Old GPS antenna bug surfacing? [was: GPS]

[Erland Lewin]

2008/7/4 Kai Römer <smirfi at googlemail.com>:

> I can affirm this for 6 opemoko devices. i guess its an internal
> antenna issue. as soon as you connect a external antenna to it works
> like a charm. but fur me thats no solution.
>
> TTFF with external antenna (perfect condition): 40 to 60 seconds
> TTFF with internal antenna AGPS (perfect condition): more than 1:20
> minute but not always. its like gambling.
>
> I guess a miss design of the internal antenna.


There was a thread about a very similar problem on the hardware list back in
April/May, see:

http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-April/000055.html
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-May/000104.html

And related replies.

Was this bug/problem ever really fixed?

/Erland
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