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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
Hi Forum,

I recently replaced the display of my Nexus 4. Since then I experience some GPS/GLONASS problems.

GPS seems to work fine (as far as I can tell) but I can not get a lock more than one or two GLONASS satellites.

How do I tell this:

- GPS Fix is very slow (compared to what I recall and what I testes with another Nexus 4 unit) 45 sec vs 5 sec

- on the repaired device GPS Status reports a lock on 7+2/20 satellites while on another Nexus 4 it gets 10+4/20 satellites

- accuracy 10 m vs 3 m

So, to me, it seems that my device is aware of the satellites and it can detect all the satellites a non-malfunctioning device can, but for some reason (signal to weak?) it can not get a lock.

Is there any obvious mistake I could have made while reassembling my device after the display repair that would explain this - how can it be fixed?

Do GPS and GLONASS have a combined antenna or do they have separate ones?

I attached a screenshot of my device after about 20 minutes under Toronto's clear sky.

Thanks for your help.

Maximilian
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blusydays:
I don't think that the Nexus 4 support Glonass.

That's the only thing that explain your problem. I found a screenshot that shows where the GPS antenna is, check if it is well mounted in its place.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManii:
The N4 and all S4Pros definitely support glonass, it's part of the S4 platform.

It's likely far easier to be aware of a specific sattelite then it is to be able to get a lock on it.

Often even while I'm indoors in a multi-story building I can detect about 10 sattelites, but never get a lock.

With a good lock you should be seeing around 10-15 gps locks and 5-10 glonass locks though.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
Hi and thanks for your replays,

the device definitely has GLONASS support. It worked just fine before I had to replace the display and I got another Nexus 4 (never opened) that works just fine.

As far as I can tell the connection to the antenna is ok, too. I removed the back cover and stopped getting any satellites at all. After reattaching the cover, the satellites appeared again.

Might that be a software issue? I use the up-to-date image from Google (installed via the flash_all.sh script) and already did a factory reset. The device is not rooted.

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oxious119:
Maybe something is wrong with your GPS.conf file?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
Is that possible on a non-rooted device? If so, how do I check this?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oxious119:
Hardly imaginable..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
Don't know what changed, but when I just wanted to make screenshots of the signal strength (as indicated by GPS Status) the problem was gone. It bugged me for weeks.

The problem is gone (for now). Thanks for your help.

Edit: I would like to mark this threat as SOLVED, but I've no idea how...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meehow81:
I read somewhere that the GLONASS satelites had some technical poroblems..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
But that would mean that the other phone (and my GPS+GLONASS handheld) couldn't lock on to them either, wouldn't it?

The non-opened Nexus 4 and my GPS+GLONASS handheld worked just fine the whole time.

I'm out of ideas and happy that everything works right now...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meehow81:
Let's hope it won't happen again..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oxious119:
So you took a screenshot and the issue was gone. Now that's a badass way to fix it :p.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knegge:
I have the exact same problem as describen in the first post.

There's a huge difference from before I changed the display.

Have been trying to fiddle with the antenna contacts to make a good connection but without luck.

I still think it's a hardware related problem and just have to experiment some more to find out. Will share any progress here.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxKaul:
I had the same thoughts.

Be careful with the antenna contacts - it easy do to more damage.

I have no idea what changed. I opened up the device a couple times to see whether I can figure out whats wrong with no luck.

After I closed it the last time it didn't work - I checked! Didn't open the device after that. The problem went magically away a couple days later.

Best of luck to you!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knegge:
I've tried lots of stuff by now, but I think I have nailed it down this time.

Locate the GNSS chip, just to the side of the main camera and the edge of the phone. Unscrew a couple of screws around it and then fold some paper and insert it between the black plastic frame and the chip to squeeze it down a bit. The plastic frame should bulge out a little to make it put some pressure on the chip.

The chip location (step 17) and more in https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+4+Teardown/11781

Alternatively you could reflow that chip, not an easy task but possible with a hot air soldering station.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutezak:
My SNR as measured with the "GPS Test" app is quite low; maybe 1 or 2 sats around an SNR of 30 - 32dB, where my N7 (2013) gives 41 to 42dB, on 4 or 5 sats. This is tested under open sky.

I see other people also complain about a weak signal after updating to KitKat 4.4.2 or 4.4.3. To check if the cause is software, could someone try the same and post the results?

I already opened the case and cleaned the contacts a little, but that made no difference. I haven't tried yet to push on the GPS preamplifier chip; I found that tip only after closing the phone again. But depending on advice maybe I'll try that another day.

Thanks for posting whether you get (onder open sky) 2 or 3 satellites at a better signal than 34 dB.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mierdaseca:
I cant see any GLONASS satellite on CM11. I dont recall seeing them either in stock rom. Not even on my previous N4 (which was changed due to a power button problems) I recall seeing GLONASS satellites.
[Firefox OS General] Interface23:
Has anyone try firefox os on galaxy ace plus. thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oruam57:
Schedule Reset is a small utility that offers these capabilities.

- Soft reset of your device every day at a specified time.

- Optional warning sound and countdown before actual reset (just in case you are using the device).

- Optional execution of a script before the reset to delete garbage files, backup, etc.

- Automatical aborting of the script if its execution time exceeds a specified timeout.

- Default script engine is nScript (freely available at http://www.s-k-tools.com/util.html).

- Other script engine can be used by changing some registry keys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oruam57:
Screen captures
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] malatesta:
been using it for the last 2 days...

not much to say about it except that it works and works well...

haven't tried the scripts thing 'cause I can't program, but nice option!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matheprat:
Has anyone else been using this on a Wizard? Any bugs?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azriaphale:
Works great on the Universal
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _onoff:
does anyone know how to automatic enter the pin of the phone after the softreset?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oldsap:
@oruam57: thanks for the ns info. May i know how you were able to create the exe files?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeasbe:
Why need a Pin in the First place?

Why need a Pin in the First place?

Normally we require a PIN for security; If the software is bypassing that , why not DISABLE PIN REQUEST alltogether?

Prompt me if I am wrong pls..

We are all learning :idea:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oruam57:
You mean what development environment I used to develop ScheduleReset.exe? I used Borlard Delphi 2006.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oldsap:
thanks. is there an easier way to make an exe file? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _onoff:
Re: Why need a Pin in the First place?

when you have 2 or more numbers on the same card, and their only activated by the PIN you enter... like... CARD 1 - PIN 0001 CARD2 - PIN 0002 ... google for sim emu :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
Nice app thanks - set mine to reset at 0400 every day.

Give me a chance to learn script writing

Anyone have some ready made scripts to try?

Would like a script to clear certain directories - temp/volatile etc...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oruam57:
ScheduleReset.ns.sample1 is a ready made sample that deletes the contents of the \temp directory (including subdirectories). Just rename it to ScheduleReset.ns and copy under the directory where ScheduleReset.exe is.

To add more directories just add calls to ClearDirectory with the full path, that is

function main()

{

ClearDirectory("\\temp",0);

ClearDirectory("<your directory here>",0);

}

Notice that you should use a double slash ("\\"), its a quirk of the ns string syntax.

WARNING: be very careful with ClearDirectory as it can delete very much in very short time. A full backup before starting is highly advisable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
Many thanks for that - yes i use spb backup and will set too editing your script - ta
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matheprat:
Has anyone been using this on a Wizard? Any bugs?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
Works good on my wizard no bugs so far :wink:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azriaphale:
Think the warning sound should sound for the full 20 secs countdown. As it is you get 1 beep and thats it. Maybe a selectable countdown sound.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oruam57:
Well, the idea is to have the reset time set deep in the night. Therefore, too much noise would be annoying. The sound and the countdown are there only in the unlikely case the phone is in use, so you can stop the reset sequence.

Anyway the registry entry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ScheduleReset\SoundFilePath

contains the path of the sound file. Replacing it with someting more noisy and longer (for example \Windows\Jig.wma) should suit you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azriaphale:
Cheers for the info.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ondagrind707:
the other day i was tranfering videos to my phone and my phone restarted and said in twrp

unable to mount '/data

unable to recreate /data/media folder.

unknown file system: 'datamedia'

when i reboot it says decrypt password ,but i never made one . i also can get to download mode but when i try to use the flash tool it stops at 16 sec and says erase command failed please help i cant figure out what to do. i have sprint i also tried a hard reset but it just goes back to recovery . any help would be very much apprecieted!!
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] mohitpahwa:
Good news for Samsung Galaxy Core users that they can also use Samsung Galaxy core update to Android 4.3 via custom rom.This is an unofficial release of this Jellybean rom.This is fully stable with Samsung galaxy core.As all we know that the Samsung has given no news about Galaxy core’s firmware update of official Android 4.3 So users can try this rom.Let’s install Samsung Galaxy Core update rom 4.3 JellyBean.

Many users have tested this ROM in GT-I8260. You can try at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any harm done by you ;)

Link for Original Post: http://www.androidpanel.com/samsung-galaxy-core-update-4-3/

Press thanks button :o ..

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[Samsung Galaxy Core.] abhijeetc9762:
Dont try this rom. Its boring caithzill slimbean rom which does not work.......
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] mohitpahwa:
hmmmmm... a lot of users commented that this rom is working..!!

have you tried it???
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Keeganab:
Pls ss

Wysłane z mojego GT-I8260 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] MirXas:
It's not working !
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Sajmonowskii:
It's caithzilla slim bean and it doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Keeganab:
Omg :eek:

Wysłane z mojego GT-I8260 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Mach5:
[MENTION=329570]malybru[/MENTION] time to close thread?
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] malybru:
Mod Edit

It seems that this is not yet working

Thread closed

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 5768396:
You've probably encountered this problem more than once, and just wanted for that damn warning never to appear again! Here's how!

1. Navigate to /data/ using Root Browser, or a similar browser

2. Delete the folder called "log"

3. Enjoy your larger storage space!

If you want more space, or this just didn't help you, you can go to see what applications take the most of your *data* space by going to the Settings menu. When you have found the applications which data take the most of your storage space, just go to /data/data/ and search for the application. Then, delete the "log" folder or just some files that are useless in your opinion. If this helped you, remember to click the "Thanks" button!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Left4DeadMW:
Useless.

Why would I do cleaning manually when there are dozens of apps on GPlay for this and half of them have 'scheduled" cleaning?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 5768396:
Useless?

Well, because none of them actually clear the logs OR the data, they only clear the cache, which is mostly the smallest portion of an app.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Left4DeadMW:
Agreed. Perhaps I overreacted.

Mhmm...wonder why none other haven't though of adding that to those "cleaning" apps :P

Are the .log files always named the same per app? Perhaps a script can automate this.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 5768396:
For apps to clean the folder that i specified to clean logs, they would need root access. If you're smart enough to root your phone, you're probably smart enough to clean your logs yourself :D

Theres no specific name for the logs, they just exist in a folder named "log" that can be safely deleted. The name is usually the date that they were created, for example 5-25-2014 12:34

Sent from my GT-S5690v2
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Yenkazu:
I'm using SD Maid for clean my phone

=)

Why must manually navigate to data/log ?

If SD Maid can do it for you

XD
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Left4DeadMW:
Well the question is: does your "maid" cleans that xD

---------- Post added at 08:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 PM ----------

So ScriptManager(automating) and a script and you got yourself a maid :p am lazy to do it manually every time.

I'll check in the morning what those market apps really clean.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Yenkazu:
[MENTION=4320792]Left4DeadMW[/MENTION]

Just give SD Maid a shot

=)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Left4DeadMW:
No.

I got Link2SD :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 5768396:
Respect.

Sent from my GT-S5690v2
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 5768396:
Actually, there is a script that can automate it.

su

cd /data/log/

rm ./

rmdir /data/log/

Sent from my xcover
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfulNinja:
Hey everyone,

I have an unrooted Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 on T-Mobile (UK). I recently updated firmware 4.3 and noticed the battery drained really quickly. After a lot of researching, I found that a factory reset should fix the issue, which it did!

I have since discovered that when in recovery mode, everything seems normal (as in the menu is displayed, including the option "Wipe Cache Partition") the words "No Command" is displayed under the Android robot, with a red exclamation mark. If I choose an option, whether it's Wipe Cache Partition" or "Reboot Now" it seems to do the actions(it shows "Erasing" once "Wipe Cache Partition" has been selected and also reboots the phone) but the word "Error" is displayed under the robot when the action has been done or just before the phone reboots, after selecting "Reboot Now"

Is this normal? Why all of a sudden does it say "No Command" and "Error"?

I haven't tried to root my phone or install any custom roms or try to modify the phone in any way since I got it.

Can anyone out there please let me know why these words have started to appear in recovery mode?

I'd really appreciate it!!

P.S. I searched the forums before posting and although some were similar, they didn't cover my exact problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Try downloading the same official firmware and flashing with odin, there is a guide in general forum. Factory reset then try again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfulNinja:
Thank you very much for your reply. I found the guide to flashing the phone with Odin and I'm a little worried in case I mess up and brick the phone, I read that if you make a mistake, that can happen.

Just to say, I checked the recovery mode again and it seems to do everything normally, such as wiping the cache(it says so in the log) but it just says "No Command" after each action. The word "Error" only appears the very first time you see the robot, and when you select "Reboot Now" just before it reboots "error" shows up under the robot and then the phone restarts.

So, do you know if this is normal? Or do you think it's something to do with the way the firmware 4.3 works?

I'd just like to know whether it's normal or if there's something wrong behind the scenes in the phones firmware.

Hope you can help and thank you again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benko111:
Honestly, I'd quite like to see a pic of the errors in recovery. Meanwhile if you don't feel like using Odin (if you stick tight to the tutorials nothing bad will happen) you can try to repair with Kies, you might have installed it anyway. Here is a detailed guide http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/guide-how-to-reinstall-stock-firmware-t1978840

If this fails for any reason go ahead and try Odin using this noobproof guide http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/restore-to-stock-rom-galaxy-s3-i9300-t2187081. That should almost certainly eradicate any errors.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfulNinja:
Thank you so much for the links! I actually just tried the update via Kies, reinstalling the stock firmware and it took a while and I did everything it said but the messages still show in recovery mode, just like before. So I'm wondering if it's actually supposed to normal to display those words, and maybe that's just that way it is now?

I took some pics of the screen, so you can see what I'm talking about.

Here's the "No Command" message displayed. As you can see, it has wiped the cache partition after I selected it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/irolo6rp8wh5ibf/Photo 27-04-2014 23 39 34.png

And here's the "Error" message it says just after I've selected "Reboot Now" and before the phone restarts.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9o0yuopkf3dov76/Photo 27-04-2014 23 40 17.png

Have you seen or heard of this before?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benko111:
No problem. And no, not in this context. But then again, I haven't had a stock recovery (nor a stock ROM) on my phones for years.

But I do get tons of phones in for repair every week, have not really noticed these 'errors' anywhere.

It seems to execute everything fine.

Would be interesting if you'd flash a TWRP recovery what it says then. You can easily replace it by your stock recovery again.

If everything looks good there then it probably is just the way it is.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterfulNinja:
That would be interesting, but doing so would require me to root my phone, right?

Oh I see, so it's a quite an unusual thing to happen . . . The fact that it says "Error", yet executes things fine anyway.

I've come to a possible conclusion that it's probably down to that particular version of the stock rom? Maybe people how have updated in the UK, using that version would experience the same? Because, after reinstalling it via Kies, and there being no change regarding those messages in recovery mode, doesn't that point to the firmware being the cause? For example, if I flashed the phone with a custom rom(that didn't have any error messages) surely, those messages wouldn't show up after I'd installed it, right?

Does what I'm saying make sense?

Sorry if I'm going on, I'm not too familiar with the technical side of Anroid systems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benko111:
No, you don't need root for flashing TWRP via Odin. Use this great and easy guide (if the guide helped you hit the users thanks button):

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/twrp-flashing-tar-t2680354

I'm not sure if this is really the UK-ROM or just a common thing under certain circumstances and I've just never noticed it, but I really doubt it.

If everything is fine with TWRP and also installing ROMs causes no problems I would just accept this as one of the never solved mysteries - which I rarely do normally ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j0mar:
we have same issue i already flash custom recovery via odin stil no command when i rebooting into recovery. . did you fix it?
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Husaination:
Hello :)

Guys, I have a problem with the battery, It was fine 2 days ago, but suddenly it started to lose a lot of charging while I'm not even using the phone! And when I use the phone it starts losing charging so quickly! :(

Anyway, I thought it was because I installed a cracked Whatsapp+ so I uninstalled it, but that didn't fix the problem.

So what to do guys? Buy a new battery or there's some hidden thing in the system that consumes a lot of battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Star] ArshArora:
Yea.... U rooted ur phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Husaination:
Yes, from the first day i bought the phone and it was months ago and I recently flashed a new kernel to the system too, BTW I have CWM 6.0.3.7.
[Samsung Galaxy Star] ArshArora:
Hmmm

U need to use Easy battery calibration app
[Samsung Galaxy Star] T3snake:
Yea that app did help me
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Husaination:
I really have to thank you my friend for the amazing effort with T3Rom, it's amazing I flashed it yesterday and I noticed the battery performance is better :laugh:so thank you again but is it possible to add samsung keyboard? the nextapp keyboard is good but when it comes to Arabic it's not that great just like all the other keyboards, the stock keyboard is amazing when it comes to Arabic so can you add it or it's impossible? and I noticed that I can't greenify the apps you put in the rom! they don't show in greenify it's like they're system apps, so is there a way to greenify them?

Thanks again :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Star] T3snake:
u can add sam keyboard as system app and it will work

about greenify

u wont need to greenify any of the apps tht i hve included

all the apps are system so just convert to user app if u want to greenify

instruction is there in 2nd post
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Husaination:
Can you please give me a link to sam keyboard and instructions on how to make it a system app?

and about greenify i made opera mini a user app in titanium backup but it didn't show up in greenify
[Samsung Galaxy Star] T3snake:
get greenify donation pack

opera mini doesnt show up coz its not taking ram
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Husaination:
Thanks, I just want the stock keyboard now I can't find it

And I have a problem with installing apps, it keeps on saying Installing and it goes on and on and the installation doesn't end!!
[Samsung Galaxy Star] T3snake:
didnt hv tht problem

try different apks

tell me which apps have problem