Google Maps "My Location" and Motorola q9m

[Guest daubmars]

Hello,

I have a Moto q9m with Google Maps v 2.2.0.19. The other day I got the "My Location" feature to work without an external GPS receiver, but the activation sequence was very interesting as shown below...

- Power on my external Bluetooth GPS receiver (GlobalSat BT-821)

- Start Google Maps and enable "Use GPS"

- Turn off my external Bluetooth GPS receiver

- Enable "My Location"

Unbelievably, "My Location" remained working without my external GPS receiver. I drove around my neighborhood and the system tracked my location (although not as accurately as my external GPS receiver).

HOWEVER, whenever I try "My Location" without enabling my external GPS receiver first, I get the message "Your handset doesn't seem to be compatible with My Location (beta) feature."

Can anyone comment why I can get "My Location" to work after enabling and then disabling my external GPS receiver first, but not when just using Google Maps alone?

How can I get "My Location" to work independently without an external GPS receiver?

Thank you.

[Guest tsutton]

My Location, by not enabling "Use GPS", works by triangling from mobile phone mast.

But I'm not sure why this is happening. Have you reported this to Google as it's beta?