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ag2	2008-02-05 , 03:53
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Originally Posted by mwiktowy

Kind of off topic for this thread but ...

It seems that the problem is not the hardware after all. The problem was a buggy gpsd (or buggy function feeding gpsd the date) that was giving the wrong date by exactly a day ... which cases the gps to cold start every single time.

The gpsd fix is only for warm starts. Cold starts are still in 2+ minute range. Cold fixes are the more important ones -- usually your GPS has been off for a while when you need to use it.

The problem _is_ in the hardware. As far as I can tell, the TI 5300 chip does not bother to store almanac data. The chip also requires at least 4 satellites to obtain a fix, when most (all?) other chips only need 3.

Jussi Kukkonen found the problem and made a fixed deb available here:

Hey there

. Give me some credit too. I was the one to discover the problem. Jussi found a fix for it.

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Last edited by ag2; 2008-02-05 at 04:04.

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