<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <<a href="mailto:wolfgang@openmoko.com">wolfgang@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On the GPS bug, expect an update before the end of the week.<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote><br>Unfortunately, this seems like a case where OpenMoko's "openness" is really hurting it. A closed company probably would have waited to publicly acknowledge the defect until it was fully researched, not just after it was casually confirmed by a couple developers. Perhaps, the closed company would have even waited to acknowledge the defect until a fix was available, instead of sending out status updates as they investigated it and tried potential fixes.<br>
<br>From reading between the lines on some of the e-mails from OpenMoko staff, it seems that the interference with the GPS receiver was caused (at least in part) by the SD reader being always-on, apparently because the SD firmware is still incomplete or in beta, much like the rest of the OpenMoko firmware. The fix appears to be to enhance the SD reader to only turn on when necessary. From where I sit, that's a two-fer! GPS gets fixed and the SD reader gets enhanced to a more complete state. I'm happy :)<br>
<br>Andrew<br><br clear="all">---<br>Andrew Bennett<br><a href="mailto:drewbenn@gmail.com">drewbenn@gmail.com</a>
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