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Geolocation not working

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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GPS seems to have stopped working

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.

hauj0bb said:
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.

Rumbleweed said:
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.

Map location issues

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.

Google maps high battery usage

Hello all
After using a number of Android roms when Google maps is running in the background I'm getting 60mha +. As soon as I stop it running it goes back down to 3-6. The GPS is not on. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong?
Cheers
Baker0
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if an app is running it will use battery!! do you have BT enabled?

No bt It only seems to be Google maps.
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It could be the wifi feature which makes Google maps find you faster
Disable that feature in location settings.
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disable GPS in setting will do the trick

Forcing the GPS off is a work-around that should be unnecessary. The GPS only uses power when an application activates it. This is a bug in Google Maps since version 5.4 where it accesses the GPS when running in the background, even with Latitude disabled. Right now I've been unplugged for 11 hours and Maps accounts for 12% of the battery usage because it had the GPS running for 6 minutes.

[Q][CM10.2] Location services

I just updated from CM10.1.3 to the CM10.2 M1 snapshot.
My lockscreen weather widget and The Weather Channel refuse to display the location-based weather unless I turn on GPS - even though I'm already allowing those apps to use wifi and mobile network to pinpoint my location.
I didn't have this issue on CM10.1.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I just installed CM10.2 M1 on my Nexus 7 as well and it doesn't have this problem...

machoman1337 said:
I just updated from CM10.1.3 to the CM10.2 M1 snapshot.
My lockscreen weather widget and The Weather Channel refuse to display the location-based weather unless I turn on GPS - even though I'm already allowing those apps to use wifi and mobile network to pinpoint my location.
I didn't have this issue on CM10.1.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I just installed CM10.2 M1 on my Nexus 7 as well and it doesn't have this problem...
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never mind, solved it.
I reflashed gapps and after reboot I received a prompt from the gapps asking me if I wanted to enable location. Now location reporting works without GPS.