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JI2 (Vibrant's Sept. ROM) GPS Files

Hey all,
So I flashed Vibrant's JI2 to my Captivate today, and it didn't go so good... HOWEVER -- I took off all of the GPS files I could and put them in a ZIP. I don't know how to make a valid update.zip file, so I was hoping someone smarter than me could do that Then the rest of us could try out the latest "GPS fix" the Vibrant people are enjoying, perhaps?

not bad. i just pushed the files over. it locked in 2secs and was accurate to 50 meters(use to be 200 or more) i need to take a test drive with it.

junkboy said:
not bad. i just pushed the files over. it locked in 2secs and was accurate to 50 meters(use to be 200 or more) i need to take a test drive with it.
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50 meters is terrible! That is 164 feet... it should get down to 16 feet / 5 meters.
I just got done pushing them over via adb myself with JH7... looks good so far. Needs some serious track testing, though.

I found this link on how to make an update.zip:
http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-android-update-zip-package/

Took a short drive and no offroading here. 50 is better than 200 and i was in my apartment.

junkboy said:
Took a short drive and no offroading here. 50 is better than 200 and i was in my apartment.
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How could you drive and be in an apartment at the same time?

tytdfn said:
How could you drive and be in an apartment at the same time?
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Lots and lots of tequila

tytdfn said:
How could you drive and be in an apartment at the same time?
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Zilch25 said:
Lots and lots of tequila
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i was replying to phr00t's posting. i got 50meter while in my apartment.

We need DG to incorporate this on his SRE. That would be awesome.

Here's a flashable zip.
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****WARNING: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK****
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I have flashed this on my Vibrant with good results. YMMV. Please do an Nandroid backup before you try to flash this. I am not responsible for what you do with your own property or any damages that result from using this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Moved to the Vibrant Forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782242

frankencat said:
Here's a signed zip that should be flashable.
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****WARNING: I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS SO USE AT YOUR OWN RISK****
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Sorry guys, I am busy and didn't have time to backup and test. Please do Nandroid before you try to flash this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Hrm... I noticed this update.zip does not have a meta_inf/com/google/android script, like all of the other GPS update.zip files I have. Is it needed?

Hmmmm....it should. Lemme take a look....
Edit: You're right. I repackaged it and updated my other post with the new zip. Let me know if it works or not. Thanks.

I'm not seeing any improvement over JH7 with these files, and the included agpsd does not appear to run at all. Are you sure your lock in 2s was from a cold start, and not just using data from a prior session?
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It's quite obvious that there is something deeper going on than just these files.

Unhelpful said:
I'm not seeing any improvement over JH7 with these files, and the included agpsd does not appear to run at all. Are you sure your lock in 2s was from a cold start, and not just using data from a prior session?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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I noticed our Captivates have a /system/bin/gpsd directory, but I couldn't find one on the Vibrant.. only agpsd existed. The other "GPS fix" updates had gpsd/ directories... I guess the Vibrant does things quite differently? :-\

Can somebody test this on a Vibrant? I am curious to see if there is a difference.

So i flashed these gps files to my captivate and i got a lock in like 10sec, first time i have ever gotten my gps to work, even after exchanging my first captivate, but its behaving the same way my friends first vibrant did, the pointer flys all over the place jumping around from place to place, never staying on my location parse...lets just hope samsung finds a definitive fix for the gps issues on many SGS variants.

Getting ready to flash and test now. thank you for grabbing those files.

info
can i flash this file on my stock captivate thats without root?...thanks.

I just flashed this to my Vibrant. I will test it on the way home but I got 11 sats in view in just about 2 secs in my office which usually sucks. We'll see. Maybe cross post this over to the Vibrant forum and get some folks to test it.

GPSSamsungRestore: Official GPS fix?

Samsung USA has tweeted the Market availability of GPSSamsungRestore, a GPS optimization app. Tweets have indicated that it is for the Vibrant and Captivate:
http://twitter.com/samsungtweets

maybe , some one using AT&T can help and upload the apk maybe ?

Hmmmm... I assume that it is only on the market in the USA because I searched for it under the names GPSSamsungRestore, GPS Samsung Restore, GPS Restore, etc. and I cannot find it on the market here in Canada.
I am assuming that us poor Canadians will not see this app anytime soon but I have posted a question on the Samsung Mobile Canada facebook page and I will see if they answer it. I doubt it though cause they NEVER answer ANYTHING!!!
Sure would be nice if this is the "fix" weve been waiting for...

The apk is posted in the vibrant general forum, 1st post
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Someone tried on Galaxy S ?

yubnub said:
The apk is posted in the vibrant general forum, 1st post
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From that post, it says the app only restore the gps settings back to default...

sufox said:
Someone tried on Galaxy S ?
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Yup, gives an error saying it wont work with the i9000 model

brendonsled said:
Yup, gives an error saying it wont work with the i9000 model
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You can change the .apk to .rar and extract the content.
If you can provide the .apk we could take a look into it
Edit: it was posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=453181&d=1291153281
I'm gonna take a look tomorow but if someone else want to take a look, might be interessting!

t1mman said:
You can change the .apk to .rar and extract the content.
If you can provide the .apk we could take a look into it
Edit: it was posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=453181&d=1291153281
I'm gonna take a look tomorow but if someone else want to take a look, might be interessting!
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How would you modify the contents without the developers key?
I understand you can open the APK, but I thought that was only to remove/replace images
EDIT:
with some digging, i found the settings it replaces
#Generated by GpsLocationProvider.
#Tue Nov 16 04:14:48 EST 2010
SSL_TYPE=0
SSL=0
OPERATION_TEST_MODE=0
POSITION_MODE=7
ACCURACY=50
SESSION_TYPE=2
ENABLE_NMEA=false
SERVER_MODE=0
START_MODE=WARM
GPS_LOGGING=0
DYNAMIC_ACCURACY=1
AGPS_MODE=0
ADDRESS_MODE=1
OPERATION_MODE=MS BASED
USE_DEFAULT=true
DYNAMIC_ACCURACY_VALUE=50
SUPL_PORT=7275
ENABLE_XTRA=true
TIMEOUT=1000
NUM_OF_FIX=999999999
SUPL_HOST=lbs.geo.t-mobile.com
TIME_BTW_FIX=1
As you see this is for t-mobile,
you may need to replace a couple values to get it working on your carrier

hosnestly no need to install this ;
# Does the application contain new values for GPS?
* No. The application only resets settings to factory defaults and then writes data in setting file.
youhou ...

I'm going to chime in as one of those "my GPS has been working fine". Only been using Froyo for the last week so I don't know if it will get worse. However, so far it's been good.

Does anybody have the apk. for the captivate? Cant download it from the market

nicoloco said:
hosnestly no need to install this ;
# Does the application contain new values for GPS?
* No. The application only resets settings to factory defaults and then writes data in setting file.
youhou ...
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Right so I think what this app is for is to reset the gps so it works and then as time passes and it gets bad again you run the app again to start from scratch so it works again... Lather, rinse, repeat...
Im just guessing here and its not the greatest solution but if thats how it works it would be better than nothing...
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yiannisthegreek said:
Right so I think what this app is for is to reset the gps so it works
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I think the app is for reset the settings to factory setting after aplying all the "fixes" we can read on the forums and doesn't do anything.
I doubt GPS can be fixed as Samsung is showing every day

Oletros said:
I think the app is for reset the settings to factory setting after aplying all the "fixes" we can read on the forums and doesn't do anything.
I doubt GPS can be fixed as Samsung is showing every day
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Exactly. Samsung have probably been receiving complaints by many people who are gps "experts", so they wanted to provide support with an easy approach for dealing with them.
I wouldn't expect new drivers are anything like that, I'd simply expect it to reset the GPS setting file.

Auzy said:
Exactly. Samsung have probably been receiving complaints by many people who are gps "experts", so they wanted to provide support with an easy approach for dealing with them.
I wouldn't expect new drivers are anything like that, I'd simply expect it to reset the GPS setting file.
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Is Samsung was receiving complaints from GPS "experts" then dont you think that these "experts" would have already stated "definitively" that the GPS cannot be fixed?
And if Samsung had been dealing with GPS "experts" then why would they release a software that would IMMEDIATELY be squashed by these same GPS "experts"?
I would like to think that Samsung may be finally listening to us all complaining and that this could even be just step 1 in the right direction to a useable GPS on this device. Wishful thinking I know but I sure hope so...

yiannisthegreek said:
Is Samsung was receiving complaints from GPS "experts" then dont you think that these "experts" would have already stated "definitively" that the GPS cannot be fixed?
And if Samsung had been dealing with GPS "experts" then why would they release a software that would IMMEDIATELY be squashed by these same GPS "experts"?
I would like to think that Samsung may be finally listening to us all complaining and that this could even be just step 1 in the right direction to a useable GPS on this device. Wishful thinking I know but I sure hope so...
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I think that "experts" is a sarcastic way of talking about all the thread playing with setting that doesn't nothing but changing configurations at random and only A-GPS settings.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I'm gonna shoot this damn phone

So, i noticed all my calls were dying and getting disconnected shortly after the screen goes into sleep mode
that was a major pain in the bullock, and it was very embarrassing talking to the customers and getting DC-ed every few seconds or minutes.
i had to constantly keep touch the screen to keep the phone from going into sleep mode.
so the only work around at the moment is set to phone to never sleep
and sleep only when i hit the power button.
it's a weird bug, not sure when it started, it wasn't doing this before.

Odd I've never had that problem. What are you running?
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it says in his siq what he is running .
Samsung Nexus S: Bionix 1.3 beta ROM
Also I have never had that either.

Never heard this one. It might be hard to track down so maybe a factory reset to start over might be a good option.

RogerPodacter said:
Never heard this one. It might be hard to track down so maybe a factory reset to start over might be a good option.
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that's definitely in my list of To-Do: troubleshooting
it's just weird never had that before as well.
and i didn't install anything new recently

mazodude said:
it says in his siq what he is running .
Samsung Nexus S: Bionix 1.3 beta ROM
Also I have never had that either.
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And it says in mine that I'm on a phone which means I can't see sigs smatass
Allgamer, Roger is right. A factory reset and return to stock might be a good test.
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kenvan19 said:
And it says in mine that I'm on a phone which means I can't see sigs smatass
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oo my bad

Can't really get mad when you're using a ROM that's currently in Beta, if you want stability then you should stick with Stock. Just sayin'

risegeek said:
Can't really get mad when you're using a ROM that's currently in Beta, if you want stability then you should stick with Stock. Just sayin'
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But where's the fun in that?

Maybe try asking over in the Bionix thread to let those dev's know you're having an issue.
That's a new one to me.

Love the title of this topic. I feel the same exact way so often about it, though I've never had your specific issue.
*Losing data connection constantly (and no, NoBars doesn't seem to help me with this)
*Rebooting during longer calls (though I don't have this issue as much as some seem to)
*Every SINGLE download, be it Market or Browser is always unsucessful on the first (or second, or third...) attempt
*The fact that Google hasn't fixed these and other issues
Yeah, I want to shoot my phone many times. But......for some reason, I still love it.

knytphal said:
Maybe try asking over in the Bionix thread to let those dev's know you're having an issue.
That's a new one to me.
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It's not Bionix fault.
it was something else, but can't find what was the cause
phone is back to normal, after a couple of reboots
some App, no clue which could cause this though...
maybe Fring, or Tango
removed both of them, and phone is back to normal

fchipm said:
*Every SINGLE download, be it Market or Browser is always unsucessful on the first (or second, or third...) attempt
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this happens to me very often as well, but that's a separate issue
and i've traced it to be version specific of market
so the solution is to use an older version of market, or use a newer one, just avoid the versions that you are getting trouble with

AllGamer said:
this happens to me very often as well, but that's a separate issue
and i've traced it to be version specific of market
so the solution is to use an older version of market, or use a newer one, just avoid the versions that you are getting trouble with
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Thanks for the tip. I assumed the Market version had something to do with it, but I wonder what the problem I'm having with Browser downloads is? I don't see a lot of people talk about it.
Also, sorry if I hijacked your thread.

Setcpu
Are you using setcpu? You can't make a profile where the phone sleeps below 800mhz bc it goes into a deep sleep

fchipm said:
Thanks for the tip. I assumed the Market version had something to do with it, but I wonder what the problem I'm having with Browser downloads is? I don't see a lot of people talk about it.
Also, sorry if I hijacked your thread.
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i had the same issue, this is how i fixed it...
open titanium backup, press backup/restore, find download manager and downloads(right next to each other), press download manager, press wipe data, now do the same for downloads. now try downloading something, it should work.

AllGamer said:
It's not Bionix fault.
it was something else, but can't find what was the cause
phone is back to normal, after a couple of reboots
some App, no clue which could cause this though...
maybe Fring, or Tango
removed both of them, and phone is back to normal
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Strange. I've had both Tango and Fring installed at some point but haven't had the issue you describe.
Good to hear that you've at least got things back to normal for the time being.

crking1980 said:
Are you using setcpu? You can't make a profile where the phone sleeps below 800mhz bc it goes into a deep sleep
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not using SetCPU
but i never had trouble even when i was using it
i stopped using SetCPU after finding out that i actually saved more battery without using SetCPU, than using it.
it also caused some minor lag, when switching between the different speed when set on demand

Yep, I'm experiencing every issue you've described here.
Hopefully we get a fix from google soon.
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Love the title of this topic. I feel the same exact way so often about it, though I've never had your specific issue.
*Losing data connection constantly (and no, NoBars doesn't seem to help me with this)
*Rebooting during longer calls (though I don't have this issue as much as some seem to)
*Every SINGLE download, be it Market or Browser is always unsucessful on the first (or second, or third...) attempt
*The fact that Google hasn't fixed these and other issues
Yeah, I want to shoot my phone many times. But......for some reason, I still love it.
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Had this same problem, but could never find ghr cause, not bionix issue it used yo happen on modaco for me!!
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vibrant tmobile gps problems fix?

hello! from puerto rico! i have location problems with my gps in google maps ,navigation,and facebook check in! some many times no work and said no location found! have idea about fix that problem?

Yes flash a custom rom it wont 100% fix it but it really improves it
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it should be fine if you use froyo rom.

lidroid said:
it should be fine if you use froyo rom.
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iwill use froyo rom ! with simple honney 2.5 ! maybe is the rom?

I love the Vibrant but the best ans is to get a different phone. ROMs can help but nothing truly fixes it.
I can only speak from my own experience. I have had three replacement Vibrants and tried all software and hardware fixes. Nothing has given a truly good GPS performance.

Might need to perform the hardware fix before your gps starts working consistantly.

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Might need to perform the hardware fix before your gps starts working consistantly.
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This.
As soon as I performed the hardware fix ALL of my problems with GPS ended.
I never have to worry about getting a lock and keeping it anymore.

regP said:
Might need to perform the hardware fix before your gps starts working consistantly.
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how can do that? perform Hardware?

Try first the GPS fix of EDT. You might want to stick to software first before messing with the hardware.
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victorx said:
how can do that? perform Hardware?
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Go into the sticky at the top of this forum and in it you will see the link for the correct hardware gps fix.
via LG G2x

November 13, 2010 Manufactured Vibrant.
My GPS works great with Heathens GPS fix.
11 birds in view. 10 in use. 5-15 seconds to lock on!

Google NAV fix, plus a ?

In this evo thread someone also noticed that turning sound off on nav fixes the fc's (also mentioned in an epic thread).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090186&page=130
They think its linked to tts, which is removed in several rom's, any thoughts?
Edit::: Ill get the desktop page # and xda app page # later if the link dosn't take you directly there, I would now, but I'm at work.
Sent from my Zio using xda premium

I don't use the stock robot. I use the British lady from SVOX.

Ok, but since all of my ROMs, and anderson's Simply AOSP v4 exclude tts and some language files, I'm wondering if its the problem. I don't even think NAV uses the missing files, but maybe they need to be in place.

It uses the stock tts so you may need to copy that back in. Push to system/app. Pull it out of the deodexed stock rom.
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Thanks man, but I guess I'm really looking for some insight, just want to know if not having tts installed could cause the wide spread google NAV FC problem. Anyone?

malcolmXman said:
Thanks man, but I guess I'm really looking for some insight, just want to know if not having tts installed could cause the wide spread google NAV FC problem. Anyone?
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Technically, yes since it is missing the necessary support file for the voice. I am surprised that it doesn't have an error message about "tts not installed" or something though. And is it wide spread? This is the first I am hearing about it..unlike the 6 threads on su binaries. I am guessing you are correct and it is ROM specific. Flash the full stock rom deodex and see if that fixes it for you.

kennyglass123 said:
Technically, yes since it is missing the necessary support file for the voice. I am surprised that it doesn't have an error message about "tts not installed" or something though. And is it wide spread? This is the first I am hearing about it..unlike the 6 threads on su binaries. I am guessing you are correct and it is ROM specific. Flash the full stock rom deodex and see if that fixes it for you.
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So true about the 6 su threads, lol... Ill do the testing I guess, was just trying to cut some corners. And I would say it is sorta wide spread if using a ROM that's affected, thanks man.

malcolmXman said:
So true about the 6 su threads, lol... Ill do the testing I guess, was just trying to cut some corners. And I would say it is sorta wide spread if using a ROM that's affected, thanks man.
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Haha, you can't say the world revolves around you....
Everyone knows it revolves around me...LOL!
Yeah dude, fix it and post it. Be the hero. Which ROM are you on?
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malcolmXman said:
In this evo thread someone also noticed that turning sound off on nav fixes the fc's (also mentioned in an epic thread).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090186&page=130
They think its linked to tts, which is removed in several rom's, any thoughts?
Edit::: Ill get the desktop page # and xda app page # later if the link dosn't take you directly there, I would now, but I'm at work.
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Just making sure I understand what fc you're referring to specifically; are you talking about the 'invisible' fc that happens associated with gps where it basically stops working in Google Nav? Or is this a different one? The reason I ask is, if its the one I'm thinking of, it happens in every pre-official stock Gingerbread ROM release I've tried, but doesn't on EC05, and if this is the same thing you're referencing, I'd be pretty confident in saying that a *lack* of TTS doesn't cause it anyway. If its something different you're referencing then...my bad

Well that's what I'm sorta trying to narrow down, I always used TeleNAV on GB. But in Simply AOSP v4 I do see an FC about 1min into NAV, but once muted it dosnt happen. I wonder if someone has/could try the mute trick on GB to see if that fixes "the hidden FC".

I am on Hurricane and use SVOX British Lady and don't get any FC or vibration, EH17 ROM and modem.
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Interesting....I wasn't even aware of SVOX until this thread. I don't know when I'll have cause to go somewhere long enough to try it (I live about 3 miles from where I work), but I downloaded SVOX plus the 'Victoria' UK voice you mentioned and will try it (on EG22 here) next time I'm going anywhere of more significant length. If switching off of Pico fixes this issue I'll be thrilled, I haven't been able to consistently rely on Google Nav through Maps since EC05.

Yeah, I never used Google Nav because I hated Mrs. Roboto but with the British chick it is more tolerable.
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hmm
i used to turn off the volume and the ff would go away in the past i thought everyone would do that. but the g maps is buggy on the epic. sometimes the volume would cut out on its own and freeze. or freeze for some other reasons. sorry i have used so many different roms and i used to use the gps daily when i rode the bike alot. but i havent used it in awhile for the epic. i moved to the nexus

Edit::: Thanks Kenny, it looks like it was tts.

kennyglass123 said:
Haha, you can't say the world revolves around you....
Everyone knows it revolves around me...LOL!
Yeah dude, fix it and post it. Be the hero. Which ROM are you on?
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Sorry I'm late, but I'm on Simply AOSP v4. Tts was the problem.

malcolmXman said:
Sorry I'm late, but I'm on Simply AOSP v4. Tts was the problem.
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Nice job. Did you post your fix in the ROM thread?
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Someone else did, but I had already posted thats what I thought the problem was. If anderson620 dosnt post an update.zip, or release version 4.1 with the fix, I will post the update.zip.