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As above, the damn thing is convinced im in Williton, Somerset,when im actually in North Yorkshire. I have the location settings enabled and google Maps shows me at my house..but when i access anything that needs location settings, such as BBC Weather and local news, it always defaults to bloody Somerset. Any clues?
odd location updates seem a bit of a quirk of android. most of the time it works fine, sometimes it gets obsessed you are somewhere completely different. Sorts itself out with time.
Have you tried the good old switch it on and off?
Heh, yeah tried that..i even tried to RTFM.
I've disabled "my location" It's in "personal/location settings" within settings.
I have had no problem with mine even when I turn it back to "locate"
Hate to say it, but I'd turn the thing off, take battery out and leave it out for at least an hour, then replace and startup again, then go into the folder I said above.
Enable GPS as soon as you reboot..
HTH
This good be down to wireless network location. If google logged a router (yours or anyone else's) at one location which it subsequently moved from you can get funny location data.
E.g.
I had an old router off my mother to replace a knackered one I had. Google had recorded that routers location in the midlands as that is where the street view van had 'seen' it.
When using this my tablet at home down south it showed me as being in the Midlands (GPS off as I was inside). There is a way to reset this involving turning wireless location off, turn GPS on, get a fix, turn wireless location back on. Eventually the data will be updated with Google (mine now shows correctly).
Note sure why a phone would have this issue though as the location is down from the mobile cell when GPS is off with wireless used as a granularity improvement.
This good be down to wireless network location. If google logged a router (yours or anyone else's) at one location which it subsequently moved from you can get funny location data.
Would be my guess too.
Assuming Samsung haven't changed the settings page, if you look at 'Location' in settings the first tick box says "use Google's location services". See if deselecting this fixes it.
Thanks for the suggestiions all, i'll give them a shot.
Was the BBC stuff requiring location services in a browser?
If so, also check the browser settings (Dolphin defaults to location services enabled - not sure abotu others). Also cookies may need clearing? If the browser says disabled, but Android enabled, then the browser won't pass the info. BBC (or Facebook, or whoever) will then try other methods to guess where you are, which usually means GeoIP lookup for the IP address given to your router by your ISP, which is often a totally different town (although I don't know of any ISP based in somerset).
I've disabled all location services anywhere I can. Some things think I'm in Munich or Cologne, 1 other social network that I'd rather not have an a/c with seems to think I'm in the next town, or the one next to that (this is independent of OS, Phone, PC, etc. - same on all platforms).
Settings->apps->all->network location->clear data & cache. Restart.