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philitup23

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Feb 2, 2009
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Hey, on the iPhone 3G S...when I go to maps, it shows that I'm currently in the water (which I'm not). Why is that happening and what should I do to fix it?
 
Hey, on the iPhone 3G S...when I go to maps, it shows that I'm currently in the water (which I'm not). Why is that happening and what should I do to fix it?

are you on a cruise?

but seriously, check to see if Location Services is turned on.
 
yea it's on...the location it's placing me is in the water but near where I am. On my iPhone 3G, it would show exactly where I am at all times
 
Try turning off WiFi if it's on. Maybe it's misreading an access point near you. That's really all I can think of. If that's not it, just take it to the genius bar.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

Give it time and the gps dot should adjust itself
 
Wifi is off
If wifi is off, and the iPhone can't get a rough location estimate via triangulation, the gps lock-on can take a long while (possibly several minutes, worst case). This is especially true if the GPS hasn't been used in a while, if you've moved significantly since the last time it was used, or if you're using the iPhone GPS for the very first time.
 
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