Wasting a post, maybe
Three days ago, it took me minimally 3 minutes to get a lock, ever. I was one of those stuck with grey bars in GPS Test. I now get a lock on the first floor of the house, completely obstructed, really, in about 20 seconds, usually.
I did read the whole thread. A couple of things:
This didn't seem to help drift, or rather, I've always had wifi on with it, so when I was at least trying to use GPS I was mostly getting wifi locating, which was amazingly accurate. (I live in the sticks, all the way out on the outer edge of the first ring of suburbs). Without wifi on, I can always get a read within about 500 feet, which gets corrected fairly quickly. But thanks to this rigamarole I know that now.
I also know that not a lot of apps (any 3rd party?) don't tap into wifi locating. I would love to see some developers get into the GMaps API, or pick apart Maps to see how that's done. My Maps was always dead on with Wifi. Like, six feet.
I do have fingernails like the "dude" in the video (a couple of them, anyway), and I still had to use the pry tool I got a
PPCTechs years ago. I've used it for 100 other things, too. It's cheap, considering the mileage and it'll fit in your toolbox. It really is just a wedge of plastic, but the hardness is such that it does the job without banging up your gadget.
IF $15 is too much, it's a wee softer than Lego. I had actually contemplated trying my DD's Polly Pocket Cinderella's spare leg (#1 Cindy lost it, we interred her, we found the leg. Now the new Cindy has a spare just in case.) Checking out the local second hand store for plastic wedgie toys might prove helpful if you can't get a purposed tool locally. A really nice plastic flatware knife might work, too, but not the regular, cheap, and toxic polystyrene ones (Google that). My other thought was bamboo if it's cut right. It just has to be pretty sharp to get into the .1 mm crack.
Many of us here would be SOL on GPS if it wasn't for XDA. If you're that happy, and if you can (e.g. you're not eating donated food), consider supporting the site. No one's paying me to say it. This site is a tribute to open source if there ever was one. Those of us for whom this worked just reaped the fruits of lots of labor and bandwidth. I love this site for exactly this thread, and 1000's of others just like it.