Windows Location Provider not working in Win 8.1

Anonymous
2013-10-25T13:29:08+00:00

Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded to Win 8.1 just a week ago. However under Device Manager, I'm seeing warning symbol against the Windows Location provider. It says it is not working. I tried to update the driver, but it says its already up to date. I tried using Here Maps and couple of other apps which use location services, but my location is not correctly determined.

Earlier in windows 8 it used to run perfectly with accurate location. Please help me with this issue. How do I resolve it ?

Any help appreciated.. Thanks..

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-05-16T23:41:38+00:00

    Just for everybody's info and future reference:

    Just had similar problems with a Lenovo T440s running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (with Update 1) which contains an Ericsson N5321gw chip (WAN + GPS). Geolocation was not working at all and the Event Viewer had "internal errors" for the Ericsson chip.

    Once I eventually sorted these latter out by installing more recent drivers (Ericsson redistributed by Lenovo, v. 8.1.3), I ran into this thread's problem with "Windows Location Provider" displaying a yellow warning in Device Manager and geolocation still not working.

    For my machine, it was enough to go to Device Manager, pick the problematic Windows Location Provider item, select Uninstall as suggested in this thread, and right away do a "Scan for Hardware Changes" in Device Manager, which reinstalled the WLP driver on the fly and this time without yellow badges. That actually worked fine without even rebooting.

    (Why Windows is not able to fix this problem without user intervention, on the other hand, is beyond me).

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-12T17:21:56+00:00

    You are most welcome, Nithin.

    Please feel free to reply, in case you face any other issues with Windows in future.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-11T10:57:01+00:00

    Thanks a lot to the support engineer, worked like a charm. All problems fixed now

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-08T11:17:45+00:00

    Brad,

    You may refer to the link and change the location settings and see if it makes any difference.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh768219.aspx

    Hope it helps.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-03-07T16:38:22+00:00

    FF doesn't work but also show's no error in the console log, like IE/maxthon do.  I have updated the chipsets drivers intel h77, reinstalled win8.1, updated bios.  No love.  Guessing it is the motherboard (perhaps the onboard lan).  The last thing that I want to try is to attach a wifi receiver and see if it will work with that.  I really don't want to have to RMA this board but sadly that might be the issue.

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