Hello, I live in a country that is currently in a state of war (unfortunately), and GPS jamming is being deployed, causing a 'spoofing' syndrome - showing you in a location where you are not. Due to these disruptions, I use Waze via CarPlay, or on my second phone via Android Auto, to navigate in my vehicle. Very often, because of the jamming, my displayed location is 20-30 meters to the right or left, which causes me to take wrong turns and drives me crazy.

It is important to note that when I disconnect the phones from the vehicle, Waze works flawlessly on both the iPhone and the Android device. I did some reading and understood that the 5F multimedia unit receives the GPS data from the OCU unit, which is connected to the GPS antenna—which is likely receiving the jammed signals.

I wanted to know if anyone is familiar with a coding option, or a software adaptation that can be made so that the vehicle and the multimedia unit permanently pull the GPS data from the phone rather than the OCU unit? I have ODIS at my disposal and would appreciate any advice on the matter. This issue also affects a good friend of mine who drives a 2025 Skoda Kamiq and experiences the exact same difficulties.

Thank you to anyone who answers, wishing everyone better days.

AIUI, when a phone is connected to CarPlay or Android Auto they use the car GPS antenna not the phone’s own. There are several folk on here who have replaced their car antenna to fix the location error in their cars (I think it’s a VW group wide problem). So, it could be that it’s the same issue for you - a faulty car antenna giving the error.

As for coding any changes (nice idea by the way) I don’t have a clue, sorry.

Hi,

I appreciate your comment.

So you say replacing the actual GPS might solve it?

I've read in some other places that trying to replace the OCU might actually help as well.

Octavias are known for this issue. Some need OCU replacement or even simple FW update. Mine was fixed by replacing antenna on the roof. Apart of wrong GPS position it was giving SOS call errors.

5 hours ago, Yuval1 said:

I wanted to know if anyone is familiar with a coding option, or a software adaptation that can be made so that the vehicle and the multimedia unit permanently pull the GPS data from the phone rather than the OCU unit?

Maybe a dumb idea but have you tried changing the "integrity" setting in the infotainment? Thought is that selecting max integrity or the one one step down (of the four available selections) the car won't be able to determine your position and then might force the phone to be used instead.

21 hours ago, Yuval1 said:

Hi,

I appreciate your comment.

So you say replacing the actual GPS might solve it?

I've read in some other places that trying to replace the OCU might actually help as well.

Yes, the antenna and, as @Edela mentioned, maybe the OCU firmware or replacement as well.

19 hours ago, SiWaiting said:

Maybe a dumb idea but have you tried changing the "integrity" setting in the infotainment? Thought is that selecting max integrity or the one one step down (of the four available selections) the car won't be able to determine your position and then might force the phone to be used instead.

No, where do you suggest i'll find thie "integrity" function in the MMI?

yesterday i was scanning all avialable options for the 005F using ODIS and nothing about GPS data was found.

i Made an expieremnt whcih shown this resoult:

Using an Andorid phone- i have used a GPS fake location app, launched Google Maps & waze and both shown the spoofed GPS location. once i've connected the phone to the vehicle, it changed the GPS location to the real location both on the vehicle's display and on the phone (!).

It shows that the vehicle always take the GPS data from it's own antenna.

Ups, sorry, it's called the "Privacy setting". You'll find it in the Infotainment. From my manual:

(if all else fails this might be worth a try)

Edited Tuesday at 08:462 days by SiWaiting

Thank you for your idea, but we're living in an Off-line state where skoda connect isn't avilable so there is no information coming in and out from the eSim, and there is no privacy settings related.

Same problem, same car model, same country. Let us know here if you managed to solve the problem.

Edited yesterday at 09:271 day by whitefawn

I'd suggest checking the data displayed for number of satellites received to see if the actual problem is a GPS antenna issue - or caused by external spoofing.

On the MIB2, this data is displayed when the display is in split-screen mode.

I would have thought if the error was because of GPS spoofing, you'd have the same error whether you're using the phone GPS or the car. I know when sailing in the North West of Scotland near a NATO exercise I got the same position on my chart plotter, my phone And my tablet - positioned 500 yards away in the middle of an island