Your GPS sensor lets your phone use navigational apps and location services to properly tag your geo-location across apps. A good signal is crucial for navigation as well as playing certain AR (augmented reality) games like Pokémon Go. So how can you improve the GPS signal on your device? Here are some suggestions that may help you.
1. Switch on 'High accuracy' mode
To get the best possible signal, you have to use a bit more battery than normal, and it's a necessary sacrifice when you're doing Pokémon hunting.
Enabling this is easy:
Go into your Settings and tap Location and ensure that your location services are on. You should be able to toggle it at the top right hand of your screen. It should be green and the button to the right.
Now the first category under Location should be Mode, tap that and make sure it's set to High accuracy. This uses your GPS as well as your Wi-Fi and mobile networks to estimate your location. This will use more battery, but will utilize all available methods to give you the most accurate location possible.
2. Keep the GPS signal active
One of the main problems that we encountered when going from one app to another is that the GPS is turned off to save battery. You can keep the GPS signal active by installing a GPS app. We recommend Connected GPS. A simple app you could use is Connected GPS and it does the trick.
Note: Doing this could result in reduced battery life.
3. Refresh your GPS Data
Sometimes your device will get 'stuck' on certain GPS satellites, even if they’re not within range, causing it not to work properly. To fix this, you can use an app like GPS Status & Toolbox to clear your GPS data and to start connecting to satellites from scratch.
In the app, tap anywhere on the screen, then tap the menu icon and hit Manage A-GPS state. Tap Reset, then when that's finished go back into the Manage A-GPS state menu and tap Download. Your GPS data should now be refreshed, and if it starts playing up again then just repeat this process.
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