Latitude Sometimes Takes Days to Update

[jzerocsk]

My experience says the same thing. The more often you open maps and check your location then the more often it updates.

Launching maps forces an update, however it *SHOULD* periodically update without your interaction.

[argylesocks]

any update on if this is corrected in cupcake??

I like to have mine running when I am out for my bike rides.... that way when i get runned over by some redneck in a truck, at least my wife will know where to find my remains.

odd. if I remember correctly my nokia N95 would automatically update all the time.... in fact, I am looking at my mom's status (she is currently on her bike) and her N75 is updating every few minutes with a new location.

whoddathunk that nokia would do a better job with a google application then google does... ugh

edit: looks like even opening Maps won't update it. I need to manually hit "My Location" every time I want my Latitude to update. That is pretty weak.

[momentarylapseofreason]

Apologize for bumping this but is there any way to fix this? I am thinking perhaps a dev could create a forced update every XX number of minutes application?

[mithfen]

I'm pretty sure it's designed to work that way for the sake of battery life, you can use an application like LocService to force updates on your location.

http://www.trackdroid.org is the link I believe, or just search LocService on the Market.

Keep in mind that I haven't tested it for that purpose, it could very likely react the same way and require a manual "My Location" selection from the user in order to work correctly.

[aviators99]

Latitude does not work, and is not fixed in Cupcake. Official Google thread on this is:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...fdab0bac&hl=en

They are "working on it".

[argylesocks]

Here is a great alternative that will keep your position updated, even when the phone is put to sleep

http://androidcommunity.com/glympse-...ideo-20090521/

[jay_cee]

Hah! What a failure latitude has been.

I am relieved that Google is aware of it, but what - it only took them several months to acknowledge that its useless on their own device and they still haven't fixed it? aye-yi-yi... they must have their summer intern working on it.

[hpmoon]

Months have gone by and we are still waiting for a fix. What's the point of Latitude if it doesn't update in the background?

Latitude works great on Blackberrys. Just not on Google's own OS. Crazy.

[aviators99]

It has gotten better over the past couple of weeks. It is still severely lagging, and I am suspicious that it is really draining the battery more than it should, but still...

I am running Maps version: 3.1.2 (#3182)

[udik]

There is a new app in Android Market called Latitude Update, it lets you select how frequent you want to update your location in Google Latitude - even when Google's own app is down or fails to update. You can also get your latest location history, see it on Google Map and more ..