Well that's crappy friggan' deal! I can't afford a new phone right now and rely on this dang GPS. WHat the HECK IS wrong with it. Why doesn't the kernel have options to clear GPS data, and or look for new GPS data <Snip>
People are just going to keep asking ans asking and asking and asking for this. (Haha!!! You should take a look at the Passion thread. Jsut click on any random page and there will inevitably be some garbage about GPS) There needs to be a sticky topic on this! There is none, i had to SEARCH on GOOGLE to find the topic.
A simple search would have pulled up many many threads for GPS fixes. GPS on the Vibrant sux. Always has and always will. I have never been able to get full birds lock and down to anything less than 16ft and that is with the HW fix. Now that doesn't sound bad but if I were say Geo-caching on a cliff then, yes that is a problem.
IF you want "mostly" full working GPS, flash a Froyo ROM and theme it ICS style.
Here is a
Froyo ROM
Here is an
ICS Theme
I pulled these from another old thread as recent as last week.
You say that you couldn't find anything about the fix but I did a search this morning and found these:
GPS fix files for ICS roms
CORRECT Hardware GPS Fix
Do you want to get quick GPS lock in CM7 (which you link abouve in Step 1)
GPS Settings and Fixes
That's not to mention "Yet Another GPS Fix" (YAGF) that I couldn't find plus countless posts in almost every ICS ROM thread there is.
Now back to the important stuff.
Never have seen a rainbow in my life with that bootloader. Here is my chain of upgrades over time:
OTA updates -> kies mini to Froyo -> momentarily CM7 (required step to go to Passion ICS) -> Passion ICS -> Hellybean 803 -> Hellybean 810
AFAIK Rainbows happened in early GB roms and the bootloader was a Kludge fix for that. That being said, if someone can tell me something I'm actually missing out on, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I see it stated on the Hellybean website, but would really like to know WHY. I'm not much for this "Herbal remedy"-like situation. Grandma told you to and the rest of the village does the same, but what is the science so we can learn. Are we actually curing something or are we eating garlic to prevent vampire bites? That being said... you can't argue with sucess if it is the only way to get the best result, no matter how little "science" there is available.
Rainbows are as common as they used to be with the earlier ICS builds. Before Passion v8, they were commonplace if you did not have GB bl's. Then they figured out what was happening (inside CWR) and since then they are not *Required* although recommended by most devs and powerusers.
Plus the Recovery/Download mode key combos are waaayy easier. Sometimes when I Odin, it takes me 5-6 times to get into recovery with the dang 3 button combo and by the end, I am so sick of hearing the TMo boot sounds, that I am thankful that I am on Cincinnati Bell with no stock image.
