Unhappy customers flaming Apple and each other over iPhone GPS issues

I know I am a numpty but I hadn't even picked up on the GPS. Mine doesn't work no blue dot flashing etc. updated software and done reset. This is my second 3Gs as the first one died after three days. (wouldn't charge up) Given new one which I have been using for last three months. I was wondering why I am never standing where the phone says I am. Very existential!

I just upgraded my iPhone 3GS to 3.1 and I get a correct location (blue dot in Maps) quickly, but it gets more accurate, from within 30 feet to spot on in about two to three minutes.

Maybe a stupid question, but how do you see that a gps signal is acquired?

i think it all depends on circumstances sometimes my gps works and sometimes it makes me feel like an idiot for paying $160 a month just to have a iphone and $100 to have navigon on it... i still remember one day when i really needed the gps to work in the city i had to reset the phone 10 times to get it to work,,, it really pisses me off when i have to stick my hand out the window just to get the gps to lock ive had many phones in the past with gps from a nokia n96 to a htc touch and i never had a problem getting a gps signal or having the signal drop with the iphone even standing on a street under a clear open sky it cant figure out where it is... like if they couldn't fit a good quality gps chip inside the phone why the hell did they put one in anyway?

[SOLVED]

GPS problems can easily be solved by going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Location Warnings

Best,
Pierre Bernard
Houdah Software s.a r.l

My jailbroken 3G on t-mobile has never gotten a real GPS fix, under 2.x nor under 3.0. One of several things making me consider switching to a MyTouch and using the iphone without the phone functions.

I have a 3gs and the gps works perfect..

I noticed on a recent trip that some of my photos were not located correctly, and some were. Not sure why. After the 3.1 update, so far all works fine.

wi-fi stopped working on my iphone after the 3.0 update and they would not replace it at the apple store because the dock connector showed signs of "water damage"... which is bullshit because i just got the phone 2 weeks ago after returning my previous iphone when the sleep/wake button stopped working. i have no luck :(

I've got a 2G -- admittedly not the model we're talking about here -- and having installed 3.0 three different times, location services have worked fine twice, and been screwed up once. That once manifested itself as an inability to find any cell towers for triangulation except one about 30 miles away from my house. Anywhere else in the country I got nothing. So, I'd highly recommend reinstalling the iPhone software as a first step for people having trouble.