neo freerunner freezes when gps turned on

Zack Mollusc zmollusc at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Aug 18 22:15:44 CEST 2008


Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> Vimal Joseph ha scritto:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'v posted a problem of frequent freezing of Neo Freerunner.
>> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2008-August/000926.html
>>
>> It turned out that the problem is with the gps. As the system freezes
>> after some time whenever i turnd the gps on. The problem was not there
>> with the qtopia image may be because the driver for gps is not there
>> in qtopia (I'm not very sure about this).
>>
>> I'v just installed the 2008.8 image and the phone freezes whenever i
>> turned the gps on. With in few seconds the screen freezes and nothing
>> works till i remove the battery.
>>
>> Is any one having same symptoms? What can be the problem?
>>     
>
> Last time I've used Xglamo based distros I had this too. As I said in 
> the other thread, imho the problem is only due to Glamo and/or Xglamo 
> since using Xfbdev workarounds it (remove xglamo and install xfbdev 
> instead, no more freezes!).
>
> This is supported also by the freezing errors you reported (and that I 
> got too).
>
>   
Hi, I run 2008.8 and my GPS seems to work ok. My Freerunner arrived with
a smd capacitor (looks like 0402) across two of the pins on the sd card
socket as per the mod
athttp://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02_gps_10pf_rework_sop.pdf
obviously i don't know the value of the capacitance.






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