Hi!
When playing I experience the following difficulties with my game (and with the Google Maps app, too)
- Sometimes it works fine, tracking my location and allowing me to get stops and pokémon along the way. However, this is rarely more than 5 minutes.
- My game character freezes in one spot (I'm still moving) for 10 - 60 seconds, then jumps forward to a location near me (within 100m). It usually freezes again after that.
- If I stop moving when my character is frozen on a spot, it will almost never catch up. I have to move to get it to jump (usually not to my location, as explained above).
- When standing still on a location, my game character jumps away from me and won't allow me to get the stop that I'm literally standing on. I have noticed that the spots where he jumps away to, are the same most of the time (if I stand in location A, it will usually jump to location B). The spots that the character jumps to are within 200m of my current location.
These attributes limit my game experience greatly, since there are many Pokémon I can't catch or Poké-stops I can't reach because my game thinks I'm not in the correct location.
During my searches to resolve this issue I have come across various "fixes", but none of them worked. This what I have already tried:
- Download and install the GPS Status & Toolbox app, diagnosing the different sensors (all green) and refreshing the aGPS data.
- Keeping my GPS on "highest accuracy"
- Keep Google Maps running in the background to get a better fix (When I go back to the app it always has to re-initialize, though)
- Uninstalling and reinstalling Pokémon GO and Google Maps
- Downloading the Google map for offline use (mostly to save data)
- Turn on airplane mode (which makes the game unusable, since you can't connect to the internet)
- Tightening the screws inside my phone (Worked for other Galaxy phones, so why not)
- Resetting my phone to factory settings. I currently have only the GPS toolbox, Whatsapp and Pokémon GO installed as custom apps.
During my search to resolve this issue, I have come across one other person that had this problem (that I know of). His phone was a Samsung Galaxy S3.
I have not rooted my phone, and I am hesitant to do so, since my previous phone became unstable after rooting it.
I hope someone can help me, and thanks in advance.
Edit: I noticed that I didnt properly state my phone type: It's a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime LTE (SM-G360F), and it's about a year old.
When playing I experience the following difficulties with my game (and with the Google Maps app, too)
- Sometimes it works fine, tracking my location and allowing me to get stops and pokémon along the way. However, this is rarely more than 5 minutes.
- My game character freezes in one spot (I'm still moving) for 10 - 60 seconds, then jumps forward to a location near me (within 100m). It usually freezes again after that.
- If I stop moving when my character is frozen on a spot, it will almost never catch up. I have to move to get it to jump (usually not to my location, as explained above).
- When standing still on a location, my game character jumps away from me and won't allow me to get the stop that I'm literally standing on. I have noticed that the spots where he jumps away to, are the same most of the time (if I stand in location A, it will usually jump to location B). The spots that the character jumps to are within 200m of my current location.
These attributes limit my game experience greatly, since there are many Pokémon I can't catch or Poké-stops I can't reach because my game thinks I'm not in the correct location.
During my searches to resolve this issue I have come across various "fixes", but none of them worked. This what I have already tried:
- Download and install the GPS Status & Toolbox app, diagnosing the different sensors (all green) and refreshing the aGPS data.
- Keeping my GPS on "highest accuracy"
- Keep Google Maps running in the background to get a better fix (When I go back to the app it always has to re-initialize, though)
- Uninstalling and reinstalling Pokémon GO and Google Maps
- Downloading the Google map for offline use (mostly to save data)
- Turn on airplane mode (which makes the game unusable, since you can't connect to the internet)
- Tightening the screws inside my phone (Worked for other Galaxy phones, so why not)
- Resetting my phone to factory settings. I currently have only the GPS toolbox, Whatsapp and Pokémon GO installed as custom apps.
During my search to resolve this issue, I have come across one other person that had this problem (that I know of). His phone was a Samsung Galaxy S3.
I have not rooted my phone, and I am hesitant to do so, since my previous phone became unstable after rooting it.
I hope someone can help me, and thanks in advance.
Edit: I noticed that I didnt properly state my phone type: It's a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime LTE (SM-G360F), and it's about a year old.
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