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just went into market and was greeted with a new feature ... a scrolling feature window at the top linking to sports etc ... anyone else seen this, it wasn't there on mine this morning ...
Also seems to exist in each section as you browse.
I don't.
Orange - UK
Appeared in my market, although only in the cats and not the main page.
Yeh cool i got it too Orange UK.
Mine has been like that ever since the new market came out in 1.6
same here its old...
No update for me on voda uk. Still the old look. I believe americans got it with 1.6 update but for some reason it didn't get filtered down to other countries.
I got the new look.
Looks cool!
Just checked mine and I got it
o2 - UK
Just got it today, too.
On Globe Telecom in the Philippines. I don't use 3G at all, though. Just wifi so I guess it's not a carrier thing
Yeah i saw this on older screenshots as well and thought google had removed it but it's now in my marketplace as well
I wasn't sure if it was new I was fairly certain it was but not 100% ...
got it too.
Vodafone CZ
Finally got mine updated. Vodafone UK
Seems like there isn't much use to those tiles, mostly acts like advetisement.
Nothing here.. T-Mobile UK
TBH I'm glad they aren't there.. it just wastes screen space.
arrived on mine. , downloaded an update for an app and it seemed to take longer than usual. was no change to the market before i downloaded (I think) and no change immediately afterwards, but when I had a quick browse later in the day, there it was. I have had no OTA updates (not since I rooted when I had 1.1) and have been running the latest Cyanaogen since it came out, so not sure when/how this change was done.
vas41 said:
Seems like there isn't much use to those tiles, mostly acts like advetisement.
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Unfortunately it doesn't directly bring you to the advertised app.
At least it didn't the first and only time I tried.
Hello all,
I couldn't find a thread specifically for this problem since all the major issues are related with GPS.
The thing is, disabling GPS and leaving only the "Use wireless networks" on, I should have a very wide approximation of my location, enough for weather programs and Google Latitude for example.
My problem is, no matter what, my phone always think I'm located in Paris, when in fact I live near the Swiss border, some 350km away!
My wife has a Samsung Galaxy Spica and I put both phone side by side with only this settings enabled and Wifi on and her phone was spot on, when mine was far far away in Paris somewhere.
This also makes the Beautiful widgets display the weather forecast for Paris when the Spica always have our location right.
What should I do? Any fix for that?
I'm using the JM2 firmware just in case someone asks. It's very frustrating I might say and maybe the aGPS is conflicting with the GPS and messing up with that too?
Thanks in advance,
JP
Well, since nobody gave at least a word about it I guess I'm alone with this problem.
Anyway, I narrowed the problem down to the WiFi.
If I turn WiFi off and let the phone find my location based only with the mobile towers triangulation then is fine. The moment I turn WiFi on, it put me back to Paris.
At least this is something that might interfere with GPS Settings overall?
Please, a word from someone with more expertise would help a lot.
Cheers.
For anyone interested. (sigh...)This problem doesn't occur in the early Froyo build.
Thanks for the heads up. Good to know. I think they must have had this bug in for a while. I was coming to this conclusion with JF3 that Wireless was somehow affecting it.
I only had to walk past my house for the GPS to say, no, hang on, wait, you, must be, over there, next to your router!
Hello phone geniuses,
I bought an AT&T branded Samsung Focus from AT&T a few months back. It shipped with Windows Phone 7, and all was well with the world. I enjoyed the GPS, wifi, driving directions, bing maps, etc..
I am currently in Beijing, and will be here for another few months. I spoke with someone at AT&T, and they gave me the unlock code for the phone. I successfully entered it after purchasing and installing a SIM card for China Mobile over here.
Everything works.. except.. the GPS. None of the location services seem to be working. Does anyone know if there is anything I can do to fix that? I'm guessing that it's trying to connect with GPS satellites over the wrong hemisphere?
Thanks for your time! You guys rock my phone world.
Try "Gps App" in Marketplace. If it shows sattelites, you're fine. If not, might be a phone issue.
The phone doesn't care where the you are for sattelites, but, if you're in between tall buildings (sky scrapers etc) chances are your GPS reception is weak. Test it as I suggested and get back. Also, try to find an open(er sky) area to test this.
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Try "Gps App" in Marketplace. If it shows sattelites, you're fine. If not, might be a phone issue.
The phone doesn't care where the you are for sattelites, but, if you're in between tall buildings (sky scrapers etc) chances are your GPS reception is weak. Test it as I suggested and get back. Also, try to find an open(er sky) area to test this.
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Thanks for the reply.
I installed the app. When I run it, though.. it looks like it's frozen. It shows the picture of the compass, and I see some latitude and longtidude markings, and some kind of meter that looks full.. but it doesn't move or change.
I had the same problem when I brought my at&t branded tilt2 to shanghai. suddenly google maps didn't work, etc.. it was only fixed when I flashed the energy rom to the phone. what was in the rom that would have made the difference? radio? Is something like that possible with wp7?
Here is a video review of the app, so you get an idea on what to expect.
As you can see, on the top right of the screen, the bars change colors: red for no accuracy or low, yellow for medium and green for high accuracy. Under the bar, in meters, is the planar error from your location.
Another good indicator that it's working is the Altitude shows up (lower left corner).
As I said, try to find an open sky area, to test it. If Altitude doesn't show up (see at 0:08 in the video review) and the bars don't change color, you've got another some other issue.
As for the roms, there are no custom roms for Focus, just the original ones, but I suggest not to do that flashing yet yet.
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
dizx said:
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
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dude same thing i was thinking!!!!
dizx said:
Is it even possible to get GPS reception through the Beijing smog?
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Yes
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Hey guys, thanks for all the help, but guess what? The new update rolled down the pike from Microsoft.. and it bricked my phone, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway!
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Hey guys, thanks for all the help, but guess what? The new update rolled down the pike from Microsoft.. and it bricked my phone, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway!
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Don't panic. Try to reconnect the phone with Zune started, it might continue from where it left off. If not, read here.
Philippines here with an unlocked samsung focus, I can't seem to get bing maps to ever get a signal. my iphone locks on just fine here, but not the focus so far. Either the gps is weak or doesnt work here
Going to try it outside sometime
Hi everyone!
I bought a used N4 off ebay and received it last week .. I have yet to get any sat locks. I read about aGPS not working with LTE and since I did the LTE mod. I decided to try the latest radio and I still dont get any locks *aGPS worked*. I went on a hour long drive yesterday and not once did I get a lock with the latest radio. I changed my NTP server to a US based one. I also tried several different kernels *including stock* each with a full wipe in between
Anyone have any ideas for me to try?
I was told the back was replaced so I wonder if that may be causing a issue? also have a issue with my wifi range that I'll make a separate thread for.
Thanks for at least reading!
Ebay listing said this "This phone has a replacement back glass WITHOUT wireless charging or NFC capabilities." which I dont really care about just want to be able to use gps , HTC ONE s and Sensation had awesome GPS maybe im just spoiled
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Hi everyone!
I bought a used N4 off ebay and received it last week .. I have yet to get any sat locks. I read about aGPS not working with LTE and since I did the LTE mod. I decided to try the latest radio and I still dont get any locks *aGPS worked*. I went on a hour long drive yesterday and not once did I get a lock with the latest radio. I changed my NTP server to a US based one. I also tried several different kernels *including stock* each with a full wipe in between
Anyone have any ideas for me to try?
I was told the back was replaced so I wonder if that may be causing a issue? also have a issue with my wifi range that I'll make a separate thread for.
Thanks for at least reading!
Ebay listing said this "This phone has a replacement back glass WITHOUT wireless charging or NFC capabilities." which I dont really care about just want to be able to use gps , HTC ONE s and Sensation had awesome GPS maybe im just spoiled
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Did you try another rom or even revert to stock to get off of LTE?
Edit: I am on LTE and I get sat locks without an issue. Maybe the you are missing the antennaes for gps as well?
Going back to complete stock
Using this guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
I'll test the gps on my way home from work in a few minutes.
Hoping it will work.
Using bone stock rom/kernel/ect. I was able to get a lock in at 10 meters in the parking lot but when I started driving it lost gps signal and then was like 120 meters *aGPS*.... so I'm going with my gps chip may be defective or the back that this guy used is interfering with the gps signal.
Also I noticed while running maps all the way home with GPS enabled/running it got real hot on the upper middle back of the phone , right next to the camera. Way hotter then it does if im playing games for a hour+
My regular phone reception is good though its probably a little stronger then my HTC One S.
Anyone have any ideas I should try?
Guys
My N9005 some times shows incorrect location on weather widgets including the stock widget to HD widgets also apps like four square i live in Sri Lanka and it shows that i am in Abu Dhabi :crying::crying::crying::crying: , I had the same problem with my previous note 2 (But it happend after updating to Android 4.3 on Note 2 be fore it was OK) that i sold and thought with new device the problem would not be there, But it turned out to be not what i expected . Its really annoying and couldn't find a solution to fix this i faced this problem with Stock rom on both devices,
Does anyone here has similar problems or is there a possible fix ...
thanx in advance
If you're rooted if i remember rightly theres an app called "better gps fix" or something like that, quite a lot of people have reported success with it...
If you're not rooted, (same as me), i have the same issue, i live in bournemouth (south coast uk) and it says i'm in france! i just keep refreshing it and it eventually gets the right location.
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If you're rooted if i remember rightly theres an app called "better gps fix" or something like that, quite a lot of people have reported success with it...
If you're not rooted, (same as me), i have the same issue, i live in bournemouth (south coast uk) and it says i'm in france! i just keep refreshing it and it eventually gets the right location.
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Thanks my friend for ur kind reply , Will consider rooting ....
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Guys
My N9005 some times shows incorrect location on weather widgets including the stock widget to HD widgets also apps like four square i live in Sri Lanka and it shows that i am in Abu Dhabi :crying::crying::crying::crying: , I had the same problem with my previous note 2 (But it happend after updating to Android 4.3 on Note 2 be fore it was OK) that i sold and thought with new device the problem would not be there, But it turned out to be not what i expected . Its really annoying and couldn't find a solution to fix this i faced this problem with Stock rom on both devices,
Does anyone here has similar problems or is there a possible fix ...
thanx in advance
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I had the same problem but with wifi connection the location works fine. Maybe it will works for you
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Dan-SRi said:
If you're rooted if i remember rightly theres an app called "better gps fix" or something like that, quite a lot of people have reported success with it...
If you're not rooted, (same as me), i have the same issue, i live in bournemouth (south coast uk) and it says i'm in france! i just keep refreshing it and it eventually gets the right location.
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St Hellier in Jersey here, although I do live in South Wales. I do go Brummie at times though too come to think of it.
nishanthabgw said:
Guys
My N9005 some times shows incorrect location on weather widgets including the stock widget to HD widgets also apps like four square i live in Sri Lanka and it shows that i am in Abu Dhabi :crying::crying::crying::crying: , I had the same problem with my previous note 2 (But it happend after updating to Android 4.3 on Note 2 be fore it was OK) that i sold and thought with new device the problem would not be there, But it turned out to be not what i expected . Its really annoying and couldn't find a solution to fix this i faced this problem with Stock rom on both devices,
Does anyone here has similar problems or is there a possible fix ...
thanx in advance
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something you might have to consider is the wifi networks that are around you...
if for some reason, one (or more) wifi network is not mapped correctly, you might get a bad position when your device is reading the position from wifi and cell tower location.
One thing you can try is to get a GPS app that will show you the coordinates of your position... if get the real position with the GPS signal but incorrect with wifi/cell tower, you know that there is something wrong around you with the networks... one app that I'm using for this is GpsWifiPosDifference https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.nakajimadevnakajima.GpsWifiPosDifference
If the GPS position is correct... but the wifi position is way off, sadly you can not do anything about this... except maybe continue using Google Maps and hope to get this fixed sometimes in the future. There is an option in Google Maps to "optimize" the position... I don't know what it's called in English (or other languages), but in French it's called "Astuces précision localisation". I think that this option is helping Google to fix inconsistencies with wifi positions.
Thanx for all the replys guys......
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