Location not working without wifi on
vicky.rocky96
Level 1
Using Rog 2 Indian Unit 8+128... As I have noticied, the device couldn't get the location even when the location services turned on.. It works only when the WiFi is turned on.. Though am connected to mobile data..
Here am showing u this with swiggy app... This is the case with all the apps..
In pic 1 where the WiFi is Turned off.. Even though the location service and mobile data turned on.. It forces me to turn on the wifi for getting the location..
In pic 2 where the wifi is turned on... It shows my location only when the WiFi is turned on.. (though am not connected to any wifi) why it doesn't use the mobile data and GPS it get my location.. Y it asks for WiFi...
I cross checked with my Samsung S10 this is not the case in it... The device can get my location even without turning in wifi.. Just with GPS and mobile data itself....
Is anyone facing the same issue??
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Anders_ASUS
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It's asking you to turn on WiFi scanning service. Not the WiFi. My guess is that you have this already activated on your Samsung. What WiFi scanning does is that you allow apps to use your WiFi for location triangulation even though it's not activated. You can find this setting in settings -> Security & lock screen -> Location -> Scanning
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In the first picture, what happens if you select "No thanks"? It won't show you location data unless you hit "OK"?
It is as you say. Until and unless we click OK, apps don't get Location info, and I think this is an issue.
I don't like to use these Scanning features and want to keep them disabled. Please forward this issue to the Devs.
Yeahh it's asking for wifi scanning only.. And I turned it on already... Even though its asking to turn on the wifi... So I think the problem is with wifi scanning... Even in my S10 I turned on wifi scanning.. But there it works without turning on wifi.. In Asus it doesn't...
If u hit "No thanks" it won't show ur location... If u hit OK.. The same dialog box pop-ups up repeatedly unless we turn on the WiFi manually (even without connecting to any network) it doesn't stop..
Yup wifi scanning is Turned on... But no use.... Without turning on wifi manually
From the 3-4 Food ordering Apps that I have, this issue was replicable only for Swiggy. Tried on Zomato, and was working, tried Dunzo, was working. Uber Eats didn't have aN option to fetch location using Location services (either had to select past address or search for an address)
Could be an issue with the Swiggy app itself.
I am facing exactly same issue
me too cannot detect my location
Turning on location and WiFi is not the same thing. It won't login to some random network with the risk of getting hacked.
Location should work without active WiFi. If you need to activate wifi to see your location on the mapp, then you have a bug that we need to fix.
We can log one of your devices to find out why this is happening. Who wants to help?
Started happening for me after the .64 update (at least this is the update after which I noticed the issue).