[android-developers] Re: Location.distanceTo() and Asus Memo Pad.

2014-05-01 Thread Nathan
User reported that a known distance of 3.6 fluctuates between 3.6 and 100.7 when moving only enough to trigger a refresh. So, yep there is a problem with simple math. The chatter I could find indicates there was a mathematical, pentium chip like problem on Android 4.2.1 that is likely fixed w

[android-developers] Re: Location.distanceTo() and Asus Memo Pad.

2014-04-26 Thread Nathan
If I had the hardware, yes. As it is, I will have an end user try a single linear distance that is known to him and see how it compares. Nathan On Saturday, April 26, 2014 4:28:38 AM UTC-7, lbendlin wrote: > > You could verify the first assumption by doing the distance calculation > manuall

[android-developers] Re: Location.distanceTo() and Asus Memo Pad.

2014-04-26 Thread lbendlin
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 > mil