Fix: GPS Not Working After Upgrading to iPhone Firmware 2.1
Fix: GPS Not Working After Upgrading to iPhone Firmware 2.1
The overall feedback from iPhone users about iPhone firmware 2.1 that was released by Apple last Friday has been very positive. It seems to have fixed most of the known problems with iPhone firmware 2.x.x such as dropped calls, slow iPhone syncs, iPhone apps crashing issues, 3G reception issues, Apple...
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Just read your post about 3G and GPS not working @ 2.1. I am on a 3g @ 2.1 and just tested GPS. My iPhone still works as designed.
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That is interesting. I had all of the mentioned problems before the 2.1 update, and now every thing seems to be working perfectly.
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well.. gps system works but now it's acting very wierd. For instance, it tells you to go past the target and take u-turn. I have no idea why it does that ;;; The map system got very unstable after the update.
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I've got an pwned 1st gen iphone running 2.1.... but it still takes at least 2 hours to back up. This is ridiculous..... when will Apple get things right???
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I have no problem with my GPS but i do have problem with updating any app i'm getting error message everytime i update.
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Hey Angel,
You might want to check this post to see if the workaround helps.
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/09/unknownerrorfix.htmlcheers!
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@angel-I have always had this problem.It seems the old version of the app is not being deleted.If you manually delete the old version the update will then install.Also just found out my gps is not working after a 2.1 update *SOB*.Tried all the fixes I could find but no luck yet.
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I haven't tryed my GPS yet, but i noticed that after the 2.1 upgrade, my phone randombly switches from 3G to EDGE, and i'm not being able to surf or even text some times. Before it would take longer to switch bewtween services, but it hasn't got any better. It goes from having full 3G service to have Full EDGE service, if i have full 3G, why would it have to switch back to EDGE?
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Hallo
My GPS in Iphone 3G (2.1, jailbrokened) does not work at all - I tred do everything i found on the web (resetting, turning ON/OFF etc). Please help me, maybe there is some software fix for that.Greetings
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now people are having GPS problems regardles of the iphone being jailbroken or not?
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My GPS not working on 3G unless i do the reset all settings. even then, the fix is temporary. if i travel in and out of Edge, it doesn't work again. this sux.
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My GPS has never worked (I mean not even breifly, not ever!) since day one and I got the 3G on day of release. I tried everything and now with the 2.1 update it works outdoors and in!
It seems that all the people that had GPS working are having problems and all that didnt seem to be fixed.
Looks like Apple just cant get it right...
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update: my GPS does work, it was working before, it's been working since day one, and it's been working after every single update jailbroken or not. Everybody is getting different issues with the GPS, could it be that the update didn't install properly? Because the problems are software related, and we all get the update from. The same place!
Posted from my iPhone.
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hi,
gps on two iphones quit after the upgrade none of the fixes above worked on these phones
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All methods have been tried, no luck to get GPS to work in China
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My GPS was working fine before the update.
I tried all the fixes:
Reset all settings
toggle on/off network settings
toggle on/off set network locations
soft reset the phone
toggle off 3G
downloaded another GPS application "track thing"
nothing is working.
what is really strange that it was working perfectly before 2.1?
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Tried all fixes and GPS works sometimes on 3G but does not work when on Edge. Worked great before 2.1 update.
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My problem with the GPS after the 2.1 update is now whenever a program asks me if it's ok to turn on "location services" and I click "ok" it doesn't turn it on. I have to manually go into settings and turn on location services. Prior to the update you didn't have to do this.
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User bcalisto on iphoneatlas has found a way to resolve the problem. It seems that the issue is with 2.1 that the maps app sometimes doesn't allow the GPS system enough time to obtain a lock before deciding that GPS isn't the way to go and disabling it. If you use another app (which doesn't behave in this fashion) to obtain a proper GPS lock first and then switch to maps, the lock is retained and it works fine. He mentions the free "TrackThing" app which I've just downloaded and it works very well - both the application itself and the fix!
Incidentally immediately after the update my GPS worked properly every time whereas it was sporadic beforehand. But over the following weeks it's degraded to the stage that it hardly ever works at all. I'd tried all the resetting and turning things on and off that I could do. This fix works completely, as far as I can tell though!
The complete story is here (bcalisto's solution is the last comment, on 20 September).
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/09/17/gps-not-working-under-iphone-os-21-fix/
I'm glad it's just a localised application thing with the mapps app, so if a turn-by-turn GPS system does come out (i.e. TomTom) it looks like it won't be afflicted with this problem.
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I am on 2.2.1 and the maps only shows the blue crosshairs instead of the blue dot. I'm not sure if it happened after I upgraded firmware but I notice the problem happening after I started using the RunKeeper App.
Everything was working great, then 3 runs later the app couldn't find my location, went to the map and noticed that the blue dot was nowhere to be found.
Also, I have tried all of the recommended solutions and nothing seems to fix the problem.
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My GPS was working well but now the same problem.
