Hello,
since V1.0 and introduction of Advanced Privacy, I have played around with it a little, until I needed GPS. So: I turned the GPS masquerade off, it didn’t help. I turned Advanced Privacy off completely - no true GPS signal. So, my FP4 is now more or less useless in this matter. Restarting didn’t solve the issue, too.
So: Please advise, if there is anything more I can do!
Thank you in advance!
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I am using Advanced Privacy w/o gps and it worsk as expected. GPS is easily found by all my apps that needs it (garmin, organic maps, etc.).
I have the same problem with my FP3+. Location privacy is turned off. After a reboot, it gets the correct location, but after a short time I`m located in Manila 
It doesnt matter if I have disabled advanced privacy completley or just the location.
Revo
The same phenomenon with my FP4.
If by restarting you mean a simple reboot, “more” in this regard would be to turn off the phone completely, wait a few seconds, then turn it on again. This can make a difference in general (although over the years and different phones I personally only observed this with different kinds of network hiccups so far).
Doesn’t help anybody with a Fairphone 4 I guess, but on my Fairphone 3 I briefly activated everything in Advanced Privacy to look for obvious effects, then only left the tracker blocking enabled … GPS works totally fine for me.
It could be helpful if anybody posting here would post exactly what is given in Settings - About phone - Android version (tap on it) - /e/ version (can be long-tapped and copied to clipboard).
This way we could perhaps see whether the issue may be build type related (stable or dev) or not.
1.0-r-20220526188860-stable-FP4
I have taken out the battery now. After restart, I have checked, if Advanced Security was on. It was off. Still, Maps shows my position in Manila.
I also experience this issue.
Have 1.0-q-20220526188859-stable-FP3.
A few steps you can try, in the exact order as described below:
Should work again.
Tip: Deactivate advanced privacy on all apps that are using GPS module.
Can you please tell me where to find this option? I was not able to find it. Thank you!
In recovery, scroll down with “Vol -” to “Factory reset”, enter with “power bottom”, then scroll down to “Format cache partition”, then “yes”.
Then come back to the main menu with the left arrow and select “Reboot now”
I can’t find this option. Only format data. I don’t want to enter this option if I don’t know what is behind it.
Oh ok… Which /e/ recovery version are you running? (it’s written on the top of the screen)
With the latest 1.0 /e/ recovery, here are 2 screenshots from where to go…
Do NOT format data / factory nor system partition…
If you don’t have this function, skip it and do the rest in the right order…
Is it hard to make a downgrade? I mean - without setting up all apps and accounts?
I deactivated my working profile. At least Im not in Manila anymore but always right beside the streets or a few meters away, so navigation apps tell me to go back on the street.
1.0-q-20220527189323-dev-FP3
Following operations fixes the problem for me:
Didn’t work for me. 
Did you perhaps perform some additional steps?
