As I understand it, after switching to "Battery saving" location mode, my phone should still be able to detect a location based on nearby wifi routers, bluetooth, etc.
If I close all apps, then switch to Battery Saving location, then open google maps, I do not get a location even if I am at home in my flat and have a strong connection to my router. This also happens at work, when connected to wifi routers on the tube (live in London), and so forth.
So I can only conclude that for some reason my phone cannot use this method to determine a location. My GPS does work as well as can be expected, therefore I am not certain when this issue started happening, as, in most buildings, I can get intermittent GPS signal, and have pretty much always just left my phone on "High Accuracy".
However, in some buildings of course, I just cannot get a GPS signal at all, so this issue is getting really frustrating. Before I try some sort of factory reset, is this a known issue at all? Or can anyone suggest anything less drastic to try? Or a potential workaround?
Specs:
- OnePlus 3 (A3003)
- Android 8.0.0
- OxygenOS 5.0.1
Thanks in advance!
Try this, go into settings, tap on WiFi, tap on Wi-Fi preferences, there enable Scanning always available, let us know if that helped!
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Hello, I just upgraded from an Evo Shift to the Epic Touch and absolutely love my phone. However, one thing has not been working as expected. On my Evo Shift, I was able to obtain a coarse location fix solely using the mobile network (e.g. GPS is turned off, and I get a 2000ft accuracy general network location). This was great to use along with tasker so that I wasn't having to consume so much battery to get a general location.
However, with my Evo Shift it seems as if whenever I attempt to obtain a coarse general network-based location, it either does not give me a fix at all (your current location is temporarily unavailable) or gives me an incorrect location. When I turn on the GPS itself, it gives me pinpoint fine location, but I'd rather not have to keep GPS on all day in order to have tasker turn on my wifi. As far as settings/mods, I am running stock EL29, rooted (with no modifications), have "Use Wireless networks" checked in location and security settings, and normally turn off wireless when I'm not home.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts or comments.
Bumping this in hopes of an answer or at least some insight.
I know that there are a lot of threads that provide GPS solutions, but those seem to be regarding how to get a GPS lock, not necessarily issues with aGPS.
Thanks in advance.
I just checked maps quickly.
GPS on: 10m accuracy
GPS off, wifi on: 20m accuracy
GPS off, wifi off: 1800m accuracy
Seems like it's working as it should. I'm on Caulkin's EL29 Rom, with EG30 modem. Hmm.. why am I on EG30 modem.. all this flashing back and forth I never checked last time I went back.
my aGPS shows 2700m accuracy.
the center point is also 15 miles southeast from my current location.
WAAAAAAAY to inaccurate lol
The other day I drove 30 miles away and Llama never changed my cell mast. I also work 10 miles from home and my cell mast never changes. So Llama is unusable for me as well. (Since my phone evidently stays on the same cell tower no matter where I go in the salt lake valley)
Hello, thank you for your responses. Since my last post, I followed the fix specified in this thread, which resolved the issues I was having even on a stock rom. IN addition, it did not seem to negatively affect fine gps location, which was ok before.
With that resolved I actually moved to Caulkin's EL29 rom (for battery reasons), and still was able to pull both coarse and fine network location, so all is good.
I guess the resolution is if you can not pull coarse network location via cell tower triangulation (essential for either Llama or Tasker), either use the fix at the following link, or try another ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448015
I've started noticing weird issues with wifi recently - when I move from one wifi access point to another, wifi list is not refreshed (says "Connected" to AP that is way out of reach although wifi icon in status bar is inactive), and this is not happening even when I tap "Scan" manually. To connect to other AP I have to turn wifi off, wait few seconds, then turn it on (both AP's have saved passwords, reconnect happens automatically).
What's interesting, wifi access points lookup works fine in general and I continue seeing "Wifi access point available" notifications from time to time.
Confirmed this problem on firmware v.14.3.A.0.757 (4.4.2), upgrade to 761 did not fix anything. This is not very likely a setting issue, tried playing with "Scanning always available", "Wi-Fi optimization" settings, etc. Not 100% sure stock firmware had this issue (14.2.А.1.114 (4.3)), although if there is some easy way to downgrade I might go with it.
Does anyone encountered the same issue? What can be done to diagnose this issue?
Hi I recently bought an m8 on ebay. I noticed that the gps doesnt lock on even though the location settings are set to high accuracy. As of now there is no service on the phone. When i connect to wifi it gets my location through A-GPS but without wifi it doesnt track my location even with offline maps. I tried calibrating my compass using the 'GPS Status' app, but it doesnt seem to work. Does anyone know if this is a software problem or hardware? can i replace the gps in the phone?
Thanks in advance for your help.
On the GPS Status app, do you see satellites being locked on? On the circular display, you should see dots, and bar graph below will show signal strength. You can typically lock onto several satellites very quickly, unless there is a hardware issue or in a poor location (sky is blocked).
I have a rooted Pixel 2 XL. On my old phone with KitKat, Wifi Switcher worked great to switch between the 2 routers in my house, depending on which gives the better signal. The routers have different SSID names.
Trying to set this up on Oreo (after being disappointed that Android STILL doesn't have this feature built in), the apps do their thing like they're supposed to, but then (apparently) the operating system decides that no, that 30db stronger signal isn't really better, and switches back to the original. Actually it's switching to the last one that was manually selected. If I manually connect to the other one, it will keep switching back to that one.
I have turned off "Turn on Wifi automatically" and Wifi assistant and it still happens. I tried Wifi Switcher first and then SWIFI (not at the same time of course). Both exhibit the same behavior.
Can this behavior be disabled?
Chambm said:
I have a rooted Pixel 2 XL. On my old phone with KitKat, Wifi Switcher worked great to switch between the 2 routers in my house, depending on which gives the better signal. The routers have different SSID names.
Trying to set this up on Oreo (after being disappointed that Android STILL doesn't have this feature built in), the apps do their thing like they're supposed to, but then (apparently) the operating system decides that no, that 30db stronger signal isn't really better, and switches back to the original. Actually it's switching to the last one that was manually selected. If I manually connect to the other one, it will keep switching back to that one.
I have turned off "Turn on Wifi automatically" and Wifi assistant and it still happens. I tried Wifi Switcher first and then SWIFI (not at the same time of course). Both exhibit the same behavior.
Can this behavior be disabled?
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I have this exact same problem on a pixel 2 xl running android 9 pie.
I even found that with the switching app "SWIFI" uninstalled the pixel is doing its own switching but not very well.
If i move completely out of range of "access point 1" the pixel automatically connects to "access point 2", BUT as soon as i get a tiny tiny bit of signal back from "access point 1" it switches back to that even though "access point 2" has a MUCH better signal.
In wifi settings, preferences I have all settings turned OFF ( "Turn on Wi-Fi automatically" , "Connect to open networks" , "Open network notification" )
Anyone have any ideas ?
Tried several different WiFi switching apps now and the same thing happens.
Sitting in a spot in my house ATM where signal from access point 1 is POOR but just about get a signal.
The signal from access point 2 is very STRONG here so my switching app changes to it.
5 seconds later the pixel changes back to access point 1 with POOR signal
Another 5 seconds and I get the notification from the switching app it's connected to access point 2.
Then.... Pixel changes bk to access point 1
So on and so on.
It's like they are both fighting each other lol
My Note 9 showed basically the same behaviour.
I switched off "auto reconnect" (this is an individual setting for each WiFi network) and it seems to swifi seems to work again.
Hope this helps
Good afternoon.
Guys, I've been very angry with Google Maps.
When using turn-by-turn navigation, inside the urban perimeter works fine, but when I move to the rural area I have constant problems of "GPS signal loss".
I noticed that by losing the data signal (4G / 3G), Maps stops navigating. Do you have any way around it? Having a GPS dependent data signal is very infeasible.
Thank you.
Have you tried putting the location mode to "High Precision" or "Device only" in the location settings pane? Sounds like you're not using GPS, but cellular location....
I have already tried both modes and in both the problem is the same.
This problem comes from the time I had a Nexus 5, at the time thought was problem in his hardware, but start to be a bug of the Android itself.
Did you install the app GPS status? If not, please do. It will show an overview of your GPS receiving, and download the latest A-GPS library's.
However put the setting of location on Device only. That's important, it will use the internal receiver instead of network masts.