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Latitude not updating automatically... / Not working properly

I have HTC G1 with CM4 (Android 1.6) Installed, Latitude and Google Maps updated.
I have Data Plan.
I want my phone to automatically update my current location.
I am not sure what the problem is... But I think it would only update my location when I open Latitude.
But sometimes even after I open Latitude, and on the phone it says that my location is updated, I then check through a different google account to see if it was in fact updated, but nope! It says "Last update 7 hours ago" or something, and it doesn't show the right location.
Something is really not right. Did anybody experience this kinda problem and/or knows how to fix it? Please help!
Thanks.
Edit;
P.S. In settings under "My location", "Enable GPS Sattelites" is Checked and the other 2 are unchecked.

[Q] Latitude not working

So I've rooted my wifes kindle hd, added the google apps (they seem to be working) but Latitude will not work. Every time I click on Latitude it just sits there with a "loading..." message. Any suggestions? This is the one google app she really wants so she can keep track of the kids.

Google Apps - Latitude
JoeHockey said:
So I've rooted my wifes kindle hd, added the google apps (they seem to be working) but Latitude will not work. Every time I click on Latitude it just sits there with a "loading..." message. Any suggestions? This is the one google app she really wants so she can keep track of the kids.
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JoeHockey,
Did you get the google_apps from our server?
The reason I ask is that these apps came directly from Google Development Team through our business.
All the Google Apps are ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) Signed and have been tested. If you did not
get these apps through our server, just download the apps through the above link or here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069859
These apps have been install on over 400 Kindles without a single problem. We do
offer free support to the XDA Community, so if you get stuck, post a response, we normally
respond within 1 hour.

I downloaded them from one of the "kindle root/google apps" threads on xda but I'm not sure which one at this point, I read a lot of them before performing the root process. Just downloaded the ones you specified, will give them a try as soon as I can. Thanks!

That worked! Now my only question is why the location that is being set by wifi is a mile away from actual location... LOL

Google Apps - Latitude - Location Based Services
JoeHockey said:
That worked! Now my only question is why the location that is being set by wifi is a mile away from actual location... LOL
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JoeHockey,
Good job! To get an accurate location, pull down the Upper Task Bar, pull it down.
Next choose More, then choose "Location-based Services", turn on BOTH
"Enable Location Based Services" and "Location & Google Search". When
these two services are turned on, then open up a web browser like Opera
Mobile or Dolphin, go to http://www.google.com you will be presented
with a popup to "Allow" Google to detect your location, choose "Agree".
Next you will notice your location below the Google Search Window,
this means everything is working properly. Now open up Latitude,
your location should now be within 50 meters.
Best Regards, Chris Bryant (prokennexusa Team Member)

[Q] Location based services annoyance

Hi all,
I've been plagued with this issue over the last month or so. I have location based services set to off and get a frequent popup box stating the following:
"Location Based Service Disabled. You need to enable location based services if you want to use the location-based features of this application. Once enabled, Kindle Fire will use Wi-Fi to help determine your location."
This comes up when I have Dolphin Browser open and go to Google, and sporadically at other websites. Anyone know a way to STOP this from coming up?? If I wanted this service enabled (which I don't, and won't), I would enable the thing. Why the constant nag to turn it on? It seems it must be related to a particular app I have installed, but I haven't been able to pinpoint which one.

Braves1995 said:
Hi all,
I've been plagued with this issue over the last month or so. I have location based services set to off and get a frequent popup box stating the following:
"Location Based Service Disabled. You need to enable location based services if you want to use the location-based features of this application. Once enabled, Kindle Fire will use Wi-Fi to help determine your location."
This comes up when I have Dolphin Browser open and go to Google, and sporadically at other websites. Anyone know a way to STOP this from coming up?? If I wanted this service enabled (which I don't, and won't), I would enable the thing. Why the constant nag to turn it on? It seems it must be related to a particular app I have installed, but I haven't been able to pinpoint which one.
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Sounds like Google wants to know where you are. Something with the website not with the Kindle itself if that makes sense. See if you can look through the Google settings through dolphin and find something related to location based services. Also, do you have Facebook or Facebook messenger installed? Those 2 may be requesting it as well...
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Couldn't solve this through Dolphin, which is a shame because it's an awesome browser otherwise. So, uninstalled and went with Opera Mini..haven't had the popup message since.

Braves1995 said:
Couldn't solve this through Dolphin, which is a shame because it's an awesome browser otherwise. So, uninstalled and went with Opera Mini..haven't had the popup message since.
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There's a setting in dolphin itself to turn off location based services. Once you set it to off, it shouldn't ask you again.

fachadick said:
There's a setting in dolphin itself to turn off location based services. Once you set it to off, it shouldn't ask you again.
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It WAS set to off. That is WHY the popup was appearing. The popup was requesting that I turn it on.

Braves1995 said:
It WAS set to off. That is WHY the popup was appearing. The popup was requesting that I turn it on.
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I thought you meant the setting in the Kindle was set to off, not this one in dolphin. If you don't set it to off in dolphin also, dolphin thinks it on, tries to get your location from the Kindle when it hits certain websites, but sees that it's off, and tells you to turn in on in the Kindle. Which is exactly what your describing. Sorry if I misunderstood.

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I thought you meant the setting in the Kindle was set to off, not this one in dolphin. If you don't set it to off in dolphin also, dolphin thinks it on, tries to get your location from the Kindle when it hits certain websites, but sees that it's off, and tells you to turn in on in the Kindle. Which is exactly what your describing. Sorry if I misunderstood.
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This is making me feel completely ignorant, lol. I have it set to off in the Kindle settings as well as within Dolphin Browser. I'm still getting the popup. Could it have something to do with the "Private" mode setting? I have that set to off too, but I tried it with on and it still did it. Basically, I've tried every combination I could think of. I notice in the Kindle setting there is also an on/off switch relating to Location Services and Google. This popup I'm getting usually happens when I go to Google.com, but not always. Sometimes it randomly comes up when I visit other sites. I'm wondering if I have something else installed that could be conflicting and prompting this popup. Here's screenshots of how I currently have it set and still getting the popup:

Braves1995 said:
This is making me feel completely ignorant, lol. I have it set to off in the Kindle settings as well as within Dolphin Browser. I'm still getting the popup. Could it have something to do with the "Private" mode setting? I have that set to off too, but I tried it with on and it still did it. Basically, I've tried every combination I could think of. I notice in the Kindle setting there is also an on/off switch relating to Location Services and Google. This popup I'm getting usually happens when I go to Google.com, but not always. Sometimes it randomly comes up when I visit other sites. I'm wondering if I have something else installed that could be conflicting and prompting this popup. Here's screenshots of how I currently have it set and still getting the popup:
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That might be it. I was getting that message on my wife's kindle before I turned that option off in dolphin, and haven't seen it since. But she doesn't have that Google services option in the kindle settings, just the basic kindle location settings one. She's running a pretty stock unrooted setup. Sorry I couldn't be more help. But if I had to guess, I would think that Google location setting is the culprit.

fachadick said:
That might be it. I was getting that message on my wife's kindle before I turned that option off in dolphin, and haven't seen it since. But she doesn't have that Google services option in the kindle settings, just the basic kindle location settings one. She's running a pretty stock unrooted setup. Sorry I couldn't be more help. But if I had to guess, I would think that Google location setting is the culprit.
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Thank you for helping me out. I'll play around with it a bit more and report back any new results.
Edit: It appears that in Dolphin Browser if you view sites via the desktop version and not the mobile version ('classic' in Google) this popup does not appear, which is just fine with me as I dislike mobile versions of webpages anway. So, all is good: location based services are disabled and no more popups!

Nice, glad you got it working!

I have dolphin set as iPad. Afterall, this is a tablet.

Braves1995 said:
Hi all,
I've been plagued with this issue over the last month or so. I have location based services set to off and get a frequent popup box stating the following:
"Location Based Service Disabled. You need to enable location based services if you want to use the location-based features of this application. Once enabled, Kindle Fire will use Wi-Fi to help determine your location."
This comes up when I have Dolphin Browser open and go to Google, and sporadically at other websites. Anyone know a way to STOP this from coming up?? If I wanted this service enabled (which I don't, and won't), I would enable the thing. Why the constant nag to turn it on? It seems it must be related to a particular app I have installed, but I haven't been able to pinpoint which one.
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Old thread yes, but I just experienced this problem so just in case anyone else has it... Unfortunately I own a Fire 7, 5th generation running 5.3.2.1. Since it can't be rooted, I am trying to limit Amazon's access to the tablet as much as possible. While I was doing so, I was setting up WiFi and went to location based services and pretty much turned off all location services to all Amazon apps and services, including Silk. Opps. What I didn't realize was I had installed other apps which I had yet to fully set up. When I turned off the location for Silk, it blocked Google and other services from receiving my location. I managed to fix the issue, while still having all Amazon location services turned off, by installing google Maps and allowing Google to access my location through there. It worked and i still have all of Amazon blocked.

[Possible solution] Google maps wakelock

I have been in trouble for a past month. Google maps was holding partial wakelocks on sleep with all settings sync check boxes cleared in Google maps app. But it didn`t help. Settings->Battery always had google maps in here for lower or higher percentage. A day ago I started using better battery stats and noticed networklocationpassivecollector holding wakelock. So i dig into Settings->Locaion access-> Access to my location switch is on. If i switch it to off and then again back to ok dialog "Locations consent" appears when I pressed disagree the problems went away. Dialog message: Allow Google`s location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are runing.
Can somebody with google maps wakelock problem confirm this?

Open maps and then location settings in that and disable the report from this device option.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

If you disagree in that dialog, then your location discovery will be less accurate, because one of the 2 checkboxes on that screen will not be set.

This appears to be a location settings bug. This also happened to me but with the Facebook app.

vukis said:
Can somebody with google maps wakelock problem confirm this?
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I had Google Maps related wakelocks as well. They went away when I turned off everything that had to do with
Location reporting form Google Maps, Account Settings and GPS Settings. I'm not sure which "feature" was
causing it but there is indeed a problem.

Can anybody with this wakelock problem install Greenify app from play store. I had this problem but as soon as I hibernated maps they no longer cause wakelock and GPS and all the location settings are on. Maybe it will help same as me without a need to switch anything off.
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Hi
vukis said:
I have been in trouble for a past month. Google maps was holding partial wakelocks on sleep with all settings sync check boxes cleared in Google maps app. But it didn`t help. Settings->Battery always had google maps in here for lower or higher percentage. A day ago I started using better battery stats and noticed networklocationpassivecollector holding wakelock. So i dig into Settings->Locaion access-> Access to my location switch is on. If i switch it to off and then again back to ok dialog "Locations consent" appears when I pressed disagree the problems went away. Dialog message: Allow Google`s location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are runing.
Can somebody with google maps wakelock problem confirm this?
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Google uses Android phones to keep its Wi-Fi database up to date, saves driving around in a car and getting into trouble for collecting data This is why they state it may use some data even if you aren't using Maps or location services.
Disabling reporting of locations from Maps doesn't change the wake locks, as it isn't the reporting causing most of them.
So Google will use your device to scan for Wi-Fi points, plus enable your GPS if it can to get a location fix to update it's location database of Wi-Fi points. To further confuse things Google seems to have some adaptive way of using devices, perhaps after a time they give individual phones a rest from reporting, or they use more of your phone the more you use more of the service, sort of our cost for getting free location services. This means different people see different battery usage from Google Maps, and the same person will see loads one day then it suddenly stops another.
The best way of stopping it is if you have root access download an application that lets you disable apps, and then disable Google Maps, only turning it on when you need it.
Regards
Phil

PhilipL said:
Hi
Google uses Android phones to keep its Wi-Fi database up to date, saves driving around in a car and getting into trouble for collecting data This is why they state it may use some data even if you aren't using Maps or location services.
Disabling reporting of locations from Maps doesn't change the wake locks, as it isn't the reporting causing most of them.
So Google will use your device to scan for Wi-Fi points, plus enable your GPS if it can to get a location fix to update it's location database of Wi-Fi points. To further confuse things Google seems to have some adaptive way of using devices, perhaps after a time they give individual phones a rest from reporting, or they use more of your phone the more you use more of the service, sort of our cost for getting free location services. This means different people see different battery usage from Google Maps, and the same person will see loads one day then it suddenly stops another.
The best way of stopping it is if you have root access download an application that lets you disable apps, and then disable Google Maps, only turning it on when you need it.
Regards
Phil
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Interesting. Is this an assumption or the fact? If former, could you link up the source please?

What about this app ? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4 avec Tapatalk

Follow the link in Q2 in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15869904&postcount=3

Hey guys. Thanks for great advises I will try auto starts (or greenify), because after disagreeing to Google passive collector Google Now stopped working. But maps wake locks are still away
And yes Google do collects Wi-Fi routers information. I noticed that when I bring my router to other place all connected laptops web based Google maps showed that our current location is my home

Select mock location app stuck

Hello all you nexus 6 experts!
I am experiencing a weird bug for selecting the mock location app under developer settings. Currently I have three different apps installed - FakeGPS, Lockito and Go Walking Fake GPS Location.
Now, after I set one of the apps as the mock location provider, I can no longer select any other one. I can only choose "None" from the list or the initial selection. e.g. currently I can only set FakeGPS or "none" for the setting. After I uninstall the "stuck" app I can again choose a different one - but then the setting gets stuck on this one.
I am on a Nexus 6 with the July build of Marshmallow (6.0.1 MOB30O). It's running the stock ROM with franco.Kernel and root.
Anybody experienced something like this and has a solution?
Is there a way to edit this setting somewhere directly in a config file?

Same issue. Wondering if its a FakeGPS thing. PokeMon right!

I'm having exactly the same problem on Xperia Z2 (6.0.1). Any solution so far?

Brick3 said:
I'm having exactly the same problem on Xperia Z2. Any solution so far?
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Okay Poke's... Figured out the issue. No doubt we all downloaded FakeGPS and moved it to /system right?
After moving FakeGPS back to /data (normal app) I can select other mock location apps (Pokemon GO Joystick).
You can do this with "/system/app mover" available in the Google Play store. Just enable "Show system apps" and scroll down to the app you want to move back to /data (FakeGPS). Then reboot and you should be good

Actually, I haven't moved my app to the system partition since Google's partitioning for stock images leaves little space to do anything with \system. Anyways - a Redditor pointed out one thing to me: even if the setting is not updating on the UI-side, it is actually updating properly on the backend. Basically, just select any other mock location app and it will work fine even though something else is being displayed. I was sceptical at first since some of my apps were crashing before and I interpreted that as a sign of a jumbled setting but now everything works fine.

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Actually, I haven't moved my app to the system partition since Google's partitioning for stock images leaves little space to do anything with \system. Anyways - a Redditor pointed out one thing to me: even if the setting is not updating on the UI-side, it is actually updating properly on the backend. Basically, just select any other mock location app and it will work fine even though something else is being displayed. I was sceptical at first since some of my apps were crashing before and I interpreted that as a sign of a jumbled setting but now everything works fine.
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That's true, i just realized it. To confirm this, when i open fakegps if i didn't select it as mock location app it tells me to do so and when i select it that message disappears even though the "select mock location app" section shows another app as selected. It seems to be just a UI problem.

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guys my nexus 6 shows 2 location on the map. My current location and the mock location. How do i remove my current location and only allow the mock location to be active?

You might need to disable the Fused Location service.
And change the location settings to phone only. Also turn off Wi-Fi scanning if connected or around known hotspots/networks.

Or...enjoy the summer and actually walk around town like you're supposed to?

I'm actually having the same issue with the "stuck mock location app". I tried to remove those apps and I still cannot select the app I want to, in this case, Fly Gps.