GPS of my Nokia Lumia 520 not working

[Adeel Tariq]

GPS or Location Service of my Nokia Lumia 520 not working, when I open maps it says "your location could not be determined" but my location is "ON" , anybody help me please....

 

[jleebiker]

I had a similar issue with an old Trophy. After multiple hard resets, they figured it was a hardware sensor failure. Then oddly, about 12 hours after the last hard reset, everything seemed to work again.

When was the last time you did a hard reset?

I'm assuming you were able to receive GPS signal before.

 

[Adeel Tariq]

Today I did a hard reset due to this problem, but the GPS stopped working 2 days ago.

 

[Adeel Tariq]

Anybody help me to find the solution of this problem please

 

[keerthi vasan]

Anybody help me to find the solution of this problem please

Try hard resetting multiple times. Even if that doesn't fix it, I'm afraid you have no other option but to turn it to the Nokia care. BTW was your cellular data on or else connected to a working Wi-Fi while you switched on the GPS?

 

[Adeel Tariq]

GPS not working on the both, not on cellular data and not on Wi-Fi.

 

[keerthi vasan]

GPS not working on the both, not on cellular data and not on Wi-Fi.

Did you try resetting it multiple times? Even if that didn't help, you have no other option but to service it

 

[jleebiker]

GPS not working on the both, not on cellular data and not on Wi-Fi.

GPS has nothing to do with cell or WiFi. It is completely different signal. You can turn off cell and WiFi and still get GPS signal.

 

[Adeel Tariq]

Yes I tried multiple hard resets but no result.

 

[Guytronic]

Is this happening inside or outside?

 

[Adeel Tariq]

In both, inside and outside.

 

[Adeel Tariq]

Thank you all friends for your important help, now GPS starts working.

 

[kunal tipre]

how please explain ,,,,,, me too have same problem but its not working
:unhappy:

 

[Avinash Kaltari]

how please explain ,,,,,, me too have same problem but its not working
:unhappy:

He did nothing it started working back again by itself...

 

[kunal tipre]

lumia sucks in gps ....hope its will work again

 

[pankaj981]

lumia sucks in gps ....hope its will work again

You do realize pulling in a broad statement (ignore how vague it is) like this without any backup reasons is going to make you a celebrity over here.

 

[ohgood]

GPS has nothing to do with cell or WiFi. It is completely different signal. You can turn off cell and WiFi and still get GPS signal.

agps uses cellular / data if it's missing ....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS


once acquired it should not need data again for weeks unless there is a large change in geographic location

 

[kunal tipre]

I have spent more than 10k rupees on windows phone instead of that i could have purchased cheap android phone. that will also have these basic functions working. windows phone comparing themselves with apple iphone but couldn't have basics ability to workout with initial functions. windows operating is not stable and multitasking, it always crashes out with showing the spinning gear problem and end up with formatting of complete phone memory. i m writing the post just to make other aware about the problems that they will be probably facing after one year.
if u still don't have any idea then please don't mess up. oki, i have got all the rights to state my experience with this product because i have paid for it.

 

[pankaj981]

Yeah you can post your thoughts and experience here but give some additional info rather than a vague one liner rant.

Again I could've argued with you that none of my previously owned Windows Phones had an issues with gps. Heck GPS on my Lumia has worked better everytime when compared with iPhones and high-end Androids.