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[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Accuracy: 16-28 feet stationary 38-50 feet moving

Average SNR: 22-35. Obviously you'll always have one or two that are lower and one or two higher. My max I've observed was 42.

Number of Sats Locked/In View: 8/11 most of the time. Yesterday afternoon I was locked on 10/10 with a 22 foot accuracy inside. I've had 11/14 before as well, just depends on the time of day.

Cold Start Lock: 30 seconds

Hot Start Lock: 5-15 seconds

For reference, my Garmin Nuvi is currently connected to 7/10 with a 16-18 foot accuracy and my Vibrant is connected to 7/10 with a 21-25 foot accuracy. (stationary of course)

Unnecessary re-routing: No

Wandering on Google Nav/Lost Signal with Nav: Very rarely. For me it happens when I lose signal which is only if the phone is resting on my jeans. If it's in my cupholder, center console, hand, etc it's fine. Earlier today I lost signal with it in my cupholder but I was traveling in an area where my Garmin Nuvi only had a connection to 5 satellites.

My Tracks: No data from me yet

Other notes: I'm a Private Investigator so I'm on the road a lot. Today is my first day to really extensively test it. Basically, it's MUCH better. Is it perfect? No, but I will say that unlike these other fixes that involve changes in lbstestmode and reset apps that only last for a couple of hours at best, my GPS performance has been very consistent ever since I adjusted the antenna contact. Is it as good as my old Blackberries with signal strength? No. How does it compare to other Android devices? I have no clue.

What I do know is that it works well enough for me to be comfortable not having to grab my Nuvi everytime I switch vehicles.
[Vibrant General] lorendroll:
I can confirm that repairing GPS antenna contact helps alot!!! But be very careful! I broke this contact and had to make a new one (was not easy!), but it really helped! Now I can use my GPS at last. HOT start gets locked in few seconds on a clear sky.
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
KWKSLVR-

Thanks for posting your data. That's surprisingly close to how mine has been performing since it got fixed by the JI6 update on my stock Vibrant. On a good day, my accuracy has been as tight as 15', and on a typical one 20'-25'...but that's standing still; I realize I've never checked the accuracy when I'm on the road, but I will. I lock on about as many birds as you, though not well inside (maybe the steel roof of my house has something to do with that). Time to lock is about 15-20 seconds the first time I do it in the day. After that, if I turn it off and then turn it back on, it will lock in 1-3 seconds. SNRs are typically in the range of 20-40, and I think the highest I've ever seen is about 45. The one thing that is annoying, though not a fatal flaw, is the occasional bit of wandering I get that I described previously. I'll also try a run with My Tracks tomorrow...
[Vibrant General] BaoQ:
Can some one post pictures of what to do with the contact? Thank you.
[Vibrant General] Plato56:
its not hard, just bend them up a little. Dont need to over flex them, just expand the contact so it sits higher than when you started. I does not take much at all. I also clean both sides of the contact with alcohol and a q-tip . thats it....
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
See below -

High Resolution images at the links below.

HI-RES LINKS

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/961/sgsvibrantbackshell.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7785/sgsvibrantsideinternals.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6559/sgsvibrantinternals.jpg
[Vibrant General] T313C0mun1s7:
Yes, I was right. This image clearly shows a U.FL antenna connector (almost dead center of the photo) on the board right about where the "thingamajig" would be. They did not make it easy to get to, but basically it allow you to hook up an external (cellular) antenna for applications like semi-permanent mounting in a vehicle.
[Vibrant General] BaoQ:
Which one we suppose to rise? I see four of them.

If it just the one on the top right, I did that but the gps still not locking.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Its just the one contact I circled. Make sure you reset you GPS settings and have a clear sky. The first lock may take some time. Also reboot.
[Vibrant General] Plato56:
KWKSLVR There is another thread in the general section labled "Hardware GPS FIX" thats scewing everyone over by having them lift the cell antenna contacts. People are, of course, haveing no success and think a hardware fix is a fail.

Could you possably create a new thread with pictures labeled "CORRECT Hardware GPS FIX" so more people see this? I would do it myself but as good as i may be with hardware, im am crap when it comes to things like forum code, embeding and moding pictures and , well actualy USING computer software in general lol.

Oh and in that thread, give the guys here who have contributed to expanding this idea credit , including yourself, becuase I beleave this is serous progress to getting a working GPS in the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] androidmonkey:
I posted clear pics 1 page back. I also posted this in the other thread.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
I can put a tutorial up in a new thread later tonight if you guys want. I know a lot of people are owed credit and I'll be sure to give all credit.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Here it is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9923176#post9923176
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
After 20 Days of use my Vibrant's GPS

After 20 days I'm 100% shure they changed the antenna it locks fast and no jumping or anything. it's perfect. There is no way they didn't change it because I had 3 Vibrants Before this and all of them were jumping around and not locking, so no matter who says what they DID change it.
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Post up some SNR numbers!
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
what's SNR

Sorry I dont know what's SNR
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Go to the market and download an app called GPS Test by Chartcross. SNR basically assigns a numerical strength to you gps lock.
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
ok thanx ill try to do it now
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
ok i got the app how do i know whats the snr ?
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
it shows 13 in view
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Look at the bar at the bottom that goes from red to green. Every satellite you're connected to will fall in that range. Just post up the numerical strength of the satellites you're connected to. :)
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
ok there are 28, 40, 36 ,32
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Thanks! That's actually on par with those of us that have applied the hardware fix. I think Samsung probably just changed up the gps antenna contact.
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
thats im in my appartament next to balcony im not even outside,
[Vibrant General] samomamo:
I think so to , My Vibrant is stock but its rooted so i can use the wifi tether.
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
KWKSLVR-

I took a 20 mile ride last night and left GPS Test on all the time so I could keep an eye on accuracy. It was quite good: I was locked on 10 of 11 satellites and was getting 10'-15' accuracy pretty much the whole time: speed does not seem to decrease my accuracy. On the way home I tried to do My Tracks to get an idea of how much wandering I was getting. Unfortunately, the app locked up after about 3-4 miles so I'll have to try again. What I did see was the track staggering around by 20'-30' in all directions before I started out, but the several miles I was moving it looked like it traced the route very cleanly. Here is a short video that I posted a couple of weeks ago that shows the SNRs that I typically get on my stock Vibrant with just the JI6 update and no messing with the GPS contacts...yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms5zqvXEtlE
[Vibrant General] tf442:
New Vibrant gps seems better

I got a new Vibrant since my wife wanted my other one to play games. She said I could have any new phone I wanted and I had an upgrade available on one of my phones. After much research on XDA I went to Walmart and they had the Vibrant for $48.88. Thinking about my other options, I went ahead and bought another Vibrant.

So I downloaded GPS Test today and walked outside. In about 20 seconds I had 10 satellites with 8 locks. After letting it settle in I was at 17.6 feet accuracy. I never got under 22 feet with the original Vibrant. Not a big difference but significant to me. Don't know if it is hardware or software, but I think the new Vibrant gps is definitely better.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanRo80:
Whenever you plug it in to charge the screen starts acting up by responding late and not right where you touched. Stock, Unrooted 1.6. Has anyone experienced this before?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmariann2001:
please anyone who cares about this forum, please make a rule, something and arrange the topics by criteria, rom problem, rom request, rom developers, and so etc something like that. is verry hard to read all the posts. dono how to display more post per page. anyway is toooo crawded in here. cleaning is needed. 10x
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
I find it organized just fine and find whatever I need in the sections it is posted under. Another problem is that you expect everything you need to be separately posted without having to look for it. In fact, I find requests like yours interesting, considering the overall number of posts by you....
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmariann2001:
Can`t say i`ve overposted, but i`m reading this stuff for a while. I will post from now on if that satisfy s u.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Badwolve1:
Hey there, ther

should

only be ROM dev going on here. Rom Probs should be asked in the appropriate thread. I also move all other generic Q's to Q&A , but your right, the forum does need cleaning as i've been away for a few weeks :)

If you have any other issues, feel free to contact me.

Oh, and moved to general :p
[TG01 General] Nomgle:
The solution to all these issues is simple : Don't install your applications onto the SD Card.

Once you've moved everything into the phone memory, you'll find it all works much better !
[TG01 General] Kilihari:
What about the cycle boot freeze problem? Oh man, I would give anything to have my stupid phone boot properly!... Again, it will freeze 2-3 times, then it will boot properly, it doesn't matter if there is no sim card and/or sd card installed at the time. Anyone experienced this?
[TG01 General] mcmurzen:
Hi Kilihari! I had a similar problem with my TG01. I'm not firm in programming windows mobile, so I can't give you an advice in this direction...

but when that occured on my TG (plus freezing phone when press slightly on the backside of it), I sent it to the Toshiba-service partner for warranty - and got it back, still having the same problem -freezing after light pressure on the back-cover and independent from that (occured before) recycling boot (only 30% of the boot-trials worked properly). So I recorded a video with the problems and sent it back to Toshiba service the next day...

The result: My phone received a new motherboard, new IMEI etc. Which one of the two faults was the cause for replacement...i don't know, but maybe the recycling boot is rather a hardware-fault-caused problem than software-caused...

Good luck in finding a solution!

mcmurzen
[TG01 General] dr_strangetrick:
i ther, I have not had a problem with rebooting but I do get the missing icons quite a lot.

I find that using Sense roms is fine, I assume that while Sense is loading the system has more time to scan the sd card and load the icons. But this has a knock on effect on both memory and battery life.

I did find a rom somewhere (cant remember which one) which had a very lengthy boot/startup animation and the icons appeard fine. But it took a while to load so I changed this to a more traditional logo and the icons dissapeared.

I uninstalled this but the icons never came back and I did read that by changing the startup wait times this could also fix the problem so I tried experimenting and trashed my TG01 and I had to hard reset to clear and since then I have not 'experimented' since.

If someone has some spare time on their hands and dosent mind all the reboots they may find an answer but in the end I had to make customised icons and use JWD icon changer
[TG01 General] Kilihari:
Thanks guys for your help, I am sending my phone back to Toshiba, I will do this up again, I will pay for it, I don't care, I got to get this fixed.
[TG01 General] dr_strangetrick:
Good luck and keep us posted
[TG01 General] Kilihari:
Problem Solved!!!!

:D Good news. :D

So I decided to give it one last shot, to try just one more time to get my phone working properly. I turned it on and preformed a “Master Clear” on my phone, stock Toshiba ROM freshly downloaded from their website, just to give it one more shot. I didn’t want to take out my SIM card from my secondary ASUS phone so I just took the pre-paid “Pay-as-you-go” SIM card from Softbank Mobile here in Japan (we use it sometimes when we have company over from Canada). A very interesting thing happened... right from the very beginning, I noticed that my phone was much more responsive and stable, I noticed that it didn’t freeze or reboot. It was perfect. The radio for the Japanese Docomo T01a is 5005.1901.1.20 which must make it possible for it to work with Japanese SIM cards, of course the new radio for UK Orange is 5001.0001.76. My "pay-you-go" SIM card looks like the previous generation's SIM, whereas my official Softbank SIM card looks newer. Anyways, the pay-as-you go SIM works, well the other SIM worked too, but this time my phone doesn't reboot, IT IS STABLE!!!! Meaning my phone is good. If anyone would like me to go further and take some photos of the SIMs, I can, just so if anyone encounters this problem ever again, we now have some additional information for the people in this community. If someone is experiencing the same problem as I am, you can just get a pay-as-you-go card or use a different carrier’s card and it might work, but the rebooting at boot and random freezes are not caused because of defect in my phone.

WoW.... I can't believe after a year and a half of pain, misery, and suffering, that it all came down to a stupid pay-as-you-go SIM card... also, my phone still froze without a SIM card in it, but after I had put in the pay-as-you-go SIM card, then it froze one more time, but the second time it booted, and then after it booted properly, then it has been good ever since, even without a SIM… now it is good. I can't believe this... honestly can't believe this. Even if it reboots once a day, there is no problem with that, but it has been totally stable... holy ****.... holy crap, it hasn’t rebooted in a whole DAY!!!! Moral of the story, buying a phone from a different country has issues related to it. EHEEHHEEHH.. Ummm... weirdest thing, ok, so, it seems like the pay-as-you-go card updated something in my phone or, allowed something to update. Then I put in my normal SIM card and all is good. When my phone starts to act funny, then I pop back in the pay-as-you-go SIM card for a minute, then turn off my phone and then put back in my normal Softbank SIM card. WOW!!

Also, Supbro's iContacts, iDialer, GreenButton and Ashiqiqbal's Host v1.5 are awesome programs... I feel like a kid in a candy story who has been held back savoring the sweet smells of the candy for over a year, I am now just installing program after program on this phone, just playing with things, eating all the candy!

:D -kilisoefenhappy :D
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
My dhd is rooted with s off.

I really want to uninstall the car panel app but can't find it in root manager or root explorer or adb list. Does anyone know the apk name and any other linked apk that works with it?

I'd really appreciate the help.
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
Anyone's help would be great. Thanks
[Desire HD General] r0cky0790:
You should go into root explorer, go to the system/app/, folder and it should be in there.

r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
All the apps are there but I can't find the car panel apk. They might have named it something not obvious. Do you know the name of the apk? Thanks for getting back to me by the way.
[Desire HD General] r0cky0790:
Try to look for the apk that says panel

r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
Nope, nothing there
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
Bump
[Desire HD General] basrik:
Still no one who found it? I'm looking to get ridt of it too..
[Desire HD General] dr.m0x:
It is part of the locations app. If you want to get rid of it you must delete the entire locations suite.

If this is really what you want, delete all the files containing either "locations" or "laputa" in the file name from /system/app using root explorer.

Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD.
[Desire HD General] pwraggcan:
Thanks for your help. Really appreciate it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] L.Bento:
Hi

I have just partitioned my SD card with Paragon to ext2.

My Desire has stock 2.2 and I use z4root to do all the root stuff I want. Does the stock rom work with the partitioned SD?

How do I know it is working/partioned? My phone only says 102mb free internal space. Should I have donne it in Fat32?

Should I do something else?

Sorry for all the questions but Im getting crazy about this!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGhost1233:
The stock rom won't do a thing with just a ext partition. You need to install a custom rom with A2SD+
[Epic 4G General] guruleenyc:
My Kaspersky is detecting a trojan in this rooting file:

Exploit.Linux.Lotoor.g

See attached screen-shot;

Let me know if this is in fact a false positive...?
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
RATC.bin is teh exploit used to root your phone...
[Epic 4G General] Geniusdog254:
It's a false positive. Promise.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
It's not a false positive, the exploit that we use works just like any trojan - it provides back-door access to the system. We're just using a virus to crack open the system long enough to install a more permanent access to root.

That's right, viruses aren't necessarily bad - it just depends on how they're used ;)
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
It is in deed a real virus, but it won't do much to your windows system other than piss off your av software... Could jump to linux and not worry about viruses...at least very few. Yes they exist, but rarely affecting a personal computer.
[Epic 4G General] Deleted member 2173701:
yeah true true. virus by deffinition yes. but technically anything can be defined as a "virus" by allowing access to "alter" the original programming to allow access to functions other than what the manufacturer intended. dont worry. most antivirus's find a virus in anything. a key generator shows up as a virus. dont worry. your safe.
[Epic 4G General] richse:
What you wrote makes no sense, the reason the anti-virus detects it as a trojan is because it includes exploit code to obtain root in LINUX. It won't do anything to a windows box but it can completely own a vulnerable linux box. So telling someone they would need to switch to linux in order to avoid this exploit is ridiculous.
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
correct it obtains root, but do you understand how? the whole reason it works is by exploiting adb so unless you happen to have the phone version of adb included in your linux build i would think this is pretty harmless
[Epic 4G General] richse:
YES, but the reason I responded to that last post was because he was telling someone to switch from windows to linux in order to avoid a linux exploit. There are plenty of valid reasons to switch, but that would have to be the stupidest one I have ever seen put forth.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
The exploitation of adb is used to get the RATM file on the phone... then RATM uses an exploit in the linux kernel to gain root access. I'm pretty sure RATM isn't using adb to do its magic. What I don't know, is if it is exploiting a part of the kernel that is android specific, or a part that is in every linux kernel
[Epic 4G General] DRockstar:
shabbypenguin is right guys... you can't hack regular linux with this... so don't worry about it, and move on...

just be sure to reactivate your antivirus after using it.
[Epic 4G General] Geniusdog254:
It's busting open the adb daemon on the phone, which runs as root. It'll do nothing to a desktop linux box unless you have an ARMv7 powered desktop running an Android specific kernel :P
[Epic 4G General] Zeinzu:
Omg that's what I have I'm screwed :P

Sent from my Epic 4g
[Epic 4G General] shabbypenguin:
lol told you to upgrade to ARMv8 :P
[Epic 4G General] azyouthinkeyeiz:
Tomatoe... Tomato.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
That makes perfect sense, thanks for the clarification (and for not being a **** about it, as is so often a problem in the Epic forums...)
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
As has been stated, its not a linux exploit. Its an adb exploit, quit trying to associate things and sound smarter than you are. Just because your shirt is red, and your car is red doesn't mean you can drive your shirt. :p what I said makes perfect sense.
[Epic 4G General] swiftdr:
Funniest thing I've read all day!
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Necrophilia is illegal.
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
That's not what the guy running the hospital morgue told me. :D

I changed to NIS and it doesn't say squat about it.
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
if only that shirt had a steering wheel :D

wait.. can I drive my red car w/ my red shirt on?? that would be driving IN my red shirt.. close enough ?? hahaha
[Epic 4G General] schnowdapowda:
I <3 necrophilia.

cd's or tapes?
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
wooooo necro-thread comes back from the dead.

*Gets shot guns*
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Not everywhere. If you're (un)lucky enough to live in one of the 29 states where it's not (there is no Federal law against necrophilia; it's all up to the states) then feel free to crack open a cold one every now and then.
[Epic 4G General] farmsatguy:
LMAO! That's funny as hell!
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
*vomits* :(
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
This must be a guy thing as I fail to see how any woman could have sex with a dead man. There only useful when their alive and making money. :D

Sent from the morgue...
[Epic 4G General] bricky23:
Idk my wife enjoys a good stiffy every now and then.
[Epic 4G General] theimpaler747:
And this wonderful thread has now been closed ;) Too much OT guys, and the topic has been exhausted.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phordych05:
hello...I'm a noob thatd had my he2 now for some months...I've figured out a lot of thingz like installing cabs and what not...but then came cht 2.O and how you can change the theme of it phone...even with a stock ROM you can change it theme...now my problem is that once i download the cab or zip file...i must not neo utting it in the right place or extracting it right.can someone please help me out and explain this to me.i mean even the most knowledgeable people were a noob like me at one point. i have used google bit no help, and can't find it in here.thanks for your time.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
try this thread......

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=834139
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phordych05:
thanks for trying to help...but that is for some1 who pretty much knows all about cht...that just said make a wallpaper file...what then i out the theme cab/zip in that file and just using chts will make it change...?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Your welcome....

Sorry I thought thats what you were asking about....

Im not sure if your talking about a ready made CHTS layout/theme or just a normal theme that you want to save and use with CHTS.

Which theme are you talking about? Knowing that will help solve your problem.

What you might need to do is set everything up and then save it as a layout in CHTS.

If you can link me to the stuff your trying to use that will help too :D