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Re: Verizon VX6900, GPS won't work with Live Search or Google

Link number one on that page you sent me, doesn't lead to anything but a page asking for donations.

Link number two, says at the bottom that if you are installing a factory ROM that you need to go to another link, which is the link that I said before that contradicted itself in the instructions. Here is the contradiction;

To (optionally) copy the new gpsapi.dll to your \Windows directory, you may use these steps:

1. Rename gpsapi.dll to something else (e.g. "gpsapix.dll").
2. Copy the renamed gpsapi.dll to \Windows
3. Rename the renamed gpsapi.dll in \Windows back to gpsapi.dll.
[RIGHT HERE IS THE PROBLEM. YOU CAN'T RENAME A FILE TO A SAME-NAMED FILE. YOU HAVE TO DELETE THE ORIGINAL, YET BELOW HE STATES TO DELETE IT AFTER DOING THESE STEPS. AND IF HE MEANS TO DELETE IT PRIOR TO RENAMING IT, THEN WHY RENAME IT? WHY NOT JUST DELETE IT AND REPLACE IT WITH THE NEW FILE? HE IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING HERE THAT IS UNCERTAIN]
The renaming juggling is necessary as File Explorer will otherwise refuse to supersede an XIP ROM file. You can simply delete \Windows\gpsapi.dll after doing these steps to revert back to the standard Windows gpsapi.dll, without having to hard reset your device, although this will again break GPS for you.