While preparing my iPhone for real use, I came to find a problem using the unbuilt gps. It always gave me the error: “Your location could not be determined”.

The reason appears to be a timeout in the maps software. Especially people not living in the US seem to have this problem. I was able to solve it using another app called “TrackThing Lite” – a free dowload from the appstore.

Turn that app on, wait for a couple of seconds (in my case almost 2 minutes!) until the GPS signal is received. You find the option in the “Geo” tab of TrackThing. Whatever you do now is up to you: it just works now.

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