Q: iPhone 4s location wrong... Why?
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Dec 16, 2011 2:03 PMby sorinfromdraganesti,I update to ios 501(9a406)last night no change
But in the morning i try this
Turn on airplane mod
Turn on wiifii
Turn off location service and back on
And go to maps
The lication was right
....you have to make this outside not inndors
Until now it works for me.
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Dec 16, 2011 6:07 PMby flavius andrei,well, looks like this is not a software nor a hardware issue, just a carrier who needed an update from apple
location errors are gone, everything's fixed for me without doing a single thing.
though there's still a bug... siri doesn't know where i am, automatic date & time doesn't work right...
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Dec 16, 2011 7:02 PMby Fairlady_Z,I have found the way to fix this, simply by calibrating the compass:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2767
Hopefully this helps you all out.
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Dec 16, 2011 9:13 PMby nishanthrao,After trying out a couple of solutions including the calibrating compass, enabling disabling airplane, wifi, location services mentioned some where in the discussions over the last couple of days, I can only conclude it is a software bug and apple needs to fix it. I don't think it is a hardware bug, that would really be bad especially for users in India where we had to pay the highest for getting an iPhone, a 16 gb costing almost 45k Indian rupees and be stuck with a dud and the phone behaves like Steve Jobs would say behaves like crap. My local weather varies from riyadh to come where in the fields of china, that would be a couple of thousand miles apart not a couple of miles. Now acting for iOS 5.1, trying out anything else is just a waste of time.
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Dec 17, 2011 1:06 AMby markfrompoole,I have the same problem and have a few observations. I have a 4s 16gb. Location was very accurate until 14 dec, when it put me in China and occasionally in Texas, I was in the south of England. The location was shown as very stable. I was inside and in a location where traditional gps would not work and I had no 3G coverage and no active wifi, so it appears that the location was being calculated by using the Edge/GPRS triangulation method. When I moved outside and used a mapping app that allowed me to switch on the gps the phone correctly gave my position, but it took a few minutes to gain the position, this is understandable as the gps can be confused if it thinks it is in a different part of the world. I then set up my iPad wifi only model, and connected this by tethering it to an other mobile (n97 mini) to the 3 mobile network, this gave me the right position, I then connected the iPhone to the same mobile and it continued to give the wrong location. I conclude that the iPhone prefers to use the edge/GPRS triangulation. Where I get 3g the location is correct. So it appears that the issue is the GPRS/edge system that is causing the problem. Having read through the posts here I see that a lot users with this gross error are on the O2 network, which I am on as well. I suspect that problem may because of a software change in either the O2 or apple's system about 3 days ago. I have passed this onto apple through the issues reporting portal. Hope this helps.
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Dec 17, 2011 6:41 AMby Kerrlos,Dont think its fixed yet.
I tried the Maps App this morning and it worked perfectly. Seemed a lot faster too. Its been working fine all day until a few minutes ago when I noticed the time had shot forward 3 hours and I'm back in Baghdad.
I have reported the issue with Apple feedback too.
