Reason for GPS problems found!

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu Jul 17 21:58:32 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Russell Sears wrote:
|> I did an opkg update on the factory image last night (~7-8 PM PST), and
|> now GPS fix times are less than a minute.  The update downloaded a new
|
| False alarm; the satellites must have been aligned last night...  Fix
| times are multiple minutes again...

Yes GPS chip is very "sticky", even when depowered for some time it
seems to hold state and not act in a deterministic way.  It makes it
hard to know if the last thing you changed is responsible for the
behaviour staying the same or changing, or if it was going to do that
anyway.  That makes debugging it very confused.

- -Andy
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