Unsatisfactory GPS reception on PinePhone?

[calinb]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for your help.
I got things working in the end.
It seemed to help when I used the following command to start the GPS.
AT+QGPS=1,255,1000,0,10

Also I think I may have had two programs listening on ttyUSB1 which may have meant each only was getting half the data (however I'm not sure of this).

Thanks again!

UPDATE

Doh! I forgot that the phone must be enabled for the GPS to work. I read about it on a thread in these forums but I temporarily forgot. The first command works. On to acquire sats now.


I've had my Manjaro CE edition for about a month. I'm running Mobian from eMMC and I've seen no indication that the GPS is working at all on the two maps aps I've tried so I tried the first incantation from the OP:

Code:

mmcli -m 0 --location-enable-gps-nmea

and it produced:

"error: modem not enabled yet"

So I tried

Code:

sudo mmcli -m -0 AT+QGPS=1,255,1000,0,10

which seemed to run okay, but I still get the error.

I also tried it with Manjaro Posh on the latest multiboot SD and experienced the same error.

Mobian project says (https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=pinephone )

What's working with Mobian
GPS/GNSS Works with exceptions (2)

(2) GPS/GNSS only works with web apps using GNOME Web. (Editors note: Is this still true? I think it works in general now)

So it seems like the mmcli interface should be working for me. What am I missing? Do I need to risk a modem firmware update?

UPDATE

Doh! I forgot that the phone must be enabled for the GPS to work. I read about it on a thread in these forums but I temporarily forgot. The first command works. On to acquire sats now.