GPS has become one of the most important tools of our mobile especially when moving to new places, GPS errors in our Sony Xperia XA Ultra make us get involved in a serious problem and that’s why we want to help you to solve them.
We are talking about a mobile that was presented more than 3 years ago but that has managed to age and continue to offer us good results with a Helio P10 processor capable of performing a lot of time although with a limited configuration of 16 GB of storage and therefore it is recommended to use a MicroSD card in our mobile to continue using it for longer.
Most common mistakes with GPS
The GPS problems that we suffer in our Sony Xperia XA Ultra can worry for several reasons, one of them and the most common is that it is a punctual failure, that just restarting the device will work properly again.
Another possible cause has to do with the GPS signal that fails to locate us well inside buildings or houses despite including A-GPS and GLONASS . To solve this we will only have to go outside waiting there, that our GPS signal allows us to position ourselves correctly. We can also try to remove the protective case since some can cover and limit this type of connectivity by not working properly.
Settings that affect the GPS of the Sony Xperia XA Ultra
In our mobile we can have used a configuration that negatively affects the use of GPS and to solve it in the Xperia UI customization layer we will have to go to Settings> Battery and check first hand that we do not have battery saving activated. This could mean that we cannot correctly position the applications in the foreground or in the background.
Activate precise location
Other possible causes linked to the codiguraicon of our devices, we find that our location is not set accurately and for this we need to go to Settings> Location> Location accuracy and choose the highest accuracy setting aside savings Battery or option disabled. This will automatically make us notice a great improvement and not have to worry again.
Clear data from the application that uses GPS
It is likely that the failures are only linked to one of the applications and to solve it instead of focusing on the configuration of the Sony Xperia XA Ultra we have to look at the applications that suffer the failure. The first thing we must be sure is that in Google Play the app is updated to its latest version and after checking its operation, we take action.
We go to Settings> Applications and look for the app that fails to position us well with GPS or do its job, we enter it and we will first clear the cache and then delete all the storage data . Once we reopen this application it will have returned to the original state and the GPS should work again.
Calibrate the compass on Google Maps
Within the Google Maps application that is already installed as standard on our devices there is a small trick that allows us to calibrate the compass and make it work correctly again. The only thing we have to do is open this application and touch on the blue dot, observing that it seems to us a tool called Calibrate compass , where if we press it, it will ask us to carry out continuous drawings of an eight in the air with our mobile phone. With this the GPS should reposition us correctly and improve its accuracy so that we do not make a mistake in direction again.
