Verizon LG G2 GPS Fix Solution

flipos12 · Apr 19, 2014

Simcard related

Steamer86 said:
It must be batches, my GPS is about flawless.

im been trying to use it with Tmobile; i've tried everything with no luck. whenever i put the original verizon sim, the gps locks even indoors; but when i switch to tmobile wont work no matter what i do. i'm selling this one to buy a tmobile version.

Farmstall · Apr 19, 2014

I just tried this and mine still doesn't work. I put a small piece of doubled up electrical tape between the fold in the connector on the phone and another piece under the contact on the back of the phone. Any change I did it wrong?

I also noticed that there was now a bit of a gap between the back and the sides of the phone right were the gps is, even though all the tabs snapped in. Has anyone else seen this?

Ainvar · Apr 19, 2014

Steamer86 said:
It must be batches, my GPS is about flawless.

It could be that or they could have resolved the issue once they started getting a large number of devices back to resolve this issue.

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Steamer86 said:
It must be batches, my GPS is about flawless.

Farmstall said:
I just tried this and mine still doesn't work. I put a small piece of doubled up electrical tape between the fold in the connector on the phone and another piece under the contact on the back of the phone. Any change I did it wrong?

I also noticed that there was now a bit of a gap between the back and the sides of the phone right were the gps is, even though all the tabs snapped in. Has anyone else seen this?

I would make sure you didnt use too much tape and also make sure you have all the latches popped back into place properly. There is no bulge on the back of my phone or the other three phones I have done.

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forgiven90 said:
This is great info! Could you clarify just a little what exactly you did with the electrical tape? Like put a tiny piece "under" the flex connector? I haven't actually taken mine apart yet so maybe this would be clearer then... Also is there a chance this would help my compass? I can't seem to get it calibrated and working.

It is pretty straight forward if you look at the pictures and take your time when cutting the tape and inserting it with gentleness. If I end up doing another G2 to fix this I will take some pictures of what I do. But I couldn't guess when that might be as the only other people I know that have a LG G2 dont want to do this as they don't want to start taking it apart in concern of warranty issues.

forgiven90 · Apr 19, 2014

Farmstall said:
I just tried this and mine still doesn't work. I put a small piece of doubled up electrical tape between the fold in the connector on the phone and another piece under the contact on the back of the phone. Any change I did it wrong?

I also noticed that there was now a bit of a gap between the back and the sides of the phone right were the gps is, even though all the tabs snapped in. Has anyone else seen this?

I think you used a bit too much tape... I think we could get by with one layer of tape thickness. And yes I noticed the same gap problem going back together on mine. I just put a lot of pressure right in the edge (not over the GPS connector) and then it went together finally. I'm still thinking of removing a layer on mine... But it sounds like you have 3 layers there so in your situation I'd remove at least one and maybe two.

Steamer86 · Apr 19, 2014

@Ainvar This is a unit from release, started with V10. I've had locks at 2 seconds cold start, longer at times in buildings, weather, ect. Never problems as others describe. Idk. Wish others were problem free.

Edit: Here is a first fix cold and one with AGPS fix after cold. Stone row house surrounded by water, in yard near wall, and cloudy day. VS980 24A original phone bought at release from VZW. No mods besides xposed and G2settings.

Edvard_Greig · Apr 20, 2014

Just did this with mine except instead of using tape I used a very tiny piece of an old credit card and slid it into the spot with a pair of tiny pliers (could have used tweezers too). I went from a weak indoor fix of 30sec-1min to a strong indoor fix in about 5-10sec

Raverrevolution · Apr 21, 2014

I really need to do this. I got my phone days after it first came out and my GPS does not want to detect anything, it's so frustrating!! Are the modder's phones still going strong?

EDIT: Just did this to my phone and nothing really that different. Pretty much the GPS is a bit better, but still pretty sh-tty as a whole. Google Maps still can't accurately figure out which direction I'm facing. I'm going to have to play with this more tomorrow. And FYI I used 1 layer of thickness.

EDIT 2: Did some tests outside on my way to work and it gets a fix MUCH faster!! Almost instant now so this mod definitely helped. Although here at work inside the building still nothing, but I guess that's expected. Magnetic direction is still borked. The compass on this phone is terrible.

Ainvar · Apr 21, 2014

Steamer86 said:
@Ainvar This is a unit from release, started with V10. I've had locks at 2 seconds cold start, longer at times in buildings, weather, ect. Never problems as others describe. Idk. Wish others were problem free.

Edit: Here is a first fix cold and one with AGPS fix after cold. Stone row house surrounded by water, in yard near wall, and cloudy day. VS980 24A original phone bought at release from VZW. No mods besides xposed and G2settings.

I wish I didn't have this issue but I did. Was able to easily fix it and am a happy camper again and so are the others I did this for.

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Edvard_Greig said:
Just did this with mine except instead of using tape I used a very tiny piece of an old credit card and slid it into the spot with a pair of tiny pliers (could have used tweezers too). I went from a weak indoor fix of 30sec-1min to a strong indoor fix in about 5-10sec

That is a very good idea, will have to try that if I do another G2 for someone. Right now I dont want to break what isn't broken to replace the small tiny piece of tape with this. But I have added it to my notes for the GPS fix as an alternate method.

Raverrevolution · Apr 21, 2014

I must be in dead zones inside houses and buildings because it won't budge anywhere inside to get a fix, but I just came back from lunch being outside and it takes seconds for a fix every single time even on cold boots.

Warning though, this does not fix the compass at all. This is quite possibly the worst compass ever. It's not even off by a little, it's a whole lot. Is the part detachable and easily accessible?

squish72 · Apr 25, 2014

Tried spacing the antenna tab up and it didn't seem to make things much better. I modded the GPS.conf file and seemed to help. I lock fast and get quite a few satellites but it's almost always 30 to 60 feet off.

I also have compas issues and looking in the service manual it looks like it's on the bottom of the logic board

cckeeler · Apr 26, 2014

I have been going back and forth with Verizon and am now on my 4th G2. I can't do a single trip using navigation without getting a "GPS Signal Lost" message. Extremely frustrated. Is the only fix to tear into it?

ogrekane313 · Apr 26, 2014

my gps was awesome on 11a and now on 24a it had me going all over the place kept saying make uturn after going the way it said cause the phone kept acting like i was facing a different direction

Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

julesism · Apr 27, 2014

GPS borked on 24A?

ogrekane313 said:
my gps was awesome on 11a and now on 24a it had me going all over the place kept saying make uturn after going the way it said cause the phone kept acting like i was facing a different direction

Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Yep, GPS was solid and fast before I made the jump to 24a. Now it takes an extremely long time to lock, if it locks at all. It'll sit on 2 or 3 out of 20ish. Seems to be worse on JC's CM11 build which is what I prefer. It's slow slow on the 24A stock roms\mods. I've tried the Assisted GPS Injector FREE app and the FasterGPS app with no luck. Hopefully it'll get sorted soon.

JJT211 · May 2, 2014

topurdue said:
I didn't have a choice about taking it back to Verizon. I bought it off of CL and it was probably one the original owner had replaced. So, returning it isn't an option for everybody. I tried many things that didn't work also, but this app did and it's why I shared.

incubus2 said:
I bought my Verizon g2 on swappa so I am in the same boat. I don't know what this magic app does but works for me. Thanks for sharing.

Sent from my VS980 4G using Tapatalk

I used to think the same thing but this is actually FALSE.

I bought my G2 off of Ebay and was having problems with the speaker port. So I just brought the phone into Verizon, they confirmed the speaker port wasnt working, looked up my account (im sure they can see whether or not I bought it directly from them) and they had a new phone mailed out to me, no questions asked.

I believe its because the phone is still less than a year old which is covered under LG's manufacturers warranty program not Verizons. Therefore its LG's money, not Verizon's. Why wouldnt Verizon go through the trouble of keeping their customers happy when it doesnt even cost them anything.

Now it might be different once the G2 hits the one year mark. And maybe I just got lucky as I didn't volunteer any info about the Ebay purchase, cuz I was already getting what I wanted anyway. Either way, you have nothing to lose and a brand new G2 to gain if you at least try.

kude87 · May 3, 2014

JJT211 said:
I used to think the same thing but this is actually FALSE.

I bought my G2 off of Ebay and was having problems with the speaker port. So I just brought the phone into Verizon, they confirmed the speaker port wasnt working, looked up my account (im sure they can see whether or not I bought it directly from them) and they had a new phone mailed out to me, no questions asked.

I believe its because the phone is still less than a year old which is covered under LG's manufacturers warranty program not Verizons. Therefore its LG's money, not Verizon's. Why wouldnt Verizon go through the trouble of keeping their customers happy when it doesnt even cost them anything.

Now it might be different once the G2 hits the one year mark. And maybe I just got lucky as I didn't volunteer any info about the Ebay purchase, cuz I was already getting what I wanted anyway. Either way, you have nothing to lose and a brand new G2 to gain if you at least try.

Did you have to make sure you weren't rooted? I've heard differing reports on Verizon taking a phone back if it says rooted or unrooted.

Sent from my LG G2

JJT211 · May 5, 2014

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kude87 said:
Did you have to make sure you weren't rooted? I've heard differing reports on Verizon taking a phone back if it says rooted or unrooted.

Sent from my LG G2

It was more a mechanical problem with the headphone jack not completely seating in the speaker port. It would play music but the slightest nudge would disconnect the headphones. So my problem had nothing to do with whether it was rooted or not.

But just to be safe, I made sure I unrooted it before I brought it in.

makkrj · Jul 1, 2014

GPS Issue

Ainvar said:
On the phone itself there is a small copy flex like connector. If you look on the link that shows the two images for the inside of the phone and the inside of the battery cover, you will see on the phone the tiny little flex connector I am speaking about. With gentle tender care slide some electrical tape (fold it together sticky sides in) underneath the flex connector. This will help it keep a solid connection to the antennae plate on the battery cover. I have done this on 4 phones total one of them mine. All four VZW LG G2 phones had the same issue. Depending on exactly where you were at you would get a weak lock/signal when needing to use GPS on the phone. After this was done the signal is nice and strong and locks within 3-7 seconds for me (yes I have timed it). This is both indoors and outdoors. The G2 is able to lock onto GPS just like any of my other phones in the past and also the MotoX.

I haven't had to modify the GPS.conf from stock (this never worked for me anyways as it wasn't able to acquire a signal 99% of the time). GPS just now works.

I'm facing this problem with my g2, I have 6 more months of warranty, but once I have rooted my phone, my warranty has probably gone, right?
If so, I thinking in doing what you said to fix my gps. My ask is, this yt video (/watch?v=UdDJqFxpRy8) is somehow related with what you did?
Is this solution only related to the VZW version? Because mine is a Brazilian D805 version.

I have already tried editing my gps.conf file, but didn't work. Also tried Faster GPS and Fasterfix.
The GPS used to work in the past, but I don't use it frequently, so I don't know why and when it stoped working.

Sorry for my bad english.

1heffer · Jul 6, 2014

makkrj said:
I'm facing this problem with my g2, I have 6 more months of warranty, but once I have rooted my phone, my warranty has probably gone, right?
If so, I thinking in doing what you said to fix my gps. My ask is, this yt video (/watch?v=UdDJqFxpRy8) is somehow related with what you did?
Is this solution only related to the VZW version? Because mine is a Brazilian D805 version.

I have already tried editing my gps.conf file, but didn't work. Also tried Faster GPS and Fasterfix.
The GPS used to work in the past, but I don't use it frequently, so I don't know why and when it stoped working.

Sorry for my bad english.

This fixes GPS, period. It's been working flawlessly for me for months.
As far as warranty goes, just go back to bone stock and you'll be fine. However, any replacement g2 will likely (probably) have the same GPS problems.

Steamer86 · Jul 6, 2014

I tried this on one that works fine with no change in lock speed cold and thereafter. Some contacts case and phone must have bad QC.

Lycidias · Jul 6, 2014

Hello, I Put some Paper unter the contacts of my d802 like in the YouTube Video but I still have Bad GPS (4/20). my friend with the Same phone has 13/20fix

Can i send it to LG? I think warranty should be for problems like this. But now I have a small Crack in my backplate because i was too rough. Can i still send it in over warranty?
Thanks

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