I live in the Milwaukee, WI area and the HTC weather widget is saying I am in Baltimore, MD, and sometimes even Akron, OH. I open google maps and it finds my location just fine. I tried installing weatherbug and it also detected me in the wrong location. Is this a known issue?
I am not on WIFI and I have my GPS on, if this helps. Could there be something wonky with network based location detection? Should I try using different APN settings?
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Hi Guys,
I have installed Navigon Select on my HTC HD7 as explained in "Navigon Select GPS Navigation for WP7" but for some strange reason I am not able to see my current location, when I navigate to in the application I go to "GPS Info" it always says 0.0 and 0.0
My GPS location in turned on in the settings.
I get a pop-up message when i lunch the application that "Mobile Navigator" uses GPS data to locagte your position.
I thought that my gps might be broken but no... on the bing maps it shows exact location based on the GPS not on the mobile network signal.
I also tried "TA Maps" google maps and it shows location correctly...
I have reinstalled the navigon app but i got same results...
any help would be much appreciated,
ps. i wasn't able to replay to the post "Navigon Select GPS Navigation for WP7" because its my first post.
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problem resolved...
For anybody else who might have the same problem:
I got my gps on navigon working after uninstalling some of the apps which were also using GPS it seemed for me like there is a limit of how many apps can use GPS signal. I must admit I had about 20.
rcsz said:
problem resolved...
For anybody else who might have the same problem:
I got my gps on navigon working after uninstalling some of the apps which were also using GPS it seemed for me like there is a limit of how many apps can use GPS signal. I must admit I had about 20.
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I have same problem with my LG quantum. Would you mind sharing which app did you uninstall? Everything using location?
I just got my brand NEW Asus TF 16GB from Amazon. I did the update first.
Then I noticed that it displays the wrong location in the weather widget.
I have GPS, Wifi and Google location tracking enabled.
Anyone else got the wrong location with this Tablet? Any way to get it work properly? I have not tried a different location either.
oh and google map app shows the correct location so I guess it knows where it is. Strange...
I know I can set it manually but I would like to know if it can be fixed to work in auto mode.
Any how this is a great site full of TF information.
Thanks in advance...
VeeKay
yeah, I hope there is a fix for this.
Mine also pinpoints me fine on the map.
But, weather widget says i'm in a small community, two cities away.
And a search to enter location manually, finds my city no problem.
Of course I prefer to leave it on AUTO.
Tap the weather widget and you can set your location manually, or force it to refresh.
I manually set mine to my location, then turned it back to automatic and it's been fine since.
Thanks for the tip
I tried that but unfortunately it didn't work. It goes back to the wrong location
I all of a sudden started having this issue. When i'm at home it says that i'm in a city that's more than 40 miles away which I've never even traveled near with my TF.
I've tried deleting the widget, checking google maps, and still it puts me in the wrong location.
This started happening less than a week ago.
Mine has said "Asahi ku" since I got it... I have no idea where that is.
Does anyone have an alternate GPS program installed like Locus?
I uninstalled that and it looks to be working fine now.
iboj007 said:
Does anyone have an alternate GPS program installed like Locus?
I uninstalled that and it looks to be working fine now.
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Ok I spoke prematurely.
If I go into Google maps, it places me in the right location but for some reason, starts out in the location 40 miles away.
The Asus widget seems to be broken.
My default HTC weather widget refuses to show the current location. I travel around the country 4-5 days a week and my phone never shows my current location. GPS on, GPS off, even when I edit the widget and select 'Current Location'. In fact, the location of my current location is always called 'current location' so I have no way of knowing what city I'm pulling data from. I've tried removing the widget and placing it again, and of course I've tried a reboot. Any other ideas?
The HTC weather app doesn't determine location from GPS, it uses the cell network and WiFi networks.
In Settings>Location, do you have "Google's location service" checked?
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The HTC weather app doesn't determine location from GPS, it uses the cell network and WiFi networks.
In Settings>Location, do you have "Google's location service" checked?
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Yes, they're all checked.
In the weather settings do you have" my current location" checked?
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In the weather settings do you have" my current location" checked?
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Yes, I've changed it to my local home town, rebooted and then changed it back to "my current location". It's showing weather from a place I worked last week that isn't saved as one of my favorites.
this is a great little weather app if you want to try something different
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...eather&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Probably a GPS bug, if I were you I would just download a new widget/app to use as a temporary fix
Hello,
Being on holiday i noticed that several location-based things aren't working.
What does work: google now, google maps, locus pro. These apps have no problem with detecting where i am, without using gps, cell towers, But only wifi.
What does not work: c:geo keeps telling me i'm at an unknown address, nearby caches are those at my home address. A tasker-profile i made for wheather conditions is also using my normal home location, getlocation task doesn't do a thing.
It seems to me that locus is using google for location detection, and cgeo and tasker are using 'something' else. The cgeo faqs say its using google for address retrieval, but i don't understand why it's not updating, and the other apps are... same goes for tasker which isn't updating the locations... oh, turning on gps and wait for a fix doesn't help either...
Any ideas?
Tyvm
Bump and little addition: i installed the weather underground app and wundermap.
The location detected by the app, is my home location, not the none i'm currently at, and thus having the same problem.
BUT the location detected by the wundermap app is the location i'm actually at at this moment.
I'm totally lost here... :s
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Recently i have been having a problem with my GPS on my phone I recently moved from Ohio to North Carolina and I have noticed the issue only seems to be when i am connected to my Wifi But i have noticed some apps even when not connected to wifi still report my location as Ohio. My laptop and other devices when connected to wifi report my location correctly. My S7 will Report correctly if i disconnect from wifi but again some apps till will not update it i notice this by searching a store on google chrome in google and notice on the bottom of the page it will show my location as Ohio. or if i go to the Facebook app it and look at my profile in will say under location "Now in Port Clinton, Ohio" my location settings is set to high accuracy if i change it to GPS only it will fix some apps but others still shows my old home location Facebook seems to never change no matter what i do it always thinks i'm in Ohio. Good maps will sometimes show me like I'm at my old apartment in Ohio and i have to turn off the Location settings then turn it back on. I have tried the GPS Test app and cleared the GPS Cache and i have cleared my Google location history. My GPS does function as i can use it to drive but its very annoying as it cause apps that use my location to return bad results . and yes i have tried a factory reset. Please can any one offer any assistants.