Just to add another datapoint here...
I occasionally have an issue where my weather is coming from a town about 20 miles away rather than my actual location. What I have noticed is that if I go into Google Maps, it first zeros in on that same town, but then after 30 seconds or so, it computes my actual location and quickly zeros in on my actual location. It does this every time I open it. The first town that it erroneously starts on is a town that I had once searched for. It is in my search history. I can't find any way to get rid of it. I've cleared cache/data, forced close, etc. It's still in my search history and Maps still starts there while it is computing my actual location. I wonder if that is why my time is sometimes displayed from this same location?
I've considered uninstalling/reinstalling Maps, but haven't tried it yet. Not sure I could even do that since I am not rooted and Maps came preinstalled on the phone (although I've kept up with the updates). Usually a restart fixes it, often it fixes itself - so, not so critical. Just weird that it seems to correlate with this "ghost" town in Maps. It is worthy of note that when I am out of my house in good satellite line-of-sight, this does not happen with Maps or the Weather app.
-Frank
I occasionally have an issue where my weather is coming from a town about 20 miles away rather than my actual location. What I have noticed is that if I go into Google Maps, it first zeros in on that same town, but then after 30 seconds or so, it computes my actual location and quickly zeros in on my actual location. It does this every time I open it. The first town that it erroneously starts on is a town that I had once searched for. It is in my search history. I can't find any way to get rid of it. I've cleared cache/data, forced close, etc. It's still in my search history and Maps still starts there while it is computing my actual location. I wonder if that is why my time is sometimes displayed from this same location?
I've considered uninstalling/reinstalling Maps, but haven't tried it yet. Not sure I could even do that since I am not rooted and Maps came preinstalled on the phone (although I've kept up with the updates). Usually a restart fixes it, often it fixes itself - so, not so critical. Just weird that it seems to correlate with this "ghost" town in Maps. It is worthy of note that when I am out of my house in good satellite line-of-sight, this does not happen with Maps or the Weather app.
-Frank
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