning on the WIFI helped a little but the moment wifi couldn't see any networks my GPS would start jumping all over again.

I thought I should put out a helpful feedback as most of responses were extremely lacking in detail and sometimes just utter garbage :eek: If someone has better lock than Test Patch 3 Original on Synergy 112 let me know! I'll test same way on the same route at the same time frame.

Thanks Crypted!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Let my be the first to say that the Notes Section points out directly with its own dedicated note that CMx builds have a lot of GPS issues. This is not rocket science to connect CM to CM.

Further, other users have said they swapped to other ROMs and had no more problems. Other's held out on CM, ended up completely wiping and reinstalling, and eventually a Nightly was in decent enough shape for GPS to work or whatever was not cleared out was finally cleared out of RAM.

All of this and more is within the thread as a whole and in the Notes in particular. I repeat myself at least 20 times a day here on XDA and it just gets so, so old. Let's do some logical steps: Notes say CM has issues a lot + other users having CM issues + users reporting no problems on other non-CM ROM's + users sometimes getting CM to work = CM problems.

Look directly below your response and see another ROM working beautifully. This should make you clue in to the fact that your ROM has an issue... People here are treating me like I'm a 1-800 support line who gets paid to say: "click on the start button, right click on computer, click advanced. please tell me your windows version."

Thank you very much for this information. I'm glad it's working for you. Other Synergy ROM's have been successful for various devices. I'm glad the ROM dev(s) didn't change up the game entirely for your device!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmb3497:
update: first application of the patch yielded excellent results, GPS lock almost instantly without wifi, GPS status showing 17/20 satellites locked, all that good stuff. Lately, when opening maps I get the GPS icon to show that it locked (steady in the upper left corner, not flashing), but in reality my phone isn't locked at all and GPS Status shows 0 satellites locked. Gonna try to flash a different ROM since this might be a CM issue

Sent from me to you
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] real0325:
Test 3 alt , worked perfect after all the others failed. Great job and thank you .

It locked a second or two after I selected my destination .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crypted:
Yeah, try a ROM that others report to be working like the one just above your post... Synergy ROM I think it was...

Thanks for the information. What ROM & version are you using? ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nbaj2k:
I'm having the same issue. I just tried the patch out with the latest CM10 "stable" build, it finds all the satellites in gps status but none of them are locked.