Comments on: Hack your Sprint Motorola Q9c to improve GPS performance – GPS + aGPS = awesome

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:24:08 +0000

This worked fine for me. My gps is a lot faster. both on sprint nav and google maps.

By: Malone

Malone — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:19:19 +0000

Also if the above is possible, is it good enough to be worth with to mess with?

By: Malone

Malone — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:32 +0000

Does this hack work with regular motorola q with out the need for a gps receiver?

By: jay

jay — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:43:52 +0000

my gps do not work, please help moto qc9

By: Nish

Nish — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:38:37 +0000

It actually messed up my navigation, and will not connect. so i am on the phone with sprint’s tech support attempting to fix this issue, hopefully it gets fix, because i am traveling to jacksonville tonight and have no clue on how to get around there without the navigation, i have a TOMTOM, but i am trying to avoid carrying one extra item with me

By: Manny Jr

Manny Jr — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:35:40 +0000

I master reset my phone and all my phone numbers got erased ! Will I be able to get those numbers back with any settings ??

By: louie

louie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:18:14 +0000

i tried this, but the gps still does not get a signal. it takes about 10 minutes to try to lock onto a satellite, but no dice.

By: motguy

motguy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:23:28 +0000

So, I did this and the unit still works. How do I know that I have both GPS and aGPS? Is there a test? Seems like at least one person (Chris) is saying that when he’s out of tower range that the GPS is not kicking in. My concern is that I don’t have GPS + aGPS, but rather I’ve gone from GPS to aGPS.

How do we know?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:14:31 +0000

If you use this hack, you might loss the GPS connectivity when there is no Sprint tower to connect to.
At least, that is my experience so far. I am able to use the GPS in the city, and it is very fast to have a fix (take seconds instead of 1 or 2 minutes).
But once I get in national parks, where I am roaming, the GPS never locks on any satellite.

There is surely a way to get this to reset without a hard reset. I am going to try to input something like 0.0.0.0 as the IP address next time I hit off the backcountry. If someone didi it, can it confirm?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:28:22 +0000

I guess that I am missing something somewhere because I have had no issues with my phone since doing the hack. I noticed Sprint has stopped selling the Q phone?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:24:27 +0000

No, I never got this “hack” to work. I had to completely reset my phone. I don’t know what kind of reset they call that, but it meant completely deleting everything from my phone and even reactivating it with Sprint. My GPS works now, and I’m not going to mess with it again.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:10:54 +0000

@Kathryn Did you ever get your problem resolved? I’ve run into the same issue you describe, but with WLS and Google Maps. They were working before, but after I tried the steps described, it didn’t work. I tried to undo, but still not working. Thanks for any insight.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:35:59 +0000

Yes, the GPS worked before I did this. When you say the download, I don’t remember my phone downloading anything. Was this process supposed to download a program onto my phone? I tried doing those steps that I pasted above again, but no change. Am I missing something? You mentioned an email. I didn’t access this process via email, but on this website: http://www.intomobile.com/2007/12/23/hack-your-sprint-motorola-q9c-to-improve-gps-performance-gps-agps-awesome.html If you still have the email you’re talking about, will you forward it to me? kathryn t smith at gmail dot com

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:28:03 +0000

I guess it would not hurt to go thru the whole set up again and that way you make sure it is in,I guess the next question I have is did the GPS work good before you did the download and from what I understand if you do not save it reverts back to orginal setting, and besides if you have to dump the program and reload it no big deal.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:15:30 +0000

These are the directions I followed:

Dial ##073887*
Hit Send/Green Key
Enter your MSL
Hit H (GPS Settings)
Enter 68.28.31.49 for the IP address
Enter 5017 for the port number
Save/Exit

Was there more to it than that? I did have my MSL number. I got that when when I first bought the phone.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:50:39 +0000

Kathryn, Did you do everything the e-mail told you to do when you hacked your phone. I did all of that and it improved my GPS a lot and yes i am using Sprint Navigation program

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:32:50 +0000

Bobby, are you using the Sprint Navigation program? That’s what I’m doing, and it is saying “Getting GPS” for like 10 minutes and then it’ll tell me that it doesn’t have a clear view of the sky, even if I’m doing it outside on a clear day.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:01:24 +0000

I have to say it worked great for me, I have a regular GPS and my phone now is actually closer than the other one and seems to work pretty fast

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:41:52 +0000

This definitely did not work for me. Now my GPS isn’t working at all and I’m trying to figure out how to undo this. Any information on how to do that?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:27:01 +0000

do you have to put the #`s in when you put the msl number in or not, i went thru a lot to get this number but i was able to get it after a reset on my phone