[Q] GPS lock is awful

How's your GPS on your G2?

  • It works great!

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  • Not so good...

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DJMaj07

DJMaj07

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I'm currently on Optimus DE v2.3 with Sprint as my carrier. I've tried multiple ROMs, including stock, and the GPS is wildly inaccurate. Sometimes it'll get a good enough fix to navigate, and other times it'll get confused and freeze my location or be really inaccurate. I honestly think these problems started after the KitKat update because it wasn't quite this bad on Jelly Bean. This makes me think it's software related, not hardware related. Take a look at this picture below, I have an S3 on the left and the G2 on the right:

CEBlynR.jpg


Any ideas on possible fixes? I really don't want to downgrade to Jelly Bean just because of this. I've tried using GPS apps from the Play Store, such as GPS Status and Toolbox, GPS Test, etc. but they haven't made any difference.
 
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DJMaj07 said:
I'm currently on Optimus DE v2.3 with Sprint as my carrier. I've tried multiple ROMs, including stock, and the GPS is wildly inaccurate. Sometimes it'll get a good enough fix to navigate, and other times it'll get confused and freeze my location or be really inaccurate. I honestly think these problems started after the KitKat update because it wasn't quite this bad on Jelly Bean. This makes me think it's software related, not hardware related. Take a look at this picture below, I have an S3 on the left and the G2 on the right:

CEBlynR.jpg


Any ideas on possible fixes? I really don't want to downgrade to Jelly Bean just because of this. I've tried using GPS apps from the Play Store, such as GPS Status and Toolbox, GPS Test, etc. but they haven't made any difference.
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Guessing you already have it on high accuracy? Might have to flash a stock ROM and get a good GPS lock then reflash again
 
MeestaAytch

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I had the same issue. Let me tell you absolutely no stock ROMs helped either. Oddly enough only aosp is 100% accurate and gives me zero gps issues. I'm running paranoid android and while it does have it's issues like volumes are a tad too high and there are wakelock issues.... Having the ability to use my GPS far outweighs that. I need to use GPS quite a lot.

Try out paranoid android and let me know if you see the same.

Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk
 
DJMaj07

DJMaj07

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MeestaAytch said:
I had the same issue. Let me tell you absolutely no stock ROMs helped either. Oddly enough only aosp is 100% accurate and gives me zero gps issues. I'm running paranoid android and while it does have it's issues like volumes are a tad too high and there are wakelock issues.... Having the ability to use my GPS far outweighs that. I need to use GPS quite a lot.

Try out paranoid android and let me know if you see the same.

Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk
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Which PA version are you on? I want the exact build so I can flash it and know that I have better chances of the GPS working. :D

meangreenie said:
Have you tried FasterGPS from the play store?

made a world of difference on my n5
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Didn't help. :(

Nightbeat said:
Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdDJqFxpRy8
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Interesting. Had high hopes for it, but it didn't help either, or only helped marginally. :(
 
DJMaj07

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MeestaAytch

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I did nothing special. I was official stock ZVC. Did root via ioroot then autorec then flashed PA and been using it for a while.

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    I'm currently on Optimus DE v2.3 with Sprint as my carrier. I've tried multiple ROMs, including stock, and the GPS is wildly inaccurate. Sometimes it'll get a good enough fix to navigate, and other times it'll get confused and freeze my location or be really inaccurate. I honestly think these problems started after the KitKat update because it wasn't quite this bad on Jelly Bean. This makes me think it's software related, not hardware related. Take a look at this picture below, I have an S3 on the left and the G2 on the right:

    CEBlynR.jpg


    Any ideas on possible fixes? I really don't want to downgrade to Jelly Bean just because of this. I've tried using GPS apps from the Play Store, such as GPS Status and Toolbox, GPS Test, etc. but they haven't made any difference.
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