GPS needs to be activated?

[banders]

Hello, I have purchased a brand new iPad 32G 3G and everything seems to work just fine and it detects that a SIM card is required so 3G seems to available. However, I cannot get the GPS to start at all and to my understanding an GPS should be built-in in the 3G version so no SIM-card should be necessary.

Is that correct and it is most likely a hardware problem as the GPS should work just like that or do I somehow need to activate it before it can be used by the applications?

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

You do not need to activate 3G to use GPS. But check that you've set...

'Settings', 'General', 'Location Services' -> 'On' and choose the apps that you want to allow to use GPS.

Tim

 

[banders]

Cool, I did not have a clue that you needed to activate the Apps but now it works just fine. Thanks!

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

Great to hear - have fun with your iPad....

Tim