[Q] china phone star a2000

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Hi,

I recently bought from a china website a star a2000 but the gps didn't worked so far, all other funcitons works fine but not the gps.

I entered in the factory mode by turning the phone pressing the buttons power + volume up. When I tested the gps I got the message gps failed! (-8).
The problem is that the phone never get the gps fix.

My colleague that bought the same phone bought the same device and when we tested the gps the issue was the same, gps failed! (-8)
We disassembled his device and in the back top of the phone where usually the devices have the gps hardware but there is nothing there.

If someone has faced an issue like this, or found an workaround, please share.
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Regards

You must go outside, and wait aprox. 10 minutes. For me it worked!

Well Cristivsb, looks like you are the luck one that got the hardware inside your phone, mine a2000 so as my friend's a2000 have not gps hardware inside. I did a trip by car and put it in the console of the car with clear view of the sky, it took more than 2 hours to find satellites but nothing, that is the reason why my colleague openned his one and noticed the gps hardware was not there.

Does anyone has the same issue?

Thanks

Sorry to hear that. Can you please tell me, on the back of the phone package, it is written in English or in Chinese?

> aGPS settings > Select Profile = Google (not Nokia)

It depends which maufacturer you got it from. Looks like a lot of these Chinese manufacturers are cutting corners when putting these things together to either save money or to be able to sell them at a lower price.

There are some A2000's with capacitive screens instead of the resistive screens which is stated on the specs. And there are also some with larger capacities.


The GPS on my A2000 seems to work fine, just having some trouble with the wifi (it works, but only when it wants to) and the 3.5mm jack isn't giving stereo output.

A great phone nonetheless.



Do you mind saying where you got the phone from?

Well, I don't think it is good since mine is without god or capacitive screen. But the problem was the dealer, avoid to buy at chinabuye.com they don't care about customer complaints.

I fixed mine by replacing it by HTC Sensation, more expensive but really works.



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I have the same problem!

My phone can't get an GPS fix. I tried it with the A-GPS Nokia server and the A-GPS Google server. I even tried 3rd party software.


Bought it one week ago from ebay, maybe the newer phones come without GPS hardware? I already contacted the seller, waiting for a response.

Star A2000

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Hello everyone, i have Star A2000, it works great for me, wifi, gps etc are working... I want to ask is has anyone here know how to improve its performance especially in games? What about custom ROMS? Is it advisable to root this phone? i had read some articles that rooting can improve performance and battery life, can someone tell or teach me how or has someone done rooting A2000? is there a video tutorial about it??

Many thanks...