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[Chris Wayne <chris.wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> El día Monday, August 03, 2015 a las 06:11:00PM +0200, Oliver Grawert
> escribió:
>
> > hi,
> > Am Montag, den 03.08.2015, 17:43 +0200 schrieb Matthias Apitz:
> > > El lunes, 3 de agosto de 2015 17:29:22 (CEST), Oliver Grawert escribió:
> > > > hi,
> > > > l.
> > > >
> > > > so you prefer to wait 20min for a GPS fix instead ?
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > I just run a test:
> > >
> > > - enabled GPS
> > > - started the app SensorStatus
> > > - got a fix in 70 secs (and I am sitting below a big sunumbrella)
> > > - started OSMTouch which shows my location
> > >
> > > more I do not need
> > >
> >
> > hmm, if i use the ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/ubuntu channel which
> > explicitly omits all nonfree bits that arent actually needed to boot
> > (like AGPS blobs) my device takes actually the mentioned 15-20min ... if
> > you had a fix before this will indeed be faster since it gets cached.
> > just talking about the first fix when you get out of your house ...
>
> It was a cold start, because I rebooted the BQ today and switched on the
> GPS for the test above (I seldom have it switched on). I run the same
> test right now again below free sky, and the SensorStatus app got the
> fix with TTFF 20 secs. Btw: This is the time I was used to have with my
> Openmoko Freerunner too: 20-60 secs TTFF (without any AGPS support).
>
> I have to mention another thing: I can nearly never get a fix with
> OSMTouch alone. I have always to use SensorStatus and then terminate
> SensorStatus and start OSMTouch. May be there is an issue with OSMTouch.
>
> Could you test it with SensorStatus to compare?
>
> > (i actually wonder if there is a bug with the disabling of HERE in your
> > case)
>
> I don't think so, because in addition I have deinstalled the HERE app
> because I don't trust it. If you now say that even in this case, after
> deinstalling an app, it is able to run, then we have a bigger issue.
>

The HERE app has absolutely nothing to do with HERE AGPS bits, it's just a
webapp to m.here.com


>
> One thing more: I was wrong saying 'more I do not need' re/ GPS; I need
> an app which is able to present pre-fetched tiles from OSM server, like
> foxtrotGPS can do. OSMScout does something in this direction but the
> quality of the maps material does not match what pre-fetched tiles give
> you (see the other thread in our list about this issue).
>
> Thanks
>
>         matthias
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