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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:39 pm Post subject: New invention?
I live in Malaysia. I just bought a Ninetology 5.2" Android ICS smart phone (rebranded ZTE) with GPS for use with Waze. This is my fourth phone with GPS. I have always-on internet.
Recently I have been up to 50km from Kuala Lumpur, in various places. When I turn on Waze, it positions me where I am, for about a minute. Then, without any action on my part it displays a new location for me in Taman Gembira, which can be 40 Km from my real location. I tried Google Maps. Same thing. I logged without a map software. Same thing.
I thought it was a hardware problem and brought it in to Ninetology. They immediately told me "you must use Sygiz" or something like that. But I bought the phone to use Waze.
Question to those who know?
a. Does Ninetology or ZTE have a technology to lock us into Sygiz?
b. Can Ninetology cause my location to unceremoniously shift at its will?
c. Do they have technology that when I use Sygiz I will miraculously no longer be shifted to Taman Gembira?
d. Or could it be, as I told them but they would not hear or fix, there is a hardware bug in the GPS location output?
More importantly, to lawyers in this group, if say a spouse finds that someone mysteriously goofs off to Taman Gembira very often from the GPS log, can she sue for divorce?
Anyway intending Ninetology customers please beware. I think other brands do not make you suffer thus.
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: New invention?
Welcome
kaypohchee wrote:
...it positions me where I am, for about a minute. Then, without any action on my part it displays a new location for me in Taman Gembira, which can be 40 Km from my real location. I tried Google Maps. Same thing. I logged without a map software. Same thing.
I thought it was a hardware problem and brought it in to Ninetology. They immediately told me "you must use Sygiz" or something like that. But I bought the phone to use Waze.
It will be 'Sygic' that they meant.
You could also try our CamerAlert app for free which will show your local speed cameras etc on a map. I the hardware is weird then it will display weird here too.
kaypohchee wrote:
Question to those who know?
a. Does Ninetology or ZTE have a technology to lock us into Sygiz?
Possibly, but it would need to be very very embedded into the Android operating system to the point where I would think it would be a lot of hassle for them to bother.
If it is then you could root and install a custom bootloader and a custom ROM onto the device which would then get rid of any customisations like this.
kaypohchee wrote:
b. Can Ninetology cause my location to unceremoniously shift at its will?
Don't know really, but something is!!
kaypohchee wrote:
c. Do they have technology that when I use Sygiz I will miraculously no longer be shifted to Taman Gembira?
It doesn't hurt to try. Sygic is available as a free download that you can use for 7 days. After which you then pay for a full license. So you could try it for that week at no cost and see if they're just messing you about.
kaypohchee wrote:
d. Or could it be, as I told them but they would not hear or fix, there is a hardware bug in the GPS location output?
Try the Sygic free trial. If it still does the same then you tell them you tried Sygic and make hem fix (or replace) it
kaypohchee wrote:
More importantly, to lawyers in this group, if say a spouse finds that someone mysteriously goofs off to Taman Gembira very often from the GPS log, can she sue for divorce?
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15144 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:09 pm Post subject:
Also, if you use CamerAlert there is an extra setting in there that starts the GPS in a different way, you could see if this helps. It's under the option for "Use alternative GPS starter"
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