Friday, March 29, 2013

What is up with Samsung Galaxy 3 + Jelly Bean = Bad GPS?

Ever since I upgraded my wonderful Samsung Galaxy 3 on AT&T to Jelly Bean the GPS has been a disaster. It either fails to find my location, reports it inaccurately or gives the impression that it is trying to find my location without ever actually doing it.

If I hard reboot the phone it will run fine again for the first time I use it or until I turn the GPS off and on again and then I'm right back where I started. Having searched the web I've found many people reporting similar problems since upgrading to Jelly Bean on different networks.

At this point, I've gone from relying and trusting it to using my old school dedicated GPS device.

.... Samsung needs to address this issue and fast.