Verizon Q9c GPS Hack

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by empakt

You'll have to lie about when you bought your phone, but here it is.

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto...dateSelect.asp

huh?
which phone are you talking about?
what update are you talking about?
the Q9c already released an update to wm6.1
the Q9m not so much....

soooo what update is this?

[empakt]

I updated the Q9c, but all the stuff I kept reading was about "hacking" an install. I think I got turned around on versions. Just an update for all that read the end of the posts and not the 11 pages before the end:D

[blackmeto]

[5k1ttl3]

so I've got QPST running with the virtual serial port. There is indeed a GPSone tab. I've kind of been following the instructions from XDADevelopers for their hack, but I'm not even sure how I would test this.

Any ideas for a simple way to test the GPS chip?

I assume the drivers for the 6800 wont do me a bit of good?

[5k1ttl3]

So I was able to go into settings and turn "location on" instead of "911 only".

I didnt change anything with qpst. But I turned location on, and I downloaded google maps (700K those ***!@#$ at Verizon are gonna charge me $2 extra this month )

anyway. Google maps doesnt pick up satellites. but I only tried it indoors. it doesn't give me an error though either, unlike picking a random COM port and data rate.

Is this normal behavior for VZW's disabled GPS chip? maybe I'll put those VZW IPs in and see what happens. I dunno. I dont want my GPS using data. Its far, far too expensive. Im gonna get a data block at the end of the month, hopefully I'll still be able to use GPS (assuming it ever gets unlocked)



On a side note, There was a phone released a while back where if you dialed a number - 922 - it would write your coordinates to a place in memory where you could retrieve them. This was apparently for testing e911. I would assume that if we dialed 911 on our q9c's, it wouldn't need to go through VZNav to send coordiates to the EMTs. SO - Perhaps someone could just hijack the e911 routines that the phone runs and use that to get a location on demand?


-EDIT-

I did a registry search for AGPS and I came across
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\RIL\
a DWORD value called AGPSDebugON
It's default state is 0

I wonder what happens if I turn it on...

[corwin]

Originally Posted by empakt

You'll have to lie about when you bought your phone, but here it is.

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto...dateSelect.asp

I am thinking that empakt was talking about using the Sprint WM6.1 upgrade on the VZW Moto Q9c.

Has anyone tried this with a VZW Moto Q9c yet? Does it brick the phone? I would think that it would.

Thanks!

[empakt]

YES, my Q9C has never ran better, nice new features and not a reboot since I loaded it 2 days ago. If I wasn't rebooting my 6.0 Version once very day or so, it was doing it, itself. Seems very stable and quicker. Enjoy, Q9C Approved!

[5k1ttl3]

Originally Posted by empakt

YES, my Q9C has never ran better, nice new features and not a reboot since I loaded it 2 days ago. If I wasn't rebooting my 6.0 Version once very day or so, it was doing it, itself. Seems very stable and quicker. Enjoy, Q9C Approved!

Wait, Wait Wait. This update enables GPS? on verizon's q9c? If not, you're definitely in the wrong thread.

Forgive my disbelief, but you're just so nonchalant about finding a fix, when nobody else has been able to do it.

[corwin]

Originally Posted by 5k1ttl3

Wait, Wait Wait. This update enables GPS? on verizon's q9c? If not, you're definitely in the wrong thread.

Forgive my disbelief, but you're just so nonchalant about finding a fix, when nobody else has been able to do it.

I have been reading this thread, well since it started, and the Sprint WM6.1 upgrade has been talked about here before, but it was stated that it bricked the phone.

Please, please, please let us know:

a. Which update it was that you used.
b. If it "fixed" the VZW lockout of the GPS unit.
c. Who the original vendor was for your phone (Sprint, Verizon, etc.)

Thanks!

[5k1ttl3]

Originally Posted by corwin

I have been reading this thread, well since it started, and the Sprint WM6.1 upgrade has been talked about here before, but it was stated that it bricked the phone.

Please, please, please let us know:

a. Which update it was that you used.
b. If it "fixed" the VZW lockout of the GPS unit.
c. Who the original vendor was for your phone (Sprint, Verizon, etc.)

Thanks!

jeez, I went through from the beginning and started to read. this thread was so active in the beginning, it seemed like someone would figure it out...now I guess everyone has all but given up on it, and I don't even know where to go from here. we need to compile all the information that we know about the problem. I hate verizon. They need to DIAF.