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This GPS fix worked for me on the Vibrant: http://www.androidcentral.com/quick-fix-gps-issues-your-new-...


Sadly this exact fix seems to have caused my WLAN lockups.

After enabling it the GPS accuracy improved, but I noticed that my WLAN would be shot almost every morning (stuck in state "turning off...", could only be revived by rebooting).

After reverting the GPS settings to "standalone" a couple days ago I have not seen any more WLAN lockups.

My suspicion is that the fix causes the GPS subsystem to force-enable WLAN at regular intervals when it tries to pull updates from the internet server. This "force-enabling" seems to confuse the regular android/samsung WLAN manager and leaves it in a broken state as described above...

Either way, not an acceptable state of affairs for what is supposed to be a high-end smartphone.




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