![]() It seems unlikely the tablet would not sync a new fine location after about a week, I would think my new phone would update that information and indeed it displays the last sync date as today (later than my initial tablet setup). Because a fine location would take precedence over a coarse location (which is all that WiFi can give you), the tablet is using old fine grained location data (coarse and fine are things to the Android system's location services). The tablet has yet to sync any newer fine grained locations. Google stores a last known fine location with your account which was picked up by my tablet when I linked it with my Google account. Given the facts, I see two possibilities: My phone has always given me the correct location. My tablet thinks I'm in Oklahoma City and has since I set it up. Google Maps on my laptop currently tells me I'm in Iowa, but nothing finer than that. I'm not entirely sure but at one point I think my laptop gave me search results for Oklahoma City. My home router died and I replaced it with the router I bought in Oklahoma City.I bought and setup my tablet and linked it with my Google account.I obtained a new Android phone, installed 3rd party software, and linked it with my Google account.I returned home and have been using my laptop and Chrome linked with my Google account. ![]() Now, a lot of things happened within a very short time span, but the following order: I did not have my tablet at this time however I had my laptop. I set it up where I was living and used it for a few weeks. This summer, I was living and working in Oklahoma City where I purchased an old Linksys WRT56G for $3 from a thrift store. It's always worked like this in the past and when you look on Google Maps, you will usually see your location as where your ISP's server farm is. Why?įrom what I understand, on WiFI only, Google's location services use the coarse location of your IP address to estimate your location. My WiFi only Android tablet's weather app, and Google Maps, and Chrome on my laptop tell me I'm located Oklahoma City. You can report Google mistaken IP address locations here.I live in Iowa. You can help us get Google to address this issue quicker by reporting it to them when you encounter it. We have raised the issue with them and are waiting for a response. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to resolve this issue. ![]() If you need Google to correctly recognize which country your server is in, we suggest you try connecting to a different Proton VPN server. We understand that this can be confusing, but if you go to a website that shows you where your IP address is based, like IP.me, it will show you the IP address other websites actually see. In the example above, Google might show your location to be in the UAE when connected to one of our servers in Malaysia because that particular server is very popular with Emirati users. If Google detects a significant number of devices using that IP address are in a certain area, it will change the location it lists for that IP address. This happens because Google determines its users’ location by cross-checking the location of where the IP address is with the geolocation data it has of devices that use that IP address. Some users have reported having Google identify their internet connection as originating in a different country than where our server is located.įor example, if you are connected to one of our VPN servers in Malaysia, Google might identify your connection as originating in the United Arab Emirates.
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