GPS issues on GTA02v4

Daniel Willmann daniel at openmoko.org
Wed Mar 5 02:25:09 CET 2008


On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:55:23 +0800
"Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu)" <tony at openmoko.com> wrote:

> 
> > I played around with the connector of the internal GPS antenna,
> > applying pressure, and the GPS managed to get the time and see some
> > satellites for a short time, but that was it. After that I wasn't
> > able to reproduce any positive results with the internal antenna
> > anymore (I also tried different antennas). Attaching an external
> > antenna worked however and I was able to get the time in ~20s and a
> > fix in additional 20s so GPS itself still seems to work.
> 
> This sounds like the internal antenna switch was broken or badly 
> soldered. Are you using v4 or v5? Or do your phone at prototype page?

It's a GTA02v4 from before we had the prototypes tracking.
I'll see whether I'm in the mood to desolder the GPS shielding and
track down connection issues with the antenna switch.

Regards,
Daniel Willmann
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