[Q] GPS Problem with HTC Phones in Upstate NY?

[demarcmj]

There seems to be a problem where some HTC phones in upstate New York are reporting their location to be Gazost, France. I'm experiencing it on my phone (details in sig) and my girlfriend is having the same problem on her stock/unrooted incredible (both in Syracuse). I googled it and it looks like a few people on Yahoo Answers are having the same problem http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110818161956AA9gHNS

Has anyone else heard of this? or have any ideas on what to do about it?

 

[Stretch2m]

I am having the same problem -- HTC Incredible, Upstate NY. I just talked to a Verizon tech support rep who said that they are getting calls about this issue. They stated that it is something wrong with the Android OS for certain phone manufacturers and that they (Verizon) contacted Google and Google is "looking into it". To monitor other people's discussions, here are a few other posts I've bookmarked:

Post 1
Post 2
Post 3

 

[NilsP]

I am having the same problem in the Albany, NY area.

The sad part is I thought I screwed up the next release of my 3.0 ROM with the latest kernel or something until I found a thread about this on one of the sites linked above. I even went back to prior versions and even the stock November OTA.

The part that bugs me the most is I spent hours wasting my time trying to fix it

 

[sjgeek89]

Yeah this is a real pain in the butt. I spent hours re-flashing to different roms I new worked before. I tried pure shooter which I freakin love but thought it had GPS problems, turns out its Verizon. I hope this gets resolved soon. I called them yesterday so we'll have to see.

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[pragmatous]

This fix worked for me.

download "GPS test" app; put your phone in airplane mode; make sure wifi is off, go into gps test, go to menu-> settings - hit clear AGPS a couple times, wait a few minutes, hit update AGPS a couple times, wait; i then went into navigation with wifi off let it sit for awhile; backed out turned on wifi and went back into nav and it worked. Went into GPS test and it picked up my long&lat as well as a few GPS sat's.turned off airplane mode went into nav again and it still worked.

Yeah this is a real pain in the butt. I spent hours re-flashing to different roms I new worked before. I tried pure shooter which I freakin love but thought it had GPS problems, turns out its Verizon. I hope this gets resolved soon. I called them yesterday so we'll have to see.

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[sjgeek89]

Thanks. When I get out of work ill give it a shot,& report back.

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[demarcmj]

This fix worked for me.

download "GPS test" app; put your phone in airplane mode; make sure wifi is off, go into gps test, go to menu-> settings - hit clear AGPS a couple times, wait a few minutes, hit update AGPS a couple times, wait; i then went into navigation with wifi off let it sit for awhile; backed out turned on wifi and went back into nav and it worked. Went into GPS test and it picked up my long&lat as well as a few GPS sat's.turned off airplane mode went into nav again and it still worked.

Thanks for the help... I found this fix and it worked for me: http://phandroid.com/2011/08/22/ver...-weve-got-a-temporary-fix-for-you-forum-talk/

It seems to be pretty much what you did except a little simpler (no waiting, no doing things "a couple times," and no "update AGPS")

 

[demarcmj]

http://twitter.com/#!/demarcmj/status/105710726299123712

here's hoping that the twitter hashtag #upstateNYVerizonHTCGPSpocolypse catches on. Ha

 

[sjgeek89]

I cant get either one to work.

 

[Himay]

Some Motorola users on Verizon were having issues with this as well (have a friend with a Droid and another with Droid 2). According to some other forums, the issue seems to be resolved as of yesterday evening/this morning. My friend with the Droid has her GPS working again (confirmed 15min ago). Haven't heard back from the Droid 2 user yet.