Windows 10: Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent!

Discus and support Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent! in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I have a laptop with new Windows 11 Pro install fresh install by myself , was not upgrade or restored. Running fine for several months.The laptop is... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by WRD313, Jan 29, 2022.

  1. WRD313 Win User

    Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent!


    I have a laptop with new Windows 11 Pro install fresh install by myself , was not upgrade or restored. Running fine for several months.The laptop is connected via wifi to my home internet no VPN. My IP location on various websites accessed via Edge will correctly show the IP is from Sydney Australia internet provider.But Windows account Find My Device" always shows the device in South Africa so ... not even close to the IP location.I tried removing device and re-enabling ... still shows up as Jo'burg South Africa!I have Geolocation services running and have restarted, I have enable

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    WRD313, Jan 29, 2022
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  2. Newgarden Win User

    Difference between 'Continent' and 'Country' when downloading

    I couldn't find an answer to this on either this forum or on another medium.



    My phone is C5, I live in the Netherlands and I use the most recent updates of my firmware, Nokia Maps and Nokia Suite.



    On the Maps-tab in Nokia Suite (also in former Ovi Suite), we can download:

    -map-data country per country;

    -every country in a continent by clicking 'Download All' in the top of the screen;

    (with both of these, the countries indeed are downloaded separately when I check the "downloading"-tab)

    -the whole continent at once by dragging-and-dropping the name of the Continent to the "On device" part of the screen (then, I see only e.g. "Americas" in the downloading-tab)

    It all starts downloading, works perfectly.



    Sometimes I noticed a difference between the data in the application when downloading the continent-at-once and downloading country-by-country (or clicking 'Download All'). However, I can't pinpoint it. There's also a difference in the total amount (MB's)
    of data stored extra on the device.

    Is it that some countries (say, "Nepal" or "Ecuador") are not included in the country-by-country, but are in the continent-download?

    Is it that the continent only downloads all the low-detail info (so until you zoom in), while the separate country-by-country gives me the exact opposite; High detail but no 'terrain-view' if I zoom out?



    Sorry for a lot of text... Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent! :), and thanks for any advice!
     
    Newgarden, Jan 29, 2022
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  3. Dav23 Win User
    Windows thinks I'm in an entirely different continent?

    Yup, still the same issue.

    Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent! [​IMG]
     
    Dav23, Jan 29, 2022
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  4. n-ster Win User

    Find My Device - says my laptop is on a different continent!

    n-ster, Jan 29, 2022
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