Reason for GPS problems found!

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

anyone knows if the software patch which was done has any hooks in user
space so the same procedure (shut off SD while getting FF) could be
initiated manually (from a script or so)?

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:

> Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> > Does anyone else have a reliability problem now with the new kernel
> > and GPS when SD card is used?

> Yes, I just did some testing. The phone had been on for about 12 hours maybe 
> and had gone through multiple suspend-wakeup cycles. TTFF was around 10 
> minutes. Then I switched off the phone and switched it back on, after that 
> TTFF was about 40 seconds.

> Now that I came back indoors, the phone still has a fix and with older kernels 
> it could not keep the fix if I went indoors. So it seems the software fix 
> isn't perfect yet (it can't "recover" from suspend or something), but if you 
> always "start fresh", it does work well.
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