Where'd my GPS go?

[gordol]

I just rooted my Droid X this week using the one-click method over at Droid-Life, and ever since I've been having issues with the GPS. It will take a couple tries before a location-enabled app will be able to even access the GPS. For example, I'll open Maps and it'll immediately tell me that location data is not available, then a moment later I can retry and it'll find me as quick as ever. This is while in the exact same place(s) that have always worked with no problem.

I am not running a custom ROM, I rooted so I can freeze a few apps. I am running the stock Gingerbread 2.3.3. Apps that I have frozen are: Blockbuster, City ID, DLNA, DlnaSystemService, Madden NFL 11, Music (the built-in player), Skype Mobile, and VZApps. So far as I can tell, none of these should make any difference to the availability of the location service.

The only location service "provider" I have enabled is the GPS itself, and this is the way I've always had my phone with no problems before.

 

[jerseyboy357]

Well first DONT leave familiar territory lol there's no GPS app to fix your GPS app
Next I would see if maybe Maps or any other location enabled apps need to be updated. Is this issue happening on both 3g and wi-fi or just one or the other?

I seriously doubt rooting hurt your GPS. Thaw your CITY ID app. It might have a network association with the stock GPS. Report back.

 

[gordol]

Well first DONT leave familiar territory lol there's no GPS app to fix your GPS app

For actual nav, I use a Garmin. I use the Maps app for place lookups, etc. But it's other stuff I'm more interested in working right, such as Yelp and GasBuddy.

Next I would see if maybe Maps or any other location enabled apps need to be updated. Is this issue happening on both 3g and wi-fi or just one or the other?

All apps are up to date. What does 3G/WiFi have to do with it? This isn't an issue of downloading data off a network, it's seeing the current location by GPS positioning.

I seriously doubt rooting hurt your GPS. Thaw your CITY ID app. It might have a network association with the stock GPS. Report back.

Yes, rooting should not have caused this, but rooting and freezing some apps is the only change between when it worked properly and when it started having problems.

Well, I've already enabled the other two location services (cellular triangulation and Google/WiFi), which seems to have kicked something. FWIW, City ID was frozen because it keeps autoloading even though I don't use it because it's worthless in the free version, I'm not going to pay for it, and it does not work at all when on 3G only.

 

[gordol]

It seems to be working properly now, so I'm happy.

 

[PappaFloyd]

This happened to a friend of mine after running Pete's 1 click, he had to run it through a 2nd ttime and it fixed it.

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