GPS is broken! Change wiki and page! And where is the antenna ?
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Hardware worked fine with my Brave Heart last time I tried it. Performance was similar to other smartphones when using the AGPS data loader, but first fix was unreliable without AGPS. This is also true of most smartphones if you can force them not to use AGPS - a decent GPS antenna is even bigger than the headphone sockets many manufacturers think take up too much room. For most people the problem is that AGPS isn't used by any of the distros yet so it's not easy to use, much like the current state of MMS support. The mobian wiki has a fair amount of detail: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=location

The number of people with a hardware fault seems to be small so far - at least I only remember one or two. That's not great but not (yet) an indicator of a wider problem.

You can find the antenna via the schematic and the component layout docs - IIRC it's the printed antenna on the top corner by the camera bump, with spring terminal connections on the main board. I don't think it has a connector that you could easily attach a different antenna to.

I hadn't realised this wasn't in the Pine64 wiki - I'll see about adding something. You should be able to edit the wiki using the same credentials as the forum, although I gather this broke for a bit so you may need to contact an admin if it doesn't work for you.
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RE: GPS is broken! Change wiki and page! And where is the antenna ? - by wibble - 02-03-2021, 07:08 AM

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