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Root Agps Patch Triumph

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Jong31

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Here's a gps fix i found over on xda by user crypted. I flashed it and it worked Great! I tried another gps fix posted on these forums, which didn't work for me, but with this one, I'm locking in a matter of seconds! I highly recommend this.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442038

I flashed the 3.1 no ssl version, but i assume any version would work.

Also, sorry if anyone has already posted this link. I looked around briefly and didn't find it.
 
This patch works beautifully, at least at first glance. I'll put it through it's paces today and see how it works it the "real world."
 
This has been discussed here before (but it has been a while) and I am very skeptical of this fix because of some comments Tickerguy made when he was getting CM7 working for the Triumph. Since all the CM7/MIUI variants are based off of that same code he was working on it would still hold true today (unless the current dev has been messing with that same gps code, but I don't believe that is the case).

Here are a couple statements from the previous thread:
My phone gets pretty quick GPS locks, but it isn't because of aGPS. It has always been that way. It was good on the stock ROM, which has aGPS disabled, and CM7 as well.

I know having wifi or using the cell tower data will help get a quicker fix sometimes, but that isn't a gps.conf related thing.

Tickerguy made it very plain that while something like this may seem to work short term, it isn't making aGPS work correctly. And it will not stay long term. I am not sure exactly why this sort of thing helps short term, but aGPS wasn't enabled last I knew, and it won't work even if it was. I will try to find the stuff by TG on this and post it here.

Here are some of the pertinent quotes from Tickerguy:
tickerguy said:
Unfortunately the actual AGPS protocol does NOT work as the radio code doesn't properly handle it. I shut off the interface intentionally in the code for CM7 as it also had a habit of provoking watchdog resets if it was hammered on enough times, which is very un-cool.
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tickerguy said:
Time-to-lock is not fixable on a first lock if the almanac is invalid as AGPS does NOT work on this device. However, once it gets a lock it is extremely stable. I have run multiple ~8-hour uninterrupted sessions with CoPilot up.
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This was brought to the attention of crypted and he never came here to discuss it, nor was it discussed much over at the xda thread. I don't think this will have any long term benefits for you.

Here is the link to the original thread here I am referring to: http://androidforums.com/triumph-all-things-root/483710-agps-patch.html

FYI, I am not trying to stop discussion here in this post, just trying to link the other stuff here as well. :)
 
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