Recent content by Alexander Andreev

shaglioni, please describe how you opened that plastic cover in top left? Can't figure it out myself and I have strong belief my GPS contacts are flaky. Signal strength just floats, especially when temperatures change. It was totally unusable in winter outdoors.

This is not Sprint issue as I have it on international unlocked version. Started to happen right after OTA to 5.1.1. Clearing cache didn't help, Smart Stay is not on and I need fingerprint scanner as I unlock phone often and using password will make me kill someone. Company policy requires...

While it seems that compass calibration as well as other measures to make life easier for GPS process help, I don't think it is the solution, it just helps things a bit. A friend got some considerable improvement by selecting "no background processes" in developers settings. GPS seems more...

Please share if you notice anything but I highly doubt anything can be related to these contacts. I have the same GPS performance with the stock cover, with this QI cover or without cover at all - yes, if you take the cover off completely GPS still works without any change or interruption. Just...

These are contacts for wireless charging Qi Receiver. This is a third party cover I have. It doesn't seem to affect GPS performance as it was stellar at first with it and without it, then it became horrible and after factory reset it works better but still very unsatisfactory. However I agree...

I started to have this issue after about six months of flawless GPS operation. All of sudden it became almost unusable - kept losing satellites under clear sky, couldn't get a fix even while stationary, GPS Test app shown only 3-4 satellites with extremely low signal and no fix at all. Restarts...