So...picked up my Nexus S this morning as a T-Mobile upgrade from my 2-yr old G1. $279 all told. Proceeded to drive down the highway to a nearby town to see a client. Was trying out the Google Maps and the GPS from the moment I got in my car.
Should have known things wouldn't turn out well when the N-S couldn't determine my location to anything closer than the 300-yard bubble while I was stationary, in a remote corner of the parking lot, with blue skies all around.
Played with network settings that might affect GPS: disabled, then re-enabled Wifi use for positioning, toggled Wifi on and off, no change. Was getting a range of mostly good 3G network and cell signal indicators the whole time, also made no difference. BTW, not amused that it has no discernible GPS indicator on the top menu (or I can't figure out what it might be). Continued to get either the 300-yard blue location bubble or the message 'could not determine your location at this time', all in places I used to have a dead-on tracking with the Map's blue arrow on my G1, at either highway speeds or on local roads.
Situation has not changed all day or this evening, on a familiar, circuitous 40 mile route, where I always had flawless location tracking on my G1. Even at home, after toggling onto my home Wifi, my location tracks to a solid blue arrow (not showing 'approximated' anymore) two blocks (over 1000 ft) away, a GPS error threshold I had never seen so poor on my G1.
Final straw is largest other difference I can discern: brand new Nexus S and battery seem to be running down at about twice the rate of my nearly-dead two-year old G1's original battery. Had to go disconnect my wall plug's micro-USB cable and plug into my laptop after 1.5 hrs at the client because N-S began to cry battery was almost dead.
Utterly unacceptable. I have to say-love Samsung monitors and TVs, can't stand their phones. Very disappointed Google seems to have screwed the pooch twice with the Nexus line.
Should have known things wouldn't turn out well when the N-S couldn't determine my location to anything closer than the 300-yard bubble while I was stationary, in a remote corner of the parking lot, with blue skies all around.Played with network settings that might affect GPS: disabled, then re-enabled Wifi use for positioning, toggled Wifi on and off, no change. Was getting a range of mostly good 3G network and cell signal indicators the whole time, also made no difference. BTW, not amused that it has no discernible GPS indicator on the top menu (or I can't figure out what it might be). Continued to get either the 300-yard blue location bubble or the message 'could not determine your location at this time', all in places I used to have a dead-on tracking with the Map's blue arrow on my G1, at either highway speeds or on local roads.
Situation has not changed all day or this evening, on a familiar, circuitous 40 mile route, where I always had flawless location tracking on my G1. Even at home, after toggling onto my home Wifi, my location tracks to a solid blue arrow (not showing 'approximated' anymore) two blocks (over 1000 ft) away, a GPS error threshold I had never seen so poor on my G1.Final straw is largest other difference I can discern: brand new Nexus S and battery seem to be running down at about twice the rate of my nearly-dead two-year old G1's original battery. Had to go disconnect my wall plug's micro-USB cable and plug into my laptop after 1.5 hrs at the client because N-S began to cry battery was almost dead.
Utterly unacceptable. I have to say-love Samsung monitors and TVs, can't stand their phones. Very disappointed Google seems to have screwed the pooch twice with the Nexus line.
