I'm having some issues with the location google maps gives me. Even though I connect to my wifi it still shows I'm somewhere located in sacramento I'm using the custom made app with the destination features added on Anyone else having the same problems?
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me too have this problem, says im somewhere in taiwan or whereever...but i use locations and only GPS without wifi...
I had the same problem months ago...
How to fix:
1 - http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=146524
2 - When you are arriving home, before the android connect to your wifi network, open google maps and let if find the location using GPS, then with the maps opened, go to the wifi range area. After 1 or 2 weeks it should fix your wifi location.
Try these 2 options, not only 1 or 2
Google has a database with the Router mac addresses and the location coordinates. This database is constantly updated.
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Wi-FI finder using gps application
Is there a gps prog that will show you your nearest wifi hotspot on the go?
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Wi-FI finder using gps application
Is there a gps prog that will show you your nearest wifi hotspot on the go?
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Not seen one. Interesting idea - I think you mean like a speed camera application add-on for one of the GPS applications ?
Never heard of one. Most of the wifi finding applications will record the GPS details for later mapping. I have WiFiFoFum for finding wifi nets but I don't bother with its GPS function.
You can do it with TomTom...
Searsh for POI wifi hotspot, it's working well
Wififofum2
go to
http://www.aspecto-software.com/rw/applications/wififofum/index.html
its an amazing program that will do exactly as you ask, and works fine with the HD and GPS location finding
to add the hotspots simply take the co ordiates from Wififofum and import them as POI for TT or whatever your program of choice is for sat nav
Obviously you need to visit the location to get the locations in a log/lat coordinate but once you have done it once you have it for life
I was watching the Gadget Show last night (TV show in UK) and they mentioned a WiFi hotspot finder for the iPhone. It was only a couple of £ and it made me think - I need something like that for my HD!
keroin said:
You can do it with TomTom...
Searsh for POI wifi hotspot, it's working well
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excellent added free wifi POI's from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com to my tomtom, now it tells me my nearest hotspot inc mcdonalds = YES! ,
I am thinking of signing upto
http://www.btopenzone.com/buy/per_minute.jsp
15 per min wifi and is used by many companys in uk, anyone used this?
Wefi ?
You could try wefi
http://www.wefi.com/
Ok so when I'm on my personal wifi connection my weather location in sense and weather bug shows my location as Winterville NC. The problem is I'm in Sioux Falls SD! Lol
This does not happen all the time but enough for me to scratch my head. It only happens when I'm on wifi and not all the time. Any one else experience this kind of issue.
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This is due to Google thinking your access point's MAC address was picked up by a Street View car in that location, or multiple Android devices that have Maps open along with Wi-Fi and GPS.
To update it, open Maps for a few days, and have GPS and WiFi on:
Open Google Maps on an Android 2.0+, Windows Mobile, or Symbian S60 phone and enable GPS. While Maps is simultaneously connected to a GPS satellite and a cell tower or WiFi router, you will be providing updated anonymous geographic data for the cell tower or WiFi router to which you're connected. Please note that this data is anonymous and may require a significant amount of data from you and other users before changes are made to Google's location database.
Android: You must enable Settings > Location & security > Use wireless networks and have previously given consent for anonymous location data collection. You can check if you've given consent by un-checking and re-checking the 'Use wireless networks' setting.
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More info: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=56d75787f3d2eeac&hl=en
Report a bad location: https://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=146524
Hey thanks
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My Geolocation seems to have stopped working. Apps that rely on location are stuck in the wrong location/city. Maps does get my location right though. GPS Test pinpoints my location up to 50ft accuracy. Anyone got any ideas?
(Running Bionix 1.3.1)
Happened to me in Northern CA, probably a temporary glitch.
Found out something else... if I turn on wireless, Tasker finds my geolocation right away. I don't even have to be connected to a wireless access point.
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Hey all,
I'm on vacation and Google navigation tracked me all the way to my destination like a boss.
Now that I'm here, my GPS thinks I'm in my home city, and won't move... I opened up GPS test and I'm only connected to 2 satellites.
My phone seems to get a decent location fix.
I'm wifi tethering to my TF.
Any idea what's going on?
Same issue. GPS icon appears but doesn't blink and just stalls.
Gps test - clear agps - update agps. Fixed the issue for me.
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I'm wifi tethering to my TF.
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GPS location comes from several sources.( see your settings). One source is GPS, however if the fix is not great as when you just turn on TF and in a mew location, it will use the WiFi router location which is actually a lookup online that is set once and fixed. If the WiFi location for your phone was established and recorded at the online site while at home ( most likely the case) then the TF will read that and think it is home. Go to settings and turn off use wifi location.
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GPS location comes from several sources.( see your settings). One source is GPS, however if the fix is not great as when you just turn on TF and in a mew location, it will use the WiFi router location which is actually a lookup online that is set once and fixed. If the WiFi location for your phone was established and recorded at the online site while at home ( most likely the case) then the TF will read that and think it is home. Go to settings and turn off use wifi location.
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+1 granted the wifi location is faster but if that router is registered to somewhere else (if you just moved or bought a used router online) then it'll say your there and tale a lot longer to get a lock.
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If your wifi router location is wrong due to the situations mentioned above, you can have it reset by contacting "skyhookwireless".
No-go. Clearing the AGPS made the icon for GPS totally disappear, and refuse to appear again until a hard reboot. Even then it still just stalls. Trying a rom different from Prime to see if that might be the cause.
Has ANYONE else had issues like this? The GPS worked for a while but now totally fails.
I would think the GPS and a network connection would be good enough to triangulate where you are. I'm tired of the nag screen. I tried to Google for an answer but didn't find anything that exactly answered my question. Maybe when Google mapped out street view, they were also sniffing for Wi-Fi access points, and their names with locations? Just a theory.
Mine will work with Wireless off. Just tried it. Location settings to just GPS, Wifi turned off, map worked perfectly. Didn't try to navigate, but it should be the same.
Mine works fine without WiFi. It asked me once and I skipped it and it hasn't showed again.
Maybe because each WiFi router has the ability to send its location. If you were in a building without GPS signal you could still have location.
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Yeah I know you can skip it, but if the program senses you're on a mobile network, and the GPS is on, I don't know why it still wants to have Wi-Fi on.
Just did a test with a couple mapping apps. If I am in an airport or mall without WiFi on it can't tell which store or gate I am at. With the WiFi on it can tell exactly what store or gate I am near. Maybe they use WiFi to pinpoint. Oh and I did have GPS on at all times but without the added WiFi location it was either not good enough signal or no GPS signal... Who knows maybe they are just watching us.
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I think it's just that WiFi will always be more exact than data. You're accessing the Interwebz through one point rather than through your carrier.
Yeah but you're not connected to anything on Wi-Fi, it just has to be on.
There's a database of found access points out there. Your phone can triangulate its position far more accurately if it uses the available wifi access points to do so, especially indoors. Like oscar said, it doesn't need to be connected to wifi. It only needs wifi activated in order to "see" what access points are nearby.
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To get the exact location
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