You could verify the first assumption by doing the distance calculation 
manually.

On Friday, April 25, 2014 2:16:17 PM UTC-4, Nathan wrote:
>
> In one weekend, I suddenly got six reports that distance measure by GPS 
> was way off. Way off. Like walk 500 feet and it says you just walked 32 
> miles.
>
> On further interrogation, ALL of these reports were from device model 
> ME173X, the Asus Memo pad.
>
> Possibilities are the following:
> Getting erroneous or inconsistent results from the Location.distanceTo or 
> Location.distanceBetween method. (Sounds really weird, but some behavior 
> described by an end user could be caused by that.)
> Getting a bunch of noisy location data form the GPS. But this is already a 
> common scenario, and they would see other effects from it. 
>
> Anyone aware of any weird things from that device?
>
> Nathan
>

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