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I just drove home from work. I was bored so fired up Maps. All the way home I noticed I couldn't get a signal. I also fired up two other apps that use the GPS but these too couldn't get a signal. I am now at home and still cannot get a signal. After reading a few websites some people suggested that the GPS works if using wifi. I can confirm that it indeed does. If I switch off the wifi to use 3G again it again doesn't pinpoint my location.

Aside from this, the whole GPS thing on the iPhone sucks without proper GPS navigation software. I thought I read TomTom managed to get their software to work on the phone. I would be sure to buy it if they ever released it.

Back to my question, anyone else's GPS not working either?

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I just drove home from work. I was bored so fired up Maps. All the way home I noticed I couldn't get a signal. I also fired up two other apps that use the GPS but these too couldn't get a signal. I am now at home and still cannot get a signal. After reading a few websites some people suggested that the GPS works if using wifi. I can confirm that it indeed does. If I switch off the wifi to use 3G again it again doesn't pinpoint my location.

Aside from this, the whole GPS thing on the iPhone sucks without proper GPS navigation software. I thought I read TomTom managed to get their software to work on the phone. I would be sure to buy it if they ever released it.

Back to my question, anyone else's GPS not working either?

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I hear you - I honestly have been using Google Maps Mobile until Apple releases a TomTom app (if ever). Same great Tele Atlas maps, though no turn-by-turn. Worked great for me so far.

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Tested again tonight with a mate's iPhone driving back from a job. Opened maps on both at the same time. His got the flashy pin thing within seconds. Mine only shows a target area of 6000 feet, so no pin. I've read a few other places on the net that people say they have the same problem. However there is no known fix. I find it odd I am the only person on this forum to have such an issue. Nothing on Apples support pages either.

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Not for car navigation. Even if they just made the maps rotate so your always driving north on the screen would improve the maps by 100%.

The Maps app has never been advertised has having turn-by-turn navigation and also Google doesn't allow their Maps to be used for turn-by-turn purposes. It's against their EULA. You need a dedicated navigation Maps app for that ala TomTom, Garmin, NavMan etc.

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Which ala isn't available for the iPhone. The maps already offers routing from A to B. When the iPhone GPS is running you can follow the path. I wasn't suggesting a full blow sat nat, just a north facing map.

In regards to car navigation, there is an icon to change if your on foot or in a car. Sounds daft to have that if its not mean for car use.

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Daft!

I love these English expressions! Daft! Toss! Tosser!

Although we speak the Queen's English up here, our expressions aren't nearly as interesting.

As for Google Maps, I do use it when behind the wheel, but you need to be extremely careful with it. I think the car feature is for when you're able to hand the unit to a passenger, which works quite well. But that's just an assumption.

I think even as we speak, someone's probably working on a voice turn-by-turn GPS app. It's only a matter of time.

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