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Old 11-05-2009, 09:00 PM
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Re: Does GPS ever just 'go bad'?

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Originally Posted by Seriously View Post
With all the people saying they went back to STOCK roms, how do we still think it is a QuickGPS issue? My stock Verizion Rom doesn't even have QGPS in it. So replacing the files talked about makes no sense, since they are not there on stock rom anyway.
Ive tried several radio/rom combinations, and still have no gps, and there is no qgps currently installed on my phone, so the issue for me at least, is something else, right.
If your read carefully, it isn't necessarily a "QuickGPS", which is just a tool which downloads some GPS satellite location info, issue. It is likely the data set being downloaded by QuickGPS is reacting poorly with some radio versions. That data set is produced by Qualcomm for A-GPS usage. It is possible that data set can be retrieved by many methods, one of which we know is QuickGPS. It is possible the problem with the data set percolated into other A-GPS mechanisms besides the data set QuickGPS is downloading. I'd ask you a similar question, how do you know the data set isn't being used by your phone?

If you are getting cold GPS locks in under 20 seconds, then you are getting assistance for your GPS from somewhere and you are likely exposed to this problem in some way. There are probably other variables we aren't aware of, so nobody can say for sure you would or wouldn't see the problem. Probably someone at Qualcomm knows exactly what is up and can say for sure, but they aren't speaking

If you have no way of replacing xtra.bin, try a new radio. It won't affect your OS install and you can rollback to different radio if it doesn't work.

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