{"id":24,"date":"2010-07-13T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbegley.com\/2010\/07\/droid-gps-problem-and-fix\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:38:31","slug":"droid-gps-problem-and-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Droid GPS Problem and fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, my Droid GPS started acting up.&#160; While trying to estimate my travel time from a bus on the NJ Turnpike, the Google Maps screen went blue.&#160; After trying to reset my Location several times, I turned on different Layers, then zoomed out.&#160; The screen was blue because the GPS thought I was in the Atlantic Ocean a few miles East of Ocean City, MD.<\/p>\n<p>I looked around, and confirmed I was on the NJ Turnpike.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Today, I went to the local Verizon tech, and she was able to resolve the problem by doing a *228 update, and removing the battery.<\/p>\n<p>Things to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tech said my last update was November, 2009, when I got the phone. <\/li>\n<li>I know I did an update within the last month or so, because I was demonstrating it to one of my daughters. <\/li>\n<li>The phone has been so stable, I haven\u2019t removed the battery since before the Android 2.1 firmware update. <\/li>\n<li>I have only turned the phone off twice in the last three months. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the future, I plan to update the software (*228) monthly, and at least cycle the power on the phone to minimize problems and optimize operation of the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, my Droid GPS started acting up.&#160; While trying to estimate my travel time from a bus on the NJ Turnpike, the Google Maps screen went blue.&#160; After trying to reset my Location several times, I turned on different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[24,42,43,54],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-2","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-gps","tag-hardware","tag-phone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YWFc-o","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}