I performed the 3.0 upgrade (sorry I did that)and now, the Maps programs and my GPS program constantly show the wrong "current location". Anyone else have this problem after the upgrade?
Well guys, good luck, I'm steping out. I had enough deceptions with the iPhone. Apple ****** me off.
Just traded my iPhone for another brand and I do not regret it.
Maybe next year... when they can offer me 8mpx camera, working GPS, BETTER sound quality (like the 5.5g iPod), better earphones(the ones that came with my new phone are sick. In-ear, great sound quality), tethering by default, microSDHC support(I know that won't happen lol), good video recording (at least 640x480@30fps) without having to hack the device, stereo speakers, a better battery life and of course, DECENT SUPPORT, 'cause that's what I got now.
Will I miss the iPhone? Yeah... but I got an iPod Touch also, so, bye bye Apple, see you maybe next year.
Good luck folks... I wish you all the best.
Over and out.
I just went to an apple store in different state (Delaware compared to Pennsylvania) .. and got a service model... its working great! .. i still have to test for dead pixels and see how badly it overheats before fully accepting that I now have a fully functional and good iPhone!..
I'm having also the same problem
My GPS used to work perfectly before with the 2.2 firmware
after I upgraded to 3.0 firmware its off by more than 15 miles.
The strange thing no one from Apple support reply to this post.
I tried to troubleshoot with some of the suggestions in this thread but it didn't work for me. Restored my Iphone with 3.0 firmware again still having the same problem.
Anyone from the Moderate can reply to this problem. Or at least tells us if the next update will fix the problem ?
Now my GPS is completely broken....
Before I could bring it back to Work by doing a reboot....
But now: NOTHING NADA NICHTS!
Only Triangulation works.... :-((
Got the same problem after upgrading to OS3.0 definetely not a hardware issue. APPLE why wasn't this found during testing? Or is this a ploy to get all of us to buy the new phone? Loosing google maps with GPS is not worth gaining the other features!
If there aren't enough people who have it, or are complaining of it, why would they? No reason to make themselves look bad if there aren't a majority complaining, or its not plastered over the tech news.
The problem of the problem here is ^^ that the majority of iPhone-Users dont´t even know if they are located via Triangulation or GPS! But there will be more complaints in the Future because of all the Upcoming Car-Navigation Apps....they NEED to have a valid GPS fix to work, unlike the Maps App.
Similar problem occurs: the first thing most people will think of is that it is the 3rd party app's fault, and following that a hardware fault with the phone. Some would discover these threads, but unfortunately most probably won't.
I'm having the same issue. It took me a while to figure out that it was the upgrade. I've tried turning location services on and off, I even reset everything and reloaded the system, same issue no gps, only cell tower location. Has anybody had any luck fixing this problem.
I too am having this issue apple, I have two 3g Iphones, the first one I upgraded to 3.0 FW and figured out i had this issue when trying to use google maps, direct location went away and phone would only pull cell tower information. In the spirit of trouble shooting I purchased cardinal from the app store, this program told me that it could not locate coordinates through the GPS in a rather descriptive error message. I figured it was the 3.0 update, I updated the other phone and low and behold that one stopped working as well. It is clearly a problem with the firmware update. I figured one more post in this thread might help someone realize that there is a problem.
My phone has this problem too - GPS doesn't work after upgrading to 3.0. We tried everything possible. We finally called Apple last night... they had us try all kinds of stuff to fix it. We even did a full restore and called back.
They finally agreed to send a replacement. Hopefully the new one won't have the problem.
I do not have a fix but a theory about what the problem is. My guess is that the problem, at least on my 3G, is temperature related. My informal testing shows that when my iPhone is around 70 degress F or lower, the GPS receiver works fine. At higher temperatures, say 80 F and above, it works intermittently or not at all.
A possible cause for this is that the calibration table for the GPS oscillator, which uses the iPhone thermistor readings, is off or does not account for differences in IC batches. Temperture changes cause the oscillator frequency to shift and this calibration table corrects for temperature induced variations. I am not sure if the calibration table is used by Apple, but this is what we did some years agao at Ericsson.
I am also not sure if a software update, with a change to the table, will fix the problem.
Please post any tempreature-related GPS performance you experience.
Interesting theory. FWIW, it's definitely not temperature-related for me: the problems when I first updated were in cool weather with a cool phone (3G).
And one of the (rare) "good moments" the GPS had was hiking on a really hot day this weekend, in full sun, and the phone was distinctly warm to the touch.
Hmmm... maybe it's temperature related in the other direction: heat helps 🙂 (But really, I think it's just intermittent and hard to find any patterns. Even on the "good day" the GPS accuracy came and went anyway.)
