I just wanted to thank Rakesh for this valuable info! I bent the springs up and scrapped the connections down a bit to ensure a solid connection. Put my phone carefully back together and BAM booted up my phone and opened up "GPS Status" app and cleared internal data and even before I could download assistance data I was on 10 satellites with 100% strength lol and I was in my basement too!
You are a life saver! :thumbup: <3
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Can you clarify "100%"? As I never saw SNR ratio greater than 40 what means probably (but I'm not an expert) than signal strength divided by noise strength equals to SNR - so basically if the signal is 100 and noise is 2.5 then SNR equals 40 _and_ when signal is 50 and noise is 1.25 then SNR equals 40 _either_, so how did you check your signal, cause I see no way to be honest... at least not with GPS Test application...
And by the way, you have holes in your basement/cellar, and those are big - or windows, a big ones - no way for the GPS signal get through a concrete wals and ceiling. Simply NO_WAY.
I like positive feedback, but I don't like misleading opinions. The fix really fixes the indoor fix (;-P), but indoors means a room with at least one big window and quite close to it. I even noticed a BIG difference with my balcony door closed vs completely open where GPS could sustain the fix with closed, but could NOT get a fix when closed while one meter from it, had to open the door, then all was an eyeflash.
Just tried this myself and worked PERFECTLY. There was a lot of dust under the cover, and the contacts on the cover were pretty coroded. I cleaned the dust and scraped the corrosion off. Before trying it i couldn't even find a sattellite in view. After...it got 7 sattellites in use in under 30 seconds with an accuracy of 50ft. And this is indoors. Awesome!!!
guys suddenly i can't get a fix with my DHD!
I tried the agps patch, it worked but after a few hours i got no fix. the i reinstalled the patch and i got again a fix. after one day again no gps fix, so i tried again with the agps patch but this time didn't work. so i tried this guide, i have removed all the dust and polished the contacts but it seems i can't get a fix anymore! with gps status i can't see any satellite after 5 minutes....do i need to give it more time? i don't know what to do it always worked well!!!
Can you clarify "100%"? As I never saw SNR ratio greater than 40 what means probably (but I'm not an expert) than signal strength divided by noise strength equals to SNR - so basically if the signal is 100 and noise is 2.5 then SNR equals 40 _and_ when signal is 50 and noise is 1.25 then SNR equals 40 _either_, so how did you check your signal, cause I see no way to be honest... at least not with GPS Test application...
And by the way, you have holes in your basement/cellar, and those are big - or windows, a big ones - no way for the GPS signal get through a concrete wals and ceiling. Simply NO_WAY.
I like positive feedback, but I don't like misleading opinions. The fix really fixes the indoor fix (;-P), but indoors means a room with at least one big window and quite close to it. I even noticed a BIG difference with my balcony door closed vs completely open where GPS could sustain the fix with closed, but could NOT get a fix when closed while one meter from it, had to open the door, then all was an eyeflash.
What I meant by 100% I guess was mostly just a graphic representation of the signal strength for each satelite in the gps status app (little green bars under each lock). Considering I am in a concrete basement with a very small (2 feet long by 1 1/2 feet high) and am "locked onto a signal" I would consider phenominal at the very least.
What I meant by 100% I guess was mostly just a graphic representation of the signal strength for each satelite in the gps status app (little green bars under each lock).
This is completely unreferential, but fair enough as a general info - add application name to this, will be even more complete.
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Originally Posted by fallenkirmit
Considering I am in a concrete basement with a very small (2 feet long by 1 1/2 feet high) and am "locked onto a signal" I would consider phenominal at the very least.
Still can't believe this. Holes everywhere or simply bad app showing you have still the signal... Concrete is a concrete. Eventually it is a very very thin concrete without a steel skeleton, inch at most . Ok, nevermind. If you want to be precise, doublecheck this with GPSStatus by Mike Lockwood (market) - this is an opensourced GPS test application made by Google employee, I can fairly say that it is for now best tool for tests, works on every ROM in every conditions and hasn't any bugs that could fake the result. If you'll do it, do it for yourself, not for me .
Thanks rakesh2002 for these great instructions.Tried all soft tweaks to fix my gps, but this one did the trick!
I didn't have the tools you showed so only used a small screwdriver. It left a little mark, but nothing serious.
Just 5 min work!
omg thank you so much for this idea. I could never get a fast fix on GPS. especially when. I was holding the phone. mainly because I have a protective case on it. but now that I tried this, fixes a signal in seconds. even indoors in my basement. incredible thanks a million.
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