Awesome that you installed a custom ROM!
The issue you are talking about has, as you said, been reported by other users. Both on Lineage based and AOSP based ROMs. The strange part is that I haven't had any issues like this, and it seems like
@Berni-0815 hasn't either. (I have never touched the gps.conf file or tried to adjust the NTP_SERVER). The only issue that I had with GPS was when I tried to use google maps without google services installed. What app did you try to use, and if it's relying on google, do you have google services installed?
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