Although it was not so dependable earlier but with apps and services molding across it, GPS has become one of the important aspects of a smartphone. It lets the user track his/her location on a map, find out route to a given destination or find ATMs, hotels, restaurants, public parks, transit methods, and there are a lot of other applications. Open Google Maps and you got your location or try searching for the shortest route to point B or get inputs on sightseeing and places of attraction nearby and you got it. Want to book a cab? Open Uber or any other app and you’ll get the option to turn on location so that the app can track your accurate location and that’s all because GPS is active on your phone but what if it isn’t? What if your phone is facing some kind of GPS problem that needs to be ascertained and fixed?
How To Fix Walton GPS Problem?
Before getting to know how to actually ‘fix’ potential GPS problem, you must know how the GPS actually works. To summarize, your phone acts as a GPS receiver that intercepts signals from the GPS satellites which are orbiting the Earth in geostationary orbit. These satellites send out signals to all the GPS receivers and when the phone intercepts it, the location on a map is carved out. When it comes to smartphones, it uses A-GPS or Assisted GPS which literally means the phone uses satellites and the nearby cell towers to track the accurate and precise location of the user which improves accuracy. Now let’s see what are sort of GPS problem you could face and how to fix it.
“GPS isn’t turning ON”
It is a common problem where you tried turning on GPS but it doesn’t even after the icon on the notification panel is illuminated. What could you possibly do to fix it? Well, it is simply because you simply need to tap on the Location or GPS icon on the notification panel and toggle it repeatedly for twice to thrice. This action must force the feature to kickstart but even if it doesn’t, doing the same with Airplane mode could do the magic for you. You can also reboot the phone as it is possible that an error caused hurdle starting up the said feature aka GPS in this case. Rebooting the system must resolve the temporary software error right away.
“GPS is showing inaccurate or out-of-sight location”
You are standing at a Point A and want to go to Point B but you don’t know how to go about. So what you do is take out your phone, turn on GPS and open Google Maps or any alternative and start feeding the location and you get the results. But hey, your location isn’t accurate on the map. It could be slightly away from your actual location or it could be 5m or 10m or even a few kilometers away from your actual location. So, how do you fix it?