So I live in Qatar, bought the note 5 as well. All of a sudden my location is set to fort Bliss Texas and I've never been there before. Why is my location off and how do I properly set it on my phone?
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Anyone else noticed this not working ?
I have New York, New York as my second choice city, picked from a list, which works.
However, when a GPS fix is attempted on Brooklyn, it states no weather data available ?
I have had the same problem with multiple htc phones in my area, and i have found that the location data its using comes from the antenna your phone is connecting with, so if that antenna is not properly updated with location information then you will not get a correct reading. When i am in Redmond Washington it picks up, but if i drive just out of town all of a sudden i am in East Seattle. I have never been able to get it to use the gps data for my location even though it is always on.
Anyone else on T-Mobile having issues with network-based location? I can switch to edge and the phone can use the cell network to determine its location but when I switch back to 3G it can find its location. GPS and WiFi work though.
Actually, YES! I'm an Android developer in Austin TX and the past 2 days I've noticed Network Location stopped working on 3G. WiFi and Edge work fine.
Luckily, there's a T-Mobile corporate sales office on the 3rd floor of my building so I went up there to talk to them. They had me write an email which they forwarded to their RF Engineers.
I got an email back last night saying the Sr. RF Engineer was experiencing the same problem I described and they said the issue had not been known to them until I brought it up. They are currently looking into it.
I tested on a G2x, 2 N1's, and a NS with the same results. I'm thinking the 42 Mbps upgrade has something to do with it, although you wrote this post April 5th......
yes i had this issue for about 2 weeks as well.
problem started when tmobile changed cells/towers around my neighborhood.
i noticed this because i used cellumap app which shows your cellid. it was different once the towers were changed. but the good thing is that couple weeks later, the location was available.
i had a hard time with the news and weather widget during the time of the unavailability of the location. it kept on pulling the information from a location near where i was working even after i refreshed meticulously. after rebooting the phone, news and weather widget didnt have any idea of where i was if i was using the new towers in my area. but all is well now.
so if this is still happening, most likely you're also undergoing tower changes. it should settle in a couple of weeks.
hope it helps.
I'm having a hard time figuring out if i'm having a phone issue or is it a network issue that I need to get used to. Simple tasks such as navigation I can rarely get to work if i've already started moving. It will act as if searching for service for 2 or 3 minutes before it gets a lock and will begin navigating. I have had times with AT&T where I had little to 0 service and navigation would pick up fine, but with Sprint I see connection lost a lot more. Is this a Sprint thing or you think I got a bad phone?
I will have 3-4 bars of service on 3G and can stream music but refreshing something like Twitter can take several minutes or timeout completely. I live in Atlanta and have rarely seen 4G/LTE which I believe to be strange because Sprint's coverage map indicates they have strong coverage most of the places i've experienced the hiccups.
What do you guys think?
I think it's a phone issue. I have it as well. ...at least the "GPS lost" issue. Didn't have it with my note 2. I get fast GPS locks though.
No issue with data except for sprints typical slowness
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I haven't had that issue but I don't live near anywhere as large a metropolitan area as Atlanta so that could be an issue. My GPS locks are nearly instant but I do have problems streaming music sometimes.
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I'm having a hard time figuring out if i'm having a phone issue or is it a network issue that I need to get used to. Simple tasks such as navigation I can rarely get to work if i've already started moving. It will act as if searching for service for 2 or 3 minutes before it gets a lock and will begin navigating. I have had times with AT&T where I had little to 0 service and navigation would pick up fine, but with Sprint I see connection lost a lot more. Is this a Sprint thing or you think I got a bad phone?
I will have 3-4 bars of service on 3G and can stream music but refreshing something like Twitter can take several minutes or timeout completely. I live in Atlanta and have rarely seen 4G/LTE which I believe to be strange because Sprint's coverage map indicates they have strong coverage most of the places i've experienced the hiccups.
What do you guys think?
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I would call Sprint Customer care and tell them you are having issues with data services and that you have heard of this issue. Have them verify your UUIC ID number under settings/about/Phone identity. This is also the same as the SIM ID. They may say oh thats for international only but what they don't know yet is that number must match on your account for all your data services to behave properly. I figured this out after 6 phone exchanges.....the phone was fine....it was that number that was messed up.
My symptoms where:
- Slow data
- Dropped calls
- Radio was always using EvDo rev. A (check in settings/about/network)
- Never on EHRPD (Required for 4g LTE handoff with the towers)
- 104 data errors (these still happen but much less and is because they are still building out the 4g network here)
I hope this helps and will fix your issues. It did for me.
Having a semi-annoying issue with my HTC One at the moment; it started the other day when I was able to pick up an LTE signal in Chicago (TMo) for the first time. Oddly enough though, as long as I was connected to LTE, both Google Now/Google Maps and the clock/weather widget kept detecting my location as being in New York. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? As soon as I drop down to HSPA+ or go on WiFi, the location returns to normal. I've tried clearing all the data from the apps in question and disabling/re-enabling location services, but no luck. Thanks
I'm guessing your on tmobile it is their system my phone thought I was at a cemetery in Boston all day yesterday. I'm actually in Utah. Went to my tmobile store and the employees phones were doing the same thing. They called and tmobile said it's just a glitch they are trying to fix.
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I had my Nexus 6 (M 6.0.1) activated on Sprint yesterday to test their network with the idea of cutting my bill in half. I live in a Spark enabled area ad was hoping that my home would see better service than my friends with Sprint that have older phones have seen. While I find that areas between the Spint store and my home have some real possibilities, there were a surprising number of dead spots ( I let LTE Discovery run and checked at lights). At home, according to LTE Discovery it sees the 3 bands but I am in a fringe area and 41 apparently won't connect or if it does no data passes. I seem to alternate between Band 25 -110.0 dBm and Band 26 -101 dBm.
Yet, yesterday I was getting consistent 6 Mbps to 12 Mbps. This was on a Sunday which with T-Mobile would have been a peak usage day. Today, on what would be a light traffic day (my neighborhood would be gone to work today) ! am barely getting 1 Mbps. I have powered down, checked settings, nothing seems to work. Any ideas why this is happening and what I could do about it? I am sitting in exactly the same spot I was sitting yesterday.
So, before I drive over to Sprint and turn this off, I was wondering if there are any suggestions. 6 - 12 Mbps I could live with, but not 1 Mbps. I left T-Mobile for similar speeds. AT&T manages 20-30 Mbps in the same area. I would really like to cut my bill, but it has to do better than what I see today.
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I had my Nexus 6 (M 6.0.1) activated on Sprint yesterday to test their network with the idea of cutting my bill in half. I live in a Spark enabled area ad was hoping that my home would see better service than my friends with Sprint that have older phones have seen. While I find that areas between the Spint store and my home have some real possibilities, there were a surprising number of dead spots ( I let LTE Discovery run and checked at lights). At home, according to LTE Discovery it sees the 3 bands but I am in a fringe area and 41 apparently won't connect or if it does no data passes. I seem to alternate between Band 25 -110.0 dBm and Band 26 -101 dBm.
Yet, yesterday I was getting consistent 6 Mbps to 12 Mbps. This was on a Sunday which with T-Mobile would have been a peak usage day. Today, on what would be a light traffic day (my neighborhood would be gone to work today) ! am barely getting 1 Mbps. I have powered down, checked settings, nothing seems to work. Any ideas why this is happening and what I could do about it? I am sitting in exactly the same spot I was sitting yesterday.
So, before I drive over to Sprint and turn this off, I was wondering if there are any suggestions. 6 - 12 Mbps I could live with, but not 1 Mbps. I left T-Mobile for similar speeds. AT&T manages 20-30 Mbps in the same area. I would really like to cut my bill, but it has to do better than what I see today.
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your data speeds will differ all the time, at the same place, no matter what. oh, and btw, sprint sucks! and 6-12mbps sucks for lte, i see from 30-60mbps on tmobile.