why does my phone keep saying i am in San Antonio, TX?

[james42519]

this is kinda weird and annoying with some apps. why is this happening and how you fix this? wouldn't think cricket is doing this now. i am in ky no where near tx.

 

[abhishek singh21]

switch to airplane mode then turn it off after a while. this will initiate a fresh search for location by your device and make sure you are connected to an internet source ( wifi or LTE)

Have you been to texas in a short while? such issues are common but gets resolved on its own.

 

[james42519]

no never. that is the problem. why does it keep saying i am though. i had google refuse to let me sign into youtube and had this big red warning about something bad happening or something. connected to wifi now and it let me sign in. kinda annoying though that this happens though.

 

[PepperdotNet]

Perhaps Cricket's external IP addresses, or those belonging to whatever ISP your Wi-Fi goes through, are listed as existing in Texas?

 

[james42519]

guess it don't seem to happen on wifi. maybe it is cricket apn but that is kinda weird. think it would use your location not some apn thing

 

[RumoredNow]

What app or setting says you are in TX?

A few more specifics may help diagnose the issue. I'm on Cricket and have not seen any location errors. My Maps, Amazing Weather and NOAA High Def all follow me faultlessly.

 

[sinime]

FWIW, internet on my work PC shows me at the corporate office in another city. It's due to how our internet is routed, and as mentioned above, probably the same issue, but with how Cricket handles it. Annoying in that searches on bing, google, etc. all assume I'm in another city.

I'm curious, do you have location services/GPS disabled? Maybe that is why it is defaulting to network traffic for location?

 

[james42519]

stuff l like youtube, twitter, facebook. when you sign in it looks at your location which is seemed wrong. got notifications from logins because says in tx.

 

[james42519]

yeah searches it seems a lot of time think i am in tx too which is useless when trying to find stuff where i am at. location is on