Reason for GPS problems found!

[nick loeve]

Hi Andy (nice work BTW, you and the rest of the team)

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> | FWIW i just flashed
> |
> http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/freerunner/200807/20080715/uImage-om-gta02-latest.bin
> | today and i got a fix outside with my sd card inserted. Previously i
> | never saw a satellite unless i took it out.
> |
> | Did that build have the patches i see at
> | http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=andy ?
>
> Those guys are built off "stable" branch going by the git hash, it
> doesn't have the latest patches in yet that are in "andy".
>
> The only GPS-related patch it should have is one that stops power from
> idle / high UART TX pin leaking into GPS section when it is 'off', but
> that isn't directly suspected.
>
> So I dunno why your GPS is all happy after being happy the first time,
> but long may it last :-)
>

Yeah this is nice, but strange... as I have tried for more than the
last week to even see a satellite, in a range of conditions, and
positions, and sometimes for hours at a time.

Oh well, not complaining... :)

> - -Andy
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Nick Loeve