GPS time synch

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Tue Feb 20 14:39:45 CET 2007


Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM +1100, Mark Chandler wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using 
>>> time stamps from GPS information?
>
>> yes.
>
> That is only during GPS being powered up, of course. We probably don't
> want it to be powered unconditionally, since it drains quite some
> power.

Out of curiosity, how bad is the GPS power drain? There are
applications I would like (such as automatically turning the ringer
back on when the phone is inside my home -- I always forget to do that
and miss calls) that require location information at reasonably
frequent intervals...

Perry




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