How to do GPS fix in Samsung Galaxy

[sergiudrummer]

my samsung galaxy gio cant find any sattelites, can you guys help me out ?

[florindevil456]

i can't copy on system [ /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 (r/o) ]

Any help?

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 Your phone should be rooted.

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo you don't understand ; i can't remount (r/w) i push it but nothing happens it remains (r/o)

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 Which file manager are you using? Did you give superuser permission for that application?

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo root manager and yes

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 Download ES File Manager. In ES File Manager settings tick Root Explorer and Mount file system, Set Home Directory as /

Using this application you can try to copy the file....

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo gps still not working ; imust mention that i have a 2.3.3 Samsung i9001 Galaxy S Plus

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 I'm not sure about 9001. this one is for i9000.

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo i think it's a antenna problem

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 Try different ROMs.

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo my GPS can't connect a sattelite ,  a rom for?

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 It may happen bcs of the current ROM that u r using... So better to flash a new ROM and see...

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo no , my phone is under warranty and i want to keep that , i will try to contact my local samsung service about the problem and see if i can make it work because i paid some money on this phone and i want the best of him (i have this phone for almost a week and gps never worked , tryed all fixes and still don't work) . Anyway thanks for the help man !

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 If it is under warranty then better to give service centre... bye...

[florindevil456]

@HDTechVideo rom manager and yes

[HDTechVideo]

@florindevil456 Your phone should be rooted.

[jurassic512]

just to clarify, this is a fix for SGS phones that dont lock onto gps satellites? aka GPS not working?

[HDTechVideo]

@jurassic512 Yes this is a fix for sgs phones that dont lock gps satellites.

[LittleBananaBoy]

just download waze app .. wze is more then just a gps.. there is no problems with traffic and police and other stuff that boders on the road.. and plus you can add friends and see where they ar e driving and many more stuff.... chill man :))))

[HDTechVideo]

@LittleBananaBoy Thanks mate... Let me try the new navigation...

[LittleBananaBoy]

just download waze app .. wze is more then just a gps.. there is no problems with traffic and police and other stuff that boders on the road.. and plus you can add friends and see where they ar e driving and many more stuff.... chill man :))))

[byczybyk]

mostly are safe as long as dev uses script setting stock permissions for all files while manual copying ends up in messed up permisions/owners/grups what leads to messing up device

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk Yes you are right. The original permission is rwxr-xr-x. You can do it by using root explorer like application. The first part rwx means Owner permission, second part r-x is for Group and third part r-x is for Owner.

r-Read

w-Write

x-Execute

I hope this will clear your doubts.

If you are keeping as rwxrwxr-x, till now no one reported any issue. But for some critical files, we have to follow the original permission. In that cases it will clearly mention in forum.Thanks br..

[byczybyk]

@HDTechVideo i had no dubts, you are missing a part of video mentioning to fix permissions and so =)

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk Actually in this case it is not a must. Without setting any permission it is working perfectly.

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk The missing happened only because in the original thread it is not mentioned :) anyway your point is right better set the permission as original. Thanks for your comment...

[byczybyk]

belive me it is unsafe to use sysetm files wo setting original permissions

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk agreed br.. then rooting, flashing rom all are not safe :)

[byczybyk]

so those are wrong, should be rexr-xr-x like you like to say it this way

also check owner/group should be root/root and it is not will be sdcard/system or something like that if you copied it from internal sdcard

in most cases will work but sometimes might infact alter gps performance

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk But no one reported any issue till now. I'm using this for the last 5 months.

[byczybyk]

no comment, not setting back permissions and groups anythin? newb ...

[HDTechVideo]

@byczybyk Without changing anything its working for me. And the permission showing in my phone after doing this is rwxrwxr-x.