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Jailbreak gone wild?

Asked by hairypalm (889points) April 23rd, 2008 from iPhone

I restored my phone to normal and now when I try to locate where I am at with the map app. It gives me a ” unable to find this location”. I have full bars and edge is available .

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bassist_king1's avatar

try restoring and trying again

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Breefield's avatar

Maybe it’s a user error.

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peedub's avatar

Maybe the hair on that palm is making the phone go haywire.

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hairypalm's avatar

you mean hairwire LOL. @ bree do you even have a iPhone? Or are you still playing with nokia?

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Breefield's avatar

I have an iPod Touch actually.

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hairypalm's avatar

well then don’t answer. go work out, looks like you need to spend more time working out from your picture than fluther.

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Breefield's avatar

Well, I think the short answer to your question is that the iPod Touch / iPhone use wireless networks to find your position. Not EDGE, so if you aren’t connected to a wireless network, or an unsupported wireless network then your phone won’t be able to find your position.

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Breefield's avatar

Well, I’m not completely sure about this. Although I’ve gotten the same error as you before, but then it’s gone away. But that’s my 2 cents / guess.

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