For Some Reason Im In Africa? GPS Problem

Merckle · #1 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 03:04 AM

For some reason this is the second rom I have tried. But I keep getting a lot in Africa? And I live in SC... Any suggestions?

psweitzer · #2 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 03:28 AM

*radio crackle*
He caught on!!! Kill the power to the Matrix!!!

Seriously that is the weirdest side effect I've heard of so far...
Is there a prize?

blisk · #3 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Merckle

For some reason this is the second rom I have tried. But I keep getting a lot in Africa? And I live in SC... Any suggestions?

Yea for whatever reason it'll default to weird places. I was off of the coast of Nigeria near Africa (in the water) when i zoomed out in google maps until the GPS actually kicked in. Unless of course it says GPS Active (X) and x = a number greater than 0... in that case.. I'm not sure.. I'd guess you've discovered a rip in the time/space continuum and/or something is weird with the drivers. If it says (0) then its not picking up the sats... give it some more time to lock... or soft reset and then try again. Then you also might want to try a hard reset, maybe uninstal/reinstall the drivers, reflash the alltel rom then reflash whatever rom you want to try, or look around and see what others have been doing to get the GPS to work.

dew.man · #4 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 04:59 AM

Google maps shows location before it gets a fix, and if you notice, the location it's showing is in the ocean on the equator (all zeros).

If you try a different program like VisualGPSce or GPStest, you'll see that it is still trying to get a lock at that point.

Give it some time, and if you can get a real lock, google will magically teleport you to you dry land

**wldthng842** · #5 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 09:48 AM

I have the same thing until a lock.

however now I can't even get a lock. even during a 20 minute car ride to work with the touch sitting up in the front widow with a clear view of the sky. does anyone have suggestions on how to get a lock?

**Success100** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by wldthng842

I have the same thing until a lock.

however now I can't even get a lock. even during a 20 minute car ride to work with the touch sitting up in the front widow with a clear view of the sky. does anyone have suggestions on how to get a lock?

its hit and miss right now, its a hacked rom, so there is really no sure fire way to get this to work perfect(yet) until sprint releases the update.

The same thing happened with the mogul.

dew.man · #7 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 10:54 AM

Hate to say this, but my Mogul does the same thing sometime with the released update.

The GPS antenna/chip in these phones is weak, and needs to be still for a long time to get a fix. Once it locks, it's good-to-go, but I oftentimes cannot get a fix at all while driving...

**bedoig** · #8 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 11:20 AM

It was like that for me sometimes with the leaked 3.16 ROM for the Mogul. With the new (official) Titan ROM I get a lock within 15 seconds every time, without fail. I've had pretty good luck with my wife's Touch on Mustan-Tech's ROM as well. It hasn't failed to get a lock at all yet, even inside my house... knock on wood.

**wldthng842** · #9 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 11:44 AM

Does she have to use the GPS Viewer or can she just open up google maps etc and have it lock?

**bedoig** · #10 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 11:49 AM

It works just by opening GMaps/LiveSearch. I haven't tried it with any real Navigation software (iGuidance, TomTom, etc) though. I know when the leaked Titan ROM first came out, some of the Nav programs needed to have the GPS primed with another program. The Alltel ROM seems to have some of the bugs that the leaked Titan ROM had. Hopefully the official Sprint release will have the Touch's GPS working as good as my Titan.