The Samsung Galaxy S 19000 have receives various positive users’ reviews since it first launched and released to the world phones market. Unfortunately, despite the abundant positive user feedbacks the Samsung’s devices has been complained by so many user over its GPS inability to achieve lock on satellites in a desired time. The same, annoying flaw is also possessed by the new Galaxy SL I9003, however fortunately it wouldn’t be an issue for too long. Thanks to a member of XDA-Developers forum KonfusedGeek that able to find the solution to this issue we can now provide you with this guide to fix the GPS Satellite Lock on issue.
This guide has been tested and it’s reported to be a success. This guide doesn’t involve any hardware tweaking and entirely based on software. It’s also worth noted that the fix does not involve any third party software or program and only work for Android 2.2 Froyo only.
Before we get to the step by step instruction, it is suggested for you to note down the original values you change in the fixing process just in case things don’t occur as you desired. Please follow the instruction below carefully at your own risk.
If you are ready, let’s begin fixing your crippled Samsung Galaxy SL I9003, shall we?
The first thing to do is to turn off your GPS.
Then enter *#*#3214789650#*#* in the Phone dialer to be taken to the LibTestMode.
Next, Navigate to Application Settings > Operation mode and change it to Standalone.
Again navigate to Application Settings > Timeout(s) and change the variable to 100.
After that, navigate to SUPL/CP Settings > Server & Port and change it to supl.google.com with port 7276.
Now simply reboot your phone and test your GPS out.
Congratulations if you follow the guides right then you’ll have the GPS issue solved. By the way you could always revert back to the stock settings by changing the values to the default ones.
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