GPS inconsistent

[Jaithorn24]

Hi, I have an Xperia Z2. Can't really grumble, pretty decent phone. Functional, fast, enduring and a great camera. however I am having a MASSIVE issue with the GPS. I had a HTC Desire 510 previously and the gps was 99% of the time spot on. On the odd occasion it would go a lil crazy and put me 200m down the road but i think that may be the fact that my ISP for my Fibre Optic thinks its 500m away from my actual property. At first the Z2 was going crazy and on google maps and pokemon go the location would jump erratically in a 500m radius from my location. So I looked around and tried a few fixes and apps. Outdoors i can lock on to 5-9 Sats out of a potential 15-25 (seems the average for my location/weather/time). Indoors I get 0 locks. On my HTC (which I still have currently) I can lock on to 10+ sats in less than 1.5s from any point, indoors or out. Is there anything else anyone can think of to try and fix this? I'm currently on 5.0.2 build number 23.1.A.1.28 (it was the same in 4.4.4 and heard that currently 6.0.1 is terrible). 

I mainly have issues when moving faster than 5mph (8kph). Tried factory reset, twice. Kind of stuck as I don't want to get rid and buy new.

[Uliwooly]

@Jaithorn24

Settings > location > how accurate its set to?

[Jaithorn24]

It's set to high. anything lower it won't even lock at all.

[Uliwooly]

@Jaithorn24

could you test it in >>> safe mode

[Jaithorn24]

same thing. in the GPS test it just says waiting for location update. can't get a lock at all indoors or outdoors. Is my z2 faulty?

[Uliwooly]

@Jaithorn24

You could repair the phone with XC or contact your Local support

Xperia Companion (XC)

Software Repair Guide

Alternatives on How to backup Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

[Jaithorn24]

I looked at doing that, but that looks like it will update my xperia up to Marshmallow, which I don't want to do.

[jc2016 · Accepted solution]

I have been plagued with this GPS issue for a while now and yes, marshamallow does not resolve it. A workaround is the app GPS widget by Pixelclash from the apps store. It seems to force a consistent polling/lock. I switch it on prior to using GPS and then it works fine. Without it my GPS is erratic. There is a known marshmallow/lollipop GPS issue.https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=190376

[Jaithorn24]

thanks i'll try it out and report back my results

[Jaithorn24]

@jc2016 thanks a bunch! That app, whilst not perfect, has improved my GPS 10 fold.