Hi All,
Apologies in advance in case I leave out crucial details. If there’s something more that would help sort this out I’m happy to supply it.
For several hours yesterday and this morning my QField projects across several devices lost any sign of positioning.
For context, I have 5 separate projects customized for different users in my organization. These are used in-field on 4 Samsung Galaxy A9+ tablets. The positioning outage occurred across all projects on all devices, as well as on my personal Google Pixel 8 which I checked during troubleshooting.
During this outage period I cross checked GPS availability on a couple of the same devices which we have ESRI’s FieldMaps installed on (this is for an external client who provides this and insists we use it for their work) and it displayed positions as expected.
Yesterday the devices all displayed “waiting for position” message any time I tapped the tracking “cross hairs”. Today this message wasn’t there, there was just no response when I did this.
Throughout the outage period all of the positioning metrics showed N/A.
Testing was done indoors and outdoor with open sky view.
During troubleshooting this morning the 2 devices I was working with both started reporting positioning metrics and displaying the device location correctly on map within a minute of each other. As far as I can tell I didn’t make any changes and I hadn’t restarted the devices or app in over a half hour. All of these devices have been used in the region recently, so I do not expect it to be a matter of acquiring up to date almanac and ephemeris.
Thanks for any input, including follow-up questions!