GPS is inaccurate

seca400

Just got my pre, activated and started playing with Google Maps and the location was way off.
Then i downloaded accuweather from the app store and its way off (same wrong location as Google Maps)
I tried turning off location services and turning back on and no luck.
Its a clear day, and the GPS on my old HTC works fine.
Anyone else had this issue?

seca400

Needed a power off; wait; power on, works fine now... thread can be locked

seca400

Ok I know I said to lock the thread, but this happened agaon!
I have to reset to use google maps and even then its not reliable

AdmiralRaptor

strange... its never given me any issues.

AdmiralRaptor

Actually I've noticed it, I was using google maps to find my way to a party last night, and yes, sometimes that thing can be pretty far off. luckily I knew where i was and just needed the directions, cause it was wrong about what street i was on by quite a bit in the beginning of the trip. After about 10 minutes it was pretty accurate though. Dunno if thats a regular thing or not.

StanW

Not unexpected - its an intentional error put in to confuse 'enemy forces' lol

AdmiralRaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by StanW

Not unexpected - its an intentional error put in to confuse 'enemy forces' lol

enemy forces?

StanW

The satellites used in gps are owned by the us army. They intentionall put in random errors - In order to have an error free signal one has to use an army gps unit or one that communicates with land based beacons.

Remember during operation dessert storm they turned off the error routines because they did not have enough army gps's and had to use commercial ones - of course the fact was not devulged till well after the fact .lol

AdmiralRaptor

interesting, where do you get this information stan? From now on stan, you will be known as Stanpedia to me!

StanW

Actually it looks like 'selective avaibility was turned off in 2000 :

Global Positioning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I must be getting old .lol

Still an interesting read - look into 'selective availability'

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seca400 Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 54 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	GPS is inaccurate Just got my pre, activated and started playing with Google Maps and the location was way off. Then i downloaded accuweather from the app store and its way off (same wrong location as Google Maps) I tried turning off location services and turning back on and no luck. Its a clear day, and the GPS on my old HTC works fine. Anyone else had this issue?

AdmiralRaptor Moderator Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: BC Posts: 184 Thanks: 6 Thanked 15 Times in 14 Posts	strange... its never given me any issues. __________________ -- Alex (Happy Pre Customer)

StanW Moderator Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 13 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	Not unexpected - its an intentional error put in to confuse 'enemy forces' lol