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!
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
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.
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 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.
I went to Advanced privacy > Manage my location and change the setting from “Use a random plausible location” (was near Manilla :)) to “Use my real location”
Force stopped and emptied the cache of the apps that were authorized to see my geolocation (in my case SatStat and OsmAnd~)
Thank you @stanwood