Geofield fails quietly to update from another field

I noticed the same behavior.

Could have it been a bug on the geocoding service's side? Did you try with several geocoding services?

No answer in a year. Please reopen if you still have the issue.

Not sure if this is exactly the same issue but it sounds similar:

I have a geofield on the user account which geocodes the user's address. When creating a new user with a new address, this works fine and the user's location can be seen at /map/user.

But when editing the user's address, the geocoding is deleted from the database. No update takes place, it simply removes the data.

Just updated to 7.x-1.3 but the issue persists

I had a similar issue using feeds to import into an addressfield which is then geocoded into a geofield field. I had a total of nearly 1,000 rows with valid address data. After import, only about 600 of them were geocoded correctly. I solved it by clearing the cache_goecoder table after every node save. Maybe that will help you as well with a hook.

<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_user_update().
 */
function module_user_update(&$edit, $account, $category) {
  db_truncate('cache_geocoder')->execute();
}
?>

I understand the concept behind the cache, but perhaps it needs some work to improve its functionality.