Verizon Q9c GPS Hack

[jmorisey]

I have a Verizon Q9c and have GPS working with Google Maps and WLS... ohh, did I mention thats because I am using a Bluetooth GPS...

OK, the real point of this post is to Thank everyone for there hard work and extend the offer to "break" my phone in any testing needed to get this damn thing working.

Jon

(p.s. I know that was mean, sorry)

[thebixcuit]

you don't know how close I was to saying f it. I find it kind of a fun challenge though.

lbsdriver seems to have 5 variables for GPSOpen whereas the gpsapi.dll wants 4.




...at the bar...

[weinster666]

I am very impressed by your work so far. Hopefully, you end up with an answer before I return the phone to Verizon, quit my contract, and switch to Sprint.

[n55rc]

It might prove difficult to replace gpsapi with lbsdriver since the function call is different. Might be able to build a intermediate dll to pad the missing var to the function call. FWTW



[quote=thebixcuit;195994]lbsdriver seems to have 5 variables for GPSOpen whereas the gpsapi.dll wants 4.

[weinster666]

I'm hoping you guys are having fun with this, because for me I just keep getting more pissed off at Verizon and Motorola. I buy a piece of hardware (Motorola phone) and Verizon and Motorola conspire behind the scenes to hobble the phone so they can try and extract more money from me. Sounds like conspiracy, fraud, class-action lawsuit grounds to me.

Especially since Verizon doesn't even offer the service I need (direct input of GPS coordinates destinations for hiking and other off-road usage).

[thebixcuit]

I'm close. I need the driver, maybe even just the regisrty settings for the gps portion of the radio from a sprint phone to make it a clean fix.

In short what they have done is chose not to load the driver up for COM access to the gps. They have made their own GPSID workaround with the LBSDriver.dll. They are making the exact same calls that you would with gpsapi.dll to their own lbsdriver.dll that talks to motgpsapi.dll which talks to the radio.

VZNav -> GPSOpen -> LBSDriver -> oGPSopen -> motgpsapi.dll -> GPS!

I have confirmed with a tool that the GPS is indeed enabled for all access (GPS and aGPS).

Until I get what I want from a Sprint phone I am going to try using LBSDriver with Gmaps.

Being Fathers Day and all I had 0 time this weekend to look at it.

[weinster666]

Care to share that tool you used to verify the state of the GPS on the phone?

[thebixcuit]

QPST:
http://www.mobile-files.com/forum/sh...96&postcount=3

Virtual COM & Instructions:
http://www.mobile-files.com/forum/sh...55&postcount=1

[MooseMan]

Let's go Bixcuit, let's go! {claps twice}
Let's go Bixcuit, let's go! {claps twice}

I understand very little of what you are saying, but I appreciate all of your effort and I will help in any way I can.

[jmorisey]

Originally Posted by thebixcuit

I have the gpsid.dll from a Sprint rom and is the same. This rom that I have people have been using to load on to their HTC's and using GPS.

I started going down several different paths in this problem. The Q9c does have the gpsOne (amazingly so does the regular Q). Getting in to this would require getting to the bootloader. All I can seem to find with that is people who have accidentally found themselves in it.

I ran a registry watch on the vz nav program and I saw that is accesses motgpsapi.dll. I haven't found this in the other roms.

Still digging....

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