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Makro 4G GPS Tracker review (also available on takealot and bobshop)
I want to review a gps tracking product from Makro online (coming from PSM 1 THREE) and not a review of Makro because I cannot do a follow up review or edit my previous review on the makro website. "Rechargeable Trailer GPS Tracker Real Time Van Caravan Luggage Car GPS Tracking" or "4G Locator Wireless Satellite Vehicle-mounted Burglar Alarm Wireless Tracker For Vehicles". I have seen it also on takelot. It is the rectangular black (no brand) gps tracker with the wording 4G written on it with 7 dots connected with a line; and battery plus magnet built in. I paid much more for the product at makro because I know makro is a trusted store rather paying almost half the price at bob shop or takealot. 1)GPS device is a no name brand thus cannot google info on it and nothing, nothing on youtube. 2) Setup/instruction manual is really really really bad. 3) Product /software website is Chinese only if you figured out the url is incorrectly spelled. (remove the "web." in the front of the url. 4) App is not on the android playstore as claimed. There is a Tracku app on playstore but not the right one ie. Track U app. 5) when the app ask for the device imei it is the unspecified 11 digit nr between all the other numbers on the bod/device. 6) When the app ask for "sim" it is the international telephone nr of the simcard starting with +27. Not yes or no or imei or anything else. If you know#5 and #6 it will save you many hours guessing combinations of information that is nowhere mentioned. 7) GPS location at least 300m out and most of the time much more. After trying to figure out why it is so inaccurate I realised in the setup there are two "location models" to choose from and it provides historical gps info saved on the device when requesting a location. Thus when making contact with the device via 4G it tells you where the device was last time when it recorded the position and not where the device is now. When I requested the gps location while writing the review it gave me a location of 3 days ago (but still 300m out) although this device has moved from sandton to boksburg and pretoria for a few days, and back to sandton again. This is while trying both "location models" and trying wifi positioning and gps positioning settings. Even if the device would have worked as intended (which it does not) it will not give a live map location of the device or car; it is meant to give you a historical position. The 1st model option (setting) is to record where the car is every 5 minutes (default). So when you request a position it will give you a position where the car was 5 minutes ago while it is moving. It the device is not moving it will NOT record at all. Thus on the default setting when a person is driving 60km/h the position can be out by 5km. Even on the most frequent setting of 30 seconds recording the device can be out by 500m as this is how far away you can drive from your previous recorded position in 30 seconds; and when the device stops moving it does not record the newest position. This is what is intended to happen as per app settings but my device moved hundreds of kilometers it was still reporting the device is stationary after a few days. The second setting is to record position once per one hour (or more hours). I never found this setting to work at all. It continued to report a position of three days ago even though the app reported the gps signal is strong, battery is good, 4g signal is strong. Even if this setting would work as intended how are you going to find your device/car if you can only get the position of an hour ago? When you get to the location assuming you get an accurate position the car could be 100km way again. After setting up this beautiful no name brand mystery 4G gps tracker and tested it, it appeared to me more like snake oil. Cannot recommend.
