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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15.07.2016 15:27, Alan Bell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote:
>> Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the
> no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is
> about things that do *not* subscribe to updates, things that just want
> to know where you are.
> For example
> https://www.where-am-i.net/
> and a ton of sites that just want to know where you are for things like
> this https://www.aldi.co.uk/store-finder
> they are not doing navigation, they are not presenting you on a map as a
> moving dot. They just want a single latlng and then they are done, but
> location services hands out junk, and doesn't wake up the GPS so you can
> refresh forever and nothing will update, and there is no indication that
> your GPS is still fast asleep. You have to go to google maps, wait for
> it to get a dot at your location, then go back to your location aware
> thing and refresh to let it know where you actually are.

Interesting. Now I understand the issue. Did you report a bug which
describes the issue in such detail? If so, please shoot over the link so
I can subscribe to it.

> 
>> browser, as do I in here maps web app and unav, so the issue is why you
>> don't.  There is an old bug for location on mtk chips which basically
>> means the system doesn't know the status of the gps hardware a reboot
>> fixes that, but that only tend to happen on first boots after upgrades
>> or fresh flashes.
>>
>> This might be the cause of some of your issues maybe.
> nope.
>

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