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[Galaxy S II General] aliendna99:
I dont flash modem. Once Ive installed the modem it keeps after rom flashes. (dont ask me why but it does, and has been for a long time now)

cool font? im not sure what you mean by that.

and yes i mentioned that i am using another kernel since it might or might not be important for GPS (im not sure, so i mention it) same reason i mention the radio. Not sure if its important to the GPS or not.
[Galaxy S II General] Rated RR:
Only Dorimanx was on you, the rest was on my account. :)

BtwI, my best super duper cool font is Galette.

BtwII. yes the modem stays, but not the RIL. (I'm sorry for being incomplete, I should've said 'Modem+RIL' instead of 'Modem').
[Galaxy S II General] Strokesws:
Cause there's no modem inside CM zip file.
[Galaxy S II General] lowrider82:
Guys my GPS perf is really ****. 15 minutes walking on the street clear sky and couldn't get a lock. It can see several satellites but medium reception quality and no lock on. Please help!

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] illxf:
roll back to 0615 for daily ues for me

but seems doesn't work either
[Galaxy S II General] lbthomsen:
There is just no way you can _ever_ have 21 GPS satellites in view from one location. 10 is about the top you'll ever see from one location, but more often less than that. Your collegues HTC One supports GLONASS as well as GPS and that's why his phone can see more satellites. The S2 only support GPS.
[Galaxy S II General] gferen:
weird WIFI behaviour. When i am connected to open wifi is ok. when i connect to WPA2 company wifi it connect bit icon is grey and no internet access. At home i also have WPa2 security and it works normal. On company wifi my mac address is also set as allowed.

The funny thing. When i come to work and connect first time in day to company wifi it works. but when i leave office (wifi not in range anymore) and when i come this happens. that is connected to wifi but is greyed out. also happens with 3G connection. and when i connect from office to public wifi works normally. WTF is happening?

thanks for response.
[Galaxy S II General] gvala:
Maybe your company wifi is protected by a firewall that does not allow communications with google services. Or an access list on the router may cause the same symptoms. Ask your company adminstrator
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
People who are having problems with getting GPS lock, turn off the Privacy Guard for the app you are using to get fix.
[Galaxy S II General] jollemeyer:
I am working with GPS on a professional basis.

It is technically impossible to have 21 GPS sats in view, as the whole GPS constellation only consists of 30 sats and the maximum that can be in view is around 12.

If your friend indeed had 21 sats in view, it is most likely due to sats from other satellite navigation systems, like GLONASS, GALILEO or the chinese one. I am not sure if the S2 can technically receive them as well.

For the time to get a fix - there is also a possible explanation. If you had enabled GPS before, it had the opportunity to acquire the so called "almanac data", which are used to forecast the future positions of the GPS sats. When you have this almanac data and know your rough position and time, you can perform a "hot fix" in a couple of seconds.

If you do not have current almanac data, your GPS needs to "search the sky" and therefore will need much longer to get a fix. This is also called "cold fix". Usually the times for hot and cold fix are stated in the performance sheet of the GPS receiver used.

A-GPS is used to get a rough position from the network cells and can therefore be used to speed up acquisition of GPS sats.

What all these GPS fast fix apps are doing - I assume - is to download the almanac data from internet instead of acquiring them from the actual GPS sats. Acquisition from GPS sats can take up to 20min. Even if you had a GPS fix but switched off GPS afterwards, you may not have acquired the full alamac data set, and hence may not be able to perform a "hot fix" afterwards.

Make sure you give GPS some time after a fix. When you are sure to have acquired the full set of almanac data, you should be able to do a hot fix. If in such conditions you still need a long time, than we actually do have an issue.
[Galaxy S II General] Mutalisk:
I just encountered a serious security flaw for me.

On the latest nightly (possibly before) it is possible to wake the phone by using the home button. But it doesn't take me to my PIN, but instantly unlocks. Then, I can use my phone normally, until I press home again - then the phone is locked until I enter the code.

Unlock with home is not used, screen off is set to lock the phone instantaneously.

Anyone else that can confirm that or is it only me? :)

Edit: Could be an issue with the alarm app warmly, though... investigating
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
On 0626 pin unlock working as normal.
[Galaxy S II General] gferen:
IT put my phone on list of unlimited acces. so no firewals no noting.
[Galaxy S II General] 0355:
Found new camera and gallery taken from S4 Google Edition at this URL www.gsmarena.com/updated_stock_android_camera_app_ripped_ready_for_download-news-6289.php tried to install but failed every time.

Is there some sort of trick to make it work?

Anyone tried it already?

Sent from a Paranoid Tablet...
[Galaxy S II General] olivierg13:
Hello all,

I read all the previous posts relating to the gps problem.

It seems to occur with my phone as well, since 3/4 nightlies build.

Do anyone keep a previous build (like middle of june), where the gps is working, to flash back my phone please ?

I can't find one anywhere, CM only keeps 5 nightlies :(

Thank you beforehand :)

And good chance to the developer to fix the issue :)
[Galaxy S II General] chrhei:
GPS Issues

Hello to all , yesterday I was very frustrated because off the GPS issues with the nighties. At a certain point I got the feeling that some people don't believe that it was "normal" to get a "lock" within 10 seconds or even below once the phone has downloaded a valid A-GPS-Data-File. So I decided to make a fresh install from scratch and I have installed a stock Samsung ROM (XEU-I9100XWLSW). But it was getting worse for me because as soon as I started the GPS-Status app the phone rebooted immediately when the app started to get a satellite "lock". So I decided to try another firmware from sammobile (NEE-I9100XWLSS) with the same result and I started to think about hardware problems with my phone. But one last try:

1. I've downloaded and installed ClockworkMod-Recovery from the OP

2. Formatted everything which is present in the menu, e.g preload, data, system, cache

3. Installed a fresh copy of I9100XWLSD_I9100DBTLS7_DBT (unbranded version for Germany) and bang

4. I do get sat-locks in between 8 and 10 seconds and no reboot/crash anymore

THX for listening/reading. Regards....

P.S. What is the preload partition for?
[Galaxy S II General] deepongi:
Didn't had to.. With that APP that i asked you its name... GPS Test Plus.

PS: not to give wrong info, but dont recall right now if had privacy guard disabled...

Enviado do meu GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
With GPS status it seems to be different, so it may be the problem for some people not getting a fix.

Pic. 1: Privacy Guard off

Pic. 2: Privacy Guard on
[Galaxy S II General] ohwarumbloss:
Check PN :)
[Galaxy S II General] Reno29:
Just try to delete your current gallery app, later install the new app, I recently do and works camera and photosphere
[Galaxy S II General] kokesh:
How is the video quality? I've heard mixed reviews..
[Galaxy S II General] boggie81:
I installed it from: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341049 since the link from the Italian site was dead. Everything works great, volume shutter, photosphere, etc, no FCs so far. Video quality seems acceptable to me, but I'm not that picky. I unistalled and made a backup first though before installing through recovery. I'm using an older nightly, 0612.
[Galaxy S II General] GalaxyGusta:
This is another post about the GPS problem
[Galaxy S II General] trancemang:
Same endless boot with 28th nighlty.

Flashing back to 24th with no issue at all !

Damn ...
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Works fine for me too, even the Gallery with Editing.....but there is one problem:

When touching the screen while recording a video (to focus), the Camera app freezes and you need to reboot, because otherwise you will not have access to the camera anymore.

Can you reproduce?

(sorry, this is actually very off-topic, since it has nothing to do with the CM Camera)
[Galaxy S II General] boggie81:
Yep, I can reproduce it. We should move the discussion to the actual thread.
[Galaxy S II General] Rated RR:
Argghhh... just realized today that using stock RIL renders me unable to make a phone call. :eek:

So - this GPS solution is trashed...
[Galaxy S II General] gnaggwatschn:
Experienced endless boot with 28th nightly. I then tried to flash 26th nightly, which previously worked great. No bootloop with it but my Google account in settings vanished - now I am not even able to add my Google account in settings because there is no option to choose "Google" with "add new account".

Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: wiped cache/dalvik cache and fixed permissions after flashing 26th nightly
[Galaxy S II General] :
Maybe you have to install latest GApps to add a google account.
[Galaxy S II General] tutsipoppy:
Saw this in the change log today:

"camera: add more htc parameters (android_frameworks_av)"

So I believe, its just a matter of 2-3 nightlies and we'll get the Google Edition camera in CM10.1 for I9100.

I hope I'm right....:-p
[Galaxy S II General] jmjviana:
When I have the blacklist enabled and receive a call from a number I put there, the phone never stops to vibrate. Is that happening to you?

Enviado do meu GT-I9100 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] #illidan:
Nope that's not it & it's not even remotely related to what you are asking for. Besides CM will not add an app that isn't open source.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] danmullen:
Hope so too - I've just tried it and it works great! Photosphere, Google+ photo sync in gallery... everything works :)
[Galaxy S II General] snalfio:
when i tap on the camera tile it displays for a moment the home screen. can you confirm?
[Galaxy S II General] kalpik:
Nope, you're wrong :p
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
You are wrong :p it just adds one parameter, appearantly used in the HTC Google Edition: CameraParameters::KEY_FORCE_USE_AUDIO_ENABLED
[Galaxy S II General] Vahooli:
i am on 0501 when i update to 0627 my wifi doesnt work ! why : (? (i do wipe cache and dalvik )
[Galaxy S II General] Treveo85:
If I flash the new Google Camera and Gallery, will it be overwritten by new CM nightly flash?
[Galaxy S II General] snalfio:
yes
[Galaxy S II General] danmullen:
Yes. I've frozen it using Titanium.
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
No, I have installed it as a normal app (after removing the original) and after flashing todays nightly, it is still there.

If you used a flashable zip that installs it as a system app, then maybe the answer is Yes.
[Galaxy S II General] danmullen:
After flashing the nightly, did you end up with two gallery apps?
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
not related to cam app.

you will never get that app since its closed source.
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Ah! You are right :p Hadn't even noticed haha
[Galaxy S II General] danmullen:
Freeze the original :)
[Galaxy S II General] markjamezmark:
try to reset factory defaults, clear everything (cache, dalvik), then make a clean install.. :)

have you tried Kalpik's build? I'm currenly using his latest build (6-28), no problems at all... :)
[Galaxy S II General] arendmogadi:
Done flash new nitely. Looking good.
[Galaxy S II General] szymko1995:
I have had always privacy guard turned off, but no gps fix.

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Michael B.N.:
From where did you get the file? I would like to have both camera apps...
[Galaxy S II General] pepepapa82:
GPS issue

Hi,

I'm on nightly 06.21 and also having the problems with GPS.

I've tested 2 times in different days, waited bout 10mins and only get 7-11 Sats with 15-42 Signal rate, but no fix at all.

Is this a problem of the kernel? (CM 3.0.64)

Do I need to wipe something?

what about the newer builds? same issue?

is this happening to all the ppl?

However, Battery life has imporved! :) with this build.
[Galaxy S II General] Lupesenti:
GPS issue on the last nightly.

Rom Stcok no issue fixing the GPS (just a few seconds).

With nightly 24 and 26 the GPS continue to searc and not fix.

After Backup (to custom ROM all work fine).

Note: Philz Kernel,
[Galaxy S II General] Fusionalex:
GPS is working for me finally now. I just let it search for like 15 minutes and then it finally found a fix. After that it finds it really fast now!
[Galaxy S II General] kokesh:
I would say rather have two - the Photosphere camera version misses quite a few options: widescreen resolutions for starters, in my opinion far more superior CM camera interface, no audio handsfree shutter, no external storage option,...

I guess it is better to have two apps and have all options available. Simply start the second one, when you want to do the occasional Photosphere,
[Galaxy S II General] danmullen:
I prefer to just have one camera and one gallery, but that's the beauty of Android - everyone can have their own set up exactly how they want :)
[Galaxy S II General] mr.faridcom:
https://plus.google.com/106429859125075959186/posts/gtrBpWUtpzy

I tried this one posted by Michael Geer on Google+,

it's from HTC One, and it works. see the screenshot:

Edit: don't install it, it won't install like a normal app, just place it in /system/app folder and reset permissions to 644, and enjoy ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Michael B.N.:
I totally agree, but I can't find out how to keep the CM camera and the new photosphere camera. So I've restored the old version to have both cameras.
[Galaxy S II General] farisyi1:
Yeah i'm installed this camera from s4 google edition too and so far so good for me :D
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Androidpolice
[Galaxy S II General] olivierg13:
Do someone have news about gps fix ? Or found a solution on a last nightly ?

Thank you beforehand :)

Olivier.
[Galaxy S II General] simech:
Alternatively, it would be great if anyone could confirm a nightly version where this is working properly..
[Galaxy S II General] ph3n0mII:
In regards to GPS problem:

I tested about 20 times over the last 30 hours. Was taking me 4-20 mins to get a lock, IF it got a lock, and sometimes lock indicator would start flashing again seconds after it already locked.:eek:

I changed to a non-pool.ntp.org linked server, and it locks now in 7-12 seconds every time, even after reboot or having phone off for few hours.

Could just be a coincidence.

I also used a program to test NTP servers... pool.ntp.org is having intermittent server timeouts for some countries.
[Galaxy S II General] Resync:
Same Problem GPS seems to be broken....

in 12.06.2013 nightly it works...

i only used faster fix to get it to germany faster.

but please fix it...
[Galaxy S II General] simech:
Which server did you use?
[Galaxy S II General] Michael B.N.:
I drove 140-150 km. today and tried the GPS about 7-8 times. Two times it took me less than 10 seconds to get a fix. The other times it took about 1-2 minutes. So my GPS seems to work fine...
[Galaxy S II General] trancemang:
Guys, anyone else cannot update ?

This issue seems repetitive, and is still unexplained :(

Cheers,

T_g
[Galaxy S II General] ph3n0mII:
I tested au.pool.ntp.org, north-america.pool.ntp.org and oceana.pool.ntp.org

au and north-america timed out a few times in 20 tests each, but oceana was fine.

I'm still thinking timing/coincidence is a bit at play.

Nevertheless, I switched to my local Adelaide, Australia server - ntp.internode.on.net, and suddenly now it locks very fast as it usually does if i leave it to default cm10.1 north-america.pool.ntp.org.

I thought ntp was almost irrelevant to GPS lock though...

This is the first time iv'e had any serious gps problems in the year and a half i've had this phone, but i did notice that for the last ~5 months, every few nightlies gps is reliably fast every single time, then a few nightlies later its slow every time, until a few nightlies later its faster every time again.

Weird, i can't imagine how/why this would be a cm10.1 specific issue.

I will say that a few times in the past when on a 'slow gps' nightly, i flashed stock samsung 4.0.4 rom, and surprise-surprise, i got a reliably fast lock, then clean wipe + going back to same nightly was slow again, until a few (~2-5) nightlies later...

I get this very occasionally but only for my p5100, usually late at night, either via cmupdater or manual download, on different ISP's, but usually link is online again within an hour or so.

There were some problems with it in the past with cmpdater, but afaik they all got fixed now :)

Just try again later :)
[Galaxy S II General] tutsipoppy:
My bad in understanding....:p.

That's what you call an "EPIC FAIL"...

Thanks for the accurate clarification guys....:).
[Galaxy S II General] trancemang:
Sorry if I was not clear, I'm talking about the endless boot.

The update seems to go smooth, but once the phone reboots, you'll never make it past the CM logo ...

Old zip from 24th is ok, none worked since that one ... at least on my phone (CMDelta or full zip)

cya
[Galaxy S II General] deepongi:
Anyone having this "security issue" with tapatalk ?! Its hard to reproduce... happens randomly... Privacy Guard is disabled, and it was at the time i installed tapatalk.

Enviado do meu GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] gvala:
I downloaded GPSfix from the market and set timeout at 20 minutes. After that I got a fix from every program

Στάλθηκε από το GT-I9100 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] FredC94:
I don't know where that's coming from, but sometimes I get the same error message with XDA Premium app since months

Anyway an issue with taptalk seems to have been found -> https://support.tapatalk.com/threads/tapatalk-4-security-error-notification.18844/
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Have you tried a factory reset/flash yet?
[Galaxy S II General] Zaldi00:
Delete, sorry wrong post

************Nexus7 ***********

Enviado desde mi Nexus 4 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] trancemang:
Currently rebooting after backup/flash/reset/advancedrestore>data

seems long to boot :mad::crying::crying::rolleyes:

Edit : it's been booting for 5mins now :/

Edit2 :

It never booted on 28th

Tried to put back the 26th, never booted

Trying 24th ... fingers crossed or i'll break something here ...

---------- Post added at 09:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM ----------

OK, flashed back the 24th ... booted properly ... there's something's broken in CM 10.1 ... i think.
[Galaxy S II General] Rated RR:
Might be solution to GPS fix

Guys, I think I might have something for GPS fix solution. This worked for me at least, but only after several stupid tryouts. Basically what I did was - changed the modem type instead of recommended XXLS8 which is the one the most of us probably use, according to Codeworx' older posts.

I got first fix after 52 sec outdoors after clearing out former GPS data.

Subsequent fixes after force closing 'GPS Status' app were within less than 5 secs.

I would call this acceptable. :)

Here is the order of flashes I did:

1. CM 06-28 (currently the latest)

2. Dorimanx 9.29 kernel (I think this step is irrelevant and you might as well skip it, here just for the reference)

3. Another modem-only file (no RIL, or you won't be able to make a phone call - I used BULS1 modem)

My suggestion is that you try another modems until you find the one that suits you best. Be careful, though - kick out the RILs or you won't be able to make a phone call due to Open RIL in more recent CMs. In order to kick-out the RIL, the only thing you need to do is to delete the 'system' folder within downloaded Modem+RIL file. Please see original XDA thread for download links and comprehensive instructions: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1881304.
[Galaxy S II General] lecteur:
Have the same error with the stock rom too (LSW STOCK Odexed)
[Galaxy S II General] vikashhero:
can confirm that using this Kernel makes the GPS on my phone work.

UPDATE:

Reverted to default CM Kernel and tested with another Galaxy S2 running the latest 0628 build, i.e. identical to my phone, however ever so slightly newer than mine (was manufactured more recently).

I've found that after a considerable amount of time (say 90 seconds) my phone is actually able to get a fix now (Solid GPS Icon in the Statusbar). It didn't fix at all earlier today. The other slightly newer S2 has had no problems with GPS lock so far, and got a fix in app much faster than mine (Average of 30 seconds).

It should also be noted that the other S2 has far fewer apps than mine. Both phones have the default modem.

I'm going to try 2 things. Flash a Stock Samsung build on my phone using ODIN (I did this to the newer S2 to fix a corrupted /data partition very recently, so perhaps it could jog something in my phone) and then I'll test the fix time. I'm also gonna try out alternative modems.

I'll let you know what I find. Please feel free to ask for other relevant details I've left out.

UPDATE 2:

Found that stock samsung get a (literally instant) GPS fix. Coming back to CM, I've found that it locks on quicker than before, and i can get a Fix from my desk again (running the 29 build), though it's still much slower than stock and how it was before.
[Galaxy S II General] deepongi:
Thanks.. App related.
[Galaxy S II General] Resync:
Apparently gpsfix was able to fix it.

I used that plus Europe in faster fix.

Seems to work now.

Hope that helps anyone.

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[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Skip the "restore data" part and see if it boots - it probably will.

Seems like there is something in your data that is corrupt, because for other users (including me) the latest nightlies boot just fine, I am on the 28th now.

Like recommended before: time to start fresh!

Use titanium backup to backup your apps and data and do a factory reset.

Do NOT restore all apps/data at once, something in there is not right.
[Galaxy S II General] LocutusEstBorg:
Double tap Home button?

Is there any way to assign an action to double tapping the Home button? I want it to behave like the new Google Play edition phones where double tapping opens the App Switcher and holding the button opens Google Now.
[Galaxy S II General] paco68:
GPS

GPS issue started since Open RIL was implemented on the nightlies.

Last known good rom for me is "cm-10.1-20130525-NIGHTLY-i9100.zip"
[Galaxy S II General] legacysl:
Bootloop

Seems the bootloop for me is inverted apps related but only from the 23rd nightly on. Using the Midnight Gapps Project and most of them seem to have this issue. Just a heads up for those with bootloop issues.
[Galaxy S II General] xdamember007:
Bugs i did encounter while using cyanogen mod

1) Snapseed black and white effects preview was broken.

2) instagram video was broken / was green :silly:

3) sometimes whatsapp images to be sent did display a black picture instead of the real picture

4)GPS did not lock , did take a awful lot of time to do so .:(

5) vine video seemed to crash ( i think it is similar to that of instagram)

i know the above issues are related to AOSP/Cyanogenmod because the apps did seem to work fine on stock

Any replies would be greatly appreciated :)
[Galaxy S II General] szymko1995:
Can anyone else confirm?

[MENTION=2588207]kalpik[/MENTION] Could you try to remove this merge and try to fix gps lock problem?

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] kalpik:
RIL has got nothing to do with GPS.
[Galaxy S II General] lowrider82:
+1 please fix this, the open ril and wonky graphics. It would be great

Sent from my GT-I9100