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GPS Issues since 4.4.2

cjl100gs

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I've been having GPS issues since the update that has made navigation pretty much impossible 85% of the time. My phone will get stuck finding location for about 10 minutes and then I'll get a message saying that my GPS location was lost. Has anybody else had this issue?
 
Better yet is when mine would lose signal while navigating and just assume you wanted to keep going on the same road instead of letting you know it lost conncection...

Yeah, mine had been giving my issues for quite a while. I tried the trick of tightening the screws under the back cover, downloading a GPS utility to clear and reset the a-gps state, etc. and nothing seemed to help. According to the utility app my phone was seeing 12+ satellites, but it wouldn't lock on to enough of them to get a fix.

My only fix was to purchase a Moto X when they were running a sale a couple weeks ago...
 
Yes, mine's done the same since the update. I downloaded a few GPS apps to see if clearing cache and resetting my satellites would help, but no joy. This was also killing my battery since my phone was constantly trying to find my location. The only thing that helped in that regard was to try and stop all apps from trying to track my location (which in many ways kills the smartphone experience).

However, all of a sudden, about two weeks ago my phone began locking onto its position fairly regularly. I was in the middle of a golf game and was using one of my golf apps that tracks location and distance on the course. When I started the game, the phone wasn't tracking my location. I noticed, as I was entering my score from the previous hole, that my phone suddenly was giving my distance to the next hole. I hadn't been messing with the phone at the time, so I don't know why it decided at that moment to start working. It's been working pretty reliably since, but will occasionally drop off the radar (so to speak).
 
Just bought a new S3 to switch to Virgin.
My gps was destroyed in old S3.
The new phone works perfectly.
Also Dolphin was unusable on my old phone.
Mew one is great so far.
 
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