MoDaCo Rom R4 - GPS is FUBAR

[Guest Cypher_Aod]

been running R4 since it came out and since i installed it my GPS hasn't been functioning properly.

I downgraded to 2.1R4 after trying out the 2.2 Alphabuild, but a friend of mine went straight to 2.1R4 from stock.

he's having no problems connecting to satellites but no matter how many he connects to, he can't get a Fix.

the problem i'm having is that in addition to not being able to get a Fix, the GPS only sees 5 satellites max, often only four and sometimes less, despite being in open ground with a cloudless sky.

is this a known problem, and are there any suggestions for a fix?

[Guest Sebastian404]

Maybe I'm missing something, how do you know how many satellites your connected to?

The GPS location seems to work fine for me, or at least latitude did, tho it did go through a very odd phase of thinking I was in Spain when I was Ireland the other week.

[Guest Cypher_Aod]

Maybe I'm missing something, how do you know how many satellites your connected to?

The GPS location seems to work fine for me, or at least latitude did, tho it did go through a very odd phase of thinking I was in Spain when I was Ireland the other week.

very very good application called GPS Status.

[Guest vulpy]

very very good application called GPS Status.

You have a bad GPS part most probably, don't wait and go change it... I changed 4 San Francisco phones so far and I can tell RF performances vary largely from 1 phone to another...

2 out of 4 had exceptional GPS reception, but 2 were really not great....

I'm not mentioning other stuff around the wifi and bth, ZTE has a very low quality threshold when screening parts... it is at £110 for a reason :rolleyes:

GPS Status rocks btw, fully agree!

[Guest buneech]

GPS works great for me on modaco r4. I also edited gps_ouk.conf, set ntp server to si.pool.ntp.org, because i live in slovenia, and also changed the supl server from orange to google.

[Guest ezablade]

running R4, can see 11 satellites, indoors.

edit.. pic right way up!

Edited November 13, 2010 by ezablade

[Guest Sebastian404]

I tried the app, it works quite well for me too.

People tell me that the AGPS driver from the new ROM is better than the stock one... so I've made a quick and dirty update, you might want to try it..

grab http://www.podtwo.com/android/beta/r6_upda...lade_signed.zip from:

http://www.podtwo.com/android/beta/

And flash it with clockwork recovery, no need to wipe your rom or anything, it should work with the Modaco ROM... but make sure you make a back up before you start... just incase..

[Guest Stryke69]

No GPS problem for me with Modaco r4 ROM...

[Guest Cypher_Aod]

for those suggesting that it's a hardware failure, it was working fine when i briefly tested it on stock.

my friend says that he tried his this morning and managed to get a good fix after 30 seconds, and suspects that his AGPS cache was borked.

[Guest shadowninty]

The GPS location seems to work fine for me, or at least latitude did, tho it did go through a very odd phase of thinking I was in Spain when I was Ireland the other week.

And some peeps in Ireland think they are in Britain :rolleyes:

Bit worried about this tho, GPS is one of the main features which makes me want this device, and if I buy this online - no return mechanism :huh:

Wish Irelan WAS in Britain :'(

Edited November 14, 2010 by shadowninty

[Guest Sebastian404]

for those suggesting that it's a hardware failure, it was working fine when i briefly tested it on stock.

my friend says that he tried his this morning and managed to get a good fix after 30 seconds, and suspects that his AGPS cache was borked.

try going back to the stock ROM and see if it works again?

[Guest Sebastian404]

And some peeps in Ireland think they are in Britain :rolleyes:

Bit worried about this tho, GPS is one of the main features which makes me want this device, and if I buy this online - no return mechanism :huh:

Wish Irelan WAS in Britain :'(

when I got to the airport latitude had me in Spain, but I could 'check in' to Dublin airport with Facebook... very odd