Comment Re:iPhone 3G/3GS GPS bug (Score 1) 275
Obviously this means the triangulation computations go horribly wrong and rather than reporting something absurd, the chipset just pretends it couldn't get a fix.
Actually, the GPS is looking for a specific set of satellites that should be in view (based on the time and the orbit calculations) and can't find them where they should be. That's why it can't get a fix.