"Your location is unavailable"

[liguy257]

Seriously, is this a Droid thing or is just a GPS thing? I would say at least 50-60% of the time the phone is unable to get my location (making it useless as GPS in these instances. Lately it seems to be worse. I live on Long Island so it's not like I'm in the middle of Wyoming. I love the Google Nav (favorite aspect of the phone) but I have to admit, it's very frustrating when you rely on it or need it suddenly and it doesn't work.

Anyone else constantly having this problem?

 

[takeshi]

Since you don't explicitly state this, can you confirm that GPS is actually on? Have you read any of the other identical threads for possible solutions?

 

[nerdbox08]

Since you don't explicitly state this, can you confirm that GPS is actually on? Have you read any of the other identical threads for possible solutions?

+1.

There have been several times I attempted to use Where! only to find I didn't have GPS turned on. >.<

 

[Meadowlands]

I had this problem with my DROID. It would just sit there at "Searching for GPS". I found out an update from one of my apps was causing the problem. I'm not saying that is it, but it could be.

 

[dwagner88]

I was having this problem, then I went and looked at the settings, I only had GPS satellites enabled, and not network location. When the phone is only using satellites, it can take a few minutes to get a good lock on your position. If you want to see this process, then download the GPSTest app. It will show how the phone communicates with satellites. Once I enabled both network and satellite location, everything was back to normal.

 

[AlicynDrew]

I am so glad you posted to check the settings and to check satellites and networks. For some reason today my Droid thought I was in Northern Ireland driving through a forest when I was actually in urban Northern VA. I could not get it to detect my location at all.

I set it to use both and it's working again. I'm hoping this fixes it for good since it won't have networks to rely on when I'm out in the car.