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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moparfreak426:
Re: [FIX][JB]GPS Workaround for AOSP-Based 4.1.2

I don't have a backup phone to have Sammy replace it and sprint can't cuz I'm not even on their network.

Sent from an Apple devouring JellyBean
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moparfreak426:
Re: [FIX][JB]GPS Workaround for AOSP-Based 4.1.2

finally a lock! I pulled gps-conf.xml from Samsung fascinate and boom! instant lock! (I'm flashed to verizon mvno)

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aman1127:
Re: [FIX][JB]GPS Workaround for AOSP-Based 4.1.2

What?! Can you post it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moparfreak426:
Re: [FIX][JB]GPS Workaround for AOSP-Based 4.1.2

check my thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1995259

Sent from an Apple devouring JellyBean
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] frankx85:
Iv'e always had GPS problem with CM10 and used this to fix it but it would always stop working again. I decided out of my desperation to try a free app called "GPS Aids" even though the name suggested it was some kind of virus. It worked I couldn't believe it. Much easier then flashing back to with EL29 for e temporary fix. I have no affiliation with that app I just hope it helps someone else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dagmar d'Surreal:
I think it might be something other than just that. There's likely something to be gained from looking very closely at however GPS Aids is poking at GPS when it does it's thing. GB27 (stock! Installed, then flushed caches) for me made GPS into an unreliable, repeatedly resetting nightmare. I play Ingress so having GPS perpetually flying around in a two or so block radius was utterly unacceptable. After two days of swearing and prodding the phone, rebooting, etc, I gave up and flashed back to the final stock ICS... GPS went back to it's usual <20s locks and +/- 20ft accuracy immediately.

After doing some more dorking around with it I decided to try GB27 again and bear down a little harder on the problem. I normally use GPS Status because of the notification bar details, but after doing a ton of reading I figured maybe some other apps might be doing a few things differently... So I installed GPS Test and GPS Aids FREE as well. Neither my usual go-to app or the first one seemed to do much, but after running GPS Aids it seemed to straighten out and behave. Unfortunately I wasn't paying enough attention to remember exactly what I did with it. Having a slight masochist streak I then reflashed ICS again, tested, saw it working, and then reflashed GB27 again... Malfunction time. I went into GPS Aids Free and did the one thing it seemed I could do as non-root that might have a non-trivial affect which was to tell it to grab the XTRA GPS assist data. Boom. Stable again, or at least really close to ICS-levels of performance again and it hasn't gone obviously wonky in the last four days. What should have been the same operation in the other two programs did not have any effect. So, possibly worth a shot for anyone else having severe GPS issues, which you are having if you can't stand outside on an average day and get a read on 6-8 satellites on this hardware in under 30-45s.

I'll buy that guys app (just to throw money at him, it's kinda too ugly for me to use normally) if it turns out he was even by accident doing whatever makes GPS behave permanently.

(Other than that, GB27 either rooted or non-rooted seems to work swimmingly on my SPH-D710, no weird issues at all, and since I play Ingress with a freakin' 4100mAh battery I'd sure as heck notice any distinct decrease in battery life. That game is notoriously murderous on batteries.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Aganar:
So have the myriad developers that have tried to fix this (I've had an E4GT since CM9 was first coming out) ever figured out why non-stock ROMs on this phone have seemingly-permanent GPS stability issues? When CM9 was the norm, the response was always "Just wait for the source to drop; then we'll have stable GPS." The source dropped; instability persisted. When we all moved to CM10 the same problems cropped up again and we were again told, "Just wait for the source; then we'll figure out how to fix the GPS." The source dropped and, still, CM10 and other AOSP roms face GPS problems. I've reverted from CM10 which I loved dearly to Touchwiz after the Jellybean OTA purely because of the lack of consistent GPS on CM10.

Let me be clear that this is not a complaint or slight against CM10. I am just curious on a strictly technical level what it is about the Touchwiz ROMs that has given them and them alone a consistent and stable GPS where it has otherwise eluded all of our incredibly-talented AOSP developers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
Currently, running a custom GPS.conf, with permissions set to 0777, will provide stable, near-instant GPS on almost all ROMs, TouchWiz or AOSP.

I am working on a massive overhaul to the OP that will explain these issues and how to fix them, with a few different methods of fixing GPS problems.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
Updated/revamped OP.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fugi888:
Worked like a charm!!! Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kr@zY_J:
I would have linked you here bro ...I just saw your post in jv ..sorry glad ya got it fixed :thumbup:

Sent from my JellyVersed phone and admiring a ReJeCtZ work!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fugi888:
Gonna have to try again.... Either it didn't work like I thought or when I updated AIO it changed something. Back to the drawing board!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
As a general rule, your best bet is to just toggle location services whenever you want to use GPS.

Sent from my Epic 4g Touch on PACman
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Not sure if I should add this here or creat a new post but this might help some. Adreaver has done a great job of keeping this updated and relevant.

I suddenly had and issue with GPS (after it working great on GB27).

Had GPS issues galore with previous JB ROMs on and off and went through hell trying to get it to lock - until GB27.

So when this starting happing again I was a little more than frustrated to say the least. Especially because it just started the other day when I needed it for navigation. And it had been working so well before.

Rebooted a few times. Cleared caches. Reflashed modem. Switched kernels - stock, garwynn's Agat's latest. Udated gps config state etc. and nothing!!

Got me to thinking.

Looked in the system/etc folder and there was NO GPS.conf file!! WTF?! Somewhere somehow that got wiped.

Might want to check that on your system too.

Found one I put together previously when I had GPS issues (nearly exact to Kobridge &/or G_Ding84's ones).

Pushed it to system/etc folder set permissions rw-r--r--

Rebooted to recovery and again wiped caches then rebooted.

I know get GPS lock 6 satallites in my bedroom where I'd previously gotten only 2 or 3! and it locks quickly!

I think Goddly has g_ding's gps.conf file in his tweak package. You may want to try his entire ComaDose v1.4 tweak pack (READ his OP first of course! ) or just replicate the GPS info. Here is another good spot to start for GPS stuff.

Just thought I'd through this out for folks.

Feel free to delete if this is unhelpful or already all been said.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] roscoeh:
Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
There is a button for that. :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
the gps.zip i have attached in the OP is Goddly's gps.conf pulled from his ComaDose package. You can either extract the gps.conf from the zip, push it to /system/etc/, fix permissions to 0777 and reboot, or flash ComaDose 1.4. Either should have the same result.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] roscoeh:
done!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] terrysellers123@yahoo.com:
Are these instructions for SPH-D700 - Sprint

I have a Sprint SPH-D700 with Cyanogen 10.1 stable, JellyBean 4.2.2. It is also know as a Samsung Galaxy Epic 4G touch. The GPS is useless. Somehow I think these recommendations are for a different model, perhaps the GSM SPH-D710 based on how the responses say the model of phone they were posted from.

I tried method one without results and downloaded GPS Status which found no satellites.

Are these instructions for the CDMA Sprint version, and if not can someone point me in a different direction. BTW the GPS didn't work with CM 10.0 either. I have googled many different combination of key words and this is the closest match I found

Thanks - Terry
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
These instructions are for the sph-d710, the Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4g Touch. As far as I know, the d700 is the epic 4g, a variant of the original Galaxy S.

If your phone has a slide out keyboard, you are in the wrong thread. The GPS.conf may be universal, but flashing anything else from this thread WILL brick you.

Sent from my Epic 4g Touch on PACman
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] terrysellers123@yahoo.com:
Thanks

I do have the CDMA version from Sprint with the Slideout QWERTY keyboard.

Thanks and I'll check elsewhere.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Soured Lie:
Awesome and thank you for the fix. Luckily I just had to toggle and got it first shot.:good::good::good::good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Yell0wSmileY:
my phone always took a while to lock GPS. But tried method 1 and sudden it seems to lock faster. It's now been 3 days and still working good. great work!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ikadzenul:
I went the tried-and-true route (Method 3). I flashed the EL29 Directboot kernel plus the Tempboot ROM, and got a GPS lock, and then shutdown.

So far so good.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dziliak:
My GPS always was 100% reliable under the stock TW 4.1.2 rom, but when I'd flash *any* custom rom, no matter the android base, it'd fail to work.

At least until I read this thread. :laugh:

On my EP4GT running the latest 'Wild for the Night' (thanks dastin1015) rom and the FI27 modem, I get reliable GPS lock after following this simple step after boot.

Enable GPS using the quick settings toggle, wait a second or two, disable, wait a second or two, then re-enable.

Then it works normally from then on until a reboot requires a repeat.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blueridgedog:
I have an SPH-D710BST that was running a stock ICS ROM, but had been rooted. GPS work fine, but I could not get tethering to work. After trying two AOSP ROMS each based on CM10x, I gave up on tethering (as it would not work in those either and they had some significant issues related to battery and in-car integration) and went back to a rooted stock ICS ROM (http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.php?dir=Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy S2 (Boost) (SPH-D710BST)/). This reset my yellow triangle (yea!), but the end result of all the swapping was that my GPS would not work.

I tried the new config, but apparently I did not have a config to start with in the location mentioned. I installed the config, cleared gps state using the GPS status tool and was able to get a lock after a long (five minutes) time under a clear sky. Which the lock on, I rebooted the phone (as if I was just using the ICS ROM to get it working again). Once rebooted with a good lock, lock now comes back in just a few seconds.

Not certain that it is relevant, but it is how I got my ICS ROM GPS working after many many ROM flashes, Nandroid restores and general making my phone's life hell.

(BTW: I was able to get tethering to work by using the 3.2-beta2-modv5 version of Wifi Tether TrevE Mod and set the profile to Samsung Galaxy e4gt)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rancur3p1c:
I'm tired of having to go through the 10 - click process going to home, settings, scroll to location, etc every time I want to use GPS. Is there any fix that I can do once, which will prevent me from having problems ever again?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
No. But if you are on a 4.2 ROM, you can long press the GPS quick settings toggle and it will take you directly to location settings.

Sent from my T999L on PACman
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rancur3p1c:
shame. thx.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
I am not sure if this fix will help me. I am on stock deodexed GB27 and I get a lock with in seconds after a fresh reboot, but after the phone has been on a while or all day if I toggle gps on for use it will never get a lock unless I reboot. My wife's phone is the same way. Is it possible any of these methods could work for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
Users have reported this working under many varied circumstances. The entire 3 step process takes less than 10 minutes, so you may as well try it next time your gps has problems.

Sent from my Epic 4g Touch on PACman
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
OK thanks I will give it a try and report back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rancur3p1c:
works with 4.1 as well
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdremler:
year ixcepoc

Bump
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
Not a recommended way to get your ten posts.

Especially since this is a sticky and doesn't need to be bumped...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gbennett:
so frustrated. need help please.

i had to flash back to a FI25 modem in order to get data on the EL29 directboot. that was able to get me a gps lock. i followed instructions and then booted into a stock based JB rom, but had no data and gps didnt work. do i reflashed the GB27 modem and had data, but no GPS.

Is there any relationship between GPS and the modem?

is there a recommended JB modem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lezouave:
Just Deleting gps.conf works nicely

After putzing with trying to get GPS to work I deleted /system/etc/gps.conf and was my D710 locked with 13 satellites visible, and 10 or 11 in use.

Though I had it working with a couple different variations of gps.conf at no point was I able to get more than 7 satellites out of 9 locked.

I think there's a default config that is built in, and works better then the gps.conf. We'll see if this lasts more than a day.

I'm in Chicago.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gbennett:
I'm a silly noob, who wants to learn.

Can someone tell me why the gps toggle works? does some file become corrupted?

I had mine working great for the last few days and then all of a sudden tonight, my gps couldnt lock and i had to do the toggle to get it to work

thanks in advance
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lezouave:
Well. I was wrong. It only worked for a 24 period.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Godswrath:
Is there a permenant fix for those of us who need to toggle to get GPS to lock?

Without doing Method 1, my phone will simply say "searching for gps" for hours on end. Toggling GPS/Location instantly makes it get a lock. However, it's a pain having to do this every time I want to use GPS.

Is there a recommended fix that is more permanent? I have tried the gps.conf to no avail.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
You could try a full Odin restore, and will likely be fine for a while. But if you have a phone that experiences this issue (not all devices seem to have this problem) it will probably come back eventually.

Sorry there isn't a more permanent solution. Ask your ROM developer if they have any suggestions.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beni26:
Ok so I'm trying everything to get my gps working. Unfortunately the links are dead for the temp rom and cwm directboot on the http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com pages. Any links that work?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
possibly [MENTION=4513677]rwilco12[/MENTION] may have a mirror, he hosts most files related to the e4gt
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beni26:
ok found a link on google for the cwm. Checksum seems to match for the cwm. The temp rom it was just my bitdefender blocking the link. Woops.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6pGMQpF5lT9WldQN0NrSm1qclU/edit
[HTC One X] awesomelyawesome:
is really laggy and i cant get anything done. it responds 10 seconds after i turn it on! irritating!!
[HTC One X] TToivanen:
Obviously, you are the only one with this issue. Clean install should do it. No 3rd party mods or restoring system apps through titanium. Did you touch cpu and/or governor settings?
[HTC One X+] JGKC9AYC:
I know the HOX+ has more standard memory than the Nexus 4 (64 vs. 16GB).

Since I don't know that much about processors, could someone compare the two?

Also, is the camera on the HOX+ better, worse, or about the same compared to the N4?

Thanks.
[HTC One X+] killman2659:
I do not have the N4. I actually got my HOX+ because the Nexus was outselling everywhere. From reading on the Internet the HTC is supposed to have a better camera. The Nexus has a better processor but it actually benchmarks worse than some phones. Google could've increased the performance since then but I have stopped following the Nexus 4 since I got my One X plus. I think it comes down to if you want stock Android or not. I prefer stock Android myself but couldn't get it due to availability issues so I got this phone. If you want stock Android and are going to get the one X I say get it because there is CM and AOKP.
[HTC One X+] JGKC9AYC:
Would you know if there's any difference physically as far as the HOX vs. HOX+ when it comes time to shop for cases?

I've got someone wanting to trade me their HOX+ for my N4.

I don't do alot of gaming, but I do take alot of pictures with my phone. I also like to tinker around with my phones with various ROMs.

I'm just wanting to make sure I make the right decision.

Thanks.
[HTC One X+] somemadcaaant:
Same dimensions so cases are a perfect fit on either. Stick with international hox cases tho.
[HTC One X+] JGKC9AYC:
Does Otterbox make cases for the International version?

*Edit* Nevermind. They do.

I am curious, however, as to what the difference is.
[HTC One X+] superchilpil:
The HOX is slightly smaller

The HOXL and HOX+ have the same dimensions
[HTC One X+] atabaque:
As you specify 3 things:

Camera,memory, and fact that you don't know about processor.

So..

Camera .I prefer HTC one x+ as is doing better picture but i'm not profesional.

Memory.HTC gives you 55GB and it enough as long as you not use as pendrive to store porns movies in massive quatities or as ftp server :).

CPU. Both are monsters,so It doesn't matter,which one you chose.

Value for money -> Nexus 4 (but waiting time is ... bit long).

If money is not a problem,then i will suggest .. HTC one X+.

but I assumed that you care about cpu,camera and memory only.

btw. I'm not expert.It based on my experience with these devices( as i used HTC and i have access to Nexus 4 )
[HTC One X+] alioth:
I had a Nexus4 for three weeks, and now I have Hox+

Hox+ is better in:

-Camera

-Little better audio, and louder.

-Better display

-Radio FM

-Its more durable phone. Too much glass in nexus4

Nexus4:

-Smooth, because pure android.

-Smooth

-Did I tell smooth?

I dont know if is only my problem, but Im having problems in Hox+ with launchers smooth.

Games are now Ok with Elite Kernel, but launchers Apex, and Nova.. dont go perfect, as were with Nexus4.

Value for money-> Nexus 4 no dude

Absolute quality-> little better Hox+, but I wants my launchers go smooth now!
[HTC One X+] J@CKY:
I happened to have both in hand now...

I had my Nexus 4 first, I love almost every aspect of the phone. i.e.:

- 4.2.1 stock android experience, and ofcoz the potential much quicker upgrades of future android builds.

- fast, slick, smooth and loads of RAM (2GB on Nexus vs 1GB on HOX+)

- responsive touch screen and best keyboard I have experienced so far.

- multi-colours LED notification light (HOX+ only have green and red colour)

- handsomer, better looking than HOX+ (quite subject opinion though)

- On screen button gives more room to hold landscape (bezel below the display), this may sound very minor, but it really helps when you use camera app in landscape mode

- Faster 3G connection when comparing to HOX+ (42Mbps vs 21Mbps)

BUT, there are some compensation when comparing to HOX+

- Nexus 4 has really bad battery performance, though I need more time to compare this with the HOX+, but the Nexus 4 really failed to impress me in this aspect. Especial I just jump ship from Crapple's iPhone. (I do quite a lot of browsing and a little bit of game (2D game only!!), cannot survive a full day if I use the phone freely without thinking about the battery) This is also the reason why I get HOX+ and give it a try, hope it would do better in battery against the Nexus 4.

- HOX+ has a better camera then the Nexus, both hardware and software wise. Less noisy, quicker response time. (Having said that, I quite like the stock android camera app, just HTC has done even been job in creating the camera app)

- HOX+ feel much more solid and firmer in hand. The finishing of the HOX+ is better. Nexus 4 has impressive design, and built quality already, but the HOX+ just did it even better!

- HOX+ has a brighter and richer screen than the Nexus 4

- HOX+ 's built-in battery saver seems to work quite well and not compromising any data connection (3rd party battery saver on the Play Store for Nexus 4 usually turning off the data and re-enable in regular basis, I dont like that, i prefer instant sync)

Caveat:

- I do not use my phone as portable music player, so cannot give fair opinion.

- for the same reason, 16GB vs 64GB did not bother me at all

- I am comparing them right out of box, no rooting, no custom ROM etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] khaaawaja:
Friends i install a stock ics rom and and i install acid sound mod.... but i did not find the quality of sound as compare to dsp manager in cm7, i reflash the stock rom again, and install beats mod but the sound is not so high and clear as i thought and finally i install xincredible but the sound remains the same ??? what should i do to get xperia music sound as best as htc rhyme ( srs supported) or beats ( htc desire c) the sound remain normal and same ... please guide which mod i should use and how to install that mod.... to get high bass clear sound quality in xperia mini St15i......????
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] BealeStBluesBoy:
Use Till-Krupse's Walkman, gives the best sound (in my personal opinion) add AC!D if you likehttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1864562 :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] khaaawaja:
i tried but the sound is not so best as dsp manager in cm7..... please tell about the mod which is like dsp manager in cm7
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abcdjdj:
It differs from person to person. Remember that audio quality also depends on your headphones/earphones. Go and try some of the walkman players in the themes/apps section, there are many available. But, anyway my opinion -

ThilianaC's Walkman - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1786767

Sennheisser MX 365 Earphones.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] khaaawaja:
I have blueicee v3 rom installed in my sony xperia and the walkman player is already installed in it with acid sound mod...... i like those headphones you mentioned above.........but these are not available in pakistan...... but i have to search for the earphones....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Doubtfire:
i approve the post above mine. im also using Xperia_blue ice v3. the sound is good especially in earphone. but in speaker mode, i feel that it is less loud. In my opinion if you want loudness go for the stock rom, but for the quality go for the mods. :fingers-crossed: :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] skb6T9:
well you can try pushing the dsp manager to /system/app/.....

& fix the permission to rw-r--r--

it worked for me in my Xperia ray stock. 42
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] alund:
DSP manager for Stock ICS is working perfectly :)

Aaaaand.. its still the best sound mod ever for headphone :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mnishamk:
How about pimp my beats from pimpmyrom, just needs root.

Sent from my Xperia Mini Pro
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] skb6T9:
I didn't try it in ICS...

But it ran without any problem in my .42 firmware.