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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: GPS Acciracu Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:30:48 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 41 Message-ID: <v0fhmr$3hf1g$1@dont-email.me> References: <v0fchb$3ggv0$1@dont-email.me> <v0fg6f$3gvjt$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:30:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36a4b198f4e2d517d919de0f06378160"; logging-data="3718192"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18thCN6rNwf3lOZBthoeoDcAJOW8HYB3eA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kfOXFoJO4l4mZQwxufTSp7ZBhQA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v0fg6f$3gvjt$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2512 On 4/25/24 11:05 PM, J=C3=B6rg Lorenz wrote: > On 26.04.24 07:02, The Real Bev wrote: >> My family can track each other via google maps. Updates are sometimes= =20 >> infrequent and locations are frequently off by significant=20 >> (quarter-mile, half-mile) amounts or moving hundreds of feet while=20 >> asleep in a hotel. Phones are Pixel 2 and daughter's almost-newest=20 >> iPhone. Freeways, big cities, places where there are lots of towers. = >> Verizon and T-Mobile >>=20 >> Is it the phones or google or something completely different? >=20 > Are the GPS-location settings already set to the highest precision leve= ls? >=20 > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3467281?hl=3Den Yup, all those were already ON. (Pixel2/Android 11) I have a keepgo=20 data SIM that I use my google voice number with, but it makes no=20 difference whether I turn that on or off as long as I have wifi on. > https://support.apple.com/en-us/102647 No idea and daughter is somewhere in the Atlantic on her way to Iceland. = Still just off New York, of course :-( It will be maybe a month... > Both articles will help you to maximise location precision. Pls read it= > very carefully. >=20 > HTH, J=C3=B6rg Thx. --=20 Cheers, Bev Some people just can't be helped; you take 'em out of the rat race for 5 minutes and they end up missing the rats! --XR650LDave