When I have both my Verizon and Google location turned on my location in Google maps jumps from tower to tower. When you have these both turned on Location gets it's accuracy by triangulation from local towers. Since the 20th of April my small blue curser in Google Maps has been jumping from tower to tower very fast. (every 10 to 20 seconds) It sometimes settles down on a tower in next town over 4 miles away when it just bounces off the local LTE towers just a few blocks away. Never did this before April 20th. I know they did work on the local towers in my area on or around that date.
Anyone else having this issue with your location in Google maps?
Thanks,
Vinny
sorry off topic but i thought the title said "lotion all over the place"
Its the Verizon location agent, use app to kill it or turn off Verizon GPS.
Just use internal GPS and Google.
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Thanks for the help, will give it a try.
Vinny
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I have the Verizon 6800 and I have tested radio 3.42.30 & 40 found no difference for my device. Both radios locks under 2min sometimes less than 1min. I use BAF tool which does the work for me just click & walk away...soon it will lock.
My company headquarters is in Beaverton, OR but I am staying in downtown Portland. Since I landed from the airport and driving around downtown Portland all day...no locks at all...
Back home is Memphis, TN and I can get locks throughout the state and since I border Arkansas & Mississippi and get locks there as well when I move around the tri-state area....
My goodness....if I had not visited Portland/Beaverton before, I would be very disappointed if I was depending on this device for navigation here...
Tall buildings obstructing the sats?
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Tall buildings obstructing the sats?
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But my signal bars are all there and excellent while downtown...back home i do not have this issue downtown getting locks...
try and change gpsmode to =1.
i had the same issue in las vegas. once i changed to standalone mode (gpsmode=1) and restarted i got a lock - too bad it was the morning we left.
this was back in the dcd 2.x / radio 3.27 days but try it.
I heard that our mogul gps is lock to us region that won't work outside us and canada.
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I heard that our mogul gps is lock to us region that won't work outside us and canada.
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Since when has oregon left the union?
I had the GPS working in Southern Mexico just fine
I noticed I can only get GPS locks from a moving car. This helped me immensly on my recent trip to New Jersey. Try using HTC GPS tool and running the clear memory command. Also try using this app to obtain a lock first, then load your map software after it establishes a lock.
Good luck!
Whats pretty common with most standalone GPS's and I'm sure also pertain to our phones, don't rely on just the GPS to sync by itself. It usually helps if you open your navigation software and search for the area that you are in, then the GPS has some idea of where you are and can have a better idea of what satellites to look for. With WLS and GoogleMaps, I can never get a sync until I search for my town and then enable GPS mode, it will sync eventually, still takes several minutes at times, but will sync. If I leave it in SF or Atlanta it may take hours and multiple reattempts and still no sync.
Just my experience with it.
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check this out..
www.sensorly.com
Verizon told me.I have great 4g coverage but this apply says otherwise...damn salespeople and their scandalous commission ways
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According to their map I shouldn't have any signal at all, yet I do. Though, not as good as the Verizon map says I should have. The maps are meant as general guidelines and not actual fact.
Try using a Cell tower location map...
When making my decision to select a new carrier, I used the following website to determine the closest cell tower to my house. Turns out that Verizon has a cell tower 2 blocks away, and I get excellent coverage (was on TMobile and they kept dropping calls as I had dead zones within the premises). This cell tower map can be especially helpful when dumping your land line in favor of using a cell provider for service from your residence.
http://www.cellreception.com/coverage/
This map is a joke. It's not even close. I'm not trolloping by I know for a fact my area has complete coverage on and especially off road. I spend a lot of time out in the high desert and forests where I live and I have never lost or not had 3g signal. According to this map, I should only have service on a couple roads.
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I went to that site long ago, I miss Alltel lol
callcom said:
When making my decision to select a new carrier, I used the following website to determine the closest cell tower to my house. Turns out that Verizon has a cell tower 2 blocks away, and I get excellent coverage (was on TMobile and they kept dropping calls as I had dead zones within the premises). This cell tower map can be especially helpful when dumping your land line in favor of using a cell provider for service from your residence.
http://www.cellreception.com/coverage/
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Just wondering if anyone has tethered to a pc, ran a speedtest, and it shows you in another state?
I'm in San Francisco,CA and it's saying I'm in Wichita, KS...
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Im running the latest Clean Rom if that matters, and only google gps is on
Happens to me all the time too, I never get decent speedtest locations because of it, I'm guessing it's a 4G connection thing.
The fix I have to do to get a test from close to me is connect to a wifi source, let it find that location, then stay in the speed test app and turn wifi on back to 4G and keep it on the location wifi found.
I believe if you turn on the GPS and let it get a lock it will update to your nearest server. Whats up in Wichita? I seem to travel there all the time
Edit: Re-read OP. Not sure what you mean by "google" GPS but I was talking about insuring that the actual GPS receiver is activated. And, BTW, your boys better win those 3 games they have "in-hand".
are you sure you are not in Wichita,KS? ARE YOU!?!
Thanks everybody, nothing wrong with Kansas, kinda a Jayhawk fan.. Il mess around with gps locks and whatnot, just wanted to see if I was the only one
Droopie28 said:
Just wondering if anyone has tethered to a pc, ran a speedtest, and it shows you in another state?
I'm in San Francisco,CA and it's saying I'm in Wichita, KS...
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Im running the latest Clean Rom if that matters, and only google gps is on
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Where at? I'm in the east bay and all my LTE tests are out of the City and my wifi tests go through San Jose.
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Where at? I'm in the east bay and all my LTE tests are out of the City and my wifi tests go through San Jose.
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I'm in San Bruno, about 12 miles south of sf
You see my "edit". Just givin you a hard time about your Sharks.. What the H E Double Hockey Sticks has happened to them?
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While having wifi tether running, I ran maps and got a lock on my real location, refreshed speedtest.net on my pc,... still Kansas lol, It really wants me to be there
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You see my "edit". Just givin you a hard time about your Sharks.. What the H E Double Hockey Sticks has happened to them?
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lol, yeah, if they don't make the playoffs, they will be ripped apart and traded away... I dont mind either way
Location finding can take several routes...
via provider towers: this is the one that generally has you in your neighborhood, or part of town, but never the right street.
via gps: dead on.
via wifi: usually dead on if your routers mac address has been sniffed/mapped out by those google cars and other 3rd parties that pick up signals all over town and pinpoint their locations.
via ip: generally pretty good in getting your region, but if the ip isn't in the big database in the cloud accurately it'll just say 'USA' and puts you in Wichita, KS because that's pretty close to dead center of the US
I use the phone's GPS and I still get stuck out in Lexington, KY, or Wichita, so I do the fix I did on he first page and it fixes it.
Damn thing is showing a town that's 200 miles away when I'm at my house its set to change based on location. I go to my friends house and it gets the right town. Vzw and google services are both turned on. GPS and wifi off. Any ideas what's causing this I'm located close to several towns so it randomly chooses between those but never 200miles even refreshed the widget a few times. At my friends house now and its picking up the town on in.
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Does it need GPS to be on for a more accurate fix
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Does it need GPS to be on for a more accurate fix
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mine never updates my location with GPS on or not. The weather will update fine just not the location.
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Are you using a signal booster? When I had Sprint I was using their airrave which used my high speed internet to somehow boost the cell signal, and my weather locations were from across the state...now with Verizon my locations have always been accurate. I have gps and Google location both turned on too.
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My EVO LTE is having issues with the GPS accuracy. It is at least 2 miles off, thought I was in Canada but I'm near Rochester NY. I mapped a point that was only 1 mile from where I am and it gave me a 20 mile trip that passed my current position. It started the trip from a town over.
Any thoughts? I noticed it after the most recent Google Map update. After that update I'm also finding that my phone constantly crashes (3-4 times in the past 4 hours).
try the ##GPSCLRX# on your phone and is going to ask for the msl...the your phone is going to reboot and it should make your GPS work.....it work for me
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