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Google Maps Position Resets to Espoo Finland?

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.

check out my cap of latitude

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 !!!
FML

Weather not updating.

About a week ago, the weather application stopped updating.
As it has always been, when going back to the home screen
my signal would go from 3G to H and update.
Now, the only way I can get an update is thru wi-fi.
No settings that I am aware of have been changed or altered
to cause this to happen.
Has this happened to anyone else?....btw my phone is Tmobile US.
Would appreciate any feedback and, moderators if that has been
covered before I do apoligize. Did search but, nothing relevant to
this particular problem.

How ironic?
You live in Lewisville, TX? I used to live there, went to high school there actually... but anyway, I posted about this EXACT same topic in the T-Mobile USA section for the HD2. Literally, our situations are identical. I am experiencing the same issue.
I cannot believe that I am not the only one.
Then again, I did find quite a few similar posts to ours on the official T-Mobile forums.
As far as a solution goes... your guess is just as good as mine is. I have no idea how to go about resolving this lame-ass problem.

Yeah, kind of really getting me down. Not getting the weather
update isn't the end of the world but, it's one of the phone's
main draws to me.

happens to me once in a while...
dunno what causes it, but if i go to:
Settings > All settings > Connections > Connection Setup
and go through that process, it all seems to work fine again...

I'm actually fed up with the weather location i use weather city editor now to add my town manually as the feature doesn't even work in my town, on Saturday i left my town and tried out the weather location and it told me i was in united kingdom, yeah no sh^t sherlock lol

New GPS Issue!

After applying the GPS fix I am having an odd issue. When I fist launch google maps it shows me in some small rural village in China. Once the GPS gets a fix it goes to where I am really am. This would not be a big deal except when I take pictures it Geotags the picture as being in this Chinese village which is kind of a pain. Also it screws up my weather widgets sometimes. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe it has to do with the server it is using to pull down the GPS data, but not sure.

I am having a similar issue, but not quite as drastic. Mine just simply shows me being the last place i was before GPS was turned on. Like right now, without GPS connected but using the towers to figure out my location, it shows me at the place i at lunch, about 3 miles away, rather than at work. Its VERY frustrating.

I'm having the same problem. My GPS shows me in a neighboring city that is 50 miles away, every time.
The best way to test this is to load the 'Maps' live wallpaper. It happens every time. Also, booting up the 'Maps' application will throw me into the other city for at least five minutes, before it realizes that the data is not correct.

It's a new "google fortune" feature. It's telling you you need to travel the world.

Same problem here, however, I was thinking it had more to do with the "Use Wireless Networks" not updating my location.
-If I have gps turned off and wireless network location on. My location doesn't update at all until I reboot the phone (although Latitude shows it as being updated within the last few minutes, even though it shows me somewhere I haven't been in hours and is 50miles away.)
-If I turn gps on, it will then get a fix and properly update my location.
I did apply the GPS fix.

lol mine switches between seattle and SPAIN! wtf.

I think it has to do something with the way samsung implements the gps receiver..a friend had a sammie moment..she would be right next to me..nyc...but her gps would say shes in havana, cuba..on good days..some place in estonia..lol...and now i see the issues being replicated here...i blame samsung...my old trusty g1 locks a signal and is very accurate within a min or 2..

Thanks for the info, sync3. That's starting to become my thought as well.
What a shame. I hope an official statement is released, either way.

chastbi said:
Same problem here, however, I was thinking it had more to do with the "Use Wireless Networks" not updating my location.
-If I have gps turned off and wireless network location on. My location doesn't update at all until I reboot the phone (although Latitude shows it as being updated within the last few minutes, even though it shows me somewhere I haven't been in hours and is 50miles away.)
-If I turn gps on, it will then get a fix and properly update my location.
I did apply the GPS fix.
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This is the EXACT problem I am having. I dont know how to get it to update my location.

I have the same issue. I also had applied the GPS fix... I've tried reverting to stock settings, tried enabling skyhook and tried a few other things.
The only way I've been able to properly get my location is to turn off the network assist and tell the GPS to operate in standalone mode. It takes a heck of a lot longer for a fix, but it's accurate if it does get a lock. Doesn't work so well indoors though.

Who the heck were the field testers for this device? its full of more bugs than an entymologist's labratory.

Clear your GPS data

heygrl said:
Clear your GPS data
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That was one of the first things I tried. It didn't help.

My main concern is that this is unrelated to the GPS software issue and that this is actually a hardware issue. Does anyone agree or disagree with this?

pearlblues said:
My main concern is that this is unrelated to the GPS software issue and that this is actually a hardware issue. Does anyone agree or disagree with this?
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I agree this is hardware related because others have reported exchanging their phones rids them of the GPS issues.. :-/

I work in Houston and sometimes while at work GPS says I'm in Pawcatuck, CT.

The question is when not using gps what function of the phone updates your location? Could it be a network issue? How do you force it to retrieve tower data that marks your location?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Well, i exchanged my phone last night because of this issue and the new one is doing the same thing. So either this is a problem inherent to this model (hopefully the software not telling the phone to refresh tower data) that can be fixed with an update or i am extremely unlucky.

pearlblues said:
Well, i exchanged my phone last night because of this issue and the new one is doing the same thing. So either this is a problem inherent to this model (hopefully the software not telling the phone to refresh tower data) that can be fixed with an update or i am extremely unlucky.
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Just had my 3rd call with TMobile- she now assured me that this is a software issue (which i made her mark in my account incase it winds up being hardware later) and that all phones with software # T959UVJFD have it. She said tmobile is working with samsung to fix. I told her all Galaxy S series, domestic and international, have GPS issue and samsung has yet to fix any. She said well that is something you need to consider.

blink55184 said:
Just had my 3rd call with TMobile- she now assured me that this is a software issue (which i made her mark in my account incase it winds up being hardware later) and that all phones with software # T959UVJFD have it. She said tmobile is working with samsung to fix. I told her all Galaxy S series, domestic and international, have GPS issue and samsung has yet to fix any. She said well that is something you need to consider.
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Wow, very helpful information. How they get this fix released ASAP.

GPS issues anyone?

My phone seems to get a good ping at first but after a minute or so it throws me off a whole block or so. Happens more often in the city (NYC), but my nexus one never had this problem. Going to try back at my home and hope it is just a city thing. While I am walking it is way ahead of me, even though there is no blue circle, and I'm am usually inside of buildings as well.
Also the compass is not working properly. When I face a certain direction it isn't the right one.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I have not used my gps since october 15th and it was working flawlessly but I started to notice the stock weather app wasn't updating and couldn't locate me a couple weeks ago but I thought nothing of it... but now I can't even get a lock... the icon shows up when it wants to and navigation and google maps can't find me...I know this isn't because of cm 6.1 because it was doing it before... does anyone else have this issue or know of a way to fix it??

GPS acting weird

Okay so I know there are many GPS threads, I went through all of them but didn't find a simliar issue.
When driving around Bartlett, IL (a 4G area, not that it makes a difference but just indicating that the suburb isn't small)... I could not get the GPS lock for the life of me. It thought I was mile away, seemed like it was only picking up the cell tower.. and no turning 4G on or off didn't make a difference.
now here is the kicker,
I drove back to my home town, Rockford, IL (only 3G).... and baam...I got a lock right away and the GPS knew exactly where I was on the road.....
I really dont think it's a 4g/3g issue, as GPS should be independent of them (at least form what I know)....
the question is...if it was google maps, why would it lock in one area and not the other....and same with the phone...you'd think if the phone is jacked/ it wouldnt work in either case...
any thoughts?

Gps is weird in general on the Epic, I have to toggle GPS on, Toggle Off, Toggle on and then it works..
it's expected. welcome the the GPS woes club.

jackal424 said:
Okay so I know there are many GPS threads, I went through all of them but didn't find a simliar issue.
When driving around Bartlett, IL (a 4G area, not that it makes a difference but just indicating that the suburb isn't small)... I could not get the GPS lock for the life of me. It thought I was mile away, seemed like it was only picking up the cell tower.. and no turning 4G on or off didn't make a difference.
now here is the kicker,
I drove back to my home town, Rockford, IL (only 3G).... and baam...I got a lock right away and the GPS knew exactly where I was on the road.....
I really dont think it's a 4g/3g issue, as GPS should be independent of them (at least form what I know)....
the question is...if it was google maps, why would it lock in one area and not the other....and same with the phone...you'd think if the phone is jacked/ it wouldnt work in either case...
any thoughts?
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It's a 4G issue.
When you have 4G or WiFi on the GPS will not lock. Once turned off, it takes SEVERAL minutes for it to snap back to reality and be able to update it's cache to find the sats.

othan1 said:
It's a 4G issue.
When you have 4G or WiFi on the GPS will not lock. Once turned off, it takes SEVERAL minutes for it to snap back to reality and be able to update it's cache to find the sats.
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Like I said it occured without even using 4G. All I know is I opened google maps in one area and it works and in another area it didn't.
Difference was only turning gps on/off.
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This is the same GPS issue that is affecting the rest of us. Outdated ephemeris cache bug.