GPS Not Working in iOS5

I think you should restore ur settings using iTunes and update it into iOS 5.1....(Hope it works)

Yesterday i updated to iOS 5.1....bummer...didn't work unfortunately....still on 3GS with baseband 05.16.05....strange part is....my wife also has a 3GS with baseband 05.16.05....and her GPS works like a charm!

Absolutely frustrating that Apple won't even comment on the problem. Perhaps they know this problem occurs, but they don't know a sollution, so that's why thet won't make it global???

I seems there isn't any pattern it the problem...some 3GS have it, some 4 have it, some 4S have it....some with the same baseband have the problem and the other one not.. (like me and mij myfe) We still don't know what makes this problem occur.....very strange!!!

I have wrote to Apple today and I left the address of the forum. I hope Apple read this discussion...

EN (with help ;-)) of Google translate)

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Hi everyone,
The reason of the strongest is always the best ... [Jean de la Fontaine]
I dug and dug forums ... no effective solution, yet the problem is known, it is OBVIOUS!
It's easy to seems clever blackening paper and fill pages of advertising ... publish information on IOS 6, 7, 12 and Ipad 15 ... but to say there is a problem NOW for over six months which nobody cares, it's extremely low seller. But where is Apple and where are all those specialized forums?
Transparency ... brings confidence, mine is lost, next time I'll think about Z6PO ! Perhaps better, can not be worse, for GPS protocol... wifi,...
My wife still laughting about my useless toy!

Tomorrow can not be worse ... hope it will be better ! It's a little bit expensive only for a phone ;-))) !

FR

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Bonsoir à tous,

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure...

J'ai creusé et creusé les forums... aucune solution efficace, pourtant le problème est connu, c'est EVIDENT !

C'est facile de faire les malins pour noircir du papier et remplir des pages de publicité... et publier des informations sur IOS 6, 7 , 12 et Ipad 15... mais pour dire qu'il y a un problème MAINTENANT depuis plus de 6 mois dont personne ne s'occupe, c'est extrêmement peu vendeur. Mais où est Apple et où sont tous ces journalistes des forums spécialisés ?

La transparence... amène la confiance, mine is lost, next time i'll think about Z6PO ! Perhaps better, but can't be worse, for GPS protocol...

My wife still laughting about my useless toy !

Bonne soirée,

Demain ne peut pas être pire... espérons alors qu'il soit meilleur !

I have the same problem the gps of my 3gs iphone never fix position after ios5 upgrade, now I'm using iOS5.1 but it still not working.

I'm very disappointed, this is not a100€ phone !!!

I went to the Apple store in Amsterdam yesterday and they did a dfu-reset to solve the gps-problem. That didn't help, so they swapped my phone. I have a new one now and it works perfect now. By the way, I showed the guy at the genius bar all these forum posts about gps!

Apple website 'Hot News' section headline "Climbing Everest with Ipad and Iphone"...

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

...not likely if you're using the GPS function on one of our Phones !

Same problem here.

Called support and they booked an appointment for an Apple store. I took my iPhone to the Apple store, showed evidence of GPS not woking with Google maps (the default app). I showed screen shots of:

-) iPhone showing very low accuracy in xy position of GPS,

-) position shifting miles away within minutes (with phone being at rest in same place).

-) loosing of carrier (Searching, no service and could not activate cellular data network)

They offered to replace phone (as courtesy and stating they did not believe it would solve the problem) ...

and at the end they refused to replace it because it was bought in another country !

Did not offer option to ship it ...

Not being able to make calls that last on average more than 5 minutes and use it as navigation, my iPhone will sit in a drawer and will be replaced by Samsung Galaxy S II, ugly interface, hard or no sync, but the most important things phone and navigation work!

It is incredible that a such a closed phone and OS combination, things that should make it trouble free can work so bad that you prefer an ugly open phone ... that works!

signed: unhappy owner of iPhone 4S 64GB (sigh lots of money wasted) with iOS 5.1 ...

and stiil wondering what damage could we cause Apple if we downgraded our phones to 5.0 ! But it seems Apple does not want us to do that.

Well I got someones attention at Apple, but I didn't get anywhere.

After an exchange of calls and emails, including screenshots of the problem and links to this thread, they basically said reinstall iOS 5 from another computer (done that twice) or your GPS is broken and it'll be £125+ for an out of warranty repair.

Very disappointing.

I'm really upset at Apple for failing to give a solution to this problem that affects so many users. I will definitely switch to another smart-phone.

Same here. On 3Gs and 4. But there is simple solution. Turn off and than on Location services. 🙂

Unfortunately this fix does not work for all of us. Glad it worked for you though.

I tried at least the folowing with no results:

DFU

Reset network setting

Soft reset holding home while turning off

Turn of and on location services

Airplane mode on and off

Plus others I do not remember ...

Not even maps works !

after many verification I've discovered that the problem wasn't related to software upgrade.

Inside the phone the gps antenna was disconnected from the logical board, so the gps was unable to fix location.

I've opened the phone and plung in the antenna connector to the logical board of the phone (see ifix guide).

problem solved, but still disappointed.

same problem here. So disappointing.

I thought it was RunKeeper, tried all kinds of other running apps and then started to notice even Google maps itself is messed up. No gps signal anywhere.

As much as I love apple I'm definitely returning to HTC next time my cellphone contract is up for renewal.

Update on my previous post. About a month ago TomTom released an update to their app and now it works fine. I haven't checked out the other troublesome apps, I'm just glad that the satnav works again.

My guess is that something inside iOS5.1 disables some GPS apps requiring a rewrite. I'm glad I'm now in the clear, but I was pretty ****** off for a while not least because the TomTom app cost £40.