[LG G5 Questions & Answers] Chris.Z:
I got tricked into buying a used G5 that has GPS issues.

So no fancy schmancy replacement for me.

It works perfect except for GPS, which is really bad since i'm used to rely on it.

So i found all the threads that tell you to open the phone and bend the pins.

First tried the wrong ones, those where the volume rocker is.

Still GPS worked for a few minutes, about 20, after putting the phone back together.

Then i saw Chameleon560's post about where he thinks the GPS contacts are.

So i opened the phone again and bent the 2 pins that go to the back of the device.

Put everything back together, perfect GPS for about 10 minutes this time.

Then back to "normal" where it finds about 20 sats but can't lock on to any of them.

So i'm wondering, why does GPS work for at least some time everytime you open the phone and put it back together again?

It makes me think that all the bending is obsolete.

For my phone it only takes about 15 minutes to go from perfect to not working at all which is far too fast for any pin to go back to no-contact position after just being bent upwards.

Especially as i did not expose the phone to any physical stress, i was just holding it in my hands.

On one of the GPS contacts on the back side of the phone (if you believe in Chameleon560's findings), the one where the headphone jack is, there is a small piece of metal wire mesh that seems to be glued onto the contact.

It seems like they did this because the tiny spring loaded pin on that side does not reach the (milled-?) contact area on the back of the phone directly, so they extended the shiny milled area with that wire mesh.

I just hope that i'm wrong because that would be a pretty nasty design failure.

So all of that is very strange.

It still seems to be a physical thing with those pins, but bending them only solves the problem for some time.

Some people say it works for some weeks, for me not even longer than 15 minutes.

As the G5 is easy to repair regarding screen, buttons and other hardware it's a shame that nobody came up with a solution to that darn GPS problem yet.

What about soldering wires to the contacts and connecting them that way?

Would have to be very thin wire though but that should not be the problem.

There is one guy that did solder wires but he used completely different contacts and he also used the wires as antennas.

But he said he did not care about the length of the wires so i doubt that it really works.

Just seems to be another case of placebo after disassemble and reassemble.

So even though he said it works perfect after his treat it might have worked for just a few days.

Has anybody seriously tried to solder wires to the contacts that Chameleon560 mentions?

What about just putting solder on the shiny milled contact areas (or wire mesh or whatever) to elevate them a little?

Or maybe put some on the pins too, just to make sure that the the pin fully retracts and still reaches the contact area?

Like making it a kind of solid connection by putting the contact areas closer together.

Can anybody confirm the GPS contacts positions that Chameleon560 mentioned?

That would be the first thing to do, to make sure that those are the correct contacts.

Working with the wrong contacts and just getting dis/reassembly placebo does not help at all.

Anybody?