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February
Hi guys,
I have updated my Huawei P20 Pro to EMUI 9,0.0.178. After the update, GPS is not working properly. After reboot, the GPS is fine, but once I stopped navigation and start a new navigation, it keeps "Looking for GPS ...". I have tried GPS test app, it just could not get GPS fix. Whenever I need to navigate, I have to reboot the phone. I am wondering anyone is facing the same issue. I have wipe the cache partition but it did not help. I do not really want to do a factory reset. However, it seems that is the last resort I have.
Thanks,
Solved! Go to Solution.
March
Hi everyone,
The February SMR along with a fix for this GPS issue will begin rolling out March 21.
Thanks to everyone who reported this!
February
Same issue here, nothing seems to work for me. This issue has been quite a while already and it hasn't been fixed yet, it'll be nice to know when and what should we expect the fix to happen.
February
@Gabbie1977 wrote:
@simonxcheng wrote:The GPS stayed in good state for just one day after the factory reset. Reboot did not fix issues anymore. So, I did a factory reset again yesterday. This time, I will try GpsFix app if GPS goes wrong again. If it keeps having problems, I will send it back to Huawei.
Since i too am in the same boat that any change lasted 24 hours. I am stuck having to turn off / power back on the phone and it seems to work for a few hours, which sucks but if i absolutely need it i'll have to do that for now.
Could it also be a software we both are using causing it?
It's interesting, for me it's almost exactly 24h before the GPS fails
February
I had same issue with GPS not working after EMUI9 update. Since then I did a lot of troubleshooting.
- reinstalling from scratch
- reset cache etc.
nothing worked, restart helps until next time I need to use GPS and I have to restart again. Even though it worked for time being after restart, GPS accuracy was very low.
i tried to rollback to previous version 8.1 and GPS functionality is back to normal. Once update applied it worked for about 8 hours and then stopped again.
My email to Huawei didn’t bring much info.
So i rolled back again to EMUI 8.1 and GPS works as suppose to. I’ll wait until it is resolved. Obviously it is some nasty bug in EMUI 9
February
Thx for the update, sent mine for fixing, problem still exits after that, i guess ill just roll back to 8.1
February
I reverted as well. I am please there has been some success with it.
Super pleased Huawei offers to a tool to revert, also disappointed such a flawed update made it into the wild. There seems to be a lot of GPS issues with Pie, checking on other forums.
February
I have same problem now, need reboot to get it work every time,GPS fix apps not work.
February
Hi all, try this
Go to Settings-> Security & privacy-> Location access-> scroll down to Google location accuracy and disable it
Go back to location access -> adavanced settings-> disable Wifi scanning.
It works for me since 2 days.
It's a global issue with android 9.0
Hope it's the final solition
February
For those of you who still have GPS issue, just downgrade it back to 8.1 with Hisuite, I can confirm it works and it is really easy to do
February
Since I tried this solution, the GPS works like a charm since i tried this solution 6 days ago, the gps works like a charm.
March
@Benmassaoud your solution didn't work for me.