> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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