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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 GPS Issue
Anyone else having issues with their Note 3 GPS? I'm having an issue were every time I plug or unplug the charger from my phone the GPS drops out. I have to then toggle the GPS on/off in my quick settings to get it working again while navigating. It also seems to drop the signal when I get an incoming phone call while using the navigation app. I have confirmed this same behavior on 2 other friends Note 3's. I'm hoping this is just a software issue that will be fixed in a future os update.
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Can you give any more detail? How you know this, what the changelog contains,... anything? Since you obviously know more than any of us, I'd like to make it clear we would love to hear more details from you.
All praise @Enuratique if this is truthful and reliable information
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I don't have a changelog, per se, but it is the highly anticipated KK update which includes a GPS fix. I haven't tested it myself yet, since I don't want to repave my device with the full binary. I wish I could give more info, but I don't want to risk my job.
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To wit, if my posts magically disappear, you'll know I'm not lying.
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Just received word that the rollout will begin this Thursday, March 27th. Your device needs to have already received and installed the NB4 build that was pushed a few weeks ago to receive the update. Keep in mind that FOTA releases are done in waves, so your device may not receive the update on the 27th.
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I purchase this phone thru Att next, one main purpose is to use it as GPS now I'm lock me, you know traveling to unfamiliar place is annoying using gps the lost signal while you still in a bright sunny day. It is a waste of gas. They should allow me upgrade back as a regular upgrade. Now it like I'm pay for 700usd, hope they allow me to like just a regular upgrade.
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And other things copy & pasted from the various articles such as on Android police and proported as actual news. If you have a specific case where it's repeatable, then good for you. I have multitudes cases where it's not repeatable on a day to day basis, since last september, and it's is NOT isolated to the Note 3. It began happening to me in a Jelly Bean update on my Note 1 about last September. I use map tracking apps such as Mapmyride, Strava, or Gopogle tracker. I wrestled with the app developer, assuming It was the app (Mapmyride) for a couple of weeks, then I upgraded to the Note 3, straight from Note 1, and still had the problem. I was certain it was the app at this point but then tried Strava and Tracker a while later with the same results. They all exhibit the same behaviour when the GPS drops. They stall at a given point and then draw a straight line to your current location when they recover, no matter what distance or route youve traveled in between.
Everybody and their brother's dog with an alternate company's Note 3 out there running around just to prove it's just AT&T.. yay for them.. I dont think anyone is doubting that at this point. It has no bearing on this discussion and does not lend insight other than the fact that it's an AT&T issue.
Other people have reported the same issue with the Galaxy Mega. Perhaps its some combination of the chosen hardware for the larger phones vs a software bug.
To the present... Just yesterday, I rode a 53 mile route... I rode the route out to 26 & change and rode teh exact same route back. I reset the tracking app at the midway point. On the way out, it stalled, burped, & drew straight lines all over the place with no rhyme or reason as to where it stalled other than perhaps I passed under some trees. On the way back, I had only one GPS error, about 22 miles into the 26 mile return. All the previous mileage passing through teh same route where it errored, insanely, before.
This issue is simply more complicated than the simple observations of "LTE/4G" switching and or power supplu plugging/unplugging. If it were that simple, it would probably have been fixed already.
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