yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] guags99:
I too do not have this setting under Phone-Services. I have been working with HTC (after flashing back to my original ROM rom Dutty's) and they asked me to change the same setting. When I told him I didn't have that setting, he was confused, but offered no explaination as to why.

Now they are offering to take the phone in for repair, but who wants to be without their Diamond for 2+ weeks??

Anyone else not have this option?? Everything worked even after flashing to Dutty's but suddenly it stopped. I can't figure what I installed that could have caused this...but the hard reset and flash should have fixed that...Right??
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] andrediaslopes:
mine only works the first time i flash and it takes 5-10 min to fix (with every ROM)!!! I'm using the radio .05!

I'm so sad and disappointed with my gps diamond... :mad:

I had an asus p750 and the gps was awesome, fix in less then a 5seconds!! Now using any ROM i have to use HTC GPS Tool to fix?? Isn't that stupid?! Why can htc fix this problem once and for all?!! I hope's not a problem beyond their capabilities! :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zeroman:
So, I have Fix Not avaible problem too...

I have working GPS since i've bought daimond for about one month. All software (iGo, HTC GPS Tool, yandex.maps) - works perfectly. Fast fix (20-30 seconds), no lags e.t.c...

Two days ago I've started iGo and no fix recived. I put Dimond near window and also put Eten X500 near as comparasion. After 1.5 miniute X500 recived a fix. Diamond not. After ~20 minutes iGo told that conncetion to GPS reciver failed. After restarting GPS reciver was "found" again. HTC GPS Tool simple hungs up after ~20minutes of working. Device is very-very hot!

I can recive fix no matter what I do: tryied severa ROM's, several radios, updaiting via QuickGPS, cold start, hot start, memory clear, hardware reset - no solution.

It seems to me that it can be hardware related problem. As mentioned in one Dutch review of Touch Pro that first versions of TouchPro have hardware problems with GPS - GPS module become very hot, and hungs up. Very similirar to problem that I have now.

Any ideas?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] suiller:
update your radio... 07 or 08 are the lastest & fastest, speaking about gps fixing times ;)

bye,

davide
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Incubated:
woohoooo

mlapoint99 you are a blessing man. i have been trying to get thsi gps working for days now.

i didn't realize that my habit of disabling nokia gps tracking to emergancy only was going to be fatal here. well. you helped a brother out. make sure guys, that you do as he said. i had my settings turned off in location, that's why.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Barbaselo:
QuickGPS

I can't see anyone here using the built-in QuickGPS program which speeds up gps fix to a few seconds.

You should find it under Start->Program->QuickGPS
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] arthurd123:
HTC Diamond and POI Sound alrets not working

Hi There

I was wondering if anyone has come across the same problem as me. I have just got my spanking new HTC Diamond and I have installed TOMTOM 6 and everything works fine apart from the sound alrets when coming near "Speed Cameras" the screen is blinking the image but there is no sound alert.

I have added those POIs' to WARN me in the POI manage section on TOMTOM but still no joy.

I have also tried creating .ogg files and moving them to map folder naming them as the POI files in there but again no joy.

Has anyone come across the same problem ?

Arthur
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] BlackFear:
Argh, My Diamond doesn't find any satilite!

What do you mean with phone-service-location? I cannot find that!

My diamond came just out of reparation... because the display did not work anymore... and now I have problems with GPS, the reciever is ok, it is just waiting for a signal... nothing happens...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sam06000:
Got a solution , i found in this thread :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=324222

So you got to download gpstest there :

http://www.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?searchmode=2&searchName=gpstest

Run it for some seconds , as soon as it gets the fix , run your gps software , for me it's igo and it gets a gps signal back in less than 5s .

But i'm still searching for a permanent fix to this problem , because you'll have to run gpstest once after every softreset .

Something seems broken in gps after i've flashed my diamond with a rom which had agps set on , i flashed another rom with agps off and made hard reset and this problem appeared using igo , hope somebody has a way for a permanent fix to this .

Btw quickgps doesn't help in fixing that problem .

Fine greetings ,
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyberjaya:
Could the GPS problem due to the selection of network setup during boot?

I got similar problem earlier when I first got my phone. My Telco provide both the 3G and GSM service. During the very first setup when I just got my phone, I choose "xxxx 3G" instead of normal GSM network. HTC Diamond successfully configured the network services. When launching Garmin, I got the same problem on failing to find GPS satellite. I then downloaded "HTC GPS tool" to do a diagnose and I could see in detail trace there's showing of location such as longitude and latitute but yet I still couldn't lock to any GPS satellite.

The solution to mine problem:-

*********************

- hard reset

- Diamond boot up and installing services (Opera, etc) and reboot

- After reboot, I keyed in my SIM card PIN. After bout 5 minutes, the prompt appeared with selection for 3G and non 3G network

- I choose "non 3G" (don't choose the 3G) and the configuration successfully completed

- Sync the Diamond with pc, this allow latest data downloaded through Quick GPS in the background

- launch Garimn and wala!!! I got connection

my assumption as what had happended:-

******************************

if anyone of you got a Nokia phone with build in GPS (I used N82 months back). Everytime when you trying to connect to network it'll asked to choose type of network (MMS, WAP, 3G, etc). The one that most of the time will work is choosing the network type as GSM WAP and then trying to find the GPS satellite. HTC Diamond original ROM do not have that option to let us choose which network service to use (I could be wrong as there could be some registry tweak that I'm not aware of). By setting up your network as "non 3G" right after hard reset would have set the GPS to use the GSM network services.

By the way, even though the setup is based on non 3G but need not worry. I could still get HSDPA or 3G services whenever there's such services available within the proximity. There's no extra configuration requires.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] BlackFear:
I still get no fix on my HTC Diamond, even with GPSTest it doesn't work...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] boglll:
I read in gps lag thread to disable start/settings/system/external gps to none to remove lag... i tried and had no gps signal at all (igo and gps test). i switch back setting in external gps : com4 baud 57600 and istantaneously got fix and igo working. suggest for those who don't see gps to check this settings. btw lag remains...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] BlackFear:
For me it works now! I was driving around in my car, like I often do on Sundays, and I played a bit around with the TomTom6 and the GPSTest.

Suddenly I had some minor activities in GPSTest... he did find some satelites!

I stopped and played a bit around, did a restart of my Diamond... started TomTom6... 30 seconds... bingo... I had 7 fixes :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sam06000:
Additional feedback for gpstest

Just did some more tests to see if gpstest is speeding up the satellite fix with softwares like tomtom an igo or is really unlocking the diamond gps .

With Aztor rom V7-FRE , radio 1.0.0.BS14 , latest igo v.54000 , and ... clear sky ;)

Launched igo , waiting 30s to get a fix , no fix , so launched gpstest , fixed satellite in 10s , launched igo again and gps fixed in 5s . softreset .

igo launched , waiting 10min and no fix , launched gpstest which fixed satellites in 10s , finally running igo and it gps fixed in 5s .

I swapped to radio .18 , .08 to see if it could help in any way but nothing in that direction .

So it seems that this gpstest tool is really unlocking the gps in nav softwares , but what does gpstest that nav softwares don't do when trying to fix satellites ?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] TheOner:
Okay, here is my story. I bought last week HTC Touch Pro. When i start it, there is:

R 1.02.25.19

G 52.33.25.17.u

D 1.90.00.00

GPS Didn't work at all, when i first tried it with google maps. 0 fixes all the time. I downloaded GPS Test 1.04 and it stopped in "Starting up GPS", and none of bars didn't move at all. I don't know what happened when i walked to shop and it was cloudy, and i tried google maps -> 7 fixes and fast updating. I tought that, "it just needed day to warm up :)".

BUT next day i tried it when i was on my way to work. Started google maps, 0 fixes. Started GPS Test "Starting up GPS" and nothing happened. Restarted phone, didn't help. Tried to change gps Com port, baud settings first 4800 and then 9600, didn't help. I was this close |-| to call manufacturer and say couple of words, but i tried one more thing.

Power off -> removed battery -> battery back -> power on -> GPS Test on. 5seconds 9 fixes. Google maps on, 8 fixes and fast updating.

So removing battery was the solution for me this time. It is clear thing, that GPS in this device isn't working as it should be. And i HOPE that HTC is making somekind of fix to this problem or repair all those ***king GPS units, cause we are talking about 700e smartphone. I know how good GPS can work on smartphone, cause i have been using half cheaper nokia phones and it is nothing like this. Software on and thats it. Works always.

Hope that this could help somebody.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] borkade:
Finally works for me, i just made a hard reset and GPS works
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] guags99:
I've been following this thread for some time as I too have had frustrating GPS problems locking to satellites. When I first got my Diamond new I loaded Google Maps the first day and locked within a couple of minutes. It worked great for a week or two. Always seeing 7+ satellites. I loaded Garmin on it and that too worked well too.

Then one day it just stopped. I worked with HTC on the phone to no avail. Then I found this thread and another, and began trying all of the things suggested. Eventually I had some luck with GPS Test and letting it run for 20+ minutes and finally got a lock. This seemed OK for a couple of days as long as I turned on GPS before I moved anywhere with the phone. Then I had it off for most of a day and traveled 30 miles from work to home. That was it, back to square one.

Again, I've tried nearly evything I have read in this thread. Some don't apply for one reason or another such as my carrier not supporting AGPS, but essentially I have tried it all.

So now besides my gripes with the phone being VERY slow during many types of operations (such as downloading email, or trying to fix a satellite) I have no useful GPS to speak of. I'm tempted to ship back to HTC as they have offered to see if it needed repair, but the idea of being without my PDA for 2 - 3 weeks is hard to take.

Please tell me I'm not the only one that these "fixes" haven't worked for! I'm starting to consider the G1...and I've been WM for many years!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] freeda:
simple fix

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=441572
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] guags99:
Interesting post since I Do indeed have a high capacity battery, but I know early on with this problem I did remove the back completely while testing and did go back to the original battery...but no luck. I have to admit though I only tested this for a short time and didn't give it 20+ minutes to get it's initial lock.

I'll try tomorrow and report my findings.

Thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] guags99:
Well...I have to say it does seem as though the 1800mh battery is the culprit in my situation. I changed back to the standard battery and did a cold start on my GPS. It took about 15 minutes but I then got a lock on 9 satellites. I now have been getting a lock in less than a minute all day.

So it looks like the battery was indeed my problem. Now I have to solve my problem with the standard battery only lasting me 12 hours. It's beginning to look like I'll be looking more closely at the G1, or just wait until there is a WM phone that supports T-Mobile 3G in the US.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sachilleas:
I hard reseted my Diamond when i did find that the GPS was dead(before that the gps was working perfectly fine).

After the hard reset everything was working fine (as far as the gps is concerned)-i tested it a lot of time to by sure...

So i decided to install all of my programs.After that the gps is dead again !!

I've read this thread so i checked that assisted-gps is off and I did turn off the beam option.Unfortunately the gps is still not working ? Any ideas about possible conflicts ?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] missbizzylizzy:
THANK YOU!!

:)Well, it's just amazing what a little bit of googling can do for you in these forums. I was having trouble configuring TomTom 6 with my HTC Diamond and thanks to your advice, it now works perfectly. And, just like you, I get a great signal inside the house, even better than my other GPS receiver (which was a really good one). Thanks again!!!!:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] oxigan:
I've got a few solutions. I got my TomTom always working when I opened Google Maps (and make it connect to "internet"). After using it, starting TomTom, it found the GPS towers almost immediately.

Another solution is that TomTom usually needs you to turn like 4 or 5 corners till it finds all the satelites, and locates its position.

Last but not least, I still have the same problem you have BUT pressing the text where it says no GPS device or whatever located/found, makes it search sattelites and finds 'm quite fast. Just wait a little and you'll have your connection/location.

I'm quite messed up and so is my english atm, as you can see. Hope you figure out what I'm trying to say and that fixes your problem. Gl
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] rwalczak:
GPS not responding - possible reason

Hello everyone,

I've been fighting with my Polished Diamond (1.93.69.3 PLK) - I faced following GPS problem:

After couple days of normal usage, all navigation softwares were unable to find a GPS at all.

After few re-installs of my software I found out the reason: VOIP settings kills my GPS. I used destr0_VOIP_WM61___SIP_Config_1.1.CAB (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2326934&postcount=50) and my GPS stopped working every time I tried to install this package. I also found confirmation of my thoughts at http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-404964.html

Does enyone has different VOIP to let me use GPS and VOIP at the same time?

ThAnX to all for support.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Ryplok:
My fix

Hi

I import and resell these units in Brazil, and last week I had problems with the GPS in two of them.

My usual approach to no GPS lock is to open GoogleMaps, click on "use GPS" and also download the latest QUickGPS data. However, with these two units nothing seemed to work. I tried fiddling with the external GPS settings, hard resets, etc, etc.

I was ready to try and install a new ROM when I decided one last thing, and oddly enough it worked.

The only solution I found was to use the same approach I use with the Samsung Omnia: I changed the settings in TomTom to use "another NMEA GPS receiver", selected a baudrate of 57600 and the COM4 port. Voilà! In less than 5 min I had a GS lock.

Now, don't ask me why this worked. It makes no sense to me, specially as even GoogleMaps couldn't get a lock on the satellites.

Well, I hope this helps.

Ryplok
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] asjones:
xda serra gps now working

Thanks for everyones hard work on this site and hopefully now i can repay the favour.

I was trying to find a solution to the 30 minute GPS fix using tomtom 6 and even sometimes no fix at all (on xda serra on O2).

There are no AGPS settings on O2 xda serra just in case you go looking for them however i found that the following steps got the gps working.

start tomtom 6 and go into change preferences and then show GPS status,

then tap configure and select other NMEA GPS receiver, select 9600 baud rate and next set to com 9.

This should now pick up satellites (go outside to find quicker).

If this hasnt worked on windows tap Start > settings > system > External gps and check they are the same as above.

GPS program port COM9 (programs tab)

baud rate 9600 (hardware tab)

Manage automatically should be ticked (Access tab).

hope this works for someone as i have had so much help myself from this site
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Shouma:
Thanks for all the possible solutions.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] excepti0n:
I suffer from this issue for a while now. I had a lock once, after this, nothing worked.

With a clean install of Aztor v10:

- GPS unit is found by all applications, but never finds a sattelite

- HTC GPS Tool doesn't do or find anything

- GPS Test never goes past 'GPS Starting up'

- Changed COM / Baud rates, to no avail

- Turned Assist GPS on/off

- Removed battery and re-inserted to no effect

The one thing that worries me is the setting in settings > system > phone > services. I have no 'location' or something else there, and I do not seem to be able to add it either. I think it might be the cause of all our problems. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can explain how to add the required setting here.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Mr. Stupid:
heyy guys

i cant get the advanced config tool to work so couldnt somebody just make an program that has an agps on off button with the normal framework

and maybe too some of the other normal features you need.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Ogni:
I had the same issue after installing the VOIP CAB on my Touch HD my GPS stopped completely (no GPS found) and found a fix for it in the orig. Thread about the VOIP CAB, where you have to rename a file and reset so it gets fresh created.

After this my GPS was running again.

The solution was "To solve the problem just rename file /windows/dnsapi.dll to for example dnsapi.dll_bck and make soft reset or turn off and on your device.

There will be created a new file with the same name and you can delete the old renamed one. Then the GPS working properly as well as VoIP. Good luck..."
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] excepti0n:
Still no GPS here. Tried absolutely everything: not getting any fix whatsoever with any program.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sinned69:
OK so i have had the issue with GPS also searching for satellites... for many hours and even one whole day without success... background> i used the GPS (GarminXT) one day around a month back... no problem... worked fine as it usualy did for the past 6 months... at my destination stopped GarminXT then some time later started GarminXT and tried to navigate again... but noticed that half an hour later it was still searching for satellites... and this is the way its been now ever since. hadnt installed anything new... but since the GPS cant find any satellites i have installed GPSGate 2.6 and HTC GPS tool... but none of them have helped... still GarminXT, iGO8 and Mapking2007 fail to secure any satellites...

i dont want to have to do another hard reset if i can help it as i have over 70 apps installed... (takes a whole day)!

my question....

i tried the solution in this post, however i can't edit the dnsapi.dll file... either with the dafult windows folder, nor resco folder... and i cant edit it through... activesync as itr wont allow it to be moved or renamed... etc... so how does one edit this dnsapi.dll file to ether move it, or rename it..?

i want to try this simple solution before i resolve myself to having to hard reset!!! sucks!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Inceptron:
LOL wow, just asked HTC support if they could give me registry values for the GPS driver, and they replied with this:

That's what happens when they employ idiots to work for them...Hard reset gets rid of any 'potential damage'..

And removed skype, still no avail..even though I tried everything from changing the com port in windows settings, making sure location setting was on, got rid of a 'sleep after no data' setting in registry (apparently makes GPS 'sleep' after a few seconds of no data), and disabling beam, etc.

GPS just goes on and off every 5 seconds (on 5secs, off 5secs.) and repeats until tomtom gives me a ARM11 fatal error....

Using CDMA, stock rom, anyone have solutions?

Edit: Gonna try another hard reset, will update in a few mins..

Edit2: Yay, I thought ActiveSync had saved all programs i installed through the phone (via .cab's), but no, it just had to only save the ones is installed through my computer...lame...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ben1do1:
this issue b
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ben1do1:
this issue is common with diamond and touch pro and the best thing to do is to get gps today whis is free and it will fix the issue i also opened a thread in touch pro on xda explaining everything
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ben1do1:
google gps solved by me
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sinned69:
following on from my last post on this thread, no miracle has happened. I left my touch diamond plugged into the accessory plug in my car for several hours which I parked outside my garage with a nice clear view of the sky, and ran one GPS application after another for several hours, in all the GPS apps no satellites were found. FusionGPS tool advised several times that it timed out, so it didn't find any satellites either. I left the touch diamond plugged into the mains power supply and then put it on top of the air-conditioning unit outside my office window with an unobstructed clear view of the heavens, but after an hour or more and with ominous clouds approaching I decided to curtail my attempts at miracles for that day and bought the phone inside.

so no satellites found for me. :/

also GOD didn't appear/reappear...

:cool:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] faisoel:
gps

try to take the battery out for 10 minutes. now i have a gps fix in 1 min
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] allen84us:
any hotfix from HTC ?

my GPS also doesnt work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Dielmann:
Battery removal for 10 min does not work. Is an update of the radio firmware a solution?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Dielmann:
Upgrade to the latest firmware version was no solution. My TT7 worked three weeks ago. But now I've got this bug.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] rubensds:
Cannot rename dnsapi.dll - HELP

hi guys,

new here so please bear with me. like some of the people who have posted a reply on this thread, i am trying to rename the \windows\dnsapi.dll file and everytime i do so i get an 'access denied' error. i have tried using the default file explorer, total commander, resco file explorer...no joy. please can anyone help? i am trying to get the GPS on HTC touch diamond to work with TomTom.

thank you :(