Over the weekend, my GPS (and GLONASS, incidentally) suddenly stopped working. I opened Google Maps to find my way home, and it could not find any satellites. Over the course of the past week, I ran various apps and tests, including a new ROM, to determine that this was not a software issue: the GPS is dead.
At least, it can't receive signals. The GPS unit hasn't failed as far the software is concerned; the system happily tries to grab a signal whenever you ask it to without any errors showing up in the logcat. I'm hoping that this means that something happened to the GPS antenna and that it can be repaired/replaced. The problem is that I can't seem to find any information on where I can find the GPS antenna or how I might fix it. The only information that I've found is this image from Anandtech showing the general location:
There's lots of information on how to repair an LG G2, but next to nothing in the G3. I'd really like to keep this phone running until the next generation of Nexus Phones are released, but I don't look forward to living without GPS for the next 4-5 months.
I've already replaced the screen on this phone (manufacturing defect that LG denied... bastards), so I'm not squeamish about opening it up, but it's also my daily driver, so I don't want to open it up more than necessary, hence the tons of research.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
- Dave
At least, it can't receive signals. The GPS unit hasn't failed as far the software is concerned; the system happily tries to grab a signal whenever you ask it to without any errors showing up in the logcat. I'm hoping that this means that something happened to the GPS antenna and that it can be repaired/replaced. The problem is that I can't seem to find any information on where I can find the GPS antenna or how I might fix it. The only information that I've found is this image from Anandtech showing the general location:
There's lots of information on how to repair an LG G2, but next to nothing in the G3. I'd really like to keep this phone running until the next generation of Nexus Phones are released, but I don't look forward to living without GPS for the next 4-5 months.
I've already replaced the screen on this phone (manufacturing defect that LG denied... bastards), so I'm not squeamish about opening it up, but it's also my daily driver, so I don't want to open it up more than necessary, hence the tons of research.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
- Dave
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