Location not updating when on 2G network

[Guest goblin]

Dear Pulse / U8220 fans,

My location is not updating on my latitude / google maps app. Other location based services (such as the weather) also don't work. I have discovered that this only occurs when I force my phone to only use 2G networks. 2G is my default mode and I do it in order to save battery power, switching to 3G when I need the extra bandwidth. When I switch to also allow 3G networks, the problem is solved and my location updates as it should. I'm using a Pulse with MCR 1.7, december update applied.

Does anyone else experience this behaviour? Is it normal? What I can do to fix it (except switching to 3G networks obviously)?

I know if anyone can give me pointers in the right direction, it's this wonderful community.

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

Edited April 27, 2010 by goblin

[Guest Azurren]

Dear Pulse / U8220 fans,

My location is not updating on my latitude / google maps app. Other location based services (such as the weather) also don't work. I have discovered that this only occurs when I force my phone to only use 2G networks. 2G is my default mode and I do it in order to save battery power, switching to 3G when I need the extra bandwidth. When I switch to also allow 3G networks, the problem is solved and my location updates as it should. I'm using a Pulse with MCR 1.7, december update applied.

Does anyone else experience this behaviour? Is it normal? What I can do to fix it (except switching to 3G networks obviously)?

I know if anyone can give me pointers in the right direction, it's this wonderful community.

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

I also use 2g most of the time but leave latitude off (no point in having it on as gps is always off to save power)

I have also noticed that latitude is very hard to update at times but I don't know if it haas anything to do with 2g/3g

I can confirm that mine has problems but I don't know if it is caused by 2g.

[Guest goblin]

I also use 2g most of the time but leave latitude off (no point in having it on as gps is always off to save power)

I have also noticed that latitude is very hard to update at times but I don't know if it haas anything to do with 2g/3g

I can confirm that mine has problems but I don't know if it is caused by 2g.

Thanks for your comment, Azurren!

You may be interested to know that latitude does not require GPS to be switched on. Your location can be determined by cell tower triangulation and you can use latitude based on that (the margin of error is a bit bigger; I'd say approximately a 50m radius around your real location!).

Hope you find that useful!

[Guest MarcusHenrique]

Thanks for your comment, Azurren!

You may be interested to know that latitude does not require GPS to be switched on. Your location can be determined by cell tower triangulation and you can use latitude based on that (the margin of error is a bit bigger; I'd say approximately a 50m radius around your real location!).

Hope you find that useful!

"Your location can be determined by cell tower triangulation"

And I always wondered how the mobile could retrieve the weather info with data and gps turned off. Thanks for that! :huh:

[Guest Azurren]

I can only guess why.

I guess that the most logical thing is that latitude uses to much data and google decided that it wasn't suitable to be used on 2g (even though it could and probably other apps use more but this us google after all :huh:)

Edited April 28, 2010 by Azurren