Antenna is pointing front longaxis. You have to hold device upright (lanyard hole to ground, AUX-key to sky)! /jOERG
Am Sa 12. Juli 2008 schrieb Jonathan Spooner: > I've been playing with my GPS and finally got a fix using agps diag > tool. I stood the gta02 up on my garden table using a pop bottle :-) I > think bottom line the gta02 has a poor antenna.... in fact the first > time I got a fix I did so at the point I rested my free stylus on top of > the gta02! > > Once I had a fix I used the signal strength screen in the agps diag tool > and its then plain to see the signal is precarious at best with an > average strength of around 28 which is greatly affected by orientation > and nearby objects from hands, stylus, people etc pretty much what you'd > expect in a device thats receiving a very weak signal.... except we know > the say system is working so that only leaves the gta02 internal antenna > as the problem. > > Thoughts? > > Jon > > > > Russell Sears wrote: > > 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 > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Openmoko community mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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