[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-22 Thread John Coryat
> > BTW, GPS accuracy is generally better than 12 m. It can go down all the way > to 1.5m, but 5m is a good bet. > WAAS is accurate to that level but I don't believe the GPS in the average Android device is WAAS capable. I may be wrong there. -John Coryat -- You received this message becaus

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-22 Thread lbendlin
So maybe the power cycling does the trick all by itself... BTW, GPS accuracy is generally better than 12 m. It can go down all the way to 1.5m, but 5m is a good bet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, s

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-21 Thread John Coryat
The funny thing is the steps that I ask the users to perform seems to fix it 100% of the time. I haven't had a single user come back to me with any complaints. Here are the steps I ask them to perform: *Sudden difficulties with location services are usually due to a carrier over the air update

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-21 Thread lbendlin
it might be as simple as a dodgy ephemeris update from the AGPS servers or their mirrors. The users cannot do much in such a case except to wait for the next download. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-21 Thread Pent
Just got one of these today. Cyanogen 7, Android 2.3.5. Trying to get a log. Pent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-21 Thread Chris
The true irony is I'm not paying close attention when it doesn't work, so I can't reproduce it exactly. When I open up your app I want my radar NOW!, so when it doesn't work I'm not the best judge of reproducibility. :) Next time it doesn't work, I'll try to recall the circumstances... off han

[android-developers] Re: Sudden location issues

2011-08-21 Thread John Coryat
A lot of the user's who are contacting me have non-gmail addresses (.aol, .msn, .yahoo). Those people would thing of trees and bushes before their device when the term root was mentioned. "To root" their device to them would mean burying it I would think. A similar thing happened about a year a