Update verizon PRI and Sprint AGPS

[ChefRamsay]

Reporting back from yesterdays Results: (Alltel radio) Tried again today it was 45 seconds to lock. Its still better then my 2 minute to lock average.
I also have a 6900 with sprint rom radio that a flashed earlier today and applied the inquestion fixes. Im not sure if it was the initial lock, but it took me over 5 miutes. Horrible.
**Both phones using nexvisions vzw3.7 rom.**

[rolandroland]

Well I tried it with my own rom (20270 kitchen) running Sprint 3.42.30 radio (went right from stock to Sprint 3.42 on this phone, never Altell) and it locked in just under a minute with GPS Today as a primer. Google Maps and Live Search can't seem to get a lock on their own. Soft reset, got lock in 50 secs. Very pleased. While there is room for improvement if I can get consistent locks at 1 min or less at least I have something usable. I'll report after more testing.

I did:
-GPS Mode was already at 4 (so didn't really do anything)
-Added Reg key that was missing ("EnablePDEIPFromNV "=dword:00000001)
-Installed 3 files from the thread

I did not:
-Change the server IP (still at 195.207.101.126)

[denasqu]

Originally Posted by rolandroland

Well I tried it with my own rom (20270 kitchen) running Sprint 3.42.30 radio (went right from stock to Sprint 3.42 on this phone, never Altell) and it locked in just under a minute with GPS Today as a primer. Google Maps and Live Search can't seem to get a lock on their own. Soft reset, got lock in 50 secs. Very pleased.

Could there be something in the 20270 kitchen that fixes it? I was using DHarvey's Verizon ROM and nothing would ever lock. I flashed Negamann's rom (made with 20270 kitchen) and it's worked great for 4 days now (less than 30 seconds to lock and on clear days it's almost instant).

I didn't change anything other than the ROMs.

[rolandroland]

Originally Posted by denasqu

Could there be something in the 20270 kitchen that fixes it? I was using DHarvey's Verizon ROM and nothing would ever lock. I flashed Negamann's rom (made with 20270 kitchen) and it's worked great for 4 days now (less than 30 seconds to lock and on clear days it's almost instant).

I didn't change anything other than the ROMs.

I tried 20270 a couple times and didn't get locks, however I didn't test it much. After the last 2 kitchen didn't produce any results I didn't really bother much until I tried these fixes. So it is possible the kitchen is primarily the reason things are working in general but the changes seem to imrove things for others as well.

I will check on my friends phone that he just put a 20270 rom and none of the other fixes yet next to mine and we can do a side by side comparison. I would hard reset but I'm too lazy to redo my settings right now.

[denasqu]

Originally Posted by rolandroland

I would hard reset but I'm too lazy to redo my settings right now.

I hear that. Last time I was this obsessed with something was when Mech Warrior II came out. LOL

[denasqu]

Originally Posted by rolandroland

I did:
-GPS Mode was already at 4 (so didn't really do anything)
-Added Reg key that was missing ("EnablePDEIPFromNV "=dword:00000001)
-Installed 3 files from the thread

I did not:
-Change the server IP (still at 195.207.101.126)

I wound up with the same configuration after running through a bunch of permutations, and I'd say it's slightly better. It seems to see more satellites but dances around them a lot. Where it was taking 15-30 seconds to get a fix, now it's taking 15 seconds or less. It's sees sats inside (but can't get a fix) whereas it did not before.

I tried changing the serverIP first and it saw wouldn't lock.
So I added the 3 files, still saw but wouldn't lock.
Changed the serverIP back to 195 and still saw but wouldn't lock.
Added the EnablePDEIPFromNV and it worked again.

I was working fine before I started messing around BTW!

I really need to get my life back! My neighbors must think I've lost it ... walking around in my bathrobe in the front yard at 1am!

I'll have to see how she goes on the road tomorrow.

EDIT: Okay I REALLY need my life back. It's 1:40am and I just discovered the biggest change is that Live Search doesn't need to be primed with VisualGPS anymore.

EDIT: After a day of testing. Result = I couldn't ask for better performance. Locks within 10 seconds every time and no priming necessary. The changes plus the 20270 kitchen are a winning combo for me!

[sanderz6900]

Did you test it the GPS on your ROM before you installed everything?

[rolandroland]

Originally Posted by sanderz6900

Did you test it the GPS on your ROM before you installed everything?

Yes, never was going to work or required more than 5 minutes to lock. If it takes more than 5 min I don't bother waiting as it is worthless at that point (not that a 4 min lock is much use).

Now for the bad news. While this helped be get a quick lock initially after the phone was not in use for about an hour I can not get a lock again, even after waiting 5 minutes, even after a soft reset.

So this is bassically what happened on the initial Alltel GPS radio with the OMJ rom I was running at the time on my old 6900 (except lock was 5 min plus). After flashing it works and then stocks and never works again w/o flashing (didn't bother with hard reset).

So this is not the fix, or certainly for for everyone.

I hate Verizon.

[rolandroland]

OK does anyone have an more specific explaination of what each of the 3 files do?

After loading them again and soft resetting my GPS worked flawlessly again. Locks even after an hour idle. I'll see if after being idle overnight if they require being loaded again, but clearly these files are having a direct impact (along with the other changes) on GPS for the 6900. Maybe a closer look will reveal a conistent, reliable fix for everyone.

This is coming from total gps/Vzw sceptic. This is the first time I have seen signs of consistent relatively quick performance (under 2 min, usually about 60 to 75 secs).

Still hate Verizon though.

Update: GPS still workin, looks like this may be a real fix. Going to throw up poill to see if can get other Vzw users to try.

[taidan]

Roland, Does not work for me did you do anything different? What rom and radio are you using? it work with sprint 3.41? And you just clicked on the files 1,2,3 then added the regkey?