GPS Issues after flashing Lollipop

[Alias8818]

This is not a thread about me asking for help, more so opening the door to help others and provide general guidance with GPS issues on Lollipop.

This past weekend, I flashed back to ZV4 from ZV6. I rooted through Stump Root, installed TWRP, took a backup, and flashed two different Lollipop ROMs. I tried CM first, but am now working with Illusion as the SMS button was broke. GPS would not work no matter the fix on any Google Play Apps, be it a gps.conf changer or an AGPS manager. So there is the back story of what exactly I did, and now I will outline what I did to get GPS working.

I took current backup of Illusion and restored from backup to my stock ZV4 ROM. Lo and behold, getting into the ROM -- I found that GPS was disabled. There was also a secondary "enhanced" GPS option in the ROM I enabled from the same screen in the Location settings menu. (if anyone is still on a stock ROM, can you check for the name of that option?). I also enabled that option. I used "GPS Test" from the Google Play Store and was able to get plenty of satellite fixes -- "3D Fix."

I then rebooted to recovery, restored to the Lollipop ROM -- and GPS worked just fine. This is fairly odd, and we used this method to get GPS to work back in the OG Samsung Epic 4G days. I am wondering if its something that the Stock Rom and firmware can do -- aka turn on GPS, that Lollipop can't actually initiate and toggle. I'm sure Lollipop can "turn it off", but I am not terribly sure of this at the moment.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone out.

 

[vaelek]

OMG thank you! I almost gave up on L for now because no rom I tried would give me a GPS fix. The locating icon only even appeared in the status bar for a few seconds and went away. I restored my stock nand, enabled high accuracy (I usually leave it in battery save unless I'm actually using it), flashed back to L, and bam, instant lock.

 

[Alias8818]

OMG thank you! I almost gave up on L for now because no rom I tried would give me a GPS fix. The locating icon only even appeared in the status bar for a few seconds and went away. I restored my stock nand, enabled high accuracy (I usually leave it in battery save unless I'm actually using it), flashed back to L, and bam, instant lock.

No problem. Glad I could help.

 

[joeyhdownsouth]

I can't, for the life of me, get this to work. I've tried instructions to the t, still no GPS on Illusion.

sent from my LG G3

 

[desantim]

I can't, for the life of me, get this to work. I've tried instructions to the t, still no GPS on Illusion.

sent from my LG G3

This has been a long standing fix, but again confirmed working for me. Brand new VS985 (Verizon LGG3 Warranty Replacement). Had booted the phone to register the new sim card and immediately rooted, Bumped, wipe and flashed Illusion 5.0. Tried maps the next day, GPS apps, etc, NOTHING would work..

Backed up that install in TWRP, loaded up Jasmine 4.0, booted in, turned on GPS, downloaded a GPS app, got a lock, immediately loaded TWRP, wiped 3x, restored my Illusion backup, booted it up, loaded my GPS app, and within 5 seconds it found GPS and locked in.

I can't claim to know why the stock rom would make any diff on turning on GPS, locking in, etc when a rom that does similar stuff and what googles phones are primarily based off of don't work.

This worked though and I'm happy!

 

[NiK-]

Hey I have the same issue and tried this workaround twice, but still can't get GPS on lollipop...

 

[archbox]

Hey I have the same issue and tried this workaround twice, but still can't get GPS on lollipop...

I also still have the issue, and can no longer get a GPS lock on 4.4.2 ROMs after having flashed lollipop

 

[pmaximal]

I spent hours looking for a solution on this that would not imply flashing another ROM.

What fixed it for me was updating the gps.conf file with a proper NTP server more suitable for your zone.

The easiest way to do this is using FasterGPS app. You need root, of course. But works very well.

 

[xamf555]

Didn't work for me.

I spent hours looking for a solution on this that would not imply flashing another ROM.

What fixed it for me was updating the gps.conf file with a proper NTP server more suitable for your zone.

The easiest way to do this is using FasterGPS app. You need root, of course. But works very well.

I tried this method but it did not work for me. I'm hoping to figure this out without re-installing stock firmware.

 

[voltz926]

Yes gps is not working on lollipop roms. I flashed 2 different lollipop roms, and neither gps is working. I restore my previous kitkat version copied the gps.conf file to my sd card, reflashed the lollipop rom and then I replaced the gps.conf file with the one from kitkat. It works. I updated the rom and the gps won't work again. I replaced it again with the gps.conf from kitkat, gps works fine again.

 

[anaya1213]

Yes gps is not working on lollipop roms. I flashed 2 different lollipop roms, and neither gps is working. I restore my previous kitkat version copied the gps.conf file to my sd card, reflashed the lollipop rom and then I replaced the gps.conf file with the one from kitkat. It works. I updated the rom and the gps won't work again. I replaced it again with the gps.conf from kitkat, gps works fine again.

Do you happen to still have that gps.conf file? I'm having the same problem.

 

[ztlov926]

Do you happen to still have that gps.conf file? I'm having the same problem.

Anaya1213
Can you give me your email address so I can send it to you.

 

[Abbas130]

No problem. Glad I could help.

Sir,
I am from Pakistan. i have sprint lg g3 ls990 cell phone. I am using 3g cellular network. But when i enable data it always shows Edge not 3g. I switched network mode to cdma/ wcdma from settings menu but nothing. I flash several roms but no result.

Now i am on cloudy g3 2.5. But there is no change in my data service. I am still on edge data mode.

Any one help me what can i do to switch to cdma/ 3g?????

Thanks and waiting some support from u people.

Regards
Abbas

 

[Iscaronx]

Flash your stock firmware using .tot not kdz file,but you need another lg flash tool that uses .tot and dll files,just search on google,or use files from this site lgg3root i just did that after trying several stock/custom firmware/gpsconfig files

 

[brookssw]

I spent hours looking for a solution on this that would not imply flashing another ROM.

What fixed it for me was updating the gps.conf file with a proper NTP server more suitable for your zone.

The easiest way to do this is using FasterGPS app. You need root, of course. But works very well.

I realize it's been a while, but I wanted to say thanks for posting this! Using FasterGPS to update my ntp region did the trick perfectly!