... with that said, .. I can't help but think that it is NOT a problem with the network itself, but rather a programing glitch in the Thunderbolt not allowing it to interpret the signal location properly. Hopefully that will be fixed in an update soon.....
UPDATE :
OK, ,.. So, my map was also showing me a town away ... when it would find me at all.... (aside from my weather not showing the right town when I'm home - unless I'm using my wifi)
so,... reading what other people have done, I cleared my map cache, pulled the battery waited a bit then re-installed.... powered up,.. and got that white boot screen that some people have seen.. , pulled the batt again..and again got that white boot screen... selected "power-down" and the phone booted normally.....
NOW ... with standalone gps, It finds me accurately within a few moments ... which it was NOT doing before ,... I was starting to think my standalone gps receiver was bad.... now I know thats not the case....
where it starts to get strange.... with stand alone gps,.. it finds me quick, If I also check Verizon, makes no difference .. with VZ alone.. it will not find me at all ... what it WAS doing (im messing with it as Im typing this up) ... was when I also checked Google ... and went to maps it would for about 5-10 seconds show me in the next town, and then MOVE ME to the correct location ... VERY strange... but what really got me EXCITED ..was for about 2 seconds it ACTUALLY SHOWED MY CORRECT LOCATION in the weather widget, then switched to saying (current location) with no name... ...
so,.. then I couldn't help but think, maybe there is some bad/wrong info stuck in a cache somewhere, so I decided to look on the sd card...and there IS a google map cache in the Android folder...,.. I deleted ALL OF THOSE ... and now.. its not saying (current location) anymore.. its showing the name on a neighboring town again...... very strange...
anyways,...I thought I would share this,.. perhaps with the brain power and experimentation of all of us... WE will figure it out before VZ does... the fact that for a few seconds,.. for the first time, mine actually showed the correct town name while on the network and wifi NOT enabled... makes me lean heavily towards thinking its a software bug with the Google Location software .. ... perhaps a cache file somewhere stuck in memory that needs to be deleted....................... ?????
im still working on it...
I was thinking the same, a corrupt file somewhere within the phones memory or SD card. When I did my restore, I went into the bootloader and also did wipe data / cache partition, which didn't seem to help; I still had the same results upon restoring the phone and connecting to Wi-Fi. The other thing I thought was strange, after the restore, and I connected to Wi-Fi, it should have prompted me to enter my security key, yet it didn't. It just reconnected. That had me thinking the 'restore to factory' didn't work.
I've just left Wi-Fi off for now, the last couple of days. Last night, I plugged my phone in and put it on my night stand as I usually do. I had a 4G signal (bedroom is on upper level). My alarm is set for 7:30am. It went off this morning, I touched snooze, caught about 10 mins. It went off again, and I woke up and turned it off. I was also thinking, for being 7:40am it's still pretty dark. I walk downstairs with phone in hand, and it's 6:44am.
Nice, WTF? I look at my phone, the Clock weather widget has my location as F'n Buenos Aires again. It would appear there are major issues with it switching between 3G and 4G and location and time settings. For now I'm just going to leave Wi-Fi on, and deal with it listing my location as 'Ohio' at least that's right for now. Waking up an hour early because of some damn glitch is BS.
Buenos Aires IS 1 hour ahead of you, and the time is synchronized via the network.
The conspiracy theorist inside of me thinks that this location glitch is Verizon's way of ensuring people update their phone when they push out an update to the phone in a few months. I'm guessing they don't have a way to track the wifi data/tethering usage on 4G as of yet, and once they do, there will be a package update that will fix the location issues as well as put a lock on wifi and tethering. /tinfoilhat
Where are all the so-called experts that were predicting when the TB was going to be released? If they were really in the know, why haven't they chimed in on this? It seems that there are more than just a few people having this issue.
I've been surfing all over Google for days now on this subject.....
(... because I can't stand when a brand new product that I just paid a lot of money for does NOT work CORRECTLY !!!!) ....
....and I have found that this is NOT a Thunderbolt 'only' issue.. this issue has been going on for what looks like almost 2 YEARS with many different model phones....INCLUDING THE IPHONE .... a totally different design (supposedly) ..... so,. ... what does this mean ....
Where the #$%^& IS TECH SUPPORT ON THIS ??? ... HOW CAN SUCH A WIDE-SPREAD PROBLEM STILL BE LINGERING AFTER SO LONG ....and across the board on several model phones... ????
Obviously, being this is a problem with many different phones,. means there MUST BE A COMMON COMPONENT or SOFTWARE/design ....... so,.. why hasn't HTC or Google or Verizon .... figured this out yet ????
TxGoat --- you might just be right about your theory ... would NOT surprise me at all ....
I'm tempted to bring the phone back and tell them to shove it,... just for the principle of NOT letting them get away with obviously turning a blind eye to such a wide spread important issue...
I'm not going to read through this thread, but have you exchanged your tb for another?ska.t73 ... seriously ...that's your response ???? ... the 'logic' of your entire post seems to lack any LOGIC ....
with all due respect, obviously you can read, but I feel you have a little trouble comprehending .... ( I myself suffer from that on occasion )
however ... have you actually done any kind of search on the subject ...??? there are countless amounts of people with DIFFERENT phones including the Iphone that are having these issues... over a long period of time
the problem has nothing to do with Google VZ and HTC you say ...???? are you serious ???? ... are they NOT responsible for their products working correctly ... ???? ... and,.... if none of them are responsible ... uhhhmmm.. then.. who exactly is ... ???? ... me, the consumer... ???
do you NOT think that there are common parts in all of these phones ???? ... a chip, or resistor, or software code. .. or whatever ...made by the same manufacture and purchased in bulk .. ??? ...
your entire post implies that the problem is likely with 'MY phone' ... like I am the only one with this issue... again... do a bit of research ... and you will find that this issue has been going on for a very long time... with TONS OF PEOPLE ..
... a smart phone is not right for me ????? again, are you serious ??? ... I'm not happy because it is NOT WORKING AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!! ..... ... I never said I didn't LIKE the 'bells and whistles' .... but I don't think it UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT THEM TO WORK PROPERLY .... ....
ska.t73 ... seriously ...that's your response ???? ... the 'logic' of your entire post seems to lack any LOGIC ....
with all due respect, obviously you can read, but I feel you have a little trouble comprehending .... ( I myself suffer from that on occasion )
however ... have you actually done any kind of search on the subject ...??? there are countless amounts of people with DIFFERENT phones including the Iphone that are having these issues... over a long period of time
the problem has nothing to do with Google VZ and HTC you say ...???? are you serious ???? ... are they NOT responsible for their products working correctly ... ???? ... and,.... if none of them are responsible ... uhhhmmm.. then.. who exactly is ... ???? ... me, the consumer... ???
do you NOT think that there are common parts in all of these phones ???? ... a chip, or resistor, or software code. .. or whatever ...made by the same manufacture and purchased in bulk .. ??? ...
your entire post implies that the problem is likely with 'MY phone' ... like I am the only one with this issue... again... do a bit of research ... and you will find that this issue has been going on for a very long time... with TONS OF PEOPLE ..
... a smart phone is not right for me ????? again, are you serious ??? ... I'm not happy because it is NOT WORKING AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!! ..... ... I never said I didn't LIKE the 'bells and whistles' .... but I don't think it UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT THEM TO WORK PROPERLY .... ....
well,... if you had decided to read this thread, you would of seen that I am on my 3rd Thunderbolt.
a friendly suggestion, ....if you are interested in the issue, would be to read the entire thread, and also do research on this site and others..... you will find that the location/gps issue ... is not isolated to the Thunderbolt ...and has been going on for quite some time....
dude.. very calm... and appreciate the intended help...
moving on..,
interestingly, you point out the clock, I never noticed, but,...the task bar clock seems to be correct, ..however, the weather/widget clock, when I first slide the slider down is always 2 minutes behind it, but updates to the same time as the task bar clock within a second ... and ,.. if I hit the power button, and do the slider again... its right back to 2 minutes behind every time and changes to the correct time...
I just tried it with wifi on and off.... same outcome... just a reminder note... with wifi on 'most' of the time.. it will show my correct town ...
another interesting note is... most of the time, when wifi is off,.. the city it shows is the place that I bought the phone... and there are other towns closer...... ,... interesting.. .because from all of my reading of people with this problem... it seems that many times the wrong location is only when they are actually 'home' .... (from the post that I have read) --- Im wondering if perhaps It's something with the info on the sim card ????
Well I'm hoping I solved my issue for now. I'm just not going to use the HTC Clock / Weather Widget (which really isn't the answer, as this was working for 2 weeks, then mysteriously just stopped). I installed Beautiful Widgets, using the SuperClock widget with weather / geolocation with Wi-Fi and so far so good. Oh and just so you guy's don't think I'm comepletely nuts, here are some print screens -
BW:
HTC Clock / Weather
I'm wondering if there is a setting in the Weather app (that controls the HTC Clock and Weather widget), that some of us are overlooking or accidently checked (or unchecked). Let me dig arround in the weather app and see if I can find anything.
BTW, Mansfield Ohio born and raised!
Cool, thanks man. Needless to say it has been driving me a bit nutty.
FTW Ohio!
The fam' is thinking about heading out to AZ, Scottsdale area. I was there for business a few years ago and I didn't really want to come back!
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