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Help GPS cache problem workaround, tested, working

Here's what I did.

1. Flashed DI18 using ODIN
2. Changed to Warm Start using #*1472365#
3. Used GPS Status and Toolbox to flush cache and download GPS assistance.
4. Used GPS Test to verify GPS lockon using 8 satellites (through an East facing window - it's too cold today to go outside).
5. Used Update.ZIP to flash DK28 (kept getting MD5 hash errors with the .tar file in ODIN)
6. Verified GPS will still lock on using GPS Test and GPS Status.

I'm satisfied. My theory is that there was bad data in the GPS cache on my phone when I went to DK28 and it was just hosed (pretty technical guess, huh :).
 
I'm gonna wait for the official release, then ODIN everything... fortunately, GPS isn't one of my primary uses for my phone and I don't want to risk what is otherwise a solid phone. I can wait and just hopefully fix it all at once.

You'd think there's a way to do it under 2.2 though... probably just hasn't been found yet.
 
I have tried this several times and my simply does not respond to the *#147... input. I rebooted my phone etc. but no dice.

It is an Epic running stock:
- running 2.2.1
- build EC05
- Hardware version D700.0.5

It also does not work with the froyo *#*#321... either.

Any thoughts?
 
johnsrelay said:
I have tried this several times and my simply does not respond to the *#147... input. I rebooted my phone etc. but no dice.

It is an Epic running stock:
- running 2.2.1
- build EC05
- Hardware version D700.0.5

It also does not work with the froyo *#*#321... either.

Any thoughts?
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This workaround was for older versions of the OS. The Sprint GPS update bundled with Froyo, which was supposed to fix the GPS cache bug, changed all that. The OS update removed not only the dialer code, but the hidden GPSsetup utility that the dialer code invoked. The GPS setup logic is entirely different, and the settings -- whatever they are -- are no longer visiible.
 
the good news, the ACS team said the latest gingerbread leak was supposed to have fixed the issue. (fingers crossed)
 
Aero1,

Any chance of posting the GPS application / setup dial code for Gingerbread for the Samsung Galaxy S Epic? One of the updates fixed this GPS issue for me, but the recent Gingerbread update just re-introduced it, and I need your work-around again, but I have not found anywhere that has the new dial codes for the GPS.

Thanks so much for your work on this workaround the first time... it saved me several times while out traveling.
 
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