GPS causes Rezound to randomly turn off

[anon(862866)]

I just got my Rezound ~2 weeks ago, and I went ahead and rooted it. Unfortunately, anytime my GPS is on (i.e. "Standalone GPS services"), my phone will just spontaneously turn off within 15 minutes or so. This of course renders my navigation useless, which is something I use my phone for a lot.

I thought that maybe doing a clean wipe/factory reset and then installing a new ROM (Scott's CleanROM) would rid me of the problem, but unfortunately, it has not.

I tried looking for answers to this problem online to no avail, so I'm hoping some of you may have some suggestions? Thanks for your help in advance!

 

[anon(94115)]

ok you are using it for navigation, are you using a car dock? I am going to guess the rez is over heating and shutting down so that you do not burn it up. Honestly this is a common issue that can get better.

 

[anon(862866)]

Nope, I don't use car dock. The thing is, it happens even when I'm using other GPS-dependent apps (like Google Maps, or Car Locator) OR when I'm not using anything at all but the GPS is still on.

 

[anon(94115)]

get a battery temperature app from the market and run maps for a half an hour see if it reboots and at what temperature

 

[anon(862866)]

Surprisingly, just letting my phone sit there with the GPS + Maps running for 30 minutes didn't make my phone reboot. The temperature went from 96.7 F to 102.2 F, though. That's probably the first time it's gone that long without shutting off.

 

[anon(94115)]

yeah that is a good temperature range, see what happens when you do it under "normal" conditions

 

[anon(862866)]

So last night when I went to use it, it started at 88.8 F, and within one minute of booting up the GPS + Maps, the phone turned off - I couldn't even enter the name of my destination. Because it turned off so quickly, I didn't get a read on the battery temp, but when I rebooted the phone, it was at 92.3 F.

 

[anon(94115)]

Well then it isn't overheating and I would either do a reset or have them send me another

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[anon(862866)]

I am updating this thread just in case anybody was in a similar boat for the past few months - it looks like my problem was likely due to the combination of my ICS-like ROM and the Google Maps/Navigation that is incompatible with ICS on the Rezound (as many of you have now probably experienced).

As everyone else suggested, uninstall the updates and it should hopefully be working again. I haven't had a chance to test it on the road yet, but I've left my GPS on for a while now with no issues. I'm crossing my fingers....!

 

[acejavelin]

I am updating this thread just in case anybody was in a similar boat for the past few months - it looks like my problem was likely due to the combination of my ICS-like ROM and the Google Maps/Navigation that is incompatible with ICS on the Rezound (as many of you have now probably experienced).

As everyone else suggested, uninstall the updates and it should hopefully be working again. I haven't had a chance to test it on the road yet, but I've left my GPS on for a while now with no issues. I'm crossing my fingers....!

Unless your issues just began in the last week, when Google released 6.10.0, the core issue from before is NOT a Google Maps issue... All issues prior to that worked fine with the Rezound and ICS, most of us just removed updates when this came out a few days ago and side loaded in 6.9.2 from the week before and all was good.

BTW, for a nice alternative to Maps, try Waze, it is available in the Play Store.

 

[anon(862866)]

Unless your issues just began in the last week, when Google released 6.10.0, the core issue from before is NOT a Google Maps issue... All issues prior to that worked fine with the Rezound and ICS, most of us just removed updates when this came out a few days ago and side loaded in 6.9.2 from the week before and all was good.

BTW, for a nice alternative to Maps, try Waze, it is available in the Play Store.

Ohh, good point! I didn't even realize that. I know Maps in particular started messing up after the update like everybody else (it was working prior to that), but Navigation/GPS-dependent apps were not working even prior to the update. I wonder why uninstalling updates to Maps (it went down to 6.7.0, I believe) has let my GPS-dependent apps start working again? I haven't yet tested it on the road, but so far, it seems promising.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

I'm oddly enough not having any GPS/maps related issue on the Team Venom ICS ROM....

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Changed to Nils Business Sense 3.6 ICS, now the current Google Maps version causes reboot.

Solution: Uninstall updates, use old version. Worked perfectly for a ~1hour drive last weekend.

 

[anon(862866)]

Changed to Nils Business Sense 3.6 ICS, now the current Google Maps version causes reboot.

Solution: Uninstall updates, use old version. Worked perfectly for a ~1hour drive last weekend.

Very interesting - I wonder why it worked for your previous ROM but not this one. Which version of Google Maps did you go down to?

 

[318sugarhill]

The global ruu update fixes the maps reboot problem.

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[xxfallacyxx]

Very interesting - I wonder why it worked for your previous ROM but not this one. Which version of Google Maps did you go down to?

Says I'm on 6.9.0, all I did was go and found Maps in the market and tapped uninstall updates.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

New update today for Maps. Seems to have fixed the problem. I've got navigation running right now with the phone sitting on my desk. No reboots as of yet.

 

[anon(862866)]

New update today for Maps. Seems to have fixed the problem. I've got navigation running right now with the phone sitting on my desk. No reboots as of yet.

Boooo. Unfortunately, when I updated the new Maps, it didn't work for me (it rebooted within a minute). I know it seems to work for everybody else, but somehow it doesn't for me??? Any thoughts/ideas???

 

[xxfallacyxx]

You're apparently not the only one it didn't work for. Someone else seems to have had more luck by uninstalling all maps updates and then updating directly to the new version. Give that a shot.

 

[dplane]

Don't forget the usual clearing cache/user data try before pulling in the update and after installing it if you're having issues