WARNING: Updating to iPad Baseband for iPhone Unlock May Disable Your GPS
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Posted December 2, 2010 at 3:16pm by iClarified
The iPhone Dev-Team has just issued a notice stating that updating your iPhone to the iPad baseband for unlock could result in the loss of GPS functionality.
Unlockers have been reporting mixed results about GPS functionality at 06.15.00. Until we can track down what differentiates those who retain GPS vs. those who lose it, be conservative and assume you’ll lose GPS at 06.15.00. As we work on finding the cause (and possibly a fix), please report your personal findings in our comments section. (Update: early indications are that while 06.15.00 is capable of GPS, it will require some further hacks. But please still be conservative and assume you will lose GPS at 06.15, in case the hacks don’t work).
While the iPad baseband should be capable of GPS functionality if you don't absolutely need the unlock you should not update to the iPad baseband at this time.
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I jailbroke & unlock 3g 3gs phone & all phone have same problem that loss the gps every time after when talk or calls. i updated to 4.2.1 BB 6.15. plz help me
Quick fix.
Most likely you will needed your gps in the car, you will needed a charger and a dock.
Buy a used Magellan gps car dock, it has gps chip build in the dock, it worked for iPad baseband.
Works on iiPhone 3G 16 gigs, now unlocked with tmobile . .but this is stupid.... Apple or AT&T whoever the magical man controlling which phones get locked , really need to start selling officially unlocked idevices, for gods sake stop being money hungry devils!!!
Yesterday i updated to custom 4.2.1 keeping my old baseband to 5.11
But i lost my gps :(
I was so curful not to change baaseband but i lost gps
Help please
wow, still on 3.1.2 and and complaining wholeheartedly about the problems of 4.2.1??? something tells me you have no intention to ever leave 3.1.2 (until it stops getting supported) if you chose to ignore other STABLE firmwares like 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 which are both jailbreakable + unlockable.
I tried this on my 3G 8GB. First of all, it did not unlock. secondly, I lost ATT network as well. My phone was working for ATT at least on the 05.14.02 baseband and 4.1 OS. On updating to 4.2.1 and ipad baseband to unlock for a friend, I have lost the modem functional altogether. And yes, GPS also does not work anymore. Reflashing with pawned FW also did not help. Now it is stuck on "Connect to iTunes" I hope the Dev team can release a fix for this.
If you have saved your shsh blobbs from 4.1 then downgrade it to that os. You will probably get the 1015 error after that. This can be fixed with tiny umbrella. I had the sam problem, and now it is working ok, 4.1 with 6.15, exept the gps whis is still a problem.
Thanks solomon, I went back to 4.1, but no unlock. I still get "No Service" after a nout a minute of searching. The sad part is, if I go to carrliers list, it shows AT&T and TMobile, but does not register to anyone of them. I ascrewed!
i have update to base band 6.15 it works god for 2 days and now i'm blockked in dfu mode and cant restart nor restore nor update,so what can i do now to repare my iphone .i have a 3 g .thaks
I hv an iphone 3g 8gb. post JB with redsn0w and unlock with ultrasn0w, everything worked fine. even the GPS is working. but as soon i use the GPRS or wifi to access internet the battery starts to drain very fats. it went from 100 to 0 in flat 4 hours when i just kept the GPRS on (enable 3G) and was not even accessing the net. I believe some bug which keeps accessing the net and drains the battery, DEV team pls come out with a fix for this immediately. Thanks.
I have the same problem. I have an iPhone 3G on tmobile network (so I can't use 3G speeds).
After I updated to FW 4.2.1 and BB 6.15. My battery drains within 3-5 hrs. When all I've done is text two
Sentences. So far GPS works fine.
Same thing happen with mine, GPS is working normally.
but the battery drains very fast even without the location service & data service is on.
i'm using iphone 3G iOS4.1 BB06.15 unlock with ultrasnow & Jb with Redsnow 0.9.6b5. DEV TEAM please do the magic again :)
Same here, have a 3gs with 4.1 and 06.15, unlocked, gps is working fine but my battery drains out over night in standby. after one short call, 4-5 min the battery went down 20%.
would be happy for some fix :)
I updated my 3gs to BB 6.15.00. GPS is working fine for but it now it doesn't point to exactly where im located but the GPS function itself is functioning well.
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