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...when I take my phone out of Airplane mode is that my phone thinks I'm in Eastern Asia or Russia or something like that.
I have to get into Latitude or Google Maps to "resync" my phone to pick up the correct location and from then on, software like Foursquare works correctly.
Is this a known issue with the Nexus S? I didn't have that problem with the Nexus One.
As for my real location, it's in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It's funny because people teased me the other day because I was in Sofia, Bolivia.
I even tried with a full wipe with the stock system and when I boot the phone or put it in airplane mode, my phone thinks I'm in the Middle East or Bolivia. Is there an issue with Google's location servers or do my phone has some form defect?
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I have no idea what's going on with your handset, but had a somewhat similar coincidence recently with my Motorola Spice. I noticed that if I clicked the little "i" on any of the pictures I'd taken, then scrolled to the GPS Coordinates and and clicked on them, it would always open maps and show that I had taken the pictures somewhere in North Korea. Bizarre, I'm in BC Canada. Different hardware, different version of Android, and an unrelated issue, but both strange location-based occurrences nonetheless.
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I have no idea what's going on with your handset, but had a somewhat similar coincidence recently with my Motorola Spice. I noticed that if I clicked the little "i" on any of the pictures I'd taken, then scrolled to the GPS Coordinates and and clicked on them, it would always open maps and show that I had taken the pictures somewhere in North Korea. Bizarre, I'm in BC Canada. Different hardware, different version of Android, and an unrelated issue, but both strange location-based occurrences nonetheless.
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Well, I got a replacement phone, thinking the issue might be related to the hardware, but no luck. The phone still thinks I'm in Syria when I'm in my home (south shore of Montreal).
When I use the GPS and let Google Maps works a bit, then, it figures out my real location and all the other apps now report the proper location. I'm thinking the issue might be related to Google's location services problems for my phone.
I had the same problem with my Nexus S as well. It sometimes shows its location in Jaipur, India or somewhere in Mauritius! I called the Samsung, and they asked me to do a hard reset which i did but after a few days it again shows my location in India! What a pain. This problem usually surfaces after i use google GPS navaigation.
I even reflashed the Android 2.3.3 manually but to no avail. My phone is not rooted, and runs stock android 2.3.3 I just hope this is just a GPS bug, and will be taken care of in future OTA updates.
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!
GotSoul said:
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
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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Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
Try this:
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Did you try this conf:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=01461881488365657480
The only thing i added was a line:
ACCURACY_THRES=050
Means:
50m
Works great for me. You can additionaly get New agps data by the app "gps status"
Since two weeks gps is perfect - before that it was a horror
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katze1123 said:
Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
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G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
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That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
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Did you modified your gps.conf??
Regards
I didnt. I set my GPS to "high accuracy", and running IceX with Xceed kernel. May the rom/kernel has some advantages in the GPS? If its not possible, forgive me. Good luck to You!
Romagnolo1973 said:
G2 GPS is weak, poor . Now this Pokemon Go "fever" will emerge this problem for all user they did not notice untill now.
Is a design issue, LG put a poor and weak antenna inside our G2 that is fashion, beauty and small but with a not so great GPS.
Nothing we can do to solve suddenly. It is not the best device to play Pokemon Go
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I have 2 LG d802.. one work quite good and another have problems with long time to fix and loosing signal often.
Did not find any fix for it... bot are on same rom / release.. .. tweeking gps.conf and phone time helps a bit but is sitil quite annoying...
when you compare gps signal strength on both devices.. (when both have god fix signal strength is "on par"..)
I loosing my mind an my kid is "killing me".. .. ordered new back cover and battery.. I hope it will help.. (paper underlying contacts of antenna in cover did not bring any difference...)
Bu second G2 has fix in 17-23 sec .. and only looses it in places where also my Garmin Oregon would have difficulties...
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That's not true. I have a D802 and my GPS works pretty well everywhere. I live in a little town behind the devil's back and still got max 10m difference. Also no problems with PGO.
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Well, High accuracy means you are using more LTE antenna and wifi hotspot to get your fix and position and GPS only to refine it, me too using Waze with high accuracy I can navigate without issue, we are talking about GPS only navigation and in this case our G2 is a pain. No way to go in a foreign country (where 4g cost a fortune) and use a offline navigator program. That is the real problem.
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I have 2 LG d802.. one work quite good and another have problems with long time to fix and loosing signal often.
Did not find any fix for it... bot are on same rom / release.. .. tweeking gps.conf and phone time helps a bit but is sitil quite annoying...
when you compare gps signal strength on both devices.. (when both have god fix signal strength is "on par"..)
I loosing my mind an my kid is "killing me".. .. ordered new back cover and battery.. I hope it will help.. (paper underlying contacts of antenna in cover did not bring any difference...)
Bu second G2 has fix in 17-23 sec .. and only looses it in places where also my Garmin Oregon would have difficulties...
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I hope that will fix your issue but probably is not, there are several way to solve (youtube video can help) and the most quoted is a copper wire across the back or a copper foil in the antenna, that will increase GPS antenna signal a lot but I don't know if it safe. 3 on 4 G2 soffert the issue, your other G2 seems been luky one.
Best way to solve
katze1123 said:
Hi all, i have problem with my gps, i have tried fast gps, changing gps.conf and i cant fix it. My problem is that my gps works fine on road, when i am in a road takes my position very well but when i go inside a field or a park, my gps thinks that i am in the nearest road ( in the edge of the park) and i cant catch pokemon inside of a park xD.
I have tried a lot of things but i cant solve it, it just than my gps is always in a road, how can i solve it?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english
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Look at this: https://youtu.be/jLuOz0W2A50
Wondering if anyone is having the same frustrating experience as me in terms of GPS locking on when first opening Maps or Waze. It seems like it's taking 2-3 minutes for Maps or Waze to actually figure out exactly where I am and properly display a route. I realize this was sort of normal years ago but not anymore. Before it locks on correctly, the route is created but a message about no GPS appears on the top of the app and I'm stuck not having directions. This was not an issue on my 5T. I'm on OOS 9.0.12 rooted. This has been the same on every version of OOS since I got the phone, even stock TMO ROM before I switched over.
Any ideas?
I use maps a lot for daily commute. For me the map gets GPS lock nearly instantly. I live in the Midwest so terrain is not a factor, and my home and work locations are not impacted by tall buildings, so I have a very easy case.
Have you tried some other apps that check number of satellites your GPS is locked to?
It's possible it is a hardware problem too.
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I use maps a lot for daily commute. For me the map gets GPS lock nearly instantly. I live in the Midwest so terrain is not a factor, and my home and work locations are not impacted by tall buildings, so I have a very easy case.
Have you tried some other apps that check number of satellites your GPS is locked to?
It's possible it is a hardware problem too.
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I haven't tried any GPS specific apps other than the navigation apps. I used to use those years ago but not recently. It happens in various places. I live in NH so I could be in the city for a bit and then out in the middle of nowhere with not much around later on. Seems like it happens no matter where I am. I'll get an GPS app and see whats going on with the satellites though, thanks!
Having the same issue since monday after installing latest update update to my OP6T. Can't use any navigation app....
Since I've gotten the phone, I've had issues with the GPS. Gps aiming me in the wrong direction, telling me that I'm on the perpendicular roads and all kinds of crap. Sometimes I'm on the highway and it'll think I got off at an exit. But I didn't! So now it's rerouting me then it realizes that I'm actually on the correct road. So it reroutes me again. All while I'm traveling 60, and every precious second counts.
How can I get the calibration screen back?
To me this sounds like an intermittent fault with the GPS. Hardware problem.
First thing I do as soon as I get any GPS problems with an Android:
I install GPS Status from the playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2
Just start the app, then use your GPS and often the problem is gone. It's worth a try!
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First thing I do as soon as I get any GPS problems with an Android:
I install GPS Status from the playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2
Just start the app, then use your GPS and often the problem is gone. It's worth a try!
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Hey, thanks for this. Even inside a building this works pretty well. It's awful that we need another app to do what the phone should do on its own, but at least it works.
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Hey, thanks for this. Even inside a building this works pretty well. It's awful that we need another app to do what the phone should do on its own, but at least it works.
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Sometimes it's not necessary to use GPS-Status all the time. You can try to delete the app maybe your problem is still gone. Anyway, nice to know that you are able to use your GPS again!
There is a problem with the 6T Gps for sure. I tested two Oneplus 6T devices. Both work 100% . Gps is very nice most of the time. If I am on call I loose Gps lock and I need to terminate the call to get Gps location back. It's not app specific as it happens in all gps apps. Even gps status looses lock. It happens always in the same place. Unfortunately it's near my home. I have no idea how to solve the problem. I tried Note 3/S8+/S7 - none have this problem. Most people have no idea what I am talking about as it's location specific. Anyone else has seen this problem ?
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Had a 6T and a friend also has one. The GPS is definitely crap.
It has lock in an open field. But if you are in a city, or there are various roads around you, good luck!
Managed to already do like 30km of a detour on foot thanks to it. It also caused Waze to tell me wrong directions.
I did check other phones, like a P10, and an S7 Edge, and a Note 4 (lol). They all had like full green signals, while the 6T struggled to achieve mid-range reception. There is something wrong with the antenna, or the gain, something. Hardware/build wise. I'd just get a OnePlus 7 or 5T (if someone can't wait). This is clearly something OP can't/won't fix. It's just not possible.
There was a site where they tested GPS lock... shame they didn't do one for the 6T.
Something is more than likely wrong with the phone itself. I have driven 10k+ miles in cities, country, desert freeways with no civilization for miles with this phone. I have never had a GPS issue. If it did have one, I'd be pissed since I'm a ride share driver and I go back to California on a regular basis visiting family from Las Vegas.
If you're rooted with magisk you can try installing the Global Optimized GPS File Replacer module
I use GPS constantly to handle traffic and the 6t works fine for me both in the city and out in the suburbs. No issues.
I will say maps recently changed something such that if it expects you to exit, but you stay on the highway, it shows you going down the exit for a few hundred feet until it realizes you aren't exiting. But that's a Google thing not a 6t thing.
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There is a problem with the 6T Gps for sure. I tested two Oneplus 6T devices. Both work 100% . Gps is very nice most of the time. If I am on call I loose Gps lock and I need to terminate the call to get Gps location back. It's not app specific as it happens in all gps apps. Even gps status looses lock. It happens always in the same place. Unfortunately it's near my home. I have no idea how to solve the problem. I tried Note 3/S8+/S7 - none have this problem. Most people have no idea what I am talking about as it's location specific. Anyone else has seen this problem ?
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Same exact problem, occurring only near my workplace. Consistently, on all versions of OOS so far. If I remember to start GPS Locker before opening Maps or Waze, it is much less likely to happen but it has happened twice even that way. Never had this issue with any other phone.
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Same exact problem, occurring only near my workplace. Consistently, on all versions of OOS so far. If I remember to start GPS Locker before opening Maps or Waze, it is much less likely to happen but it has happened twice even that way. Never had this issue with any other phone.
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I am still fighting with this issue. Just did a big install in my car and I have use Android Auto when driving and it's even harder to fix when it happens. Have to go back into the phone and launch the GPS fix app and hope the GPS starts moving on the head unit screen. It's very, very annoying.
GPS works great for me. I have only used custom ROMs so not sure how it works in stock. But using microg and osm+ I have never really had any issues. Using a GPS locking app such as GPS locker seems to help. Using Google apps for location is not working for me all the time beings how Waze requires Internet access to find locations. And beings how I use t mobile service is not available in most of western Washington. Even when using GPS locker I never have lost lock once GPS was locked. There has been two times I had to use the update a-gps from the GPS test app. If using microg local gsm seemed to be the best back end for me.