Terrible GPS Accuracy

[douflag]

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to get my GPS to work on my unlocked/JB 3G. It's running OS 3.1.2 on BB 5.11.07. I bought the phone off eBay, and it was already JB with a lot of apps installed. There were also various UI "hacks" installed in Cydia. I'm wondering if there are apps that that are conflicting with the GPS accuracy. Navigon tells me that the accuracy is within 3000m. Can someone look at the list below and tell me if there are any apps that are known to conflict with the GPS?

1. afc2add
2. Appsync para OS 3.1
3. APR (/usr/lib)
4. APT 0.7 (apt-key)
5. APT 0.7 Strict (lib)
6. Base Structure
7. BigBoss's Source
8. Bourne-again Shell
9. bzip2
10. core utilities (/bin)
11. Cydia Community Source
12. Cydia Installer
13. Darwin Tools
14. Debian Packager
15. Diff Utilities
16. Erica Utilities
17. Essential
18. Find Utilities
19. GNU privacy guard
20. grep
21. GSC: accelerometer
22. GSC: all-features
23. GSC: app-store
24. GSC: application-installer
25. GSC: armv6
26. GSC: bluetooth
27. GSC: gps
28. GSC: international settings
29. GSC: location-services
30. GSC: microphone
31. GSC: mms
32. GSC: music-store
33. GSC: not-green-tea
34. GSC: opengles-1
35. GSC: peer-peer
36. GSC: proximity sensor
37. GSC: ringer-switch
38. GSC: sms
39. GSC: stand-alone-contacts
40. GSC: still-camera
41. GSC: telephony
42. GSC: telephony-maximum
43. GSC: unified-ipod
44. GSC: volume-buttons
45. GSC: wifi
46. GSC: youtube
47. GSC: youtube-plugin
48. GSC: gzip
49. install0us
50. iPhone firmware
51. iPhone firmware (/sbin)
52. iSpazio
53. libhide
54. libxml2 Library
55. LZMA Utils
56. Mobile substrate
57. ModMyi.com (repository)
58. network-cmds
59. New Curses
60. OpenSSL
61. PAM (Apple)
62. PAM Modules
63. pcre
64. pincrush
65. PreferenceLoader
66. Profile Directory
67. readline
68. Saurick's Source
69. sed
70. shell-cmds
71. SQLite 3.x Library
72. system-cmds
73. Tape Archive
74. UIKit Tools
75. ZodTTD's Source

[area51crypto]

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to get my GPS to work on my unlocked/JB 3G. It's running OS 3.1.2 on BB 5.11.07. I bought the phone off eBay, and it was already JB with a lot of apps installed. There were also various UI "hacks" installed in Cydia. I'm wondering if there are apps that that are conflicting with the GPS accuracy. Navigon tells me that the accuracy is within 3000m. Can someone look at the list below and tell me if there are any apps that are known to conflict with the GPS?

1. afc2add
2. Appsync para OS 3.1
3. APR (/usr/lib)
4. APT 0.7 (apt-key)
5. APT 0.7 Strict (lib)
6. Base Structure
7. BigBoss's Source
8. Bourne-again Shell
9. bzip2
10. core utilities (/bin)
11. Cydia Community Source
12. Cydia Installer
13. Darwin Tools
14. Debian Packager
15. Diff Utilities
16. Erica Utilities
17. Essential
18. Find Utilities
19. GNU privacy guard
20. grep
21. GSC: accelerometer
22. GSC: all-features
23. GSC: app-store
24. GSC: application-installer
25. GSC: armv6
26. GSC: bluetooth
27. GSC: gps
28. GSC: international settings
29. GSC: location-services
30. GSC: microphone
31. GSC: mms
32. GSC: music-store
33. GSC: not-green-tea
34. GSC: opengles-1
35. GSC: peer-peer
36. GSC: proximity sensor
37. GSC: ringer-switch
38. GSC: sms
39. GSC: stand-alone-contacts
40. GSC: still-camera
41. GSC: telephony
42. GSC: telephony-maximum
43. GSC: unified-ipod
44. GSC: volume-buttons
45. GSC: wifi
46. GSC: youtube
47. GSC: youtube-plugin
48. GSC: gzip
49. install0us
50. iPhone firmware
51. iPhone firmware (/sbin)
52. iSpazio
53. libhide
54. libxml2 Library
55. LZMA Utils
56. Mobile substrate
57. ModMyi.com (repository)
58. network-cmds
59. New Curses
60. OpenSSL
61. PAM (Apple)
62. PAM Modules
63. pcre
64. pincrush
65. PreferenceLoader
66. Profile Directory
67. readline
68. Saurick's Source
69. sed
70. shell-cmds
71. SQLite 3.x Library
72. system-cmds
73. Tape Archive
74. UIKit Tools
75. ZodTTD's Source

I would just sync with itunes for the store bought apps and rejailbreak, then you can resync and put back the store bought apps then start over with apps from Cydia!

A lot of the ui hacks causes other problems with the phone!

[i.Annie]

Restore to 3.1.2 dont do 3.1.3 if youre a noob and dont know what youre doing yet. 3.1.2 is safest if you need to keep an unlock.

All you need is:
1) 3.1.2 ipsw (Downloads section)
2) iTunes
3) Blackra1n
4) Blacksn0w (comes within Blackra1n)

Hit shift+restore to restore to the 3.1.3 ipsw and when finished, use Blackra1n to jailbreak and blacksn0w to unlock. Google guides for how to use Blackra1n and you should be ok.

Restoring is your best option as its hard to pinpoint the exact problem with that many tweaks installed. Oh and of course like Area51 said, be sure to sync with iTunes to backup your stock apps/contacts/photos/music etc.

--edit^ shift+restore to 3.1.2 ipsw (typo, not 3.1.3)

[douflag]

Restore to 3.1.2 dont do 3.1.3 if youre a noob and dont know what youre doing yet. 3.1.2 is safest if you need to keep an unlock.

All you need is:
1) 3.1.2 ipsw (Downloads section)
2) iTunes
3) Blackra1n
4) Blacksn0w (comes within Blackra1n)

Hit shift+restore to restore to the 3.1.3 ipsw and when finished, use Blackra1n to jailbreak and blacksn0w to unlock. Google guides for how to use Blackra1n and you should be ok.

Restoring is your best option as its hard to pinpoint the exact problem with that many tweaks installed. Oh and of course like Area51 said, be sure to sync with iTunes to backup your stock apps/contacts/photos/music etc.

--edit^ shift+restore to 3.1.2 ipsw (typo, not 3.1.3)

I thought that Apple was no longer allowing anyone to restore to an older FW version. Or does that only apply to 3G[S] phones? I don't want to risk losing the unlock and not being able to use the phone on T-Mobile.

[i.Annie]

Its 3GS only. I guarantee you restoring to 3.1.2 will not make you lose your unlock. Going to 3.1.3 will do that. But if you use 3.1.2 youre 100% safe.

If you dont want to thats fine, youre just going to have to manually go into Cydia and delete everything.

You will have to upgrade your firmware somewhere down the line in the future so you should learn how to do a restore early on so you dont freak out sometimes phones crash too so you should really know how to fix it especially if you need to maintain an unlock. My phone crashed two weeks ago because of an update from RockApp--I had to restore it down to 3.1.2 (was on 3.1.3) just to be safe with my baseband and all.

Just be careful. Its up to you whether you wanna do it or not.

Warning: know what youre deleting in Cydia, there are vital things necessary in Cydia that keep your phone running/jailbroken. If you mess up, you could crash your phone. So watch out on what you delete.