GPS Not Picking Up Without Phone
I have been a happy SW3 user for the past 5 months. My watch has mostly worked as promised, including the standalone GPS which worked flawlessly with Runkeeper and Endomondo.
About two weeks ago, my GPS stopped working and it looked like I ran zero miles, despite the fact Runkeeper was logging the time. Also, the battery killed itself by the end of my short 30 minute run.
Shortly thereafter, I got a ping for the latest update to the Wear OS. I assumed that would clear up whatever was going on. The update didn't solve the GPS issue.
I deleted the Wear App from my phone, factory reset my watch, reinstalled my running apps, and still have the same issue with not being able to use the standalone GPS.
I changed the GPS settings in my phone per one of the suggestions on another thread. That didn't correct the issue. Any other suggestions?
I received my replacement watch from Sony and have the same issues that I had with the first one! Running with Runkeeper and then Endomondo, I was tracked as running 30 minutes for 0 miles. I downloaded "Wear GPS Status" app and it shows what satellites you would pick up. The phone is set to GPS only and it picks up 14 sats with the phone. I set the phone to airplane mode and my sats went away and I was left with 2 weak signals. I also set up developer mode and it couldn't get GPS at all. In the meantime, I turned off the location setting on the watch to preserve battery life and not mess with it. I contacted Sony Xperia tech support and they said they'd send me a 2nd replacement. At this time, I'm not sure a 3rd watch would fix the problem.
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I have tried all that, with gps test app, I left it on for 5 minutes and nothing. and my gps radio is always on.
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 05:00:50 -0600
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Subject: Re: GPS not picking up signal - Re: GPS not picking up signal
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Do you leave the GPS radio on all the time or turn it off when you aren't going to use for a while?
I leave mine on with my Tbolt and it usually locks on quickly. If it doesn't, then I make sure that I'm outside and open an application called GPS Test. I use this application to reset the Assisted GPS and to verify that the satellites are within range. The application will then lock my location within at most a couple of minutes and more like seconds.
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