My Sensation thinks I am in Japan

stoke1863 · 21 Oct 2011 at 14:43

I had this with a HTC desire HD, Sorry i cant help but may be a HTC thing.

Try downloading Fastfix from the Market and set your location server as Europe or UK

Sin_Chase · 21 Oct 2011 at 14:50

I think you should submit yourself for scientific research. It appears with your palm alone you can appear in another location!

[TW]Fox · 21 Oct 2011 at 15:06

Back in England again now.

sarge78 · 21 Oct 2011 at 15:10

What are you going to spend the air miles on?

Myshra · 21 Oct 2011 at 16:08

There's an option under "Location And Security" in options called "Use Wireless Networks" - disabling this should fix it.

[TW]Fox · 21 Oct 2011 at 17:11

Myshra said:
There's an option under "Location And Security" in options called "Use Wireless Networks" - disabling this should fix it.

Why would it fix it, I wasn't connected to wireless.

loltim · 21 Oct 2011 at 18:16

[TW]Fox;20364796 said:
Why would it fix it, I wasn't connected to wireless.

I bet you were connected to a mobile network though

Doesn't explain why it said you were in Japan though :/

PistolPete · 21 Oct 2011 at 23:24

I'm confused, how does setting a NTP time server affect the GPS. That's messed up somewhere.

Myshra · 22 Oct 2011 at 00:59

[TW]Fox;20364796 said:
Why would it fix it, I wasn't connected to wireless.

It turns the wifi chip on, notes down the SSIDs/MACs and uses Skyhook/Google's big ol' list of MACs that it stole while doing google street view and cross references it to get an approximate position then turns it off again.

I'm confused, how does setting a NTP time server affect the GPS. That's messed up somewhere.

GPS satellites basically send out an encoded time signal, your phone receives these and notices the difference between the arrival times from each satellite and from this it can triangulate it's position. NTP servers are needed to seed this calculation.