navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition not fetching WLAN Geolocation Blackberry Playbook

[Abhisar Deshmukh]

I am always getting location timeout inside premises. I am connected with WI-FI so  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPositionis shuold return me the geolocation based on IP address but its not returning WLAN GeoLocation on Blackberry playbook. also I didn't find any setting on playbook to set Geolocation preference. 

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Web-and-WebWorks-Development/How-To-Enable-GPS-capability-in-BlackBerry-WebWorks-for-Tablet/ta-p/1035855

Any idea?

[Tim]

Hey all,

There doesn't seem to be a way of manually setting WLAN geolocation. It only uses it under these conditions:

• Requires the device to be provisioned with this service
• Requires WLAN connection point be registered with RIM's Geolocation service
• Less accurate than standalone GPS but must faster to acquire a GPS position

And uses it as a secondary after GPS:

Note: The Tablet OS will decide to use standalone GPS  coordinates if they are available, and then WLAN as a second choice.

As for the timeouts, it might be the fact that sometimes the playbook gps takes about 2-5 minutes to return a result:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Web-and-WebWorks-Development/Geolocation-on-Playbook-Only-brings-back-Timeouts-no-Position/m-p/1883095/highlight/true#M28223

I'm not sure if there's a solution on phonegap's side for this but I have created a sanity test that should return a result once it gets it (i.e., shouldn't time out): 

https://github.com/timkim/playbook_gps_test

Link to zip file: https://github.com/timkim/playbook_gps_test/zipball/master

Let me know if you all are able to get a result or not. 

[Abhisar Deshmukh]

Hi,

I tries the sample. 

After click on Get GPS Location It says 

WiFi available Lets see how long it takes to get position

Retrieving Geographic information using default parameters

Noting is coming back...... No error no success

:( Still am not able to get position on Blackberry Playbook...