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Sick of the GPS issues

I really needed the GPS to work the other night and it was so frustrating i about threw the phone out the window. What are some comparible phones to the captivate that are android based and can be unlocked to get the att 3g bands? Any ideas/suggestions on a phone would be appreciated.

I think HTC Desire HD is amazing...Im almost going to take it....And also, you know...HTC is much more trustble than Samsung KOREAN SUCKS company...I dont know why I got this ****...but, is to late for me...I dont wanna spend more money to get other phone now...

I love my captivate. Then again, I did come from a G1 lol. It is a great phone with great hardware.
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Change your gps settings to Network Provider instead of MS based it worked for me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

if your comfortable rooting and trying out custom roms.
i highly recommend the chronos rom that can be found in the development section.
Since installing it i have only been able to test about 18 miles of travel with 18-20 turns but to this point it has not missed a single turn or shown me off the road when going around curves as it did with the stock rom and most other custom roms i have tried. Most of the i9000 based roms seem to have better gps performance but Chronos so far has been outstanding with locks and tracking.
chronos rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869860

Is it really a software issue or a hardware one?
I tested my captivate last night while I was watching meteor showers, and I thought perfect time to test my gps. I used gps yest and my captivate quickly saw 9 satellites, but didn't lock onto a signal for forever. Dunno wtf is wrong with this
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xetrev said:
I really needed the GPS to work the other night and it was so frustrating i about threw the phone out the window. What are some comparible phones to the captivate that are android based and can be unlocked to get the att 3g bands? Any ideas/suggestions on a phone would be appreciated.
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I was frustated with the GPS since a long time. But once i upgraded to assonance rom i am getting great GPS lock with 11 SATS. Try switching to that rom and see if it makes a diff

and i getting sick of fools keep saying "my gps is perfect!!"
samsung garbage is like a 10$ radio!
no matter what you do to it, it WILL NEVER sound like BOSE quality!

netnerd said:
and i getting sick of fools keep saying "my gps is perfect!!"
samsung garbage is like a 10$ radio!
no matter what you do to it, it WILL NEVER sound like BOSE quality!
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In one sense i get what you say because many of the times i see that post all people are talking about are their lock times and # of sats they see/lock with no regard to tracking and navigation.
Maybe it won't last but my GPS has been perfect with the chronos rom and i am talking about locks and more importantly tracking. (i have only limited testing but in 18-20 turns it has tracked me perfectly without so much as a hiccup.....on stock and other roms it was only able to track me through 30-40% of turns so even with limited testing this is a pretty marked difference).
One thing to keep in mind is there are different batch #'s and i don't know if they have switched chips for any of the batches. Since i got mine pre-release i am assuming i have the first batch produced but after using chronos rom i am becoming more convinced it is a firmware and not a hardware issue. I don't believe it will ever be as good as a dedicated gps like my garmin and i never expected that but so far with this rom it is working as well as the gps/mapquest combo on my wifes iphone.
also on locks i am generally getting 10-12 Sats with a lock rate of 90+ - 100% and average lock time of 13 seconds

I'm with you. I am tired of the GPS not working. I am going to the Blackberry Torch this week. Probably Thursday or Friday. Either way, I need a new phone.

maxjivi05 said:
Change your gps settings to Network Provider instead of MS based it worked for me
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This also has worked for me, but it is a band-aid option IMO. Leveraging a Wi-Fi GPS provider isn't going to help you when you're riding in your car on I-95.

I know it's a real big band-aid, but it works fine for the car and is easier than getting a new phone.
I spent 20 bucks and got a tom tom bluetooth GPS receiver, combined with a free up on the market called "Bluetooth GPS Provider" and I get 1M accuracy in Maps/Nav. Since I primarily only use the GPS in the car, it's not that big of a deal to leave an accessory in there.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HZI2YY/ref=oss_product

Ok guys not another GPS thread. We all know that for whatever reason the GPS is spotty at best. No sense in beating a dead horse.

Lack of captivate issues

My phone works perfect. My gps tracks perfectly through the woods and in my house I get 15' accuracy when running a GPS test. My phone doesn't randomly shutdown. Actually both of my captivates have the same lack of issues.
Wait, nope I did have one issue. I removed GTalk after I rooted and flashed Cognition to fix it, without enabling lagfix.
Am I alone in this? Are there other people who don't have problems?
I love the developers here, they constantly are working on improving perceived issues and do it without whining about inferior products or people. Oh and they do it for free.
Thank god for developers.

thumbs up!
go devs!

I think you're in denial or you just aren't OCD enough to realize the phone does have flaws. Mostly due to laziness in design by Samsung, not enough testing. I have an inside source saying the entire Samsung Development team was frying on mushrooms when working on this...

After Paragon RC4 fixed my GPS issue I can't think of any problem my phone has and I hammer away on it all day. I have build 1008.
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1 shut down when I first bought the phone. Going on 3 months (of ownership) now, with no issues. Of course I suppose a lot of the credit goes to Cognition 3.04 for being a great stable rom

yeah my gps is great... if im walking.. not if im driving.
no shutdown issues though.
had denied access though when trying to use "usb storage mode" returned phone. no issues with new one except gps...

I've been very fortunate as well. GPS isn't perfect, but got me around downtown Philadelphia perfectly just yesterday.
Phone is rooted, with stock rom. Removed AT&T bloatware. Using K-9 for mail, Dolphin HD for browser and of course advanced task killer.
No shutdowns, battery gets me through the day. Worst thing is the new Android Market, which is much slower than the previous versions.
I am a Samsung fan, having progressed from a Sammy flip phone, to the Blackjack, to the Jack, to my Captivate, so I am a bit biased. Folks in the office have several Verizon models, including an older HTC model, an Incredible, and a Droid 2. Each one has a few quirks, so take it for what it's worth
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Never had any issues here, either.

My GPS works perfectly too; I get 1.2 m accuracy in my house which is surrounded by trees . . . but only since I started using a TomTom Wireless MKII (bluetooth) receiver.
It's funny how the MKII which was designed and built 5 years ago can get a lock in my house in a few seconds when the Captivate's built-in GPS always takes 248 seconds to lock under better conditions (outside). I wonder if that metal case back is a problem . . . hmmmmm

Listen to the audio of a video recording.
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Hurricane Andrew said:
Phone is rooted, with stock rom. Removed AT&T bloatware. Using K-9 for mail, Dolphin HD for browser and of course advanced task killer.
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you are aware that using a task killer is a waste of time... right? it is totally unneeded on android.
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

So, honestly, I've had more issues with custom roms than with the phone at stock. I've had weird mass storage problems, GPS lock quality, force closes, strange wifi lock ups that require a reboot or a complete dump of programs in ram, data network loss until a reboot, just to name the major ones.
With the stock software, even though there was a crap ton of bloat, the phone worked. Sure, there was random lag, and the GPS took a little longer to lock(up to 1min), but when it did, it never had issues with maps or navigation like it does now, where the program thinks I'm driving in a river, or suddenly changed directions going 80 on the interstate. The mass storage worked better also, as did BT audio.
I gained speed and customization with the roms from this community, but it was essentially trading one issue for another.

groves226 said:
My gps tracks perfectly through the woods
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Your GPS works cause you're in the woods. Try skyscrapers... then you'll have a fun time with that GPS unit.
That's good that you like it though. Never let someone convince you its broken if it ain't...
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groves226 said:
My phone works perfect. My gps tracks perfectly through the woods and in my house I get 15' accuracy when running a GPS test. My phone doesn't randomly shutdown. Actually both of my captivates have the same lack of issues.
Wait, nope I did have one issue. I removed GTalk after I rooted and flashed Cognition to fix it, without enabling lagfix.
Am I alone in this? Are there other people who don't have problems?
I love the developers here, they constantly are working on improving perceived issues and do it without whining about inferior products or people. Oh and they do it for free.
Thank god for developers.
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You're not alone.
GPS has worked for me from day one (I bought it on launch day), literally. My first full day with the phone I flew to another state, had no clue about the area and it got me everywhere I needed to go.

any gps receiver wll have issues with multipath. There is nothing that can fix, actual yes, remove tall building which are close to each other

My original phone worked fine at first, then developed the random shutdown issue. It was bone stock. I tried rooting, ROMing, etc to fix it, but it still shutdown.
I exchanged it for a "refrubed replacement" 12-31-2010. I left the replacement stock for almost a month to make sure it was going to work right before I did any mods. The shutdown issue was gone, and the GPS worked great.
I was hesitant to flash it cuz it was working and stable. But I had already had a taste of custom roms so I couldn't bear leaving it stock forever.
Flashed different roms, different kernels, numerous different modems etc.... So far so good.
No issues yet. But now that I said something it'll probably die on me tomorrow!

I do live in a small city(Fayetteville NC which is a small town compared to Philly) but driving in Raleigh and Dallas I don't have any issue. (bought my phone in dallas) Driving or walking or running it just works. Alsk I get lock in less then 20 seconds which is pretty average for a lot of gps devices I have used. (well not the military PLGR which seemed to take 30minutes to lock)
I thought about it and there is one thing I do with a custom rom I didn't do with stock: live background.
Cognition was ok but now I'm running Phoenix Rising.
Great dev community in XDA all around, and if I hadn't removed GTalk I would never have tried one of these roms.
And for playing video or media I get issues with 1080 files but everything else works good enough for a phone. Yeah a phone, compared to an Ipod touch or Zune Hd or a computer it isn't as good but I also can't make phone calls on some or fit the other in my pocket which makes this Captivate a great device.

Right on about the multipath! I wonder how many GPS complaints are from this.
Heh like listening to the radio or watching old school pre-HD tv in a city.

The only issue I had with stock cappy is it would not connect to pc. I tried every driver under the sun, on xp, vista, and even bought windows 7. Nada. My wifes would connect immediately. So I just made att swap it out for a new one and it works perfectly. I really didn't care until I got tired of waiting on froyo and decided to flash. I wanted a backup on my pc so I called att and did a swap. 3 days later I flashed my first rom. Now my OTA download rate is faster than my dsl, so I'm sticking it to att by dl'ing over their network.

My wife and son also have Captivates, both stock. They got them in November 2010.
My wife's has been fine for the most part but has shutdown maybe 3 times over the months. She has opted not exchange it yet since the shutdowns have been very rare. Her GPS works fine but is a little slow to lock.
My son's just started shutting down over the last week or so. It's to the point we are probably going to have to take it in for an exchange.

should i come back to the inspire?

I have had the inspire the day it came out and i would loose data and the reception was very bad so i went and got the atrix and had that for 2 weeks now.But now that the bootloader can not be cracked i was thinking of returning to the inspire,but the loosing data and the bad reception is holding me back.Has anyone else had any problems with data and reception,or do you think that the phone i had was defective?Not sure what to do

Signal is hit or miss for me I blame att but it's not bad enough for me to complain, been with them for 3 years. I'd say come back it's such a great phone minus the battery.
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Yeah, if the signal is bad no phone is going to fix that.
That being said my Inspire has given me the best reception to date under AT&TS network.
Sent from my most memorable Inspire 4G

you should make a decision.

Its possible that you had a defective phone, bad signal, or both. As a new Inspire owner, I would say do what alot former atrix owners already did...go back to the inspire. Atrix is one of those phones that looks good on paper. Sure it beats the inspire as far as specs go, but in the end, its the overall experience that tends to sway final decisions.

No issues with the signal here. Battery is not bad for me, lasting 15-16 hrs with medium usage. I just ordered a 1300mAH battery hopefully it will last bit longer

Signal seems to be pretty good to me so far.
Here is a little rundown of cellphone data and celluar signals ive noticed so far on AT&T
iphone 3gs: excellent signal
Captivate: crap for signal
Atrix: had very good signal (owned very briefly before returning for Inspire)
Inspire: very good - excellent

tmdegler said:
I have had the inspire the day it came out and i would loose data and the reception was very bad so i went and got the atrix and had that for 2 weeks now.But now that the bootloader can not be cracked i was thinking of returning to the inspire,but the loosing data and the bad reception is holding me back.Has anyone else had any problems with data and reception,or do you think that the phone i had was defective?Not sure what to do
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The battery on the Inspire SUCKS.

GAPY427 said:
The battery on the Inspire SUCKS.
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No it doesn't.

synnyster said:
No it doesn't.
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agreed. WAAAAAAY better than my captivate.

p4ranoid4ndroid said:
agreed. WAAAAAAY better than my captivate.
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I also concur.
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p4ranoid4ndroid said:
agreed. WAAAAAAY better than my captivate.
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I'm sitting at 85% life and it has been 11 hours since I unplugged. Granted I didn't do a whole heck of alot through the day, but that is damn good for being OCed at 1.229Ghz and on wifi all day.

Ok thanks guys i just got back from returning the atrix.this time my new inspire has better reception.now time to flash a rom.

battery use depends on use obviously, this became very clear to me as I purchased the Inspire off contract, used it for a couple of weeks, btw does anyone know if this phone supports auto answer, as in ring so many times then answer without tapping answer while on headset? If it does I cant find it. went back to my captivate with cog4.1 because auto handsfree answer is essential for me at work. anyway,I would get about a days use, which is good. But my wife is on day 3 and at 50%
completely stock

Inspire reception is good.
AT&T's poor cell tower placement stratagy favors major freeeways and streets, not home areas.
I got one of their MicroCell units and it fixed the problem, and works perfectly with the Inspire.

p4ranoid4ndroid said:
agreed. WAAAAAAY better than my captivate.
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as a former captivate owner I totally agree! Inspire off charger since 830 last night.hour and a half drive to work my shift at 11 as night supervisor. phone calls, sms, a few emails, some web browsing, epocrates, and streaming some pandora while I audited a chart. 30 minutes from home and my battery now just now yellow. my captivate would be on the charger long before now lol.
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My experience...
Reception has been crappy at my house with every phone I've had.
I first thought it was the phone, hoping the next new one would magically make it better.
While each phone has improved the situation, I came to realize it ain't the phone... It's my house/ATT.
I can go down to the store/mall, and get a solid five bars, whereas at my house, multi-stories/ built in 70's, literally two blocks away, drops to 1 or 2 bars, even with this Inspire, yet I rarely miss/drop calls.
Oh yeah, as to your question... yes, you should come back to the inspire. ;-)
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GameDoctor said:
Inspire reception is good.
AT&T's poor cell tower placement stratagy favors major freeeways and streets, not home areas.
I got one of their MicroCell units and it fixed the problem, and works perfectly with the Inspire.
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are you located in Murrieta CA? if so i'm right next door in temecula; small world. i like it out here in the middle of nowhere cause i always gets decent speeds, even though coverage isnt always the best.

G2x with no issues

I bought my g2x on april 20th released date... And yes i had problems not rebooting or freezes just when i'm not using the phone and it goes to sleep.. It would not come back on unless i take off the battery and power on... Well the next day i call tmobile and wanted a replacement they told me to go to any tmobile store for the exchange
and it was out of stuck everywhere.. So finally found a store the had one... I replaced my phone and this g2x the i have had ever since the 21th of april has not issues no reboots no freezing no stay on sleep mode but still have the screen bleed...
And i tell yall the keep talking bad about the phone you may be out of luck on having one the is bad...
But im loving my g2x ever since i got it... And i flash roms and kernals all the time...
This phone sure is fast as advertise

Honestly I had 3 g2xs before the sensation now back to g2x. First two g2x I returned because dust and dead pixel. My third I had for a month and only 3 reboots. I followed the crowd to the sensation especially hearing about everyone having g2x issues. I loved the sensation. I think just cause it was new. Well I went through 3 sensations and have the 4th on the way. Well I use wifi daily, and although some have good wifi as I've seen proof, over 50% of users polled that owned a sensation have wifi issues. Mine would completely die just 10 feet away turned away from the router..
So I traded my sensation on Craigslist for a g2x and 75 bucks. The g2x has absolutely no screen bleed, I can show proof, and it was preloaded with cm7. It hasn't rebooted once in 4 days now and being used I would like to think if it would I would have experienced it by now...
So all I'm all 4 g2xs and they rocked, only one had minor reboots, but hell my vibrant and other phones reboot periodically also..
I love my g2x. No more headaches with no root on the sensation ..

smashpunks said:
Honestly I had 3 g2xs before the sensation now back to g2x. First two g2x I returned because dust and dead pixel. My third I had for a month and only 3 reboots. I followed the crowd to the sensation especially hearing about everyone having g2x issues. I loved the sensation. I think just cause it was new. Well I went through 3 sensations and have the 4th on the way. Well I use wifi daily, and although some have good wifi as I've seen proof, over 50% of users polled that owned a sensation have wifi issues. Mine would completely die just 10 feet away turned away from the router..
So I traded my sensation on Craigslist for a g2x and 75 bucks. The g2x has absolutely no screen bleed, I can show proof, and it was preloaded with cm7. It hasn't rebooted once in 4 days now and being used I would like to think if it would I would have experienced it by now...
So all I'm all 4 g2xs and they rocked, only one had minor reboots, but hell my vibrant and other phones reboot periodically also..
I love my g2x. No more headaches with no root on the sensation ..
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I'm sending Rasheed Wallace and Greg Oden after you...I have owned 3 G2x and 2 Sensations (One was returned because I bought another cheaper off CL) All of My G2x are terrible. I haven't had one issue with my Sensation. It works perfectly well out of the box!! In all honesty my MT4G running CM7 out performs my G2x running CM7.....but I guess what ever makes you happy

nccu_eagles said:
I'm sending Rasheed Wallace and Greg Oden after you...I have owned 3 G2x and 2 Sensations (One was returned because I bought another cheaper off CL) All of My G2x are terrible. I haven't had one issue with my Sensation. It works perfectly well out of the box!! In all honesty my MT4G running CM7 out performs my G2x running CM7.....but I guess what ever makes you happy
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Outperforms?
...doubt it
Sent From My G2x Running CM7 Nightly 70

nccu_eagles said:
I'm sending Rasheed Wallace and Greg Oden after you...I have owned 3 G2x and 2 Sensations (One was returned because I bought another cheaper off CL) All of My G2x are terrible. I haven't had one issue with my Sensation. It works perfectly well out of the box!! In all honesty my MT4G running CM7 out performs my G2x running CM7.....but I guess what ever makes you happy
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Greg Odin's knees are as bad as the sensations wifi and screen issue ... lmaooo

moshe22 said:
Outperforms?
...doubt it
Sent From My G2x Running CM7 Nightly 70
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My MT4G does EVERYTHING that I ask it to..... My G2x does not. Try entering an address in the navigation app when you are in a hurry and see how long it takes to start speaking turn by turn directions on the G2x...It's cool to defend your device because you paid for it and all, but I paid full off contract price for every phone I have owned and the G2x is by far my biggest disappointment...

Yea your smoking rock on that one pal. Lol my wife still has the mytouch 4g and I just sold mine and yea it was fast but sitting here playing with my g2x and her mytouch 4g.....and my g2x blows it away. My g2x has been problem free tho just a little screen bleed and I mean a very little. And guess what I can two ****s. G2x reigns supreme, yea it had its little problems with rebooting and sod. And yea some people had legit problems but dude this phone is the **** and is still faster and better then phones out today....****in g2x is badass

gypsy214 said:
I bought my g2x on april 20th released date... And yes i had problems not rebooting or freezes just when i'm not using the phone and it goes to sleep.. It would not come back on unless i take off the battery and power on... Well the next day i call tmobile and wanted a replacement they told me to go to any tmobile store for the exchange
and it was out of stuck everywhere.. So finally found a store the had one... I replaced my phone and this g2x the i have had ever since the 21th of april has not issues no reboots no freezing no stay on sleep mode but still have the screen bleed...
And i tell yall the keep talking bad about the phone you may be out of luck on having one the is bad...
But im loving my g2x ever since i got it... And i flash roms and kernals all the time...
This phone sure is fast as advertise
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That's good to hear. I finally got tired of my Vibrant as I've been having a few issues with that as of late, and I ordered a G2x off of the t-mobile site last week, just waiting for mine to arrive at my door tomorrow. Looking around, issues are definitely prevalent so your post gives me a bit of hope at least that I didn't buy a Vibrant 2. Guess I'll find out myself soon

sarni84 said:
Yea your smoking rock on that one pal. Lol my wife still has the mytouch 4g and I just sold mine and yea it was fast but sitting here playing with my g2x and her mytouch 4g.....and my g2x blows it away. My g2x has been problem free tho just a little screen bleed and I mean a very little. And guess what I can two ****s. G2x reigns supreme, yea it had its little problems with rebooting and sod. And yea some people had legit problems but dude this phone is the **** and is still faster and better then phones out today....****in g2x is badass
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She running CM7 on her mytouch ?
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rzyvo said:
That's good to hear. I finally got tired of my Vibrant as I've been having a few issues with that as of late, and I ordered a G2x off of the t-mobile site last week, just waiting for mine to arrive at my door tomorrow. Looking around, issues are definitely prevalent so your post gives me a bit of hope at least that I didn't buy a Vibrant 2. Guess I'll find out myself soon
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Dude u will be happy... as long as u don't have any major problems ull be alrite. Might have a lil. Screen bleed but they all have it.. who cares u font ever ever see it maybe a tiny bit on start-up. But hey if its bad take it back ..but yea bro its definitely a sweet phone its so fast, NY wifi and internet are great I don't have no screen protector on because with this gorilla glass I don't get any scratches and the screen is beautiful, the colors and contrast are nice looking. Not one scratch. And of course when I go out I throw my case on it. But be careful if u buy a case my body glove scratched the sides of my bezel. So be careful. Oh and the camera got best out of smartphones today, well they tested 45 other smartphones u can find that. Article in electronista ......simply put this g2x is beast.....sorry for the typos I'm on my phone

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She running CM7 on her mytouch ?
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Yes sir and fauxs latest kernel. The g2x is really faster bro only thing I will give her mytouch is it locks on GPS a little quicker. But did u hear me? A little quicker

LOL guess I managed to get three duds ? Or either your are lucky enough to have a perfect device....
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nccu_eagles said:
LOL guess I managed to get three duds ? Or either your are lucky enough to have a perfect device....
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That's might as well very possible.
As I read Tmobile HD2 forums, there's tons of complaints, too.
But my HD2 works fine with WM6.5 and Android (SD/NAND).
P.S. Of course until few days ago the digitizer died.

nccu_eagles said:
LOL guess I managed to get three duds ? Or either your are lucky enough to have a perfect device....
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Nothings perfect buddy lol but definitely don't have all the problems people talk about. My g2x runs very nice especially running cm, the synergy theme and one of morfics special kernels that I'm currently testing. This thing is a monster

We are few it seems, my G2x is flawless, no bleed, no freezes, no wi fi issue nor reboots...maybe I got the last batch...

I've got a good g2x also. Mine was having glitchy problems when I first got it as well. But I never had it stock. I paid the guy at the store to root it and he installed the leaked gb rom before I ever had it in my hands. There must have been something wrong with the flash, because once I learned how to do it on my own, I started all over. Flashed the original unrooted rom, then flashed cwm with nvflash and began having fun. Yes, I also have the minor screen bleed up in the top left and right corners that appears only one a completely black background.

I've had my g2x since day one gave my wife my mt4g and never looked back or had a problem .....u usually change phones when new ones come out so I went to see tbr sensation to see if I wanted to get it but wasn't really impress I like my g2x better and its way faster ......ill wait for next phone to come out but for now I think this phone was the best android phone I've ever had and I've had alot of them starting from g1 ......well the nexus one was bad ass in it's time ......oh wait I did have a freeze but it was cuz if the Trinity kernel when it first came out ....now I'm on the newest eaglesblood and on fleux latest kernel and my phone is freaking fast ......GPS is good also ......my boy just bought his evo 3d and he wants his phone to b as fast as mines lol.......
"I'm a tomato"

I have the canadian release from Wind and read these threads of issues and shake my head, can't understand why you have so many bad devices. Mine is rock solid man, very minimal screen bleed, no reboots, it gets a little warm while charging but no worse then my nexus s did. I love this device my only gripe is I wish it had more ram.
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sarni84 said:
Dude u will be happy... as long as u don't have any major problems ull be alrite. Might have a lil. Screen bleed but they all have it.. who cares u font ever ever see it maybe a tiny bit on start-up. But hey if its bad take it back ..but yea bro its definitely a sweet phone its so fast, NY wifi and internet are great I don't have no screen protector on because with this gorilla glass I don't get any scratches and the screen is beautiful, the colors and contrast are nice looking. Not one scratch. And of course when I go out I throw my case on it. But be careful if u buy a case my body glove scratched the sides of my bezel. So be careful. Oh and the camera got best out of smartphones today, well they tested 45 other smartphones u can find that. Article in electronista ......simply put this g2x is beast.....sorry for the typos I'm on my phone
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In the week I've had the phone so far, I've been very happy with it. I seemed to have a pretty smooth device; no restarts, and only a slight screen bleed which wasn't visible enough to annoy me. However that experience changed yesterday when I decided to try out the HDMI output and connected it to the TV. I played Samurai II for a bit then went off to watch a couple of Youtube videos. About 1/4 the way through a video, a message displayed about a sensor detecting the phone was too hot and the device needs to shut down. Checked it out and it was indeed cooking, and reeked like fried electronics. I had no sign of heat on the device when playing the game so I was quite surprised. My apartment is quite cool too due to my roommates love for air conditioning. I pulled the battery and left it cool off for a couple of hours; now when I use it, if I'm on the phone for about 10 minutes, or if I play a game or something on it the phone will start to overheat and the battery drains very quickly. Doing a search on Google, I found similar reports of the problem with people using a HDMI cable from monoprice, which was where I got the cable from as well, so I'm going to bet that this probably isn't a coincidence.
I gave T-Mobile a call and am going to be getting a replacement, I think I'm just going to leave the HDMI port alone on that one. Other than that, I loved the phone quite a lot

nccu_eagles said:
LOL guess I managed to get three duds ? Or either your are lucky enough to have a perfect device....
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YOu know, no one with a good G2x can say this. Has to come from someone with a bad G2x. If one of us lucky ones say this, we're insensitive. But we're not really. I wonder every day how I got a good one..and so many people got a bad one.
I said in a previous thread, I thought there were far more good ones than bad ones. But that caused a ruckus. After all, you come to a site where they talk about problems, you mostly talk to people with problems. No one ever calls support to say...Good Job, no problems here...thought you should know. Having worked in support for 20 yrs, I can tell you every statement from someone saying....CS told me this....should remember, its a very one sided point of view. Imagine sitting there, taking hundreds of calls a day, all of them complaints. With every new phone that comes out, there's the same complaints, but newer phones. Every release sucks, because you work your butt off to answer problems with new phones.
I remember 1 guy, called support over 600 times about the same or similar problems...in 1 month. Our stats were horrible, until we looked at unique users...then the issue wasn't so bad. This guy called so many times, he recognized voices and names associated....it was very funny.
Very 1 sided point of view.

I Hate the GPS on this phone

Don't get me wrong, I love the GS3 for all the performance and software features but the GPS on this thing is almost unbearable.
I was using Nav this weekend to go see my new baby grand daughter for the first time and I was constantly U-turning, making loops, pulling over for it to find GPS, etc. Finally I asked my girlfriend to plug the address into her Moto Razr (instamt lock) only to find we were just around the corner from the address we were trying to find and that we had passed by it at least twice while trying to follow the screwed up directions the GS3 was giving me.
I sure wish this was just software related but I have tried about evry fix out there including trying several different ROMs. I hate to say I am moving on to something else but this is very frustrating. I really like the specs on the Note2 but I am weary that this is a systemic Samsung issue. Maybe the HTC DNA. never had any issue with my Rezound I gave up for this.
OK I feel better now.

Sounds like a hardware defect. Have you had the phone swapped out?
I have no problems with gps. Heck, I even get a lock indoors in my office.
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try running gps fix from the playstore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlab.gpsfix&hl=en

I had this same issue. I got a replacement phone, and the problem went a way.
It's most likely hardware.
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jdg1 said:
Don't get me wrong, I love the GS3 for all the performance and software features but the GPS on this thing is almost unbearable.
I was using Nav this weekend to go see my new baby grand daughter for the first time and I was constantly U-turning, making loops, pulling over for it to find GPS, etc. Finally I asked my girlfriend to plug the address into her Moto Razr (instamt lock) only to find we were just around the corner from the address we were trying to find and that we had passed by it at least twice while trying to follow the screwed up directions the GS3 was giving me.
I sure wish this was just software related but I have tried about evry fix out there including trying several different ROMs. I hate to say I am moving on to something else but this is very frustrating. I really like the specs on the Note2 but I am weary that this is a systemic Samsung issue. Maybe the HTC DNA. never had any issue with my Rezound I gave up for this.
OK I feel better now.
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Keep trying new ROMs. A lot of GPS issues are due to bad config files in the ROM not the actual hardware chips

yeah must be hardware related. I easily get a GPS lock even when I am indoors in my basement.

GPS does suck on it every ROM even stock takes forever to lock on mine
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I had some really iffy gps when aosp first came out on our phone. BUt in the lastfew weeks I have not had any issues, and I rely on my gps pretty heavily. Last week it seemlessly moved me around stopped traffic due to an accident and I didn't realize it until I saw it on the freeway asI happily made my way on surface streets.
If you are running aosp and still having problems, check out the AGPS fix thread in development (helped me on some touchwiz roms too). But cm10, paranoid android and clean rom have all worked perfect for me as of late.
If none of that works, you wouldn't be the first person with a hardware defect. 30 million phones sold in a few months has to mean some are going to be boogered up, its just a percentage game. I personally have been fighting poor audio quality and have been told that is also a hardware issue, so just get Verizon to take care of you, you'll be happy you did.

I guess ill call verizon. Didnt want to have to go through the trouble of unrooting and returning to stock. Also I know the replacement will be a refurb. Thats always a crap shoot because it may have worse problems than this one.
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I had the same problem and I got a replacement and this phone locks instantly. Get your phone swapped.

I agree with most others in here. Probably hardware. The GPS on my GS3 is flawless. In fact it's one of the best out of all the phones I've had.
Sorry to hear you're having problems..

GPS on mine work flawlessly too. Locks in seconds. I am running the first JB leak. Hope the OP gets it figured out because the S3 is awesome and would hate to see someone ditch it for a isolated gps issue

ilkevinli said:
I had the same problem and I got a replacement and this phone locks instantly. Get your phone swapped.
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Went ahead and ordered the replacement. Hoping I'll have the same luck you did.

My GPS works great too. Locks on in my house and never had issues using the navigation.
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I'm wondering if there is a GPS issue with my device as well, but it doesn't sound as bad as this. It gets me where I need to go, but the problem is getting the GPS lock. I often drive five or ten minutes before it gets the signal--it just says "Searching for GPS" until it finally kicks in. Never had any problems like this on my Rezound either.
Don't really want to swap the phone out for a sketchy refurb, but I'm debating whether or not I want to live with the issue. Sounds like something that isn't going to go away if it's hardware related.

Since you are rooted, give this a shot! https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5Eb3VibGUuRmFzdGVyRml4Il0.

This is definitely a hardware problem, I have two G3s and the GPS locks instantly in both of them.

jmorton10 said:
This is definitely a hardware problem, I have two G3s and the GPS locks instantly in both of them.
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I have no issue with GPS. 5 - 10 seconds to get GPS lock. Much better compering my old droidx.

My GPS was great until I flashed LiquidSmooth JB. Now I can let it sit all day long, and it won't lock.

RGOLD said:
I have no issue with GPS. 5 - 10 seconds to get GPS lock. Much better compering my old droidx.
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Don't even get be started on Droid X GPS lock times :banghead: lol
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spenc938 said:
My GPS was great until I flashed LiquidSmooth JB. Now I can let it sit all day long, and it won't lock.
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Sometimes with certain JB ROMs, the GPS screws up for some reason, the fix is to flash to a ICS nandroid if you have it, if not flash to an ICS ROM, get a lock on GPS, than flashback and that usually fixes the issue
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