Hi,
I noticed that Verizon began pushing updates to these phones a few days ago. Mine is rooted, and this may be a coincidence, but last night I noticed HTC Sync checking for updates before I left the phone alone for the night. Battery was at about 60% at that point, which usually lasts me about a day. When I woke up 6 hours later, the phone was off and battery had drained completely. After recharging, I noticed that GPS was really screwed up: it seems Google Maps is fine and knows where I am, but other apps either get little to no GPS signal at all (even after waiting several minutes and moving to different locations), or think I'm 7 timezones away (the HTC clock and weather apps must use the same information). An app I just downloaded, GPS Test (which looks pretty cool), is showing GPS signal rates up to but not exceeding 25%.
First, how can I tell what's really going on, and how can I fix it? All GPS settings have been toggled off and back on, but that didn't help.
Second, since I'm rooted: is it possible some partial or incomplete firmware update was done that hosed my GPS reception? After rooting, About-> Software used to say everything was unknown or blank, but is now showing Android 2.2.1 (which doesn't sound new or updated).
I noticed that Verizon began pushing updates to these phones a few days ago. Mine is rooted, and this may be a coincidence, but last night I noticed HTC Sync checking for updates before I left the phone alone for the night. Battery was at about 60% at that point, which usually lasts me about a day. When I woke up 6 hours later, the phone was off and battery had drained completely. After recharging, I noticed that GPS was really screwed up: it seems Google Maps is fine and knows where I am, but other apps either get little to no GPS signal at all (even after waiting several minutes and moving to different locations), or think I'm 7 timezones away (the HTC clock and weather apps must use the same information). An app I just downloaded, GPS Test (which looks pretty cool), is showing GPS signal rates up to but not exceeding 25%.
First, how can I tell what's really going on, and how can I fix it? All GPS settings have been toggled off and back on, but that didn't help.
Second, since I'm rooted: is it possible some partial or incomplete firmware update was done that hosed my GPS reception? After rooting, About-> Software used to say everything was unknown or blank, but is now showing Android 2.2.1 (which doesn't sound new or updated).