Comments on: Fix your iPhone 3G GPS problems – 3G network issues with iPhone GPS

By: jm

jm — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:21:51 +0000

The fix doesn’t work for me — with 3g on, I get one inaccurate location. If I turn it off, it indicates a different location (also wrong).

I never had these problems until I upgraded my 3g iphone to the 3.0 software. Ever since then, I have had nothing but problems with this phone. Problems with the calendar, problems with gps, problems with dropped calls, problems with failed calls. The thing went from perfect to garbage with one software update.

Some of the trouble could be related to ATT’s network. I think I’m going to move to Verizon’s Droid. New network, new phone.

By: olivier

olivier — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:12:29 +0000

I’ve heard that the gps sattelite were not going to be replaced soon enough due to shuttles grounding in 2007… or was it in 2007?

By: Iphone3gs

Iphone3gs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:08:37 +0000

This worked great my iPhone was saying I was like a mile away from actual position and now it works fine thanx

By: Matic

Matic — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:15:34 +0000

I tried several things to solve problem but i have to mention that this problems I have since I upagreded to 3.1.2.
because my 3G has aGPS it google maps locate me only probably over the cellular mobile. Of course the location is not accurate at all. it shows the blue point somewhere near me, sometimes not even that and it don’t locate me exactly but it make a blue crisle with 1-2 km of radius.
What did i try to solve problems but it didn’t work.
a) to turn off 3G and locate myself
b) to turn on Bluetooth when trying to be located
c) delete cache for gps positons over terminal or over SSH
any new ideas what to do?

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:45:49 +0000

I’ve been trying to fix mine for 11 months and finally did it, by turning on Wifi (I usually have it turned off). Even not connected (I don’t use Wifi at home and all neighbours have their signals passworded) it still works. I remember the one time it worked for me in the first 11 months was when I was abroad, on a motorway /highway I noticed it was tracking my position dead accurate and moving in real time. I never figured out until now why it worked there and not at home. I was using Wifi in my friend’s house there, hence kept Wifi set to ‘on’.

By: Mike_05830940235918230652

Mike_05830940235918230652 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:55:44 +0000

Both my iPhone 3G and my wife’s started showing is in Portland Maine in stead of southern MO. Started sometime on Wed. I never realized how much I use the location feature until now. We are nit in a 3G area but I tried the fix suggested above with no change.

Any ideas?

By: CyberMonkey

CyberMonkey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:52:52 +0000

This solution did not work for me. Anybody have any other ideas?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:43:15 +0000

That didn’t work for me. I am now 25 miles from where it showed originally.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:35:07 +0000

Apple say a faulty gps or bad signal on the original iPhone is a faulty chip inbottom of phone where lead connects. Mainly due to a chemical reactiondue to waterdamage. 140 poundtofix

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:58:29 +0000

Is Work. THx. But after i change back to 3G not too accurate

By: Derek Tomes

Derek Tomes — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:00:46 +0000

THANKS! This fixed my problem. My GPS thought I was two houses further north that I was. It was consistently wrong all the time until I tried this fix, which worked! Thank You!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:39:45 +0000

Guys do a respring. I’m jailbroken and running sbsettings. Reboot didn’t work. Respring worked like a charm!

By: Ari

Ari — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:02:19 +0000

This seems to fix the problem but when I switch back to 3g it relocates me incorrectly

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:13:39 +0000

That’s funny. I’m sitting in the Delta lounge at Narita airport in Japan and my iPhone keeps jumping back and forth from here to Newark airport. I’m wondering if the WiFi here is coming through a server in Newark? Seeing that it just took something over 11 hours to get here from LA, if only I could jump back and forth that fast.

By: balutan

balutan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:30:37 +0000

Mine didn’t work. Sitting next to my friend with his 3G together with my 3GS. His blue dot move smoothly while mine shift every 0.25 mine or more. His continuous to work on our way to work (30min drive). Mine stop working every now and then. It basically jump all around different towers and back onto the road. I called AT&T to have the network permission reset as recommmanded by APPLE Genius Bar rep – Didn’t work. Visited APPLE store again and ask them to take a look at it. The rep keep telling me the GPS would not the exactly location. (Com’on what good a GPS does if it tells me I am in that 3 mile radius??) All he did was to do a restore (THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING ME WAIT IN STORE FOR ANOTHER 15 MINUTES WHICH I COULD HAVE DONE ON MY OWN AT HOME)- restore seems works again (NOT SURPRISED)until I start putting songs not even a single APP into the iphone (NOT SURPRISED).

Tell you friends who owns iPhone 3GS to test their GPS. I think this is a major issue that APPLE need to address. The more people we got on our side, the sooner they will have to come up with a solution.

I am getting really fed up by it.

By: jung

jung — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:17:17 +0000

it worked!!! thanks!!!

By: Peter L

Peter L — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:31:06 +0000

Hate to say I’m running into this as well. I live in Belgium and never have any problems with the GPS at home. I’m now visiting the NY area and impossible for me to lock on. Tried some of the hints mentioned here, but nothing seems to resolve this problem.

By: Goran

Goran — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:51:30 +0000

I have the same problems. I’m from Germany and desperately seeking a solution for this useless GPS. I don’t want to flash my device and re-install everything again, as proposed on some boards as my phone has jailbreak and unlock which I don’t want to re-install again.

But with maps I get a good positioning nearly every time (3G and WiFi off). But when I start up my NAVIGON programm it will not find any sattelite connection. As if GPS was swiched off.

I even re-installed NAVIGON today, but there is no improvement. No sat-fix. No guidance via NAVIGON.

So where is the problem? With the iPhone? With Navigon? ….. Had no problems with the sat-nav on my old Nokia N95.

Any solutions anyone?

Regards,

Goran

By: Santiago

Santiago — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:40:32 +0000

I had the same issue with my Iphone 3G GPS (couple months of use). After lot of reading and thinking the worst, this worked for me, so you should give a try:

1st: Turn Off and Turn on your Iphone

2nd: Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

Note: This will reset all settings. No data or media will be deleted.

Now GPS WORKS Again! – I think maybe it was an app that was causing this trouble.

By: tongad

tongad — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:31:40 +0000

I notice that my GPS stops working if I have my WiFi setup. If I “Forget” the WiFi, the GPS works like normal again. Maybe you can try and see if this works for you.