Ubuntu Nexus 4 does not detect location

[Zachary Igielman]

Whenever I try to locate myself, the app/scope/whatever I am using does not manage to locate me even if location detection and GPS are on. The only way I manage to locate myself is through being connected to a wireless network.

I have tried using different apps and scopes that all use location data and none of them receive any GPS information unless I am on a wireless network.

I never turn GPS off and I live in central London so there is no way it cannot find a GPS fix (I also have spend a lot of time outside and still no luck). I am using the OSMTouch app and it spends 20 seconds trying to locate me and comes back with Geolocation failed.

This is using a Nexus 4. I have tried the current stable and devel-proposed channels.

I asked on IRC this morning to find other people having issues with Nexus 4 GPS including one person who said: 'on the N4 i actually have to leave the device outside on the window shelf for 20-30 min to get GPS at all.'

Is this a known issue with the Nexus 4? Is there a fix for this? Can anybody help fix this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Zachary Igielman (zacharyi123)]

Running 'sudo service ubuntu-location-service restart' after each reboot makes it work for a bit

[James Lewis (james-fsck)]

This does appear to work for me, but after soem experimentation with another Nexus 4 user, it seems that it's very weak... the phone fails to get a GPS lock when in a case, but can when it's not in the case... I don't know how much of the GPS system is implemented in Software vs how much is in hardware... I'm told the GPS on the Nexus 4 is good under Android although I have not tested this...