Dual gps

Hi,
I recently bought an Dual XGPS150 bluetooth GPS receiver for use with my (wifi only) iPad3. This device is according to the manufacturer "made for iPad" and there are a lot of good reviews about it on the internet, but in my case it doesn't work. More specific, the XGPS150 does connect with the iPad over Bluetooth and the and the "Dual GPS - Status Tool" from the manufacturer and downloadable from the AppStore does work without any problem and it shows an accurate location and is responsive to movements. But all my other GPS apps so far - Viewranger and Apple Maps - do not work good with this device. The Apps wil get information from the device, but updates are very irregular sometimes only once in a minute or worse. This leaves it unusable for accurate tracking or navigating. I also found that the device works great on an iPad1 with IOS v5 from a friend. It also work on my Android Smartphone, but not on my iPad3 with IOS 6.1.3.
So it appears to me as a bug with IOS 6.1.3. My question is if anyone else has the same experience with IOS 6.1.3 location services in combination with external bluetooth GPS receivers?
Regards,
Peter

Had exact same problem. A couple of suggestions from others had worked for me so far
1) go into privacy,  location services, system services and turn off setting time zone. Hard reboot the ipad (holding the two buttons down) and try then
If this doesn't work, try this which is more fiddly but is what I tried first and worked -
2) Do a hard reboot if ipad with the GPS unit switched off
When its rebooted, switch the GPS unit on, wait for the gps and bluetooth signals to light up, and it should work ok
However if this is what works for you then you need to do the hard reboot before using the GPS each time.
Hope these work for you and that Apple sort out the upgrade as from what I see elsewhere, it's 6.1.3 where the problems lie.

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