[Mercury81]

I was away , did we rule out aliens. .

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[dabbotts]

I have a Samsung Stratosphere and tried using google maps on Saturday only to find I was driving in a river. Switched to VZ Navigator to see if that helped. It didn't.

I made 2 calls on the road to Verizon and stopped at a store. The store was especially helpful telling me it looked accurate to them, even though the location showing was 2 blocks away.

Last night I took a photo of the road and gps location and was going to call today for a replacement phone. Which was the suggestion from phone tech support



Glad I thought to check here first. Hope they get it fixed soon.

[centerwaters]

I have a Samsung Navigator and tried using google maps on Saturday only to find I was driving in a river. .

I'd love to have a car that can be driven on water. Where did you buy your?

My phone also tried to navigate me into a pond this morning. Fortunately, I ignored it and didn't
get my car wet. I was also using VZ Navigator, not Google Map.

[dabbotts]

I'd love to have a car that can be driven on water. Where did you buy your?

I have a Saturn (LOL) but since they went out of business I don't think you can buy a new one.
Sorry!

[centerwaters]

I have a Saturn (LOL) but since they went out of business I don't think you can buy a new one.
Sorry!

That explains it.... Don't Saturns have plastic door panels that can resist being hit by baseball?
(at least that's the commercial I remembered) That's why it's possible to float water.


I did another test with my co-worker's Galaxy S II today. It's a completely stock phone. Took
it in my car and drove to Meijer. Or at least I tried to drive there. The Google Map navigation
showed my location as 100 feet parallel to the interstate that I was driving on.(at 70mph)
I ended up just ignoring it completely. On the way back, I did a battery pull and the GS II
did manage to navigate me with almost perfect accuracy.... can't figure out what's going
on....

[ByteMaster0]

I did a GPS system state reset on both my GNex and my GSII, fixed it.

[Greg525]

I did a GPS system state reset on both my GNex and my GSII, fixed it.

how do you do that?

[ByteMaster0]

how do you do that?

Get the GPS Status app, then go to "Tools" and "Manage A-GPS State." Tap reset. Your phone won't like this. It'll actually lock up, and reboot. Once it does reboot, it'll say "Activation Complete." However, at this point, your GPS's state has been reset, and a cold start will proceed. It will pull updated information from the A-GPS servers, which will contain the correction that was needed to fix the problem. Chances are, all GPSes based on A-GPS will start working correctly within a week, but this is a nice workaround. The GSII did this without the rebooting or reactivation.

It worked on the first try with both of my devices. I had to re-do it on my GNex on Sunday after having done so on Saturday, but as of yesterday, it has been very happy.

[Poseign]

Get the GPS Status app, then go to "Tools" and "Manage A-GPS State." Tap reset. Your phone won't like this. It'll actually lock up, and reboot. Once it does reboot, it'll say "Activation Complete." However, at this point, your GPS's state has been reset, and a cold start will proceed. It will pull updated information from the A-GPS servers, which will contain the correction that was needed to fix the problem. Chances are, all GPSes based on A-GPS will start working correctly within a week, but this is a nice workaround. The GSII did this without the rebooting or reactivation.

It worked on the first try with both of my devices. I had to re-do it on my GNex on Sunday after having done so on Saturday, but as of yesterday, it has been very happy.

Very Nice. I used my Nexus for navigation yeserday around 1pm EST and it was pinpoint accurate again. Hoping it stays that way!