Why Does Goolge Latitude SUCK

**darren.wlsn1** · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:13 PM

i thought something sounded odd there, glad you got it. now fix mine. lol

**MadlyAlive** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

i thought something sounded odd there, glad you got it. now fix mine. lol

LOL.

Did you try a complete uninstall and reinstall of the latest version?

Josedogg54 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:38 PM

It's not the Blackberry gps it works prefect when using the program it's self but once you exit the program and continue to allow tracking it puts the phone 80 miles away. The program works and I have everything set up I'm just mad because I don't want to update my location manually I work as a Land Surveyor and I'm out in the deep woods a lot and would like people to be able to find me if anything ever happened. I hope google fixes the problems with updating that would be awesome. But for now I'm just pissed because it's like getting a new toy and you take it out of the box and it doesn't work.

**Genjinaro** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Josedogg54

but once you exit the program and continue to allow tracking it puts the phone 80 miles away. T

Thats just it, you can't exit the program; if you want it to constantly track you, leave it open in the BG.

If you exit, and you want your location to be tracked, it will only highlight the area you were in when you last exit the app.

The 80 miles would've/should've been the spot Lattitude/Google GPS was last running.

seanborn1979 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 02:03 PM

When the new Garmin/ASUS Nuviphone comes out it is supposed to have a good version of latitude on it. Hopefully by then they have the bugs figured out! Or if it is propritary to that phone only I am sure someone here will extract it from the phone and have it available for the rest of us!

Josedogg54 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 02:25 PM

I think it's just a bug with the blackberry version of the program. It only seems to be tracking the BB with towers and no GPS but it's weird because when she is home it says she is 80 miles from were she actually is. But if the program is left on it uses GPS and gives exact location same as the touch pro.

VW · #7 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 04:50 PM

I dont know. A friend and I tried it, he on his 800wx, me on my TP. The initial location was fine, but it never seemed to want to update the other persons position. We drove down the road with the two phones beside each other and we thought they would update about once a min or so, but it never would update until we exited out and re-ran google maps

**darren.wlsn1** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MadlyAlive

LOL.

Did you try a complete uninstall and reinstall of the latest version?

actually i got 7 sats. locked in 6 seconds when i just moved 500 ft. guess i was in a dead zone.

**MadlyAlive** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-15-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

actually i got 7 sats. locked in 6 seconds when i just moved 500 ft. guess i was in a dead zone.

Interesting. Glad to hear it's working