Marcus Bauer wrote:
The question remains what the problem is? There are several reports now
on the community list with people saying getting no fix or taking
unreasonably long under good conditions. Kai Römer has six GTA02 and
sees this problem on all of them.
Hi,
same goes for me, I just don't get a fix with the internal antenna of my
freerunner. I tried the agps-tool described here [1], and the tool
proposed by Al Johnson [2]. Both set the time, but still no fix where I
had a fix before. Strange thing is the output:
$GPGSV,3,1,11,29,83,075,,30,53,126,,12,16,119,,23,09,333,*7F
$GPGSV,3,2,11,13,01,003,,31,52,263,,24,53,140,,02,17,043,*7C
$GPGSV,3,3,11,05,29,125,,16,18,296,,21,24,184,*4A
It says there are 11 sattelites and it is currently connected to 3 of
them, but there's no strength (the missing number between ,,).
Another strange observation I made: If I connect an external antenna
it's no problem to get a fix in less than 120sec, most of the time in
less than 40 seconds. If I disconnect the antenna, the freerunner
has no problems maintaining the fix, within some seconds it reconnects
to the 9 or 10 sattelites it found before.
I don't really know if it's a software- or hardware-issue, I wouldn't
mind some soldering. But the GPS as it is right now is simply unusable.
[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_GPS
[2] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/020772.html
