Huawei P20 Pro Android Pie update cause GPS issues

[simonxcheng]

Hi guys, 

I have updated my Huawei P20 Pro to EMUI 9,0.0.178. After the update, GPS is not working properly. After reboot, the GPS is fine, but once I stopped navigation and start a new navigation, it keeps "Looking for GPS ...". I have tried GPS test app, it just could not get GPS fix. Whenever I need to navigate, I have to reboot the phone. I am wondering anyone is facing the same issue. I have wipe the cache partition but it did not help. I do not really want to do a factory reset. However, it seems that is the last resort I have. 

Thanks,

[simonxcheng]

Hi everyone,

The February SMR along with a fix for this GPS issue will begin rolling out March 21. 

Thanks to everyone who reported this!

[rakmoh1]

@Vincentyee : were you able to restore your data from the backup after downgrade to 8.1? Thanks.

[FidoStephen]

Hey everyone,

Huawei is working on a fix for this. I don't have a date as to when the update will become available, but I wanted to share what I know so far. I'll update this thread the moment I know more.

[Vincentyee]

Yes, just back up on Hisuite before you downgrade 

[Amberpie]

Can we have an idea when the fix will be coming? It's been weeks since I first began reporting issues to Fido and they just get me to reboot and have never told me that there was any communication with Huawei from your side. I need my GPS for work. This had been extremely frustrating and inconvenient. 

[Vincentyee]

Just downgrade your system back to 8.1, there's nothing else we can do but to wait atm

[Gabbie1977]

My problem still exists every 24 hours, even though I originally thought it was permanently fixed.  Can't wait for the fix since rebooting phone every time I want to use GPS gets old.

[simonxcheng]

I will reset to Android 8 because I have to reboot everyday to get the GPS fixed.

[FidoStephen · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone,

The February SMR along with a fix for this GPS issue will begin rolling out March 21. 

Thanks to everyone who reported this!

[Lello22]

This will fix the GPS problem until android will release a new fixed update.

See the post at the bottom page.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/android-pie/903426-9-0-pie-gps-issues.html

[Danielt514]

SMR?