I continue this forum topic because I have the same problem: my GPS just doesn´t work at all. I try it with OsmAnd~ and SatStat and with settings set to high accuracy, but nothing works. On SatStats I can see some detected satellites, but my position is never detected.
I have Fairphone Open Source OS installed. Any help would be appreciated
I saw your posts about that but probably I am still too much a newby into the open source to totally follow what you meant. Could you maybe give me concrete advice on how to change the parameter?
That’s not that complicated. If you know how to mount system read/write it’s not complicated at all. Otherwise, if you want, I can send you via pm my gps.conf and instructions on how to activate it. Right now I’m on holidays in France and use it every day with osmand+
get write rights on the /system partition mount -o rw,remount /system
open the gps.conf file vi /system/etc/gps.conf
change INTERMEDIATE_POS=0 to INTERMEDIATE_POS=1
If you don’t like vi, use this
6. open Amaze and point it to /system/etc
7. open gps.conf in amaze text editor
8. change INTERMEDIATE_POS=0 to INTERMEDIATE_POS=1
Okay, I have some updates. I followed your steps @freibadschwimmer, were able to write the gps.conf and edited the things @lklaus told me. Still not working (I think one time SatStat was able to get my location, but with an error of 13 km …). So I did a hard reset. Then I downloaded FasterGPS from F-Droid, which can write the gps.conf file just by telling it in which region you are. My gps.conf file now looks like that:
While you never can rule that out, I would still try the easier ways…
Do you have an app that tells you the status of GPS, like how much satellites are detected and how much are locked?
And did you test that in an open location or inside buildings or in streets in a city?
I felt bad that to that question I would have to answer that I actually only tried it in closed buildings, but today I did a long test in the streets of Barcelona and I got no location at all… So that wasn´t the problem. I use SatStat to check my GPS and sometimes I can see some satellites, some blue and some red ones. I guess the red ones are the locked ones?
Actually, I’m not that sure about the markings of satstat. But you will see something like x/y satellites. That’s x satellites locked, y satellites seen… You’ll need at least 3,I guess…
Also, there’s some file that helps locating, called agps data. You should be able to download a fresh version. Might help, but I’m not sure
Hey, so i am not the only one!
I have been on a small trip this weekend and the gps was working now and then, but really only very occasionally…
I also downloaded fresh agps data with SatStat, but that didnt help much.
I contacted the support by now, let’s see what they say
I also contacted them on their support site and tried to call, but the call didn’t go through.
Now wie have to wait. Hopefully they don’t take too long so if it is the Hardware wie can send it back in the next 14 days.
Btw: If this thread only relates to FPOOS (as far as I have seen only users with OOS discussed here, maybe we should clarify that in the title as well).