Alltel GPS with A-GPS - super fast lockon

[myamizfinezt]

Thanks MrObvious, I ran the custom rom that you have on your phone. Now do I need to install the 4 files to enable GPS, since its already GPS enabled?

[Stevevo]

The last couple of days the GPS hasn't worked. It shows in Google Maps that it is "seeking GPS Satellites (0)..." but not finding any. Would you suggest that I restore from the backup that I saved prior to doing this fix and trying again? I know the fix did something as I don't have to prime the GPS now.

This has is one of the best finds I have ever found. Thank you soooo much for your hard work and for sharing. I have never been able to lock on so many satellites before not to mention how fast it is. Again many many thanks.

[shadow-tech]

Originally Posted by Stevevo

The last couple of days the GPS hasn't worked. It shows in Google Maps that it is "seeking GPS Satellites (0)..." but not finding any. Would you suggest that I restore from the backup that I saved prior to doing this fix and trying again? I know the fix did something as I don't have to prime the GPS now.

well the pde servers are still up.
i just tested mine, lock in 10 secs 5 satellites.

try plugging back into qpst and verify the checks are still there. there has been some reports with verizon people that they woke up the next day to find the 'check marks' in qpst were gone.

make u u used the alltel server settings.

also, i updated post #1 with some settings changes. try those out. see top of it for a brief of the changes.

[Stevevo]

Originally Posted by shadow-tech

well the pde servers are still up.
i just tested mine, lock in 10 secs 5 satellites.

try plugging back into qpst and verify the checks are still there. there has been some reports with verizon people that they woke up the next day to find the 'check marks' in qpst were gone.

make u u used the alltel server settings.

also, i updated post #1 with some settings changes. try those out. see top of it for a brief of the changes.

The checks are all there. I noticed that I have GPS as Position Calculation instead of Mobile and GPSMode is = 4 instead of 2.

Will everything go back to what I had before if I restore from Sprite Backup?

When I was checking the QPST Configuration it came up with a message about my phone being locked by another program.

If things will go back to what I had before I did this fix I will restore and then go through it again. I am sure that I did everything as stated on your write up but I must have missed something or else it would work. It worked great the first couple of days. Thanks for your help so far.

[shadow-tech]

as far as I know the settings in QPST will not be cleared out by anything other then QPST itself.

the registry settings can/will be reset if u hard reset or use a backup application.

could u post a screen shot of the error you received regarding the 'phone locked by another program' ?

that is a new one to me and would like to see it.

if u followed my direction properly the 1st time then u should have a backup of the original settings from qpst. it was created when we clicked 'read from phone' then 'save to file...'

if u want u can load that file back onto ur phone using qpst. but i dont think u need to do this. nor would i recommend it. dont mess around with qpst too much. ur problem is most likely something else.

[Stevevo]

Originally Posted by shadow-tech

as far as I know the settings in QPST will not be cleared out by anything other then QPST itself.

the registry settings can/will be reset if u hard reset or use a backup application.

could u post a screen shot of the error you received regarding the 'phone locked by another program' ?

that is a new one to me and would like to see it.

if u followed my direction properly the 1st time then u should have a backup of the original settings from qpst. it was created when we clicked 'read from phone' then 'save to file...'

if u want u can load that file back onto ur phone using qpst. but i dont think u need to do this. nor would i recommend it. dont mess around with qpst too much. ur problem is most likely something else.

I didn't get the error this time and only found one thing that was different and that was the PDE IP Address was 205.142.19.0 so I changed it to 205.142.19.100 and will try it now and let you know if that was the problem. Thanks

[shadow-tech]

that is going to be ur problem right there.

something I have noticed. sometimes in qpst if u enter all the settings in the gpsone tab, then go to a different tab, then go back to gpsone, the settings are gone. u need to make sure u 'write to phone' while still in the gpsone tab.

[Stevevo]

Originally Posted by shadow-tech

that is going to be ur problem right there.

something I have noticed. sometimes in qpst if u enter all the settings in the gpsone tab, then go to a different tab, then go back to gpsone, the settings are gone. u need to make sure u 'write to phone' while still in the gpsone tab.

That must have been it because now I tried it and the first time to fix it took about 1 minute but now it is up in about 20 seconds. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work.

Your PDF files on GPS'ing are really interesting. Hope to learn something.

[hadge]

Does anyone know if there are are PDE information available for Bell? Those Blackberries that include GPS must have some way of helping them lock faster.

I don't imagine that it's possible for me, as a Bell user, to use another provider's, say Telus's (which likely use the same towers) PDE servers, is it?