The board that I am porting android to does not have gps hardware. When I visit the google mobile page with the default webkit browser using the board it crashes as the gps does not work.
I can fix this by editing GeoLocationService.java to not look for gps updates by commenting out this line: mLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, this); Does anyone know how or could advise me on how to go about disabling gps support in the android build system for a more elegant and compatible solution? Logcat dump of the crash: D/mterp ( 923): Exception Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException; from LocationManager.java:583 not caught locally W/dalvikvm( 923): JNI WARNING: JNI method called with exception raised W/dalvikvm( 923): in Landroid/webkit/ JWebCoreJavaBridge;.sharedTimerFired ()V (NewLocalRef) W/dalvikvm( 923): Pending exception is: I/dalvikvm( 923): Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException;: provider=gps I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java: 1326) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java: 1276) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub $Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:646) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.location.LocationManager._requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java: 582) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java: 446) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.GeolocationService.registerForLocationUpdates(GeolocationService.java: 162) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.GeolocationService.start(GeolocationService.java:66) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.sharedTimerFired(Native Method) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.fireSharedTimer(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java: 91) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.handleMessage(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java: 108) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.WebViewCore $WebCoreThread.run(WebViewCore.java:629) I/dalvikvm( 923): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019) I/dalvikvm( 923): "WebViewCoreThread" prio=5 tid=10 NATIVE I/dalvikvm( 923): | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x8599d10 self=0x1018e580 I/dalvikvm( 923): | sysTid=955 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=[fopen-error: 2] handle=270602432 I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.sharedTimerFired(Native Method) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.fireSharedTimer(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java: 91) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.handleMessage(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java: 108) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) I/dalvikvm( 923): at android.webkit.WebViewCore $WebCoreThread.run(WebViewCore.java:629) I/dalvikvm( 923): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019) I/dalvikvm( 923): E/dalvikvm( 923): VM aborting -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
