yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] Shrivel:
I'm more than happy with the performance of the GPS after the leaked ROM.

My GPS usage is for two primary purposes:

1. Finding the occasional client's home in the local area. Prior to flashing the updated ROM this worked okay provided I planned ahead and gave it a few minutes to get a lock. This might take anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Once locked, it seemed to track me reasonably well and it always got me where I was going. Now that I've got the updated GPS, it locks within a few seconds and maintains the lock.

2. For location-based apps, such as Foursquare. Prior to the update, this was so frustrating for me that I almost gave up on Foursquare altogether. In order to get anything close to acceptable performance, I would have to open up Google Maps a few minutes prior to arriving at the location I wanted to check in at and give it enough time to get a lock. Then once I arrived at my location, I would launch the Foursquare app and PRAY it got me in the vicinity. This was about a 50/50 shot. After the update, it just works as soon as I launch the app most of the time and at most it only takes a few seconds. No more messing with Maps beforehand. This is actually better performance than I was getting on my G1.

I'm completely satisfied with the GPS now. I suppose if I ever needed it to track a hair on a gnat's back, it might not perform up to par, but for what I expect from a GPS in a freaking phone (and not my TomTom), it's great.
[Vibrant General] zoid_99:
Well.... Mine stopped working again. Will not lock on to any sats again. It doesn't matter what settings I use. This is getting frustrating. I left it on GTS Status for about 15 minutes in the car last night and it remained @ 0/10 - 0/12.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
This is what happens when I go to sleep/leave GPS off for a while. Picks up on the sats but won't connect.

Disabling WiFi on 2G only.. close/open app - BOOM, lock in less than 5 seconds
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Just checked after sleeping all night and putting on Ms based yesterday, and what do ya know. 10 seconds 6 satellite locks. I can even have wifi on and its fine. If it stay like this for 2 more wakeups I'm golden..

Flashed rom

Ms based selected.

Wifi usually off/although ill still get it on...

Ms based to me was a bad asz find from heygrl....

Mine was going back to crap untilled I changed that. I still get locks faaaaast.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I have WiFi set to be on 100% of the time even when the screen is off so that could be the difference here. It's minor as far as I'm concerned, but it can be overlooked.

I just noticed: it doesn't even show the GPS time until I disable WiFi. Something is definitely going on there.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
It wont show GPS time without a lock. So if wifi is keeping you from getting a lock, your time will also be 0 till you get a lock...wifi is not doing that, no lock is.
[Vibrant General] KerryG:
This is pretty interesting, my track was dead on accurate, including lane changes the entire trip until right at the very end, in a residential area it showed me cutting through some people's lawns which I pretty much do not recall doing since one of them is our local sheriff's house. I think its odd that it handled the high speed stuff perfectly but the slow speed stuff took a dirt nap somewhere.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...53,-117.814186&spn=0.004118,0.008256&t=h&z=18
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
You're kidding right? It's GPS on a phone no less, that's about as good as it's going to get. I don't know what you've come to expect but as long as it doesn't have you on the wrong street, it's good enough. Any map navi program would have ignored that.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Agreed, if it finds you, tracks you without losing route, and shows me atleast 20 meters or so, I think it works great for a phone GPS...

Hell I want to see a my tracks from a car GPS and see what's up.

Some people expect a little much out of this.
[Vibrant General] ultra spikey:
Probably because some people have used other phones with GPS with no problems.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
You see a problem with the track above or the one in my sig? I don't see a "problem" with either.
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
Part of that high-speed vs low-speed difference seems to be built into the low-level GPS logic, which is doing some kind of interpolation and smoothing. So at high speeds, which tend to be on straighter segments because we tend to slow down on corners, the algorithm is dominated by the vehicle's motion and looks more accurate. The Samsung GPS is not the only device to do such smoothing. (I have seen it on my G1, too.) The smoothing algorithm does sometimes cause the track to veer wide on high-speed curves, so errors gan get magnified..

Another facter in cutting the corner at low speed might be an artifact of the settings in My Tracks. If you use the default settings, it will record points sampled at 1-second intervals, but will ignore points that are not at least 5 meters away from their immediate predecessor. So at low speeds, that can lead to cruder polylines around curves. (The GPS is not drawing the lines that connect the points; My Tracks is.) You can change that setting to a 1 meter minimum, which more accurately represents the track at low speeds by recording more points. This setting is especially important for walking tracks, which are more demanding than driving tracks in assessing GPS accuracy.

And looking at the individual points on your track (the vertices of the polylines) I didn't see any that were grossly far from the road bed. An error of a few meters can easily be off-road if you are driving close to the shoulder.
[Vibrant General] KerryG:
Thanks boomerbubba, I sort of suspected it might have been a sampling issue. The GPS has been working flawlessly since I installed the zip file version of the update. This was the first time I tested My Tracks and that was the only anomoly it recorded. The starting point was dead on because I was in the drive thru of a Burger King going very slow. Only at about 30mph through the tight residential area did the moving speed vs sampling speed become noticable.
[Vibrant General] zoid_99:
ok.. Now I get 10/12 with 18 ft accuracy with a lock in 5 secs. WTF? Does GPS not like night time?
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
Did you reboot in the meantime, or access the LbsTestMode menu? Resetting the GPS cache by such methods can be a temporary workaround until the cache fails again over time.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I have yet to ever not have my GPS working. Weather it be because it won't lock on WiFi, is another story but it will always pick up a signal. Something else is going on there. Hours of uptime and no change in GPS functionality.
[Vibrant General] mjpacheco:
Just piling on, but so far it has been great.

10/10 in the AM, 15 - 20 foot accuracy on 30 min drive, stayed consistent.

10/12 in the PM, 10 - 15 foot accuracy on a 40 minute drive, stayed consistent.

Except for first time, locks within seconds.

On both drives only saw one time where it 'popped' to a 50 foot accuracy reading and only for a couple of seconds.

Way way way way better than stock.

p.s. GPS fix only, not entire custom rom.
[Vibrant General] zoid_99:
I don't think I changed anything from last night to this morning. No reboots. No access to LbsTestMode. I'm stumped. Well, it's working now. Wait, the one difference is location. I only had edge while trying to lock last night. I have 3G here and it locks. I will run some more test this evening.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
OK I take back it works good on wifi. Same as heygrl, turning wifi off, instant lock. Lol

This GPS **** is funny.lol feel like mcgyver trying to figure it out. Lol but yea wifi off, Ms based on, rom flashed and it gets a pretty good lock and stays locked...lol funny ****.
[Vibrant General] ultra spikey:
The "problem" is that we even have to question the Galaxy S's GPS accuracy. If some people say they're GPS works great, and some people say it doesn't, that is a problem. Inconsistent GPS results does not equal no "problem".
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Update: second wake up after changing setting per heygrl to Ms based, cloudy rainy day and phone slept for 7 hours and of course wifi off.

Lock time 6 satellites exactly 7 seconds.

1 more day and I say its good enough for me, by all means not saying its fixed or if your in need to find a pot of gold down to the foot. For me needing to find the occasional fastest route home, food place or just one use monthly maybe, that it's great. Tracks great too, hasn't lost route in 2 days and use it everywhere just to test.

Now hopefully if we get a over the air rom or fix whatever that it don't make things worse. GPS is fine here, so far, by tomorrow ill really be able to tell.

Once again not saying its fixed or what, but just goes to show how great this community is to get things working. Pretty awesome I think.
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
If it does turn out that MS Based mode of the Vibrant GPS works well but Standalone mode does not, that can probably meet the needs of most end users who typically are in range of the T-Mobile network.

MS Based would be my choice for the default. I still wonder why even the leaked ROM from Samsung still defaults to Standalone mode.

However, it would be a shame if the Standalone mode could not be relied upon for special purposes. I have tested the GPS of a Sprint Epic in Standalone mode in an area with no data network, and the underlying GPS worked fine. I could get a good lock according to GPS Test, record My Tracks files and display them normally later. The tracks themselves were accurate.

Of course, most Android mapping apps are not very useful off the network in real tine (for hiking, etc.) because the map tiles are not stored locally. But there are some other apps that can work with a Standalone GPS.
[Vibrant General] larryccf:
wonder if this has any bearing - article about google forcing phone mfgrs to drop skyhook from their android based phones - notice that samsung was suggested as one of them

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/skyhook-google-forced-motorola-to-drop-our-location-service-de/

We figured Skyhook's business interference and patent infringement lawsuits against Google would turn up some dirt, and we didn't have long to wait: the location-services company's complaint flatly alleges that Google's Andy Rubin ordered Motorola's Sanjay Jha to "stop ship" on the Droid X because it used Skyhook's XPS positioning system instead of Google Location Services, a tiff that ultimately delayed the phone's release while Moto reworked the software and dropped Skyhook entirely. Following that, Skyhook claims that Google then went after an unidentified "Company X" (likely Samsung) and forced it to drop XPS as well -- which would certainly explain why Samsung's Galaxy S phones have WiFi positioning turned off by default, unlike every other Android phone. Ouch.

If you're thinking that makes no sense because Android is "open," well, you might have another think coming -- Skyhook claims that Google's decisions to allow access to Android Market and its branded apps are an entirely subjective ruse based on something called the Compliance Definition Document, which can be "arbitrarily" interpreted any way Google wants with no recourse. Skyhook says that Google has now told Android OEMs that they're required to use Google Location Services, preventing Skyhook from fulfilling its contracts and costing the company millions in expected royalties.

Now, this is Skyhook's side of the story and we're sure Google will make a persuasive argument of its own, but let's just back up for a moment here and point out the obvious: Google's never, ever come out and clearly said what's required for devices to gain access to Android Market and the branded apps like Gmail -- even though we've been directly asking about those requirements since Android first launched. Remember when Andy Rubin told us that there would be full-fledged "Google Experience" phones with no carrier or handset manufacturer limitations? Or when we were told that phones with skins like HTC Sense or additional features like Exchange integration wouldn't have Google branding? And then all of that turned out to be a lie? Yes, Android might be "open" in the sense that the source code is available, but there's no doubt Google's wielded incredible power over the platform by restricting access to Market and its own apps -- power that hasn't been used to prevent carrier-mandated bloatware or poorly-done manufacturer skinning, but has instead apparently been used to block legitimate competitors like Skyhook from doing business. We're dying to hear Google's side of this story and fill in some of the gaps -- and you can bet we're digging as hard as we can for more info. Stay tuned, kids.
[Vibrant General] boomerbubba:
There is another thread devoted to that article. And I doubt that it has any bearing on this thread, which is about the performance of the recently leaked ROM for the Vibrant and its effect on the GPS. Skyhook has nothing to do with the GPS. It is a non-GPS method of estimating location from a database of WiFi routers and access points populated by Skyhook's war driving.
[Vibrant General] jamesyl:
Wow I live two streets down from you. I thought for about a minute "what a coincidence that there's another city with major streets Walnut, Red Hill, and Edinger..."
[Vibrant General] danaff37:
I don't have a vibrant myself, but a buddy at work does and his gps had been completely inoperative for about a month, since like day two of owning the phone. Tried the settings fix in the secret menus, no luck. Tried just the gps files fix, no luck. Still wouldn't find "my location" in maps, no matter how long you waited. Flashed the leak, and has worked great ever since.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Update: phone sleep for 7 hours, turned off wifi, turned on GPS, opened GPS status and got a lock within 25 seconds inside.

Well, for me this is good enough, and had 3 days of testing so I'm pretty sure its gonna hold up like this...

Like I said, lets just hope the new rom either has GPS fixed or can be just as good as what I got mine like now. Lol

Will see...
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Some of you need to read up on gps and it's limitations. For one, the accuracy is a guess and is calculated differently by every vendor. You can't compare it between vendors. Take a gps to a "benchmark" and you can see how inaccurate gps really is. If we really are getting 15ft accuracy as reported by gpstest, that's quite good.

The vibrant gps seems as good as any standalone gps I've owned, after the fix. It's very normal for your gps position to jump around while you are sitting still. Road gps units snap to the road and filter those jumps so you don't see them.

If a g1 or other phone is giving better tracks, I think they have to be filtering the results like that. It's fair to say that you think Samsung should implement filtering, but the fix does help the gps. If nothing else, aGPS is stable now, not just working when it wants to. That's a big help.
[Vibrant General] boodies:
so that's what it was. many times, I would find the GPS getting lost as to which direction I am pointing when I am stopped at a light. I really feel that "filtering" should be enabled. It can really mess with your navigating.

Another problem I found is it's doing it's old thing again where I am exiting and the GPS would say that I am still on the highway. This really messed my commute up couple times. I am on the new rom and I do notice that the lock is way faster with more to lock on to.
[Vibrant General] fumanstan:
Did a 2 mile run around some trails next to my house and the tracking seemed to work great using the CardioTrainer app. I don't use the GPS much, but it's been fine when i've needed it.
[Vibrant General] rbcamping:
Today was the sixth day with the new rom with GPS fix and it sucked. It was locking on 5-9 sats the whole time and the map program kept saying that it lost GPS with locked sats and the circle was large on my location even if it found me, sometimes it didn't even find me.

It seems to work great and slowly get worse over time. I don't think that the sat location program is using all of the sats that it gets a lock on. I think it only uses 1-3 of them and if you lose one that it was using to calculate your location, it loses your location even though it has locks on others.

Is there a way to find out what the internal programing is on the sat programing to see if its using all of the sats that are available or if I am correct on the issue that seems to be happening that I listed above.

on a side note; I did try switching wireless networks on and off because when I first turned on the mapping I got nothing, no lock. I turned on networks and got a lock instantly but it kept moving all over, so I turned off networks and it seemed more stable for awhile and slowly got worse throughout the day. I tried turning networks back on and it made no difference.

GPS is not fixed, needs more work
[Vibrant General] Stresa:
I don't think that determination can be made until the official firmware update is rolled out.

You are basing your conclusion on leaked code that could easily be outdated.

Sent from Samsung Vibrant
[Vibrant General] zoid_99:
Mine did something similar this morning. It claimed it was locked onto 7 of 10 but the statistics were not changing. It stayed at 137ft accuracy and and never changed. I opened maps and said it lost GPS but the GPS lock icon was on. I turned off GPS and turned it back on and it took about 2 minutes to lock. Onec it locked everything looked ok again.

The GPS is better with this firmware but it still has it's quirks.
[Vibrant General] rbcamping:
Well today was even worse. I was unable to lock to any sats today and when I turned on use networks, my location was about 2000 ft. and no sat locked and no sats seen. I turned off use networks and I could see up to four sats but mostly zero and never got a lock.....needless to say the navigation program did not work.

I did not try to reboot the phone but I just turned on the GPS test program again and its sees 7 sats indoors where I usually see twelve and no locks. I just rebooted the phone as I'm typing and turned on the GPS test program and we have? 10-11 in view with 6-8 locked. and the mapping program says I'm located with in 24 ft.

I really hope this gets fixed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oOflyeyesOo:
Well for a bit on the past few nightlys it seems the vibrate doesn't work anymore at all.

Does anyone have any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwntwnall4u:
I noticed only on 9/13 not vibrating, use 9/14
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkManX4lf:
Have you tried to enable vibrate? Like if you want to vibrate on text message arrival, you would have to go to the messaging app and then go to its settings and enable it in there. I noticed after I installed the final version of CM6, my emails, texts and I think my phone calls stopped vibrating. I had to manually enable them all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bizdady:
Which nightly are you on? It was disabled somehow in one of the nightlies last week. Im on 9/12 now and its working on this one.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
This is a complete themed CM6 rom with a few mods.

How to install:

1. Backup your current rom.

2. Wipe. (If your coming from a CM6 Rom you may not need to wipe. I don't but, I recommend that you do).

3. Install.

Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tcb3dv5xyqnn9q7

Enjoy!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ACD168:
Looks great man, gunna give it a try once uploaded.. wish we could get that galaxy lock screen..
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Upstreammiami:
Any luck for sense
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
Thanks, I'll take a look at that lock screen.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] darkvar:
Thanks Touchpro! My current rom right now and I really like the theme color. Can this be flashed over current Nightly build that has led notfication working? Appreciates your works and Red Bull on your way.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdavis42:
I really like the theme for the most part but wish you could get rid of all the green and replace with the neon blue. Also while I'm making demands could you add some transparency to all of the widgets, now. Just kidding, great work and will be keeping an eye on this to see where you take it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
I haven't tried to flash it over the nightly builds. You may be able to flash it over the nightly builds but, I doubt you'll have all the same features working. Backup and give it a try.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
Which Rom?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] rollotomasi5:
would this work on ruby
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Cincybearcatfan:
Is it possible to add the smooth battery or any battery percentage in the status bar with this ROM?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
No, it won't.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
Sorry, I will not be updating this theme at all. You can try looking for a 3rd party app that does that.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Cincybearcatfan:
Figured out how to add the percentage in the battery, nice add. Question though: How can Adrynalyn's Second Wave ROM with Sense use LESS battery than this one without Sense? Generally after a work day's usage with the Second Wave ROM my battery was between 80%-84% now after using this ROM it is between 60% and 65%? Just curious if it needs a different kernel or something.:confused:
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mb02:
I dig this theme. I'm having one issue though: every time I try to change volumes in settings, it FCs. Anyone else have this problem?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sirmims:
im really diggin this theme its really colorful lol. i did notice that when your getting an incoming call the slider for answering calls is a little off the screen on the left. is that normal? or is it a bug?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sirmims:
oh and i have adw on with the droid x theme do you think thats affecting it?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] iakamand:
i have the same problem please fix
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonathan062:
This might sound weird but I'm curious if anybody would explain if and how I can change the wifi driver for the incredible i am on 2.2 rooted with virtuous 2.6 but would like to change back to 2.1's driver if possible. I since 2.2 I cannot connect to my schools network anymore. used to be able to on 2.1 but since the update to 2.2 i cannot connect. all i can come up with is that with N enabled i'm screwed. The college uses a multi-stream wireless N gigabit system, according to the network admin. i posted a similat question and i was told the incredible only supports single in single out. but it used to work. I can see the networks but the phone will not connect. If i could run 2.2 and either force the phone use g or change the driver back to 2.1's would be great. please help, verizon and htc are no help, all i know is if i can find and replace the driver i might have a chance , sorry the post is so long I just wanted to clear, thanks everyone!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonathan062:
Can I change it.

Does anybody know or does nobody care?