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for what it's worth guys I had installed the sprint retail rom with gps support and then almost immedately 5055ish nuerom and had that running for MONTHS and could barely get the gps to lock ever. I mean it was to the point where in a car in wide open terrain I would have to hold it up to the window to get it to lock and it would still take 1-2mins at LEAST for never more than 4-5 sats (and would consistently lose and regain tracking). I have since installed the beta sprint rom and let customizations run was getting locks within 5 seconds in my house (where I could NEVER get a lock before) with 5-9 sats. I installed 5060 nuerom shortly after and now consistently get locks within 5 seconds everywhere I go (similarly to the beta rom I imagine as it was doing this for me when I had it. My friend (who ran the retail gps rom by the way so it's not just the beta rom/etc) would tell me stories of this I never believed it was as amazing as he made it sound. Maybe I didn't let the customizations run on the retail rom? Anyways, I now know how good the gps really can be, I always get locks now, have yet to find a building it doesn't work in (although I don't really try it in high rises or anything), and get locks at AMAZING speeds. I have been running this for a while now, and can say without a doubt that it is a complete 180. I used to carry my bluetooth gps receiver along sometimes because it was far superior to the phone's gps but now this is simply not the case and this is ridiculously better than my bluetooth gps is or ever was. I had no idea the phone's gps could get this good! I have never had an instance where I did not get a lock in 5-10 seconds now and always with a large number of satellites. I'm not sure if this enabled some type of assisted mode or what, but if you are having slow locks, people are not exaggerating, the phone really can lock ridiculously fast with a lot of satellites. It was hard for even my bluetooth gps (with sirf III) to get a lock in my house at all, and now this thing will ALWAYS lock in under 5 seconds in my house. This includes a cold start after a soft reset, happened the first time I ever tried it, and after not using the gps for several days.

I can't say for sure what I did that fixed the problem, but I can say for 100% sure that if you are in the same boat as I was, there is an answer, the phone is very capable of having an amazing gps, people are NOT exaggerating.

On a side note: I have never ran ppst.exe (although maybe the customizations do this for you), have never done the regedit, and do not use quickgps or anything like that (I tried quickgps when I was having problems before and it did not seem to help). My friend was getting locks like this way before as I mentioned too with the retail rom as well. Neither of us have done any of these things. I think the answer may be to let the customizations run or do like I did and install the beta rom first let the customizations run and check for yourself.