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I am unable to get to the GPS settings since the latest update
I tried going to *#*#1472365#*#* and it's not doing anything for me at all.
That's because Galaxy is probably the first (and only) phone on the market with the latest version of GPS chip from Broadcom. iPhone 4 has the previous generation chip. I read some place that the new chip has different achitecture which requires that more software be executed on the CPU (but this saves power). It appears that Broadcom is still working out their issues with the chip driver which is regrettable.
So I was curious and did a little research on the GPS chip in the captivate. For one it seems the i9000 has a different GPS chip than the the Captivate (possibly the same for all the other US Galaxy S phones). Reference - What is the Galaxy S BT/GPS/FM chip? - xda-developers However, they are both Broadcom chips. I suggest reading this thread for all the GPS woe is me people. So the Captivate uses the Broadcomm BCM 4751 chip.
The i9000 is also suffering from GPS issues correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong. If it has a different chip it casts a small shadow on the theory that it is a driver issue unless Samsung and Broadcom messed up the drivers on both chipsets.
Sounds interesting, what were the original settings and how long has this fix worked for you. I have had many "wow" days after changes only to have it suck again a few days later.
My 3rd captivate should arrive today so I am hoping for the best out of the GPS.
WoW really? Didnt you know:
Every time someone creates a new thread regarding issues about GPS in the Captivate.
An iPhone 4's "Indestructible Gorilla Glass" shatters....
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I am seeing a TON more sats but still not locking.
For those of you having a problem with the captivate in real world testing please read you won't be sorry.
Guys I'm running a stock version of the Captivate, I did the update hoping to fix the GPS myself and to my dismay it fixed nothing and actually made my phone run worse. I called Galaxy S support and after some painstaking hold times I finally got thru to a level 3 support guy. I told him that the update downloaded and installed over the air properly, the phone rebooted on its own and that I was having the problems I stated earlier. He had me back up my phone (which it turns out I didn't need to as far as music and pics went) and then had me open the dialer and enter *2767*3855#. This immediately took the phone into what he called a "GSM Reset", this was different than the factory reset, it took all of 3 minutes if that and the phone was back up and running. He got off the phone with me and told me to call him back if there were any problems persisting. I immediately went outside, the gps got a lock in 8 seconds. I couldn't believe how fast it locked. My contacts were synced with at&t address book, as soon as I opened the contacts app the phone asked if I wanted to sync my phone, within 5 minutes every one of my 178 contacts had downloaded back into my phone. While my address book was syncing I noticed the pictures I was assigning to my contacts were reappearing. I checked my gallery and every single pic that was on the phone was still there, I then checked the music and all my music was there too. I immediately noticed how much faster the phone was running. I went to the adroid market, hit the menu button, selected downloads and all the apps that I had purchased and downloaded were there waiting for me to reinstall. I downloaded over the 3G network 30 applications in about 8 minutes. I think the update actually "clocked up" the processor, I can't believe how responsive the phone is, nor can I believe how much faster the internet is running.
Being skeptical that it was a temporary fix, I shut the phone off and restarted it, the gps locked again in 3 seconds this time. I tried the navigator built into the google maps app and it was flawless. It held a lock for 45 minutes straight. I then shut the phone off still skeptical restarted it a few times, got back in my car and drove home an hour from work, I intentionally didn't drive the route suggested to see how fast the phone would realize i was off course, everytime I "missed" a turn I looked at the phone and within 5 seconds it was rerouting and choosing a new route. I just checked google maps in my driveway and yes I was standing in my driveway! It took all of 4 seconds for my phone to tell me that, oh and wifi was turned off.
Trust me, follow the simple instructions and do a GSM reset, you won't be sorry.
So I did this last night and it worked!!! Thanks!!!