This mail is mainly an FYI if some GPS related issues creep in along the road. My problems are probably caused by poor SMT during the GTA02v4 run.
See also http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-devel/2008-February/001981.html for my problem report earlier. I first really tested GPS on my 2v4 on the train ride from FOSDEM where the GPS managed to get a pretty good fix even through the window of the ICE (the navilock GPS receiver I tried didn't). A couple days later I was again travelling by train and this time the Neo wouldn't even acquire the time. When I tried again at home the result was still the same, no fix, no satellites, no time. I played around with the connector of the internal GPS antenna, applying pressure, and the GPS managed to get the time and see some satellites for a short time, but that was it. After that I wasn't able to reproduce any positive results with the internal antenna anymore (I also tried different antennas). Attaching an external antenna worked however and I was able to get the time in ~20s and a fix in additional 20s so GPS itself still seems to work. At the moment I'm suspecting that either the phantom voltage for the internal antenna or the antenna switcher is broken. Regards, Daniel Willmann
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