Sudden GOS Issues

[rbi411]

Up until this week I've never had a problem with my Verizon M7 in terms of GPS. It locked on fast and off I went. Ever since Tuesday, my phone hasn't been locking on to GPS satellites (allegedly). It seem that Maps or Waze or whatever turn-by-turn direction app I try to use can find my initial location but it almost immediately says satellite reception lost or missing satellite link (or something else to that effect). Read in a few places that GPS Status could fix a few issues but that is still showing an infinite loop of GPS locating sadness. I'm still getting nothing. Anybody else have these sorts of GPS issues before? How did you fix it?

 

[B. Diddy]

So you're definitely on High Accuracy or Device Only mode, right? That is, you're certain the GPS radio is on?

Can you compare with the GPS of another device? This may seem way out there, but if other GPS systems are having difficulty, it could be related to sunspot activity: SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

 

[rbi411]

I was under the impression that going into Settings and then Location would give me access to setting my GPS to high accuracy. When I go into my settings I see this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0eqxtj0to9a7ws/Screenshot_2014-08-22-14-04-26.png?dl=0

Not seeing anything about turning on High Accuracy there. I'm going to have to wait to test some other GPSes when other people get home. The car GPS I have that I hate using works though.

Edit: Will add that I am still on 4.3. I'm paranoid about warranties but I still want to rom this when it expires. Still haven't upgraded to 4.4 because I want firewater to work when I'm ready to use it.

 

[B. Diddy]

Your device is properly set to use the GPS radio. High Accuracy, Device Only, and Battery Saving are terms used in vanilla KitKat on Nexus devices.

 

[rbi411]

I can confirm after testing 4 iPhone 5S, one GS4 and a N7 that my device is the only one I can get my hands on that isn't able to get my GSP up and running for turn-by-turn. Next step to check?

 

[B. Diddy]

The only other thing I can suggest is to boot into Recovery and wipe the cache partition, which won't erase any personal data: Reset: HTC One (LTE) | T-Mobile Support

You could always do a factory reset, but that will erase your data, and is more of a hassle.

Apart from that, you may want to consider contacting HTC.