"Find My iPad" can't find location

I have set up Find my Iphone on my iphone 4G and it works perfectly. However, on my iPad, I can't get it to work! I have the wifi/3G 64 GB iPad 2 but don't use the 3G. I have reset, hard reset and tried every suggestion I could find but still no luck. Am I the only one having this problem? why does my iphone work but not my iPad? I would not assume I need 3G. Please help.

pvonk wrote:
If you are not using the 3G on your iPad, then the device must rely on the wifi router's location. If the router is not found on a master database, then the iPad cannot indicate its location. No problem with the iPhone, since it gets it's location from the GPS, if not cell tower. But with a wifi device, it must rely on its router location to be defined in some database maintained somewhere on the Internet.
and this is exactly what the "crowd sourced database" that the iPhone uses does.
It will identify wifi access point locations and forward to Apple so wifi devices can locate themselves.
When identifying location with the iPhone (or 3G iPad with 3G turned on), it should update the database and at some point (when this databse info is made available), the iPad should locate itself with wifi only.
See this -> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Location-Data.html

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