How To: Configure GPS
 

These instructions are designed to completely outline all of the settings available on an HTC device in order to configure the GPS properly. It is recommended that GPS Settings cab for your carrier is installed, and then to see if your GPS is working. If it is not, you can try to check the gpsOne settings (which is a much more involved process).

GPS Registry Settings

There are certain registry settings that are necessary for the Assisted GPS to work.

I've compiled a CAB of these registry settings for each separate carrier.

GPS Settings - Alltel
GPS Settings - Bell
GPS Settings - Telus
GPS Settings - Sprint

You should now check to see if your GPS works, if it does not then you should try the following steps:

gpsOne Settings

1. Connect your Diamond to your computer with the usb cable. This is also an excellent time to back up anything, just in case.

2. We need to put the phone in diagnostic mode. This is done by running dmrouter.exe by dialing ##DIAG#, or ##DIAG Send (##3424 Send) for Telus.

3. Let windows install your new hardware.
On Windows XP there will be two dialogs that come up. The first one should install after you click next. The next will require a file called qcmdmxp.sys and says it can't be found. As luck has it, your computer already has this file, and it's located here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\.
Simply tell the wizard to look there, and it will show the file, click on it, and the installation will finish.

On Vista and Windows 7, I required no additional drivers.
If you cannot complete the steps below, try the drivers HERE.

4. Install QPST v2.7 b323 if you haven't already.

5. Run the Service Programming program under the QPST start menu.

6. Double click on the little globe at the bottom right of your screen. http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9176/globeew9.png

7. Click on Add New Port, and add COM# - USB/QC DIAGNOSTIC.
(If no COM is listed, right click on My Computer and choose Manage. Select Device Manager from the left tree, and then in the middle column there should be a Ports (COM & LPT) category. Choose this, and then there should be an HTC Diagnostic Interface device with a COM# beside it, remember this COM#.
Go back to QPST and add this device on the right side with the COM# and whatever description you choose.)
It should now show your Com Port and your phone WinCE (########)

8. Close the QPST Configuration window, and go back to the QPST Service Programming window.

9. The ######## from step 7, which is the same number in the ESN column, is your ESN! (in hex format). If you have your SPC already, keep going. Otherwise, scroll down and read the SPC section.

10. Click on your phone, and then click OK.

11. Your phone should now be automatically detected. If not select it to match the picture below, then click OK.
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/577...eselectca7.png

12. Click on Read From Phone and then enter your SPC and click OK.

13. Goto the gpsOne tab (you'll have to scroll to the right) and make your screen identical to this one, choosing the settings for your proper carrier below:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/740/gpsoneet7.png
14. Click Write To Phone.

15. SOFT RESET (or turn your phone off and then back on).

16. Test your GPS (some good programs are below).

Finding Your SPC
Many people wonder how to find your SPC and what it is. It is your Service Programming Code (SPC) or Master Subsidy Lock Code (MSL Code). It is essentiall a code to allow you to access certain menus of your phone related to its setting.

Here are instructions on how to find it:

1. Find your ESN in hex. If you have it in decimal, use THIS to convert it. You want the pESN Hexadecimal: number.

2. Download PPST_KeyGen.dll and GetSPC.exe, and then transfer them to your phone.

3. Run GetSPC.exe on your phone.

4. Enter your hex ESN in the Input field.

5. Press Go.

6. Write down your SPC from the Output field.

7. Enjoy.

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Perhaps it was just me, but when I tried using the version of QPST in the main post above it would not recognize my phone. That was version 2.7 build 301.

The latest version I could find was 2.7 build 323, and it recognized my TP2 and I was able to complete the gpsOne changes. I've upload that version here in case it helps anyone else.

EDIT: This post can now be ignored. The link to QPST in the OP has since been updated to build 323.

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Can this be made into a sticky?

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Sorry, I have heard the same, I will upload the new version to the server.

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Promoted to sticky :)

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Since when?

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Ran the setup, however my computer was unable to locate the qcmdmxp.sys file in the Systems32 folder. Where can I get the file and install it to the folder

Anyone who has already gone through the setup, would you mind coping the file and posting it here. Thanks

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The attached worked for me. I know it's not the qcmdmxp.sys file, but for 32-bit XP it worked fine. Extract the zip somewhere. Once you jump into ##DIAG mode and are prompted for the drivers for the new hardware, point Windows to the unzipped location.

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Quick question. Will the Alltel package work with verizon?

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Those drivers worked fine. In my haste, I didn't notice Tobey had already attached the needed drivers in the first post

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I've uploaded the new version of QPST.

Now that I have this phone, it has been tested and worked on the first try!

My Telus TP2 did not have the gpsOne settings programmed, though I did not test the GPS before setting them.

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Tobey, did you get an error message after you selected write to phone

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Nope, what was it?

Also, post your windows version.

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I think I must need the new version of QPST. It was giving me the odd write error to the phone, kept saying that it "lost connection. Boo.

And even with the CAB files entered in, my GPS is finicky as all get out. I was able to finally get it working in my office after about 4 tries and about 10 minutes.

Yay, I have 8 sats locked, but in the time it took me to do that I could have been there. Outside, yes, locks a bit better and faster, but it's still a bit bi-polar. Will try the changes tomorrow and see.

And as always, Chris, you are our hero :)

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Was it this one?

http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/s...93-06-11PM.gif

I'm running XP Pro SP2.

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oh! I did get that, but that was when I was trying to change my SPC, not the GPS or banner settings.

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That's the error I got when trying to write my gpsOne values back to the phone in QPST. I disconnected, went back into ##DIAG and re-read my values, and the changes I made were definitely written...despite the error...so I didn't worry about it too much.

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I got an error message as well, can't remember which one, but didn't worry about it as all the values were written. I changed my GPS settings, banner and setup my NAM2.

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Cab file worked for TELUS..! Thanks, that was easy :)

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I had GPS working right out of the box for four days. Now, I've got nothing. Tried a hard reset (using Clear Storage) and the CAB file, then today the GPSOne settings. Nothing. Nada.

My wife's TP2 works fine. Mine outright refuses to do GPS now. I think some GPS setting is surviving the hard reset.

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The gpsOne settings will not be effected by a hard-reset, the .cab settings will.

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Well, I think I'm officially giving up on the GPS on my Telus Touch Pro 2, and will be pairing it with a bluetooth device. Had no GPS problems on my Vogue but this has been a nightmare.

Telus Navigator won't run, Google gives me cell phone triangulation only.

Somehow I managed to kill the GPS with one of the following programs:
Google Maps, GCz or Garmin Mobile XT.

All I know is that the GPS died before I went anywhere near QPST or QuickGPS. Telus doesn't include QuickGPS on the phone so I grabbed the SWTOS VGA one, and it didn't do anything (Connection Failed). It worked for 4 days then after a soft-reset, it refuses to get a lock. Ever. Even if I leave it outside for over one hour.

Today I hard reset the device, tried the Telus CAB. No good. Tried QPST/GPSOne settings. No good.

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Bring the phone back and get a new one. There is a 15 days window where you can get a full return, not a referb. Head to the store where you got it and tell them your having issue with the handset and want a new one. I brought the first one I got back, there was a small gap between the phone and battery cover.

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Since Telus Navigator isn't coming up either, I have their support team working on it. I'll give them another day or so then take it back to the store for an exchange.

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i think i changed postion calculation to just mobile....could that be the reason that it only works if there is cellphone signal

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I found out that to get Telus Navigator to run, they have to add it to your account first.

Try that before you ship it back.

But I hear your frustration. It's working for me, intermittently. And it's driving me crazy. I wish you luck.

Custom roms may resolve it, I know it did with my replacement P4000.

Also - did you do a PROPER hard reset, rather than the "Clear Storage"?

Honestly I dont' know if it makes a difference, but it's worth trying.

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Yup, they're billing me for Telus Navigator so it better be on the account, but I'll bet it isn't. Throws an error [2001] when I try to run that program. I did both resets, first the "clear storage" then the proper hold down buttons reset.

What I'd *really* like to see is someone rip the QuickGPS from a non-crippled Touch Pro 2 and put the CAB somewhere. I know the Diamond 2 QuickGPS was out making the rounds but I'll be darned if I can find that CAB anywhere now (everythingdiamond.info removed the links). I did notice there is a version number jump to 1.0.1911.1733 on the Diamond 2 QuickGPS, and I wonder if that is a factor to why I can't run the older QuickGPS cabs on my device.

Also another update - my wife's TP2 isn't doing GPS anymore, and that one is running totally the way Telus gave it to us - no REG files, no CAB files or QPST.

Here's hoping that the WM6.5 Official ROM comes sooner than later so we can safely load up some custom, GPS enabled ones on our devices without worrying about warranty too much. I already miss NFSFAN on my Vogue.

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I had the same issue with my Navigator, so you're not at all alone :)

I've been trying to hunt down the QuickGPS as well, I used one before... but it did me no good on my p4000 until I loaded the custom rom.

I doubt that they'll be quick on the 6.5 rom. I just don't think we're that lucky... one can hope though.

I may be taking mine back to Best Buy if I can't get some consistency, though. For example I tried in the office again today and got a lock of 7, whem I'm about 20 feet away from an outside wall in about 30 seconds, but earlier it took me starting/stopping/starting the GPS signal on Google Maps about 4 times.

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wait...so i know im new to this, and a bit confused
but i do NOT have a data plan, infact i deleted it, and took it off my account
if the phone has an GPS device built in, does this mean it does not incur any data charges? is this what this thread is about? if not, someone please set me straight lol.

not that i care to use my GPS, but it would be a cool feature, if it DID NOT use data. so i guess thats where im confused most. TIA

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The GPS functionality itself does NOT use a data connection. An application like Telus Navigator which ties the GPS into mapping type software does.

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ooo okay. Thats what i assumed... just the people at my local telus store told me otherwise.
thank you : )

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They're dumb:)

That being said, this does use the data connection for a short period of time in order to download some data about the satellites (the information that is contained in the cab tells it where to look for this data)

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Well, part of the GPS mystery has been solved for me. Telus support told me that they haven't quite figured out how to get Telus Navigator running on the TP2. There was also an allusion that they haven't quite got their head around making the GPS work properly on the device.

Hope that means hotfix but most likely it means wait a looooooong time for a ROM update that quietly fixes it. Or use a kitchen ROM ;)

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GPS works amazing after installing the Telus CAB from XDA... acquired 8 satellites within a second using Google Maps. Before the CAB install, I couldn't find one...

I don't use TELUS Navigator.

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Telus cab is actually from here, not XDA:)

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Same result for me as well. Before installing the Telus CAB, my GPS connection was spotty at best. I'd be lucky to get a lock after 5 minuts and only 3 or 4 satellites. After the CAB install I'm constantly getting 7 to 9 satellites now and its almost instantaneous.

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Consider yourself lucky - I've hard reset my device (hard reset -> custom) and loaded the cab, but my GPS just plain old doesn't work at all anymore. It worked for about a week then ... nothing.

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Thanks! I remember donating to you for the GPS cab, but forgot it was from here...

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This gps issue is.... I don't even know.

I was thinking how far improved it has been over the last week or so since I fiddled with the CAB file and how quick the locks were today, then I went downtown Vancouver, Robinson and Granville "downtown" and it took meeasily 4 or 5 restarts of Google Maps and a soft reset of the phone before it was working.

Once it was going again, it has been super quick to lock, but it almost seems as though it gets confused every now and then.

is anyone else having the same issue?

Northernpenguin, I really think you need to take yours back, it just sounds busted in a strange and wonderful way =/

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Well, I went to Telus today and they couldn't make the GPS work either. I'm just waiting for the replacement to come in now.