GPS Issues on my tbeam v1.1

Hi, I recently acquired a few ttgo t-beams, but I was having some trouble with all of them. The t-beams’ red gps fix light would only flash when there is a phone connected via BLE to the device. When there is no phone connected, the device would be stuck at “No sats” and would never get a GPS fix. This happens across all 6 of my tbeams, the devices almost instantly gets a GPS fix the moment I connect the phone (with the red gps led blinking every second). Is this a known issue on the firmware or is there a solution for fixing it?

Thanks.