Location Services and mobile broadband

My Macbook is connected to the internet via a mobile broadband USB-stick. I find that System Preferences/Date and Time/Time Zone can not determine my location. Is this to be expected?

no it does not. location is your phone using gps. data usuage is downloading i.e. web browsing youtube etc.
just a way to check also you can go to your carriers website and check your data usage at any time.
keep find my phone on its a great feature.
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How do I add my new iPhone4s to iCloud's "Find my iPhone"? I followed the iCloud instructions and turned on Macbook Pros' system prefs to "find my mac", turned on iPhone4s's "location services" and set up iCloud, etc. In the "Find my iphone" tab of my new iCloud account (on my Macbook Pro) my iPhone4s still won't show—but my macbook does show. I had my iPhone4s set up at the phone store (2 days ago) and It receives gmail, my contacts and calender entries, the weather, etc. I installed the "Find iPhone" app from iTunes on the iPhone4s, synched to iTunes, even reset the phone, but the only device that gets located is my Macbook Pro. I can send a "sound" message to my Mac (and the Mac recieves it) but unable to see the iPhone4s from my Mac, let alone send any message. Any suggestions to get the iPhone4s device to appear in iCloud?
Thank you in advance for your help.

OK, I figured it out...I deleted the iCloud account off my iPhone (Settings, iCloud, Delete Account), and then added iCloud back in (Settings, iCloud, SignIn)....and then my email (iCloud) and "Find my phone" features worked! Nice!!!!

HT4061 I bought the ipad air for the primary use of marine navigation. I looaded both Garmin and iNAVx charts, but currently none of thecharts including apple maps can determine my location. The error message says to turn on location services and turn of

I bought the ipad air to be used for marine navigation and installed both garmin and inavx charts. Currently none of the charts including apple maps can identify my current location. The error message says to enable location services and disable airport which I have done, but none of these applications work.

I bought the ipad air to be used for marine navigation and installed both garmin and inavx charts. Currently none of the charts including apple maps can identify my current location. The error message says to enable location services and disable airport which I have done, but none of these applications work.

I FORGOT MY IPAD4(wifi) password and it got disabled now how can i recover it?? By the way the wifi is of and the location services and find my ipad are enabled now what can i do to recover it???? PLZ HELP!!!

I FORGOT MY IPAD4(wifi) password and it got disabled now how can i recover it?? By the way the wifi is of and the location services and find my ipad are enabled now what can i do to recover it???? PLZ HELP!!!

Entering your Wifi password will not - unless I'm missing something completely - disable your iPad. The only thing which will disable your iPad that I'm aware of is entering your passcode for iPad incorrectly multiple times.
If this is the case then please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212
If you have forgotten your password for your router the WPA or WPA2 key as it's also known as they you will need to log in to your Router and setup a new WPA(2) key.
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Steve

I lost my iPad 3, using location services and know exactly where there device at. I called police, they show up at that house

I lost my iPad 3, using location services and know exactly where there device at. I called police, they show up at that house, owner denied he doesn't have it. I even show officers on my iPhone where the missing iPad at and send message, face time, etc. But officers said owner don't let's they go inside the house, they can't help me to recover it???!!!
Are officers doing enough or they didn't do it enough to help me recover my missing iPad?
Thanks...

I don't think Apple's Find My [xxx] has been legally tested as constituing probable cause to issue a search warrant by the DA, so the cops can't go in without an invite. You'll need a good lawyer to go in and force new jurisprudence to occur. By which time, the iGadget will be long gone from the place.
Price to pay for living under the Rule of Law. In shadier parts of the planet, you could get a pack of goons to go in, retrieve the item and pound some common sense into the miscreant.

MSE 7.4 Base Location Services and Context Aware Licences?

Hi! I have a question for MSE Base Location Services and Context Aware Licences. Do I need to add Base Location Services and Context Aware Licences in L-MSE-PAK or just enough Base Location Services Licences? What is the difference in these licenses?
I know that the Base Location Services license is determined by the number of access points, and Context Aware license is determined by the number of devices.
Please help me with this issue.

OK, for example, a customer bought a Context Aware license. Can he activate it in MSE 7.4 or need to install MSE 7.3 with Context Aware license and then upgrade to MSE 7.4?

I disabled Location Services and now I want to enable.

I disabled Location Services but now I wish to enable it. Both Location Services and Find My Phone app cannot be highlighted. How can I restore Location Services once it has been turned off? Thanks!

Hello john r.from ma,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iOS 7: Understanding Location Services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5594
Turning Location Services on or off
You can turn Location Services on or off at Settings > Privacy > Location Services. You can turn Location Services on either during the Setup Assistant process or later through the Location Services setting. You can turn it off if you don't want to use this feature or to conserve battery life. You can individually control which apps and system services have access to Location Services data.
Settings > Privacy > Location Services
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services
By enabling Location Services, location-based system services such as these will also be enabled:
Popular Near Me: Your iPhone will periodically send locations of where you have purchased or used Apps in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to improve a crowd-sourced database that may be used to offer geographically-relevant Apps.
Frequent Locations: Your iPhone will keep track of places you have recently been, as well as how often and when you visited them, in order to learn places that are significant to you. This data is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing.
Location-Based iAds: Your iPhone will send your location to Apple in order to provide you with geographically relevant iAds.
Best of luck,
Mario

No 4G, Goggle location service and Amazon app crashes after 10/13 update.

No 4G , Google location service and Amazon app crashes after 10/13 update. I had no issues after the March update, but now sorry to have downloaded this one which was intended to "fix" issued encountered with the March update.

Epharoah,
No 4G? Apps crashing? This doesn't sound normal for any device. What make/model phone do you have? Please share details so we can assist further. Thanks.
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HP OfficeJet 8500 and Mobile Broadband

Has anyone used OfficeJet Wireless 8500 and Mobile Broadband? If so, what router did you use or would recommend. Small Office, less than 15 feet in any direction. Could not get a simple G router to work. Thanks!

Did a help desk ever ask you to check specific UDP or TCPIP ports in your firewall to ensure HP communication paths?
They are not usually open in XPSP3 or W7SP1 even after you load the drivers or web mail. In the updates they even state you must connect to update the device using USB even if you have LAN wired share with a static IP.
I have three W7 devices (OEM W7, refurbished W7 with updates from WXP (32 bit) and single license W7 on 64 bit hardware) and each of those have had rejections and failures on trying to load the print drivers and the solution center (version 14.0).

HT4995 i lost my iphone 4 last night and its not reachable assuming someone took out the sim.. so can i or my network company track the iphone which is not reachable through assuming location services and find my phone apps are enabled?

i lost my iphone 4 last night and its not reachable assuming someone took out the sim.. so can i or my network company track the iphone which is not reachable through assuming location services and find my phone apps are enabled?

No. Find My Phone is the only way to locate any lost iPhone. However, this requires that Find My Phone be turned on/activated before the phone was lost, and the phone must have an Internet connection. If your phone is turned off, does not have an Internet connection, or has been restored, there is no way to locate it.

I have Find my Phone enabled. Could a thief switch off location services to stop it being tracked? If so, an update must place the location services and icloud into the restrictions menu to be protected by the pin to stop it being turned off????

I have Find my Phone enabled on iphone and ipod. Could a possible thief switch off location services to stop it being tracked? If so, an update must place the location services and icloud into the restrictions menu to be protected by the pin to stop it being turned off, surely????

Now find a way of stopping the thief removing the SIM, or simply turning off the phone or restoring it.
The "Find" feature is useful if you mislay the phone, but not usually of value if the phone is stolen.

Surely this is wrong. ( Unable to get ADSL and Mobile broadband SUPER expensive and doesn't work)

$115/month for wireless broadband ( that works 5-10% of the time) for ONLY 15GB a month is the price?? Surely this is wrong.
There is no justification for a price so large for so little data for a service that barely works. Apparently we can't get ADSL because of A: no ports and B: pair gains line to the house. ( Both of which i've seen no proof of) Why is this a problem now when 5 years ago it wouldnt have been??? I've lived 40km's out of town and had perfectly fine internet connection, now I live 4 minutes out of town and can't get it. I must not have been put onto the correct technical support or the people I'm talking to don't know what they're doing.
Because it barely works now I have to use my phone, which adds a huge amount to my phone bill because phones only have 2-4gb of data. There's no other way of putting it other than we are being robbed in broad daylight. This is now the 3rd month I've been negotiating with Telstra about these charges.
So who do I talk to to either get an ADSL connection and surely this price is wrong or just hasn't been updated? $115 for 15gb, everyone I've talked to has laughed and thought I was joking.
Have tried negotiating with Telstra for months now, as I said must be getting the wrong people. Have called the Ombudsman and was put onto someone who just spent a longer time telling me we can't have ADSL.
There is absolutely no justification for the price and for not being able to have ADSL.

Hi mate First of all, it sucks but telstra is not robbing you or doing anything wrong. When they say there is no "ports" they are correct, and it means there are physically no "spots" or "connection points" left at your local telephone exchange to connect an ADSL service or for that matter even just a "normal" landline connection. When the exchange was built no one could have predicted the massive future demand for internet. There are so many more houses, units, sub divisions etc then was forseen by ANYONE, not just telstra, combined with an insane increase in the amount of data demanded by each service. You asked about being put on a "pair gain" system. It's basically just a way of running multiple services down the one line- technical name is multiplexing. They invested in that technology so you would at least have a voice service, but as the line is already being used for more than originally designed for there's no way it could support a fast internet connection also. As for your location, when you were further out of town there would have been far less demand for ports, now you live in a city where the demand is much much higher. Disregarding that, it's often just a lottery whether you end up in a suburb with spare ports or not. Now look, telstra is a private company with shareholders to answer to, so why would they do anything which is not profitable in the end? They owe you nothing!! In fact my family and thousands of other aussies own telstra shares and i cant say i'd be happy if they were flushing our money away. These days internet is almost an essential utility which is why the PUBLIC sector is building the NBN. So if everyone will have that soon and copper will be redundant, why would telstra continue upgrading the old network in the meantime just to lose every dollar they spend? It does really suck but there's entire suburbs which can't get ADSL for the reason that they were built after the NBN was announed. As for mobile broadband, yes it's expensive. It's also quite expensive for telstra to provide it and their mobile towers are very limited in their total data output. This is why you pay far more for less. The more data people are downloading the less calls the tower can take. A single phone tower can often only support labout 200 calls simultanously., with some bigger towers with multiple carriers supporting around 1000. a single fast ADSL2 connection can get 20mbps peaks, well that 1000 call tower could only take about 12 x 20mbps internet downloads before it's maxxed out- thats with zero calls. Now think about how many people have mobile phones these days and what a critical service it is. The result is that carriers have to put a low cap the 3g/4g data allowances and aggressively price home wifi broadband Because the number of phone calls is highly variable and being the higher priority service, your internet speed will always depend on the number of calls being made. The tower will always drop your internet to bare minimum to try and connect every phone call if possible. In a way telstra, optus etc are just maximising their investments by selling off their "spare" 3g/4g tower bandwidth, it's super expensive but it's your choice too. They spent the money building the network so it's their reward for doing so. All you can really do sorry apart from moving is go on a waiting list for a spare port and wait for the NBN. The NBN will probably come before a spare port sorry!

Integrating a PHP Web App with an Existing Azure Mobile Services and Mobile App

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Location Services and battery explanation!

Ok, so many of us are uncertain regarding leaving Location Services ON because of the battery life problem.
I will explain the issue here so there will be no more questions about this:
When enabling Location Services you authorize the usage of the GPS unit on your phone. Below the LS switch you will see other switches regarding the applications that were using the LS in the last 24H. So the question is: Does the LS drain battery when leaved ON but no apps are using it? The answer is NO!
When you use an application that has the option to get your location it will ask for your permission to use the Location Services, if you will deny it it will not use the GPS unit, and so no power will be given to the GPS to function. Try to think the Location Services as it's name says so: a Service: When an application needs GPS information, the service powers up the GPS unit, when no application needs the GPS it cuts the power off from the GPS unit.
Do not compare with the Bluetooth! When using bluetooth, to be always discoverable the BT chip needs to be powered up all the time.
Think this as a somehow "standby" mode, the Location Service is listening in the background for requests for the GPS unit, when needed it powers it up, when not it powers it down.
You shouldn't be noticing more than 1 or 2% drain because of this service being enabled, nothing noticeable.
So it's ok to leave the LS ON as long as the apps using it are not enabled to actively use the service.

Either one. When you see the white/purple arrow on the top, an application you are using has enabled Location Services for itself. While the app is running in either the foreground or background, LS continues to run until the app is either closed or has been force closed through the multitask bar.
LS only uses battery life when it either picks the GPS or the cellular towers to continuously ping your location. But the LS doesn't use as much power as believed. It's actually a combination of things such as GPS and Internet and Music or GPS, Internet and Camera.
Most people keep the LS running as it does little harm to battery life. Some turn it off or turn off certain apps to protect their privacy as they are broadcasting on a social network their approximate location such as LOOPT to friends that you are in a restaurant.

Location services and battery life

I see this from the Apple site regarding reducing power consumption:
"Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed."
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
I can read this advice two ways:
1. Turn off Location Services in the Settings when not using Location Services. As long as Location Services is turned on in Settings, you are using more of the battery.
or
2. I can leave Location Services on in the Settings without reducing battery life. It is only when I use an application that uses Location Services that battery life is reduced.
Which is it?

Either one. When you see the white/purple arrow on the top, an application you are using has enabled Location Services for itself. While the app is running in either the foreground or background, LS continues to run until the app is either closed or has been force closed through the multitask bar.
LS only uses battery life when it either picks the GPS or the cellular towers to continuously ping your location. But the LS doesn't use as much power as believed. It's actually a combination of things such as GPS and Internet and Music or GPS, Internet and Camera.
Most people keep the LS running as it does little harm to battery life. Some turn it off or turn off certain apps to protect their privacy as they are broadcasting on a social network their approximate location such as LOOPT to friends that you are in a restaurant.

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