GPS Problems

[teva]

Yesterday i tried loading GarminXT and it froze. Did a soft reboot and tried again and again it froze. I then tried tomtom, which loaded ok, but could not find any satellite. I was on open sight waiting for 30 minutes. I also tried MioMap and automatically scanned port..."no GPS found it" says. I have then put it manually and the red LED went on...but still, not satellites are found. Red light blinks normally, i just don't get any data.

GPS worked just fine before that happened. I also noticed device to be very slow if i ran any gps program. Any idea what when't wrong? I just did a hard reset few days ago and i only have fistful of applications running.

edit: I aso tried GPSTest and it keeps scanning. When it comes to com4, red light blinks, but that's all. It's looping this scanning procedure. If i set com4 manually it just says Looking for GPS unit

tnx

[XtreMe_G]

did you use quickgps first before launching any gps application?

[babola]

Hi!

I had exactly the same problem a week ago (with iGO, TomTom and GPS Tuner). I've got advice to remove battery for hours (I did it for 8 hours) but did not help.
Finally I found a program on xda-developers or GPS Passion which is developed for maintaning Qualcomm GPS (GPSTool). I do not remember the thread but you can find something like this: GPSTool0813.
When you downloaded that exe copy it to \windows. Execute it. Select sirf. Then select yes (if device is Qualcomm) then select COM4 and Cold Start. Push Start button.
I hope this helps.

[teva]

i did your procedure, but it didn't help. Even gpstool could not get any satelllite. it did show some data, quickly scrolling, but thats all.

maybe i did something wrong. how long does it have to run?

tnx

[clovis_ll]

i just found out that i, too, am having problems getting a fix on my gps. i opened gogle map and gps tool this morning on my new att tilt but i cant get a lock. i have 4-5 satellites available but can't get a fix...

[teva]

Any more ideas? I tried BT gps and it worked fine. Got fix in few sec.

tnx

[aksd]

Same thing happened to me and a hard reset fixed it.

[teva]

ok, tnx. Wil try hard reset today and report.