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My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 00:19
by Noyka
Yesterday it thought I was in BC wtf scrapple geo-location?

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 01:18
by agony bagony
make sure you're not space-hopping

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 02:03
by zim
yeah that's weird, maybe you have a bad app installed that's hijacking your location or something

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 02:03
by zim
you should be able to look for recently used apps under your settings, might help you see if anything weird is going on

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 02:50
by Noyka
Only ones i have used this week are a walking dead game rts (play with friends the game is horrible don’t play), hbo max, and a coloring game for my brother

No idea why it does this. My mom said rts servers but thats not how servers work…….

Now it says i am in kas vegas which is correct we shall see how long it is correct.

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 02:51
by agony bagony
kas vegas, the pan-dimensional las vegas

there's your problem :occifer:

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 02:52
by Noyka
Vegas grime has infected the phone you are probably right!

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 04:53
by Mesarthim
Do you use a vpn?

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 05:10
by Noyka
Not on mobile, only on my laptop.

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 05:21
by Mesarthim
Weird. Do you have antivirus installed? Some of them come with vpns now

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 05:33
by Noyka
Not on mobile thats why im confused

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 07:10
by zim
are you connecting to public wifi on your phone or laptop

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 07:13
by Noyka
Nope i never do

Google says low gps signal but its a clear blue day

Maybe too many apps or something?

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 07:43
by zim
when you say your phone thinks you're in x place, how are you seeing that information?

something is messing with your location services, could be weird provider issues, bad wifi, messed up location/time zone settings. apps don't generally set your location without asking you to confirm. possible your brother could have accidentally messed up settings?

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 09:20
by Noyka
When i try to use gps

Ill check settings at the hotel

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 09:29
by Noyka
I had a vpn i wasn’t aware of my brother activated it.

Still funny it thought i was everywhere haha

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:19
by Mesarthim
not necessarily a bad thing. I usually keep mine on just to give that layer of encryption and to fuck with advertisers. still, every so often I have to turn it off if I want to actually get directions or something,

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:50
by Noyka
Yeah def not a bad thing. Explsains the Korean youtube ads for sure.

Re: My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:51
by Noyka
Google maps you can manually set your location as well so its not terrible.

Only thing some vpns can be sketchy so i wouldn’t depend on one I have not personally researched.