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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
AngelDeath,

Just tried the GPS Fix again this morning to see how quickly my phone is picking up the satellites. Seems to be about the same as I posted earlier except with the 125 second first lock. Looks like I didn't correctly try it the first time. After activating the app and waiting for the dialog boxes to appear, seems first lock is coming in at 10 seconds! Relocks are still in the 4-5 second range. Using my phone to track me on the freeway, it seems to be a bit smoother. As you know, I have incorporated into my gps.conf file the five time servers that actually emanate from my city. I already had very fast first and relocks to begin with but with this new GPS Fix and script in place, it is even faster than ever before. Oh and by the way, I challenged my wife on her iPhone which smartphone was faster to get the navigation route for a destination. As you already know, it wasn't even close. I had gotten the correct route even before her iPhone could even lock onto the satellites. She was shocked at the speed my phone could do navigation. This is what she looked like::eek: and this is what I looked like: :D after our little competition. Will keep checking the next couple of days if this GPS Fix works for the long haul.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mafioso:
Which build are you using, is it Sense or CM7/GB?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
Well downloaded southmid states (Texas) and gpx fix and added two lines. Ran Gpsfix and gpsstatus. Using Hyperdroid GBX vs 10. Installed gps fix from sd card. ANd added script using root explorer. Everything looks as it should. JUst no GPS.

Let run for three minutes No lock, in fact GPS status doesn't even find satellites to lock onto. Was hoping this might work . Will try again but not hopeful at this point. Using an hd2.

On my mytouch 1.2, running 2.3.3 gps status will find satellites in seconds. And thats using the standard script that was on it the rom. North America etc.

EDit. Is there something else to do with the gps fix apk. I installed it and couple seconds later there was a little message on screen that said gps fixed. Is that all I have to do do?

EDIT: Just ran gps Status for 15 minutes. No satellites turned up , no lock obviously. So this fix didn't work for me apparently. I don't know how to actually test the hardware to see if even capable of receiving a signal.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DanielNTX:
In Texas too. Same thing here, no GPS lock in Android.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wanahave:
I've read about the same problems about 2 weeks ago on the CoreDroid HD2 forum. A guy named Wingnutt had the same. His phone was also one off the first HD2's. GPS worked well in WiMo but not at all in Android. He'd send his phone back and was lucky because he got a new one. Problem solved.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Chronos1121:
Is there any chance of creating mirror for GPS fix files. I'm trying to download the Turkish one but the browser continue returning with url not found error. Is there any other chance to download fix? Thank you.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Easemypain:
Im using Pongsters HBX v10 + tyung 8.3 + gps fix for germany and it works. Not instantly but in less then 30sec.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] polo735:
When I flash northeast.zip the text that reads out says installing north west. Which one is being installed?

Sent from my HTC HD2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
Mine is completely Fubar. Just installed clean WinMo and had a hard reboot after 30 min in route simulation in iGO.

Must say HTC doesn't have a good name with me. 3 of the latest HTC phones had to go to the dreadfull warranty center and 2 had to be returned a couple of times to get them finally repaired. My Nokia E61, E61i and E71 never ever had any issue.

Well have a trip to Disney on Thursday that I will have to use my small screen E71 for ... again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] drakexpl:
Clean install after task29, GBX v11, tytung kernel 8.3 - no fix in 15 minutes @ Poland.

Tasked29, reinstalled with the same GBXv11, without this gps fixation, just changed gps.conf to pl.xxx.xxx.xx - FIX in 112 seconds.

To sum up - doesn't work ( sry for my english )
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jizreal:
im using cm7 typhoon my location is Florida. when I dl the southeast zip and apply it under the Angel Death banner when its installing it says "Us- mid west" is that correct? does it say that no matter what location you dl for?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
I'm getting near same results, but they do vary at times, but I have to check to see if pointing it to the root folder is making any difference, I dont think it is with the GPS Status program, but I have to test further with 3rd party programs and a logcat.

Let me know how that goes, Sorry to hear about your troubles.

This is good, just wish I had a failsafe for everyone to have the success you and I have.

I am using Raf's 4.0 with HyperKernel v6 In case you were wondering.

Try this: Run the GPS FIX, in about 30 seconds it will say GPS fixed, then try running either google maps, or car panel, or some navigation software and see if the result is different. I am not 100% sure GPS Status will make a difference with those added lines.

What Rom are you using?

30 Seconds is better then 3 mins LOL

Wish granted, attached at the end of the post, but all the links work, just wont work froma phone, dont know why.

Ignore the banner, I didnt change the banner. All the banners say the same thing, sorry I was lazy at 3am.

Surprising, considering poland has many time servers.

Read the response to the previous response.

To All: Do understand that not every setup does work, Drivers and roms do play a part in this, and I do believe that kernels do to an extend as well. The roms I posted (Versions) I have tested, and also some people have posted roms they are using that it works with, I cannot guarantee it will work with every rom, or every setup, since I cant test that, nor do I live in every country, but I am doing my best to tweak if you want to say to make it work until the devs get it working, if at all.

Also Understand that not every rom (Stock) has agps support, for example, the DesireHD (aka ATT Inspire dare I say) does not have agps support, the files nor the lines are there. I even checked an Xperia 10 today, and that too does not have agps support.

Again the only one that I have in my hands as a rom that does is the rom that was posted a couple months back: 4281-001_Huashan_Sense_21_Gingerbread.zip

My best guess would be the Dev's need to start looking in there. In the post I made in the Dev forum has my Alpha script in case anyone wants to look at it or try it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
Mafioso,

I am using Cmylxgo's Stock Desire HD(2) NAND ROM. But as AngelDeath knows, I am also using a highly configured gps.conf file for my area. I am fortunate that I have five time servers that are located in my city that I live. If you have additional time servers in your area, I would highly recommend adding them to AngelDeath's files. It drops the lock time by at least 1/3 for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DanielNTX:
I'm using NexusHD2-Gingerbread V2.5. I sat outside with my phone today and got a lock after 10 minutes which surprised me. I haven't been able to get a lock until I used that GPSfix.apk. It takes me around that amount of time each time, better but not great.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mafioso:
@AngelDeath, Not to dispute you're findings but how are the lock times you're getting on stock inspire? Is it same as the HD2?

I've seen many people praising, lock times on Desire/DesireHD/Wildfire when compared to HD2 in this thread itself, its kinda hard to believe its without AGPS :confused:

Could it be HTC normally implements AGPS in some other way and not by implementing the AOSP code/library you've found...because if I remember correctly that Haushan ROM wasn't really a normal HTC ROM because it didn't had the normal rosie launcher, rather it was using stock android launcher, similar could be the case for AGPS...BTW its just a hypothesis to a possibility why AGPS is code is missing in stock htc roms...i could be wrong..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Jarrett76:
thanks for the hard work!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
I'm glad you got a lock but don't like your long times it takes to lock. The possibility that the room can be the cause. Mafioso posted a link to an article in the dev forum which states exactly this, long wait times. I would essay if you're curious backup your current ROM and install a non gingerbread rom and see if your wait times are the same.

I will be checking this tomorrow. I can tell you the one I had from radio shack before returning it cause I found it cheaper is that the lock time surpassed three minutes before I shut down GPS status. I don't expect this new one to be any better. My only thought is most forget that if you have data on and WiFi on your going to have locks under three seconds. In the inspire the settings are the same under locations, use GPS and use WiFi. If you have WiFi checked then it will lock. Also another thing I keep stressing is that sats are not always in the same place every hour what you may get at noon will be different then what you get at midnight. The best way to test GPS is to test say at noon then try again at 8PM then try again at like midnight or one am. That way you can see that lock times will change.

And as for the ROM, if HTC created the ROM, I don't see why they would deviate the way they make roms for android the only difference of the roms is the drivers of the hardware of the phone, not the way it handles calls to anything.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
Been playing with the same build you are on the last couple of hours and I am getting very fast first locks of under 30 seconds and relocks in the 4-5 second range. You may want to add this script to your gps.conf file: ntp.bytestacker.com

It is the one and only secondary time server that I was able to find that is located in Austin, TX. You do have quite a few secondary time servers in Dallas, Plano and San Antonio just to let you know. I use five secondary time servers that are located in my city which probably accounts why I can quickly get GPS lock. Hope the addition script helps you.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Here is a quote from someone in your location:

Here is the suggestion I would have for you, go back to a generic gps.conf file using the ntp.pool.org

then add the two lines I suggested here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12410769&postcount=490

And then try it and tell me if you have any better results. Obviously do not try to get a lock inside the house.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Okay Just tested out the GPS with GPS Status, and it definitely works very different on the inspire (Being a native android) then it does on the HD2. Also that phone I got from radio shack must have been messed up, even doing a master reset. But here are the results on the Inspire:

Cold lock after Gps Status installed and downloaded agps data: 36 seconds, relocks in 2 seconds. Shutting down and waiting 10 mins, re-starting gps status 5 seconds. Waiting approx 45mins and restarting GPS status 38 seconds, relocks 3 seconds.

Using the stock generic gps.conf file thats in android with wifi unchecked under locations. (Phone is not rooted, so I cant install my script)

But this is interesting, going to copy and paste this to Dev thread, being the inspire is suppose to be close to the HD2 hardware specs this might be of interest to the Dev's.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Esaj2:
I didn't have that problem. I was able to use the GPS, but the GPS itself froze every time, when you used it longer than few minutes. Good to hear, that someone has had better luck and got new device. Sadly I'm probably not that lucky. I just sent my phone for repair again and hopefully the service center does now change the GPS module. Last time they changed the screen and the chassis :eek:, which was odd, because those were just fine, but the GPS was broken and the phone heated up a lot and caused crashing.

I have bad news for you. :( Because we have almost identical issues, I decided to send my phone back in repair. It was there less than a week ago and now it's there again. Hopefully you have better luck.

Sent my phone off for repair today and hopefully get it back in a week. There's a little light in the tunnel however. If they can't fix it, I can either take a new HD2 or take completely new phone, with new contract. But I'm probably sticking with my old contract and just take another HD2, because there's really no good alternatives at the moment and I don't want to take another two year contract with a phone that's gonna get outdated in a short period of time like the DHD for example. I'm gonna wait the dual or even quad core devices to appear. Then I switch my phone to new one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
So just add the ntp.bytestacker.com to the gps .conf file at bottom? I live next to Plano. Maybe that would help. IS the bytestacker picking up the secondary time servers you mentioned?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Chronos1121:
AngelDeath, thank you very much. Got it now from your attachment.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
Well I'm outta suggestions. Nothing works. Tried every combo I can think of. Nothing. Just tried maps all I get is flashing icon and waiting for location or location temporarily unavailable. Don't know if that means hardware is working and software isn't or If I just have a phone issues. Anyway Thanks for all your help,

I may flash it back to windows to see if phone actually works. For now I'll have to use my my touch if I want gps.

Thanks all again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DanielNTX:
Go outside in a middle of a field and try to get a lock. I ran quickfix and then was in the middle of a field in Liberty Hill, TX and noticed when I ran GPS Status it locked in about 10 minutes.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Well I dont know much about the rom your using if your sig is the one that your using, but All I can say is backup your current rom and try another and see if you have the same result.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
LOL No my sig is my 1.2 my touch. On the hd2 was using Hyperdroid GBv11.

JUst flashed back to windows to see and am not sure if it's picking up there either. On maps it showed right where I am but little message at top of maps says seeking satellites and has a 0 and keeps blinking. That would seems to tell me that it's not picking up those either. Ugh may just have to have phone checked.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
Yes, this script picks up the secondary time server in Austin, TX. Here is the additional list of secondary time servers in Plano, TX:

tick.greyware.com

tock.greyware.com

And for Dallas, TX:

ntp1.jtsage.com

ntp2.jtsage.com

tick.mattnordhoff.com

ntp.jentfoo.com

ntp.squirrels.us

Hope some of these scripts help.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
Thanks a lot. I had found the plano ones, hadn't tried. HAve to figure out of the gps hardware is working on this phone. Not sure how to do that but I'll find a way I guess.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
All of the time servers you listed worked, but ntp.bytestacker.com is non-responsive, and would not suggest using non-resposive time servers in a script. The others are in the range of 55ms, which is fine.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pelpz:
brazil gps conf file

ok. i used it for some days to evaluate it. and it works very well until now. cold start in 60-70s...

thx a lot man.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] polo735:
Will I need to reflash my Northeast.zip after flashing a new rom update? By rom update I mean an updated version of the same rom without wiping.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Polo735, look at the gps.conf (right click view as text), my guess will be yes you might depending on what was updated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DanielNTX:
Using NTP Server Tool, ntp.bytestacker.com does respond. It doesn't respond to ICMP ping requests though.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Daniel,

It very well might with the tool I dont dispute that, but understand that our cell phones I highly doubt are like that program, and I would think the response we get for ICMP's thru our computer would be about the same thing the cell phone would get. In reality we are doing exactly that by adding servers to the conf file, but I could be wrong, its all a learning experience :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Germany. Dont know why people are having trouble getting these files at times :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Direkts:
Can you reup Poland? :]
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Maarten_0031:
hi guys, does anyone have a mirror for the netherlands file? Thanks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
Have you tried one of the gps.conf files on this thread for your area? Sounds like your current gps.conf file is not optimized for your region. I suspect that you are not receiving enough satellite signals to give you a better fix as well. You can use GPS Status and Toolbox to determine how many and strong the satellites are in your area while obtaining the AGPS data. Also take a look at the OP to find the gps.conf file closest to your region and load it onto your phone and adding QBanin GPSFix should help.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] PKV:
I have installed the zip for my region but nothing,GPS status and tools is working i thing i`m not sure how it supouse to work :D its definetly working like a compas :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Poland

Netherlands

Attached.

What is the error you people are getting off a computer? Its a direct link to the files, you should get the ms gold bar notifying you of a download, no webpage appears if thats what your looking for, and it does not work from mobile browsers, have no idea why.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] PKV:
something for my case ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Install the zip for your location, then there is an apk file in this thread, and in the thread in the dev forum called GPSFix.apk, download and run it and wait till you have it say gps fixed, read that post it also states to add two lines to the gps.conf file.

The post about the gpsfix.apk file should be maybe 10-15 posts back.

I will be updating the post tonight with all the new information and links to make it easier to find things.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Post 2 Updated on Progress: Progress Update!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slbenz:
AngelDeath,

That script by jaba_cz, I am been using since almost day one. I can tell you from my experience, that script alone seems to reduce my first lock time by around 1-2 seconds when I had first lock times around 50-60 seconds. With all the tweaks I have done to my gps.conf file, I have first locks in under 30 seconds and relocks in 2-5 seconds. I am also using an ACCURACY_THRES=50 and not the 5000 or 10000 or 20000 that others have used. I found that it reduced my first lock times and relocks 2-3 seconds without compromising on GPS accuracy in determining your exact location. You may want to give it a try and see if it makes a difference for you.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
Florida fix worked very well, thankyou Angel of Death. Almost didn't even try it because I tried the northeast zip a while back. Cold lock in 30sec, hot in 3-4 sec. Accuracy was 8ft

Also doesn't gps status d/l agps? So why do we need this new apk?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
I'd be curious to see how different yours is then from mine, but going to try the 50 instead of 5000.

I'm glad it worked, thats all I'm striving for here.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
Still no luck, Running hyperdroid GB v 11 on hd2, Redid the entire gps.conf file added the three extra lines and installed gps fix .apk. Cleared gps status agps files the downloaded them.

Rebooted and turned on wifi and enabled google maps. No lock for at least 5 minutes. Enabled gps status for 5 minutes still no lock. MAybe it should wait longer but 5 minutes seems like long enough to determine if even one signal is out there.

Wish there were an easy way to check the hardware itself. Haven't found any.

Puzzled. Guess is everyone is working hard on this so it doesn't appear to be just my phone. I also reflashed rom originally to use the gps.conf that came with it and changed to US. Obviously that didn't work either. Like I said must be a phone thing. I can use my my touch running 2.3.3 and the gps.conf is set to North america and it pick up 10 satellites in a hurry. So something in the hd2 is amiss.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
jjrumph ,

This is what I would do, install the gps.conf file, add the three lines to the end, save the file, install the gpsfix-0.1.apk file, dont run it, make sure wifi is off in locations but gps is on, install gps status, once installed, run it, it will say agpa data downloaded, exit out of gps status, reboot, after reboot, run the qbann gps fix (the apk) it will say gps fixed after 30 seconds, then run gps status and let me know what it says.

And is thet Hyperdroid GB 11 not the same as Hyperdroid 11 GBX? many people have been having success with the gbx from the threads I've seen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
Sorry,yea it is the gbx11, I'm still a bit confused. is the gps-0.1.apk different than the qbann gps fix? HOw do you run the gps fix apk. I install it, it says installed, open or done. I click done and is says gps fixed 30 seconds later. So how do you install and not run.

EDIT: Okay I see the gps is the qbanin gps fix. So that is answered.

Also for the gps.conf file which are you suggesting? Your zip file or the the one I got from D4rk50ul
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Ok these are the files you need:

gps.conf (for your area)

gps status

gpsfix-0.1.apk

1) add the 3 lines to the gps.conf as I have said, then save it to its location.

2) install gpsfix-0.1.apk, click done.

3) install gps status.apk, run it, then exit out.

4) reboot.

5) run Qbann fix (Gpsfix-0.1.apk)

6) wait 30 seconds til it says gps fixed

7) run gps status.

8) post results.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
OKay I'll give that a try. Just saw where the app appears in drawer. Never saw it before. Ugh.

Really dont mean to be a PITA but I'm getting frustrated with this GPS thing and it makes me crazy. LOve the phone and the Rom but with no GPS it's not for me right now.If I could get it to lock one time I'd be thrilled.

Thanks for your help by the way.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jjrumph:
OKay the report is nada ,zippo , Did all you listed in the exact order. Phone just wont get a signal. Left it for 12 minutes. No Luck.

Thanks. I'll wave the white flag for awhile.:)