Does GPS work? Can you help me?

ARM Phosh
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Hi,
I wanted my PinePhone to be more “daily driver ready”, so instead of beautifully looking plasma-mobile I installed manjaro phosh.

I was impressed with the stability and with working cellular data connection (because plasma “stable” behaves like dev and the “real dev” even worse :laughing:)

I wanted to try maps, so I searched for them and tried to install OffRoad (de facto OsmAnd) - didn’t work at all (didn’t even launch), so I tried to install things like marble. (if I didn’t mention it already, the default maps kindda work - only with internet connection).

I also wanted to try GPS, because I want to use it in the future - but I’m not an expert about GPS things and don’t know exactly how to make it work.

I know that GPS (location services) are below some “security settings” and I can enable it there.

The thing is, that the preinstalled maps (I believe these are gnome maps) just show me where I am and if I move, they don’t display it.
With marble I can find more location options like “qt positioning” - which somehow tells me my position, but there is another option called “gpsd”, that I didn’t get to work (and I think It’s the real GPS positioning).

Is there an app, that could give me informations about my GPS sensor?
Is there an easy way for me to make it work?

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Hi,

Soon there will be an announcement about beta10, but i don’t think much changed in that regard. Also GPS is part of the modem, so if you toggle the modem privacy switch you’ll also disconnect the GPS.

This might help
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?pid=87078

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So it isn’t my problem? :laughing:

Yeah, I know that. I actually do not use these switches that much and right now they are all on

Thanks, deffinitely gonna read it :slight_smile:

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Btw, is there a working app for offline maps?

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Just did a test and GPS seems to work fine with latest image … and using Maps, quite acurate actually. Will test more once i’m on the move.
Not sure about an offline app … have to check.

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Thanks for your patience with me,
I use the last image and today I tried default maps (gnome maps) with location services on.
It found me, but when I was moving, It just didn’t notice…

Btw, I really appreciate the option, that I can set my screen to “100%” instead of “200%”
It is useful, when I try to open desktop apps - on plasma mobile I see half of them, phosh has this solution which works well for me :slight_smile:

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So I tried it
(I was in a car)

It just showed me, where I am, and after some time it changed. And again and again.
It just doesn’t show you all the time, where you are - it looks like it updates your position time by time

Sometimes It actually showed me, that I was somewhere, where I clearly wasn’t, or where I was 5 mins ago, even though I was a few kilometers from that place already

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I also tried out GPS on Phosh Beta 10 -

Seems like GPS was workign with Gnome Maps. Like @Muskwa was saying, is exactly how i feel about the current status of it - would be nice to have a normal car view navigation system working.

Next couple of days, I plan on testing couple GPS program within Anbox and seeing if those work.

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If I’m right, Offroad is something like ported OsmAnd - but I somehow couldn’t run it on my PinePhone

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