Hi All,
Looking for some advice. I recently moved to a new city about 30mins away from where I was living. Since the move I've been having issues with all of my apps that use GPS. This includes Life360, Smartthings, and Webcore. I'll be sitting on the couch and suddenly I'm being marked as away. When I open any of these apps, they show I'm sitting at my old house. This is happening whether I'm connected to my WiFi, the neighbours WiFi or 3G/4G.
Steps I've tried:
-Factory reset on my router (read about routers storing location data and taking a month to reset)
-Changed routers to the one I use at my camp (an hour in the other directions
-Cleared Cache/Data, uninstalled and re-installed all apps using location
-Created brand new accounts with different e-mail addresses for these apps to rule out the possibility that it's in the app's cloud history
-Cleared data/cache for google maps
-Calibrated compass
I use these apps to detect presence and trigger my alarm on/off and turn off lights, lower heat, etc... It's been a pain having that happen while I'm sitting in the house. My wife moved with me and she's using the P20 pro and not experiencing any of these issues.
I've read many articles about resetting AGPS but I can't find anything mentioning that anywheres.
Any advice?
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Had a strange issue the other day, with a new stock folio, and figured I'd throw up some google-fodder and a solution, just in case anyone else is seeing the problem.
Symptoms:
* Market would come back with 'no connection'.
* Google maps was OK
* Google finance was refusing to connect
* Browser seemed to work fine.
This had me rebooting, clearing cache, removing batteries, firing up packet sniffers, and considering ditching stock for something a little nicer, until I noticed that my system date had reverted back to 2009 for some reason. A quick click of 'use network time', and everything started working once more.
I wasn't aware that there was a relationship between system time, and android market (or other apps), but hopefully this might save someone else tearing their hair out as a result of network weirdness.
Red.
Had GPS issues but found it was "first find" issue so got plenty of sats and good location and lock after 10 mmin wait. Done with no WiFi, outside. Also done within range of Wifi.
My issue is that when I bring it inside and loose the GPS as expected indoors it goes from my current location on Maps to some where in Illinois 2000 miles away. Thought it may be a Wifi location issue but other devices I have that locate by WiFi show correct location. Tried clearing cache, cold start, rebooting, reloading Maps (although not sure if it is a true reload as it does not disappear after selecting uninstall but does ask to install) same issue. Search could not find similar problem.
This issue then causes any app that uses location like weather to give the data for somewhere else.
Seems like it should remember where it was or at least not go immediately some where else. Should it not locate by Wifi too? I'm wondering why it goes to this location too. Was this a returned unit?
Thanks
Google Apps on Android: (4.2.1 Cubot One) the saga continues.
Everything works fine using WiFi, but using cellco 3G data and everything BUT any google app (play, mail, maps) feels like it is firewalled 90% of the time. There are occasional bursts of function using 3G data, but only randomly. But at all times, WiFi works just fine and Google sync works immediately.
I gave up trying to get Vodafone to explain - they offered no help at all and I sensed a conspiracy of silence. Searching around for "android google maps error 403" produces a vast array of complaints about this issue that Google is simply not admitting to. But the sinister phrase "traffic shaping" occurs.
I assume there is an ever increasing biblical amount of data traffic going between google and any phone network these days. So are networks prioritising customers who are paying more?
In an effort to sort out the erratic google sync issue, there is much talk of deleting data and apps and reinstalling - but if it all works with WiFi - but does not when using 3G data, then I doubt if any amount of deleting and installing is going to address the fundamental issue which looks like "when is IP not IP?"
Are the Cellcos simply prioritising their big spenders and routing other cheapskate users to the nul device?
[Q] [pseudo-solved] Device occasionally loses Internet connection for WiFi & cellular
The Problem:
I recently upgraded to the Motorola Moto X Pure Edition and have got almost everything running smoothly except for one thing - every so often, (between 2 and 8 days) the device will completely lose its Internet connection for no apparent reason, displaying the little exclamation point next to either the WiFi or cellular signal strength indicators. It usually happens after transitioning between WiFi and cellular (leaving home, arriving home, etc.).
Once the device enters this state, no amount of toggling WiFi, data, or flight mode will allow the problem to be resolved. The device will simply refuse to cooperate with any type of Internet connection at all, even though it still has an IP address, as reported by the ifconfig command in the terminal. No addresses, local or otherwise, can be pinged.
Rebooting the device always brings it back. Clearing the cache and dalvik cache seems to make it last a bit longer, but this has yet to be confirmed.
Troubleshooting efforts and device configuration notes:
A web search turned up nothing at all, although two other people in the original thread on the Moto X Pure Edition Q&A forums revealed that I'm not the only one with the problem. My device is running the stock, Android M Rom, (rooted) but others have reported the same issue with a non-Motorola Android N ROM as well as on the stock un-rooted Rom.
This leads me to believe that the issue isn't Rom-specific, and may not even be device specific. With all this in mind, does anybody have any good tips for troubleshooting this? Any ideas for what could be causing it or how to fix it?
Thanks!
TL;DR? Device loses all Internet connectivity on all connections, usually after transitioning between Cellular & WiFi, on stock-rooted Rom, problem reported on stock and non-Motorola Roms as well. Software or settings conflict suspected.
Update: Hard reset; problem solved. No cause was ever uncovered. See post 7 for all the details.
Internet loss breakage Logcat
Here's the Logcat, if that helps. I tried getting a complete one, but had to cut it off after close to 45 minutes, so there still should be plenty there to go off of.
Any ideas?
Anybody? Any ideas at all? I'll even accept shots in the dark at this point. Made it a record-breaking <9 days, but the problem came back again, even with "Cellular data always active" switched off.
anything? anyone?
Ran into the issue again today, even having left WiFi manually turned off. Any ideas on this? I'll even take shots in the dark. Anything short of hard resetting and reinstalling apps & reinstating settings one-by-one.
Internet dropped out again...
Had the issue again today, but this time caught it "as-it-happens" (as I have only once before). This time, I woke the phone up and saw the exclamation point over the WiFi signal strength indicator, but was still able to use the LTE data connection. Resetting the cellular radio put a stop to that as well.
Any ideas at all? I'm taking complete and total shots in the dark at this point too.
Still losing Internet connection on WiFi, then cellular as well
Same deal again today. Any ideas at all? Anything I can do short of pulling the plug and hard resetting?
Hard reset; fixed
Well, I ultimately pulled the trigger and hard reset the device. The problem appears to have permanently vanished, but we will unfortunately never know its cause.
Does anyone else have issues with their unit (I have the T-Mobile version) mistakenly showing their location as someplace they were HOURS earlier? My maps shows the location where I currently am, but then will occasionally report my location incorrectly as where I was earlier that day, which affects my weather and traffic reporting. Any thoughts?
Do you have high accuracy enabled?
I do have high accuracy enabled. Which the phone doesn't seem to understand the definition of.
If it is showing properly when you open maps but not in other apps, then it isn't the GPS that's the issue. Those apps aren't updating properly.
Mine is off by about 20 ft or so ... no biggie.
One thought though ... do you have background data blocked for the map app?
Background data enabled. I'll use the phone to navigate from work to school. The map shows me at school. Weather and traffic based around campus. Then, maybe an hour later, I look at my phone and it gives me the weather for my office, not school. I open google maps, it looks like I'm back at work, but I'm not.
I have had this happen several times. I open a gps Waze and Google maps, for a little while at work then minmize. A few hours later I will use the gps again at a different location and the gps will flip back an forth from the previous location, this will occur 30 min away or in another state.
I have tried to just shutdown the app and restart but still occurs. My only way to clear this has been to reboot the phone. This happen on both Waze and Google maps.
I found turning location off and back on works for me, but this shouldn't happen
Joe Smithereens said:
Does anyone else have issues with their unit (I have the T-Mobile version) mistakenly showing their location as someplace they were HOURS earlier? My maps shows the location where I currently am, but then will occasionally report my location incorrectly as where I was earlier that day, which affects my weather and traffic reporting. Any thoughts?
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I've had this issue several times. With my G6 and V30. It happens when I'm using a GPS heavy app and then go inside where a good GPS signal cannot be found or where I'm on WiFi. Oddly. I feel like it happens more if that iZat crap is active. Happens a lot with PoGo.
Also get heavy GPS drifting when in High Accuracy Mode. GPS on LG devices seems to work best in Device Only Mode.
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This is driving me mad. I had to switch phone due to this issue on Galaxy S7 and now it happens on V30.
Took a factory reset for mine to work again. Was fine for the entire time I've had the phone, then out of the blue, just stopped working.
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zsunsun said:
This is driving me mad. I had to switch phone due to this issue on Galaxy S7 and now it happens on V30.
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Chiming in with "other phones have wonky GPS too": My Moto X Pure has had a couple instances where position appeared to be randomly jumping around, up to several hundred feet away with varying azimuth. Made for " fun" navigation in heavy traffic in unfamiliar cities.
But don't worry, autonomous vehicles will work without a problem. (Yeahhhhh....right....)
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Autonomous vehicles are using a wide array of sensors to work, combine with deep learning, big data, etc. The GPS used in phones is not the same chip as the one used in a dedicated GPS device, even something as a sports watch as a much more precise GPS, optimised antenna, dedicated processor and optimised OS. I’ve been trying to use phones to track my runs for years and it always jumped around a bit. In a car, depending on the placement (direct view of the sky, for instance vs. blocked by the ceiling), on the weather, on the insulation of the car even, you can have issue with jumping signal. You can try to place the phone in a spot where the antenna has a view of the sky and it might be less of a problem.
I have noticed that the issue is with both Pokemon Go and Google maps. It is really frustrating, and sometimes nothing seems to help. On another site, they recommended installing GPs Status and Toolbox from Google play store. I will try that. If that does not help, the site said that the issue is with the GPS antenna.