Sprint PRI UPDATE - 5 second GPS locks - cab attached

[jaminmc]

I'm amazed at how sensitive the GPS is in my mogul. In my office, I have a brick wall, and a concrete ceiling to another floor. I fire up the gps and in 3-5 seconds it is locked to 5 satellites. My old phone, the m610, it would never see gps in my office... Not to mention it would loose the GPS signal when you really needed it.

[tarrant64]

I ran into a problem when installing the CAB file. It loads some Custom PPST file in apps, right(at least it says you can uninstall it)?

When I did this, I lost my Sprint PCS connection. Do I need to have a custom rom loaded for this CAB to work? I've had my phone for a little over a week, has GPS and it works. i Just thought this was a simple install to enhance the GPS.


If there's something else needed, please let me know. Otherwise I'm staying clear, it took me 15 minutes to find out it was after loading this CAB I was losing my Sprint connection. Couldn't make calls, couldn't get text messages out. Tried having text messages sent to me, no go. Back up now though.

[holo]

Originally Posted by tarrant64

I ran into a problem when installing the CAB file. It loads some Custom PPST file in apps, right(at least it says you can uninstall it)?

When I did this, I lost my Sprint PCS connection. Do I need to have a custom rom loaded for this CAB to work? I've had my phone for a little over a week, has GPS and it works. i Just thought this was a simple install to enhance the GPS.


If there's something else needed, please let me know. Otherwise I'm staying clear, it took me 15 minutes to find out it was after loading this CAB I was losing my Sprint connection. Couldn't make calls, couldn't get text messages out. Tried having text messages sent to me, no go. Back up now though.

It shuts down the radio and will require a reboot... Install the cab and run PPST.exe in the windows directory and it should shut down the radio and force you to reboot and you should be fine...

You need to run PPST from the file explorer in the windows directory...

No custom rom is needed but you will need a GPS enabled ROM/radio (if your GPS works already you have this already).

[tarrant64]

Alright, giving it another go. I didn't get any prompts or anything after running the PPST.exe file. Does it just...'blip' and it's done? I'm assuming it did its thing because I lost the connection again.

I'm going to restart it and see what happens.

Thanks for the quick response.

[holo]

Originally Posted by tarrant64

Alright, giving it another go. I didn't get any prompts or anything after running the PPST.exe file. Does it just...'blip' and it's done? I'm assuming it did its thing because I lost the connection again.

I'm going to restart it and see what happens.

Thanks for the quick response.

it should pop up a screen and say that it is updating.... you clicked ppst from the windows directory? you might have to turn on view all files in file explorer...

[tarrant64]

Originally Posted by holo

it should pop up a screen and say that it is updating.... you clicked ppst from the windows directory? you might have to turn on view all files in file explorer...

view all files is on.

It's the file dated 4/7/2008 right? It does turn off radio, but just doesn't prompt. Did a soft reset and looks to be working.

Something I need to be concerned about?

[holo]

Originally Posted by tarrant64

view all files is on.

It's the file dated 4/7/2008 right? It does turn off radio, but just doesn't prompt. Did a soft reset and looks to be working.

Something I need to be concerned about?

dunno maybe it did it on its own - that date is correct....

do ##778# from the dialer hit view and make sure your PRI version says 2.03_003.... All apps should have similar times getting GPS fixes too - probably just something weird at the moment...

[eyecannon]

^^^ it should say it's going to reset your phone, then you click ok

This works really well for me, it gave me a lock inside my apartment in 6 seconds flat. Usually it takes at least 45 seconds to get a fix.

[tarrant64]

Yup I sure did click the one in the windows directory.

Still no prompt though. Looks like it's working. At least for Live Search anyways, just takes 4-5 seconds for GPS now. Google Maps still takes a minute or more.

[tarrant64]

Yup, that's what it says.

Thanks