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Root Fixed bobZ gps!!!!

Swainsmith82 said:
Do you get a notification that it's trying to locate?
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Nope I get nothing which means my gps isn't even activating





SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
I'm telling you telling you telling you, if you still can't get a lock, unbrick to C and install CLEAN. Confirmed to work for one other person who couldn't get the fix to work before.. Tellin ya, unbrick to C and follow this order: Unbrick to C, root, install 2nd init recovery, flash CM10, then gapps, then C modem, then gps fix.
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Too much trouble that would make his my third unbrick in 2 days. And my SD card is full so I can't do another backup to get my apps back
 
Swagg422 said:
Nope I get nothing which means my gps isn't even activating







Too much trouble that would make his my third unbrick in 2 days. And my SD card is full so I can't do another backup to get my apps back
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Delete old backup and make a new one. This seems to have worked for a couple of people having the issues so it's worth it in my opinion..
 
Unfortunately, I'm having massive battery drain issues. I think it's an issue with airplane mode, as SwoRNLeaDejZ said. When I cycle Airplane mode, the phone stops overheating, but only for 30 minutes or so, and then it does it again. If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be much appreciated. For now, I'm going to try wiping the data on the phone, flashing to stock, then going through the tried-and-true order as posted by SwoRNLeaDejZ to get CM + GPS working. Hopefully that will fix it.
 
Motions run a little warm to begin with, but I think if your phone is getting really hot it could be do to your kernel settings and brightness settings. If you're running overclocked all the time and have the brightness up all the way it's going to get hot.. fast. As far as airplane mode I have not experienced that specific issue..
 
shellsotf said:
Unfortunately, I'm having massive battery drain issues. I think it's an issue with airplane mode, as SwoRNLeaDejZ said. When I cycle Airplane mode, the phone stops overheating, but only for 30 minutes or so, and then it does it again. If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be much appreciated. For now, I'm going to try wiping the data on the phone, flashing to stock, then going through the tried-and-true order as posted by SwoRNLeaDejZ to get CM + GPS working. Hopefully that will fix it.
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I was having the heating problems too, to solve it I put my phone in airplane mode for about fifteen minutes, and I use smart ram booster pro to kill all apps. After fifteen minutes I disable airplane and it's all set. It's been fine all day, no heating, and when I took it off the charger with data gps and Wi-Fi on earlier, it took TWO HOURS for it to go from 100% battery to 99% o.O I couldn't believe it.
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
I was having the heating problems too, to solve it I put my phone in airplane mode for about fifteen minutes, and I use smart ram booster pro to kill all apps. After fifteen minutes I disable airplane and it's all set. It's been fine all day, no heating, and when I took it off the charger with data gps and Wi-Fi on earlier, it took TWO HOURS for it to go from 100% battery to 99% o.O I couldn't believe it.
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Nice I'll try it just to try it.
 
I just flashed johnny's paranoid port over cm10 to see if it fixes back light and other things it is advertised to fix. I'll report back :) I'm definitely digging the menus :D
 
Swainsmith82 said:
Motions run a little warm to begin with, but I think if your phone is getting really hot it could be do to your kernel settings and brightness settings. If you're running overclocked all the time and have the brightness up all the way it's going to get hot.. fast. As far as airplane mode I have not experienced that specific issue..
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It's beyond the normal level of warmness, and it happens when I'm not doing anything and it's in my pocket. I'm not running an overclocked kernel and I don't have the brightness high. I know it's not an app that's eating the CPU because I haven't put much on it since installing CM and I used Watchdog to check for apps eating CPU in the background.

Phones will chew through their battery when they don't have signal, desperately boosting their transmit power and doing whatever they can to get just one bar. That's what's almost certainly happening here - the OS thinks airplane mode is on but the chipset doesn't, or vice versa, and so the chipset is freaking out trying to get signal when there's actually plenty to go around....

I'll try leaving airplane mode on for 15 minutes, but I don't have high hopes :(
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
I was having the heating problems too, to solve it I put my phone in airplane mode for about fifteen minutes, and I use smart ram booster pro to kill all apps. After fifteen minutes I disable airplane and it's all set. It's been fine all day, no heating, and when I took it off the charger with data gps and Wi-Fi on earlier, it took TWO HOURS for it to go from 100% battery to 99% o.O I couldn't believe it.
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Battery a little better but hasn't even gotten earm since I did this...
 
shellsotf said:
It's beyond the normal level of warmness, and it happens when I'm not doing anything and it's in my pocket. I'm not running an overclocked kernel and I don't have the brightness high. I know it's not an app that's eating the CPU because I haven't put much on it since installing CM and I used Watchdog to check for apps eating CPU in the background.

Phones will chew through their battery when they don't have signal, desperately boosting their transmit power and doing whatever they can to get just one bar. That's what's almost certainly happening here - the OS thinks airplane mode is on but the chipset doesn't, or vice versa, and so the chipset is freaking out trying to get signal when there's actually plenty to go around....

I'll try leaving airplane mode on for 15 minutes, but I don't have high hopes :(
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To are 100% right on this. It's definitely a signal issue, phone is going bat shit trying to get a signal it already has. Luckily for me toggling airplane on and off fixes it. It almost seems like it fixes it until the next time I have to use gps. Solution is just leaving gps off until you need it, it drains the battery to leave it on unnecessarily anyhow.

Swainsmith82, what exactly is the edit, and how does it allow gps to connect?
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
To are 100% right on this. It's definitely a signal issue, phone is going bat shit trying to get a signal it already has. Luckily for me toggling airplane on and off fixes it. It almost seems like it fixes it until the next time I have to use gps. Solution is just leaving gps off until you need it, it drains the battery to leave it on unnecessarily anyhow.

Swainsmith82, what exactly is the edit, and how does it allow gps to connect?
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It's a replacement default gps file the one needed to aquire satellite signal. The one we had didn't work. I had my gps and navigation running for 45 mins straight in the ridiculous Texas heat never got hot at all. I don't think its gps really..
 
Swainsmith82 said:
It's a replacement default gps file the one needed to aquire satellite signal. The one we had didn't work. I had my gps and navigation running for 45 mins straight in the ridiculous Texas heat never got hot at all. I don't think its gps really..
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I'm not saying it definitely is because I've had gps on and it's fine and other times it isn't. Can you pm me the source of the file?
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
System reset for C is different from the rest of them. You have to yank battery, then put it back in, hold power and volume down until you feel the one vibration. At that instance exactly, you have to release volume down and start pounding on home and back at the same time repeatedly. It's all about timing, but if you do it right, the android guy will pop up and you'll be all set.. I had the same problem. Glad it worked for you though ;)
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Hey Sworn, I think the combo is:
Hold down Vol Down + Power
When you feel the first vibrate, let go of Power button
Keep holding Vol Down and repeatedly press Home and Back buttons

That's what worked for me.

I'm going to try your method to see if I get a better lock. It worked at first with the zip file and stock conf. but now it hardly locks on. And with a gps tool it doesn't pick up any satellites.
 
I can confirm for me that it was gps making my phone hot and draining battery I've been track my battery all day and I did a test with the original gps file and the gps fix files. Seems as if gps fix files are forcing gps to try extremely hard to sync with satellites which cause the heat. And I also think the reason we are all getting different results is because none of us are on the same rom/port. I'm going to switch back to firmware c 2mrrw then reboot flash bobz 4/22 build with all the fixes then flash the gps fix and see wat kind of heat I get
 
yknujssab said:
Hey Sworn, I think the combo is:
Hold down Vol Down + Power
When you feel the first vibrate, let go of Power button
Keep holding Vol Down and repeatedly press Home and Back buttons

That's what worked for me.

I'm going to try your method to see if I get a better lock. It worked at first with the zip file and stock conf. but now it hardly locks on. And with a gps tool it doesn't pick up any satellites.
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Yeah that was a typo on my part, you release power not volume down :P
 
Ok so exactly what do i need to flash in order to make nearly everything work? Cm 4-22. Gps fix. 4.3 camera. And flash from stock C. Anything else im missing?
 
Xt51 said:
Yea i found it. Thx though!
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so i need to go back to stock C, then flash cm 4-22and add 4.3 camera to fix front video cam. then flash 4g fix, then flash paranoid baseless. After that can i flash F aboot to use loki kernal?
 
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