Android Location History
Sep 27, 2014 | 11:22 am
#31
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It's two different things.
Turning off history will NOT clear the history they already have - just step it being collected going forward.
But you can also delete the history they already have as a separate step.
Instructions on how to do both should be available by clicking on the settings icon from the URL included above.
Turning off history will NOT clear the history they already have - just step it being collected going forward.
But you can also delete the history they already have as a separate step.
Instructions on how to do both should be available by clicking on the settings icon from the URL included above.
Sep 28, 2014 | 6:23 pm
#32
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If only I got the mileage points for that!
Sep 29, 2014 | 5:41 am
#33
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Mine placed me in the airport at Riyadh Saudi Arabia for 3 hours last month during a time period I was in the air flying MNL-BKK on a PR A330. While there is no in flight map on PR's new A330's I pretty sure the route from MNL to BKK didnt cause us to linger for 3 hours in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Great, I'm probably on some NSA terror watch list now.
Sep 29, 2014 | 7:42 am
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Mine placed me in the airport at Riyadh Saudi Arabia for 3 hours last month during a time period I was in the air flying MNL-BKK on a PR A330. While there is no in flight map on PR's new A330's I pretty sure the route from MNL to BKK didnt cause us to linger for 3 hours in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Great, I'm probably on some NSA terror watch list now.
Sep 29, 2014 | 8:04 am
#35
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I had a similar error following a business trip on the west coast (correct) location history had my across country 1 hour later (incorrect) then west coast to a different city another hour later (incorrect) then back home another hour later (correct).
If only I got the mileage points for that!
If only I got the mileage points for that!
Sep 29, 2014 | 8:14 am
#36
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I'm noticing errors where it defaults to me being at home when I'm clearly not... for example, I left the house at ~7:30 this morning to drop off the kids at school, went to the Nissan dealership to get a PSF hose, went to the Goodwill to drop off some donations, went to O'Reily to get some PSF and Brake Fluids, and then returned home ~9:30am. At ~6-10 different times while I was out, the time-stamped location reverted to me being at home when I was not. I would think a lapse of service would revert to either no location or last known location, not the home location. Strange...
Sep 29, 2014 | 8:20 am
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I'm noticing errors where it defaults to me being at home when I'm clearly not... for example, I left the house at ~7:30 this morning to drop off the kids at school, went to the Nissan dealership to get a PSF hose, went to the Goodwill to drop off some donations, went to O'Reily to get some PSF and Brake Fluids, and then returned home ~9:30am. At ~6-10 different times while I was out, the time-stamped location reverted to me being at home when I was not. I would think a lapse of service would revert to either no location or last known location, not the home location. Strange...
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn the Nexus 7 off and see what happens.
Sep 29, 2014 | 8:50 am
#38
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Do you have a tablet at home? I have a Nexus 7 at home and I think it is resulting in these same kinds of jumps for me. I assume theat when my phone loses location for whatever reason, it is recording my Nexus 7's location.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn the Nexus 7 off and see what happens.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn the Nexus 7 off and see what happens.
Sep 29, 2014 | 9:48 am
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Do you have a tablet at home? I have a Nexus 7 at home and I think it is resulting in these same kinds of jumps for me. I assume theat when my phone loses location for whatever reason, it is recording my Nexus 7's location.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn the Nexus 7 off and see what happens.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn the Nexus 7 off and see what happens.
Sep 29, 2014 | 10:05 am
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My office has a steel roof, so signals are very weak inside.
Sep 29, 2014 | 9:35 pm
#41
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On a different international multi segment flight, there is no location info at all during 2 segments where the airports did not have wifi. Changing the setting to show 2 days adds in my departure city but skips over the second city where I didn't get off the plane and kept my phone in airplane mode.
Sep 30, 2014 | 1:22 am
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Before I switched to iPhone, my Android phone was relatively poor at detecting my location. Every so often it would decide I was in Nairobi instead of Chicago, and my alarm would go off at midnight because it would helpfully set my clock 8 hours ahead.