Verizon Q9c GPS Hack

[thebixcuit]

You are the man. This should help.

[MooseMan]

Will getting you to the bootloader menu still help you at all, or are you past that point? I think I can find a way to do this manually!

1.) Power off the phone
2.) Hold down the "A" key and the "RETURN(enter)" key
3.) While holding the the keys down, press and release the power button

VIOLA, bootloader screen

Jon

What can you do from this screen?

[jmorisey]

Well, for starters, you can really F'up your phone... that's about all I know... lol

[thebixcuit]

you can manually send AT commands to the radio and also reflash your phone if you need to. If you ever see the bootloader when turning your phone one then your phone is not truly bricked, it just can't boot the OS. Kind like the BIOS of your PC, but with more functions.

[L0c0]

Well I'll also send a thx to all who are working this!

cn: **I thought**GPS is working using windows live search using com9 on VZW

story:blah blah blah

[n99hockey]

Well I'll also send a thx to all who are working this!

cn: GPS is working using windows live search using com9 on VZW

story:
lastweek I was messing with all the com ports and stuff and nothing would work (cannot access gps on your phone) just like everyone else using GoogleMaps. I had to reset my phone for other reasons and never installed gm again. this week I decided to install and play w/it again but this time i was getting (looking for gps sat's[0]) which I thought was wierd, so I set the gps to [com9] as suggested (somewhere) and still the same thing, so i figured it was still not accessable.

Anyway I had installed WindowsLiveSearch but never used it. Today I was in WLS I set the GPS to use (com9) > [choose location] > [current GPS position] and what do you know... it found exactly where I am (Arrow pointed right at my work) It didn't even take that long..maybe 2min.

IDK WTF but it's working...Lng/Lat, even for local gas stations and directions...I didn't do anything else...no hacks nothing since I reset my phone. I am at a loss for words.

Verizon
Q9c
gps (location on)

I'm going to download the "qpst" software posted above and see what the hell is going on.

whoa!
this is great....nice work keep us posted!

[laez]

Well I'll also send a thx to all who are working this!

cn: GPS is working using windows live search using com9 on VZW

story:
lastweek I was messing with all the com ports and stuff and nothing would work (cannot access gps on your phone) just like everyone else using GoogleMaps. I had to reset my phone for other reasons and never installed gm again. this week I decided to install and play w/it again but this time i was getting (looking for gps sat's[0]) which I thought was wierd, so I set the gps to [com9] as suggested (somewhere) and still the same thing, so i figured it was still not accessable.

Anyway I had installed WindowsLiveSearch but never used it. Today I was in WLS I set the GPS to use (com9) > [choose location] > [current GPS position] and what do you know... it found exactly where I am (Arrow pointed right at my work) It didn't even take that long..maybe 2min.

IDK WTF but it's working...Lng/Lat, even for local gas stations and directions...I didn't do anything else...no hacks nothing since I reset my phone. I am at a loss for words.

Verizon
Q9c
gps (location on)

I'm going to download the "qpst" software posted above and see what the hell is going on.

How did you change the GPS port to com9? Did you use a program to do it or reg edit?

[L0c0]

WLS>settings>[gps com9]


aaand I cannot get it to do it again. I know everyone was like yeah right.well. It doesn't help that I have really bad reception at home (1bar maybe2) very slow evo too.

I'm messing with it again and I actually looked my home city/state and was looking at the areal maps. I then selected [Menu]>[Center on GPS] and that's when it went right to my location. It said "getting position" and it got real close to where I was and stopped searching, like 2blocks away when I zoomed. Maybe it picked up the closest cell tower I was using?

\editing other post so not to raise any hope of the magical fix...sry =[

**edit. it still says getting position though. even in GM it says "470kb seeking gps satiellites(0)" it does not give me an error about the gps not working.

I also have vznav installed, gps doesn't work of course. but it is installed.

[jmorisey]

Its so quiet in here, I think we need to wake some of you up!!!

If, "IF" I could figure a way to rename a file in ROM, which one would I want to rename and what would I want to rename it to?

i.e. rename gpsapi.dll --> LBSDriver.dll -- this way when it "thinks" it is calling the LBSDriver, it is actually calling the unmodified gpsapi.dll

I am not a programer, but I am just trying to see what it is that needs to be done. I have ways of figuring out the darnest things sometimes... mostly out of luck.

Jon

[Anthony.Selby]

Hey,

I have a verizon q9c ... and I got the SDK ... started to look in to making everything work ... but I don't have any LBS or GPS dlls on my phone, I just got the think yesterday in the mail ... is there any news on this ... and can someone send me some files (anything would be a start but the files from a sprint phone would be great)

Thanks