Recent content by williambader

If anyone here with GPS problems on a 2013 Nexus 7 has updated to Android 4.4 KRT16S, can you post whether it made a difference?

I didn't have problems with freezing and rebooting. Have you updated to JSS15R? I compared an old and new Nexus 7 in the office. When I was near the window, both had a gps lock and kept it until about 20ft from the window, then the lock would come and go, until about 25ft where neither tablet...

Correct, wifi has nothing to do with it. The reps at google support are probably reading from a script, and if someone says "gps" and "wifi-only", the script tells them to say that google maps works only in wifi-range. A rep that I had spoken to a few days earlier had at least been willing to...

I saw no change after the factory reset. I have not rooted the device, and all of the apps are from the google play store. I had a case with a magnetic wake/sleep. Watching the graphs on "GPS Test", the case seems to reduce the GPS signals by around 5dB. Even without the case, I can find...

Settings -> About tablet -> System updates -> Check now says "Your system is up to date". "About tablet" shows Build number JSS15R, which I think is the latest build. I was wrong before -- it did the JSS15R update when I initialized it in the store. I am pretty much decided to return it because...

I bought a new Nexus 7 32gb wifi-only tablet on Saturday. I had read about multi-touch and gps issues on the internet, but it looked like they were fixed in JSS15Q. The store let me test it, and it worked fine. It had JSS15R factory-installed out of the box. I went for a two hour walk the...