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dunwoodydawg

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I have had a Galaxy s3 for about 3 weeks now, and I noticed today that my home screen weather widget has not updated for 2 days. When I hit refresh it doesn't pick up my location. Is there a way I can reset my gps and get it working again?
 
dunwoodydawg said:
I have had a Galaxy s3 for about 3 weeks now, and I noticed today that my home screen weather widget has not updated for 2 days. When I hit refresh it doesn't pick up my location. Is there a way I can reset my gps and get it working again?
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In Settings/Location services make sure that "use wireless networks" is checked, this allows the phone to use the mobile network and wireless networks (if available) to help quickly get a basic location. I installed beautiful widgets & couldn't figure out why it wouldn't update, ticked off that box & voila!

Hope this helps...
 
dunwoodydawg said:
I have that box checked, and it still won't update.
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Huh. Are we talking about the stock widget on the main homescreen?

I use a different launcher & , as I said before, Beautiful Widgets, but my wife's phone is dead stock, I can take a look at her settings this evening.

Also, are you on ICS 4.0 or Jelly Bean 4.1?
 
rcsrich said:
OK- so you're on Jell Bean 4.1.1. Well, my wife is still on ICS, but I'll take a look & report back tomorrow- hopefully someone else will have some advice in the meantime.
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Oh- one additional thing to try- open up Google Maps & let it get a location fix on you, then try again to update the widget...you shouldn't have to do this every time obviously, but just see if that helps kick it in the rear...
 
I tried that, and it didn't work. I am really confused as to what is going on with the GPS. The navigator isn't working either. The gps appears to not be working.
 
dunwoodydawg said:
I tried that, and it didn't work. I am really confused as to what is going on with the GPS. The navigator isn't working either. The gps appears to not be working.
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I'm assuming you've tried toggling GPS on & off & rebooting? You could try backing up all your photos & music & doing a factory reset to see if that fixes the issue. It is possible that the GPS radio has crapped out, in which case you'll want to exchange your phone for a new one...

Hopefully the reset will put everything straight if it's just a fluke in the OS...
 
dunwoodydawg said:
Fixed it!! This was really a duh moment. I rebooted my phone and the gps started working again.
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Excellent! SO happy it wasn't something that required a reset/exchange. :)

Rebooting often helps with quirks like that- sometimes a "battery pull" is even in order (remove battery while phone is on & leave out for a minute, causes a sort of "soft reset").

Hope the phone stays trouble free!
 
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