EDIT: Solved. I re-enabled developer options, saw that "Allow Mock Locations" was turned on, turned it off, rebooted, and it worked. Mods, close if you'd like.
Hello all,
I'm having no luck whatsoever getting MLB At Bat to figure out where my phone is. I'm stock rooted, but had the same problem even when I re-locked the phone. It gets to a screen that says At Bat is having trouble determining my location, so it can't show the game. Things I've tried:
--Making sure location services are turned on
--Using cell data OR wifi
--Re-installing the app
--Fastboot re-installing the latest factory image (which I was already on anyway)
--OEM locking the phone
--setting my location with GPS-Fake
--ensuring via google maps my phone can find itself
--testing my AtBat account on my wife's identical N4
Nothing works. It's like the app doesn't ever do the loc check it says. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
John
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I have completely precached the area I am in, in UK (even though it keeps getting deleted) When I'm out and about without a WiFi connection, google maps isn't able to find where I am with GPS even though it has the area precached, and using GPS test the device definitely has a lock. If I'm not mistaken, it should be able to? Does anyone else have this problem? On 4.2.1.
Yes. I was just telling someone about this. I dropped back to 4.1.2 and now it works again among other things.
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I don't think there is anything inherent about 4.2.1 that messes it up. My stock, rooted N7 locates me correctly within my precached areas without wifi.
there is another thread with many people including myself have posted about this bug in 4.2.1 where google nav cant find gps... I have tried everything to get it to work.. e-pilot and other gps apps work fine.. so its a issue with the google nav app... Google will fix it soon im sure.. Report it to them as many have done so already...
Good Luck . Search is your friend ..
I had this problem when I just updated to 4.2.1. But later on, when I opened Google Now, I found an option saying "allowing Gapps to use your current location"(something like that, I can't remember the exact words.) which is off by default. I turned it on and surprisingly the Map works!
WOW .. you found a fix for the bug.
I had that to on... But i went in settings location . turned location services off..
Then back to home screen .. open Google now.. and i get the same thing.. Clicked to turn it on.. It turned on then opened settings location ticked it back on and google nav worked..
Silly Google....
The setting that changes this is in Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Location Settings, it's called "Let Google apps access your location".
Fixed....thanks
Hi, maps seems to be keeping my phone awake when I lock it. I've searched this forum and I've disabled almost all the settings regarding GPS, location etc, as it seems this is what people are recommending. The only ones that I have kept enabled are 'Access my location', 'GPS Satellites' and 'Wifi & mobile network location'.
Better battery starts shows that 'NetworkLocationPassiveCollector' is giving partial wakelock.
Is there any way to stop this without turning GPS off?
Thank you
Anyone help? I've completely disabled location access, gps etc for now to see if it helps.
Mine was doing this a lot recently. I force closed the app, killed cache/data, then relaunched it and went into settings and toggled all of the stupid "track my location in the background" settings (on again, then back off). Haven't had a problem with it since.
It was sneaky about it, too. I would wake up my screen and see the GPS icon in the status bar and it would disappear right away. 20 minutes later I would wake up my phone and it would do the same thing.
Happens to me a lot also. I noticed facebook app will ping my gps occasionally unless I actually close the app out. I just turn location off unless I need it.
I've got a bit of a strange problem, where google maps seems to refuse to actually use the phones gps (device). If I use high accuracy it immediately zooms in on a location thats more than 5kms away.
I installed osmand, and it is able to see and lock onto 5/19 gps satellites just fine, gmaps on the other hand just sits there, it does produce the 'location' icon, but never gets a lock. I installed gps status from the play store, and downloaded the latest gps-a data, but thats made no difference.
One thing I did notice though, was that when i start osmand, the notification from gps status appears, but when trying to find location on gmaps no such thing happens, which leads me to think that gmaps isnt even trying.
location is set to device only, google location reporting etc is on.
So far ive done a cache / data wipe of maps in settings, uninstalled back to factory version, re-updated to the latest but all to no avail.
Does anyone have any ideas? thanks
I can't seem to get tasker to perform any tasks through Secure Settings. Can't get it to toggle air plane mode, change any of the location settings to off, battery saver, high accuracy, etc.
Am I missing something? The 6P is rooted and I know these tasks works because I imported them over from my last phone. Anyone with some tasker experience care to lend me a hand?
I just used Tasker/Secure Settings to test a few commands and they worked. I toggled "Show Touches" and Airplane Mode. I had not previously granted root to Secure Settings, so it asked for that when I executed the task, but it worked fine upon granting.
Maybe check SuperSU to see if it defaulted to deny if you didn't accept quick enough? I am on the latest factory image for the 6p, MDB08M.
Hope this helps.
fury683 said:
I just used Tasker/Secure Settings to test a few commands and they worked. I toggled "Show Touches" and Airplane Mode. I had not previously granted root to Secure Settings, so it asked for that when I executed the task, but it worked fine upon granting.
Maybe check SuperSU to see if it defaulted to deny if you didn't accept quick enough? I am on the latest factory image for the 6p, MDB08M.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to know. I went ahead and wiped the phone and reinstalled everything, it's now functional for me after the reinstall. Thanks again for testing it out.
I use both for toggling Location without issues. There is a beta version of Tasker on the developers website that may help you out.
Got it working by installing a fresh version from the Play store
Somewhat related.. apparently Tasker was removed from the Play Store last night.
http://www.androidcentral.com/tasker-has-been-removed-google-play-store
When I go to use Google Maps for navigation, I often get the message "To continue turn on device location which uses Google's location service". The problem also affects ViewRanger, an app I use for walking. GPS appears to turn off during a walk so I lose the track of my route. In this case the message is "GPS is disabled in the settings. Please enable it."
I recognise this happens after the phone has been "asleep" for a while but have not been able to measure how long it must be asleep before the problem arises. I think it is at least 30 mins.
It feels like a "battery saver" problem, but I can't see any obvious power saving setting to turn off. ViewRanger is set in App Power-saver to have no optimisation policies.
I have had my Axon 7 since Jan 2018 and this problem has only occurred in the last few weeks. My model is A2017G on stock Oreo B03 and unrooted. The problem did not emerge when I first moved to Oreo. It may have started when I moved to B03 though I think GPS was fine for a while after I moved to B03.
Something is turning off location services in the background; how do I find out what it is? Is there some sort of log I can read? What other solutions are there? Many thanks in advance, Evan
I moved from stock Oreo B03 to B04 (via B02) and wiped the cache. All now seems to be well; ViewRanger recorded a 4 hour track with no problem yesterday. Slightly strange though as I had previously wiped cache while on B03 and found that didn't fix my problem.
Too good to be true
grantem2000 said:
I moved from stock Oreo B03 to B04 (via B02) and wiped the cache. All now seems to be well; ViewRanger recorded a 4 hour track with no problem yesterday. Slightly strange though as I had previously wiped cache while on B03 and found that didn't fix my problem.
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It did all seem a little too good to be true and, sadly, Location Services again began "turning off automatically" only a few days after my upgrade to B04. I have attached 2 screenshots from the notification log for when I started recording a route in ViewRanger at 15:07 and again 3 mins later at 15:10 when tracking appeared to stop. The logs mean nothing to me, so any insight would be very welcome.
In the meantime, I uninstalled ViewRanger, deleted all ViewRanger directories, restarted the phone, re-installed ViewRanger and wiped cache again. After that, for now at least, Location Services are again behaving.
As all this appears to point the finger at ViewRanger, I will raise direct with the application owners too.
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As all this appears to point the finger at ViewRanger, I will raise direct with the application owners too.
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ViewRanger, support were very responsive and supportive. They made a convincing case that the problem is not caused by ViewRanger, not least as the app has no capability to turn off Location Services.
But something is still turning off Location Services when the phone goes to sleep. How can I tell what is doing this?
In the meantime, wiping cache solves the problem for a few days, but, so far, it has always come back.
I have the same issue and that's why I think this phone's gps is useless. I find this gps not in accurate way to detect the coordinates even in all previous firmwares (nougat, all ver of oreo)
The auto turned off gps services maybe the case of software, but I think the hardware is bad either.
This is the worst part as I work using GPS a lot but I still love this guy's music features. I ended up using secondary phone/tablet to run some geographical apps, sad cant have em running in one phone only.
Update: my GPS get fixed on B04 with locked bootloader, it seems fine and fast to get POI. It's usable now. Guess the previous rom has bugs on GPS or it's broken by other apps I used before