So, while I know the NT does not have a GPS receiver, I figured there might be a location setting like the Wi-Fi iPad 2 has where it uses local wi-fi signals to determine it. However, any time I try to activate this feature either through the NT Settings app or the option that Beautiful Widgets offers, it force closes and I get bubkiss. Without this it's tough to get local weather info if I'm not in my house (because I manually set the location in that case). Just wondering if anyone had any insight as to how to get location service working on a rooted NT without it force closing? If not, I can live without it. Hopefully when CM9 comes out, we'll get that in addition to Bluetooth.
You might try these steps to get network location to work.
Yeah unfortunately that doesn't really do what I was looking for, but in any case I have my answer. Real location determination is not available yet via wifi network, you can only fool a rooted NT into believing you're in a certain location by using an app. Fair enough, but disappointing.
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Hi all.
To get to the point, my Hero picks up the wrong current location for all applications, including the weather, homescreen clock (when set to current location) and even Hoccer when set to use my mobile network. When it is set to use WiFi, there is no issue, but when it is set to use the Mobile Network, then it seems to believe that it is in Dubai. I am in South Africa at the moment, and more specifically, Cape Town. Obviously using WiFi, I get the location right down to my suburb.
This leads me to believe that obviously the local tower that my phone uses in the area is a reference to another location on the location servers. Now, I have two questions:
1) Does anybody perhaps know a way to solve this?
2) If there is no direct solution, is there a way to either A) manipulating the phone into reassigning the correct location number if it is getting signal from the tower that puts it in Dubai. In other words, IF tower ID is 452(Tower that gives out Dubai), then SET tower ID to 123(Another tower in the area). B) Is there perhaps a way to loge a fault for whoever controls the location servers to perhaps fix this issue?
Thank you for your help!
Padie
What rom are you using?
Just set your location maybe? Instead of using the auto detect
Same problem
Hmmm, it seems I was hit by same problem using MrBang ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5767289&postcount=347)
I have discovered that it is actually ROM independent. I have tried Modaco, CKDroid, KaguDroid, and MrBang. All the ROM's have given me the same issue.
I do set my location for weather etc, but I cannot set my location for programs that use the phone's current location, such as Hoccer. If I use my GPS, then it will chew battery, and take too long to acquire the location.
it might be that your network is not programmed to give out a location
Edit: have you actually turned the location enabler thing on in the settings?
I have the "Use wireless networks" feature on to detect my location, but I have kept the "Enable GPS sattelites" option off for now, because it wastes battery and takes too long to aquire locations.
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but I have kept the "Enable GPS sattelites" option off for now, because it wastes battery and takes too long to aquire locations.
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Are you sure? I have mine on all the time. It is only actually used when a programme asks for it. Battery usage is OK with me, considering it is a feature full smartphone (so it is never going to be as good as a dumb phone).
And mine locks onto locations very quickly - ussually a few seconds. MUCH quicker than my old WM Touch Diamond
Has anyone else had issues with your tab finding your location via wifi? It finds it on some networks (like my home and a hotel I was in a week ago), but unable on others (mainly at my workplace and my in-laws house). I didn't notice it until I flashed new TW roms. Google maps says location unavailable, Beautiful Widgets stays on last known location, etc.
Could this be a wifi network issue or a tab issue?
Edit: I flashed back to my original stock backup and I still couldn't get a location. I;m at work, where is hasnt been able to find my location.
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Has anyone else had issues with your tab finding your location via wifi? It finds it on some networks (like my home and a hotel I was in a week ago), but unable on others (mainly at my workplace and my in-laws house). I didn't notice it until I flashed new TW roms. Google maps says location unavailable, Beautiful Widgets stays on last known location, etc.
Could this be a wifi network issue or a tab issue?
Edit: I flashed back to my original stock backup and I still couldn't get a location. I;m at work, where is hasnt been able to find my location.
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Most likely your work's wifi network is far enough from the street that it isn't in Google's database.
Same for the inlaws. In their case - is there Street View coverage in their area? If not, it's far less likely that wifi APs in that area will be in Google's database, as the Street View trucks are the main way they build the DB.
Ah. That makes sense as both are rural and my home is not. I didn't realize that was google's work. Figured the location was through the isp or something.
I work in a pretty bad neighborhood, and was looking for an app that let's you locate your tablet if it's lost or stolen. I know there's where's my droid, but not sure if it works on tablet's since I can't send SMS's to my View. Are there any apps that work through E-mail? Any help would be appreciated.
Settings -> Location -> Tablet finder
The description says that it "Allows you to find your tablet when it is lost or stolen." I would assume that it works through the HTC Sense account that you associate with the device.
Thanks, I saw that in the menu but couldn't figure out what controlled it. I guess I'll make a Sense account.
I logged into the htcsense.com website, but it can't locate my tablet. I have GPS turned on. I guess it's probably because I don't have 3g/4g data service?
Yeah I had the same problem, I did it through wi-fi w/ the GPS turned on. The tablet showed that the GPS was working, but the location wouldn't show up on the site. The sites in beta right now so they are probably trying to fix some issues. Once I refreshed the page though the location showed up. I don't know how well it would work in the event it was ever stolen though.
Are there any apps that would work with just wifi and not the cellular radio? Seems like most apps such as SeekDroid monitor the text messages for an activation code, I would think a wifi-only device couldn't do that.
Yeah most of the Anti-theft programs all require SMS activation, I looked into a few apps. I would try prey-anti theft its free I think you can report it as stolen from their website and it would turn on the GPS. If you try it let me know how it works.
Actually Seekdroid did work for me. Ill try it again when I change location and see if it can update the location.
It found me at home too, and I had GPS turned off. Seekdroid turned on the GPS to get my location, so seems like it only needs wifi.
Google Now gave me a rather interesting message: For better location, please enable Wifi. This works even when not connected to a network.
How can the phone figure out my location by using the Wifi antenna without connecting to any networks?
Here's how I originally thought it worked: The phone sees what cell towers are available, then uses data or Wifi to look them up in a database and determines a likely location. But now the app is telling me it really just wants the wifi antenna on. Why?
Because its like when you turn on your Bluetooth it scans near by devices..you connect with them or not its not the question but you can know that how many devices are in your range got it..
Same like when you turn on wifi it searches near by connection you connect or not Google find out your near by wifi networks.. By using that nearby wifi network already registered they find you approximately locations..
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.
Oh. Then Google records the location of Wifi networks, so visible networks can be used for location lookups?
Actually, that makes sense. I remember a couple years ago they got in trouble for wardriving and said it was unintentional. It could have been related to an effort to record the location of all visible networks.
That makes sense, but I'm running JellyTime on an Inspire, and it doesn't have the biggest battery. I don't want to leave wifi on all the time. Would it make sense to use Tasker to turn wifi on for a few minutes every hour, or would Google Now even be able to gather enough location info in such a short time?
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That makes sense, but I'm running JellyTime on an Inspire, and it doesn't have the biggest battery. I don't want to leave wifi on all the time. Would it make sense to use Tasker to turn wifi on for a few minutes every hour, or would Google Now even be able to gather enough location info in such a short time?
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Why not test it without Wifi? Leave google maps open with Wifi/GPS disabled while you're traveling. If that looks reasonably accurate, just leave them off.
As for timing, the phone can tell your location pretty quickly, but I don't know how Google Now is written. It would probably need to have specific logic that says "check location whenever wifi gets enabled". I'm not sure whether it does.
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Why not test it without Wifi? Leave google maps open with Wifi/GPS disabled while you're traveling. If that looks reasonably accurate, just leave them off.
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That's what I've been doing. It works so far, I was just wondering if there was a better way.
It just doesn't seem to do much beyond weather and sports. Maybe I haven't used it long enough. Or maybe my life is so freaking boring it doesn't have a lot to work with!:laugh:
As for timing, the phone can tell your location pretty quickly, but I don't know how Google Now is written. It would probably need to have specific logic that says "check location whenever wifi gets enabled". I'm not sure whether it does.
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I'm wondering. There's a lot of info out there on what it does and how it does it. But I'd be interested in the nuts and bolts, finding out exactly what it's doing and when and how.
It is kinda neat. But kinda unsettling too.
Hi,
I currently have the problem, that since a couple months now I apparently have a new neighbor that brought his router with him. Apparently this router was previously located in another country, because since that time the Google geolocation places me somewhere in Germany (instead of Austria, where I live) - and this slowly drives me mad because it makes every app relying on geolocation more or less unusable while I am at home. Google Maps support ignored several reports sent via the Google Maps app, Google Enterprise support not gives a **** because they don't care about Google Maps and want a json call which reproduces the issue (and I cannot find the according MAC causing the problem)
Appart from that the internet suggests to get a GPS signal as often and as good as possible to fix such an issue. Unfortunately that doesn't work for the areas in my apartment where I have this problem. Therefore I bought a bluetooth GPS receiver. The idea was to put it outside onto the terrace, while my phone connects to the receiver from inside of the apartment (near the wifi ap). This way - so I thought - I would be able to bombard Google with the f*ink data, that I don't live at this f*ing place in Germany. Turns out, that the bluetooth range was too small for that and that I have to use "mock location" in the dev options to do that, which also seems to make Google make ignore its data.
That is also my problem with the various 'Fake GPS' apps. They use the mock location option and therefore get ignored. So now my question: What is the best way to fake the location, which also cannot be detected by Google? So that I can use that on the inside of my apartment to provide Google with the data needed to finally correct this wrong data. Currently I am trying out this xposed module https://repo.xposed.info/module/com.fakemygps.android Does anyone know about a better way?
So no secret druid knowledge of faking gps present in this forum?