Anyone able to make the "geofence" reminders work?

[GooMan]

I have a 3GS (on iOS5 beta obviously) and can not make the reminders fire when I leave or arrive at a location. I saw other threads where people were complaining that setting one makes location services run constantly and kills battery life. Well, when I set one I never see the location services arrow in the status bar.

Just wondering if they actually work in Beta1.

 

[Krevnik]

Two things:

1) They don't work against Exchange accounts.
2) You need to make sure you hit "done" twice, as either cancel button will wipe out the changes.

 

[GooMan]

They don't work against Exchange accounts.

Not sure I understand that, how are they tied to an email account?

EDIT: I tried setting one up in the iCloud reminder list and it still didn't fire the notification.

 

[waterskier2007]

not sure what you could be doing wrong but mine worked fine. twice i have set one and they went off at perfect timing, right when i pulled onto my street 300 ft from home after work

 

[GooMan]

I wonder if they work on an iPhone 3GS. I don't see what they would not but I have not seen anyone say they work on their 3GS so I guess it is possible. Good info to know they actually work in the beta.

I'm stumped.

 

[waterskier2007]

maybe they dont:

http://www.iappnow.com/2011/06/09/ios-5-location-based-reminders-doesnt-seem-to-work-on-3gs/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6287800/ios-5-location-based-reminders-doesnt-seem-to-work-on-3gs

and i didnt have time to read this one: http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-3gs-doesnt-support-all-features-of-ios-5-video/