Reason for GPS problems found!

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Alejandro -

> This issue does not look good. Is there someone in Openmoko or FIC  
> aware of it?

Aware of it? You must be kidding.
Pretty much everybody at Openmoko, including Sean our beloved leader,  
reads the mailing lists. All mailing lists.
Then we have internal mailing lists, and if you could see what's going  
on there right now, rest assured there are 5-10 people working on  
tracking down the GPS bug, and other bugs, right now.
Software fixes, hardware fixes. Shipped units, units currently in  
production, future production runs. All require different approaches  
and all of this is being addressed.
The idea that the GPS problems might be related to SD card presence  
was a fantastic idea, and coming from our community!

After the gta02 release dust settles, I will take another look at how  
we can make our internal communication more public. It's all too easy  
that good things are going on and people don't know about.
Expect to see more in the coming days.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:30 PM, Alejandro Enrique wrote:

> This issue does not look good. Is there someone in Openmoko or FIC  
> aware of it?
>
> If it is something that has to be fixed in hardware it may have a big
> impact in the project at this stage.
>
> I hope there will be some software workaround for this.
>
> 2008/7/15 Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net>:
>>> On the 1973?!
>>
>> Yup.
>>
>>> None of us can confirm this, our 1973 are mostly ok, only the
>>> Freerunners make problems.
>>
>>
>> I do not have a Freerunner yet.  But for sure, without the SD card  
>> in,
>> GPS seems to acquire faster.
>>
>> ;
>> --
>> Jay Vaughan
>>
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