I played with it a bit more and think i figured out why i wasn't getting locks quickly. It looks like my Freerunner's GPS is working after all! :)
I've updated the wiki GPS_Problems page with some basic information about how GPS devices obtain initial locks, and added more troubleshooting information... It would have saved me a few hours; hopefully someone else will find it useful. Someone familiar with GPS should probably check it for errors. Most of what I wrote is based on things I learned today by word-of-mouth and skimming wikipedia articles. -Rusty Russell Sears wrote: > This might help too (I should add myself to it...): > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPS_Problems > > I've only gotten a fix using the agps diagnostic tool gui. I did it in > the middle of a clear night with nothing near by, by going to the signal > strength screen, and slowly rotating the phone until the bars started > turning from light blue to dark blue, and going with an orientation that > seemed to work, kind of like with an old analog TV set... > > I don't know if doing it actually helped, but while playing this game, I > got a fix in ~ 2-3 minutes, vs the tens of minutes I'd waited before that. > > Bumble, after 10-15 minutes of waiting, do you see any satellites in the > "ss" tab of the agps diagnostic tool? Does it display a time in UTC > after a few minutes? If so, we're probably in the same boat. > > Is there a document explaining the exact handshaking procedure the > chipset in the freerunner uses to lock onto the satellites? > > -Rusty > > andres wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 23:57 +0200, Bumbl wrote: >> >>> Be happy >>> I have never got a fix up to now although trying on different locations >>> for >45min each. >>> I'll consider to use my waranty. >> probably this is related >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner_GPS_antenna_repair_SOP >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
