For some reason, my google maps position on the phone thinks im in Espoo Finland?! This constantly is happening. My weather widget tells me some random weather from that place too! and then it updates my latitude so my friends think im crazy!
Anyone have any ideas? Sometimes when i click my location in maps, it shows me where I really am, but still says Espoo.
PS, its been duin this for a while with a couple flashes, and different phones.
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me tooo. cant figure out why. only happens some of the time. i've noticed that everyone that this happens too is on US t-mobiel
Just wanted to say that I just got a HD2 and it also says ESPOO !!!
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Afternoon guys, been reading this forum with great interest over the last weeks but first post.
I have to say overall I am mightily impressed with this phone and am the envy of most people that have seen it. The camera appears ok to me (slight pink tint) but nothing too drastic although i am keeping a very close eye on it.
My concern at the moment is with my location on the home screen regarding the weather. I live in Glasgow and all was working fine...I then went home the other day to Perth and the weather location changed to this...was quite impressed and no problems. Since returning to Glasgow yesterday afternoon it still says my location is Perth and will not change despite trying to update manually etc.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to rectify this problem?
Thanks guys and thanks for all useful tips etc on this forum, seems to be my most visited site of recent weeks.
I would like to know that too !!!
+1 because that location service really sucks. it tells me I'm in a town that is 20km from my actual location.
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GToon84 said:
Afternoon guys, been reading this forum with great interest over the last weeks but first post.
I have to say overall I am mightily impressed with this phone and am the envy of most people that have seen it. The camera appears ok to me (slight pink tint) but nothing too drastic although i am keeping a very close eye on it.
My concern at the moment is with my location on the home screen regarding the weather. I live in Glasgow and all was working fine...I then went home the other day to Perth and the weather location changed to this...was quite impressed and no problems. Since returning to Glasgow yesterday afternoon it still says my location is Perth and will not change despite trying to update manually etc.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to rectify this problem?
Thanks guys and thanks for all useful tips etc on this forum, seems to be my most visited site of recent weeks.
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Not quite the same for me but have a similar issue in the my home screen location has failed to update since the first time. So now effectively useless!
What I have done however is add a new location (closest one I could find to my actual home). This can then be set as your home page weather by selecting the clock on the home page, and then selecting the newly defined "home location" as your home. (Sorry terminology might be out as I don't have my HD2 with me!!!???).
Hopefully there is a fix for this but a sort of work round in the meantime.......
Hope someone can find another solution soon !!!
kick up google maps use gps in the menu for google maps wait until it finds sats then click blue dot to get your home location.
leave it running (ie press home button) then goto weather and update
well it worked for me
I don't know if this is helpful or not - other than to just demonstrate that this is not a 'universal' bug, and perhaps to narrow down what I'm doing differently. But, I've been in about 1/2 dozen countries since I got my HD2, and it hasn't had any problem updating my location once. Each city I'm in, it changes without issues, and now that I'm back home, it's changed back to my home location as well.
I'm on the stock HD2 from HTC (unlocked), stock ROM, and I'm on Vodafone UK.
I have disabled HSDPA, but other than that, no other tweaks to mention.
amarko5 said:
kick up google maps use gps in the menu for google maps wait until it finds sats then click blue dot to get your home location.
leave it running (ie press home button) then goto weather and update
well it worked for me
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Does that stay after soft reset ? Or do I have to go toGoogleMaps every time after it changes connection ?
it has only stayed on a different location once for me
i never needed to repeat
after i did the above it has switched reliably since
dunno why ?
i am on t - mobile if thats anything to do with it
Desn`t seem to do the trick ...
After soft reset it went back to another city .... STRANGE !
Have you tried soft resetting the device mate? Or adding Glasgow as a location, and then switching back to My Location.
Might help. On my X1, My Location thought I was in Torrance...wherever that is.
Not got any problems get, but I haven't left Glasgow since I got my phone. Will be travelling this weekend, so will see what it does ^^
Soft reset the device of course ... but that didn`t help ...
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kick up google maps use gps in the menu for google maps wait until it finds sats then click blue dot to get your home location.
leave it running (ie press home button) then goto weather and update
well it worked for me
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didn't work right now, somehow the weather-tab always shows me it's updating but when it stops the last update is still 2 days ago (date shown in the upper right corner of the weather tab). seems it's broken atm
This happens with me too, I have no clue how to fix it, so instead of creating a new thread, does anyone know how to actually GET RID off the weather on your home screen? I am over the excitement of knowing what the weather is like where I already am lol...
it updated the weather but the location is still wrong (around 20km off) and I can't add my location manually, the town is too small to be in the list. seem it just doesn't work for me, because the location service just sucks and doesn't really use gps.
Mine keeps changing the home location to any main location here in Bulgaria ... can`t figure it out !!! I`m in the biggest city and I still receive information of a city 400km away from my place , then from a city 130km from here .... and it keeps changing .... very strange !
c0rp1 said:
Mine keeps changing the home location to any main location here in Bulgaria ... can`t figure it out !!! I`m in the biggest city and I still receive information of a city 400km away from my place , then from a city 130km from here .... and it keeps changing .... very strange !
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I think you need to realise that not every single township, city, village, etc is available to Google for the weather location data.
For god sakes, I live in SOFIA , the capital of Bulgaria ....
c0rp1 said:
For god sakes, I live in SOFIA , the capital of Bulgaria ....
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Hi c0rp1, i also Live in Sofia and have another issue. My phone correct find my location but weather information is not correct. I think it's Espoo weather information.
Im not information how to resolve this issue. At the moment i add Sofia in Wetaher tab and switch it manualy every time when i make soft reset.
I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing a bug with the clock/weather widget where it randomly says your in a different location then changes back. I am in bloomington indiana and randomly it says i am in Koravogur which is no place near here. I have GPS off but location services on. any idea how to fix this?
Hmm, might try (when it's showing in your town/city) to disable the location all together.
Just a thought though
Mine has been switching between Guaynabo and Bayamon, but I do live right on the border of Guaynabo and Bayamon so I wasn't very surprised at that... Sometimes it'll switch while I'm walking around the house tho, and my house should be at 'least a mile or two from the Bayamon border (they're municipalities in Puerto Rico btw).
Sometimes it just says Puerto Rico instead of my city/municipality, for no apparent reason... Despite all that the weather report has actually seemed accurate most of the time. I've had GPS on all thru this, I just turned it off to see if it behaves differently at all... I do have WiFi on atm, as I usually do around the house.
Yeah mine does this. Like around 11pm at night it will say its sunny outside then I go to refresh the weather and it changes my location to a few cities away but shows the moon so I guess it kind of worked?
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I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing a bug with the clock/weather widget where it randomly says your in a different location then changes back. I am in bloomington indiana and randomly it says i am in Koravogur which is no place near here. I have GPS off but location services on. any idea how to fix this?
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Do you have an airrave by any chance and is this only happening at home?
Hello guys,
I'm having a really weird problem with both google talk and latitude.
A frind of mine is always telling me that my google talk status is "offline" even though I started google talk and can see him beeing online. What's the problem here?
I'm also experiencing some strange behaviour with latitude. Latitude is running on my girlfriends phone AND I turned on GPS. But it doesn't show me the accurate position. It only shows me the position of her within 100m or so.
I really don't know where the problem is.
best regards,
L.
Hi...
Up until Sunday, my Sat Nav on either Co Pilot or Google Navigation was perfect - it knew exactly where I was and was incredibly accurate (and I use it a lot!!).
On Sunday, for some reason, both sat nav apps can't seem to pin point my location and think I'm up to 30 metres away from where I actually am.. which then has a problem with navigation as it thinks I'm on another street (or if I'm on the motorway then it thinks I'm in a field!!!)
I tried re-installing the phone software (using PC Companion, so it was completely a clean install) and this still hasn't helped and it has happened for the last couple of days.
Can anyone help me?
Do you have AGPS active?
It might help.
Hi TuxStyle,
I've got all the options active..
It has been working without problems since I got the phone, I travel A LOT, sometimes I think too much, but it's never done this..
Since Sunday it's just become very inaccurate and annoying as it thinks I'm on a different road.
None of the settings have changed and I've re-flashed the phone using SEUS and re-installed the apps to make sure it wasn't a setting.
Still having problems...
This exact same thing happened to me on Friday.
After many months of my GPS working impressively flawlessly,
suddenly it is totally useless...
Loses signal a lot, cannot accurately locate me, etc.
No change in settings, no new apps installed, nothing...
HOW STRANGE!!!!
Sorry to hear that My_immortal, though I'm glad someone is experiencing this as well.
Don't flash your phone again, it doesn't help!!!
It might have happened earlier for me, though I hadn't used my phone for sat nav since Thursday (when it was working fine)...
Do you think there is something with the satellites? (Highly unlikely since there's just 2 of us experiencing...) or something to do with hardware?
Mine is R2BA026 as well, UK, Unlocked
hmm.. i suppose a lot of factors affect how accurate gps is... like.. how many satellites the phone is using for triangulation.. any buildings/obstacles whatever nearby that can cause interference(?)
mine works great though, 10m accuracy. without gps, and just 3g alone, it's a crappy 500m.
you can download an app called GPS status from the market (free), shows you how many satellites your phone is locked on (mine usually fluctuates around 10~11) BUT i'm not sure if it's a fluke or real, but i think it is real, because it showed me 10m accuracy, when i checked on google maps, it mentioned 10m too.
Hi Tookieboy,
Yeh on G Maps, I get accuracy of 10m, but when using Google Navigation or Co Pilot for actual sat navigation, it thinks I'm on another road (or in a field next to the road I'm actually on), so before it was pristine and knew exactly where i was, but now it doesn't..
no settings have been changed so it seems strange..
Co Pilot shows good signal from 11 satellites so again... confused :s
clearing the cache help? maybe a bad byte somewhere? i dunno..
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Hi Tookieboy,
Yeh on G Maps, I get accuracy of 10m, but when using Google Navigation or Co Pilot for actual sat navigation, it thinks I'm on another road (or in a field next to the road I'm actually on), so before it was pristine and knew exactly where i was, but now it doesn't..
no settings have been changed so it seems strange..
Co Pilot shows good signal from 11 satellites so again... confused :s
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Seems to be fine here in Canada thus far. Used it today and it was spot on. I do not use the AGPS just gps and so far so good.
Hi Rockjock, thanks for your input, but I'm still having problems.
I have 11 satellites showing, so technically it should be positioning me on the correct road.
I have tried all variations of the location settings.
I had a look at the cache and it appears empty :s
Any other ideas? It's just strange that it started randomly on Sunday..
My_Immortal, have you had any luck?
AGPS helps to get the lock faster.
I didn't try driving navigation. Only walking and from what i see, i'm about 10m away.
Maybe if two roads are close i would have the same problem.
I'll do a test in weekend.
I tried it yesterday, still unusable.
Oddly, it could locate me accurately when still,
but when my car was moving it lost signal often
and the accuracy grew smaller and larger,
so no use in navigation...
charmz2k2 said:
Hi Rockjock, thanks for your input, but I'm still having problems.
I have 11 satellites showing, so technically it should be positioning me on the correct road.
I have tried all variations of the location settings.
I had a look at the cache and it appears empty :s
Any other ideas? It's just strange that it started randomly on Sunday..
My_Immortal, have you had any luck?
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tried it out last nite and again it was spot on. Speed was almost perfect and it did find me n the right roads and was dead on. If it just happened all of a sudden it could be a satellite issue. But you need only 3 for a positive lock. BTW I using co-pilot live 8 ... have you another handset to try out?
i'm havin same issue today with google navagation but everything is workin alright with co-pilot.. since google nav is beta version here in canada, that could be the issue for me...
Did you try the GPS test from the Phone's service menu?
just in case you don't know, the combination to access the service menu is..
m b b m b m m b
m: menu (left most button)
b: back (right most button)
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just in case you don't know, the combination to access the service menu is..
m b b m b m m b
m: menu (left most button)
b: back (right most button)
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i wasn't aware of it. thanks for the info
Hello,
I got a weird issue. I'm running an unlocked Omnia 7 with 7392 installed.
I recently installed the new Foursquare application. It first attempted a fix and found a location in Taipei airport where I was a month ago even though I'm now in central Bangkok.
Bing Maps still displays the current location in Taipei as well even though I'm now in central Bangkok!
I tried to access the BlackSwan debug mode to try a manual fix but the former coordinates are still stuck (25.077275,121.234050, which correspond to Taipei Taoyuan airport).
Weird thing is, I could use GPS and successfully checkin with 4th & Mayor these past few days before the official Foursquare app screw things up.
I tried to delete Bing Maps history, it didn't solve anything. I'm not keen to attempt a hard reset as I still want to keep my phone unlocked.
Do you know how to erase the current fix and force the GPS to actually try to get a new fix?
Thanks!