[canadmos]

Is anyone else with a Samsung S9 or similar phone having issues with GPS?

For about a month now google maps is basically unusable and strava acts very weird.

Google maps knows where I am in general, but when navigation is started, the phones location stops being updated.

Strava has worked 50% of the time. My latest rides usually start with some quackery before tracing a more accurate route.

It seems to be mentioned at the link below...perhaps an update has broken the functionality?

Samsung account

us.community.samsung.com

I've downloaded a few gps sensor apps and they report seeing the satellites, but it never locks on...

 

[canadmos]

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

 

[Jozz]

I've had all sorts of problems since last fall with my old S4. First it was because of some sort of weeks rollover dates.When I would record a Strava ride the date would come out in the year 2000. After that got fixed in January then I started having the same issues as you. Really hard getting signal and a lot of loss signals. I though it was my old phone that was causing issues, I see I'm not alone.

 

[StiHacka]

Wait.

Wait for it...

Wait for eeeeet!






Try it nao?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I have an S9, will fuck around with it tomorrow and see how it behaves.Android 10 build QP1A 190711.020.G960USQU7DTAB

 

[6thElement]

Fake news.

 

[stevew]

my note 10 works fine....the one iphone i had 10 years ago was the worst as far as any type of map app....

 

[Westy]

Skynet has become self aware

 

[Jozz]

Skynet has become self aware

you mean Legion?
#onestepbehindagain

 

[canadmos]

Still working through this.... I should make a correction though, that I have a Samsung s8, not s9.

Went for a hike and gps worked for 10-15ish minutes, then F'd right off. On recommendation from what I've read, I turned off location services for a moment and turned it back on; it seemed to work for the rest of the hike, bar one point.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Still working through this.... I should make a correction though, that I have a Samsung s8, not s9.

Went for a hike and gps worked for 10-15ish minutes, then F'd right off. On recommendation from what I've read, I turned off location services for a moment and turned it back on; it seemed to work for the rest of the hike, bar one point.

OK, that shit I recognize - Trailforks was doing it to me last time I used it.

 

[Jozz]

Same shit here. And I follow a lot of people that seems to have the same problem. My fix so far is to start recording 30 minutes before actual ride and crop at the end.

 

[eric strt6]

It's all part of the government plot to keep all those folks that have no sense of direction and couldn't read a map to save their life to stay the fuck home during COVID19

 

[Jm_]

Yeah, look at the plus side, you could commit some serious crimes and they wouldn't be able to use your phone-tracking/location in court.

 

[canadmos]

Yeah, look at the plus side, you could commit some serious crimes and they wouldn't be able to use your phone-tracking/location in court.

That's the problem though...

GPS works, for example opening google maps it knows where I am fairly accurately. It's only when I start recording or start some sort of maps navigation that gps stops working or locks onto the wrong point.

 

[canadmos]

Last few times I've recorded, I've first started an app called "GPO Locker" (blue icon with a target and padlock on it). Seems to help with keeping the GPS working.

Something to try...