I hit the Locate button in Google Maps, allowed it to use location services, and now it's just sitting there at the spinning wheel where the button was. It's been sitting for over a minute and it hasn't gotten a location. I'm indoors, but shouldn't it at least fall back on cell tower triangulation if it can't get a GPS lock?
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GPS not working?
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That's what I thought too, but I think what is happening is, when you're not using wifi for the location, and instead, you're using the 3G network, I beleive it tries to use the GPS satelite tracking too. I haven't been able to get it to track me when indoors if i'm not on wifi either.
I'm getting exactly the same problem in London, UK.
What can it be? It's obviously not a local problem judging from our varying locations.
edit: I just restored to a back up point from yesterday (when I first backed up my new iPhone). I have a completely empty iPhone - no music, photos, extra appa or video. It seems to have fixed the problem. I got an accurate location with no problems.
Could it be one of the apps I downloaded that messed things up?
What can it be? It's obviously not a local problem judging from our varying locations.
edit: I just restored to a back up point from yesterday (when I first backed up my new iPhone). I have a completely empty iPhone - no music, photos, extra appa or video. It seems to have fixed the problem. I got an accurate location with no problems.
Could it be one of the apps I downloaded that messed things up?
try to get at least one are two bars of service it is working for me inside but i took a littlte bit to get it working the gps is great it literally can tell what room in my house i am its awesome
Give it a try. the system software is a slightly different build to the one that came with the iPhone anyway - you may as well get the latest version
I think I was just being impatient. I let it locate me while I was driving and it eventually picked it up. Now I just got home and located me again after a few seconds, and I've got a blue dot right smack dab in the middle of my house.
I know my Garmin GPS will take forever to lock onto a signal if it's been moved significantly since it last locked onto a signal. Like when I flew halfway across the country with it and turned it back on once I landed, it took a good 3 or 4 minutes to find the GPS satellites and lock on.
I know my Garmin GPS will take forever to lock onto a signal if it's been moved significantly since it last locked onto a signal. Like when I flew halfway across the country with it and turned it back on once I landed, it took a good 3 or 4 minutes to find the GPS satellites and lock on.
huh
Mine said i was in Houston, TX and i live in oregon too.
mine says I'm in texas but I'm in oregon!!
close enough?
Mine said i was in Houston, TX and i live in oregon too.
i've been having the same problem, just the little blue thing spinning,
ive done the reset i.e home and sleep buttons being held etc... no good
i'll try the full restore but thats gonna be a pain since my 16GB is basically full already music, videos etc....
i hope its not a hardware issue because getting a replacement with all the shortages could be an issue!
ive done the reset i.e home and sleep buttons being held etc... no good
i'll try the full restore but thats gonna be a pain since my 16GB is basically full already music, videos etc....
i hope its not a hardware issue because getting a replacement with all the shortages could be an issue!
Hmm
Mine was working pretty good when i was driving out from Salem to the Coast, kept my in GPS the entire way, wanted to test it out. But earlier today it was kinda being sketchy with location, just giving me that huge target area..maybe they are still working out the kinks?
Mine was working pretty good when i was driving out from Salem to the Coast, kept my in GPS the entire way, wanted to test it out. But earlier today it was kinda being sketchy with location, just giving me that huge target area..maybe they are still working out the kinks?
I can't get GPS to work at all either here in NYC. I even tried to do it in the 5th Ave. Apple Store with a couple of demo models (WiFi off), and they had the same issue. Perhaps it's a network issue since AGPS looks to cell towers for triangulation first?