[bug] Location inaccurate. Cannot complete action.

2.40.1-8f435e49

Sitting next to a portal, phone screen off, idle for some time.

Pick up phone, turn screen on, click portal. The hack button is greyed out.

Wait for the hack button to turn white. This should indicate location acquired.

Glyph hack.

The glyph hack window aborts, and the message "Location inaccurate. Cannot complete action." pops up.

This is 100% repeatable.

Comments

  • 1valdis1valdis ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can confirm that. It's especially frustrating since you don't know how long it will be like that, and can add problems when you're in a rush.

  • In old scanner app, white noise effect is shown when Location is inaccurate, however, it is missing in Prime.

  • userALuserAL ✭✭
    edited June 2020

    It is not because GPS not fixed. I have the same problem, it is not grayed and noised, however, prime also might shows such screen if GPS is really not fixed, but not in this case.

    Please, take into account exact phrase, it's starting not from "scanner... " But message exact as described by topic starter.

    This problem appeared after some time Ingress was in background, and I'm totally sure my GPS fixed fine, moreover, I see slight movement of my position, so it's definitely not a hardware GPS problem.

    It's some another none-working Niantic's anti-cheat feature which is not working as designed.


    This problem occurrs very often, and many my friends are also complaint about it, just not gonna waste time to report it.


    Upd: it seems this problem related to another GPS way to fix, for example, use WiFi or/and Bluetooth scans. I've turned off these settings, but seems Ingress still issuing it anyway. I've noticed because I've moved to 50km away from home with my WiFi router, and when I turned on my WiFi with the same settings (and Mac address), Ingress shows my location at home, 50km away from my real point, then, in a few seconds, it moved me to real position, but I'm thinking that game doesn't simply allow me do anything for a small amount of time anyway

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