GPS not working

rainbow0led

Previously, I was only using gmaps. The GPS would sometimes work, I didnt need it often, I would just select the starting position manually for my on-foot travels. It worked yesterday when I was riding. Today I installed bunch of other navigation apps to try — Waze, Yandex Navi, etc, and NONE of them can access the GPS. Why? I need to get on road in a week, so would much appreciate anybody's support. Some of my settings are:
Route relocation requests to OS ✅
Google Play services location permission ❌
Force Full GNSS ❌
SUPL — GrapheneOS proxy
PSDS — GrapheneOS server

and of course I gave all the apps location permission.

Thank you in advance for all the suggestions. I would be happy to clarify something or give more information.

ErnestThornhill

rainbow0led This topic has been heavily discussed on this forum with solutions figured out . I would give those posts a read through.

other8026

rainbow0led Try enabling network location https://grapheneos.org/usage#network-location. Maybe that'll help. And make sure you either have wifi on, or have wifi scanning enabled.

rainbow0led

ErnestThornhill
I have tried some of the solutions, I believe one or two, which did not show results. But I will take a look at other too, thanks (I have to anyway because I need GPS). That said, I believe the issue I face is common, not a unique case.

rainbow0led

other8026
Network location > GrapheneOS proxy > enable
Works! Thank you on that!
However.. As I understand this is not the normal GPS? It will be less accurate in the wild, far from my home?
Only if you know, may you suggest what may have been wrong since it works after enabling that? I mean, does it tell anything?

rainbow0led

other8026
Also, an update, somehow works if I stop rerouting location requests to OS, give Play services All time location permission + precise location + Google Location Accuracy + WiFi Scanning (this, in Location services)
This also works. Somewhat. Before I turned on WiFi scanning, it was terrible, showed myself 300m from my actual place.

soupslurpr

rainbow0led it was likely only using cell-based location before you did that. Note that there's essentially no reason to use Google's network location when we have our own which also recently got support for cell-based location rather than only Wi-Fi.

rainbow0led

soupslurpr For sure, Google is never my first choice, that's why I am on Graphene. It's just that starting recently GPS is a very needed thing of mine and it was not perfect with pure GrapheneOS set up. It has not been perfect now with all of the configurations I did for Google's location services, but I just simply have to go with who has it better in terms of accurate location and positioning and location updating.

soupslurpr

rainbow0led Oh, so you were encountering issues with our network location feature? Could you please elaborate on those issues to help us improve it?