iPhone 2.0 - Can't locate me in Google Maps

I have also driven from one location to another whith a jorney time of about ten minutes. The iphone tracked me all the way with acurracy of a couple of hundred meters! This solution has been tested on the 2g iPhone.

Unfortunately I don't think that's the problem or the solution at all, for one my WIFI is always on (although Skyhook has no registered stations around me) and I can vouch that when it hasn't worked in London my WIFI has been on (I rarely turn it off - except for these tests (before someone comes up with the solution of switching my WIFI off!!!!) and I strongly doubt that all the people having issues, haven't actually tried with the WIFI on (infact by reading this read, I know that's not the case).

It would be good to hear if anyone has found the locate me function working for them since the intial problem started after the 2.0 upgrade in an area that it didn't before, as we've pretty much established that it does work in some areas of the UK at the moment, just not in all of them like it did before the update.

same problem here. locate me function keep spinning after upgrade to 2.0, also 2.0.1.

here's the syslog when I want to locate myself in google maps. hope it will help.

starting CLDaemonCore (/usr/libexec/locationd @ iPhone OS2.0.1/5B108)...
CLLocationCore::CLLocationCore(CLLocationCore::Listener*): running on AppleBaseband
bool CLLocationCore::startLocation(double): starting location (accuracy -1.00)
bool CLDaemonSkyhookLocationModel::startFix(): wifi power is off, no wifi positioning available currently
bool CLDaemonCellLocationModel::getServingAndNeighborCells(): could not get cells, retrieving serving cell only
bool CLDaemonCellLocationModel::getServingCell(): could not retrieve current serving cell info
SpringBoard[26]: lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
WiFi: Foreground Network Application exited.
SpringBoard[26]: lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
--- last message repeated 1 time ---

... sorry prog-wizz but...

... that's not the problem (or, at least, that's not the whole problem) because I, for one, am (actually I was) in the opposite situation: locateme working smoothlessy on edge and forever spinning wheel on wi-fi! :-/

... yes: a week ago GoogleMap's locateme "went back" and it's working again, since, in the same sites (my home, among others) where it wasn't after 2.0 update

but... I had the opposite problem you all are reporting here (see my post above)

This happens to me when I am inside my home. I am in Spring, Texas, but Maps locates me in Portland, Oregon. I can have WiFi on or off and, as long as 3G is turned on, I am located in Portland, Oregon. However, if I turn off 3G, Maps locates me correctly and I have a blinking, blue dot on top of my house in Maps. I think the problem is that inside the house, the 3G signal must not be strong enough, and somehow the signals from the towers give some bad information about my location. If I turn off 3G when inside, or go outside with 3G turned on, everything is usually fine. Why is it that with most problems, everything improves when we turn off the 3G on our "3G" iPhones?

Sadly for me at least the status of my Wi-Fi has no bearing on the locate me functionality. Whether I'm connected to a network, am not connected but have wi-fi enabled, or have wi-fi turned off, I still get the spinning disc issue. This was one of the first things I tried when searching for a way to get it to work.

Since my original posts, I have come across a couple of places in the UK where it does work for me. Interestingly, these have been places out in the middle of nowhere, where I would imagine that cell tower density is pretty low, and where there is no sign of a wi-fi network. Travel into somewhere approaching built-up and it fails once more.

I don't know if these locations (Oxfordshire and Berkshire countryside) worked just after the first 2.0 update, but the locations where I first experienced the problem are still not working.

(Original iPhone, 2.02 software)

I've found that too - I got the train from Didcot to Cardiff and GPRS location worked for the whole journey.

It also worked in Spain recently....


Not found anywhere else though

Yeah this is pretty much the same problem I'm having. My 1st gen iPhone's 'locate me' doesn't work in the small market town where I work and live (near Cambridge in the UK). It used to work just fine in my town back on firmware 1.1.4.

BUT every time I've travelled anywhere recently it has worked. It worked all week long in Newquay a few weeks ago. And as I noted in an earlier post in this thread it works in Cambridge, even to the point of following me as I was driving around town. And yesterday i discovered that it seems to work fine in large parts of North London! Very aggravating.

As previous people have said it appears to work in certain areas. I visited somewhere just outside Portsmouth and it worked fine (very fast too) but now I'm home again it doesn't work.

So this is interesting, does o2 need to update its cell towers, or the database of cell towers or does Apple need to update something?

I really don't think it has anything to do with O2 as my friends whose phone is unlocked on the Vodafone network, experiences the same problems since the 2.0 update.

Considering the security flaw, that has crept back into 2.0 when it was rectified in 1.1.4, it seems there are quite a few things that perhaps weren't "copied" across in the new update.

Problem is because it's not the whole country it's unlikely that Apple is going to fix it , anytime soon or ever as it does say in the T&Cs that not all areas are covered and they can always fall back on that, even if it did work before.

Message was edited by: William B. Mcintyre

ok this is what i have worked out when using my original phone running 2.0.1

i enable wifi but i'm not within range of any wifi signals. locate me wotks using gprs/edge (travelled from oxford to hitchin on 2 trains (suburban trains without wifi carriages) and followed my journey perfectly using locate me on maps)

switch wifi off - locate me doesnt work (icon simply spins n spins!) at all

Did you try the same journey with Wifi off?

As my "investigations" have really just made me come to the conclusion that some areas work very well (better than they used to work) and other areas (that used to work) don't work at all irrespective of whether WIFI is on or not, so it's what has changed in the places that used to work that is the question, as it seems to not be O2 specific, it's hard to point a finger at anything other than some changes in Maps for the 3G phone.

William B. Mcintyre wrote:
Did you try the same journey with Wifi off?

As my "investigations" have really just made me come to the conclusion that some areas work very well (better than they used to work) and other areas (that used to work) don't work at all irrespective of whether WIFI is on or not, so it's what has changed in the places that used to work that is the question, as it seems to not be O2 specific, it's hard to point a finger at anything other than some changes in Maps for the 3G phone.

nope only went 1 way. but am home now and have wifi here so thought i'd try the same outside. so i left wifi enabled on the phone, walked far enough away from my house to be out of reach of my wifi signal and used locate me (gprs/edge) to find me within feet of my location. then disabled wifi tried locate me again and it didnt find me at all (spun and spun!)

stuart

william i suppose it could also be location specific (ie working with just gprs/edge alone without wifi enabled) but for now this is my 'workaround' til it is fixed (or not!)

stuart